Gloria Sarasin Addiction lyrics

Empty cans, empty bottles, tell of addiction’s strangle hold
And a life that’s gone sorry with the brew embraced as gold;
My faithful old companion…my lover and best friend…
And when my heart is lonely…it’s the bottle who befriends.

I’ve walked down drunkard’s alley,
Met my demons on the way,
Tasted bitters in the valley…
Known the feel of vast despair.


Chorus:

Lord, take this bottle from me,
Let it drop upon the floor…
Make addiction flee…
Let this bottle haunt no more.

I’ve lost my wife and children, have no job in which to go,
the brew I thought as friend…has fast turned into my foe,
My life has turned to rubble…a wasteland of despair;
My lover and companion … a badly gone affair.

Empty cans, empty bottles… rancid smells found in the air,
Cigarettes fill the ashtray, and the sun has lost its ray;
Bloodshot eyes and slurred of speech ...
Yet for the bottle I still reach.


Chorus:


Lord, take this bottle from me,
Let it drop upon the floor…
Make addiction flee…
Let this bottle haunt no more.


It seldom finds a bottom, always takes one more to fill…
A self-destructive atom…draws the drinker with no will.
The bottle holds me captive…my old friend won’t set me free;
Addiction holds fast to me…it refuses now to flee.

Into this valley I draw deeper,
Can’t climb up from where I’ve sunk…
I feel cursed to walk this alley…
To forever stay a drunk.

Chorus:

Lord, take this bottle from me,
Let it drop upon the floor…
Make addiction flee…
Let this bottle haunt no more.

Lord, take this bottle from me…
And make addiction flee.