The Ballad Of The Snow Leopard And The Tanqueray Cowboy

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[Verse 1]

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   Comfort me,     says she         with your conversation
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    And a cocktail   And the candlelight in your eyes
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          It's funny how we hunger,          For some inspiration,
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    And everything else that money just won't buy


[Refrain 1]

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    Men have lied,     Many good girls have gone astray just to hear the gypsy

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    play one more lilting cowboy tune                    and as the
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     Rivers run dry and the mountains blow away they sing of lovers and how they
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    Lay 'neath this crazy frontier moon.


[Verse 2]

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   I ain't no golden boy,  and I ain't no Grecian Dancer
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   And a I ain't no loud mouth cowboy from the west
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            I ain't that kinda man,          with all the answers.
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    But I surely know, the songs that suit me best


[Refrain 2]

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           But lately I've had somethin' on my mind, it's growin' stronger all the
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    time, callin' out when I'm alone                       But I'm a
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     Poet, and I'm bound to walk the line, between the real and the sub-
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    lime.  And give the muses, back, their own.


[Break]

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[Verse 3]

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   It's a penny for your thoughts, it's a dollar for your kisses
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      I keep a runnin' tab on the time
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            'Cause what I've got the most of, is what she misses
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    The clock is hers, the hourglass is mine


[Refrain 3]

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    But I'm her lover, not a man bent on revenge, hangin' out here on the
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    fringe, of my native borderlands                 By countin' the
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     Days the sun shone golden 'cross her head, we were lyin' on the banks of the bayeaux's
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    edge, kickin' up some, southeast Texas, sand.


[Verse 1]

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   Comfort me,     says she         with your conversation
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    And a cocktail   And the candlelight in your eyes
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          It's funny how we hunger,          For some inspiration,
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    And everything else that money just won't buy
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    And everything else that money just won't buy
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    And everything else that money just won't


[Outro]

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ritard
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