Well if you live in dusty twilight baby, that's ok   Cause there are women at the bar to greet you every day      You can take them back to lie with you and visit Jamie's room   But they can never take the pain away   Or brighten all the gloom      And if your hands are clenched with sorrow   May it help you ease your pain   Though the windows have a view of city rain, city rain      Well if you walk in constant sorrow   And you cry for me   And if you're hit with painful memories   Maybe then you'll see      That if you drown yourself in liquor   Because it keeps you company   Then just remember who you're losing   And be proud to set me free      Because it don't talk back or disagree   It just makes you see so hazily   But in de morning light your life is scattered with the wind,   scattered with the wind      And they tell you on the telephone to let him go   I said they tell you he's a sinking ship   And he's tryin' to pull you down   Don't you know      That every time you call me up and say you want me back    You know you break my heart   You said you want me to come back home and try again   You want me to make a brand new start      But if wisdom says to let him go   Then it's hell because you just don't know   Until you've tried to love a man who's lovin' whiskey   Lovin' whiskey      My baby left me for a bottle   And the lure of the nightlife   Good times and crazy women   And another glass of tangueray      But if wisdom says to let him go    Then it's hell because you just don't know   Until you've tried to love a man who's lovin' whiskey   Lovin' whiskey