He'd get home at 5:30

Fix his drink, sit down in his chair

Pick a fight with mama

Complain about us kids getting in his hair

At night he'd sit 'lone and smoke

I'd see his frown behind his lighter's flame

Now that same frown's in my mirror

I got my daddy's blood inside my veins

Fish swim, birds fly

Daddies yell, mamas cry

Old men sit and think

I drink

Chicken, TV, dinner

6 minutes on defrost, 3 on high

Beer to wash it down with then another

A little whiskey on the side

It's not so bad alone here

It don't bother me that every night's the same

I don't need another lover

Hanging 'round, trying to make me change

Fish swim, birds fly

Lovers leave by and by

Old men sit and think

I drink

I know what I am

But I don't give a damn

Fish swim, birds fly

Daddies yell, mamas cry

Old men sit and think

I drink