Tonight in a bar alone I'm sitting apart from the laughter and the cheer While scenes from the past rise before me just watching the bubbles in my beer A vision of someone who loved me brings along silent tears to my eyes Oh I know that my life has been a failure just watching the bubbles in my beer [ steel - fiddle ] I'm seeing the road that I've travelled a road paved with heartaches and tears And I'm seeing the past that I've wasted while watching the bubbles in my beer As I think of the heart that I've broken and the chances I know have passed me by And the dreams that I've made now are empty as empty as the bubbles in my beer