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I wandered through the naked streets

My mind on fire with midnight heat

As lady night was brushing

The mist out of her hair

And I heard a sound of lightning strikes

Above the holy city lights

And a drunken serenade in the rain

With whiskey swimming in my brain

I turned to meet the cracked refrain

And heard one ragged straggler wheeze

His anthems to the wind

Singing "Though my life is passing by"

"I lift my spirits to the sky"

In a drunken serenade in the rain

Coming down again

I asked a man of many roads

Of where he'd been, of what he knows

He said "I took a ride to paradise"

"But ended up in hell"

But neither whiskey nor belief

Can ever bring your soul relief

Like a drunken serenade in the rain

And so I'll speak my truth aloud

I'll sing it clear, and I'll sing it proud

Cos in my darkest hours of doubt

These songs have carried me

And just as sure as I am born

I'll sing my heart out in the storm

With a drunken serenade

Drunken serenade

Drun-ken serenade

In the rain