I used to wake up early every day
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Just to feel the sunrise on my face
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Me and my woman in the front porch swing
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Listenin' to the mornin' mockingbird sing
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Well I woke one day to a screen door slam
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Found a good-bye note on our nightstand
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Next to a coffee cup and a wedding band
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Since then I've been a sunset man
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When I see the sunrise comin' up
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I draw the curtains down
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'Cause the mornin' brings her memory around
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I know it's warm and beautiful and lights up the sky
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But these days it only hurts my eyes
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I don't show my face to the afternoon
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Anything A.M. is just too soon
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'Cause it reminds how she up and ran
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And damned me to be a sunset man
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[Chorus]
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It's hard not to cry but I'll do my best
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And just keep this ole chair facin' west
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Till she puts that ring back on her hand
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I guess I'll always be a sunset man
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Well I'll always be a sunset man
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Yeah I'll always be a sunset man
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Sunset Man
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James Otto |