i've sung the blues, for every broken hearted lovesick dream for you. i've paid my dues, working hard-sweat, blood and tears for you. so far away, so far away. i've had it all, and lost it all in one blackout night. i want it back, but i just can't seem to get it right. i've sung the blues, for every broken hearted lovesick dream for you. i've paid my dues, working hard-sweat, blood and tears for you. 

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LET IT BE ME

i've been in love, but now i'm waiting don't ever want to worry about a thing i sit at home and i wonder will i rise or will i go under let it be me - if you're lonely let it be me - your one and only let it be me - to satify you let it be me - if your feelin' blue i've seen you around but you don't know me i've watched your life but can't always see i'll try and i'll try girl to love you and when we die you will have loved too you know your friends talk bad about me your folks say it's not suppose to be you know girl your life is going by fast try to make it last 

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STORY OF MY LIFE

high school seemed like such a blur, i didn't have much interest in sports or school elections. and in class i dreamed all day, of a rock 'n' roll weekend and the girl in the front of the room, so close yet so far y'know she never seemed to ntice that this silly schoolboy crush wasn't just pretend. life goes by so fast you only want to do what you think is right. close your eyes and then it's past; story of my life and i went down my old neighborhood the faces have all changed there's no one left to talk to and the pool hall i loved as a kid is now a seven eleven i went downtown to look for a job i had no training, no experience to speak of. i looked at the holes in my jeans and turned and headed back. good times come and good times go, i only wish the good times would last a little longer. i think about the good times we had and why they had to end. so i sit at the edge of my bed i strum my guitar and i sing an outlaw love song. wonderin' 'bout what you're doin' now and when you're comin' back. 

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SICK BOY

sick-boy, in his faded blue jeans sick-boy, black leather jacket seams sick-boy, he's always in trouble with the law don't ya know... sick-boy, he carries a switchblade knife, sick-boy, likes to get into fights. sick-boy, he'll go drinkin' with the boys all night long. sick boys-ohwayoh sick boys-nananana sick boys sick-boy, rides a big motorbike, sick-boy, combs his hair up just right. sick-boy, with tattoos up and down his arms, don't ya know... sick-boy, he's got a girl wrapped around his arm, sick-boy, with his street-like charm. sick-boy, he'll make love to her all night long, don't ya know...

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RING OF FIRE

love is a burning thing and it makes a fiery ring bound by wild desire i fell into a ring of fire i fell into a burning ring of fire i went down, down, down and the flames went higher and it burns, burns, burns the ring of fire the ring of fire i fell into a burning ring of fire i went down, down, down and the flames went higher and it burns, burns, burns the ring of fire the ring of fire the taste of love is sweet when hearts like ours meet i fell for you like a child oh, but the fire went wild i fell into a burning ring of fire i went down, down, down and the flames went higher and it burns, burns, burns the ring of fire the ring of fire i fell into a burning ring of fire i went down, down, down and the flames went higher and it burns, burns, burns the ring of fire the ring of fire and it burns, burns, burns the ring of fire the ring of fire

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BALL AND CHAIN

well it's been ten years and a thousand tears and look at the mes i'm in - a broken nose and a broken heart, an empty bottle of gin well i sit and i pray in my broken down chevrolet - while i'm singin' to myself there's got to be another way take away, take away take away this ball and chain i'm lonely and i'm tired and i can't take any more pain take away, take away never to return again take away, take away take away this ball and chain well i've searched and i've searched to find the perfect life - a brand new car and a brand new suit i even got me a little wife - but wherever i have gone i was sure to find myself there - you can run all your life but not go anywhere well i'll pass the bar on the way to my dingy hotel room - i spent all my money been drinkin' since half past noon - i'll wake there in the mornin' or maybe in the county jail - times are hard getting harder i'm born to lose and destined to fail

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IT COULDA BEEN ME

i got friends who are in prison friends who are dead. i'm gonna tell ya something that i've often said. you know these things that happen, that's just the way it's supposed to be. and i can't help but wonder, don't ya know it coulda been me. i had a good girl, her kisses sweeter than wine. and i had always hoped that someday i'd make her mine. but she ran off and married, that's just the way it's supposed to be. and i can't help but wonder, don't ya know it coulda been me. well the junkie cops of first street, sticks a needle in his arm. no, he never meant to do anyone no harm. but he's buried six feet deep, that's just the way it's supposed to be. and i can't help but wonder, don't ya know it coulda been me. i had me a good girl, her kisses sweeter than wine. and i had always hoped that someday i'd make her mine 

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SHE'S A KNOCKOUT

everywhere she goes people turn their heads she's a knockout everyone wishes she was sleeping in their beds she's a knockout when guys see her comin' they start spending their money she's a knockout but don't you know i'm the only one who can call her honey she's a knockout she's a knockout, she's a knockout she's exotic but not foreign, built like an old cadillac she's a knockout once she's left your life she ain't never comin' back she's a knockout with her black silk stockings and her high-heeled shoes she's a knockout once she's left your life you'll surely sing the blues she's a knockout some friends were tellin' me, just the other day they walk right up to her, they don't know what to say and when she calls me (hear a ring on the telephone) i'll be there waiting for her, sitting at home all alone all alone in the nightclubs baby when the lights shine down she's a knockout when she walks down the aisle ya know her hips begin to sway she's a knockout come on little baby i7ll show yo the way she's a knockout

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A PLACE IN MY HEART

i saw her today, oh god i miss her smile. a pleasant memory of things in life worthwhile. we used to walk and we used to talk we used laugh and we used to cry and there will always be a place in my heart for her. i thought of her today, of years together spent. a pleasant memory of places that we went. 

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DRUG TRAIN

it'll take you as high as the heavens it'll take you to the depths of hell it'll make you friends, it'll take your friends who will never live to tell drug train, drug train the train's first stop is pleasure, the scond stop is fun but in a jail cell baby or a hospital bed you'll need hope 'cuz you ain't got none the train passes through the graveyard may the loved ones rest in peace for the last stop baby is a violent crash and hard times they never cease 

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