Whiskey For the Lost & Found

(Intro)

(Slower, emotional. Fiddle lament intro. Soft Irish fiddle melody. Low bagpipe drone. Quiet male humming.)

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(Verse 1)

There’s a seat by the fire nobody claims

Still warm with the ghost of old names

Photographs in smoke-stained frames

And we whisper through the flames

Every glass holds memory

Of who we were and used to be

Some were saints, some ran wild

Some were lost when they were still a child

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(Chorus)

Whiskey for the lost and found

Pour it slow, let it drown

All the names we speak out loud

All the ones beneath the ground

Raise it high, don’t let it fall

Tonight we drink for one and all

Broken hearts still beat the sound

Whiskey for the lost and found

(Male choir echoes last line.)

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(Verse 2)

Mary left on a midnight train

Said she’d write but never came

Her laughter lingers in the air

Like perfume caught in prayer

Danny sailed and never wrote

North Sea swallowed up his boat

We don’t know how stories end

So we drink and call them friend

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(Chorus)

Whiskey for the lost and found

Pour it slow, let it drown

All the names we speak out loud

All the ones beneath the ground

Raise it high, don’t let it fall

Tonight we drink for one and all

Broken hearts still beat the sound

Whiskey for the lost and found

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(Instrumental Break)

(Blazing emotional bagpipes carry melody. Fiddle weaves harmony. Choir humming low drone.)

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(Verse 3)

Some of us are halfway gone

Smiling wide but barely strong

Fighting wars no one can see

Underneath the revelry

If you’re drowning in the dark

Come sit close and share a spark

There’s mercy in a shared refrain

There’s healing in the pouring rain

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(Chorus)

Whiskey for the lost and found

Pour it slow, let it drown

All the names we speak out loud

All the ones beneath the ground

Raise it high, don’t let it fall

Tonight we drink for one and all

Broken hearts still beat the sound

Whiskey for the lost and found

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(Bridge- Choir heavy, half-time)

We are more than what we’ve lost

More than failure, pain, and cost

In this room no soul’s alone

Every grief has found a home

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(Verse 4)

When my name’s an empty chair

And smoke still lingers in the air

Sing me loud and pass it round

Let my memory be your sound

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(Final Chorus- Huge emotional swell)

Whiskey for the lost and found

Pour it slow, let it drown

All the names we speak out loud

All the ones beneath the ground

Raise it high, don’t let it fall

Tonight we drink for one and all

Broken hearts still beat the sound

Whiskey for the lost and found

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(Outro)

(Fiddle solo fades into soft bagpipe sustain. Male choir humming final note. Glass clink sound.)