Wrecking Ball

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Look out boys I'm a rollin stone
 That's what I was when I first left home
 I took every secret that I'd ever known
 And headed for the wall
 Like a wrecking ball
 Started down on that road of sin
 Playing bass under a pseudonym
 The days were rough and it's all quite dim
 But my mind cuts through it all
 Like a wrecking ball
 Oh just a little Deadhead
 Who is watching
 Who is watching
 I was just a little Deadhead
 A fallen daughter on a scholarship
 I got tired and let my average slip
 Then I was a farmer in the Pogonip
 Where the weed that I recall
 Was like a wrecking ball
 I met a lovesick daughter of the San Joaquin
 She showed me colors I'd never seen
 Then drank the bottom out of my canteen
 And let it fall
 Like a wrecking ball
 Standin there in the morning mist
 Tug the coat at the end of my wrist
 Yes I remember when first we kissed
 Though it was nothing at all
 Like a wrecking ball
 Hey boys just a little Deadhead
 Who is watching
 Who is watching
 I was just a little Deadhead
 With too much trouble for me to shake
 Oh the weather and the blinding ache
 We were riding high until the '89 quake
 Hit the Santa Cruz Garden Mall
 Like a wrecking ball
 

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Duration
04:56
Tempo
146 BPM

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