Wish I Hadnt Stayed So Long

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Shooting stars and whiskey bottles 
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all scattered across the yard
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I'd have stayed back home in 
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Houston if I'd known it'd be this 
hard
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Ah but as it is I'm busted broke 
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down across the bay
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And I might not make December if 
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we keep carrying on this way
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Pretty girls and deep depressions 
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keep falling from the sky
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I got all the time in heaven but 
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no sense to wonder why
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And the nights have all gone crazy 
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and the bars have all shut down
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One day I swear I'll blow it all, 
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pack up, and leave this town


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And sometimes I get so tired of 
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telling right from wrong
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Hey, I'm glad I came, just wish I 
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hadn't stayed so long


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Here I am in Music City, long 
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nights and neon signs
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And I can't seem to remember what 
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I came so far to find
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Police cars and paper money motel 
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rooms and cigarettes
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Yeah, they tell you, you ain't 
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nothin' just in case you might 
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forget
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I can hear the country music in the
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 window up above
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Do they do it for the money, do 
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they do it for the love?
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Bourbon eyes and stolen pistols 
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seems all that comes my way
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I'm gonna burn down all my 
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bridges, grab a car, and drive away


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And sometimes I can't believe I 
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did all that for a song
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Hey, I'm glad I came, just wish I 
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hadn't stayed so long


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We could make Louisiana in two 
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hours' time
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We could pull off of the highway 
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by the big casino sign
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We could take up all our wishes and
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 bet 'em all on black
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Hit the lights of Mississippi with
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 the south wind at our back


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And it's always been the same down 
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every road I've gone
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Hey, I'm glad I came, just wish I 
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hadn't stayed so long