| Go to a cash machine
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| To get a ticket home
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| A message on the screen
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| Says don't make plans, you're broke
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| No, no this can't be right
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| I know that time is tight
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| I've only just been paid
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| Three weeks five days, til I'm seen
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| Right
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| No
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| I scratch a living, it ain't easy
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| You know it's a drag
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| I'm always paying, never make it
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| But you can't look back
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| I wonder if I'll ever get
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| To where I want to be
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| Better believe it
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| I'm working for the cash machine
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| I try to phone a friend
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| My credit's in the red
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| I try to skip the fare
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| Ticket inspector's there
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| No no, this can't be right
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| I live an honest life
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| It seems like sometimes
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| You don't cross the line
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| You don't get
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| By
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| No
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| I scratch a living, it ain't easy
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| You know it's a drag
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| I'm always paying, never make it
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| But you can't look back
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| I wonder if I'll ever get
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| To where I want to be
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| Better believe it
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| Yeah
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| What am I gonna do
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| My girlfriend's test turned blue
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| We tried to play it safe
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| That night we could not wait
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| No no, this can't be right
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| She said it would be alright
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| I can't afford to be a daddy
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| So I leave tonight
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| No
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| I scratch a living, it ain't easy
|
| You know it's a drag
|
| I'm always paying, never make it
|
| But you can't look back
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| I wonder if I'll ever get
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| To where I want to be
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| Better believe it
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| I'm working for the cash machine
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| Cash machine
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| Cash machine
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| There's a hole in my pocket, my pocket, my pocket
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| There's a hole in my pocket, my pocket, my pocket
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| There's a hole in my pocket, my pocket, my pocket
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| There's a hole in my pocket
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| Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah |