Way up there's a bottle of single barrel bourbon still filled halfway

And right there on the side of the label is a faded red lipstick stain

Sitting there next to a polaroid picture in a dusty old frame

Two young lovers holding onto each other in the pourin' down rain

I keep em' on the top shelf, just a little out of reach

Where I know I can't get to them and they can't get to me

I think I oughta let em' go, cause I can't help myself

So for just a little longer, till I'm a little stronger

I keep em' on the top shelf

Way down here I mill around knowing that I'll never get another one like that

Cause the price is too high but I try to disguise what I think I'm worth inside

Scared to grab a ladder and climb up and have her cause I'm afraid it's gonna buckle on me

But the truth is though, that them both are out of my league

I keep em' on the top shelf, just a little out of reach

Where I know I can't get to them and they can't get to me

I think I oughta let em' go, cause I can't help myself

So for just a little longer, till I'm a little stronger

Yeah I keep em' on the top shelf

Woah, I keep em' on the top shelf

It's the same place, the whiskey's been aged

Same place I always see your face

I hate to see it all go to waste

It's the same place, the liquor lays and waits

Same place, you're only a call away

And I hate, I can't afford a taste

I keep em' on the top shelf, just a little out just a little out of reach

Where I know I can't get to them and they can't get to me

I think I oughta let em' go, cause I can't help myself

So for just a little longer till I'm a little stronger

Yeah for just a little longer till I'm a little stronger

I keep em' on the top shelf

I keep em' on the top shelf

Way up there's a bottle of single barrel bourbon still filled halfway

And right there on the label is a faded red lipstick stain