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I'm young and i'm strong |
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I've got this god forsaken world by the balls! |
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I've got a one-way ticket to freedom |
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Ain't got no one now gonna take it from me |
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I was a soldier, age twenty-one |
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In a war i'm not sure what i was fighting for |
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And yet i turned from a boy to a man there |
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Goodbye to innocence and a sweet sixteen |
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My whole life i could not arrange |
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My wicked ways i could never change |
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Don't try, don't try now to understand |
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For this is the ballad of a lonely man |
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Close to me is a photograph |
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Of a family left far, far behind |
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At once i had love it slipped away from |
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I searched a lifetime but could not find |
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In a hospital bed, i'm violently ill |
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Just one more drink nurse i swear to god! |
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I've got my st. anthony and my whiskey |
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Yes i'm a veteran of three foreign wars! |
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Repeat chorus |
