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Life With Others (Part II)
Can't Reason Through Love
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NICKCASEY
Shows
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Life In My Head
Life With Others (Part I)
Life With Others (Part II)
Can't Reason Through Love
Allegheny Morning Sky
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Songs
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Never You, My Friend lyrics
NEVER YOU, MY FRIEND
here's the good news
you've got the blues
kick off your shoes
and roll up your cuffs
tilt your cup and I'll fill it
we'll take time and kill it
watch now don't you spill it
this ain't the cheep stuff
bring Martha Pat and Billy
is there enough? don't be silly
I stir the chile
with a baseball bat
some folks fade
they get afraid
turn a paler shade
bunch of scaredy-cats
never you my friend
no never you
in the face of the law
at Mardi Gras
in your underwear and bra
in a courtroom
we dance freely and often
the floor boards soften
build our coffins
with some legroom
I've been mistreated
I've been defeated
I have not been depleted
I've only been increased
a shopping cart
full of old engine parts
in place of a heart
from the west to the east
never you my friend
no never you
he was a television actor
hardly a master
that's who I'm named after
bet you didn't know that
personal trainer
life-in-the-fast-laner
old time entertainer
in coattails and hat
bring folks together
the more the better
Jesuits and jet-setters
jacks of all trades
we're here by and by
'neath darkening skies
the whites of their eyes
flashing like blades
never you my friend
no never you
life gets harder
Elvis said to Colonel Parker
if you can't find a partner
use a wooden chair
where this ship my be bound
Punxsutawney or the Puget Sound
the sky of the ground
I'll see you there
for your time and trouble
I owe you double
I'll fill the tub with bubbles
the grill with coal
from the depth to the height
the realm of light
shipyards of night
all bodies and souls
Never you my friend
No never you
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