| A young girl give me a good luck charm.
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| Put a snake on my neck and a bird on my arm.
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| Got one good leg 'cause the other went South.
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| Got a brand new crutch and a brand new mouth.
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| I got a sheriff’s name branded where I should have kept clean.
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| If you get too close you’re going to know what I mean.
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| And I know when I’m old the only runnin’gonna come.
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| Away from lips and the fork of my tongue.
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| It only gets to me in times like these.
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| And times like these are getting to me.
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| Put your hand in the oven there’s a heaven inside.
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| It burns straight through but the devil don’t mind.
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| Because he takes what he wants and he finds what you hide.
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| And it will buy you a place on the Lower East Side.
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| I rolled a number last night and I walked in my sleep.
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| I could feel all the nerves in the tips of my teeth.
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| As they crumbled into dust and washed into the sea.
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| Finally shut my mouth so I could hear myself think.
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| It only gets to me in times like these.
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| It only gets to me in times like these.
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| It only gets to me in times like these.
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| And times like these are getting to me. |