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Lost my job, lost my money in a flash |
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Watching my old life turn to dust and ash |
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Called you up on the telephone |
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Ended up in a new town all alone |
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Took the bus on the highway tangled up |
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Felt the billboards' images fuck me up |
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Buy and sell yourself awake |
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Fall in love with a new thing every day |
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It's cold, cold, cruel, cruel world. |
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Saw your hair in the sunlight glistening |
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Told your stories, you weren't even listening |
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Living out of an old suitcase |
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Looking at your stone-cold pretty face |
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Out of work like a true American |
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Got real sick with no health-care benefits |
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Everything turned black and blue |
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Government says, "We can't take care of you" |
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Goodbye, goodbye, cruel, cruel world |
