Charles Bukowski - How To Be A Great Writer lyrics

You've got to fuck a great many women
Beautiful women
And write a few decent love poems
And don't worry about age
And/or freshly-arrived talents
Just drink more beer more and more beer
And attend the racetrack at least once a
Week and win
If possible learning to win is hard -
Any slob can be a good loser
And don't forget your Brahms
And your Bach and your beer
Don't overexercise sleep until noon
Avoid paying credit cards
Or paying for anything on time
Remember that there isn't a piece of ass
In this world over $50 (in 1977)
And if you have the ability to love
Love yourself first
But always be aware of the possibility of
Total defeat
Whether the reason for that defeat
Seems right or wrong -
An early taste of death is not necessarily
A bad thing
Stay out of churches and bars and museums
And like the spider be patient -
Time is everybody's cross, Plus
Exile defeat
Treachery all that dross
Stay with the beer beer is continuous blood
A continuous lover get a large typewriter
And as the footsteps go up and down
Outside your window hit that thing
Hit it hard make it a heavyweight fight
Make it the bull when he first charges in
And remember the old dogs
Who fought so well:
Hemingway, Celine, Dostoevsky, Hamsun
If you think they didn't go crazy
In tiny rooms just like you're doing now
Without women without food
Without hope then you're not ready
Drink more beer there's time
And if there's not that's all right
Too