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Verse 1

  Well he woke up that mornin' and he called into work

  Put on his daddy's old suit with a 2nd hand shirt

  All un-tucked, shoes un-tied

  People all snickered as he walked by

  So he stopped into a bar and bought a shot of Stephen's

  And another

  He bummed a cigarette instead of talkin' with a stranger

  About the weather

  And then he paid his bill and he stepped outside

  And fell down into the street

  He cursed and he cried as he climbed back up to his

  feet again

Verse 2

  So up the road he found a payphone and called his mom

  He said Mom I think I'll be coming home

  I've been feeling so bad, I'm tired of this city.

  Ain't been the same since I lost my pretty

  Angeline, and Mom I miss her

  so.

  It's been over a year and there ain't nothin' I fear

  So much as being alone.

  And then he hung up the phone without saying good bye

  Stopped in the store and bought a postcard and signed it

  Fare the well, and sent it back home

  To Yuma.

(Instrumental transition)

Bridge

  Looking back I'd say,

  It wasn't so much the girl

  As it was the booze and the dope

  And the way he took the weight of the world up upon his

  Shoulders

  And then he washed the blue from his eyes as he grew

  colder

  After all those lonely nights there left alone.

(Instrumental transition)

Verse 3

  So he was just 23 when he stepped out on that ledge

  It was his weary heart that pushed him to the edge

  He was tired of living life, looking for love.

  A weary heart just needs a little touch

  And it is too much to ask, he cried as he stepped into the

  wind.

  He turned his back on the world and he fell back to earth

  again.

  So with the wind in his hair and a smile on his face

  He crashed through the hood of an Oldes 98

  And he lay there and died on a cold winter's day

  All alone

  All alone.

--crookedpath