Tonight the bottle let me down   It let your memory come around   The one true friend I thought I'd found   Tonight the bottle let me down       I've always had a bottle I could turn to   And lately I've been turnin' every day   But the wine don't take effect the way it used to   And I'm hurtin' in old familiar ways       Tonight the bottle let me down   It let your memory come around   The one true friend I thought I'd found   Tonight the bottle let me down       Each night I leave the bar room when it's over   Not feeling any pain at closing time   But tonight your memory found me much too sober   I can't drink enough to keep you off my mind       Tonight the bottle let me down   It let your memory come around   The one true friend I thought I'd found   Tonight the bottle let me down