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Straight Time - Bruce Springsteen
D11
Got out of prison back in '86 and I found me a wife
G/B
Walked the clean and narrow
D11
just tryin' to stay out and stay alive
Got a job at the rendering factory, it ain't gonna make me rich
G/B
In the darkness before dinner comes
D11
Sometimes I can feel the itch
A7sus G
I got a cold mind to go tripping across that thin line
D11
I'm sick of doin straight time
My uncles at the evenin' table makes his living runnin' hot cars
G/B
Slips me a hundred dollar bill, says
D11
"Charlie, you best remember who your friends are."
A7sus G
I got a cold mind to go tripping across that thin line
D11
I ain't makin' straight time
G D11
Eight years in, it feels Iike your gonna die
G D11
But you get used to anything sooner or later it becomes your life
Kitchen floor in the evening, tossin' my little babies high
G/B
Mary's smilin', but she watches me
D11
out of the corner of her eye
Seems you can't get any more than half free
G/B
I step out onto the front porch
D11
And suck the cold air deep inside of me
A7sus G
Got a cold mind to go tripping cross that thin line
D11
I'm sick of doin' straight time
G D11
In the basement, huntin' gun and a hacksaw
G D11
Sip a beer, and thirteen inches of barrel drop to the floor
Come home in the evening, can't get the smell from my hands
G/B
Lay my head down on the pillow
D11
And, go driftin' off into foreign lands
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