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The in- laws are waiting
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The cell phone keeps ringing
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?don?t answer it hon?
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The whole thing?s arranged
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And it?s am ateur day
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like a half load of pipe
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All safe in their car seats
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they fuss and they gripe
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Well you can?t hardly blame ?em it must be a
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bitchCounting the crosses off down in the ditch
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This one?s got flowers,
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this one?s got a wreath
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This one?s got a name
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painted down underneath
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Was the road all iced up,
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were they going too fast
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Here?s five in a circle left
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from the last hol iday
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Holiday
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There?s a three-
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trailer rig just a throwin? up spray
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Not legal to run on this kind of a day
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But god damn the smokies
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and the four wheelers too
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Stay offa my bumpers or the same
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There?ll be none for him
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He that wants it the most
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As he hauls it on out to the Oregon coast
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No turkey no gravy no
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You just stay over right and
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grandkids but he?s off on a run
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radio singing his song
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But it don?t make a damn
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He?s in for a long holiday
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granny she?s yelling
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She?s havin? conniptions
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But she?s got ?em all gathered
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With her camcorder loaded
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But do you have to wear that
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Well I just don?t see why
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Please pass the potatoesAw eat
shit and die
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Did you hear about Ellen,
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she?s leaving, you know
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How ?bout those Packers,
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think it?ll snow?
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And the minute it?s over
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they?ll scatter like quail
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Off down the freeway in the teeth of a gale
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Silent and shattered And
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They count themselves lucky
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They
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got through one more holiday
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Holiday
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The highway
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He stands
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He just lets it run down to
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Of the blood on his pant leg
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From working that wreck
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And he won?t forget it
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Departing Chicago at 9:52
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In clean desert camo all baggy and loose
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Sits an Iowa Guardsman
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The place sure looked different,
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When he traveled with mom,
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To visit some kin,
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he?s forgotten their names
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But he remembers the soldiers,
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still in their teensIn their spit polished boots and their pressed army greens
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With the creases so sharp,
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and their faces so smooth
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But their eyes looked so heavy,
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he wondered how they could move
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Now he?s got that same look,
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like his insides are black
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He?s in his mid forties and he has to go backAnd he
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can?t even smoke while he waits for his plane
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The uniform?s different,
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but the mission remains
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To do like they tell you,
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so don?t think too much
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shut up and drive
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If you come apart later,
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well at least you?re alive
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you can deal with it then
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And life will be better,
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?Cause there?s something inside us that won?t let us beIn
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stalks through our days ?til it?s too dark to see
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And it?s damn near as deadly
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Lord don?t they beat all
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Y?all
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have a nice holiday
Outro 1
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