it's desert ice outside
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but this diner has taught my ears
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hot coffee in a clean white mug and a smile
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when the waitress hears
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that i was born in north carolina
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not an hour from her hometown
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and we used to play the same pizza bar the pinball
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and there's a glance in time
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suspended as i wonder how it is
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we've been swept up just by certain
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here comes stands to where the kind of lives
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when my days are strips of highway
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and she's wiping tables down
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holding on and still waiting for that windfall
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love
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come home
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even though i've never had so far to go
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yeah i've come home
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pay the check and leave the change
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from a crumpled ten dollar bill
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head across the street where vacancy is burning in neon
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still
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while the night eats up my body heat
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and there's no sign of another
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and i find myself slipping down into the black
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things are good i've got a lot of followers at my feet
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i've got a whole congregation
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living in my head these days
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and i'm preaching from the pulpit to the price of a man
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brother
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closing my eyes to feel the warmth come back
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and i've come home
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even though i swear i've never been so alone
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yeah i've come home
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just hard to be living as i'm dying
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just like everybody here
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just wanna know
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what little flicker of time is worthwhile
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and i don't know
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where i'm driving to but i know i'm getting old
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and there's a blessing in every moment
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every mile
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then white terry bars or soap
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and a couple little plastic cups
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ol' gideons bible and the nightstand draws ain't gold
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and i kneel down on the carpet here
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though i never was sure of god
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and tonight i'll give him the benefit of the doubt
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while i switch off the lights
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and imagine that waitress sunlight in the bed
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her hair falling all around me
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and smiled and shake my head
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well we all write our own endings
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and we all have our own scars
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but tonight i think i see what it's all about
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cause i've come home
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i
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i i
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i've come home
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