God Bless The Absentee

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[Verse 1]
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Lord, I'm a working man and 
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music is my trade
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I'm traveling with this five piece
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 band, I play the ace of spades
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I have a wife and family who don't
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 see much of me
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God bless the absentee

[Verse 2]
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Lord, I am a surgeon and music 
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is my knife
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It cuts away my sorrow and purifies 
my life
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But if I could release my heart 
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and veins and arteries
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I'd say God bless the absentee


[Verse 3]

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I miss my woman so, I miss my bed
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I miss those soft places I used to 
lay my head


[Verse 4]
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My son don't need me yet, his 
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bones are soft
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He flies a silver airplane, he wears
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 a golden cross
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God bless the absentee

[Verse 5]
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Lord, this country's changed so fast
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The future is the present, the 
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present's in the past
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Highways are in litigation, the 
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airports disagree
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God bless the absentee