James McMurtry - Fast As I Can

      
 
 FAST AS I CAN
 James McMurtry
 
 N.C. A
 He was a drinking man with a guitar problem
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  Didn't have a dollar to his name
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  He didn't seem to mind that all that often
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  He mostly took whatever came
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 And if it came too late, or it came to nothing
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  He'd swear beneath his breath
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 There's gotta be something to it
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 There's gotta be something to it
 
 She lost her mind and she never missed it
 Folks all said she'd never learn
 She'd take the path of least resistance
 Right to the point of no return
 Apprehended on occasion, got off easy every time
 Said there's gotta be something to it, something to it
 Don't know why else you'd wanna, put yourself through it
 
 Chorus
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 Well, the nights are gettin' colder,  restless as the wind
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  I'll be comin' over, fast as I can, fast as I can
 
 Well, he had some lines, but he never used them
 She didn't need much talkin' to
 And he thought he'd died and gone to Houston
 By the time the dawn burned off the dew
 And it lit right up, like Roman candles, like fire and gasoline
 And there must have been something to it, something to it
 Didn't mess around, they had to get right to it
 
 Repeat Chorus
 
 So for a while they carried on like rabbits
 They''d disappear for days and nights
 You might say they learned, each other''s habits
 You might say that became their life
 And life wasn''t long, life wasn''t easy
 Life wasn''t cheap, life wasn''t fair
 And there might have been something to it, something to it
 
 Repeat Chorus Twice
 
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