(Shane MacGowan)
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When I was young
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I watched the cars
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When I was older
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I drank in bars
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When I was young
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I chewed the leaves
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When I was older
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I drank with thieves
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I found a love
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She gave me dreams
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She left me drunk
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In New Orleans
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So cold and lonely
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So all alone
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I wished my heart
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Was made of stone
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I took the cold bright needle
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I used it as a sword
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My eyes have seen the glory of
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The coming of the Lord
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I burned across the delta
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I swam across the ford
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My eyes have seen the glory of
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The coming of the Lord
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When I was a young man
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Standing on this road
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My empty belly
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An aching hole
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An old man said to me
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"Kid don't you know
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That it's the same
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Wherever you go"
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I gambled in two graveyards
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I won against the odds
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With the smiling saints
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And the silent saviours
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With the maggots and the gods
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I cursed the things they showed me
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I could never see again
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And the howling of the wind at night
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I wrote upon the rain
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I found the thing
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For which I prayed
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And came back home
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To the USA
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With a heart of stone
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And now I know
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That it's the same
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Wherever you go
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USA
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| The Pogues |
