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Mummy’s Been DrinkingCosmo Jarvis

Released: November 16, 2009

Songwriter: Cosmo Jarvis

Producer: Cosmo Jarvis

[Chorus]
Mummy’s been drinking
Mummy’s been drinking
Mummy’s been drinking
Drinking again
Mummy’s been drinking
Mummy’s been drinking
Mummy’s been drinking
Go tell a friend

[Verse]
Now I can see every one of your flaws
All of the things I could not see before
You come in stinking and slurring your words
You don’t stop talking and ironing shirts
Where did you put your bottle this time?
Better be somewhere I won’t find
‘Cause you know it’s going down the sink
Even your sister says you shouldn’t drink
Used to depend on the person I see
Well look at you now, you can’t even speak
And then you tell me to go fix my life?
Well, what about yours, you can’t even write?
And you bitch about how you don’t get work done
It’s not my fault, it’s because you’re drunk
And you’re whining to me about how hard it is
Being a single mother and raising two kids
Well shut the fuck up, I don’t care anymore
And I can’t turn back to when it was before
And I know you’ve had your fair share of abuse
But that’s in the past so you’ve got no excuse

[Chorus]
Mummy’s been drinking
Mummy’s been drinking
Mummy’s been drinking
Drinking again
Mummy’s been drinking
Mummy’s been drinking
Mummy’s been drinking
Go tell a friend

[Verse]
Acting like a person I hate
“Just go to bed now” is all I say
Don’t talk to me when you are this way
It just makes me sick and I’ll lose it one day
And I’ll do something that I swear that I will regret
So stop it okay, and never forget
The way that it was when we were all fine
Just sort out your head, and I’ll fix mine
It’s nobody’s fault, so don’t try and blame
Anyone else for all your pain
No-one can help you except for yourself
So put down the glass and get some fucking help
Or a boyfriend, I don’t know, whatever you need
How 'bout a better son or some friends maybe?
Once again I’m sorry for my part in this
At least you learnt a lesson though: children are shit
They take your money, they kill you dreams
They cry when you don’t buy them ice creams
They age you and they make you shout
But sober thoughts will help you out

[Chorus]
Mummy’s been drinking
Mummy’s been drinking
Mummy’s been drinking
Drinking again
Mummy’s been drinking
Mummy’s been drinking
Mummy’s been drinking
Go tell a friend

[Chorus]
Mummy’s been drinking
Mummy’s been drinking
Mummy’s been drinking
Drinking again
Mummy’s been drinking
Mummy’s been drinking
Mummy’s been drinking
Go tell a friend

Cosmo Jarvis

Critic, journalist, sometime musician, onetime actor, and full-time Midwesterner Mark Deming provides a discographic-based biography for Cosmo Jarvis:

“Singer, songwriter, and filmmaker Cosmo Jarvis has earned a devoted following for his witty, often satiric tunes about the foibles of relationships and contemporary life, often rooted in personal experience, as well as his own self-produced videos and short subjects that have given his work a global online audience. Harrison Cosmo Krikoryan Jarvis was born on September 1, 1989 in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Jarvis' family relocated to the United Kingdom when he was young, and he grew up in Devon in Southwest England. Jarvis began writing songs when he was only 12 years old, around the same time he began making short films using a VHS video camera. While Jarvis' early videos were little more than documentation of pranks played with his friends, with time he began constructing more complex narratives, and similarly his songs began to evolve, ranging from folk-inspired acoustic guitar pieces and elaborate pop tunes to tongue-in-cheek hip-hop tracks.

At the age of 16, Jarvis quit school to focus on his creative work, and in 2009 he wrote and produced his debut album, an 18-song set called Humasyouhitch/Sonofabitch, which was released by the British indie label Wall of Sound. The album combined Jarvis' observational tunes with a cycle of songs reflecting the emotional turmoil of his parents' stormy relationship. Humasyouhitch/Sonofabitch received enthusiastic notices from the British music press, but it didn’t sell especially well, and Jarvis teamed with 25th Frame for his second release, Is the World Strange or Am I Strange? A track from the album, “Gay Pirates,” became an Internet sensation after Jarvis' low-budget video for the song was endorsed in a Twitter post by actor and author Stephen Fry, and subsequent airplay helped make the second album a commercial success. While continuing to tour, write songs, and record music, Jarvis has also been writing and directing a feature film, provisionally titled The Naughty Room. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi"

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