Johnny Paycheck
An Old Violin



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Well I can't recall one time in my life, 
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I've felt as lonely as I do tonight. 
 
I feel like I could lay down, 
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And get up no more. 
 
Its the damnedest feelin',  
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Tonight I feel like an old violin. 
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Soon to be put away and never played again. 
 
Don't ask me why I feel like this,  
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Hell, I can't say. 
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I only wish this feeling would just go away. 
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I guess its 'cause the truth is the hardest thing I ever faced, 
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'Cause you can't change the truth in the slightest way. 
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I tried.... 
 
 
 
So I asked myself...I said John, 
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Where do you go from here? 
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Then like a damn fool I turned around and looked in the mirror, 
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And there I saw an old violin. 
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Soon to be put away, and never played again. 
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So one more time, just to be sure, 
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I said John, where in the hell do you go from here? 
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And you know there wasn't a nickel's worth of difference, 
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When I looked in the mirror. 
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Thats when I knew. 
 
 
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That there I was seein' an old violin. 
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Soon to be put away and never played again. 
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And just like that it hit me,  
 
'Cause that old violin and I were just alike. 
 
We'd give our all to music, 
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And soon, we'll give our lives....