Time From a Bottle

• when written: roughly 2008-2009. I've temporarily lost where I originally wrote down the words. I think there were more of them (the first part of the second verse). When I find it, that will help pin down the date. As of 2013-02-09, I've recorded demo backing tracks and am waiting for the house to be quiet so I can do the vocals (using the available words... which I think will work as they are, leaving room for a brief solo in the 2nd verse).

verse

It's in the evening

and everything's all right

Pistol-packin' mama, don't you tell me dirty lies

for I'll be sleeping

underground tonight

and the starlight and the moon will shine without my oversight...

chorus

Wasting away, spilling time from a bottle

Keeping one hand up on the wheel and one hand on the throttle

Wasting the day, spilling time from a bottle

Watching all of our dreams like the stars going out one by one.

verse

So grab a barstool

to keep yourself afloat

If the weather in my head gets out, you'll need your overcoat