You ask me if I'm happy now   That's good as any joke I've heard   It seems that since I've seen you last   I done forgot the meaning of the words   If happiness is empty rooms   And drinkin' in the afternoon   Well I suppose I'm happy as a clam   But if it's got a thing to do   With smilin' of forgettin' you   Well I don't guess that I could say I am   Chorus:   Did you ever see a down and outer waking up alone   Without a blanket on to keep him from the dew   When the water from the weeds has soaked the paper   He's been puttin' in his shoes to keep the ground from comin' through   And his future feels as empty as the pocket in his pants   Because he's never seen a single dream come true   That's the way that I've been feelin' since the day I started falling   >From the bottle to the bottom stool by stool   Learnin' hard to live with losin' you   You wonder if I'm better off   With freedom now to do the things I choose   With all my times my own and   I got nothin' left but sleepin' time to lose   There's no one here to carry on   If I stay out the whole night long   or give a tankerous damn if I don't call   I'm livin' like I wanted to   And doin' things I wanna do   And nothin' means a thing to me at all   Chorus:   Did you ever see a down and outer waking up alone   Without a blanket on to keep him from the dew   When the water from the weeds soaked the paper   He's been puttin' in his shoes to keep the ground from comin' through   And his future feels as empty as the pocket in his pants   Because he's never seen a single dream come true   That's the way that I've been feelin' since the day I started falling   From the bottle to the bottom stool by stool   Learnin' hard to live with losin' you