Alleyway

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Smoke against the windowpane, just the semis breathing on the interstate
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A gray upon the graying of October
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Hey honey it’s been so long, i got so lost, so far down
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The tracks of an old abandoned rollercoaster
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See the wheels fell off, and the rails all rusted over

[Verse]
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I remember you that night, in the noisy bar, in the yellow light
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The radiating heat between our shoulders
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And i know good things never last, yeah i know that now but i didn’t then
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And i let you lead me blind around the corner

[Chorus]
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But sometimes still at night i dream, an empty bottle in the alleyway
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On a night so clear a billion stars are born
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And each one is a world i guess, of dust and flame and wishes cast
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By lovers hoping love will last til morning

[Instrumental]
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[Verse]
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We tried a while to make it good, you hid the cans, i played the fool
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You got some work, i got sick in the mornings
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But you lost that job, and we got kicked out
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Hey babe, ain’t nothing to cry about
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And you said you’d send some cash from california

[Chorus]
    E                                    Am
But sometimes still at night i dream, an empty bottle in the alleyway
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On a night so clear a billion stars are born
    E                               Am
And each one is a world i guess, of dust and flame and wishes cast
   F                                G
By lovers hoping love will last til morning

[Instrumental]
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[Bridge]
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Now i got work, down the street, cleaning rooms at the super 8
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Sometimes i take the path home by the river
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And i wonder what our daughter’s like, i hope that family treats her right
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And gives her all the things we couldn’t give her

[Instrumental]
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[Verse]
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Now a dream is all that’s left of you, i guess some folks are born to lose
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Some kids are born for someone else’s cradle
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And the days go by, i get along, the air grows cool and the leaves fall
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And the smoke it moves and fades against the window