Six rain ridden summers and he still had an eye for me

He kissed me each evening and told me he'd die for me

And then he ran off the road, full of whisky and irony 

He always meant what he said


So I took to whisky so I could recall

The taste of his mouth on my mouth, that's all

I tried the same trick with a truck but it stalled

The engine was better off dead


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Oh the nights are long

But life is longer still

Oh the nights are long

But the sun's coming over the hill


The taste never left me and I don't think it will

And it caused me to supplement whisky with pills

But there was something inside that I couldn't kill

Believe me, I really did try


And there's some say you get what you deserve but they're wrong

Sometimes you get what you're given and then it's all gone

And you are lucky if you are sufficiently strong

To daily decide not to die


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I can't say there's many things I wouldn't change

There are better days gone than those that remain

But I can find joy in the sound of the rain 

You have to find joy where you can


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