Bon Jovi - Dry County
J. Bon Jovi Across The Border They Turn Water Into Wine Some Say It's The Devil's Blood They're Squeezing From The Vine Some Say It's A Saviour In These Hard And Desperate Times For Me It Helps Me To Forget That We're Just Born To Die I Came Here Like So Many Did To Find The Better Life To Find My Piece Of Easy Street To Finally Be Alive And I Know Nothing Good Comes Easy And All Good Things Take Some Time I Made My Bed I'll Lie In It To Die In It's The Crime Where The Streets Are Paved With Gold You Can't Help But Prosper Than Anybody's Known They Say The Oil Wells Ran Deeper Here I Packed Up On My Wife And Kid And Left Them Back At Home Now There's Nothing In This Paydirt The Ghosts Are All I Know Now The Oil's Gone The Money's Gone Still We're Hangin' On And The Jobs Are Gone Down In Dry County Praying For Some Holy Water They're Swimming In The Sand To Wash The Sins From Off Our Hand Here In Dry County The Promise Has Run Dry And No One's Getting Out Of Here Alive Where Nobody Cries I Heard A Preacher Say In The Blessed Name Of Jesus That We Are God's Children And He'd Be Back Someday Something As He Drank His Cup Of Wine And I Hoped That He Knew I Didn't Have Too Good Of A Feeling As I Head Out To The Night I Cursed The Sky To Open I Begged The Clouds For Rain For This Burning In My Veins It Was Like My Soul's On Fire And I Had To Watch The Flames I Prayed To God For Water All My Dreams Went Up In Ashes And My Future Blew Away Now The Oil's Gone And The Money's Gone And The Jobs Are Gone Still We're Hangin' On Down In Dry County They're Swimming In The Sand Praying For Some Holy Water To Wash The Sins From Off Our Hand Here In Dry County The Promise Has Run Dry Where Nobody Cries And No One's Getting Out Of Here Alive But It Seems Sometimes Waiting Praying For Their Big Reward Men Spend Their Whole Lives The Payoff Leaves You Feeling Like A Dirty Whore If I Could Choose The Way I'll Die 'cause The Other Way There's Too Much Pain Make It By The Gun Or Knife Night After Night After Night Down In Dry County They're Swimming In The Sand To Wash The Sins From Off Our Hand Praying For Some Holy Water Here In Dry County The Promise Has Run Dry Where Nobody Cries And No One's Getting Out Of Here Alive
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