bright lights and country music

i won't stay home and cry tonight

like all the nights before

i just learned that i don't really

need you anymore

i found a little place downtown

where guys like me can go

and they've got

bright lights and country music

bright lights and country music

a bottle and a glass

soon i'll be forgetting

that there ever was a past

and when everybody asks me

what helped me forget so fast

i'll say those

bright lights and country music

a table by the bandstand

a bottle filled with wine

honky tonks were made for men

with women on their minds

and nothing else can take away

this loneliness of mine

quite like those

bright lights and country music

bright lights and country music

a bottle and a glass

soon i'll be forgetting

that there ever was a past

and when everybody asks me

what helped me forget so fast

i'll say those

bright lights and country music

i love those

bright lights and country music