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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