| It’s a late cool autumn evening
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| And the sunset melts into night
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| With a v-twin throbbing beneath me
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| And my head’s spinning allright
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| Ritchie and me we started as kids
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| In a rock 'n' roll band on the street where we lived
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| It’s a long hard ride till the morning
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| As the trees and wind start to sing
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| Chains around your heart that bind
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| Break away and leave them behind
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| Well once there was a time in this rock 'n' roll dream
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| This here town would be rip apart at the seams
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| Now I’m out of money and billy’s out of work
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| Eddie’s pushin' pencils for the county clerk
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| Everybody’s job is getting pushed out of town
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| Life is just knockin' 'em down
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| Boyhood dreams are run into the ground
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| Long dark shadows hang over this town
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| Cast away the chains that bleed
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| Break away and I leave you free
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| Take my hand come leave with me
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| As nighttime fades away
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| We’ll ride the hills and desert sand
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| Cross the barren land
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| All the families have all gone
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| Their jobs went before them I’m sure
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| They knocked down the corner barber shop
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| And put up a super triple level parking lot
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| There once was a time you could vote for a man
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| Who wouldn’t try and stick a gun in your hands
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| So cut out all your talkin'
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| And make love with me through the night
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| Chains around your heart that bind
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| Break away and leave them behind
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| Just leave them behind
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| Just leave them behind |