Devil in the bottle
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1. I come home late at night, with my shoes in my hands,
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stumble
in the backdoor bein’ quiet as I can.
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And I know she’s there in bed,
cold and all alone,
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and
she’s cryin’ because I’m breakin’
up our home.
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And she knows the hell I’m goin’ through in
this world inside my head,
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- E
there’s a devil in the bottle, and he
wants to see me dead.
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2. I fall into her arms, she
helps with my clothes,
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guess
she stays on with me ‘cause she really knows
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that
I’m tryin’, Lord, to find my freedom
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by escapin’ to the only freedom I’ve ever known.
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And she knows the hell I’m goin’ through in
this world inside my head,
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E
there’s a devil in the bottle, and he
wants to see me dead.
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+ Yes, there’s a devil
in the bottle, and he wants to
see me dead.
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And it’s killin’
her watching me die this way.
(orig. = capo 3rd) (T.G.
Sheppard)