I Drink Alone - ArlenaZara

The title captures the stark

and glamorous reality of the immediate aftermath

I drink alone recognizes that healing is not a linear triumphant montage

After the adrenaline of leaving fades

you are left with the deafening silence of a Friday night by yourself

It isn't about throwing a pity party

it is about sitting in the quiet

facing the ghosts of the relationship

and finding the quiet strength to sit with your own company

without the distraction of his lies

Here are the complete lyrics for all

I drink alone

I focus the words on the sensory details of an empty room

the bittersweet taste of the wine

and the profound contrast between the performative drinking you did together

and the honest raw solitude of drinking by yourself

The structure gives a female focus

the perfect pace to start with a moody intimate reflection

before building into a bluesy emotionally resonant belt in the chorus for a three-minute course to pipe up

I drink alone

The boxes are unpacked

the walls are painted bare

I bought a single bottle and I pulled up just one chair

It's a Friday night and the city is alive

but I am staying in and learning how to survive

I pour a glass of red I watch it catch the light

a quiet heavy ruby in the middle of the night

There's no one here to toast

there's no one here to lie

just me and my reflection in a quiet heavy sigh

I drink alone

I sit inside the quiet far away from all the drama and the toxic heavy riot

The silence is so loud

the space is vast

I am taking small slow sips to try and process all the past

It used to be a party

a performance we would stage

but now it's just the turning of a lonely sober page

I don't need your empty cheers

I don't need your hollow tone

I am healing in the dark

and I drink alone

We used to split the tab

we used to share the wine

pretending to the world that we were doing perfectly fine

You'd raise a crystal glass and look me in the eye

while serving up a vintage carefully constructed lie

Now the liquor burns a little differently going down

a solitary comfort in a brand new empty town

I trace the crystal rim and feel the sudden chill of realizing I am finally getting off your spinning wheel

It isn't an addiction it isn't an escape

it is just the final unwinding of the heavy binding tape

I'm tasting the reality of mixed and fully kneaded

finding my own balance on my own unsteady feet

It is a bitter medicine it is a lonely cure

but for the very first time in years

my intentions are pure

cause I drink alone

I sit inside the quiet far away from all the drama and the toxic heavy riot

The silence is so loud

the space is vast

I am taking small slow sips to try and process all the past

It used to be a party

a performance we would stage

but now it's just the turning of a lonely sober page

I don't need your empty cheers

I don't need your hollow tone

I am healing in the dark

and I drink alone

Just a single glass

just a quiet room

sweeping out the gloom

the bottle is half empty now

I drink alone

I drink alone