Two Bottles and a Goodbye

🥃 [Verse 1 – Slow, Acoustic with Dusty Slide Guitar]

Bar’s got the lights down low again,

Same damn stool I found you in.

Ashtray full, jukebox stuck,

Some George Strait song about bad luck.

You left your jacket on that chair—

Still smells like smoke and perfume air.

Bartender pours like he knows the score,

And I ain’t got nothin’ to wait for.

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🥃 [Chorus – Big, Open, and Sad as Hell]

Two bottles and a goodbye—

One for the pain, one for the lie.

You said forever, then slipped through the night,

Left me with a tab and a barroom fight.

I toast the ghost in your empty chair,

Drink ’til I forget you were ever there.

No tears, no alibi—

Just two bottles and a goodbye.

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🚬 [Verse 2 – Little Grittier, Maybe Bring in a Snare Shuffle]

Your lipstick’s still on the neck of the glass,

Guess goodbye don’t clean up fast.

I played that voicemail one more time—

It hit like bourbon and lemon-lime.

You sounded strong, you sounded done,

Said “don’t call back,” then the dial tone won.

So I’ll sit here and raise the dead,

With one last smoke and words unsaid.

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🧨 [Bridge – Spoken or Sung with Bite]

First bottle made me miss you,

Second one made me see—

You weren’t runnin’ from this bar…

You were runnin’ from me.

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🥃 [Final Chorus – Stronger Vocals, Faint Backing Harmonies]

Two bottles and a goodbye—

One for the truth, one for the why.

You took your heart, I took this chair,

Now it’s just regrets and smoky air.

I’ll drink ‘til the neon bleeds from the sign,

Drownin’ your name in Tennessee time.

No tears, no second try—

Just two bottles… and a goodbye.