FROM THE BOTTLE TO THE BOTTOM    (Listen to sample)

 

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1. You ask me if i'm happy now, that's good as any joke I've heard,

                              

    it seems since I've seen you last,

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    I've done forgot the meaning of the words.

         

    If happiness is empty rooms, and drinkin' in the afternoon

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    well I suppose I'm happy as a clown.

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    But if it's got a thing to do with smilin' or forgettin' you,

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    well I don't guess that I could say I am.

 

                G

Did you ever see your darling out a-wakin' up alone

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without a blanket on to keep him from the dew.

           

When the water from the weeds that soaks the paper

                                                                                          

he's been puttin' in his shoes

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to keep the ground from comin' through

         

And his future feels as empty as the pockets in his pants,

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because he's never seen a single dream come true,

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that's the way that I've been feelin' since the day I started fallin'

                                 

from the bottle to the bottom stew by stew,

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learnin' hard to live with losin' you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

               G     

2. You wonder if I'm better off

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    with freedom now to do the things I choose.

                                                 

    Well, all my time's my own and

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    I got nothin' left but sleepin' time to lose.

           

    There's no one here to carry on if I stay out the whole night long,

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    give a tinker's damn if I don't call.

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    I'm livin' like I wanted you and doin' things I wanna do,

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    and nothin' means a things to me at all.  + CHORUS

 

    (Kris Kristofferson)