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We checked in a ten o'clock, a hotel bar and whiskey shots
You told me about your drug habit and the year the fire went out
I said "i sing songs about nothing in a line of bathtub gin"
And wished that i could be the one who's music could inspire

But why are you here all alone on stupid earth?
Why don't you sing the song if you know all the words?

I fell out at twenty one, the year that i gave up on love
I still believe that it exists, just not for everyone
So i learned to keep myself separate and leave bad thoughts inside my head
But never trust a man who says he ain't got no regrets

So why am i still here alone on stupid earth?
Why don't i fix the breach if i know what will work?

All my favorite writers were drunks who frequent bars
And all my favorite songs start out on old beat up guitars
All my favorite nights started with whiskey from a well
And i really think you're pretty cool but you're not worth top shelf

Coming home real late from our last show
And i know exactly what a hard right turn will do
I was twenty two when i wrote my last lines
And everything since then has been a lie
I was told i was a poet but the ink has run out
I have no words of wisdom of what to do now

Except: everybody dies an old man full of regrets
Except: the ones who go young in fiery auto wrecks

All my favorite writers were drunks who died too young
And all my favorite songs come from all my friends at rock bottom
All my favorite nights started with whiskey from a well
And i really think you're pretty cool but you're not worth top shelf