Tonart: D minor•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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'Cross the border they turn water into wine
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Some say it's the devil's blood
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They're squeezin' from the vine
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Some say it's a savior
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In these hard and desperate times
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You see it helps me to forget
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that we're just born to die
Interlude 1
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Verse 2
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I came here like so many did
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to find a better life
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To find my piece of easy street
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To finally be alive
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I knew nothing good comes easy
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All good things take some time
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I made my bed I'll lie in it
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To die in it's the crime
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You can't help but prosper
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Where the streets are paved with gold
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They say the oil wells ran deeper here
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than anybody's known
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Now I packed up all my wife and kid
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And left the folks back home
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See there's nothing in this pay dirt
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The ghosts are all I know
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All the jobs are gone
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They're swimming in the sand
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Praying for some holy water
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To wash the sins from off our hands
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The promise has run dry
Interlude 2
And no one is getting out of here alive
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(Not this time)
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Verse 3
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"In the blessed name of Jesus"
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I heard a preacher say
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That we were all God's children
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That He'd be back, back someday
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I hoped that he knew something as
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he drank that cup of wine
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I didn't have too good a feeling
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as I head out to the night
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I cursed the sky to open
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I begged the clouds for rain
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I prayed all night for water
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For this burning in my veins
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It was like my soul's on fire
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And I had to watch the flames
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All my dreams went up in ashes
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And my future blew away
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They're swimming in the sand
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Praying for some holy water
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To wash the sins from off our hands
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The promise has run dry
Solo 1
And no one is getting out of here alive
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Interlude 3
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Solo 2
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Verse 4
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A man spends his whole life waiting
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Prayin' for some big reward
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But it seems sometimes that payoff
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Leaves you feeling like a dirty whore
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If I could choose the way I'd die
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Make it by the gun or knife
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'Cause the other way there's too much pain
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Night after night after night after night
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Where they swim out in the sand
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Praying for some holy water
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To wash these sins from off our hands
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The promise has run dry
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And no one's getting out of here
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Dry county!
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Oh
Outro 1
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[Fade out]
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