Sailor Jerry's
Navigating Life's Departures: Reflections on Loss and Uncertainty
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My two best friends have left and moved away
Feeling the loss of two close friends who have relocated.
This past years been such a fucking waste
Expressing frustration and disappointment with the past year.
This drunk old man told me I'm throwing it all away
Receiving advice from an intoxicated elderly person about wasting life.
He says that I should learn from his mistakes
The drunk man suggests learning from his own mistakes.
This girl I hardly know
Encountering a girl who perceives the speaker as melancholic.
Tells me I'm always so melancholic
Receiving a comment on the speaker's generally somber demeanor.
And though I've seen her naked
Despite a closer connection, not understanding the girl's beliefs.
I still have no idea what she believes in
Reflecting uncertainty about the girl's values despite intimacy.
Taxi took me down the long way home
Taking a longer route home in a taxi due to exhaustion.
Man I'm just too tired to complain about it
Expressing fatigue and a lack of energy to complain about the longer journey.
Everything just seems to get old
Noting that everything seems to lose its appeal over time.
I guess success is reserved for the bold
Speculating that success may be attainable only by those who take risks.
So when I'm blacked-out drunk
Admitting to being heavily intoxicated, with thoughts not focused on a specific person.
It isn't you that I'm thinking about
Clarifying that the thoughts in the intoxicated state are not about a specific individual.
So many conversations
Recalling numerous conversations, possibly in a blurred or intoxicated state of mind.
But we were too far gone and we couldn't remember
Acknowledging the inability to recall conversations due to excessive intoxication.
Don't trust so much in your broken heart
Cautioning against placing too much trust in a broken heart.
It's only the best you've had so far
Recognizing that the broken heart represents the best experience so far.
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