How Bad Could It Be Lyrics

How bad could it be I think only to myself

If I opened up that cabinet, back corner of the shelf

Where I know there's a bottle they all forgot about but me

It's been a long, long time but baby

How bad could it be?

How bad could it be, I've asked myself before

I've made this far maybe I deserve a small reward

I swore no more years ago, and I'm gray with my regret

But when that spirit calls my name it's easy to forget

A memory so sweet, a feeling that I miss

The warmth within my cheeks, to sink into the abyss

Like detonating a grenade, then justifying the debris

So I ask myself

How bad could it be?

My days used to be darker back in my younger years

And though my eyes are older I still live with the same fears

And sometimes they start hurting, more than I thought they could

But the question's never been whether I can, it's if I should

Well I'm trying to do better, and I've built an honest life

I still clock in and out each day, one day at a time

But it's still an open wound, and it never really heals

It never goes away, you just learn how to deal

I look back in that cabinet and that bottle's disappeared

I hear my daughter call my name, the fog begins to clear

For years I've walked a straight line and that's the only line I see

If that's the only choice I have

How bad could it be?