Downtown Vcu

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[Verse 1]
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She asked me to dance and then she paused, she was a neighborhood local at her local bar
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With shoulder length brown hair and an accent I found fairly rare
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One part country one part urban thug, total fox

[Verse 2]
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I was out of my element, new to the neighborhood and clearly lacking friends
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Just adding to the mess of white ball caps and red keg cups
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Dropping home values and raising rent

[Verse 3]
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After the pause things became confusing, she asked "are you a real man or a college student?"
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I did not know what to say, I'd started school that very day
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Which is nothing but a big business I suppose

[Verse 4]
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Right then and there my heart did drop, she turned and walked away without a second thought
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I should have listened to my dad
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When he said "work with your hands not your head
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And your billfold will stay full and you won't be paying out debt"

[Verse 5]
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So men the purpose of this song, is to go ahead and pass my father's wisdom on
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Go on and callous up them hands, learns some knots and turn a wrench
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Cause in four years there won't be any jobs left, anyway

[Verse 6]
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If I'd taken my old man's advice
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I might be laid up in the bed beside that fox tonight
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Instead my mouth tastes like jello shooters and i'm lurking here on this darn computer
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Well man that's all I've got, goodnight