When you're so long gone, you can't help yourself
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When you're so dead wrong
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Let alone no one else
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Well the children still dying in the streets
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The babies still living with disease
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The cops got guns, the poor folks got sons
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Who work for Mr. Franklin every week
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If you've come looking for hard times
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Hard times ain't hard to find
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Cause we've been given that lifeline
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Only once in a lifetime
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Baby we were born
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Maybe we were born
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To be sure ... to endure
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When the storm comes
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Got them sad eyes
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Got them cat eyes
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Got your angels tired
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From saving your life
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So you would be best
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To contain yourself
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Before you end up killed
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His bare feet
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Touch her bare feet
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The air breaths sweet
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At the mountains peak
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And I forgot
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What the wise man said
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About that ancient thread
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Baby we were born
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Maybe we were born
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To be sure ... to rejoice
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When it succumbs
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Lifeline
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