Cheap Whisky
Cheap Whisky is a road-worn Texas blues-rock boogie about a man who keeps moving because stopping would mean facing everything he left behind.
With a motorcycle beneath him, a lost love in his memory and trouble somewhere in the rearview mirror, he rides through the night carrying more regret than luggage. Cheap whisky and the light of a full moon aren't a celebration — they're simply companions on a long road while he tries to put enough miles between himself and the man he used to be.
But beneath the dust, scars and outlaw imagery, Cheap Whisky is ultimately a hopeful song.
The narrator isn't running toward destruction. He's searching for a way back. Every mile costs him something, but it also strips away another piece of the past. Somewhere beyond the next county line there might still be a road that belongs to him — and perhaps even a way home.
Driven by a rolling blues-rock boogie groove and the restless spirit of the open highway, Cheap Whisky is about heartbreak, endurance and refusing to disappear when life has taken nearly everything else.
One eye on heaven.
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Lyrics
I was born with a scar
And a tank full of rain
Rode out of that town
With my name in the flame
She waved from the porch
Like she knew it was the end
Now I chase that ghost
Down these two-lane bends
Got a badge in my rearview
And smoke on my boots
Every mile I lose
I pay in truth
Cheap whisky and a full moon
Keeps me rolling on
Cheap whisky and a full moon
Till the hurt is gone
If I get back home
I’ll bring my soul along
Cheap whisky and a full moon
Keeps me rolling on
Her ring on my chain
And my heart in a jar
Every hard goodbye
Left a brand like a star
The law wants my shadow
By the break of day
But I’m still a rider
I don’t fade that way
Got a badge in my rearview
And smoke on my boots
Every mile I lose
I pay in truth
Cheap whisky and a full moon
Keeps me rolling on
Cheap whisky and a full moon
Till the hurt is gone
If I get back home
I’ll bring my soul along
Cheap whisky and a full moon
Keeps me rolling on
I’ve slept in the dirt
With my hands on the tank
I’ve learned hard love
Can leave you drained
Still I see a dawn
Past the county line
One good road ahead
And it might be mine
Cheap whisky and a full moon
Keeps me rolling on
Cheap whisky and a full moon
Till the hurt is gone
If I get back home
I’ll bring my soul along
Cheap whisky and a full moon
Keeps me rolling on
I’ll keep one eye on heaven
And one on the road
With cheap whisky in my pocket
And hope in my bones
