Key: D major
Verse 1
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Got out of prison back in
'86 and I found me a wife
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Walked the clean and narrow
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Just tryin' to stay out and stay alive
Got a job at the rendering
factory,it ain't gonna make me rich
In the darkness before
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dinner comes
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Sometimes I can feel the it
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I got a cold mind to go trip
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Gb
ping across that thin line
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I'm sick of doin straight time
Verse 2
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My uncles at the evenin' table
makes his living runnin' hot cars
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Slips me a hundred dollar bill, says
"Charlie, you best remember
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who your friend are."
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I got a cold mind to go trip
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Gb
ping across that thin line
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I ain't makin' straight time
Verse 3
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Eight years in,
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it feels like you're gonna die
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But you get used to anything
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Sooner or later it becomes your life
Verse 4
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Kitchen floor in the evening,
tossin' my little babies high
Mary's smilin',
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but she watches me out of the corner of her eye
Seems you can't get any more than half free
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I step out onto the front porch,
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and suck the cold air deep inside of me
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Got a cold mind to go tripping
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cross that thin line
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I'm sick of doin' straight
Verse 5
time
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Gb
In the basement,
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huntin' gun and a hacksaw
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Sip a beer, and thirteen inches
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of barrel drop to the floor
Verse 6
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Come home in the evening,
can't get the smell from my hands
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Lay my head down on the pillow
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And, go driftin' off into for eign lands
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ChordsDb Gb Ab
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