Drive-By Truckers - Used to Be a Cop lyrics

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