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My Crooked Ways

Yeah, someday I’ll change my crooked ways

and all the poisons in my veins 

will turn to endless streams of lemonade.

And I’ll find that crime it doesn’t pay

and use the money that I stole

to buy new homes for needy families.

I swear one day I’m gonna’ change my crooked ways.

Begging on my knees, that I’ll find the path that sets me straight

and wakes me up from this bed of my decay.

Yes, it’s safe to say I’ve gone astray

but someday I will change my crooked ways.

And I’ll take this early grave I dug for me

And fill it up six feet with dirt and seeds

Then watch it bloom a garden green.

Then I’ll turn every lie I told to you

into a light to guide you through and on the other side

you won’t mind when you hear the truth.

I swear one day, I’m gonna’ change my crooked ways

Begging on my knees

that I’ll break these chains that seal my fate

and wake me up from this bed of my decay

Yes, it’s safe to say I’ve gone astray but someday 

I will change my crooked ways.

Pack my troubled habits up and put them on the shelf.

Shouting out a cry for help to save me from myself

I’ve spent a lifetime burning down a candle at both ends.

I’ve gotta’ take a gamble on this chance to start again.

I swear one day I’m gonna’ change my crooked ways.

Begging on my knees, that tomorrow doesn’t mean too late

to wake me up from this bed of my decay.

Yes, it’s safe to say I’ve gone astray

but someday I will change my crooked ways.