Hell is a Dive Bar in Dayton, Ohio

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"Hell is a Dive Bar in Dayton, Ohio" by Kevin Milner was born at the Down the Pike bar near Dayton. It was the saddest place on Earth and I would go there after my very sad day job at the Papa John's up the road. The music was always terrible, the people were like zombies, and it was one more depressing part of my already depressing day. The song then touches on my questionable mental health, feelings of alienation, and my sadness at being unsuccessful in music.

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• Kevin Milner

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Lyrics

Well, Hell is a dive bar in Dayton, Ohio
where the jukebox is playing a rap country song
You can see in the face of the stumbling wino
Well she's wondering where it all went so wrong

And here's to the fun part of manic depression
the kind like Hunter Thompson penned
Where I can't sit still and don't have to mention
That my dear, I've gone mad again

But I swore on your burned-out bible
that called everything I did a sin
that I hate this downward spiral
but I swear I'm so good at the spin
I swear I'm so good at the spin

Well, I've never been best man at a wedding
but I sure as hell have been the worst
the kind of person you know that you're dreading
with no whiskey or wisdom to disperse

and the cross I bear is far from righteous
just a burden that I drag along
the featured star in my daily crisis
that they're never gonna hear my songs

But I swore on your burned-out bible
that called everything I did a sin
that I hate this downward spiral
but I swear I'm so good at the spin
I swear I'm so good at the spin

Well, hell is a dive bar in Dayton, Ohio