Constable

Money is tight when you're a constable
 Humble times swimming in bills
 You just have to do what you can
 My wife's father was the family patriarch
 A detective sergeant, that's how I started
 He was always full of condescending and cogent
 And strong advice
 So I bought in to keep the peace
 And I enjoyed the pace as I cut my teeth
 And I tuned in to some very like minded individuals
 The unsteady hours and an unsteady head
 It can be hard to keep it all together, friend
 Your skull gets so cluttered
 Sometimes you forget your own name
 With the odd loose step backward stumble and balk
 Everything in life becomes haunted
 And I got ghosts in my walls and in my pockets
 But at least I own my house!
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 Money is tight when you're a constable
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 So that odd loose step, earlier mentioned
 A committal hearing and an unpaid suspension
 For the subsequent separation of my wife
 My colleagues' words began to drip
 I escaped prosecution but not the snub
 They were more than encouraging when I packed it up
 And transferred interstate, to a station
 In a little town called Keith
 I'm the king out here in a small, small pond
 Everything I want, I got
 This is my time and this is my place
 In this big old endless sky!
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 Money is tight when you're a constable
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 You just have to do what you can
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 Money is tight
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 Money is tight when you're a constable
 You need a strong stomach and a stronger will
 Empathy will make your bones ache and your heart bleed
 It's strange the things that happen here
 In such a little place
 I've seen things you wouldn't believe
 And I've done things you couldn't imagine
 Money is tight when you're a constable
 There is no karma and there is no God
 And I most definitely don't believe in fate
 I'll build my kingdom out here in this little old pond
 It's not much but it's all I got
 And I'll protect every stone and every little buried bone
 With absolute and extreme prejudice