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Rocky Votolato
The Brag & Cuss
Whiskey Straight
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?

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.

Rocky Votolato
The Brag & Cuss
Whiskey Straight