Used To Be A Cop-Drive-By Truckers

[ti:Used To Be A Cop] [ar:Drive-By Truckers] [al:Go-Go Boots] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Used To Be A Cop - Drive-By Truckers [00:52.53]Used to be a cop but I got to be too jumpy [00:56.22]I used to like to party 'til I coughed up half a lung [00:59.60] [01:00.42]But sometimes late at night [01:02.11]I hear the beat a-bumping [01:04.30]I reach for my holster and [01:06.04]I wake up all alone [01:07.53] [01:16.73]I used to have a wife but she told me I was crazy [01:20.29]Said she couldn't stand the way [01:22.29]I fidget all the time [01:23.56] [01:24.55]Sometimes late at night I circle around the house [01:28.22]I look through the windows and [01:29.89]I dream that she's still mine [01:31.67] [01:38.70]I got scars on my back from [01:40.91]The way my Daddy raised me [01:42.58] [01:43.10]I used to have a family until I got divorced [01:46.51] [01:47.05]I've come too far from the things that could save me [01:50.97]I used to be a cop but they kicked me off the force [01:54.47] [01:55.21]I used to be a cop 'til they kicked me off the force [01:58.35] [02:22.91]Used to have a car but the bank came and took it [02:25.98] [02:26.67]I'm paying for a house but [02:28.40]That b**ch lives in it now [02:29.98] [02:34.75]The children that we had [02:36.27]Who now won't even look at me [02:37.81] [02:38.38]Guess there's nothing left to lose [02:40.37]Nothing matters anyhow [02:41.90] [02:49.00]Got a scar on my arm from [02:51.23]That bullet that once grazed me [02:53.19]I keep it in a box to remind me where I've been [02:56.58] [02:57.20]That thin blue line was the only thing [02:59.58]That could save me [03:01.08]I used to have a badge but [03:02.92]They made me turn it in [03:04.74]And I used to play football [03:06.64] [03:08.40]But I wasn't big enough for college [03:10.71] [03:12.42]But I passed the entrance exam [03:14.91] [03:15.51]First try and on my way [03:17.39] [03:20.78]The Police Academy gave me [03:24.48]The only thing I was ever good at [03:26.66] [03:27.94]But my temper and the shakes [03:29.97] [03:30.94]And they took that thing away [03:32.67] [04:41.89]Used to have a wife but she just couldn't deal with [04:45.52]The anger and tension that was welling inside me [04:48.78] [04:57.26]Sometimes late at night I circle 'round the house [05:01.03]I look through the windows and [05:03.16]I remember how it used to be [05:04.88] [05:09.15]I look through the windows and [05:10.95]I remember how it used to be