Verse 1  
  
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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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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, I'm diggin' up bones 
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Exhuming things that's better left alone  
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Well I'm resurrecting memories of a love that's dead and gone  
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Yeah 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 negligee that I bought you to wear  
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and 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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Yeah tonight I'm sittin alone diggin up bones  
  
repeat chorus