Kiss The Bottle

It gets lonliest at night
 Down at the liquor store
 Beneath the neon sky
 Six a.m. the floor comes alive with lice
 The pan's dried up so tight
 With hardened beans
 So I lean on you sometimes
 Just to see you're still there
 These feet can't take the weight of one
 Much less two, and we hit concrete
 How were we born into this mess?
 You know I painted you a prettier picture, baby
 We got run out on a rail
 Fell from the wagon to the night train
 I kissed the bottle
 I should've been kissing you
 You wake up to an empty night
 With tears for two
 Cigarettes, they fill the gaps
 In our empty days
 In our broken teeth
 Say mister, can you spare a dime?
 Some change could make a change
 Could buy some time
 Or an ear to hear my story
 It's all I've got, this fiction
 Beats the hell out of my truth
 This palm upturned burnt blue
 Don't call it sunburn
 I've been shaking on the job
 Just one drink ahead of my past
 And there's a white light coming up
 And I draw the blinds hoping it'll pass
 But it won't pass, boy
 I kissed the bottle
 I should've been kissing you
 You wake up to an empty night
 With tears for two
 With tears for two