Without Sal

Joe Henry & Eddie Reeves

Used to be a place where I could go and waste some time

  and drink a little wine, ease my weary mind.

Smilin’ on the face of friends, erasing all the bitter ends

  of empty lights, burned out city nights.

Nothin’ seems the same without Sal,

Nothin’ seems the same without Sal.

Used to have a friend and we could spend an afternoon

  just throwing words away, passing time of day.  

Talk about the world we knew and what we’d do

  if we could live our widest dreams, now they’re memories.

Time is not an easy thing to joke and tag along with

Empty bottles one by one we’ve come and gone with

Life’s a smoky room, just an echo tune.

Nothin’ seems the same without Sal,

Nothin’ seems the same without Sal.  

Used to be a place where I could go and waste some time

 and drink a little wine, ease my weary mind.

Think about the closed-up days and all the ways

  I’d try to make ‘em hurry by, now just watch ‘em fly.

Nothin’ seems the same without Sal,

Nothin’ seems the same without Sal.  

Copyright: 1972 American Broadcasting Muisc, Inc. – ASCAP

                          & ABC Dunhill Music, Inc. – BMI

                         (Universal Music Publishing Group)