Bottom Shelf

Well I'm waiting on Sunday to pass me by

When you're clocking out a couple hours to closing time

And if a long lost friend comes walking in here now

Don't lie to them I'm good as in the broken ground

I gotta get and get out while the gettin's still good

Cause we can't stand to be in the same room

And I've been breaking my back tryin' to heal your wounds

But I'm letting go because I'm drowning too

Yeah letting go before I follow you

I see you writing me off to someone else

And I can't take it back for nothing hell

I might put this down on the bottom shеlf

So I won't look at it every day

Oh evеry day

If you catch me out wild-eyed and running bad

And I'm chasing down things that I ain't never had

I might toe these lines before me to my doom

Or she'll take my hand up into our neighbor's room

Oh but I might get out while the gettin' is good

Cause I can't stand what's yet to come

And that morning light, well it burns my tongue

When it finds us here holdin' onto some

Yeah, might find me another way to run

And if I slip and fall into the well

Just let me dangle there in private hell

I been hangin' out on this bottom shelf

Cause you won't look at me anyway

Oh anyway

When the ship set sail we gathered up our ghosts

But we bottomed out 20 miles off the coast

And when the captain died, well he swore

That we'd go down but we turned the tide

Looks like he's the one that drowned

Oh but at least we got out while the gettin' was good

Hell it sure beats dying in the morning Sun

I hope somebody's happy with the things he's done

Yeah who woulda thought we'd be the lucky ones

Let 'em go when it's my time to run

I can't carry this all by myself

But I won't pass it off onto someone else

It's time I put this up on the top shelf

So I can look at it every day

Every day