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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