And Then Some Cifras

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I shook my head as he walked up thought he wanted a couple bucks
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In his ragged clothes and hair down to his shoulders
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But he said I'll bet that you ain't even thirty yet
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You hang your head like your life is almost over
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I said old man leave me alone I just got laid off
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Besides whens the last time you even had a job
 
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He said it was 68, I was about your age in a chopper over Hanoi
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I got shot down and even now I'm afraid to sleep at night
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After 5 long years in a bamboo cage the army calls you crazy
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And takes your wings away I know where you're coming from
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Been there and then some
 
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I said, old man, I'll give you that I never had it quite that bad
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But losing a job ain't all that there is to it
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Three weeks ago my wife moved out, I'd just gotten home from being out of town
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You don't know what that's like till you been through it
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Can you imagine how it feels to hear she found someone
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Then I asked him, whens the last time you lost a love
 
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He said when that C-130 touched the earth on a runway out in Dover
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Man I was coming home had my medals on but she nowhere in the crowd
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When you're MIA two thousand days, she thinks you're dead and your best friend
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Takes your place, I know where you're coming from
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Been there and then some
 
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That old man made me realize that you never give up hope
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He got there in the nick of time with those stories that he told
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And he saved my life, I was going to end it all that night
 
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It's been three years that's why I'm here I don't get paid I'm a volunteer
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I'm living proof you can get your life together
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So don't hang up the phone it ain't worth it son
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Do us both a favor put down that gun
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I know where you're coming from
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Been there and then some
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Been there and then some
 
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