Whiskey Straight - Rocky Votolato

The moonlight is shining down

Through the factories on the shipyard waters

And in a winter midnight

Sideways move sets on the memory of what’s gone missing

The sidewalk stares up silent

And just a shadow slowly disappearing

A ghost of something real that used to exist

A memory of what’s gone missing

Why do you keep running?

The pace is hurried but you’re never closer

To what it was you thought you wanted

It all keeps changing

And now something else is missing

Who knows where it went?

I knew our time was running out

So by the kitchen window back at your house

I ended up wasted on whiskey straight

Filled the ashtray up with your secrets

You were an anchor with high cheekbones

I was a soldier with broken fingers

You ended up wasted on cheap champagne

Celebrating everything that’s missing

Why do you keep running?

The pace is hurried but you’re never closer

To what it was you thought you wanted

It all keeps changing

And now something else is missing

Familiar madness, it all keeps changing

And now something else is missing