Sittin' on a barstool, hearing sad slings on a slide guitar. Knowing I'm a damn fool, wasting money in this no-good-bar. I'm looking back on failure, on prison and divorce with nothin' but a glass full remorse.
Sing that hopeless tune, the broken badboy blues. I tried to get on track, I tried to call the truce. I made the bad cause and now I pay the duce. I ain't got much to do, but sing that broken badboy blues.
The blood I took for money forever haunts my mind. I was desperate and broken, drunk and I had no faith to find. So I took to the pistol and I gunned that rich man down, and I only wished they'd shot me back in town.
Sing that hopeless tune, the broken badboy blues. I tried to get on track, I tried to call the truce. I made the bad cause and now I pay the duce. I ain't got much to do, but sing that broken badboy blues.