| The fire burns on and on
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| That drives me on until all is gone
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| Except the simple plans
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| Of mice and men
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| Back when I was just seventeen
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| I thought that I knew everything
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| I could make it in this scene
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| To be a rising star that only gleamed
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| But all the answers disagreed
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| With the questions held for me
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| I was legal now at twenty-one
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| I knew the way the world should run
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| My God, just look what I had done
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| Simply drunk and having fun
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| Looked for friends, but I found none
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| All alone at twenty-one
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| The fire burns on and on
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| That drives me on until all is gone
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| Except the simple plans
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| Of mice and men
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| The fire burns on and on
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| That drives me on until all is gone
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| Except the simple plans
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| Of mice and men
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| At twenty-five I was surprised
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| That I was even half-alive
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| Somehow I managed to survive
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| I felt my body doing time
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| And in my back a hundred knives
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| From my friends at twenty-five
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| And now as Gabriel sounds my warning bell
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| I’d buy your life, if you would sell
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| A year or two if less compelled
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| So live your life and live it well
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| There’s not much left of me to tell
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| I just got back up each time I fell
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| The fire burns on and on
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| That drives me on until all is gone
|
| Except the simple plans
|
| Of mice and men
|
| The fire burns on and on
|
| That drives me on until all is gone
|
| Except the simple plans
|
| Of mice and men
|
| The fire burns on and on
|
| That drives me on until all is gone
|
| Except the simple plans
|
| Of mice and men
|
| The fire burns on and on
|
| That drives me on until all is gone
|
| Except the simple plans
|
| Of mice and men
|
| The fire burns on and on
|
| That drives me on until all is gone
|
| Except the simple plans
|
| Of mice and men
|
| The fire burns on and on
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| That drives me on until all is gone
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| Except the simple plans
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| Of mice and men |