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Uncle Danny
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He was a dealer of dirty jokes,
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Breathing unfiltered Camel smoke
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Everything he said was a lie,
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But he had me by the rope,
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The noose around my neck
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With every yawning story that he told
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But I still listen dear, with bended ear,
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Hoping I'd come close
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To touch the truth and hit the root
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Of the life that he'd lived
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He never ran guns or shot pool
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With any famous chicks,
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Phil Spector wasn't his bitch,
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Waiting on his lips
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For a little bit of cocaine,
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Or brace for a beautiful witch
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I know my words'll slip,
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And I know I tell a couple lies,
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I'm known to accentuate, exaggerate
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In stories all the time,
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And I wonder why? Will it magnify
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By the time I reach fifty?
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And realize my life never turned out
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The way I planned it simply?
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So I gotta stretch the truth,
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And tell the things I never did,
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Until I'm running guns with Saddam Husein
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And all the stupid kids
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So I wonder why he'd tell those lies
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And breathe it down my neck,
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A bunch of foul smoke inside of my ears
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On whiskey breath
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And I'm sitting here, a little kid
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Right in front of his chair
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Telling him "Another story,
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Come on, uncle, bend my friggin' ear
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I wanna hear the tale,
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Tell me time again and over now
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How you were running drugs
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Across the border
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From the north on down
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To Alaska, on the oil pipeline
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And into Canada, taking 'em down
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Into Washington state and doing damage
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To the brain that God gave him"
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Wondering what I understand
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If you don't have the truth,
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How can I shake your hand?
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See, and I got a couple questions
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That make me a little curious, homie,
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If' the story make the man
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When the man makes up the story?
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There was never stolen cars,
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There was always a couple bars,
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There was eyes full of stars,
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And a lackluster fall of ____ (ours?)
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And everything I understood
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That you'd done with your life
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Has all just been sacrificed
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Upon the cross of Truth tonight
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See, I've seen it all
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Breaking down, a sad old man
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With a couple bruised rib cages
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And a shaky left hand
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His beard is scraggly,
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The top of his head is going bald
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And it's all peeling away,
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Falling back with the stories that he told
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And I wonder where
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I can find the truth inside this now
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It's more than the toast,
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It's the crumbs of the motherfucker breaking down
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And watching after sixty-five
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Years upon this earth
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What happens to everything
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That you thought made up your worth
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And see I know, there's a couple bits
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Of truth in all of this
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There was no stolen cars,
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There were a couple of stolen kisses
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A couple of illegitimate kids,
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A couple broken bottles
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And all the time in prison,
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All the time inside the hospital
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Was the thing that was real,
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Without the mass appeal
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The truth is always the ugliest side
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So you should polish it up for real
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And so it makes you wonder
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Why would this mother fucker
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Tell me all these lies
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And pull the rug out under the covers?
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And I'm looking at him now
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Staring inside his sunken eyes
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And realize beneath the bitter wisdom
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And super-sized guy
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He's just an old man,
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Slow hand, stumbling breath
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Just trying to make it up the stairs
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Without losing, pains in chest
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And I think,
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What will happen to me?
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When I wake up from this dream
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And realize I'm twenty-four, see?
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And I got a couple years left,
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A couple beers left,
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A couple friends left,
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A couple grinding gears left
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And I'm breaking sweat, wondering
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One day, I will be breaking down,
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Living in an old folk's town
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Wearing my tattered, broken crown
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And I'll be waving my hand
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For servants that
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Answer no beckon call,
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Because everyone has left
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Standing me holding my balls
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And I got to make ends meet
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In this thing I call my life
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The bitter circle ring that made me
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Back to the beginning, right,
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I started to help this baby
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End it this way in a wheelchair maybe
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And now I gotta act,
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Maybe explaining the way
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That I was so crazy
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I tell you why I lived
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This stupid lie that I did,
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And all the time I spent
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Chasing around girls and chicks,
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And all the time that ain't for shit
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You told me the truth,
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The truth is you can't lie
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If you gotta try to produce,
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Because
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Life'll bite you
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In the ass in the end
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Then you're standing there,
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On the corner,
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Without any friends
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Because all your friends know
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What happens after it's done
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Because at least one person was there
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To witness all the truth, son
"Danny's Song" Loggins and Messina
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