once i lived a life of wine and roses and i drank a lot back then for one concern success for me lay just around the corner i thought my social friends would help me make the turn but now i m paying for the days of wine and roses a victim of the drunken life i chose now all my social friends look down their noses cause i kept the wine and threw away the rose i stood by and watched the bottle take a man of me the turn i made was not the one i d planned and i watched my social friends slip away from me while i watched the bottle slowly take command but now i m paying for the days of wine and roses a victim of the drunken life i chose now all my social friends look down their noses cause i kept the wine and threw away the rose cause i kept the wine and threw away the rose