By Robbie Fulks
7/27/2011
Intro: F#m D D
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Down in her arms on a three-day drunk
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When the world was lawless and wild
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With the last drop gone, and the lust all shrunk
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I clung to her chest like a child
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Too weak to hold on to the little I had
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Too ensnared to walk off unharmed
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But to curl up and die didn't look all that bad
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Down in her arms
Down in her arms, East Houston at dawn
Played under her breath in my ear
The pretty blue howl of a Joan Jett song
We were all poor and angry that year
A city in flames, and the hounds at the wall
Valhalla seemed not very far
Just one small step, and a bottomless fall
Down in her arms
Bridge:
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Staring back at the path my passion led down
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Baby touch me now
Down in her arms, I looked up and caught
A glimpse of a magical love
But in a flash, it was just another false god
Struck down and dragged through the mud
In the faraway dark, he lay by my wife
His hands slowly working their charm
While I shut my eyes and held on for life
Down in her arms