| She is searching for some form of salvation
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| In the corner of a bar down the street
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| But the gin controls whole conversations
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| And plays magic tricks with her feet…
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| She gets up, falls down, breaks even
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| Gets caught by the wrong mister right --
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| Hey, it’s a hard town
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| I wouldn’t want to live in it --
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| But I wouldn’t want to give up in it
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| All things being the same…
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| Back home she’s got these pictures on her mirror
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| They frame her when she looks back at her face
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| They tell her where she’s been --
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| I’ll tell you where she’s going
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| She’s got her name on a stool down at Eddie Owen’s place…
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| She drinks when romance brings her down
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| Like the sight of blood is a wedding gown
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| Bright lights and smoke fill up this space
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| It’s a crowded room, but still a lonely old place…
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| All her friends are nothing more than strangers
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| Whose names are just words on a face
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| If they bumped into her out on a sidewalk on some Sunday
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| They wouldn’t recognize her outside of the place |