I'm young and I'm strong
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I've got this God forsaken world by the balls!
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I've got a one-way ticket to freedom
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Ain't got no one now gonna take it from me
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I was a soldier, age twenty-one
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In a war I'm not sure what I was fighting for
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And yet I turned from a boy to a man there
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Goodbye to innocence and a sweet sixteen
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Chorus:
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My whole life I could not arrange
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My wicked ways I could never change
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Don't try, don't try now to understand
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For this is the ballad of a lonely man
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Close to me is a photograph
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Of a family left far, far behind
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At once I had love it slipped away from
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I searched a lifetime but could not find
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In a hospital bed, I'm violently ill
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Just one more drink nurse I swear to God!
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I've got my St. Anthony and my whiskey
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Yes I'm a veteran of three foreign wars!
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Repeat Chorus
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Ballad Of A Lonely Man
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| Mike Ness |
