All night long and nobody knows
They try to love you but you slip away,
Forgiveness is a shallow well
What you're given is all you've got
The way you look and the way you smell
Try to love you but you slip away
You can't go home again for shame
Try to make it in a border town
Running tar to hotel rooms
and the sailor boys, they call you down
They try to love you but you slip away,
Try to love you but you slip away,
Try to love you but you slip away,
Even when the deal goes south
You never figure yourself
Confederacy is the easy way out,
but you take your freedom to your grave and slip away,
They try to love you but you slip away,
They try to love you but you slip away,
Your uncle came and picked you up
He was toe -tagged and skin -and -bone
He took you back to Shasta Lake
But nobody ever took you home
You slipped away, you slipped away
You try to love you but you slip away,
You try to love you but you slip away,
You try to love you but you slip away,
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