| Well they say you live & learn but it really seems more to me
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| Like all along I’ve been learning how to live
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| Well for years I been drifting like a boat lost out at sea
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| I’ve been out walking them ties on the railroad of sin
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| Looking back on my life now at some of the things I done
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| Makes me wanna hang my head in shame
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| I was a no good, no account, low down heartbreaker
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| On that railroad of sin I was a highballing train
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| I’m just a poor boy had to beg, steal, & borrow
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| Just a leaf blowing lonesome in the wind
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| I’m just a hitchhiker on that old highway of sorrow
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| Just a highballing train on that railroad of sin
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| Well you won’t feel it and you won’t hear it coming
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| Cause when she’s rolling slow it don’t make a sound
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| But I got that throttle to ten on the railroad of sin
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| I’m coming off of the rails and I can’t slow it down |