Now and then

Now and then,
Sometimes when
You're thinking
About when you were
Always drinking
And how friendships came
In one evening
You loudly pretend connecting
Had some meaning

But now you don't,
'Cause you can recall
Why you were possessed
To say something like,
"Come along with me
And find a new direction
One that can't deceive us."
Like they first said on TV

And now you don't
'Cause you can