There's a high wind blowin, & the stars are shining bright,
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Oh what a night, this is gonna be--
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I think I'll let the world sleep without me.
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I got one eye open, one eye closed.
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& my thin body's trembling beneath the bedclothes,
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My hearts beatin' against the roof of my mouth
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--It's almost time to get out of this house.
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I got one hand on the radio, one hand on the wheel,
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I got my right foot on the floorboard,--
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& I'm preparing to kill or be killed.
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There's a high wind blowin', & the stars are shining bright.
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& the rain upon the tarmac,
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--helps me sail through the traffic lights,
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I'm heading down to the dock of the bay,
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--to feel the power of the waves,
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I'm gonna move up close to that wind,
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& wrestle with the thoughts solitude always brings.
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Y'see I'm stuck between hell & the deep blue sea,
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& I know that water's sucked under better man than me,
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I was just another western guy,
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--with desires that couldn't be satisfied,
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So one day, I asked the angels for inspiration,
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--but the devil bought me a drink,
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& he's been buying them ever since,
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he's had the liquor on my tongue
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--feel like the sea upon the sand,
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he's had me signing confessions
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--from this shaking hand,
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he's had me struggling to hang onto hope--
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Like a drunken sailor in a tugboat
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with a bottle of vodka in my overcoat,
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& my dog eared bible lost--overboard
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Y'see he tricked me into temptation,
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So I've tricked him into this confrontation,
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I never said I was the man I appeared to be
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not the flesh wrapped around the bones of necessity.
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Or the soul on fire--scribbling thoughts for posterity.
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I'm gonna have little lucifer, runnin' off to purgatory,
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--with his tail between his legs,
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I'm gonna teach him a lesson
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--he ain't ever gonna forget.
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All the vultures & crows are fixin up some tombstones
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but they won't be chewing the meat off my bones.
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There's a high wind blowin' & the stars are shining bright.
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Me & him are gonna have a little knife fight,
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--in the bowels of the big city skyline,
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Oh this feelin' inside runs dark & deep
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--Tonight my hearts not thumping
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--A Mercy Beat
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I was just another western guy,
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with desires that couldn't be--satisfied.
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The Mercy Beat
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