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The Strong Man Charade

1. Sitting at a bar stool, a little white haired man
Making more sense than most, with a shot in his hand
A toast "living a life through regrets"?
Was his way of paying his last respects.

2. My mother was a saint, she carried the ball
She'd reach out to catch me, no matter how hard I would fall
My father couldn't understand, the strength
In her lily white hands

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Johnny be good, Johnny don't lie
Don't hurt nobody, don't fly so high
Make someone smile every day
And never make debts you can't pay

Put your mind in gear, before your mouth goes in motion
Weigh all the facts before you take a notion
Never show your cards out of play
And you'll never regret yesterday

3.She'd bail me out of jail
He'd throw away the key
She'd wait up all night
He'd lock the door behind me
He never knew his words cut so deep
The black, of the lily white sheet

4. I worshiped the strong man, I invited the fight
I sought out the whores, I drank through the night
I'd never come to understand
The strength of the mild mannered man

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5. I was king of my own hill
I had to be my own man
I had a woman who loved me
Who bore me three children, and now
I'm ashamed to tell, of how
I put that woman through hell

6. The sins of the fathers
Will be born by the children
Now two of them dead
And one unforgiving, the hard heart
I passed on like the plague
The curse, of the strong man's charade

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