Hard Whiskey's Too Easy For Me
by @jeff9 · @mctown · @vaughan
Liner Notes
#country #altcountry #biab
The dynamic duo of McTown & Vaughan sometimes have a way of telling some serious truths about whiskey in their lyrics. I've learned some hard lessons about it myself, so when I come up with music for ones like this, I do my best to let some of that come through. As usual, I leaned pretty hard on BIAB for most of the instrumentation once I came up with the melody and arrangement idea. Vocal and production are me, warts and all.
Lyrics
Hard Whiskey's Too Easy For Me
Lyrics - Graham/Daniel
Music - Jeff Walker
Maybe it was that whirlwind of a girl
Who broke me and threw me a curve
She didn't like being in my small world
And I tried to hide how much it hurt
chorus:
Hard Whiskey's too easy for me
A bottle at hand's a bottle too much
I lose touch with reality
Forget the lessons of both life and love
When escape is all that I need
Hard whiskeys too easy for me
My broken heart was healed by good 'ol Jack
That's all it took was the liquid fire
I don't know much but I know that
It made me stop searching for my hearts' desire
repeat chorus:
bridge:
Now I know hurt is the healer.
The bottle is the stealer
It Don't get much realer than that
repeat chorus:
Comments
Made me think of both of my grandfathers but for different reasons. My paternal father unfortunately was too fond of the whiskey and became addicted. My whiskey memory from my maternal grandfather is more fun though. He was quite a rich man but very tight with money. One of his few extravagances was expensive bottles of whiskey. My grandmother had a friend who she would sometimes invite round who was a religious old rural Irish lady. She was tee total apart from the occasional one, two (or maybe three) glasses of whiskey which she explained were 'for medicinal purposes'. My grandad often got very cross when this lady was accepting glasses of his whisky and used to try to hide the whiskey behind other bottles before her visits! Thinking about it, 'For Medicinal Purposes' might make for a great whiskey-related song title!