| Did you ever have one of those days when it just rains and it rains.
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| You mind and your whole back aches but you get up anyways.
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| You gave up your dreams, you got a boss to please.
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| It makes you wonder if it’s worth it.
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| Loosen my chain cause even my pain is hurting.
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| I said Lord won’t you give an old boy a break.
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| You said you wouldn’t give me more than I could take.
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| But this old world, it sure rattles your faith sometimes.
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| Well you try and you try and you keep on trying.
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| Happy’s for sale but you can’t buy it.
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| How bout a little something to ease a man’s burden?
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| Cause even my pain is hurting.
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| My house ain’t worth what I owe.
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| I’ve been all my life owing that load.
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| And like a sucker I bought what they sold.
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| But down here in the ground ain’t gold.
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| Yeah I’ve been a caged bird singing, waiting on freedom, feeling like my
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| prayers ain’t working.
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| Go on and loosen my chain cause even my pain is hurting.
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| So I said Lord won’t you give an old boy a break.
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| You said you wouldn’t give me more than I could take.
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| But this old world can sure rattle your faith sometimes.
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| Yeah cause you try and you try and you keep on trying.
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| Happy’s for sale but you can’t buy it.
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| How bout a little something to ease a man’s burden?
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| Cause even my pain is hurting.
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| I got a loaded forty-five laying on to the table, next to a bottle of old Black
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| Label.
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| Can’t be the only way to ease a man’s burden.
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| So I said Lord won’t you give an old boy a break.
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| You said you wouldn’t give me more than I could take.
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| But this old world can sure rattle your faith sometimes.
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| Yeah cause you try and you try and you keep on trying.
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| Happy’s for sale but you can’t buy it.
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| How bout a little something to ease a man’s burden? |
| Cause even my pain is
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| hurting. |