Good Thing

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Rachel was a sweetheart with greek letters around her neck on a chain 
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She wasn't really my type, she was beautiful, and I'm kinda vain
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Her mind was closed like a liquor store on Sunday 
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She's tryin to make her ex boyfriend mad  
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It's kinda of a rebound, that's OK 
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She's married with a kid on the way 
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And I'm glad I didn't stand in the way 
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Of a good thing 
 
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Shelby was a stripper and a damn good mechanic and a friend 
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She used to pick me up in her 64 and take me places I'd never been 
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She drank vodka on the rocks in a tall glass 
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Chased with cocaine and her teenage girlfriends 
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I couldn't face her, that's OK
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But now she's living with a girl named Renee 
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Last I heard she was techin' in 'Frisco 
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She's got a good thing 
 
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Alice was a bartender at a place I used to play for a while 
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Some of the girls didn't like she'd get 20 dollar tips with a smile 
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I used to talk to her, try to get in her head 
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We'd just end up drunk in my bed 
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I never knew her, that's OK 
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She's in Vegas making 5 bills a day 
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She said I wasn't too much fun when I was sober 
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And now she's got a good thing 
 
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So here's to the lady who's name it hurts me to say 
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She's the proverbial one that got away 
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She said life is all a young girl has 
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And I can't find my  mine while living in yours 
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I don't blame her, that's OK 
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She's married with a kid and a kid on the way 
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And I'm glad I didn't stand in the way 
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Of a good thing