| Well, I woke to the rise, sun going down
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| Still taste the whiskey, still fresh on my mouth
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| Hot cup of coffee, smoke in my hand
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| Another day in the life of the guitar man
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| La de da
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| Well last night was a good night as I reached in my jeans
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| Crumpled up ones, a few tens in between
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| And a red head named Annie, she’s still fast asleep
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| Made me make her a promise, she knows I can’t keep
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| La de da
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| Time to fire up that two tone bucket of rust
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| Throw my amp and my case in the back of my truck
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| Breathing my freedom, windows rolled down
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| Forty-six miles till the next nameless town
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| La de da
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| Well, the place is still empty when I walk in the door
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| Stench from the beer, spilling up through the floor
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| Give an eye to sweet Lisa, she mixes the drinks
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| Life’s been hard on her, but she’s been good to me
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| La de da
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| Off in the shadows
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| Stands a stool and a stage
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| Where many souls before me were put on display
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| I take one last breath, time to pay some more dues
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| That won’t add up to nothing but tips and cheap booze
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| Yeah, the fruits of my labor is when the crowd sings along
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| Nothing short of a savior, still I go home alone
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| I’m an empty, faceless spotlight mike-stand
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| I’ll getcha high, I’ll getcha low
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| I’m the guitar man
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| Well they’ll ask for more love songs and I’ll play with a smile
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| To help them hold on or forget for a while
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| They can fill up that jukebox with a week’s worth of pay
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| But it can’t fill their happy and it can’t fill their pain
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| No drums, no pianos, no sweet harmonies
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| It’s all in a song and it’s all on me
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| Won’t find nothing fancy I’m a tired one man band
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| I’m the picking and grinning guitar man
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| Yeah the fruits of my labor’s when the crowd sings along
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| Nothing short of a savior I go home alone
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| I’m an empty, faceless spotlight mic-stand
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| I’ll getcha high, I’ll getcha low, I’m the guitar man yeah
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| Well I had me a pretty baby, thought she was the one
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| But she soon grew tired, this love on the run
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| Said she felt second, told me I had to choose
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| She’s back in Georgia and I’m there with you
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| The end of the night, we’ll all be best friends
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| Then strangers till I roll through town again
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| I’ll yell out hey Lisa something cold in a can
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| One for the road for the guitar man
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| Yeah the fruits of my labor’s when the crowd sings along
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| Nothing short of a savior still I go home alone
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| I’m an empty, faceless spotlight mic-stand
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| I’ll getcha high, I’ll getcha low, I’m the guitar man yeah
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| I’ll play em fast, I’ll play em slow, I’m the guitar man
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| Yeah |