Loneliness Is My Only True Friend

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[Verse]

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Come mornin' I'll be leavin' for somewhere down the line
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A Cantina in Tiajuana, a roadhouse in Caroline
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I don't know just where I'm bound baby hold me until the dawn
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Trade your tears for coffee grounds, come morning I'll be gone around the bend
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Loneliness is my only true friend

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I might hop a train to Harrisburg or a semi to Detroit
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Or hang out in Nashville under bridges swiggin' port
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Might ride off to St. Louis and make a livin' brewin' booze
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Roll down to New Orleans and let that voodoo wash away my sins
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Loneliness is my only true friend


[Chorus]

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When I'm somewhere in the desert and the wind is turnin' cold
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And I'm starvin' for the pleasure of someone warm to hold
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I will drink my wine and think of you and stare at your Polaroid
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Remembering the love we made and the dreams we destroyed and could not mend
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Loneliness is my only true friend


[Break]

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[Verse]

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I might hide out in Missouri with the ghost of Jesse James
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Or lay up in Los Angeles, I ain't namin' names
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Or phone collect from Philly, Lord when I ain't got a coin
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Just hangin' with old prize fighters stranded in some joint, takin' it on the chin
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Loneliness is my only true friend


[Chorus]

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When I'm somewhere in the desert and the wind is turnin' cold
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And I'm starvin' for the pleasure of someone warm to hold
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I will drink my wine and think of you and stare at your Polaroid
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Remembering the love we made and the dreams we destroyed and could not mend
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Loneliness is my only true friend

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Loneliness is my only true friend


[Outro]

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