Hopeless Again

Dear old friend
 I'm feeling hopeless again
 I'm giving in to my vices bottle in hand
 Dear old friend
 I think I'm slipping again
 At the end of my rope with this pain in my head
 I could use your sage old advice
 Some words to calm me down
 I ain't been sleeping most nights
 With my girl sleeping all over town
 {I've got a} short list of my enemies
 Since days I spent in the trench
 But he ain't no man, he's a cheat
 A coward staring down death
 Dear old friend
 In this letter I'll never send
 I confess I kill them both where they stand
 Dear old friend
 You only get what you give
 At the end of my rope with this pain in my head
 I could use your sage old advice
 Some words to calm me down
 I ain't been sleeping most nights
 With my girl sleeping all over town
 {I've got a} short list of my enemies
 Since days I spent in the trench
 But he ain't no man, he's a cheat
 A coward staring down death
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 My old friend, my old friend
 My old friend, my old friend
 I'm feeling hopeless again
 On the front lines I watched as good men died
 I left a piece of me in foreign country side
 And in my own home, I'm a stranger now
 I was a father once. Lies built on losing ground
 On the front lines boys buried where they lie
 I left a piece of me in foreign country side
 And in my own home, I'm a stranger now
 I was a husband once. Lies built on losing ground
 My old friend, my old friend
 My old friend, my old friend
 My old friend, my old friend
 I'm feeling hopeless again
 My old friend, my old friend
 My old friend, my old friend
 My old friend, my old friend
 I'm feeling hopeless again