Johnny Was A Pyro

Johnny was a pyro and he acted like a baby
Wanted all this attention I couldn't give

Drink a bottle of hard stuff
Say "I love you, now save me"
Just a big guy with a fun sense of sin

And the neighbor down the block
In his underwear and socks
Keeping track of the losses and wins

With his wife hanging out the window
Wonder which way the wind blows
As I fumble the key in the lock again
Saying

Oh me
What am I doing with this ring on my hand?
Oh me
If this is a good life, who's choosing it?
Oh me
Mama's best woman and Daddy's best man
Oh me
I'm highly in danger of losing it

Johnny was a pyro and he acted like a baby
Got a phone call from the wild almost every night
Well he loved me but he really loved looking past me to the ladies
He was much too good looking for his height
We were a couple of kids
Crawling out of the crib
Talking about the positives and the negatives of wine
Living our lives just like Hemingway did
He was lucky he was a genius most of the time

Oh me
What am I doing with this ring on my hand?
Oh me
If this is a good life, who's choosing it?
Oh me
Mama's best woman and Daddy's best man
Oh me
I'm highly in danger of losing it
I'm losing it

He was sideswiped by the clue bus
When it came to talking two of us
And the whole thing ended ugly I guess
You can put your cards out on the table
But if nobody wants to play
Well you haven't got a game you got a mess

And I was looking at the judge
Leaning on my lawyer like a crutch
And the judge said "What happened and why?"

I said, "Johnny was a pyro and he acted like a baby
Now there's nothing like the sound of goodbye"

Oh me
What am I doing with this ring on my hand?
Oh me
If this is a good life, who's choosing it?
Oh me
Mama's best woman and Daddy's best man
Oh me
I'm highly in danger of losing it

Johnny was a pyro and he acted like a baby
Wanted all this attention I couldn't give