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It's midnight at a liquor store in Texas |
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Closing time another day is done |
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When a boy walks in the door and points a pistol |
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He can't find a job but Lord he's found a gun |
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He pulls it off with no trace of confrontation |
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Then he lets the old man run out in the street |
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Even though he knows they'll come with guns ablazing |
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Already he can feel that great relief |
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Oh how many travelers get weary |
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Bearing both their burdens and their scars |
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Don't you think they'd love to start all over |
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And fly like eagles out among the stars |
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He pictures the arrival of the cruisers |
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Sees that old familiar anger in their eyes |
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He knows that when they're shooting at this loser |
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They'll be aiming at the demons in their lives |
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Oh how many travelers get weary |
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Bearing both their burdens and their scars |
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Don't you think they'd love to start all over |
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And fly like eagles out among the stars |
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The evening news carries all the details |
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He dies in every living room in town |
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And in his own a bottle is thrown in anger |
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And his father cries we'll never live this down |
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Oh how many travelers get weary |
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Bearing both their burdens and their scars |
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Don't you think they'd love to start all over |
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And fly like eagles out among the stars |
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And fly like eagles out among the stars |