I read the letter through a haze of alcohol   A close encounter with the weak and pitiful   Although my conscience said "she's absolutely right"   The thought was buried in the blindness of the night      I'm free at last   I'm drinking to the past   Those best-forgotten memories are fading fast      And now I'm drowning my sorrows   Here's to you   Dreams of love are finally through   And when I'm frowning my sorrows   Life is sweet   The bitter world is an echo in my heartbeat      The chair is empty where I slaved my years away   Please save your tears for someone else's rainy day   Where once your picture stood, a bottle's in it's place   Another chapter in my epic fall form grace      I can't believe   That you are so naive   To think that losing you would give me cause to grieve      I thought you really loved me   But what am I gonna do know you are gone      The nights are long   And when the stars are gone   I stagger to my sense and I carry on