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Intro 1
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Verse 1
alone
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Where no- one knows your name
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Is like laying in a graveyard
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Wide awake
You're scared that if you cough or yawn
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You might wake up the dead
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So pretend to read a paper
Verse 2
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I'm a stand- up comedian
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But I'd sit down if I could
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The world just seems
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To want folk like me to stand
And the punch- lines seem to disappear
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Like clouds across the sky
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And the laughter could be real
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Or could be canned
Verse 3
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Whiskey by the jar
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Verse 4
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Well living with a lying man
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Could never really hurt
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But living with a drunk
Well no- one deserves
And you're looking for your
husband
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You're not sure he's still alive
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Don't bother with the cemetery
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He'll be down at liar's dive
Verse 5
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I'm a traveling businessman
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I just stopped in for one drink
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That I'm not like the other men
Their noses are red
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Whilst mine is only pink
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And they didn't choose their drink
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Their drink chose them
Verse 6
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Whiskey by the jar
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At Li ar's Bar
Verse 7
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And the grave-
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At his re flection in his spade
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He's visiting the seediest
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The shallowest of graves
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The vocal chords of elephants
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And the characters of mice
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They're singing "whiskey,
whiskey"
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So good they named it twice
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Verse 8
Well don't pass buildings with lights on
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If I said that I did I'd have lied
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'Cause what looks like a
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Chinese restaurant
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May have Chinese New Year inside
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And son all my life I've been searching
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The bars I've been in I forget
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The lights outside ever brighter
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But a light on the inside not yet
Verse 9
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Whiskey by the jar
At Liar's Bar
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Verse 10
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And he's a world- wide traveler
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He's not like me or you
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But he comes in mighty regular
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For one who's passing through
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That one came in his work clothes
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He's missed his last bus home
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He's missed a hell of a lot of buses
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For a man who wants to roam
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Verse 11
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If I look rough I am rough
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If I look broke I am broke
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Just a broke down piece
of man
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Verse 12
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I've turned over enough leaves
To fill an autumn
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And if I had one final wish
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I'd be your slave for a decade
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If you could take me away from this
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If you took me away from this
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I'd be different you'd see
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'Cause I didn't choose the drink
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A drink just chose me
Verse 13
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Whiskey by the jar
At Liar's Bar
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Verse 14
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Well I'm smoking like
a chimney
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And I'm drinking like a fish
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