Buttons On My Clothes - Del Amitri

I’ve been drinking all through summer

I guess I’ve had a laugh

I’ve had every kind of fun I could have had

Looking at my crowd tonight

There’s a sober kind of sparkle in their eyes

That I don’t like

'Cause everybody knows she ain’t coming back

The buttons on my clothes are as plain to see as that

I’m a man of reputation in this rocker’s town

I have lived it up so long I’ll never live it down

Every back room bet I’ve made

Every all night thrill room-service bill I’ve paid

Looks cheap today

'Cause everybody knows she ain’t coming back

The buttons on my clothes are as plain to see as that

I took a chemical vacation in my head

But now I’m back here at the station with a trunk of regret

Thought I found myself a frequency beyond her voice

But the memories keep breaking through the noise

So brother, send a ship for me before I wash upon the shore of clarity

I can see

That everybody knows she ain’t coming back

The buttons on my clothes are as plain to see as that

Yeah, everwhere I go, there are ghosts of what I had

Like the buttons on my clothes, they are everywhere I’m at