Stuart A. Staples - Goodbye to Old Friends lyrics

It's not that I don't love you Or are tired of your ways I want you to know That's I'm always thinking of you You know I'd take you with me Wherever I go But I catch myself in the mirror And I remember I gotta do something about my life For I'm as empty as the clothes that I laid Crumpled where they fell to the floor I'm as empty as the ten green bottles Hanging in my mind from the night before And an ashtray full of moments Spent thinking about the things I Should have done I say goodbye to another old friend Yeah they stayed through thick and thin Through the laughter and the tears Through every state that I've been in And I know they don't wanna hurt me But I can see it in their eyes That they're k**ing me so gently How can I ever say goodbye For as young me we clattered through these streets And how we hit this town runnin' And we were so sure of being us We flattened everything that stood in our path Now I wake up and I have to find myself Through all the s*** that once told me who I was I say goodbye to so many old friends Here I left them to the wind And there ain't much point in chasing The things you can never get back again But there's still some life in this one Give me a match and I'll reminisce Of a time when we were younger And we were stealing our first crack And our thoughts had turned to dying And we were unaware at the time That this ride it could ever fall.... Could ever slow down to this time... For I've been drunk and stoned and feeling mellow And that's how I've been getting through Looking at the blurry shapes around me Thinking I knew more than I knew And it's not that i don't love you Or are tired your ways If i could only take you with me If i could only ease this pain