Lyrics

Damaged Dollar
By Ted Horrell

I felt like a damaged dollar
the machine would not accept
Worn out not from being held,
But from folks getting rid of it

I jockeyed for position making
My intentions known
I held tight to the saddle,
But I wound up getting thrown

All the words that you’d been saving
You finally set free
Turns out the road that you’d been paving
Leads away from me

You turned around so quickly
I had no time to react
You left me standing silent, sullen,
Stupid in my tracks

I had no explanation
No excuse to tell my friends
I feel like such a fool for saying
That it would never end

You act as though you’ve always known
Some day you’d let me go
Well if you knew why couldn’t you
See through to tell me so?

It would probably be dramatic to say
That you ruined my life
But I’m a wanted man for holding hands
With the federales' wife

But that’s the way it goes in Mexico
Though she wore no ring
No I’m out of luck and out of faith
I’m out of everything

But if I had that damaged dollar
I would make a bet
That if you don’t remember me
Someday you won’t forget

Cause I’m coming back to be with you
This time I won’t be sent away
And I will make you mine if it takes
Until your dying day

And then I'll lay beside you
And then I’ll be set free
And then a damaged dollar no more, no sir
A grand and change I’ll be
A grand and change