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What does "drink the pain away" or "drinking my pain away" mean?
I've heard it in a song by Nicky Jam & Enrique Iglesias named Forgiveness. Here is the related part of the original lyrics:
I'm missing you baby
Up all night goin' crazy
Now my angel can't save me
Oh no!!!
I'm missing you baby
Up all night goin' crazy
Drinking my pain away-ehh-hey
"Drinking", without an object, is usually taken as referring to alcohol. So "drinking the pain away" means drinking so much alcohol that the pain goes away somehow - by being forgotten, being surpassed by some other drunken activity, or some other method of numbing the pain.
