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That's My Job
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Conway Twitty
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I woke up cryin' late at night when I was very young
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I had dreamed my father had passed away and gone
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My world revolved around him, I couldn't lie there anymore
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So I made my way down the mirrored hall and tapped upon his door
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And I said, "Daddy, I'm so afraid
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How will I go on, with you gone that way?
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Don't wanna cry anymore
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So may I stay with you?"
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And he said, "That's my job, that's what I do
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Everything I do is because of you
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To keep you safe with me
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That's my job, you see"
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Later we barely got along, this teenage boy and he
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Most of the fights it seems were over different dreams
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We each held for me
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He wanted knowledge and learning, I wanted to fly out west
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Said, ‽I could make it out there if I just had the fare
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I got half, will you loan me the rest?"
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And I said, "Daddy, I'm so afraid
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Theres no guarantee in the plans I've made
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And if I should fail, who will pay my way back home?"
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And he said, "That's my job, that's what I do
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Everything I do is because of you
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To keep you safe with me
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That's my job, you see"
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Every person carves his spot and fills the hole with life
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And I pray someday I might light as bright as he
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Woke up early one bright fall day, just read the tragic news
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After all my travels, I settled down within a mile or two
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I make my livin' with words and rhymes and all this tragedies
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Should go into my head and out instead as bits of poetry
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But I say, "Daddy, I'm so afraid"
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How will I go on with you gone this way
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How can I come up with a song to say, I love you"
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That's my job, that's what I do
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Everything I do is because of you
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To keep you safe with me
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That's my job, you see
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Everything I do is because of you
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To keep you safe with me
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