The Nights of Wine and Roses Lyrics

Long lit up tonight and still drinking
Don't we have anything to live for?
Well, of course we do
But till they come true
We're drinking

And we're still smoking
Don't we have anything to live for?
Well, of course we do
But till they come true
We're smoking

We all wanna know what nobody knows
What the nights of wine and roses hold
For the wine and roses of our souls
So we down our drinks in a funnel of friends
And we burn our blends right down to the end
We don't cry for those nights to arrive
We yell like hell to the heavens
Oh

Oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh
We all wanna know what nobody knows
What the nights of wine and roses hold
For the wine and roses of our souls
So we down our drinks in a funnel of friends
And we burn our blends right down to the end
We don't cry for those nights to arrive
We yell like hell to the heavens
Hey

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Genius Annotation

The song’s title is a play off the 1982 album The Days of Wine and Roses by The Dream Syndicate. Brian King mentioned the enormous influence of The Dream Syndicate on the album process of Celebration Rock several times (here or here).

The Dream Syndincate, however, borrowed the title of their album/song off the 1962 film “Days of Wine and Roses” which depicts the downward spiral of the lives of two average Americans who succumb to alcoholism and attempt to deal with their problem.

To go Full History, the movie’s screenwritter JP Miller found the title in a poem by English writer Ernest Dowson), published in 1896:

They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Within a dream.

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Recorded At
The Hive Creative Labs
Release Date
June 5, 2012
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