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Death By Misadventure
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John Hiatt
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Well, Harry had a good job working' for the Secret Service
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He had a wife and kids at home who made him awful nervous
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He'd never done a damn thing you could call experimental
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And he had this aching feeling that his life was accidental
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So one day he burned his pinstripe suit and his leather shoulder holster
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He snapped a Polaroid and made a giant wanted poster
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He took it to a print shop and ordered up a thousand flyers
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And walked next door to the laundromat and blew his brains out in the drier
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And the tag on his toe read: Death by misadventure
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Ain't that some way to go? Death by misadventure
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Well, Harry's wife Estella took this matter rather lightly
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She could have cried and cried but then her looks might come unsightly
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She thought about her wardrobe and how much it was outdated
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And how this trumped up family thing was vastly overrated
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Her kids both turned against her and they took to drugs and stealing
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Some junkie killed 'em both for two dime bags they were dealing
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And sitting home alone disgusted by it all
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She blew the sole survivor off with ninety Nembutals
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And the tag on her toe read: Death by misadventure
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Ain't that some way to go? Death by misadventure
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So be careful how you choose your path and who you pick to go with
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Some folks they take to living fast while some prefer a slow death
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Some folks get confused and never quite know how they're going
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When you're laid out on that slab we're all the worse for knowing
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That the tag on your toe reads: Death by misadventure
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What a silly way to go. Death by misadventure
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