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Lucinda / Ain't Goin Down
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Tom Waits
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Well they call me William the Pleaser
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I sold opium fireworks and lead
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now I'm telling my troubles to strangers
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when the shadows get long I'll be dead
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now her hair was as black as a bucket of tar
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her skin as white as a cuttlefish bone
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I left Texas to follow Lucinda
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Nnw I'll never see heaven or home
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I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight
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a sly grin and a bowl full of stars
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like a kid who captures a firefly
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and leaves it only to die in the jar
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as I kick at the clouds at my hanging
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as I swing out over the crowd
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I will search every face for Lucinda's
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and she will go off with me down to hell
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I thought I'd broke loose of Lucinda
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the rain returned and so did the wind
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I cast this burden on the god that is within me
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and I'll leave this old world and go free
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the devil dances inside empty pockets
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but she never wanted money or pearls
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no that wasn't enough for Lucinda
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she wasn't that kind of girl
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now I've fallen from grace for Lucinda
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whoever thought that hell he'd so low
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I did well for an old tin can sailor
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but she wanted the bell in my soul
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I've spoken the god on the mountain
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I've swam in the Irish sea
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I ate fire and drank from the Ganges
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I'll beg there for mercy for me
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I thought I'd broke loose from Lucinda
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the rain returned and so did the wind
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I was standing outside the Whitehorse
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oh but I was afraid to go in
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I heard someone pull the trigger
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her breasts heaved in the moonlight again
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there was a smear of gold in the window
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and then I was the jewel of her sin
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they call me William the Pleaser
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I sold opium fireworks and lead
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now I'm telling my troubles to strangers
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when the shadows get long I'll be dead
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her hair was a black as a bucket of tar
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skin as white as a cuttlefish bone
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I left Texas to follow Lucinda
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I know I'll never see heaven or home
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Ain't goin' down
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ain't goin' down
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momma to the well
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momma to the well
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momma to the well
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momma to the well
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no more
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ain't goin' down
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momma to the well
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momma to the well
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momma to the well
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momma to the well
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no more
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I'm a true believer
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I'm a true believer
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believer
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ain't goin' down
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ain't goin' down
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momma to the well
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momma to the well
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momma to the well
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momma to the well
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no more
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ain't goin' down
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if I ever get able
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if I ever get able
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able
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to pay this debt I owe
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ain't goin' down
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I ain't goin' down
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momma to the well
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momma to the well
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momma to the well
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no more
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ain't goin' down
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momma to the well
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momma to the well
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momma to the well
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no more
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ain't goin' down
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