Writing Your Goodbye Letter to Alcohol

Then, one goodbye letter to addiction, you pushed me into that grave and began covering me up. You thought you would be saying the goodbye.

• The lyrics share Charles Kelley’s battle with alcohol and how he depended on it to brave the stage and have the “courage” to introduce himself to his now-wife, Cassie.
• You started to take more than you gave.
• You’re very selfish and only concerned with your own well-being.
• I still hate you; I still hate what you’ve done to me and what you made me do to the people I loved.
• Another memory stolen, another promise broken.
• “There has been no greater gift for our family than his sobriety.”
• I was too scared to leave you before.

I’m not gonna say good-bye without a thank you. I appreciate all the confidence you gave me, especially during those college years. You took away tons of stress and even gave me some pretty cool dance moves. If I had a shitty day, you were the one thing I looked forward to. Always there…ready to help me relax. This isn’t the first time that Charles Kelley has released music on his own.

Charles Kelley Pens Farewell To Alcohol With ‘As Far As You Could’

You broke me down throughout my adult life, leaving me physically and emotionally corrupted. My body had been poisoned, and my mind had become shrouded in darkness. I’d happily drink the night away, and you’d leave me to rot.

You became the hardest relationship I have ever had to experience. You started to take more than you gave. In fact, you stopped giving at all.

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Over 200 miles of you and me on the road together. We seemed to have a lot of those kinda moments, especially towards the end. Cassie, whom Kelley married in 2009 and with whom he shares son Ward, 6, celebrated her husband’s new song in an Instagram Story. You are filled with empty promises that you’ll play nice and only come to visit once in a while. Instead, you camped out in my home, my car, my office, and even went so far as to hide in my suitcase on our family trip to Disneyland. You know they don’t serve alcohol in the park. You’re very selfish and only concerned with your own well-being.

You don’t get to claim us as “Alcohol-ics,” anymore. We are changing our names during this divorce back to who we were before you moved in on our lives. It’s a clean break and we won’t be taking your name along with us. So, if you’ve been wondering why I said goodbye to you for good, it was because I began to resent you and then quickly fell out of love with you. Bad decisions are far and few and if I do happen to make one it’s comforting to know you had nothing to do with it. As a result, I no longer experience anxiety nor am I riddled with panic, disgrace or the feelings of emptiness you always left me with. I’m connecting with myself and others in an authentic, genuine and mindful way these days.

Lady A’s Charles Kelley Releases New Song ‘As Far as You Could’: ‘Goodbye Letter to Alcohol’

In order for things to get better, I need to let you go. Back in August, Lady A made the announcement that Charles Kelley had embarked on journey to sobriety. At some point in your letter, you will want to include a strong stance that you are writing this letter to say goodbye to alcohol permanently. If it helps, you could include future plans that will not involve alcohol as a way to encourage yourself to continue pursuing a sober life. Since this letter is not addressed to an actual person, it can be written as a journal entry, traditional letter, or whatever format that best fits you. Your goal is to tell alcohol that it will no longer be part of your life by using a long or short Goodbye Letter to Alcohol to express your feelings. If you choose, you can save the letter, send it off in the mail, or share it with your counselor.

They say it’s not something that consciously happens, and it really was out of my control. But with help from a lot of caring people, I’m taking control of my life again. As much as it hurts to walk away from you, I’ll always try to remember the good times of my life and put the bad times behind me. Lucky for me I finally wised up to all the lies you told me for so many years.

Kelley also confesses that what started out as a friendly relationship with the substance turned into something else entirely. “I wrote ‘As Far as You Could’ with my bandmate Dave and the talented Jimmy Robbins and this is the demo. This song was very therapeutic to write and I hope it can meet someone where they are.” “I want to thank everyone who has shown me so much support and encouragement so far on my journey of sobriety,” the “Need You Now” singer wrote. There is a saying that the hardest thing to do in life is to say goodbye. This includes all relationships, including my relationship with you. We have been through a lot together.