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Killin' Time (1989)
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Straight from the factory
We were made for each other
One of those things that's meant to be
Straight from the factory
Nothin' less than exactly
You're the only lock that's made to fit my key.

Many parts and many hearts
Been mismatched before
Still they make delivery.
Some folks send 'em back
And never find what they need
But babe my satisfaction's guaranteed.

Straight from the factory
We were made for each other
One of those things that's meant to be
Straight from the factory
Nothin' less than exactly
You're the only lock that's made to fit my key.

---Instrumental ---

Straight from the factory
We were made for each other
One of those things that's meant to be
Straight from the factory
Nothin' less than exactly
You're the only lock that's made to fit my key.

Sittin' tight and sittin' proud
Waitin' on a shove
Passers by just keep on passin' by
I'll admit I did a bit of passin' by myself
Til' I found a perfect fit
And now I'm tied.

Straight from the factory
We were made for each other
Perfect match as anyone can see
Straight from the factory
Nothin' less than exactly
You're the only lock that's made to fit my key.

You're the only lock that's made to fit my key...

. . .


What do you say when it's over?
I don't know if I should say anything at all
One day we're rollin' in the clover
Next thing you know we take the fall

Still, I think about the years since I first met you
And the way it might have been without you here
And I don't know if words from me can still upset you
But I've just gotta make this memory stand clear

I know I'm leavin' here a better man
For knowin' you this way
Things I couldn't do before, now I think I can
And I'm leavin here a better man

I guess I always knew I couldn't hold you
But I'd never be the one to set you free
Just like some old nursery rhyme your mama told you
You still believe in some old meant-to-be

Repeat chorus

Still, I'm leavin' here a better man...

Repeat chorus

. . .


Move slowly to my dresser drawers
Put my blue jeans on
Find my cowboy boots,
my button down
Strap my timepiece on my arm
Grab my billfold, my pocket change
Just a mindless old routine
Then it's out the door and down the street
But it's not really me I still comb my hair the same
Still like the same cologne And I still drive that pickup truck
That the same old bank still owns
But since you left, everybody says I'm not the guy they've known

The lights are on, but nobody's home
Cup of coffee in the morning
Just food for the brain
But I've been numb since our last goodbye
I haven't felt a thing But now there's pains in my head
And pains in my chest
And I think I'm losing my hair I'm a half a man with half a mind
To think you didn't care

Repeat chorus

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Walkin' away I saw a side of you
That I knew was there all along
And that someday I'd say goodbye to you
'Cause one right can still make two wrong

Not for each other, not from the start
The difference was day and night
My finest hour spent here with you in the dark
Was just before I saw the light

It's the people who want love and
the people who need love
Who find love on the way
I'll be lookin' for someone 'til I find the right one
Then I won't be walkin away

Now that I know what I'm tryin' to find
There's only one place it could be
So I'm lookin' ahead, I've stopped lookin' behind
For someone who's lookin' for me

It's the people who want love and
the people who need love
Who find love on the way
I'll be lookin' for someone 'til I find the right one
Then I won't be walkin away

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Just like a rerun movie
I see that scene again
That feeling shoots right through me
'Cause this time I know the end.

And I've seen it played so many times
And I've watched it frame by frame
And I don't have to guess who loses
And I know who'll feel the pain.

You're gonna leave me again
Just like you did the time before
This is the start of the end
The end of me when you walk out that door.

Think I'll go down to the picture show
See if they're playin' somethin' new
Maybe one with a happy ending
And I'll pretend It's me and you.

But I know that it's just make believe
So I won't even try
To tell myself that you're not gonna leave
That you'll never say goodbye

You're gonna leave me again
Just like you did the time before
This is the start of the end
The end of me when you walk out that door...

--- Instrumental to fade ---

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Since before I learned to walk, I've been running
And I could always see the light before the dawn
Somewhere, someone won't even see me coming
And before the see me going, I'll be gone
Now you've got questions I don't care to answer
And I don't get off on leading people on
And It's safe to say I'm no second chancer
And the chances are I don't know right from wrong.

You could never change my mind
And I won't change my ways
And from the start the lines have all been drawn
That I'll just leave you behind
Forgetting all my yesterdays
I said before you see me going
I'll be gone.

--- Instrumental ---

You could never change my mind
And I won't change my ways
And from the start the lines have all been drawn
That I'll just leave you behind
Forgetting all my yesterdays
I said before you see me going
I'll be gone.

I said before you see me going
I'll be gone...

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I spent my lifetime wishin' the waitress would come around
Tellin' jokes and shootin' pool on the other side of town
When the whistle blows at five o'clock there's only one place I'll be found
Down at Ernie's icehouse liftin' longnecks to that good old country sound
And talkin' 'bout the good old times Braggin' on how it used to be
But I've worn out the same old lines

And now it seems nothing's news to me
There's nothin' like a steel guitar cryin' in the night
There's nothin' like a sawdust floor and a good old friendly fight
I'd finally find my way back home and you'd patch up my face
But that was another time and another place

Repeat chorus

And now we're talkin' 'bout the good old times...
I wonder how I came to be the know-it-all I am
And how the world ever got used to me

Repeat chorus

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As past times go I guess I've seen some good
It's not always the best ones come and stay
There's a crowd that thinks there is one, and it should
'Cause they always seem to spend theirs the some old way.

And they call it winding down
The six to ten crowd, smoky bars
Notes on napkins and business cards
Describe the days events and go on home.

And it's likely they won't drown
The price goes up and one more round
They close up all the bars downtown
As the singer plays one last rip roaring song.

It seems like the same ole motions every night
He wants to hear a golden oldie to take him back
And I'll play out all the emotions I can't fight
Relieve the tensions and hope they're on the right track.

And they call it winding down
The six to ten crowd, smoky bars
Notes on napkins and business cards
Describe the days events and go on home.

And it's likely they won't drown
The price goes up and one more round
They close up all the bars downtown
As the singer plays one last rip roaring song.

Honky tonk heroes are turn the page
And the books are closed tonight
'Cause everybody knows you gottta leave'em up
So they'll go home feeling right.

You gotta leave'em up
So they'll go home feeling right...

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You were the first thing that I thought of
When I thought I drank you off my mind
When I get lost in the liquor
You're the only one I find
And if I did the things I oughta
You still would not be mine

So I'll keep a tight grip on the bottle
Gettin' loose and killin' time
This killin' time is killin' me
Drinking myself blind thinkin' I won't see
That if I cross that line and they bury me
I just might find I'll be killin' time for eternity

I don't know nothin' 'bout tomorrow
I've been lost in yesterday
I've spent all my life just dying For a love that passed away
And if there's an end to all my sorrow
And this is the only price I'll pay I'll be a happy man when I go
And I can't wait another day

Repeat chorus

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I've tried livin' it risky
Relied on women and whiskey
To chase my blues, turn my nights to days
First rage only a pastime
With age more than a lifetime
Of day in, day out the world just turns away.

Chorus:
Everybody knows you live and you learn
But the lessons just go on and on
I guess we're gonna have to wait
For all the pages to turn
To find out if it's right or if it's wrong
You live and learn.

I've stopped lookin' for questions
I've got only suggestions
Black and white can only turn to grey
In time we're all gonna find out
Our times all gonna wind out
And just count down until judgement day.

Chorus:
Everybody knows you live and you learn
But the lessons just go on and on
I guess we're gonna have to wait
For all the pages to turn
To find out if it's right or if it's wrong
You live and learn.

You live and learn...

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