| All that I felt on the first time it happened
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| Was the feeling of something bad coming true
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| One day I was happy, one day I was laughing
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| Then, somewhere a chain snapped; |
| like that, I was loose
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| Why don’t anything give me the joy that it used to?
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| Why don’t anything feel as real as it once was?
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| I feel so sad but that ain’t how I choose to
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| It shouldn’t have to hurt so bad but it does
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| Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
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| Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
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| Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
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| Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
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| It was a summer night when I found my religion
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| I was under the tent, I was struck by the palm
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| And the Holy Spirit rained down upon me a vision
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| And I felt better a little while but then it was gone
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| I went to the mountain then I went to the cavern
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| I washed myself in the river and I waited on love
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| But I was lonely and dark as the moons around Saturn
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| Yeah, darkness for miles was all that there was
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| It was after the Lord and me parted ways that I found her
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| And she was taking pictures of people who came in to the mall
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| And she took my portrait as well as she could do
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| With someone who seemed to be not there at all
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| I stayed with her a while and I called myself happy
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| I clung to her hands, and her hair, and her mouth
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| But like every man who finds out he is drowning
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| I held on to her hard until I just wore her out
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| Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
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| Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
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| Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
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| Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
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| So I took off south like the beat of a bat wing
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| I fell in with this boat salesman and a kid
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| One carried the nails for his own crucifixion
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| The other one seemed to screw up whatever he did
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| The kid always loved me like I was his neighbor
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| He asked all about me and my life on the road
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| And the boat salesman, when he found out he wasn’t a savior
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| Shot himself in the head in a Key West Payday Loan
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| I got jobs and I lost them like the beat of a drummer
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| Who lost sleep, and got drunk, and couldn’t see through his tears
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| And just how I survived, I cannot even remember
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| But I know that it lasted a couple of years
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| I moved down deep into the jungle during those days
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| I existed on oranges and oxygen
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| But I carried the sadness against which even the old ways
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| Reached their limits of power and could not defend
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| Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
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| Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
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| Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
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| Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
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| Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
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| Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
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| Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
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| Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream
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| I wandered through temples covered over with Saints' days
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| I wandered through drug labs and kidnaps and graves
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| I tried my best to meet death by the jaguar or AK
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| But I was covered over with grief and by this, I was saved
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| When I was up, I saw the connection between all of all things
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| When I was up, I was so high up above
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| That the world appeared to me electric and thrilling
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| With a fineness of lightning and the sweet milk of love
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| When I was down, the whole world melted
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| In burning black plastic wherever I chanced to be
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| And off that, I was judged with some kind of a tragic
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| Mistake that had somehow crawled out of the sea
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| How long until I’m free of these devils that bind me?
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| How long until I live the life that I have?
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| Can I outstrip a creator who searches and finds me
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| Then leaves me with the demons that I already have?
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| Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
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| Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
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| Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
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| Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
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| I went to the doctor who sent me to a doctor
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| Who sent me to a doctor who sent me to a room
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| And that’s where I waited with the world ending around me
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| And the voices in my head jangling 'round in a tomb
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| She gave me a bottle and I took what was in it
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| The stuff in my bloodstream started to rattle and fizz |
| And I know that they’re working but the devil is still down there
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| I tell myself that it’s better and sometimes it is
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| What else is there to say but to tell you that I love you
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| I haven’t seen much of the world but I know
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| That there aren’t any others who know me like you do
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| And your comfort seems to follow me wherever I go
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| I know you’re no cure for the darkness inside me
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| But it feels better just to know that you’re near
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| And your patience, your joy, and your strength are astounding
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| And I know that without you, I wouldn’t be here
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| I know that without you, I wouldn’t be here
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| And I know that without you, I would not be here
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| I know that without you, I wouldn’t be here
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| I know that without you
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| Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
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| Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
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| Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
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| Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
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| Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
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| Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
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| Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
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| Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
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| Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
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| Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
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| Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
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| Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
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| Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
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| Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
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| Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
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| Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
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| Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
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| Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
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| Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
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| Dreams a-keep a-coming but the dream done gone
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| Yeah |