He said – Grab any stool   Put your belly to the bar   I’m not such a fool   I know just who you are   It’s been too many years   and not enough time   Have a cup of my tears   They’ve been watered with wine   I am the drowning man   I am the drowning man      There once was a girl   Every story starts that way   She lit up my world   like a fireworks display   And the flame drew me near   but it frightened me more   so I met her with water   and I rained ‘til I poured   Now I am the drowning man   I am the drowning man      I’m drowning in jiggers   And I’m drowning in smoke   I’m drowning in rivers   where the fish gasp and choke   I have drowned my tomorrows   just to drown out my past   Now I drown all my sorrows   at the bottom of this glass   ‘cause I am the drowning man   I am the drowning man      I won’t die for money   and I won’t die for love   and I won’t die for beauty   or the good lord above   but i’ll die for a dream   whose heart is engraved   in the rocks and the reefs   of my watery grave   I am the drowning man   I am the drowning man