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Tears in the Corner of My Eye

from Baby Just Give Me Your Hand by The Wealthy Orphans

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I'm an engineer on a big black train, shoveling the coal feeding the flame
I fly right through the back of your town. My engine in the night makes a lonely, lonely sound.
Cain and Able they couldn't get along. Bonney and Clyde they were born to do wrong and David killed Goliath with his one smooth stone and ya don't get home sick if ya don't got a home.
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I gotta tear in the corner of my eye. Ain't ya ever seen a grown man cry. Gotta tear in the corner of my I. God puts in a jar and keeps 'em way up in the sky.
Pull on the chord and let the whistle moan. The tellagraph poles remind me I'm all alone. I've got the rhythm of the rails, a sky full of stars and scrape mettle in every single car
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Samson and Delilah were meant to be but every message in the bottle comes back to me. I wipe my tears with the back of my hand.
All I can do is the best that I can.
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from Baby Just Give Me Your Hand, released December 15, 2018

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Playing music forged in the furnace of real life, the Wealthy Orphans open hearts and unzip heaven at the same time. Their songs are lite up with vivid imagery, haunted by enigmatic narratives that confuse as much as enlighten.

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