Tonight in a bar alone I'm sitting apart   From the laughter and the cheer   While scenes from the past rise before me   Just watching the bubbles in my beer      A vision of someone who loved me brings   Along silent tears to my eyes   Oh I know that my life has been a failure   Just watching the bubbles in my beer      I'm seeing the road that I've traveled a road   Paved with heartaches and tears   And I'm seeing the past that I've wasted   While watching the bubbles in my beer      As I think of the heart that I've broken   And the chances I know have passed me by   And the dreams that I've made now are empty   As empty as the bubbles in my beer