George Jones - Things Have Gone To Pieces

George Jones sings Things Have Gone To Pieces on The Jimmy Dean Show 1965 

"Things Have Gone to Pieces" is a song written by Leon Payne and recorded by  George Jones. It was Jones' first single after signing with the Musicor label and spent a total of twenty-one weeks on the Billboard survey, peaking at #9. The song lists a litany of negative events that have befallen the narrator since his lover has left him. 

George Jones Things Have Gone To Pieces lyrics

Oh, the faucet started

Drippin' in the kitchen

And last night your picture

Fell down from the wall

Today the boss said "Sorry

I can't use you anymore."

And tonight the light bulb

Went Out in the hall

 

Things have gone to pieces since you left me

Nothing turns out half-right now it seems

There ain't nothing in my pocket

But three nickels and a dime

But I'm holding to the pieces of my dream

 

Somebody threw a baseball

Through my window

And the arm fell off

My fav'rite chair, again

The man called me today and said

He'd haul my things away

If I didn't get my payments made by ten.

 

Things have gone to pieces since you left me

Nothing turns out half-right now it seems

There ain't nothing in my pocket

But three nickels and a dime

But I'm holding to the pieces of my dream