| You met her at the bank when you were paying your bills
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| She was a nervous little girl with golden curls
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| You took her on a date somewhere uptown
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| When you dropped her off she said see you around
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| Ooh, it took a few years cutting the walls down
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| Yeah, cause nothing comes easy in a one church town
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| You settled out of town in a highway house
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| You used the money that they gave her when they bought her out
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| She went back to school to get a degree
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| You got a job welding pot for the army
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| Then a paper that your father signed years ago
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| Turned a little man’s dream into a money hole
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| If you didn’t know then daddy now you know
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| Some men don’t mind making other men poor
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| Ooh, run daddy run, you got a kid on the way
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| Yeah, don’t give up now, cause nothing comes easy in a one church town
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| Two kids in the yard and another on the way
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| She’s sitting by her mother’s side begging her to stay
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| There was talk that you shoulda sued the chemical plant
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| But there wasn’t no price that could bring her back
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| And you just keep living through the good and the bad
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| Well there ain’t no dream that was bigger than that
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| Ooh, we all learn so hard that life must prevail
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| Ooh, don’t give up now, cause nothing comes easy in a one church town
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| Ooh, don’t give up now, cause nothing lives down in a one church town |