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Why'd you go out east my boy?
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Why'd you go out there?
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Did your papa say that the time of day
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Is only secondary to the price that you pay to know?
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Oh no
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And why'd you leave my back my boy?
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I thought you was with me with me 'til the end
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Why'd you leave my back my boy?
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I thought that you was whisky and I was gin
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Laid out on some bar together
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Dusty eyed but getting better as each calendar goes
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In the trash with the atlas and the maps
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Of all the circles we drove
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'Cause there ain't no one keeping time no more
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But these assholes knocking on my door
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Is that the cops or the devil or the goddamn Lord
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Who knows?
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I saw the federation flag
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Doubled over like a dancer on her side
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And when I called I called to tell you
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That your favorite of the athletes had died
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He offed his family and left nothing
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But an orchid on the nightstand alive
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Still you didn't pick me up but what the fuck
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I figured why not try
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'Cause there ain't a reason to be good my boy
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Though I've seen others try in the past
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There ain't a reason to be good my boy
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Though I have seen others they've died for less
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Horizontal on the prairie
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Still as the snow and buried by the dark
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While there's vampires on that altar
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With their teeth inside the neck of my guitar
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But there just ain't no one keeping time no more
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So I got in my car and I drove
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To the White House in my church clothes
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Just to see if you were sleeping on the lawn
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But all I found was freedom in a window
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Blinking my name in neon (please keep it on)
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I fell asleep myself you know
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I was dreaming of the Tri-State and beyond
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I had Lincoln looking over me saying
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"Fuck it man I guess the golden days are gone"
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'Cause there ain't no one keeping time no one
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There ain't no one keeping time
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The minister is knee-deep in wine
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And who are you and I to go and argue with the Lord
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After eighteen years of sleeping on his floor?
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There ain't no one keeping time
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Ain't nobody keeping mine
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Ain't no one keeping time no more
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