Favorite Lyrics

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If this thread were a can, it would be a quite self explanatory can.

I've been listening to Steve Earle's new album a lot recently, so I'll start with him:The Gulf of Mexico (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrACKMKATds)

As for me I dreamed of nothing
Any grander than the day
That I stepped out on the drilling floor
To earn a roughneck's pay.
Then one night I swear I saw the Devil
Crawlin' from the hole
And he spilled the guts of hell out
In the Gulf of Mexico.

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The Oxycontin Blues (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKjfh7RDp8s)

My daddy worked in the coal mine,
‘Till the company shut it down,
Then he sat around and drank hisself blind,
‘Till we put him back underground.

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I Am a Wanderer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95thqSMYgwo)

I am a wanderer, feet on the ground,
Heart on my sleeve and my head in the clouds.
I own the star above some distant shore,
Wandering ever more.

I am a refugee torn from my land,
Cast off to travel this world to its end.
Never to see my proud mountains again
But I still remember them.

I am a laborer, sign 'round my neck:
"Will work for dignity, trust and respect".
Stand on this corner so you don't forget
I haven't had mine yet.

I am a prisoner pacing my cell,
Three steps and back in my corner of hell.
Lock me away and you swallow the key,
But some day I shall be free.

And I'll be a wanderer, feet on the ground,
Heart on my sleeve and my head in the clouds.
I own the star above some distant shore,
Wandering ever more.