Getting whiskey drunk is different from getting any other kind of drunk. As usual he got drunk did wrong and is now begging and confessing his way back. Now, all this is nothing new. Its been a regular thing for a decade and a half. This time I believe he means it because the band means it too. I hear an old time country church alter call melody written into the verse. When he wails with broken heart that his whiskey drinking days are gone you know that he was married to the bottle. He is equally tore up about saying goodbye to whiskey as having lost his woman. “Whiskey Days” is one of the rare drinking songs where the music really matches the lyrics.