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When I was young |
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I watched the cars |
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When I was older |
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I drank in bars |
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When I was young |
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I chewed the leaves |
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When I was older |
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I drank with thieves |
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I found a love |
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She gave me dreams |
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She left me drunk |
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In New Orleans |
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So cold and lonely |
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So all alone |
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I wished my heart |
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Was made of stone |
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I took the cold bright needle |
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I used it as a sword |
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My eyes have seen the glory of |
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The coming of the Lord |
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I burned across the delta |
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I swam across the ford |
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My eyes have seen the glory of |
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The coming of the Lord |
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When I was a young man |
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Standing on this road |
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My empty belly |
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An aching hole |
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An old man said to me |
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"Kid don't you know |
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That it's the same |
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Wherever you go" |
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I gambled in two graveyards |
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I won against the odds |
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With the smiling saints |
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And the silent saviours |
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With the maggots and the gods |
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I cursed the things they showed me |
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I could never see again |
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And the howling of the wind at night |
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I wrote upon the rain |
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I found the thing |
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For which I prayed |
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And came back home |
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To the USA |
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With a heart of stone |
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And now I know |
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That it's the same |
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Wherever you go |
