Smoke, Whiskey, and the Night (Acoustic Cover Version)

Barstool's feelin' heavy and the neon's burnin' low

The jukebox hums a slow tune only broken men would know

Ashtray full of silence glass half full of lies

And I keep toastin' shadows while the blues fill up the skies

There's lipstick on the bottle but she's long since gone

Just me and the bartender and this half-forgotten song

The smoke curls like a question I never learned to fight

And I drown the ache in rhythm smoke whiskey and the night

Smoke whiskey and the night

My only friends that treat me right

She left me with nothin' but a tab and a scar

Now I bleed slow chords in a backroom bar

I don't want salvation don't need the light

Just give me smoke whiskey and the night

The bar clock lost its numbers time don't mean a thing

My guitar's cryin' verses with a busted B-string

The mirror won't look at me the man there ain't too bright

But he knows his way around smoke whiskey and the night

Some folks find their truth in a chapel's quiet grace

I find mine in bottle glass and a stranger's empty face

Don't preach me resurrection I already lost that fight

I just lean into the darkness with smoke whiskey and the night

Smoke whiskey and the night

They don't judge and they don't bite

She left with the morning I stayed with the pain

Pour me another till I feel sane

No heaven for a soul this tight

Just the blues and smoke whiskey and the night