Whiskey And You

Album: Traveller (2015)
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  • There's a bottle on the dresser by your ring
    And it's empty, so right now, I don't feel a thing
    I'll be hurting when I wake up on the floor
    But I'll be over it by noon
    That's the difference between whiskey and you
    Come tomorrow, I can walk in any store
    It ain't a problem, and they'll always sell me more
    But your forgiveness
    Well, that's something I can't buy
    There ain't a thing that I can do
    That's the difference between whiskey and you

    One's a devil, one keeps driving me insane
    At times, I wonder if they ain't both the same
    One's a liar that helps to hide me from my pain
    And one's the long gone bitter truth
    That's the difference between whiskey and you

    I've got a problem, but it ain't like what you think
    I drink because I'm lonesome and I'm lonesome 'cause I drink
    But if I don't break down and bring it on myself
    It'll hit out of the blue
    That's the difference between whiskey and you

    One's a devil, one keeps driving me insane
    At times, I wonder, oh, if they ain't both the same
    One's a liar that helps to hide me from my pain
    And one's the long gone bitter truth
    That's the difference between whiskey and you

    Ah, that's the difference between whiskey and you Writer/s: Christopher Stapleton, Lee Thomas Miller
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Spirit Music Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 5

  • Deep Listen from HereNeed to listen deeper. Every line he sings can apply to both whiskey and ‘his’ woman. You never know which line applies to each. Of course, you can form your own decision.
  • Jake from VaThe song is about a man having a difficult time getting over the woman he lost. The cause is unknown other than he can't buy her forgiveness for whatever it was but, he can hide the pain with alcohol. So, as he struggles to get over her he berries himself in booze.
  • Bronson from VaIt about a man that has a bad problem with alcohol. His woman left him. And he still has a bad problem with alcohol. He drinks because he’s lonesome which he probably did even when he was with her and now that she left him it adds to that lonesomeness and because he can’t stop drinking he stays stuck and he becomes lonesome because he continues to drink... basically he can’t move on. The cycle of an alcoholic.
  • Bw from Texasmeans i can get over the booze, but i cant get over you
  • C.wyatt from TennseessWhat is the true meaning of this song? What does it mean when you receive this song from a man, with the comment Listen.
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