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She had 13 kids, each one had 13 problems |
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Three uppers, ten downers, just to put up with this |
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And she don't know which children belong to which father |
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But she loves them all anyway and they each get a kiss |
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And the toilet ain't flushing and the toaster is smoking |
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The vacuum don't suck but it needs a new belt |
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But she saw the world through the eyes of a child |
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And remembers how good it was and how good it felt |
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He picked up the paper from the bitter cold morning |
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He had just gone to sleep, he had to get up for work |
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By morning he's a watchman and by night he's a waiter |
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In the late afternoon he works as a clerk |
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And he can't pay the doctor bills, he just can't afford the pills |
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The car's repossesed and the child support's due |
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But he saw the world through the eyes of a child |
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Big problems seem smaller and old things seem new |
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She was just six when she turned her first trick |
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Now she's thirteen and it don't make her sick |
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And she does lots of crystal and she owns her own pistol |
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Got a goldfish named silver and a pimp who's named rick |
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And some are like customers and some are like patients |
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She'd have gone back to school if she'd just had the patience |
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But she saw the world through the eyes of a child |
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None of the nightmares, and nothing to deny |
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She saw the world through the eyes of a child |
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Yes she's seen it all and she knows they're all lies |