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Some men collapse at the racetrack |
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Their wrong and beat up, their eyes black |
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Others wilt in casinos |
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Roll dice and piss away speedboats |
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Some dissolve into bar stools |
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Scratched off in boxes and playoff pools |
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I spent myself on a psychic |
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I lost my way and a friend said she would find it |
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Man, we were wrong |
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Man, we were wrong |
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I asked for the future |
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She only sang me a song |
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Some men they go make their own luck |
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Grow fat from feeding on lame ducks |
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The easy mark and the old maid |
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The invalid and the ingrate |
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Others wait for that high sign |
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Some holy hoax in the tree line |
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Me, I'm counting my canned food |
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Bunkered down, waiting out our slingshot moods |
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But what if |
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I'm wrong? |
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What if I'm wrong? |
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I'll open my doors up |
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People, come sweep me along |
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Eyes are fixed and my palms are spread |
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Dissonance floats my shipwrecked head |
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God sleeps in the |
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Gaza Strip |
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And man alone's left alone to live with it |
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The coin-flip faith of the optimist |
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It's beginners luck in a sewing kit |
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What's to do when there is no fix |
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On the unflinching ambivalence? |
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But you say that's wrong |
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Hopeless and wrong |
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We re-thread your needle |
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You say, "God, play along" |