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Used to  be a cop,

Verse 1
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but I got to  be too jumpy.
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I used to like to party till I coughed
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up half a lung.
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Sometimes late at night
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I hear the beat a-bumping
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I I reach for my holster and I wake up all

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alone.

Used to have a wife

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but she
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told me  I was crazy.
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Said she couldn't stand the way
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I fidget all the time.
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Sometimes late at night
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I circle round the house.
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I look through the windows and
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I dream that she's still mine.
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I got scars on my back from the
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way my Daddy raised me.
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I used to have a family until I got divorced.
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I've gone too far from
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the things that could save me.
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I used to be a cop,
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but they kicked me off the force.
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I used to be a cop, till they kicked me off the force.

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Verse 4
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Used to have a car,
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but the bank came and took it.
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Pay ing for a house that that bitch
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lives in now.
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Children that we had won't
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even look at me.
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Guess there's nothing left to lose,
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nothing matters anyhow.
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Got a scar on my arm from the
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bullet that once grazed me.
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I keep it in a box to remind
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me where I've been.
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That thin blue line was the only
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thing that could save me.
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I used to have a badge but
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they made me turn it in.

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

Interlude 3
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Verse 7
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Used to  have a wife,
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but she just couldn't deal
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with the anger and the tension that was welling
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inside
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of me.
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Sometimes late at  night,
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I circle round the house
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I look through the window and I remem
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ber how it used to  be.
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I look through the windows and I remember how it used to be.

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