Reach For The Bottle - Tommy Shaw

There’s a hold in the picture

There’s a flaw in the cloth

There’s your favorite sweater

Signature of the moth

Shaky hand on the throttle

Says somethings wrong

So you reach for the bottle

And you live the song

There you stand in the kitchen

You’re fit and your lean

You’ve got the heart of a lion

You know you’re so damn mean

Put your hands in the water

You feel the drain

But your hands are still dirty

They won’t ever come clean

I’ve been lying to no one but myself

To tell you that there’s nothing wrong

Nobody knows the trouble that we’ve seen

And how we tried to get along

Run to the water

Run to the sun

Run to whatever

'Till the hurting is done

Or we reach for the bottle

When we should put it down

And we start the whole thing over

What goes around comes around