Steve Earle – Back To The Wall (Guitar)

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Sometimes in the evenings I start to get that feeling

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Like I'm empty inside

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I know I'm doin' good now but tonight I'm headed downtown

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Down by the riverside

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I sit underneath the freeway with an old friend from the old days

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And a bottle of wine

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He used to call me "Big Time", said he knew someday that I'd shine

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Said he'd seen all the signs he said

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Keep yourself to yourself

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Keep your bedroll dry

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And boy you never can tell

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What the shadows hide

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Keep one eye on the ground

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Pick up whatever you find

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'Cause you've got no place to fall

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When your back's to the wall

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He's gettin' old and it's showin' so I asked him how it's goin'

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He said "I've seen better I guess

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I've been rained on, I've been frozen, but this here's the life I've chosen

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If it just wasn't for the loneliness"

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Now this river suits me to a T. but if you're trying to raise a family

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This it ain't no place to be

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Hell there's a kid down by the dump there, ought to be in grade school somewhere

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Now he hangs out with me, now I told him

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Keep yourself to yourself

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Keep your bedroll dry

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And boy you never can tell

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What the shadows hide

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Keep one eye on the ground

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Pick up whatever you find

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'Cause you've got no place to fall

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When your back's to the wall

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Well we finished off the bottle and I told him "Joe I think

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I ought to be headed uptown

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Well it was late, and I'd been drinkin', drivin' home I got to thinkin'

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'Bout what's been going down

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'Cause they're nervous down on Wall Street, but they're trying to keep it upbeat

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Or maybe they just don't care

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Down at the river eyes are burnin' cause they feel the tables turnin'

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So if you wind up down there

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Keep yourself to yourself

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Keep your bedroll dry

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And boy you never can tell

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What the shadows hide

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Keep one eye on the ground

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Pick up whatever you find

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'Cause you've got no place to fall

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When your back's to the wall