I was born in Rochester to a book-making man
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Had a fake cigar shop with the games on in the back
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See them coming and going, let it ride on thoroughbreds
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Police chief and Tom Hall wondering what was the spread
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Carried rich men's bag through the briar
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Trying to chase down a little white ball
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I learned that any soft place wasn't good for me at all
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Daddy'd come home fired up looking for some sort of release
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He beat the hell out of Timmy, Timmy beat the hell out of me
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I would hop the fence out to those government fields
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Run 'til there was nothing more to feel
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Lyin there watching planes just disappear
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Knowing one day I'm gonna fly on out of here
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Well that same police chief came knocking my first freshman day
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Put my daddy in handcuffs and his picture on the front page
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Took every one of his suits and all my dignity
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Walked the halls of Irondequoit waiting for any punk to set me free
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I would hop the fence out to those government fields
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Run 'til there was nothing more to feel
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Lyin there watching planes just disappear
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Knowing one day I'm gonna fly on out of here
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Well I got the call to Vietnam just like everyone else I knew
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So scared of the hand grenades, threw them farther than any other troop
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Came home like an iron fist and Timmy tried to take my keys
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Ripped open his front pocket that was the last time he touched me
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Moved to an island out West, up to Breckenridge
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Met a mermaid on a glass boat and she promised me some kids
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Bought a house in Oregon where you could touch both of the walls
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Had a son named Benjamin and I was so scared of it all
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Benjamin walked in the front room where I was cutting up my hash
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Looked into those deep blue eyes wondering why I'd been so mad
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Flushed a quarter pound down the drain praying for the mercy to confess
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Trying to rip the boy from Rochester right out of my chest
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We're gonna walk right out into those heavenly fields
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Run like there was no more time to steal
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My three boys and the grace of God revealed
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Knowing one day You're gonna take me out of here
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Knowing one day You're gonna take me out of here
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Rochester
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| Mat Kearney |
