Amebix - Drink And Be Merry lyrics

Drink and be merry, for tomorrow we may die

It's better to laugh than it is to cry

My cup runneth over with blood and not wine

The last was the flood, it's fire this time

I took a walk on the beach, no sand dunes just oil

Dead gulls and dead fish were trod underfoot

The sky was tinted with yellow and black

And the air smelt like Dachou today

The fields were littered with the dying and dead

Nothing grows here but decay!

The village bell tolls, a priest vomits blood

Another life's wasted away

Down in the square, the party goes on

The doomed sit down to their last feast

They gorge themselves on the recently deceased

The heat of the day, the foul smell of decay

As they wait:. For the inferno to be

UNLEASHED!

So drink and be merry for tomorrow we may die

It's better to laugh than it is to cry

Live for life's sake, don't let life pass you by

There's more worth living for than meets the eye

So drink and be merry for tomorrow we may die!