There is drinking in lots of the songs because there is drinking in life. Drinking stimulates the imagination.
Shane MacGowanThe only politician anybody ever believed was Kennedy, anyway. Kennedy, Martin Luther King - civil rights always turns out in bloody war. Where's his dream now? When is a change going to come - as Sam Cooke said - for blacks in America? Anyone who does tell the truth gets a bullet in the head, y'know what I mean?
Shane MacGowan