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verse 1
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He drinks orange juice and vodka in the basement while she’s talkin’
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To someone, long distance, for hours and hours on end
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And as he slowly sipping he thinks about his children
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And the heart attacks that youngest daughters always giving him
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He ain’t smoke no marijuana since he got on with the railroad
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And he’s been on with the railroad for a long and loathsome while
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But the day that he retires he will smoke himself to China
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He will leave behind his worries as he’s racing through the sky
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verse 2
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She sells Avon to her buddies and saves a little money
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On the makeup she’s been using to hide away the years
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And she sits and watches TV usually every evening
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If there aint some kind of ball game her daughter has to cheer
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She sneaks menthols in the morning while her family’s still a-snoring
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And as she burns the echoes she looks back at her life
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That heart she broke in high school he’s singin’ on the Opry
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She wonders what the hell that she was thinking at the time
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Oh the days are dark down in the holler
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Waitin’ for the sun to shine
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On the back you’ve been breaking
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Trying to earn peace of mind
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verse 3
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Their youngest daughter Stella she’s been running with this fella
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That he can not stand the thought of that he surely does despise
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He’s told her he’d best never see the two of them together
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But its hard to keep an eye on her when you’re working all the time
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There are things he needs to tend to and the bills the bank keeps sendin’
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Lord the zeros on the end keep pushing further to the right
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Like a freight train haulin’ sorrow and moving ever onward
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Through the tunnel of forever towards the never ending light
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Oh the days are dark down in the holler
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Waitin’ for the sun to shine
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On the back you’ve been breaking
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Trying to earn peace of mind
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Trying to earn peace of mind