Drunk and sparking: The National vs. Charles Bukowski, answers edition

Put your pencils and your lowballs down. Here are the answers to our lyrical brain buster:

1. "Put a little something in our lemonade and take it with us / we're half-awake in a fake empire"
Answer: The National, “Fake Empire”

2. "Standing at the punch table swallowing punch / can't pay attention to the sound of anyone"
Answer: The National, “Slow Show”

3. “There’s a bluebird in my heart that / wants to get out / but I pour whiskey on him and inhale / cigarette smoke”
Answer: Charles Bukowski, “Bluebird”

4. “God is on my side / I'm the child bride / and all the wine is all for me"
Answer: The National, “All The Wine”

5. “You who drink with calmness / you who own large homes / and walk in gardens”
Answer: Charles Bukowski, “The Blackbirds Are Rough Today”

6. "Hang your holiday rainbow lights in the garden and I'll / I'll bring a nice icy drink to you"
Answer: The National, “Gospel”

7. “Karen, put me in a chair / fuck me and make me a drink"
Answer: The National, “Karen”

8. "Jane, you were / killed by / knowing too much / here's a drink to your bones"
Answer: Charles Bukowski, "Eulogy To A Hell Of A Dame"

9. "Red sun saint around your neck / a wet martini in a paper cup"
Answer: The National, “Wasp Nest”

10. "Big wet bottle in my fist, big wet rose in my teeth / I'm a perfect piece of ass / like every Californian"
Answer: The National, “All The Wine”

11. "I wake up without warning and go flying around the house / in my sauvignon fierce, freaking out ... I pull off your jeans, and you spill Jack and Coke in my collar"
Answer: The National, "Baby, We'll Be Fine"

12. “Like now as like before and before I have been slowly / drinking this fine red wine and listening to symphony after / symphony from this black radio to my left”
Answer: Charles Bukowski, “Me And Faulkner”

13. "We're drunk and sparking, our legs are open / our hands are covered in cake / but I swear we didn’t have any"
Answer: The National, “The Geese Of Beverly Road”

14. "You pour the vodka into the top of / the beer bottle / it's one a.m. in a dead cow world"
Answer: Charles Bukowski, “Big Night On The Town”

15. “The whores go down with the stars / I’m sorry, sir, we close at 4:30”
Answer: Charles Bukowski, “Rhyming Poem”

16. “I'm going down among the saints / 3:30 in the last night for you to save this”
Answer: The National, “Squalor Victoria”

17. “Pour another glass and / insert / make love to the fresh new whiteness”
Answer: Charles Bukowski, “Here I Am…”

18. “I was shacked with a / silken-legged / beauty / I drank and fought all night”
Answer: Charles Bukowski, “Then And Now”

19. “Blood money blood money / my god, they must think I love this like the others / but it's for bread and beer and rent”
Answer: Charles Bukowski, “The Poetry Reading”

20. "Be still for a second while I try and try to pin your flowers on / can you carry my drink? I have everything else"
Answer: The National, “Apartment Story”