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There's trouble on the street tonight
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I can feel it in my bones
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I had a premonition
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That he should not go alone
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I knew the gun was loaded
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But I didn't think he'd kill
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Ev'rything exploded and the
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Blood began to spill
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So baby here's your ticket
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Put the suitcase in your hand
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Here's a little money now
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Do it just the way we planned
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You be cool for twenty hours
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And I'll pay you twenty grand
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I'm sorry it went down like this
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Someone had to lose
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It's the nature of the bus'ness
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It's the smuggler's blues
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Smuggler's blues
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The sailors and the pilots
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The soldiers and the law
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The payoffs and the ripoffs
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And the things nobody saw
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No matter if it's heroin, cocaine or hash
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You've got to carry weapons
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Cause you always carry cash
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Thre's lots of shady characters
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Lots of dirty deals
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Ev'ry name's an alias
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In case somebody squeals
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It's the lure of easy money
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It's gotta very strong appeal
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Perhaps you'd understand it better
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Standin in my shoes
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It's the ultimate enticement
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It's the smuggler's blues
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Smuggler's blues
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See it in the headlines
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You hear it ev'ry day
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They say they're gonna stop it
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But it doesn't go away
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They move it through Miami
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Sell it in L.A.
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They hide it up in Telluride
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I mean it's here to stay
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It's propping up the governments
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Of Columbia and Peru
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You ask any D.E.A. man
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He'll say there's nothin we can do
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From the office of the President
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Right down to me and you
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Me and you
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It's a losing proposition
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But one you can't refuse
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It's the politics of contraband
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It's the smuggler's blues
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Smuggler's blues
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Smugglers Blues
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Glenn Frey |