Red Beer On the Balcony

[Verse 1] I said, “You want beer or smokes tonight?” You laughed and shot back fast “Do frogs have watertight assholes?” And I knew this friendship would last We were women made for hard-ass days Smiling through the job and strain Then red beers cold on your balcony Letting loose and cussing the pain Playing cards and talking music Watching daylight fade to black You were the kind that made a hard week lighter Just by leaning back and laughing like that One of the first real friends I found When Washington still felt strange And somehow you made a new place feel A little more like home again [Chorus] Now every time I crack one open I swear I’m right back there with you Red beer sweating on the railing Talking shit like best friends do And they can hand me their conclusions But that don’t mean I believe it too You were talking about tomorrow And tomorrow still sounds like you [Verse 2] Rhein Haus lights on your birthday A table full of reckless grin Stole some mustard, stole a glass Little proof of where we’d been Then drunk and lost in Tacoma streets Laughing like the night was ours Funny how we weren’t that far away Funny how you still ain’t far Just a few days later everything broke And the air turned cold too soon They called it done, said that was that Like grief should bow and leave the room Maybe pain can blur the edges Maybe love just makes you ask But nothing about the way you left Ever fit the future that you had [Chorus] Now every time I crack one open I swear I’m right back there with you Red beer sweating on the railing Talking shit like best friends do And they can hand me their conclusions But that don’t mean I believe it too You were talking about tomorrow And tomorrow still sounds like you [Bridge] They said overdose, they said addiction Said the story ended there But you were still making plans for later Still talking like life was still somewhere Maybe I’ll never know the whole truth Maybe that’s just an ache that lives with me now But love don’t stop asking questions Just because the world says to sit down I see labyrinth circles In every card laid on the table In the smoke, the songs, the silence In the nights I still feel unable To make peace with how you left here Or the hole you burned straight through But I swear to God you’re more than rumors And I’ll keep telling the world of you [Final Chorus] So every time I crack one open I swear I’m right back there with you Red beer sweating on the railing Talking shit like best friends do And they can hand me their conclusions But that don’t mean I believe it too You were more than how you left here And tomorrow still sounds like you [Outro] Red beer Night air Your laugh in the dark comes through And if there’s somewhere souls go dancing I hope the music found you too