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Women Without Whiskey Lyrics
If I make it through this year, I think I'm gonna put this bottle down
Maybe as time goes on I'll learn to miss it less than I do now
Think I'm gonna tell her that I'm gonna go away for a while
Till I can get this demon out
You know the bottle ain't to blame and I ain't trying to
It don't make you do a thing it just lets you
When I'm six feet underground, I'll need a drink or two
And I'll sure miss you
Take me piece by piece till there ain't nothing left worth taking away from me
The highway's humming in my head and it's hard to hear
Won't you read my lips if I pull you near enough
Could you read my fortune in the bottem of this coffee cup
Tell me how to tell when I've had enough
If morning's a bitch with open arms and night's a girl who's gone to far
Whiskey is harder to keep than a woman and it's half as sweet but
Women without whiskey, Women without whiskey
Whiskey is hard to beat
Whiskey is hard to beat
Maybe as time goes on I'll learn to miss it less than I do now
Think I'm gonna tell her that I'm gonna go away for a while
Till I can get this demon out
It don't make you do a thing it just lets you
When I'm six feet underground, I'll need a drink or two
And I'll sure miss you
Won't you read my lips if I pull you near enough
Could you read my fortune in the bottem of this coffee cup
Tell me how to tell when I've had enough
Whiskey is harder to keep than a woman and it's half as sweet but
Women without whiskey, Women without whiskey
Whiskey is hard to beat
Whiskey is hard to beat
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Greatest opening line ever in a song!!! This guy's got a heck of a choice to make. His girl or his liquor. And he chooses liquor. Love this line: When I'm six feet underground, I'll need a drink or two And I'll sure miss you
This is an alcoholic's anthem.
I've been listening to this song obsessively so I thought I'd comment on it. By far my favorite line is "If morning's a bitch with open arms and night's a girl who's gone to far, Whiskey is harder to keep than a woman and it's half as sweet..."
Obviously the song is about making a choice between his woman or his whiskey. In the line that I mentioned, he seems to be comparing his state of mind/sobriety to specific types of women, which I think is brilliant. Morning is a bitch with open arms meaning that he is probably hungover, but with the possibility of either changing his ways/not drinking anymore (or maybe the open arms are inviting him to drink more...?). Night is a girl that has gone too far is his drinking way too much at night and not knowing when to stop which he mentions as a problem elsewhere in the song. Brilliant!
"whiskey's hard to beat" - double entendre
"whiskey's hard to beat" - double entendre