Intro: A D A E F#m F#m7
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My friend david was a good kid
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He had my back i always knew he did
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And he was different than most, and maybe i was too
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And hanging out with the in crowd just wasn't our thang
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There was a whole lot more than we could see on these plains
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Well some people just seem to get stuck, and hang around
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It's college or trade school for those with the means
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There's never been any small town dreams for those in between
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Yeah the poor folks they go to work or they go to war
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I did fifteen hundreds days in the corps
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And i got back nothin looked the same anymore
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I got on with the local police, it just seemed to fit
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Things have changed
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By then david had a daughter and a son
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And a wrap sheet to prove all the time that he'd done
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He was just a burned out beat down shell, of my old friend
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And on a three day binge he was speeding through town,
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And i bumped the wailers just to try and slow him down
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He didn't know that it was me, and he took off
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Oh how things change
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And i found his truck in the floodplain upside down
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It was a hell of a rain i didn't know if he'd drowned,
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Or if he died on impact. it must have rolled three times
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Yeah the only thing to make matters worse
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Is that his mama's a late night er nurse
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And he was doa. she just about lost her mind
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David's wife drops by every once in a while,
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And childhood stories always make her smile,
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But somehow we always go back to that day...
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When i found his truck in the floodplain upside down
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It was a hell of a rain i didn't know if he'd drowned,
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Or if he died on impact. it must have rolled three times
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Yeah the only thing to make matters worse
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Is that his mama's a late night er nurse
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And he was doa. she just about lost her mind
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Ain't it the times