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    Pissing in a truck stop in Mobile Alabama
    A tape of Molly Hatchet in the back of my pants
    I'm almost of out of money
    So I call my little honey
    Wire me two hundred I'm hitting the boats

    AMC Gremlin circa '74
    Rusted out door with my dog on the floor
    Feeling kinda of lucky with a shotgun blues
    Had a week of the flu now it's time for the house to lose

    Around here they don't use those cellular phones
    Cause everybody's living like it's 1971
    A night on the town is your only salvation
    Heaven is a diner full of burgers, fries, and cokes

    Stomach's full of shit now it's time for a beer
    Now? hot wire that car so we can get down to the boats
    The Louisiana Purchase was a hell of a deal
    So gimme that pair of kings and the queen of hearts

    Just a stranger living and dying
    Day to day my soul keeps searching
    On the road
    Left my home in
    All for piece of mind
    And soon will find the way to where I lost my soul in song
    Road to never ending
    Ending

    Rum is a stupid liquid to drink
    At three in the morning you don't know who you are
    And the honkytonks in bars with smoking steel guitars
    Said a raging headache in ten in the morning

    So throw some cold water on the top of your skull
    You can't remember where those two hundred bills have gone
    A hand of poker all just does me all wrong
    I tell my kids got no food to bring home

    Just a stranger living and dying
    Day to day
    My searching ends upon the road
    Left my home in
    All for piece of mind
    And soon will find the way to where I lost my soul in song
    Road to never ending
    Never ending
    It's ending
    Never ending

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