I walked in wet
with a folded-up flame
Your name on my tongue
like a dice-game stain
Saw your coat on the chair
by the window pane
And my heart went limping
down that same old lane
I tried to leave it be
I tried to let it die
But your laugh kept cutting
right across the night
Now I’m tipped on the edge
of a broken prayer
And I can taste that trouble
still hanging there
Pour me one more slow
(one more slow)
Let it burn me down
(let it burn me down)
I keep calling your name
(calling your name)
Like a dog in a cold hard town
Pour me one more slow
(one more slow)
I got dust in my throat
(dust in my throat)
If the dark wants me now
(wants me now)
Tell it I’m not going home
There’s a crack in the glass
where your lipstick dried
And a scar on the table
I can’t set aside
The band in the back
kept a low-slung cry
While I stared at your chair
till the hour crawled by
I took my old good sense
and I let it fall
Right there on the floor
with the pool-stick chalk
Then I raised my head up
and I let it roar
Till my voice came apart
at the edge of the door
I tried to leave it be
I tried to let it die
But your laugh kept cutting
right across the night
Now I’m tipped on the edge
of a broken prayer
And I can taste that trouble
still hanging there
Pour me one more slow
(one more slow)
Let it burn me down
(let it burn me down)
I keep calling your name
(calling your name)
Like a dog in a cold hard town
Pour me one more slow
(one more slow)
I got dust in my throat
(dust in my throat)
If the dark wants me now
(wants me now)
Tell it I’m not going home
If you see me fall
don’t lift me up
Let me learn my shape
from the wreckage cup
I been half a man
since the day you left
Still I wear this hurt
like my last best bet
Pour me one more slow
(one more slow)
Let it burn me down
(let it burn me down)
I keep calling your name
(calling your name)
Like a dog in a cold hard town
Pour me one more slow
(one more slow)
I got dust in my throat
(dust in my throat)
If the dark wants me now
(wants me now)
Tell it I’m not going home