♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ I finally quit smokin' cigarettes and I don't go downtown drinkin' till it's dawn ♪ ♪ The best parts of you are here but you're still gone ♪ ♪♪ ♪ And Lord I've been tryin' to smile like you told me, laugh like the old me, it comes out all wrong ♪ ♪ The best parts of you are here but you're still gone ♪ ♪♪ ♪ I still tie that double knot, the one you taught, that gets caught on the banks ♪ ♪ The best parts of you are here but you still ain't ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ I finally quit smokin' cigarettes and I don't go downtown drinkin' till it's dawn ♪ ♪ The best parts of you are here but you're still gone ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ I heard your father got sick of Long Island, I've been tryin' to lock him a call ♪ ♪ My mind ain't well and I just can't tell you why ♪ ♪ I heard they shut down the old bar we can go to when we need rest, we'd always stay out too late Tuesday nights ♪ ♪ He said I was the perfect gentleman, you used to hold me by my gentle hands, these ain't the hopeful hands I held before ♪ ♪ And I've been drinkin' so much lately it seems a damn double blade, so when I'm drunk I dream you're dancin' down the shore ♪ ♪♪ ♪ I heard your father got sick of Long Island, I've been tryin' to lock him a call, my mind ain't well and I just can't tell you why ♪ ♪ I heard they shut down the old bar we can go to when we need rest, we'd always stay out too late Tuesday nights ♪ ♪ I heard your father got sick of Long Island, I've been tryin' to lock him a call, my mind ain't well and I just can't tell you why ♪ ♪ I heard they shut down the old bar we can go to when we need rest, we'd always stay out too late Tuesday nights ♪