Drink to Forget
1986 · R Radical MDC-4 · Austin, Texas
- Artist
- MDC
- Title
- Drink to Forget
- Release
- Smoke Signals
- Year
- 1986
- Label
- R Radical # MDC-4
- Format
- LP · Album
- Country
- Austin, Texas, USA
- Genre
- Punk · Hardcore Punk
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation — Punk Songs
Drink to Forget Hardcore punk, post-war. Draft, combat, Napalm, Agent Orange Impact on vet, PTSD Dropped out of school that day / Joined up right away / Drafted by the mid of May / Taught me how to obey / Had no cash to get away / Day to night to night to day / It didn’t have to be this way / But every day I have to pay / You asked me why, now I say / They said it’s kill or you’ll be killed / They said it’s what I had to do / They said it’s kill or you’ll be killed / They said it’s what I had to do /They said it’s kill or you’ll be killed / They said it’s what I had to do / Or in Vietnam I’d be one dead fool I worked for the U.S. war machine / They paid me well to be so mean / Forever I will be in debt / The smell of bloodshed, hundreds dead / Bombs, men, crying children / The lovely women I shot dead / It could have been me instead / Those sights and sounds scream in my head / Now I drink and drink / Drink some more, drink some more, drink some more / Now I drink / Drink some more, drink some more, drink some more / Now I drink / Drink some more, drink some more, drink some more / Now I drink to forget Every day the movie plays / Again, again inside my brain / ‘Til I can’t take…
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Hardcore Punk group, formed in 1979 in Austin, Texas, USA, currently in Portland, Oregon, USA; members included Dave Dictor (vocals), Ron Posner (guitar), Michael Donaldson (bass) and Al Schvitz (drums).
Themes
Agent Orange · Alcohol · Combat · Draft · Military-Industrial Complex · Napalm · PTSD · Vet