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I tried trickery on her and I tried kindness on her
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I bought her things that I couldn't afford- keep her around for just one more lifetime
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And I tried to please her too hard sometimes I guess
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And I used to tease her a lot about leaving me

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Only one station was coming in clear and I fine-tuned it til it just disappeared

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from the airwaves. Now when anything's shining like a planet in the night
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or a boxcar from a wino jungle firelight.. or tombstone granite cleaved
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or a fresh idea in a troubled mind then I think I see

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And I try to focus on her silhouette but it's just a shovel where I hung my hat

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Maybe there was something wrong after all Maybe that's how empires fall
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One day they smell like gasoline.... and the next day
they're gone.