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song: S.O.B
artist: Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
album: Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
released: 2015-08-21length: 4:03
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I'm gonna need someone to help me
I'm gonna need somebodies hand
I'm gonna need someone to hold me down
I'm gonna need someone to care
I'm gonna writhe and shake my body
I'll start pulling out my hair
I'm going to cover myself
with the ashes of you
and nobody's gonna give a damn

Son of a bitch
Give me a drink
One more night
This can't be me
Son of a bitch
If I can't get clean
I'm gonna drink my life away

Now for seventeen years
I've been throwing them back
Seventeen more will bury me
Can somebody please just tie me down
Or somebody give me a goddamn drink

Son of a bitch
Give me a drink
One more night
This can't be me
Son of a bitch
If I can't get clean
I'm gonna drink my life away

My heart was aching
hands are shaking
bugs a crawling all over me.
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats

Nathaniel David Rateliff (born October 7, 1978) is an American singer and songwriter based in Denver, Colorado, whose influences are described as folk, Americana and vintage rhythm & blues. Rateliff has performed with a backing band called the Night Sweats for an R&B side project he formed in 2013. He has released three solo albums, two solo EPs, and one album as Nathaniel Rateliff & the Wheel.

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Comments ( 90 )
Posted 5 years ago by Punkysoup:
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Posted 7 years ago by lethias:
Shmelo wrote:
A really bad cover band.

 
Interestingly enough I think it is a very very good band. One of my greatest finds last year. They make my day anytime {#Bananapiano}
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Posted 6 years ago by richardmaki:
If you spend a lifetime boozin you will appreciate the lyrics.  Specially the bug reference.

cheers,
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Posted 5 years ago by mrtuba9:
mattenuttall wrote:
Love it. Just fires you up.

Seriously though, try matching that clapping -- I don't think clapping is often a backbeat, it's usually on the beat...
 

My wife has a music minor and played symbols in the Big Red Marching Machine at Illinois State University (I played tuba)... she has some rhythm! She always claps the backbeat! I was taught to play tuba... I have no natural ability, and therefore, no rhythm.
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Posted 5 years ago by ckevin63:
At Pilgimage Festival in Franklin Tn this past September, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band joined them on this song.....and it was awesome. Heard the song in a whole different way- the brass totally fleshed out and full, and then of course, audience sing-a-long. Pretty cool.
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Posted 4 years ago by VermontBread:
Alexandra wrote:
A couple of my friends with young children say (with remorse) how since this is actually a radio-friendly song....their kids gleefully sing along with the chorus as they're driving in the car or even at home when it's not being played on the radio...and they hope to God they don't start singing it in public.

 

SONNOVABITCH!!!.....


 
As do my kids... Luckily they think the chorus is "Sun on the beach."
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Posted 5 years ago by alisathegreat:
Just hope this isn't an omen song, like Rehab was for Amy Winehouse
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Posted 3 years ago by theirongiant:
Even though the subject matter is dark and serious, the gospel style and mixing make like it could have been recorded during the Motown heyday at Capitol Records in the late 1960s. Especially with the large reverb chamber sound.
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Posted 5 years ago by countryrds:
Just flat out fun!!!
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Posted 3 years ago by Chuckaluphagus:
 dmcanany wrote:

Can't play that on FM! Glad we can hear it here. 




Our local college music station has this as their 5-o'clock-on-Friday anthem.  It's where I first heard it.  They seem to have a lot more leeway in what they put on the air, and it's a better station for that.
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Posted 3 years ago by dandueck07:
 tgrier wrote:

As someone who has become sober, I find the happy and bouncy nature of the song disturbing. 

He is asking for help. 



I' m now 3+ years sober, and I still love this tune as much as the first time I heard it.  Maybe you're in the wrong aa group.  In my home group we laugh more at stuff like this, and our former drinking behaviours, than we do despairing about our former lives.  
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Posted 3 years ago by gregskrtic:
having gone through this myself, this is exactly what it feels like.... 
thanks Nate!  

now, Somebody give me a goddamn drink!
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Posted 4 years ago by xcranky_yankee:
richardmaki wrote:
If you spend a lifetime boozin you will appreciate the lyrics.  Specially the bug reference.

cheers,
 

just saw a better comment down the line. But it is a
truly catchy song (while detoxing?) and some of us have been pretty
close to there...



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Posted 4 years ago by Mackmoney3000:
a 7 just for how Mr. Rateliff yells 'sonovabitch!' when starting the choruses
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Posted 4 years ago by jayhamiljr:
lethias wrote:

Interestingly enough I think it is a very very good band. One of my greatest finds last year. They make my day anytime {#Bananapiano}
 Given his age of 37 at the time the song was released, this could very well be autobiographical. 17 years of drinking would be about right.  There but for the grace of God...  Watched one drinking buddy die from cirrhosis while we drank almost to the end, watched another go through DTs.  The song nails it. 

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Posted 4 years ago by Larrygrrl:
Hot DAMN this is fun!  Morbid as all get out, but so much fun!
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Posted 8 years ago by GeneP59:
SOB!

I love this song, but drove my mom nutty me sing it.  LOL
 
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Posted 5 years ago by mattenuttall:
Love it. Just fires you up.

Seriously though, try matching that clapping -- I don't think clapping is often a backbeat, it's usually on the beat...
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Posted 3 years ago by joejennings:
GREAT!!! Every time I hear this song, it just gets BETTER!!!  ...Especially the clapping on the back beat!!!
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Posted 3 years ago by joejennings:
Godlike! I never heard of him before. Thanx RP!
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