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You Know It's Dark When Atheists Start to Pray
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Jesse Malin
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Joey was a man from the other side
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Came across the sea for a better life
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When he got close they made him change his name
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Push along a cart through the market place
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Keep it in your heart when you're getting spades
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But that was so many years ago
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I lived in many places, I've fallen out of graces
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I tried to feed the fire for so long
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Hey man, where you going
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Up town the river's rolling
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The sun comes, I'll be on my way
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A Nietzsche mustache and a peasant's hat
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Five hungry kids in a water flat
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Maybe I'll make a little more today
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A new world dream and some old school pride
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He couldn't make a meet so he took his life
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I saw a photograph and made memories in my mind
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I've fallen out of graces, I've ran so many races
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I tried to breathe the fire for so long
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Hey man, where you going
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Up town the river's rolling
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The sun comes, I'll be on my way
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Well he was on the blacklist in '53
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And he talked about the conspiracy
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He said the next war is gonna blow us all away
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I played in churches and I prayed in bars
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A young kid with a sad guitar
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To get close I had to go far away
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Well I became a drifter
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Sent postcards to my sister
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And I can hear her smile even when I'm far away
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Hey man, where you going
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Up town the river's rolling
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The sun comes, I'll be on my way
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Well I drank with kings and danced with whores
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On mountain tops and distant shores
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But you made me feel like someone I wished to be
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I tried to wear my father's clothes
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I planted seeds that didn't grow
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With a handful of thorns I thought that I was free
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Worked in a bank, drove a diesel van
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Even Sonny Wortzik had a plan
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Do your time and get out of society
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Hey man, where you going
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Up town the river's rolling
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The sun comes, I'll be on my way
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Now you're sitting in an office, you've never seen the world
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Gonna blame it on the government or a girl
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But there's somewhere else you know you'd rather be
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Scratching off the numbers in a liquor store
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Dreaming of picking up a '44
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Tell me more about your fantasy
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Hey man, where you going
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Up town the river's rolling
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The sun comes, I'll be on my way
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From Spanish Harlem to Ditmas Park
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A lonely game of court and spark
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I wrote a song, I figured it's the only way
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While the girls from school all married stiffs
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WIth a flat screen and couple kids
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And they say a prayer in their own little way
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Well a friend of mine became a priest
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And we lost another in the Middle East
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Well, you know it's dark when atheists start to pray
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Hey man, where you going
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Up town the river's rolling
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The sun comes, I'll be on my way
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Boxes in the corner neatly stacked
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Parts of me, paper and wax
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For a headline day to ride in that Cadillac
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And when it's over and I've had my fill
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They're gonna put my body up on Cypress Hill
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Near Houdini for the final disappearing act
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Hey man, where you going
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Up town the river's rolling
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The sun comes, I'll be on my way
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Hey man, whatcha doing
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All along the road to ruin
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You know it's dark when Atheists start to pray
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From the fox holes to the quarter
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Got your mojo workin'
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Or whatever you believe in, all your voodoo
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Well, the river runs deep and the river runs wide
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