My Top 1000 Songs #819: Used To Be A Cop

[I've been writing up my Top 1000 songs on a daily basis--you can see them all in descending order by hitting the All My Favorite Songs tag.]

Patterson Hood takes the Drive-By Truckers deep into the American underbelly...
...on a LOT of songs...
...but this one goes particularly dark. "Used To Be A Cop," off 2001's Go-Go Boots, offers a true-to-life film noir tale of a troubled, violent ex-cop, bemoaning his fall while staking out his ex-wife's home from the shadows. It's not pretty, the addiction ...