remember the days    when we were young    and I went away    lookin' for some other one    I left you in the cold    with no one to hold       why am I always    the last one to know    I turned and I tossed    sleepless and lost    wanting you back    I'd have paid any cost    my only friend    my bottle of gin       all of the places    that we could have been    I knew they'd    find us together again       feeling so dry    like I just might cry    why did it take so long    for me to stop and wonder why    when out of the blue    I ran into you       as It turned out    you'd been missing me too    now I've come home    and I'm not alone    drinking myself    as thin as skin and bone    my only friend    my bottle of gin