6th Of October

Lyrics

[Verse 1] I threw up this morning in Christiansburg, VA I drove down from PA, slept in my van I can still taste the whiskey from the last fool that kissed me And the people who miss me, I can count on one hand [Verse 2] He missed by a mile, a Paso Fino caballo That girl in Ohio with hair black as coal She was charmed for a moment by a circus clown poet And boy did he blow it when she let him go [Chorus] Reckless hearts The tattered and bruised ones Slightly confused ones The ones holding stools down in bars They show up and find us And gently remind us To not be ashamed of our scars Or who we are [Verse 3] I've been saying I was sober since the 6th of October But all that was over when I heard him say "There's a friend you've been missing with a fifth in the kitchen" We started sipping and he faded away [Chorus] Reckless hearts The tattered and bruised ones Slightly confused ones The ones holding stools down in bars They show up and find us And gently remind us To not be afraid of our scars Or who we are [Verse 4] So just live in the rhythm and the rhymes when you get 'em And the notes when you miss 'em, could you drink all night long In all of his running, he showed me something That dying ain't nothing and I can't prove him wrong