| Every sundown
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| You make the break
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| By the time you hit the border
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| You’re back in chains
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| Your jailer’s laughin'
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| As you complain
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| You were born to run
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| What about the great escape
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| In the courtyard
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| There is no breeze
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| And there ain’t no bluebirds
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| In the trees
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| On your knees you
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| Pray for sweet release
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| You pray for fortitude
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| And godspeed
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| When you got nothin' left to lose
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| When you’re way beyond the blues
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| Right or wrong lord
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| You’ve got to choose
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| When you’re way beyond the blues
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| You hear the tollin'
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| Of the bell
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| Are you in heaven
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| Are you in hell
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| The saints came marchin'
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| And you fell
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| Were you pushed
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| Did you stumble
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| Who could tell
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| When you got nothin' left to lose
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| When you’re way beyond the blues
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| Right or wrong lord
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| You’ve got to choose
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| When you’re way beyond the blues
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| All your women
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| Weepin' at your grave
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| Six black horses
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| To carry a safe
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| You were once a king
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| Now you’re a slave
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| Too late to pray
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| They lock the gate
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| When you got nothin' left to lose
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| When you’re way beyond the blues
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| Right or wrong lord
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| You’ve got to choose
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| When you’re way beyond the blues
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| (Sing it now)
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| When you got nothin' left to lose
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| When you’re way beyond the blues
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| Right or wrong lord
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| You’ve got to choose
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| When you’re way beyond the blues
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| When you got nothin' left to lose
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| When you’re way beyond the blues
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| Right or wrong lord
|
| You’ve got to choose
|
| When you’re way beyond the blues
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| (Sing it now)
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| When you got nothin' left to lose
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| When you’re way beyond the blues
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| Right or wrong lord
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| You’ve got to choose
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| When you’re way beyond the blues |