they shot a movie once, in my hometown
everybody was in it, from miles around
out at the speedway, some kind of elvis thing
well i ain't no movie star
but i can get behind anything
yea i can get behind anything
get it out, get it all out
yea stretch that thing
make it last, make it last
at least until the supper bell rings
well the taxi driver likes his rhythm
never likes the stops
throes of passion, throes of passion
when something just threw him off
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sometimes the faster it gets
the less you need to know
but you gotta remember
the smarter it gets
the further its gonna go
when you blow at high dough
when you blow at high dough
whoa baby i feel fine
i'm pretty sure it's genuine
it makes no sense, no it makes no sense
but i'll take it free anytime
whoever fits her usually gets her
it was the strangest thing how she'd move so fast, move so fast
into that wedding ring
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out at the speedway, same elvis thing
well i can't catch her, but i can get behind anything
yea i can get behind anything
well i can get behind anything
well its 6 am and she woke by the radio
yea she rolled on over said, "where did man go?"
she's been a gunslinger's wife all her life
now she fights when she's able
for the sake of the kids when the knife's at their
necks in the cradle
she screams
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i'll believe in you or i'll be leaving you tonight
i will believe in you or i'll be leaving you tonight
well she's got all the kids and she's got all their uses
but she loves them the same for neglect and abuses
she got a warm spot where they fought
and they made up last evening
he said, "don't read too much into the fact
that i'm leaving"
she screams
i'll believe in you or i'll be leaving you tonight
i will believe in you or i'll be leaving you tonight
i will believe in you or i'll be leaving you tonight
i will believe in you or i'll be leaving you tonight
how do i explain this
i mean how do i put it into words
it's one thing or another
but it's neither this or that
actually it's a collection of things
she said, " that's it, that's it, get out"
well her mother said, "kill him slow at your leisure"
ah but desperate times call for desperate measures
sh she went to the closet and she pulled the old gun down
"i'll put a bullet through his heart if he ain't home by sundown"
yea 5:55 he comes walking in the front door smiling
he said, " don't read too much into what i ain't denying"
she screams...
i'll believe in you or i'll be leaving you tonight
i will believe in you or i'll be leaving you tonight
i will believe in you or i'll be leaving you tonight
i will believe in you or i'll be leaving you tonight
well i believe in you
bourbon blues on the street, loose and complete
under skies all smokey blue-green
i can't forsake a dixie dead-shake
so we danced the sidewalk clean
my memory is muddy. what's this river that i'm in?
new orleans is sinking man, and i don't wanna swim
colonel tom, what's wrong? what's going on?
you can't tie yourself up for a deal
he said "hey north you're south shut your big mouth,
you gotta do what you feel is real"
ain't got no picture postcards, ain't got no souvenirs
my baby, she don't know me when i'm thinking bout
those years
pale as a light bulb hanging on a wire
sucking up to someone just to stoke the fire
picking out the highlights of the scenery
saw a little cloud that looked a little like me
i had my hands in the river
my feet back up on the banks
looked up to the lord above
and said "hey man thanks"
sometimes i feel so good i gotta scream
she said gordie baby i know exactly what you mean
she said, she said, i swear to god she said...
my memory is muddy. what's this river that i'm in?
new orleans is sinking man and i don't wanna swim
twelve men broke loose in seventy-three
from millhaven maximum security
twelve pictures lined up, across the front page
seems the mounties had a summertime war to wage
the chief told the people they had nothing to fear
said, "the last thing they wanna do is hang around here"
they mostly came from towns with long french names
but one of the dozen was a hometown shame
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same pattern on the table
same clock on the wall
been one seat empty, eighteen years in all
freezing slow time, away from the world
he's 38 years old, never kissed a girl
we were sitting around the table, heard the telephone ring
father said he'd tell em if he saw anything
heard the tap on my window in the middle of the night
held back the curtain for my older brother mike
see my sister got raped, so a man got killed
local boy went to prison, man's buried on the hill
folks went back to normal when they closed the case
but they still stare at their shoes when they pass our place
my mother cried, "the horror has finally ceased!"
he whispered, "yeah, for the time being at least"
over her shoulder, on the squad car megaphone
said, "let's go michael, son, we're taking you home."
