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Painfully Sober

from Painfully Sober EP by Paul Waggener

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ccez I crossed the Rio Grande one night and went straight to Boy's Town; the morning I left was a year later. In this song there is the truth.
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After 3 damn months of blindness and ruin, I woke up down with a slight case of dyin. Bitter smile on my face, with my laughin days through, just some worn out memories o me an you.
Well, I gotta keep walkin til my boots fall apart, you were so right for me, this whisky's breakin my heart. But you're still on my mind with someone else in my arms, and I'd give anything just to drown these sorrows.
But I'm painfully sober now, and I can't hold out like this for very much longer, each hollow day passes, that old thirst gets stronger. The devil's holdin my hand, he gonna lead me astray- an I'm goin with him no matter how many prayers my mama can pray.
Blaze Foley record playin make it so hard to breathe, but my eyes are still on fire, bloody heart on my sleeve.
I'll keep buildin up walls made o liquor an wine, cause I aint gonna feel like this one more time. So no matter where you are in this godforsaken place, I'll be drunk on regret and weak and crippled with hate. You're like the knife in my back as well as the hole in my arm, tryin to hold on to life but just not givin a goddamn.

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from Painfully Sober EP, released August 19, 2014

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