(feat. Kris Kristofferson)




You ask me if I'm happy now

That's good as any joke I've heard 

It seems since I've seen you last 

I done forget the meaning of the words 

If happiness is empty rooms

And drinkin' in the afternoon

Well I guess I'm as happy as a clam 

But if it's got a thing to do 

With smilin' or forgettin' you 

Well I don't guess that I could say I am 



Did you ever see a down and outer waking up alone

Without a blanket on to keep him from the dew

When the water from the weeds had soaked the papers 

He'd been puttin' in his shoes to keep the ground from comin' though 

And his future feels as empty as the pockets in his pants 

Because he's never seen a single dream come true

That's the way that I've been feelin' since the day I started falling 

From the bottle to the bottom stool by stool

Learnin' hard to live with losin' you 



You wonder if I'm better off

With freedom now to do the things I choose 

Well all my times my own and 

I've got nothin' left but sleepin' time to lose

There's no one here to carry on 

If I stay out the whole night long 

Or give a tinkers damn if I don't call 

I'm livin' like I wanted to

And doin' things I wanna do 

And nothin' means a thing to me at all 



Did you ever see a down and outer waking up alone

Without a blanket on to keep him from the dew

When the water from the weeds had soaked the papers 

He'd been puttin' in his shoes to keep the ground from comin' though 

And his future feels as empty as the pockets in his pants 

Because he's never seen a single dream come true

That's the way that I've been feelin' since the day I started falling 

From the bottle to the bottom stool by stool

Learnin' hard to live with losin' you