I Opened a Bar - Sophie Hunger

I opened a bar for all my friends

Who have no work and for the ones

Who do have work to safely vomit

What they’ve earned into the hall

Underneath a disco ball

I opened a bar for arctic plates

Where they can melt on microwaves

And I opened a bar for veterans

To chat about dismemberments

They smash some faces when they’re bored

And raise their glass to presidents

Fall asleep before their old

Today, today, hurrah, hurrah

I opened the bar

I opened a bar for my boyfriend

The one who always held my hand

In public places when we drank

For him to wonderfully spend the night

With his new lover

The whispering lyrics of romance

That they can’t write or understand

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Oh we mostly grow by dying

Today, today, hurrah, hurrah

I opened the bar

I opened a bar for myself

A purely self-loving event

In case I suddenly fall ill

And chemo will not take effect

Instead of spending weeks in bed

Attached to intravenous drips

And I have never taken drugs

So why start now when there is my pub

Where I can climb the neon ads

From the street up to the top

An independent European

Who has never needed someone

To blow the whole thing up

Hurrah hurrah, today, today

I opened the bar

A bar, a bar, a bar, a bar

Today, today, hurrah, hurrah

I opened the bar, the bar

I opened the bar for my mother

To explore when she discovers

That I passed and she may long for

A place to find the clues