One More Draw
I said last one when the tray was empty
Then I found a leaf I'd hid for worse
Rolled the band off like a little confession
Struck the match like a quiet curse
The bottle said the same sweet nothing
It says every time I swear I'm through
One more draw, one more finger
One more lie that feels like truth
One more draw on a dying coal
One more pour on a honest thirst
I can quit at morning if morning wants me
Tonight I'm still the man I was first
Streetlight leans in through the blinds now
Paints a jail bar across my boot
I laugh because it almost fits me
Then I draw again and let it go mute
I ain't asking to be rescued
I ain't selling you a change
I'm just telling you the shape of a evening
When the leaf and the rye both say remain
One more draw on a dying coal
One more pour on a honest thirst
I can quit at morning if morning wants me
Tonight I'm still the man I was first
Short Glass Country, track by track
- 1Four Fingers of Rye
- 2Last Ember in the Tray
- 3Cedar Box
- 4Ash on a White Shirt
- 5Proof and Smoke
- 6Chair by the Dark Window
- 7Slow Pour, Slow Draw
- 8Whiskey Rings on the Good Book
- 9One More Draw
- 10Barroom Benediction
- 11Cornmash and Cedar
- 12The Long Ash
- 13Burnt End of a Prayer
- 14Lights Down, Ember On
- 15Leave the Bottle, Leave the Leaf