He's been collecting since the age of nine Every shiny bullet that he could find Built himself a house with wooden floors Put the shiny bullets in a chest of drawers
His wife's long gone and the kids are grown The trees they fall down on their own Memories fade like an old slideshow But the bullets still shine like coins in the snow
One day he took himself into town When the men with the truck came around They took the television and the gun from the wall And almost every bullet from the chest of drawers
When he came back home found the house in a mess Running to the bedroom with the old brown chest Didn't care much for the VCR But he cried for the space where the bullets were
The men took the truck down into town They sold all the silver they found But they couldn't sell the bullets cause they weren't live rounds So they dug a big hole and put the bullets in the ground
Well he doesn't leave the house much anymore Cause the men are going come like they did before And he'll hold onto the three or four Bullets that they left in the chest of drawers