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Elizabeth Petty and Bill White - Five Empty Bottles

from Drinking songs for Sober Drunks by Bill White

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V1
hands are moving slowly
on the faded wall clock
the bar is clearing out
maybe I should stop

drinking down my sorrows
alone on a bar stool
someday, I promise,
stop is what I will do...

PC1
but today I am a
tears in my beers kind of fool...oo...oo

C
five empty bottles
and a full ashtray
lights way down low
as breakup songs play
tomorrow might be
a better day
but I’ll take another beer
and cigarette today

V1
bartender is cleaning
all the glassware
put the closed sign up
while I’m drinking here

he says he will call
a taxi for me to go
I grab my beer to leave
as I shake my head no...

PC1
as tonight I’m a
lonely guy with no place to go... oh... oh...

C
five empty bottles
and a full ashtray
lights way down low
as breakup songs play
tomorrow might be
a better day
but I’ll take another beer
and cigarette today

B
if you would come back now
I’d try to clean up my act
I know you’ve heard that before
and someday it will be a fact....

PC1
but tonight I am
okay wallowing where I’m at...yeah..yeah..

C
five empty bottles
and a full ashtray
lights way down low
as breakup songs play
tomorrow might be
a better day
but I’ll take another beer
and cigarette today

TAG
yeah, I’ll have another beer
and cigarette today..

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from Drinking songs for Sober Drunks, released December 15, 2019
Elozabeyh Petty lyrics
Bill White music and performance

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