| I recall once upon a time
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| Livin’was so easy and I felt so fine
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| But, my, my, my Right before my very eyes
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| Satan came with fire to burn me Wouldn’t listen when they warned me A dagger in my back
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| While she’s calling me honey wouldn’t stand back
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| For neither love nor money
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| Thirty minutes after my ship set sail
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| She put up a sign and my house began to wail
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| But, why, why, why
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| I couldn’t see it in my little girl’s eyes?
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| She had such a way to fool me Lord, she had a way to fool me And I would ask the woman
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| Can you find it in yourself to please stand back?
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| You ain’t gonna rule me Just when all began to fade
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| I reached out, threw the Ace of Spades
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| I put her on a train to the Everglades
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| Now that it’s all over and gone
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| Somehow I just don’t feel so alone
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| But, lie, lie, lie
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| It seemed like such a waste of time
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| She did not ever seem to know me But, now it’s much too late to show me But, if I ever see that woman
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| Walkin’down the street I’ll just stand back
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| And try to move away slowly, oh yeah |