To the bottom - just go

Behind the shades, you sit and watch
All that goes by, you sit and watch
Actions speak louder than words
Let sleeping dogs lie, just doesn't  get it done
All you do is soak it up and have fun.

Why do I work to try to survive?
Why do I drive to keep this alive?
When you sit on the couch 

waiting for that ship to come in
Would you be here without me,
Would you be straining to keep 

this family from drowning within

should it only be me?
Holding the fort down

just, me

Down to the bottom of the bottle I go
Drowning the sorrows
feeling so low
can there be only this medium to me
Excess, to the extreme
holding my own
with no meaning that he sees.