Chip Taylor & Lucinda Williams - I'll Only Be Me Once | Текст песни

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• Chip Taylor & Lucinda Williams
• I'll Only Be Me Once

I’ll ONLY BE ME ONCE

I’ll only be me once – so I better find out who I am I will only see me once – so I better know just where I stand

And the lights all went down in Norrtalja prison And Matthew kneels to say his prayers But there will be no prayin’ for Lucinda’s David David is no longer here They put him to sleep some six weeks ago For takin’ the life of a young policeman He did a lot o’ good in his next thirty two years And Lucinda prayed that would count for somethin’

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I have shared the stage with bandits and heroes And some saintly poetic pornographers
I have stood shoulder to shoulder With abusers and murderers,
Some pushers and burglars And con men and gamblers
Ah those fools such as I

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Did you walk on by When she cried out for protection Or did you speak up – and were you ridiculed Did you stand shoulder to shoulder With some innocents on the border Like teenager Suzie Diaz Who was knocked down – she was boot smashed By some bastard in El Paso With his spit shine and his ego
And his shiny badge of gold.

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