Once I lived a life

Of wine and roses

And I drank a lot back

Then for one concern

Success for me lay just

Around the corner

I thought my social friends would help me

Make that old turn

But now I'm paying

For the days of wine and roses

A victim of

The drunken life I chose

Now all my social friends

Look down their noses

'Cause I kept the wine

And threw away the rose

I stood by and watched

That old bottle take a control of me

The turn I made

Was not the one I'd planned

And I watched my social standing

Slip away from me

While I at last only watched

That old bottle take command

And now I'm paying

For the days of wine and roses

A victim of

The drunken life I chose

Now all my social friends

Look down their noses

'Cause I kept the wine

And threw away the rose

'Cause I kept the wine

And threw away the rose

Yes I did