Verse 1 Last night I dug your picture out from our old dresser drawer I set it on the table and I talked to it 'til four I read some old love letters right up til the break of dawn Well tonight I'm sittin alone diggin up bones I'm a diggin up bones, I'm diggin' up bones Exhuming things that's better left alone Well I'm resurrecting memories of a love that's dead and gone Yeah tonight I'm sittin alone diggin up bones Verse 2 Then I went through the closet and I found some things in there like that pretty negligee that I bought you to wear and I recalled how good you looked each time you had it on Well tonight I'm sittin alone diggin up bones Verse 3 Then I went through the jewelry and I found our wedding rings I put mine on my finger and I gave yours a fling across this lonely bedroom of our recent broken home Yeah tonight I'm sittin alone diggin up bones repeat chorus