Drive-By Truckers – When Walter Went Crazy (Guitar)

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When Walter went crazy, she was sitting on the couch

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Painting her toenails and drinking a Tab

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He walked out of the bedroom with a cigarette in his mouth

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And he poured gasoline in a circle all around the house

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When Walter went crazy, he had rattlesnake in his eyes

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Blended whisky in his veins and murder in his heart

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She watched him walk out the door and knew that he was gone

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Matlock on the TV and her mama on the phone

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When Walter went crazy, they say that he just snapped

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It had gone on for so long, and she wasn't coming back

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She hadn't been off the couch in at least a dozen years

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Deafened by the silence and the grinding of the gears

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His friends could see it coming like yellow piss on snow

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Like a house fire in the distance, like a car crash in slow-mo

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His friends could see it coming, but what could some folks do

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Speeding down the runway with the brake line's cut in two

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When Walter went crazy the house went up in flames

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You could see his hands shaking from the bourbon and the shame

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He never planned the ending, he just rolled the credit names

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The lights came up we all went home, but never quite the same

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The lights came up we all went home, but never quite the same

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The lights came up we all went home, but never quite the same