Terrible Thing

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The parking lot is rammed with shotgun pickup trucks 
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At the Jones Rubber plant where all the guys end up 
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Beer-drinking boy scouts living life like they ain't stuck 
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On these quicksand streets with their girls in a sling 
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I'm in my bedroom on the verge of a terrible thing 


 
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Around here, we all take up our cross and hang on His holy name 
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But the cards that I was dealt will get you thrown out of the game 
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Hey momma, can't you see your boy is wrapped up in the strangle silk 
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Of this cobweb town where culture is king? 
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I'm in my bedroom on the verge of a terrible thing 


 
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I close my eyes     and think of the water 
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Out at the Salt Creek     when I was young 


 
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Down at Old Mill Park, half the town's in tow 
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To crown the Bathing Beauty of the rodeo 
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While her mother fights back proud tears a young cowboy gives the nod 
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The chute opens, bull draws blood, and the gift is accepted by God 
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The chute opens, bull draws blood, and the gift is accepted by God 
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In this barbed wire town     of barbed wire dreams 
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I'm in my bedroom on the verge of a terrible thing 


 
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I close my eyes     and think of the water 
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Out at the Salt Creek     when I was young 
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I close my eyes     and think of the water 
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Out at the Salt Creek     when I was young