It's Time To Pay The Fiddler
Cal Smith

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Well It's time to pay the fiddler, 
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and it's sad to know we danced it all away.
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But the warm nights disappearing leaving nothing, 
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But the cold hard light of day.

And it's time to start erasing all the rainbows 
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we've been chasing in our mind.
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We know there's no way of making other 
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ties on us unraveled and unwind.

(Chorus)
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Yes it's time to pay the fiddler 
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and today's the day the first installments due.
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But for the rest of all my days, 
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I wonder why the maker mismatched me and you.

But there's so much to consider, 

like may wife and little children,
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Who need and want my love just like you do.
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Now it's time to pay the fiddler, 

but before we pay the fiddler,
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Let's ask him to please play one last final tune.

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Well it's time to pay the fiddler, 
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there's naked sorry dripping from your eyes.
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Unrestrained and unashamed we loved each other, 
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now we got the leave it lie.

But I can feel my hands a trembling, 
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as I search to find the handle on the door.
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So let's let the fiddler pull his magic bow 
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across our heart strings just once more.

(Repeat Chorus)