ministers of religion have visited me many times to talk about it they say to me i gotta leave it i gotta leave it it s a bad habit for a man but when i try to leave it my friends keep telling me i m a fool amongst fools now i m a slave a slave i m a slave i m a liquor slave i m a slave a slave slave i m a slave just a liquor slave i have lost my dignity i had before trying to please everybody some say to me yo yo i look better when i m drunk some say no no no i look bad you know sometimes i cry i cry but my crying never helps me none cause now i am a slave a slave i m a slave i m just a liquor slave i am a slave a prisoner i m a slave just a liquor slave  every night when i m coming back home my wife gets worried cause she knows shes got double trouble coming home sometimes i cry i cry lord i cry but my crying never helps me now i m a slave a slave i m a slave i m a liquor slave i m a slave a slave slave i m a slave just a liquor slave1