Verse 1 
 
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Well last night I dug your picture out from our old dresser drawer 
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I set it on the table and I talked to it til four 
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Then I read some old love letters right up til the break of dawn 
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Well tonight I'm sittin alone diggin up bones 

Refrão 
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I'm a diggin up bones 
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Exhuming things that's better left alone 
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I'm resurrecting memories of a love that's dead and gone 
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Well tonight I'm sittin alone diggin up bones 
 
Verse 2 
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Then I went through the closet and I found some things in there 
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like that pretty lingerie that I bought you to wear 
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then I recalled how good you looked each time you had it on 
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Well tonight I'm sittin alone diggin up bones 
 
Verse 3 
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Then I went through the jewelry and I found our wedding rings 
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I put mine on my finger and I gave yours a fling 
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across this lonely bedroom of our recent broken home 
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Well tonight I'm sittin alone diggin up bones 
 
repeat chorus