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orn a queen up on her side, and she felt it too.
there's a lot you can see when there's nothing to do
she got down on her knees and she dug herself out
slipping to the east side and prancing about.
learn a language baby, it's that kind of place
low card is hunger and high card is taste
and trouble is small change when daddy's around
you know that she learned a lesson when she happened down
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she didn't know-the barrel was loaded
she didn't know-the barrel was loaded
she didn't know-the barrel was loaded
she didn't know
one eye on the table, one eye on the floor
she got beat for her pride with her back to the door
she be digging the spotlight and called it her own
but you know it's over when everyone's gone
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stealing seconds together, the day is the night
you can fly your own colors as long as they're right
the trigger invites you and so do the boys
but if there ain't no one listening there ain't no noise
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well i think that there's a problem here
her voice just don't sound right
but i left my self on her answering machine
said, "i'm back in town tonight"
i feel i've stepped out of the wilderness
all squint-eyed and confused
but even babies raised by wolves
they know exactly when they've been used
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see when it starts to fall apart
it really falls apart
like boots or hearts, oh when they start
they really fall apart
fingers and toes, fingers and toes
forty things we share
forty-one if you include
the fact that we don't care
now you've blocked off most of main street
for your faith parade
everyone in town now, they probably all agree
i'm lying in the bed i made
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now you won't even let me talk to you
we got some air to clear
we'd probably only agree on one thing anyway
that's what the hell is happening here?
finger and toes, fingers and toes
fourty things we share
fourty-one if you include
the fact that we don't care
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like anyone i knew a dave
drove a plymouth shallow grave
said, "my girl don't just walk, she unfurls"
with motorcycle language
he stumbled through his slang pledge
then he dragged the mud for wedding pearls
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he closed both his eyes and sort of gave her a kiss
said "don't worry baby about what you're gonna miss
there will always be a much much more than this
everytime you go, you are all i see
holding out for you and me
pulled down his birthday suitcase
brown with dust from no place
said, "i think its time we made a start"
they danced the waltz of charity
no car garage, two kids for free
they were pissing bliss and playing parts
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she closed both her eyes, sorta gave him a kiss...
and the big snake pit
and we dance to the edge of it
and we laugh and we laugh
cause we ain't seen the edge of it
everytime you go, you are all i see
holding out for you and me
everytime you go, you are all i see
holding out for you and me
everytime you go, you are all i see
holding out for you and me
you and me you and me you and me
afternoon, see a guy with rubies on his head
and he's shifting like shifting like he was dead
and he's hearing something, she never said
on his way back home, under his bed
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when the weight comes down
when the weight comes down
in the night there's a girl who doesn't mind her
ragged sleeves
knowing someone soon is gonna grieve
and a man he tells her a story, she just won't believe
called "adam never could do right by eve"
and the weight comes down
and the weight comes down
and the weight comes down
down on you, down on me
and a girl walks by the burning bush
she asks "what's going on here man?"
and he smiles, says "open wide, wide, wide"
in my dreams, a candy coated train comes to my door
with a little girl, i can't have anymore
you know a letter washes up to the shore
that i cannot read and i probably should ignore
when the weight comes down
when the weight comes down
when the weight comes down
old lion's dying, got left behind
cut your teeth, lose your meat
and man it's just a matter of time
key's to the cuffs, you might be king
that's it, that's all, that's everything
skeletons come here to dance
where barrooms beat their brothers
into a bloody trance
what's the deal? what did i do?
who cops all the cops is all i asked of you
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lining up, waiting on the trickle down
something's up, taking time to get around
belly up, all the drinks are on the crown
it's just a matter of trickle down
twenty miles before the crash
that's the style for a while
and man i think it's gonna last
"hit the breaks" is all you can say
conductor says we'll save them
for another rainy day
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he was a coal miner in the spring
blinded with its dusty resolutions
broke his back for higher contributions
now he'd take anything
well she was 1970
burning like a cigarette long season
heir to her family's old treasons
she makes love hard like an enemy
oh ma he's dying
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and the river don't sleep
when the water runs cold
and the calendar burns
as the story unfolds
and the valley spans miles
when the mountain stands high
can't they let us run wild
for another midnight
perhaps we're election day
pumping hands and kissing all the babies
ain't no time for shadowed doubts or maybes
is there another way?
or we're a stolen cadillac
racing for a roadblock in the distance
flashing by a lifetime in an instance
can we take it all back?
oh ma he's dying
oh ma he's dying
and the river don't sleep...
can we take it back
and the valley spans miles
when the mountain stands high
can't they let us run wild
for another midnight
he bought two-fifths of lead free gasoline
said, the bottle is dusty, but my engine is clean
he bought a nice blue suit with the money he could find
if his bride didn't like it, st peter wouldn't mind
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now i lie here so out-of-breath
and over-opiated
maybe i couldn't catch up, no but
maybe he could have waited
well the medicine man started seeing red
you thing the snake, just dreams up the poison in his head
addicted to approval, addicted to the air
it was see if you like it or see you up there
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