Lyrics for Kiss The Bottle as interpreted by emoJustin

Kiss The Bottle Lyrics
It gets lonliest at night
Down at the liquor store
Beneath the neon sky
Our moonlight
Six a.m. the floor comes alive with lice
The pan's dried up so tight
With hardened beans
We're hungry
So I lean on you sometimes
Just to see you're still there
Your feet can't take the weight of one
Much less two
We hit concrete
How were we born into this mess?
I know I painted you a prettier picture, baby
But we were run out on a rail
Fell from the wagon to the night train
I kissed the bottle
I should've been kissing you
You wake up to an empty night
With tears for two
Cigarettes they fill the gaps
In our empty days
In our broken teeth
We're jonesing
Say mister, can you spare a dime?
Some change could make a change
Could buy some time
Some freedom
Or an ear to hear my story
It's all I've got
My fiction beats the hell out of my truth
A palm upturned burnt blue
Don't call it sunburn
You've been shaking on the job
Just one drink ahead of your past
There's a white light coming up
You draw the blinds hoping it'll pass
I kissed the bottle
I should've been kissin you
You wake up to an empty night
With tears for two

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The_Phil
05-25-2002

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This is a song about choosing between love and alcohol. The guy is an alcoholic and made the decision to keep drinking instead of choosing love. This is a great song. Blake rules

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Lusyphur
05-26-2002

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i disagree. i think it's about a guy who's havin problems in a relationship, and rather than deal with them, he drinks.

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The_Phil
05-31-2002

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after thinking about it..... I kind of agree with you. but I think part of mine is in their too

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sscw46
03-08-2003

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Pretty sad song. I think it's talking about a guy and a girl who seem to going through hard times together. They're both dealing with their problems and he relies on her, then he goes off and drinks, leaving her with nobody.

The thing I'm confused about is the line "a palm upturned burnt blue." My initial thought was something to do with physical abuse. Not quite sure though.

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billage480
04-26-2003

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I would say this song is much like what "the phil" says. A man whose problem with alcohol starts to ruin him and he almost pulls down his loved one with him. I would guess that the guy ended up ruined begging for change, telling fake stories to whomever will listen.

The "palm upturned burnt blue" could be part of the begger life. A palm upturned begging for money, burnt blue from the harsh cold life on the street.

The girl seems to make it out ok for the most part, still has a job, just memories of the old boyfriend left. Perhaps he died, seeing that she "wakes up to an empty night, with tears for two". However maybe im reaching :-)

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ThatGuyYouKnow26
04-19-2004

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The song is about regret. Instead of being with someone that he really loved he chose to party and drink. Eveyone goes through regret and this song is perfect to relate to.

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kylehyatt
01-05-2005

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prettiest song ive ever heard. he loves her so much but cant stop what he's doing thats hurting them both. he wanted so many things for the both of them that cant happen now as a result of their alcoholism. i get all weepy everytime i hear this.

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RockSpace
03-19-2005

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you gotta listen to Lucero's cover of this song...pretty sweet

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ThatGuyEd
01-05-2006

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Robert Nanna of Braid has a perfect cover of this song.

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this is jakeoh
02-02-2006

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the sparta cover of this song does it justice.. thats for rockspace. but ya we all interpret this song differently

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carefulman
05-18-2006

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This is one of the greatest songs I've ever heard. No cover can truly capture the hopeless emotion of the original. I read somewhere that Blake Schwarzenbach recorded Kiss the Bottle shortly before having surgery to remove a polyp on his vocal folds. As for this brilliant song, its about a rough area where Blake used to live. In his own words, "It was a pretty hard luck little block. It's still like the major kind of heroin zone. There was a lot of fucked up shit going on there."

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newwave1111
07-13-2006

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there is a movie being realeased with the story based on this song its called "loren class" i think. this is a song fully about regret where a man drinks cause first of all he has nothing to begin with, but even with love, cant break his deppression and cant save her from the ugliness he is surrounded in and he realizes that. How can Blake write songs so descriptive? I wonder if it's from experience

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CosmoKramer
10-18-2006

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I think I've experienced the lyrics to every Jawbreaker song at one point or another in my life.

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Skubic448
10-30-2006

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I think Lucero's live cover of this on "Dreaming in America" is about as good of a cover of the song your ever going to find. Much better than the one on "The Attic Tapes" In my opinion of course. & What does my opinion mean to you? Nothing. Check it out though, definately worth the searching.

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thatmuchfurtherwest
12-06-2006

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i think the line " your just one drink ahead of your past" is probably the best part of the song, it just sums up the desperation and depression of the song, great fucking song.

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books_out_loud
05-13-2007

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according to a live performance of this:

"This song is about a fucked town."

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