[intro] I never used to drink that much… Until I met you, yes it’s true, There’s something that you do, Those blue, blue eyes break me through, I was never blue, blue until I fell in love- With you~ [Verse 1 — Tequila denial, still standing] I never used to drink that much — kept a bottle of Casa Azul I swore I’d never touch. But the seal cracks easy when the quiet gets too loud, and I pour a shot for every vow you broke out loud. Salt on the wound, lime between my teeth, counting all the little ways you came and ruined me — your smile, your blue-lit eyes, the laugh you left behind, the way you moved on clean while I stayed drunk on rewind. [Chorus] So here’s to you, and here’s to me, and every empty glass you turned me into. I’ll drink to the lie that you were mine — one bottle at a time, one bottle at a time. [Verse 2 — Vodka -numbing, dishonest calm] Tequila couldn’t reach it, so I switched to something clear — vodka’s got no color and it don’t taste like fear. Just a burn that goes down honest and a floor that meets my knees, numb enough to text you, drunk enough to delete. I used to say your name like it was something holy; now I say it to the ceiling and the ceiling says it slowly. [Chorus] So here’s to you, and here’s to me, and every empty glass you turned me into. I’ll drink to the lie that you were mine — one bottle at a time, one bottle at a time. …one bottle at a time — and you’re still not mine. [Verse 3 — Whiskey -truth, bottom] By the whiskey I ain’t clever, I ain’t clean, I ain’t fine — brown liquor tells the truth the other two would hide. No salt, no chaser, no reason left to lie — just me, and Casa’s empty, and the whiskey asking why. I never used to drink that much… now the bottle’s how I hold the blue I couldn’t touch. [Bridge quiet, the turn] And I get it now — you didn’t leave because I drank. I drink because you left, and there’s no one left to thank. That blue glass on the counter’s the only blue eyes in the house — salud, mi amor. I’ll blow the candle out. [Outro (stripped, half-spoken)] I never used to drink that much… Until I met you, yes it’s true, There’s something that you do, Those blue, blue eyes break me through, I was never blue, blue until I fell in love- With you~
