Used To Be a Cop letra

Used to be a cop, but i got to be too jumpy.
I used to like to party till i coughed up half a lung.
Sometimes late at night i hear the beat a-bumping
I reach for my holster and i wake up all alone.

Used to have a wife but she told me i was crazy.
Said she couldn't stand the way i fidget all the time.
Sometimes late at night i circle round the house.
I look through the windows and i dream that she's still mine.

I got scars on my back from the way my daddy raised me.
I used to have a family until i got divorced.
I've gone too far from the things that could save me.
I used to be a cop, but they kicked me off the force.
I used to be a cop, till they kicked me off the force.

Used to have a car, but the bank came and took it.
Paying for a house that that bitch lives in now.
Children that we had won't even look at me.
Guess there's nothing left to lose, nothing matters anyhow.

Got a scar on my arm from the bullet that once grazed me.
I keep it in a box to remind me where i've been.
That thin blue line was the only thing that could save me.
I used to have a badge but they made me turn it in.

And i used to play football, but i wasn't big enough for college.
But i passed the entrance exam first try, and on my way.
Police academy gave me the only thing i was ever good at,
But my temper and the shakes, and they took that thing away.

Used to have a wife, but she just couldn't deal
With the anger and the tension that was welling inside of me.
Sometimes late at night, i circle round the house
I look through the window and i remember how it used to be.
I look through the windows and i remember how it used to be

Drive By Truckers - Letras

• 72 (this Highway's Mean)
• A Blessing And A Curse
• A World Of Hurt
• Aftermath USA
• Angels And Fuselage
• Baggage
• Birmingham
• Box of Spiders
• Bulldozers and Dirt
• Buttholeville
• Careless
• Carl Perkins' Cadillac
• Cassie's Brother
• Cottenseed
• Daddy Learned To Fly
• Daddy's Cup
• Danko / Manuel
• Darkened Flags On The Cusp Of Dawn
• Daylight
• Days Of Graduation
• Dead, Drunk, And Naked
• Decoration Day
• Demonic Possesion
• Demonic Possession
• Do It Yourself
• Easy On Yourself
• Ever South
• Feb. 14
• Filthy And Fried
• First Air Of Autumn
• Goddamn Lonely Love
• Goodbye
• Grand Canyon
• Gravity's Gone
• Greenville To Baton Rouge
• Guitar Man Upstairs
• Guns Of Umpqua
• Hanging On
• Hearing Jimmy Loud
• Heathens
• Hell No, I Ain't Happy
• Kinky Hypocrite
• Late For Church
• Let There Be Rock
• Life In The Factory
• Like A Rolling Stone
• Little Bonnie
• Loaded Gun In The Closet
• Lookout Mountain
• Love Like This
• Made Up English Oceans
• Margo and Harold
• Marry Me
• Moved
• Mrs. Dubose
• My Sweet Annette
• Natural Light
• Never Gunna Change
• Nine Bullets
• Once They Banned Imagine
• One of These Days
• Outfit
• Panties In Your Purse
• Pauline Hawkins
• Plastic Flowers On The Highway
• Play It All Night Long
• Primer Coat
• Putting People On The Moon
• Ramon Casiano
• Rebels
• Road Cases
• Ronnie and Neil
• Sandwiches For The Road
• Shit Shots Count
• Shut Up And Get On The Plane
• Sink Hole
• Sounds Better In The Song
• Space City
• Steve McQueen
• Sun Don't Shine
• Surrender Under Protest
• Tails Facing Up
• The Boys From Alabama
• The Buford Stick
• The Company I Keep
• The Day John Henry Died
• The Deeper In
• The Living Bubba
• The Night G.G. Allen Came to Town
• The Night G.g. Allin Came To Town
• The part Of Him
• The President's Penis is Missing
• The Righteous Path
• The Sands Of Iwo Jima
• The Southern Thing
• The Three Great Alabama Icons
• Til He's Dead Or Rising
• Too Much Sex (Too Little Jesus)
• Tornadoes
• Two Daughters And a Beautiful Wife
• Uncle Frank
• Used To Be a Cop
• Wallace
• Wednesday
• What It Means
• When He's Gone
• When The Pin Hits The Shell
• When The Well Runs Dry
• When Walter Went Crazy
• Where The Devil Don't Stay
• Why Henry Drinks
• Wife Beater
• Women Without Whiskey
• Your Daddy Hates Me
• Zip City
• Zoloft