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 shelf
 So I won't look at it every day
 Oh every 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 tow these lines before me to my doom
 Or she'll take my hand up into our neighbors 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