well i drank myself to sleep again drank myself to sleep again last night and i woke up in a stranger s arms i woke up with a stranger s arms holdin me tight i thought of you and me and what it is we used to be and if i was a betting man i d throw everything i had on you but i ain t a betting man god only knows i m a betting man you were running through my mind like a steamboat on a mississippi riverbed you were running through my mind like a steamboat on a mississippi riverbed those words you said they cut me deep like a lock blade knife they cut me to the bone you can only cut a man so deep fore he s gonna wash his hands i wash my hands of you and me and what it is we used to be and if i was a betting man i d throw everything i had on you but i ain t a betting man god only knows i m a betting man you were running through my mind like a steamboat on a mississippi riverbed you were running through my mind like a steamboat on a mississippi riverbed