COME HELL OR HIGH WATER RIDE THE WIND DON'T GIVE UP AN INCH SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN BALL AND CHAIN LIFE LOVES A TRAGEDY POOR BOY BLUES
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I hit the hightway
Touch life barely sixteen
No angel of mercy
Coming down to save the soul of me
I took a Grey Hound limousine
Straight to grand central NYC
It was ass, gas, and grass, living fast
Nobody ride for free
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Living it up, giving it up
Living in the valley of lost souls
Wanting it all taking the fall
Living in the valley of lost souls
Miss misery come ride with me
How I love her company
She did Boston juice
And wronged all the right out of me
The devil wears a black suit
He says I'm livin' like a bum
So what I'm looking like I'm half dead
A gypsy on the run
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Feels like feels like time's running out on me
But I wasn't born to play nobody's fool
Ain't nobody gonna hold me down
I've got to roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll
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Living it up, giving it up
Living in the valley of lost souls
Somebody save me
Wanting it all, taking the fall
Living in the valley of lost souls
Somebody save me
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Like animals tonight we make it
You give me an inch I'm gonna take it
I'll steal your love like a thief
To be as one is my belief
Don't look back have no regrets
Like beasts of prey we must feed on it
I'll be your one your one and only
To feel me burn come close and hold me
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Flesh and blood sacrifice
melts the heart like fire to ice
Flesh and blood like fire to ice
Are you willing to sacrifice?
There's no more time don't think about
The flame will die if you doubt
It's a game of love and hate
To lose it all is a chance we take
Come to me and take my hand
It's in the fire that we must stand
I'll take you down under my gun
Our flesh and blood will be as one
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Our blood runs deeper than a river
The less you need the more I'm gonna give you
And give you but good
Solo
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What's got you so jumpy
Why can't you sit still
Like gasoline you wanna pump me
Then leave me when you get your fill ya
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Every time I touch you, you get hot
I want to make love, you never stop
Come up for air you pull me to the floor
Just what's been going on in that head of yours
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Unskinny bop
Just blows me away
Unskinny bop, bop
All night and day
Unskinny bop, bop, bop, bop
She just loves to play
Unskinny bop nothin' more to say
You look at me so funny
Love bite got you acting oh so strange
You got too many bees in your honey
Am I just another word on your page, ya, ya
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You're saying my love won't do ya
But that ain't love written on your face
Well honey I can see right through ya
We'll see whose ridin' who at the end of the race
Solo
What's right, what's wrong, what's left, what the hell is going on
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Did you ever get up on the wrong side of the bed
With an achin' head and just falling apart
You're running late and your boss is bitching
It's cold outside and the car won't start
Well I don't mean to bitch I swear
'Cause everybody's got their cross to bear
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But when I hear the music
All my troubles just fade away
When I hear the music
Let it play, let it play
When I hear the music
Sure as darkness I can see the day
When I hear the music got to let it play, let it play
Life's just a rented space getting laid to waste
When the lines on my face say I'm growing older
Just a stitch in time gonna save my mind
When the weight of the world lies on my shoulders
Soon I won't have no place to fit
But I'll cross that bridge when I come to it
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Solo
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I felt this before now I feel it again
No matter how hard I try this feeling won't end
So I pretend you're here by my side
Tonight on this lonely ride
I keep telling myself that
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Life goes on while you're miles away and I need you
Time rolls on as night steals the day
And there's nothing I can do
You healed up my wounds I tasted your tears
You spilled out your heart so I let out my fears
But one fear I kept to myself
How I prayed that you loved no one else
Like you're saying you love me
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If you only knew how much I miss you
Solo
When my mind plays it's tricks on me
It shows me things I don't want to see
That's why I tell myself
I keep telling myself
Just take another piece of me
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Love goes on while you're miles away and I miss you
And this last mile I travel with you
I've got no worries
I've got no regrets
Who they think they're kidding
They ain't seen nothing yet
You point your finger try to tell me I'm wrong
That never stopped me from singing my song
I got the last laugh at the things they do
Eliminate them at the turn of a screw
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I never lived by nobody's rules
I won't be sinking on their ship of fools
Can't push me no matter how hard they try
Stand back this is my turn to fly
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Come hell, hell or high water
Ain't nobody going to hold me down
Come hell, hell or high water
Ain't nobody messin' me around
I see their wicked ways
And miles of endless lies
Their jaded lives counldn't erase my smile
But what's this shit that I just heard
Son of a bitch you're working on my nerves
I'll watch you choke on your last words
It's about time you get what you deserve
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I've got something that's been on my mind
Come close I'll tell you the problem I find
I'm sick and tired of the damage you've done
Don't blame me I ain't the one
Blame yourself for the ghosts in your past
And kiss my ass
Solo
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Hearts of fire
Streets of stone
Modern warriors
Saddle iron horses of chrome
Taste the wild
Lick the wind
Like something they never saw before
Their jaws dropping to the floor
Steel made of soul and sin
Rebels born without a care
And the day he listens
Only to fly where eagles dare
And the nights she whispers
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Ride the wind never coming back
Until I touch the midnight sun-
Until I touch the midnight sun
Ride the wind never coming back again-
Ride the wind never coming back
Until I touch the midnight sun
Painted flesh
Loyalty
Humble pride
Just as far as the eye can see
