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Empty Bottles


Artist: Bruce Jahn/Cowboy Cadence
Key Signature: E major
Time Signature: 4/4
Artist's Description
Sourced from original cassettes and AI-enhanced for improved audio, these recordings offer an authentic listening experience. They retain the characteristic warmth and imperfections of their analog origins, capturing the spirit of the time rather than modern digital clarity.

A slow-to-mid-tempo Country/Blues ballad steeped in heartache and regret. Raw, emotional language uses vivid bar imagery ("neon light," "empty bottles," "whiskey wave") to paint a picture of loneliness and drowning sorrow over lost love.


Genre(s): Country, Country Blues
Mood(s): Energetic, Fast, Melancholic, Sad
Style(s): Ballad, Story
Tempo: 60-85 BPM
Language(s): English
Instrument(s): Drum Kit,Guitar-Electric,Guitar-Slide,Keyboard/Synthesizer
Vocal Type(s): Male Vocals
File Type: MP3
Empty BottlesDigital Download:$1.99
Cover Version:$22.75
Standard License:$60.00
Extended License:$120.00
Verse 1:
I sit alone beneath the neon light,
The barstool's cold, and it feels like night,
Each drink I take just numbs the pain,
But your memory lingers like a fleeting rain.

The pictures on the wall are fading fast,
Moments we shared now buried in the past,
I trace your smile with my trembling hand,
In this empty room, I can barely stand.

Chorus:
Oh, these empty bottles hold whispers of you,
A love story written in shades of blue,
I search for your laughter in the songs that I hear,
Just me and my heartache, drowning in fear.

Verse 2:
The jukebox plays our song, but it cuts like a knife,
Each note a reminder of a reckless life,
I pour out my soul with every last sip,
But the taste of your love is still hard to grip.

The moonlight shines through the bottle's dark glass,
A ghost of our love that I can't let pass,
I’d give up these nights just to hold you again,
In this sea of memories where I've lost all sense.

Chorus:
Oh, these empty bottles hold whispers of you,
A love story written in shades of blue,
I search for your laughter in the songs that I hear,
Just me and my heartache, drowning in fear.

Outro:
So here’s to the dreams that fade with the dawn,
To the love that we had, now so far gone,
I’ll drink to the moments we never could save,
And toast to my heart in this whiskey wave.

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