Lyrics to
The Bottle Let Me Down

This version of The Bottle Let Me Down was released by Emmylou Harris in 1975.

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Each night I leave the barroom when it’s over
Not feeling any pain at closing time
But tonight you memory found me much to sober
Couldn’t drink enough to keep you off my mind

Tonight the bottle let down
and let you memory come around
The one true friend I thought I’d found
Tonight the bottle let down

I’ve always had a bottle I could turn to
And lately I’ve been turning everyday
But the wind don’t take effect the way it used to
And I’m hurting in an old familiar way

Tonight the bottle let down
and let you memory come around
The one true friend I thought I’d found
Tonight the bottle let down

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The lyrics for The Bottle Let Me Down are defined as the words making up the song released by Emmylou Harris in 1975. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to The Bottle Let Me Down have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Emmylou Harris and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to The Bottle Let Me Down by Emmylou Harris if you think through it. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to The Bottle Let Me Down" means the words set to the music of The Bottle Let Me Down, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Emmylou Harris. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to The Bottle Let Me Down and the lyrics to The Bottle Let Me Down are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Emmylou Harris who came here looking just for the lyrics to The Bottle Let Me Down, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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