In the morning when he rises and hears the daily news Stories of people getting killed and criminals on the loose These are not the kind of things he wants to hear when he awakes He goes down to the liquor store, gets a bottle of the great escape He's seeing life Through the bottom of a bottle It's the only way He can cope with a world he finds so troubled He's seeing life Through the bottom of a bottle It's the only way He can cope with a world he finds so troubled Will he get mugged today, will he get shot? Tired of living life inside this paranoia trap These are not the kinds of things he wants happening to him He don't want to be no victim of sobriety Seeing life Through the bottom of a bottle It's the only way He can cope with a world he finds so troubled Seeing life Through the bottom of a bottle It's the only way