Verse 1
Your side of the dresser's empty now,
Just dust where your perfume stood.
There's an empty bottle in its place,
Like I always knew there would.
I poured another trying to outrun
The things I can't undo.
Tonight it's all that's keeping me
From drowning over you.
Verse 2
Come tomorrow this aching head
Won't last much past noon.
A little coffee, a little time,
And it'll fade too soon.
But the hurt you left don't work that way,
It lingers every day.
One kind dies with morning light...
One never goes away.
Chorus
This whiskey can lend me a little peace
Till the morning takes it back.
It'll leave me paying for tonight,
And I already know that.
I'd rather face the hurt it brings
When tomorrow comes in view...
'Cause a hangover heals a whole lot faster
Than another night missing you.
Verse 3
I drink because this house is quiet,
It's quiet because you're gone.
Every room still speaks your name
Long after the day's moved on.
You never asked for riches,
You never asked for more.
You just wanted a better man...
Than the one I tried to pour.
Bridge
The bottle never told me
It could put my world back right.
It only ever promised me
A little mercy for tonight.
Tomorrow it'll collect its debt...
That's a price I always knew.
I'd rather hurt because of whiskey
Than spend one more night hurting over you.
Final Chorus
One hundred proof can lend me a little peace
For a night I can't get through.
It'll leave me with a headache...
But that I always knew.
The bottle never promised
To make me someone new.
It only did what whiskey does...
You were always what I wanted....
The whiskey only got me through....
[Outro]
I'm still the man....Who lost you.
[Spoken softly]
I Lost You
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