Whiskey Don’t Call Me Back

Intro – 10 sec]

slow guitar slide + distant bar piano

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I said I’d quit you on a Monday night

Poured the bottle down like I was doin’ life right

Told myself “that’s the last time”

Then I heard your memory in the neon light

Same old stool, same old fight

With a ghost that don’t leave my side

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I dial your name in my head sometimes

But the silence answers every time

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Whiskey don’t call back, it just keeps talkin’

Turns “I’m over you” into me still walkin’

Down the same damn road I said I’d leave

With your memory sittin’ next to me

Yeah I try to quit but it don’t quit me

One more drink turns into three

Whiskey don’t call back, it just hangs on

Like a goodbye that never moves on

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I see your face in a bar mirror crack

Every reflection just pulls me back

Bartender says, “Man, you good tonight?”

I lie and say, “Yeah, I’m doin’ alright”

But my hands shake every time I pour

Like I’m tryna fix what I broke before

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I swear I hear your voice in the hum of the room

Like you never really left too soon

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Whiskey don’t call back, it just keeps talkin’… (repeat)

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If I quit you, who am I without the burn?

Every lesson I refuse to learn

I keep chasin’ what I can’t undo

Just to feel like I’m close to you

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Whiskey don’t call back, it just keeps talkin’…

And I keep walkin’ where I said I’d stop it

I can’t tell where the hurt begins

Or if I’m drownin’ or I’m lettin’ it in

Yeah I try to quit but it don’t quit me

Still caught up in what used to be

Whiskey don’t call back, it just hangs on

Like a goodbye that never moves on

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slow fade of guitar + ice clink sound

“I should’ve let it ring… but I didn’t.”