Tears or Bourbon

There's a silence in this empty room
Where your laughter used to fill the air
Now it's just me and this old guitar
Trying to drown out the despair

Tears in the bottle, memories on the shelf
Every drop I pour, I lose a part of myself
In the darkness, I still see your face
But in this empty bed, there's no embrace

Every chord I strum, it brings me back
To the nights we danced under the Tennessee moon
But now it's just echoes of the love we lost
Fading away too soon

Tears in the bottle, memories on the shelf
Every drop I pour, I lose a part of myself
In the darkness, I still see your face
But in this empty bed, there's no embrace

If I could hold you one last time
I'd trade the world, just to call you mine
But all that's left are the tears I've cried
In the whiskey glass where our love died

Tears in the bottle, memories on the shelf
Every drop I pour, I lose a part of myself
In the darkness, I still see your face
But in this empty bed, there's no embrace

Now I sit in the quiet of the night
With only the sound of my breaking heart
And as the bottle runs dry, so do the tears
For a love that's torn apart
No embrace