(birds chirping) (upbeat grassroots music) ♪ 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 ♪ ♪ Well don't lie to them, I'm good as in the broken ground ♪ ♪ But 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 shelf ♪ ♪ So I won't look at it every day ♪ ♪ Oh, every day ♪ (upbeat grassroots music) ♪ Well if you catch me out, wild-eyed and running bad ♪ ♪ And I'm chasing down things that I ain't never had ♪ ♪ I might tow 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's still 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 ♪ (upbeat grassroots music) ♪ When the ship sets sail, we gathered up our ghosts ♪ ♪ But we bottomed out 20 miles from the coast ♪ ♪ And when the captain died, well he swore ♪ 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 ♪ ♪ And 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 ♪ ♪ And 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 ♪ (wind softly blowing)