| You didn’t know you couldn’t stand
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| To watch it all slip through your hands
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| The wayward angel, your promised land, they’ve burnt to the ground
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| Stone drunk on Halloween, it shivers like some trick to me
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| When a call comes from your balcony
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| But no one’s around
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| So pick your fight, break down the door
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| Endless nights, waging war against yourself on the bathroom floor spilling it
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| out
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| Now I’m on the bed, my hair’s undone
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| My face is wet, her face is worn
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| From empty years and bitter scorn, and a Victorian love
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| Now I don’t wanna cause you grief
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| I don’t wanna take the lead
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| Little girl, all I wanna see is you getting off
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| Clenching thirst and heavy breath
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| Naked as the night we met
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| You left it up to me I guess
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| But I’m slow on the draw
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| So while the poor boys sit lonesome at the last call
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| And the shy ones stare down at their toes
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| I’ll make way for that woman
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| And the mean kingdom coming
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| I get tired walking these streets of gold
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| And I’ll call her my Bridge City Rose
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| Yeah, I’ll call her my Bridge City Rose
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| The garden on her windowsill
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| Her crystal moons and family stills
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| Jawbone treasures, beatnik thrills
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| And blood red mulled wine
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| The sweet hanging overhead
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| With books I bought but never read
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| Can I lay low here?
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| Can I stop instead?
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| And stay for awhile?
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| 'Cause I can’t remember the last time
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| I wasn’t drawn in neon lights
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| Sat come drink up the water’s fine
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| And the whiskey’s half off
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| But before you find yourself torn between lovers
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| Or you’re stuck wearing yesterday’s clothes
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| Let’s make way for that lady and her sweet spirit breaking
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| Fine glass against any old stone
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| Yeah, I called her my Bridge City Rose
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| Yeah, I called her my Bridge City Rose |