I wasn't born to no rich mans home
always spent most of my time alone
some folks'll say they never saw me smile
that I was born to old - to be a child

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but for a while there was you
strong enough to pull me through
for a while there was you
sometimes that past's - too hard to lose

with a face that never bore no stress
it was the way you smoked that cigarette
lived life in the present tense
but in your eyes i was just a child
when you lost your job and went out west
oh you went out there on weightless steps

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[bridge]
you were called the tragic sister giving nothing but a sigh
though the winter on the river overshadowed your goodbyes
spending late nights by the mirror, ain't the snowfall left you sleepless
burning money like a picture all that's left right now is time

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