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[Verse 1]
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Comfort me, says she with your conversation
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And a cocktail And the candlelight in your eyes
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It's funny how we hunger, For some inspiration,
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And everything else that money just won't buy
[Refrain 1]
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Men have lied, Many good girls have gone astray just to hear the gypsy
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play one more lilting cowboy tune and as the
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Rivers run dry and the mountains blow away they sing of lovers and how they
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Lay 'neath this crazy frontier moon.
[Verse 2]
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I ain't no golden boy, and I ain't no Grecian Dancer
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And a I ain't no loud mouth cowboy from the west
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I ain't that kinda man, with all the answers.
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But I surely know, the songs that suit me best
[Refrain 2]
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But lately I've had somethin' on my mind, it's growin' stronger all the
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time, callin' out when I'm alone But I'm a
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Poet, and I'm bound to walk the line, between the real and the sub-
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lime. And give the muses, back, their own.
[Break]
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[Verse 3]
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It's a penny for your thoughts, it's a dollar for your kisses
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I keep a runnin' tab on the time
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'Cause what I've got the most of, is what she misses
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The clock is hers, the hourglass is mine
[Refrain 3]
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But I'm her lover, not a man bent on revenge, hangin' out here on the
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fringe, of my native borderlands By countin' the
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Days the sun shone golden 'cross her head, we were lyin' on the banks of the bayeaux's
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edge, kickin' up some, southeast Texas, sand.
[Verse 1]
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Comfort me, says she with your conversation
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And a cocktail And the candlelight in your eyes
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It's funny how we hunger, For some inspiration,
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And everything else that money just won't buy
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And everything else that money just won't buy
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And everything else that money just won't
[Outro]
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