(Brooding acoustic guitar fingerpicking, slow and heavy stomp)

Neon buzzin’ through the smoke and the dust

Hear the fiddle crying, but the world just hushed

Right there in the center, underneath the glow

Spinning like an angel in a place so low

My chest seized up, couldn’t catch my breath

Prettiest thing I’ve seen on this side of death

Just one more step across this hardwood floor

But my boots feel heavy like they're nailed to the board

Take one last sip of this Kentucky fire

Let it burn down deep, let it take me higher

Gotta man up, gotta push through the fear

Before the song ends and she disappears

Yeah, the whiskey’s strong but her pull is a trance

Gonna walk right up and ask her for a dance

The ice clinks loud in my glass of rye

Liquid courage for a guy too shy

I wipe my hands on these worn-out jeans

Lord, she’s tearing up the seams of my dreams

Heart skipping beats like a skipped-up record

If I don’t move now, I’ll regret it forever

Just ten more feet across this hardwood floor

I ain't standing in the shadows anymore

Take one last sip of this Kentucky fire

Let it burn down deep, let it take me higher

Gotta man up, gotta push through the fear

Before the song ends and she disappears

Yeah, the whiskey’s strong but her pull is a trance

Gonna walk right up and ask her for a dance

(Raw, bluesy, distorted country guitar solo over a heavy driving beat)

She looks my way, catches my eye

A little smirk, a little sigh

Here goes nothing, I tip my hat...

Took one last sip of that Kentucky fire

Let it burn down deep, let it take me higher

Yeah, I manned up, pushed through the fear

Now I'm holding her close, and I'm holding her near

Yeah, the whiskey’s strong but her pull is a trance

Thank God I walked up and asked for a dance

Yeah, I asked for a dance.

(Heavy acoustic strum)

Just a whiskey and a dance.