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Living on bread and wine was easy |
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for John and James and Mother Mary |
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and I’m no saint and that’s my ball and chain |
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Cause when I’m passed that silver chalice |
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I always drink my fill until it |
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knocks me down and tangles up my brain |
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Yeah buddy, it’s a short life, it’s a hell of a life |
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it’s a mean old world, when you’re kicked to the gutter |
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and the firewater is the one thing to put out the flame |
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Walking through the graveyards and sleeping in alleys |
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telling myself the same old stories |
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Drinking that blood and calling it holy wine |
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Looking in windows and seeing a stranger |
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going through hell like a fallen angel |
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Feeling my bones getting old long before their time |
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Yeah buddy, it’s a short life, it’s a hell of a life |
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it’s a mean old world, when you’re kicked to the gutter |
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and the firewater gotcha talking in circles again |
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It’s an empty bottle passing around |
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when your hopes and dreams have all burned down |
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And the firewater is the one thing to put out the flame |
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Take me home, take me home |
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Gather me up in your arms Lord have mercy divine |
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So take me home, take me home |
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Take me home, take me home |
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Cause it’s a short life, it’s a hell of a life |
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it’s a mean old world when you're kicked to the gutter |
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and the firewater is the one thing to put out the flame |
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Yeah, the firewater is the one thing to put out the flame. |