Stories told
Two old friends
Of battle scars and lonely bars
And nights the rain wouldn't end
Here's to withered eyes wearing gypsy smiles
And the day he listens
Here's to lovely ladies and a million miles
And the night she whispers
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Solo
Of all the truths and lies
And stories of riders in the sky
They say only the bravest try
Where eagles and angels dare to fly
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Don't give up an inch girl
If you won't take me for the mile
Don't give up an inch girl
If you won't take me for the mile
Miles from home and I'm all alone
And looking for a first time
We took a long ride
And there by her side
I did my first crime
Well Mary, Mary quite contrary
Just how does your garden grow
She said ring my bell
And rattle my shell
I'll be your pretty maid all in a row
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Put me to the test
Lay me down to rest
While her nails cut me up like a knife
Put me in you
Like flesh tattoo
And scared this poor boy for life
Don't give up an inch girl
If you won't take me for the mile
Don't give up an inch girl
If you won't take me for the mile
It was a hot one
In the summer sun
And more than heat was rising
I remember that September
And just how you left me smiling
I left there shaken, body was achin'
Like it never did before
Begged and pleaded
Swear I needed
Needed you a whole lot more
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Open bridge
Solo
Made this boy's bell ring
And there I earned my wings
Left me there in sweet pain
Hell I'll never be the same
Don't give up an inch girl
If you won't take me for the mile
Don't give up an inch girl
If you won't take me for the mile
Well I see him on the TV
Preachin' 'bout the promised land
He tells me believe in Jesus
And steals the money from my hand
Some say he was a good man
But Lord I think he sinned, ya, ya
Twenty two years of metal tears
Cries a suicidal Vietnam vet
Who fought a losing war on a foreign shore
To find his country did not want him back
Their bullets took his best friend in Saigon
Our lawyers took his wife, his kids no regrets
In a time I don't remember
In a war he can't forget
He cries forgive me for what I done there
Forgive me for the things I did
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And give me something to believe in
If there's a Lord above
Give me something to believe in
Oh Lord arise
My best friend died a lonely man
In some Palm Springs hotel room
I got the call last Christmas Eve
and they told me the news
i tried all night not to break down and cry
As the tears rolled down my face
I felt so cold and empty
like a lost soul out of place
And the mirror, mirror on my wall
Sees my smile, it fades again
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Sometimes I wish to God I didn't know now
Things I didn't know then
Road you gotta take me home
Solo
I drive by the homeless sleeping on a cold dark street
like bodies in an open grave
Underneath an old broken down neon sign,
use to read Jesus Saves
A mile away live the rich folk
And I see how they're living it up
While the poor they eat from hand to mouth
The rich drink from the golden cup
And it just makes me wonder why so many lose and so few win
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You take the high road and I'll take the low road
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You take the high road and I'll take the low road
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You take the low road and I'll take the low road
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Sometimes I wish to God I didn't know now
Things I didn't know then
And give me something to believe in
Come on, come on
Get your dress and put on a smile
Lets lose this place and get out awhile, awhile, awhile
You don't need nothin' fancy
Just a whole lotta attitude
I'll be your man now baby
If you're doing what I want you to do
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I keep tellin' ya
She's my ball and chain
my lock and key
And I'm liking it baby
She's my ball and chain
my lock and key
And I'm liking it good
I t't't' tell ya
Momma always said
There was plenty of fish in the sea
So I baited my hook but good
And caught one for me, yeah just for me
She'll set you up with her body
Then knock you out with her charm
She's just a little too nasty baby
But that never did me no harm
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And she'll always be wrapped tight around me
Solo
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And she'll always be wrapped tight around me
I t't't' tell ya
Of all the words I've spoken
And lies that I've told
Of all the hearts left broken
Begged for bought and sold
Lord I'm feeling lonely
Feel like I can't go on
The streets have all grown cold now
The mysteries all gone
She's all gone
She's all gone, gone, gone
She's all gone
She's all....
Well I ain't getting any younger
Can't you see it in my eyes
The sweet has turn to sour
I think it's time for me to fly
Well my vices turned to habits
And my habits turned to stone
The lies chipped away at my smile now baby
While the truth ate me down to the bone
One more step and I swear I go over the edge
I've gotta stop living at a pace that kills
Before I wake up dead
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Good times, bad times
How life loves a tragedy
Heartbreaks, heartaches
How life loves a tragedy
The nights I spent in danger
with strangers I thought were friends
Only to wake in anger
For some pleasure they swore they'd sin
I think it's time I move on like a rolling stone
'Cause I got all the broken dreams I can buy
Gotta sell the ones I stole
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Well I paid the price
For every thrill I got
Those thrills are all long gone now baby
But I'm still paying for them like it or not
Solo
I think it's time I move on like a rolling stone
'Cause I got the broken dreams I can buy
Gotta sell the ones I stole
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My daddy said son
don't you come to me crying
'cause money don't make you a happy man
He said the grass is always greener
any place except where you stand
He said some were born to win
Some born to lose
And sing them poor boy blues
Watch out
I've lived uptown downtown
Lord I've lived everywhere
Almost drown in puddle of my own sweat I swear
I believe it's due time I get my mansion on Bel Air
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But I'm still singing those poor boy blues
Poor boy blues
You don't know how I'm feeling baby 'til you wear my shoes
Sure as I'm standing here got them poor boy blues
Friday nights I get tanked up
and tossed into the local slam
At least I get three square meals
Until someone gets me out of this jam
In the meanwhile all my green
is going to Uncle Sam
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Let's walk this dog
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