Story Behind The Song

"This song is truly one of my most personal...I wrote the lyrics in college on a napkin in a smoky basement bar." - BL

Song Description

A simple, solo acoustic song that raises a glass to years that have passed us by. The three verses describe three different types of love and loss in life that we all deal with sooner or later.

Lyrics

My friends, we seem so empty.
Light gone from our eyes.
Starting blindly in the smoke-filled room
When we once looked toward the skies.

And we say ?Man, where?d our best friends go, things aren?t the same without them.
It?s hard to go on, hard to even try.?
So I get a drink for kinship and remembrance
And we raise them up and cry.

And we drank to years gone by?.

I saw her ghost in the corner
Across a crowded, hazy bar.
She brushed her hair back with her hand
And caught my eyes from afar.

And I think, ?Man, how I miss that girl, the world?s not the same without her.?
And I sat there for a while.
I?d buy her a drink for loneliness and for lost love
And we?d raise our glasses and smile.

And we?d drink to years gone by?

My dad, he?s changed a lot in these years
Something?s eating him away.
I can see it in the blankness of his eyes,
That he wishes he could stay.

And he says, ?Where?d all the time go, you?ve grown up right before me.
I want to go back and see it again?.
So he bought us drinks for understanding and forgiveness
And we raised our glasses as friends.