It's not that I don't love you   Or are tired of your ways   I want you to know      That's I'm always thinking of you   You know I'd take you with me    Wherever I go      But I catch myself in the mirror   And I remember I gotta do something about my life      For I'm as empty as the clothes that I laid   Crumpled where they fell to the floor   I'm as empty as the ten green bottles   Hanging in my mind from the night before   And an ashtray full of moments    Spent thinking about the things I    Should have done      I say goodbye to another old friend   Yeah they stayed through thick and thin   Through the laughter and the tears   Through every state that I've been in   And I know they don't wanna hurt me   But I can see it in their eyes   That they're killing me so gently   How can I ever say goodbye   For as young me we clattered through these streets   And how we hit this town runnin'   And we were so sure of being us    We flattened everything that stood in our path   Now I wake up and I have to find myself   Through all the shit that once told me who I was   I say goodbye to so many old friends   Here I left them to the wind   And there ain't much point in chasing   The things you can never get back again   But there's still some life in this one   Give me a match and I'll reminisce   Of a time when we were younger   And we were stealing our first crack   And our thoughts had turned to dying   And we were unaware at the time   That this ride it could ever fall....   Could ever slow down to this time...   For I've been drunk and stoned and feeling mellow   And that's how I've been getting through   Looking at the blurry shapes around me   Thinking I knew more than I knew   And it's not that i don't love you   Or are tired your ways   If i could only take you with me   If i could only ease this pain