Key: A
Introduction:
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Me and a big Dave were just trying to stay upright
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We were chasing white lines and warping our minds last night
We were killing the time though we sure didn't know it
D
Hunting down rhymes with a Kentucky poet
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Me and big Dave were just trying to stay alive
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There's some folks around town
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That might cuss our names down to the floor
They might claim that were loners
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No account stoners and more
It's the same kind of people claim to be chosen
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Their ears made of stone and their tongues made of poison
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The doctrine they preach has got nothing that they can teach me
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Well I don't know if Dave hates the same kind of hate that I do
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He knows that I know that he's been cut down by it too
Well people get talking 'bout things that we uses
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I ain't in the business of making excuses
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Me and big Dave were just trying to stay alive
This whole world's full of ghosts
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That I believe that most folks can't see
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The particular demons that reason with big Dave and me