| There’s a cold rain falling from the sky above
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| and I’m lost as a woman on a drifter’s love
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| there’s a singin' in the wire, there’s a singin' in my head
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| and I can’t find my own way home
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| you can tell by the style and the cut of my clothes
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| I’ve seen better days god only knows
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| I’m like a one man bandit at the Alamo
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| Running from the guns again just running from the guns again
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| It’s in the bite of the whisky it’s in the kiss of the wine
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| it’s in the touch of Tequila or the fruit of the vine
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| but the very next morning, when you let yourself in
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| and she asks you what happened, you blame it on the sting of the gin
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| big man picking up a telephone
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| he’s got a woman in the city, got a woman at home
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| he waits for a line, then he hangs up in time
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| and reaches for the bottle again
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| you can lose your job and the money’s all gone
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| and it don’t look too good in the cold light of dawn
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| so you have a little drink, just to set you up again for tomorrow
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| It’s in the kick of the vodka it’s in the hush of the rye
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| sweet Amon-till-ado gently kiss you goodbye
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| it’s a way of forgetting, the state that you’re in
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| when no one believes you you blame it on the sting of the gin
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| sting of the gin |