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Tom Waits
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Miscellaneous
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Crossroads
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Now, George was a good straight boy to begin with, but there was bad blood
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In him; someway he got into the magic bullets and that leads straight to
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Devil's work, just like marijuana leads to heroin; you think yo ucan take
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Them bullets or leave 'em, do you?
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Just save a few for your bad days
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Well, now, we all have those bad days when you can't shoot for shit.
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The more of them magics you use, the more bad days you have without them
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So it comes down finally to all your days being bad without the bullets
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It's magics or nothing
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Time to stop chippying around and kidding yourself,
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Kid, you're hooked, heavy as lead
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And that's where old George found himself
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Out there at the crossroads
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Molding the Devil's bullets
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Now a man figures it's his bullets, so it will
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Hit what he wants to hit
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But it don't always work that way
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You see, some bullets is special for a single aim
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A certain stag, or a certain person
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And no matter where you are, that's where the bullet will end up
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And in the moment of aiming, the gun turns into a dowser's wand
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And point where the bullet wants to go
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(George Schmid was moving in a series of convulsive spasms, like someone
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with an epileptic fit, with his face distorted and his eyes wild like a
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lassoed horse bracing his legs. But something kept pulling him on. And now
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he is picking up the skulls and making the circle.)
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I guess old George didn't rightly know what he's getting himself into
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The fit was on him and it carried him right to the crossroads
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