Cheap Guitars Songtext
von Johnny Mainstream

We checked in at ten o′clock
A hotel bar and whiskey shots
You told me 'bout your drug habit
And the year the fire went out
I said I sing songs about nothing
And a chorus line of bathtub gin
Wish that I could be the one
Whose music could inspire

Why are you here all alone on stupid earth?
Why don′t you sing the song if you know all the words?

All my favorite writers were drunks who frequent bars
And all my favorite songs start out on old beat up guitars
All my favorite nights started with whiskey from a well
And I really think you're pretty cool but you're not worth top shelf


I fell out at twenty-one
The year that I gave up on love
I still believe that it exists
Just not for everyone
And I learned to keep myself separate
And leave bad thoughts inside my head
But never trust a man who says
He ain′t got no regrets

Why am I still here alone on stupid earth?
Why don′t I fix the breach if I know what will work?

All my favorite writers were drunks who frequent bars
And all my favorite songs start out on old beat up guitars
All my favorite nights started with whiskey from a well
And I really think you're pretty cool but you′re not worth top shelf

Coming home real late from our last show
And I know exactly what a hard right turn will do
I was twenty-two when I wrote my last lines
And everything since then has been a lie
I was told I was a poet but the ink has run out
I have no words of wisdom of what to do now
Except everybody dies an old man full of regret
Except the ones who go young in fiery auto wrecks

All my favorite writers were drunks who died too young
And all my favorite songs come from all my friends at rock bottom
All my favorite nights started with whiskey from a well
And I really think you're pretty cool but you′re not worth top shelf