[Intro  ]

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And I've been carrying my trouble, in this pack strapped to my shoulder, ever since I was a baby  

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I've been running from everything I know 

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Don't you tell me 'bout my trouble, nobody knows about my trouble,nobody knows about my trouble,  

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except for my baby and me 


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I was born a cowboy, way out west in New Mexico,but times were tough we had to let it go, we  

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moved to town but they couldn't move it outta me 

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It's way down in my blood, thicker than anyone understood, nobody thought that i ever would,    

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get away with the trouble in me  
  
            


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And I've been carrying my trouble, in this pack strapped to my shoulder, ever since I was a baby  

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I've been running from everything I know 

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Don't you tell me 'bout my trouble, nobody knows about my trouble,nobody knows about my trouble,  

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except for my baby and me 


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Well, it didn't take too long, for the pills and the bottom of a bottle, to dig a deep grave  

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with a shovel and bury everything that a young boy needs 

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But I found me a guitar, one lonley night in a border town, the pain I started to write it down, 
   
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but it wouldn't stay away from me 



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And I've been carrying my trouble, in this pack strapped to my shoulder, ever since I was a baby  

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I've been running from everything I know 

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Don't you tell me 'bout my trouble, nobody knows about my trouble,nobody knows about my trouble,  

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except for my baby and me 


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Well, I got the hell outta there, I made my way up to the big town, checked myself into the lost  

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and found and  what d'ya know my baby'd come for me 

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But now I'm living the good life, away from all of your bad advice,take every day like it's a  
          
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paradise so people stay away from me 

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And I've been carrying my trouble, in this pack strapped to my shoulder, ever since I was a baby  

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I've been running from everything I know 
       


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Don't you tell me 'bout my trouble, nobody knows about my trouble,nobody knows about my trouble,  

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except for my baby and me