Ballad of Broken Bottles lyrics

[Verse 1]
Oh, you took everything with no regret
Oh, broken bones and a lit cigarette
I am eating copper coins for dinner
In the hopes to make me thinner
So when it's time to see my mother
She can look me in the eye

[Chorus]
And when the time has come upon us
And the Lord looks down in disgust
Well, I'll count the grains of sand
If that's what it takes to be a man
So don't bother me

[Verse 2]
You say I'm your one and only
A kind word and a serpent's smile
I went to God and trade my soul
To get you all those rings of gold
But it's never, never enough

[Bridge]
I'm goin' home to Georgia
I'm goin' home where you can't find me
[Verse 3]
Oh, please stop laughing in my face
Oh, itchy palms and severed straws
I didn't want to have to do it
But you brought me down to it
And baby, you will see what you bring down on me

[Chorus]
And when the time has come upon us
And the Lord looks down in disgust
Oh, I'll wrap the chains around my neck
Before I set this town awreck
'Cause the sinners might be wrong, but I know that I'm right

[Outro]
These hands will never be clean again
Broken bottles are all that remain
But there's one thing I gotta say before I go, my dear
I don't care (That's right, one more time)
I don't care