Hard To Believe

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We got old time bars still standing
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 on downtown city streets
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  Old ladies serving drinks inside
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 with no color in their cheeks
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Listening to a Haggard song you 
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can put your old blue collar on
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Old Milwaukee on Christmas Eve 
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it's hard to believe

Street girls hop from foot to foot, 
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trying to keep warm
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Trying to pay down a few bills 
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before the next big storm
On a corner, trembling in the wind, 
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amazed at the mess they're in
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Wipin' their noses on their sleeve
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 it's hard to believe

I swore I'd leave the day they 
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knocked that old smokestack down
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There's a guy I need to talk to 
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before I quit this town
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Drivin' past the prison yard still 
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got my old Teamsters card
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Still hopin' on my reprieve it's 
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hard to believe

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When I looked into her smiling eyes
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 I saw a dream so fine
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Like the Spirit of Chicago on a 
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lonesome old railroad line
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I would have gone with her that day
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 I just watched her as she drove 
away
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I guess one of us had to leave it's
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 hard to believe

Solo
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Here comes another blown up kid 
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from over there
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Making the whole world safe for 
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the millionaires
Same old swindle hides behind a 
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fresh new coat of lies
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This is no time to be naive it's 
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hard to believe

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We got old time bars still standing
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 on downtown city streets
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  Old ladies serving drinks inside
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 with no color in their cheeks
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Listening to a Haggard song you 
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can put your old blue collar on

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It's another New Years Eve it's 
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hard to believe
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It's hard to believe