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〈verse 1〉You could leave me on the highway, ziptied
Or meet me halfway up that mountain
We can drink from the depths of the crystal fountains
Cross this frontier, build our bounties
Want a wanted sign in every single county
Wish the law would pull up like howdy
Think the day i go down gon’ be cloudy
If i’m asleep, sleeping soundly
We coulda blown densest doors at the banks
I was talking to me and my drank
I watched the sea as it shrank
I saw doorways on beaches, that’s gone when i blink
Saddled up, i was uncaring of where i was taken
Floor of the tavern and lower like sinking
I was woodchopping and building my bunker like abraham lincoln
〈chorus〉Oh, whiskey bottle, how i loved being your hostage
Sat at the counter and ordered my garbage
You never would judge when i lost it
You never would change how you look at me
I find comfort in misery’s company
I won’t be taken alive into custody
Bandits reside in the dunes in abundance
I was no bandit but sand was my substance
〈verse 2〉You could leave me on the highway, leave me on the highway
Tie me up and throw me on the train tracks
My face pressed to the planks like a rock and a hard place
Put me in harm’s way, put me in harm’s way
Leave me where you found me
If they could fall me, then i was surrounded
Others before me, but i have outlasted
Others will fall, but i’ll always be standing
I put my life on the distant horizon
Need no revives when i face with a titan
Violent usurper of cannibal tyrants
Question all orders and all your assignments
I do not aim with my hand, i aim with my eye, and i shoot with my mind
Ye who’ve forgotten the face of ye father will surely go blind
〈verse 3〉I feel myself slip away from me
If i don’t know me no more, would you bear with me?
Lapse in my judgement, resuming my duties and searching for towers
This is not no make-believe, this is not no make-believe
I got a world on me, waiting, i got a world on me, waiting
I am led only by faith i’ve developed that my cause is righteous
And every step bringing me closer to body-enveloping light
But this world i can better present me temptations
And you know the days in the desert get stressful
A temptation so often is welcome
A temptation so often is welcome (swear)
I swear my oaths to the emblem
Show me the shades of the spectrum
Color these grays, know this land has seen seldom
〈chorus〉Oh, whiskey bottle, how i loved being your hostage
Sat at the counter and ordered my garbage
You never would judge when i lost it
You never would change how you look at me
I find comfort in misery’s company
I won’t be taken alive into custody
Bandits reside in the dunes in abundance
I was no bandit but sand was my substance
〈outro〉Oh, whiskey bottle
Oh, whiskey bottle, my bottle
This bottle of mine never faltered
Bottle incapable, it could not hurt me
It could not hurt me, no, no
It was there always when i was so thirsty
It was there always when i was so thirsty
