Joe Bonamassa – Sloe Gin lyrics

Joe Bonamassa – Sloe Gin lyrics

Sloe Gin, sloe Gin
Tryin' to wash away the pain inside
Well I'm sick and I'm all done in
And I'm standing in the rain
And I feel like I'm gonna cry

I'm so damn lonely
And I ain't even high
I'm so damn lonely
And I feel like I'm gonna die

Mayday, mayday I've been shot down
Over the stormy sea
Well I feel that I'm drifting away
Can not seem to get a grip on me
Well. I can't even try

I'm so damn lonely
Ain't even high
I hate to go home alone,
But what else is new?
I'm so damn lonely

I hate to go home alone,
But what else is new?
I'm so damn lonely...

You stand and bleeding people pass me by
No matter if you live
No matter if you die

Sloe Gin, sloe Gin
Tryin' to wash away the pain inside
Well I'm sick and I'm all done in
I'm standing in the rain
And I feel like I'm gonna cry

I'm so damn lonely
Ain't even high
I'm so damn lonely...

Lyrics taken from /lyrics/j/joe_bonamassa/sloe_gin.html

Songwriters: BOB EZRIN, MICHAEL KAMEN

Sloe Gin lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group

Corrected by bluethunder

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Unregistered 2021-11-03 05:59:37

It's a song of finally giving up because no one really cares either way. So the sloe gin gets the best of what's left of him as he dies alone. Ironically he uses 'slow gin' to hasten death, possibly a morbid metaphor akin to a slow bullet. Even though he has given up he obviously isn't emotionally dead since he still feels intense loneliness, which he drinks to ease.

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Unregistered 2013-10-12 20:23:47

I think this song is about so much more than simply losing someone. I think it is about regret and losing your own soul along with everything and everyone else. My job is to help indigent people gain skills to reenter the workforce. Many are homeless and recent parolees. One recent (but not unique)case in point: A man recently paroled after 9 years for a heinous crime. He is paroled to my county because his victim lives in his home county. He knows no one, no money, homeless, wearing a monitoring device. He thinks he can resume his life, but soon understands he is a pariah. No one will hire him, parole owns him, the police harass him. One day he told me he had a job interview. I was excited for him and told him to call me and let me know if he got the job. He looked at me and asked, "Who else could I call?). He didn't get that job and finally gave up and dropped my program. Saw him not long ago walking down towards the river (homeless camp), head down, carrying a 40. It was raining. Not making excuses for him or suggesting you feel sorry for him. Just saying that must be what lonliness is. He told me Joe Bonamassa is his favorite. That's why this song always makes me think of him.

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Unregistered 2012-01-12 16:45:29

This song sums up the utter misery and pain of having lost the one you still desperately love. It's that physical aching, that sick churning of your insides when you realise it over; that they're gone and you can't even consume enough sloe gin to get you drunk eneough to try and forget, and all you want to do is die.
I think actually the line is "you stand there bleeding and people pass you by... No matter if you live or if you die... ". Though live he sings all sorts of variations and no he is not single - currently dating sandi thom.

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