There's always one just up the road
Where the price is good & the pours are strong
The beers are cold & the lights stay way down low
It's a little hole where the whiskey flows under a bridge between the young and old
All lookin for some common company
Whether you go to talk or just drink alone
It won't be long if you keep on
'For it'll be the place where everybody knows your name, But lately everytime I'm there, I feel a thickness in the air,
And it ain't the type of place that I can stay
'Cause all the dives have lost their charm
There ain't a peace of mind I'll find sittin' in a smoky bar
There ain't a jukebox in this town that can ease my howlin heart,
And all the dives have lost their charm
Well I stopped by the old honky tonk, Put some credits on the box
And didn't even stay to hear my songs
Between the ghosts of those who've gone,
And the talk from them that still live on,
Made me need to get back to my bottle that was waitin at home
See I don't think that much has changed
'Cept maybe just my sense of rage and I kinda
Wish they'd all just forget my name
Cause all the dives have lost their charm
There ain't a peace of mind I'll find sittin in a smoky bar,
There ain't a jukebox in this town that can ease my howlin heart,
And all the dives have lost their charm
So you you won't here me singin prop me up if I die,
'Cause sittin at the bar just don't feel right
And it ain't that I've grown,
I just found a deeper pain,
And sittin at the bar ain't the same
All the dives have lost their charm
There ain't a peace of mind I'll find sittin in a smoky bar,
There ain't a jukebox in this town that can ease my howlin heart,
And all the dives have lost their charm