The bars are all closed It's four in the morning Must have shut 'em all down by the shape that I'm in I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking The whole neighbourhood knows That I'm home drunk again If drinking don't kill me, her memory will I can't hold out much longer, the way that I feel With the blood from my body, I could start my own still But if drinking don't kill me, her memory will These will old bones they move slow But so sure of their footsteps As I trip on the floor and I lightly touch down Lord, it's been ten bottles since I tried to forget her But the memory still lingers lying here on the ground If drinking don't kill me, her memory will I can't hold out much longer, the way that I feel With the blood from my body, I could start my own still But if drinking don't kill me, her memory will ...