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I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.

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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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Love One Liner Yourself
I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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Lying Myself Past Secret
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Air Interest Song
I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
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Ideas Insect Lying Myself See
I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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Money Myself
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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Herself Learning Woman
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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Dumb Intelligence Mental
I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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Detail Intimate Myself Perfection Problem Thinking
I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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Food High Myself Table Trade
I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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Late Myself Ride
I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
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Myself Prayer Religious
Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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Fall Kind Yourself
The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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Bible Devil Hands Himself Religious
I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
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Couple Myself Song Thinking Weather
Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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Head Rain

I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.

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I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.

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