Buttons On My Clothes Lyrics - Can You Do Me Good - Del Amitri

Buttons on My Clothes 

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