| The cherry gum would cover up the cigarettes we smoked
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| The 7-Up would balance out the beer
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| Mom would make us dinner, and we’d all try not to choke
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| Dad was working later every year
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| We count the trucks on Highway 1 on their way to Jacksonville
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| Wonderin' where they headed on from there
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| My brothers and my sister all stood spiritually still
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| As if those roads became the answers to their prayers
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| But I didn’t want it any other way
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| This town was the one thing that felt right
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| All these tourists could be kings during the day
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| But not in St. Augustine at night
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| I was working at the bait shack, supplying all the fishing tours
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| Pretty soon I was chartering a boat
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| My dad said I needed dumb luck and a secret stash of Coors
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| If I stood a chance at keeping things afloat
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| That’s when my girlfriend told mem «There's a baby on the way
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| And I need to know you’re gonna go to bat.»
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| Well, I never put off 'til tomorrow the things I shoulda done today
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| No, I’ve always waited way longer than that
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| I have never had much say in how I felt
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| I’ve been guided by my barroom appetites
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| So if this world belongs to everybody else
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| Just leave me St. Augustine at night
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| The Lord must really love us common folk
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| 'Cause he made so goddamn much
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| Now, if he’d just point the way to go
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| If he’d could just start speaking up
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| Our oldest brother left this world for leading one too many lives
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| I guess he settled for none at all
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| The rest of us just grew apart and blamed our husbands and our wives
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| When anyone was asked why they don’t call
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| And life became a series of birthdays, cars, and pets
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| Just anything to look forward to
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| I don’t talk about mistakes. |
| I don’t talk about regrets
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| At this point, I’m not sure what good it would do
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| But I’m not asking for anybody’s help
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| As I gaze out where the stars dance with the lights
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| If I’m not sure how I feel about myself
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| I still got St. Augustine at night
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| I still got St. Augustine at night |