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Intro

She cooks him ham and ho'cakes

at five thirty every morn

and she does the dishes

and she irons his uniform

And she thinks she might have loved him once,

but that was so long ago

and the rain pours down like a holy waterfall

over the Gulf of Mexico

The boardwalk's deserted

and the beach is all closed down

and the middle school punk rockers

ride their skateboards through the town

And she looks back and she daydreams

about paintin' people she's never seen

just to keep from bein' blue

and she gets home about a quarter 'till four

and she drives her brother to the liquor store

on Ocean Avenue

And I'm parked on the stateline

on this cold November day

and pretty soon I'll be a drivin' fool

somewhere down this lost highway

and I here a voice from my soul's core

sayin' freedom's just a metaphor

you got nowhere to go

and the rain pours down like a holy waterfall

over the Gulf of Mexico

over the Gulf of Mexico

over the Gulf of Mexico

That's about it.

git er done!