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Burma Shave
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Tom Waits
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Licorice tattoo turned a gun metal blue scrawled across the shoulders
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Of a dying town the one eyed jacks across the railroad tracks
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And the scar on its belly pulled a stranger passing through
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He was a juvenile delinquent never learned how to behave
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But the cops would never think to look in
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And the road was like a ribbon and the moon was like a bone
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He didn't seem to be like any guy she'd ever known
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He kinda looked like farley granger with his hair slicked back
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She says I'm a sucker for a fella in a cowboy hat
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How far are you going he said depends on what you mean
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He says I'm going thataway just as long as it's paved
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I guess you'd say I'm on my way to
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And her knees up on the glove compartment
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Took out her barrettes and her hair spilled out like rootbeer
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And she popped her gum and arched her back
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Hell marysville ain't nothing but a wide spot in the road
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Some night my heart pounds just like thunder
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I don't know why it don't explode
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Cause everyone in this stinking town has got one foot in the grave
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And I'd rather take my chances out in
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Presley's what I go by why don't you change the station
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Count the grain elevators in the rearview mirror
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Mister anywhere you point this thing
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Has got to beat the hell out of the sting
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Of going to bed with every dream that dies here every mornin
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And so drill me a hole with a barber pole
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I'm jumping my parole just like a fugitive tonight
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Why don't you have another swig
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And pass that car if you're so brave
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I wanna get there before the sun comes up in
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And the spider web crack and the mustang screamed
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Smoke from the tires and the twisted machine
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Just a nickel's worth of dreams and every wishbone that they saved
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Lie swindled from them on the way to
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And the sun hit the derrick and cast a bat wing shadow
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Up against the car door on the shot gun side
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And when they pulled her from the wreck you know she
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Still had on her shades
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They say that dreams are growing wild just this side of
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