Ryan Adams – At Home With The Animals (Guitar)

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While you were reading your black Bible in the sun,

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I was drunk half out the window

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of a moving city bus

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Wilder than the devil

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like a tiger in the brush

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Louder than an atom bomb

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That you could only hush

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Spinning like the earth and moon

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So close but never touched

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Of all the ways I wanted to be loved

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You were not enough

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While your head was bowed and hands praying to God

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I was swinging from the chandeliers

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Like some endangered animal

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somewhere in New Orleans on the run

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Like I just won the lottery

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With god knows what inside of me

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Hair a mess and shoelaces undone

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Of all the ways I wanted you

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You were not the one

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While they were teaching you how Moses split the sea,

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I was in an airplane bathroom doing speedballs off the sink

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High as any angel

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Moving at the speed of sound

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Someplace over Germany moving through the clouds

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Winking back at stewardesses plying me with Ale,

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Big hooped golden earrings

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staying at the same hotel

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Of all the ways I wanted you to hold me,

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I could not be held

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While you were waiting for the doctor in the chair

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I was stoned riding the cyclone at the Onslow county fair

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The stars above us sparkled

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Like they didn't pay the bill

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Smokes behind the haunted house

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Chugging stolen beers

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cotton candy kisses underneath

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Of all the ways you wanted me to feel

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I could never heal

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While you were waiting in the depot for the train

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I was asleep on stolen cargo

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In the back of someone's plane

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Halfway back to Florida

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from Cuba in the rain

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Low enough to feel the water from the sea spray on the waves

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Underneath the radar hauling crates of pure cocaine

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Hungover and laughing

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High above the Everglades

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Of all the ways I wanted to be tamed

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I was just insane

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While you were waiting in the lobby for your man

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I was working at the circus as a garbage man

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Remembering that winter

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You were in a long black coat

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Now I'm at home with the animals

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Knife at my own throat

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We hear the bells of freedom but the genes all just say no

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If I was the Titanic

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You were pink clouds and blue smoke

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Rising over Hemingway

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In an old man's fishing boat

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Of all the things I wished that you were now

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You are not around