[Verse 1]

She keeps the lights down low in a high-rise flat

Tracing circles where the ring box sat

Silence stalking like it owns the floor

So she pours that amber from the drawer

She don't want a cure, she wants a haze

Something sharp to slice through Saturdays

Ice cubes knocking like a hidden key

Cracking open who she used to be

[Pre-Chorus]

Gold in the glass, ghost in the room

She's chasing a fast, beautiful doom

[Chorus]

Yeah, she calls it whiskey, tastes like the truth

A ninety-proof bandage for the holes in her youth

It burns like the bridge that he lit on his way

It's the only damn warmth in the cold light of day

One for the secrets, two for the scars

Watching it shimmer like the city stars

He left her with nothing, now she's feeling risky

Trading her heart for a bottle of whiskey

[Verse 2]

Old vinyl spinning, soft and low

Songs they used to let it go

She don't recognize her face

Just a ghost she can't replace

Every drink's a map of then

Back when he was more than a friend

Honey eyes turned hard and black

Now she drinks the fire to get him back

[Pre-Chorus]

Gold in the glass, ghost in the room

She's chasing a fast, beautiful doom

[Chorus]

Yeah, she calls it whiskey, tastes like the truth

A ninety-proof bandage for the holes in her youth

It burns like the bridge that he lit on his way

It's the only damn warmth in the cold light of day

One for the secrets, two for the scars

Watching it shimmer like the city stars

He left her with nothing, now she's feeling risky

Trading her heart for a bottle of whiskey

[Bridge]

He said forever, then he disappeared

Now she's making confessions to what's in here

Saying, "you won't leave me like he did"

But she knows damn well what a lie that is

[Breakdown]

'Cause the higher she gets, the harder she falls

And his name still echoes off these walls

She trades one ghost for another again

Just to feel like she's loved, for a minute, then

[Chorus]

Yeah, she calls it whiskey, tastes like the truth

A ninety-proof bandage for the holes in her youth

It burns like the bridge that he lit on his way

It's the only damn warmth in the cold light of day

One for the secrets, two for the scars

Watching it shimmer like the city stars

He left her with nothing, now she's feeling risky

Trading her heart for a bottle of whiskey

[Outro]

Just a little more whiskey (more whiskey)

Oh, she traded her heart for a bottle of whiskey