Betrayal (Acoustic Grunge)

This is a song I wrote in the early 90s as a failed attempt at emulating Dinosaur Jr's fantastic acoustic version of Quest (check it out if you don't know it - J Mascis makes his Martin weep).

I'm not sure what it's really about because it was just an attempt at sounding like J. I did have a crush on a girl who binge drank, but I wasn't thinking of her when I wrote it... honest.

Betrayal

This is gonna seem, like I'm betraying everything,
That it ever meant to be me.
I'm running away, I just can't stay.
It's a price I swore that I would never pay.

You say you love me, that's wearing thin,
As thin and bitter as your bottle of gin,
The one you say you need to keep you sane,
The one I tell you only changes your name.

This is madness. Why you drinking?
Why you drinking? Put that bottle down.
(awesome little palm mute sequence here that I can't quite remember now)
(It was Am Am chicka C, C C chick Am or something)

Put down that bottle, drown your pain in me,
I've been here so long baby, why don't you see,
A promise made in a vodka tone,
Is not a promise that is written in stone.(this line sucks so much arse)

I love you darling, there ain't no doubt.
I would rather you hated me than threw me out,
And sat here drinking, wasting your life,
Does it take you dying, to prove I was right?

This is madness. Why you drinking?
Why you drinking? Put that bottle down.
(again with the palm mutes)