One More Beer Lyrics

In a smoke-filled dormitory eighteen years ago

I remember painting pictures of the ice and snow

On a night when something turned into something wrong

I remember telling friends I'd never live this long

As the scent of teen-aged ignorance flowed back and forth

And the wheels of adolescence took a senseless course

There was nothing in my eyes except a simple fear

A peace pipe, and a cigarette, and one more beer

Surprised as I awoke and I was twenty-nine

My whole life a twisted metaphoric nursery rhyme

A poison page of history that lost its place

Inside a dead-end tunnel with a swollen stolen face

Existing just to stay there and avoid the sun

Watching days turn into years of being half undone

While the sentimental demons screamed the end is near

Another lonesome cigarette and one more beer

Memories and broken empty romance lose their place

They can't even find my nightmares, they haven't left a trace

I keep sipping on a cold one, it's going to my waist

Who is that man in the mirror, and what happened to his face

A stylish bit of wisdom threw me to the floor

A sunburned Texas night when I was thirty-four

Emotionally empty as the summer moon arose

Astounded by her beauty, she was wearing peasant's clothes

A silhouette of passion and a healing broken heart

The fight was almost over, and I never heard it start

I don't know why I chose that place to let my soul appear

Let me write another folk song, and buy another beer

Memories and broken empty romance lose their place

They can't even find my nightmares, they haven't left a trace

I keep sipping on a cold one, it's going to my waist

Who is that man in the mirror, and what happened to his face