Jack Daniels and Tears

Intro

(ah-ah) guitar hum, soft clap

Verse

The porch light's on but it don't feel like home

There's a ring in the wood where your glass used to go

My boots still hang where you took off your coat

I spin the vinyl slow, it's the song that we wrote

Pre-chorus

I trace the smudge of your lipstick on my memory (yeah)

Count the reasons like the stars we used to see (uh-huh)

But every story folds back to the same line

When the night gets honest and the bottle talks fine

Chorus

Jack Daniels and tears, Jack Daniels and tears (oh-oh)

Pour another for the nights that kept us near, kept us near

Jack Daniels and tears, Jack Daniels and tears (yeah)

I keep your name on the rim, keep your name on the rim, keep it here

Verse

Your coffee cup's in the sink, the sugar still there

Like you left a map to the way you disappeared

I light up the porch and I listen for your car

But all I hear is the porch swing and the clock of this old bar

Pre-chorus

I talk to the label, read between the lines (alright)

Saying things a man shouldn't say at closing time (oh)

Memories taste like smoke and a small-town lit-up fear

They go down easy till the morning isn't clear

Chorus

Jack Daniels and tears, Jack Daniels and tears (ah)

Pour another for the words I wish I could unsay, unsay (oh-oh)

Jack Daniels and tears, Jack Daniels and tears (yeah)

I keep your name on the rim, keep your name on the rim, keep it near

Bridge

Maybe morning will borrow my sorrow, trade it out for light

Maybe the sun will fold these nights up and make them right

But I'm half a bottle into patience and whole in regret

So for now I'll sing to the moon and the shape of your silhouette (hey)

Chorus

Jack Daniels and tears, Jack Daniels and tears (oh-oh)

Pour another for the doors you closed when you said goodbye, said goodbye

Jack Daniels and tears, Jack Daniels and tears (yeah, yeah)

I keep your name on the rim, keep your name on the rim, keep it high

Jack Daniels and tears, Jack Daniels and tears (oh)

Pour another, pour another, let the memory steer, memory steer