Love Is Like A Bottle Of Gin Lyrics - The Magnetic Fields

It makes you blind, it does you in 

It makes you think you're pretty tough 

It makes you prone to crime and sin 

It makes you say things off the cuff 

It's very small and made of glass 

And grossly over advertised 

It turns a genius into an ass 

And makes a fool think he is wise 

It could make you regret your birth 

Or turn cartwheels in your best suit 

It costs a lot more than it's worth 

And yet there is no substitute 

They keep it on a higher shelf 

The older and more pure it grows 

It has no color in itself 

But it can make you see rainbows 

You can find it on the Bowery 

Or you can find it at Elaine's 

It makes your words more flowery 

It makes the sun shine, makes it rain 

You just get out what they put in 

And they never put in enough 

Love is like a bottle of gin 

But a bottle of gin is not like love