They say running into you is like running into trouble

Bend my ear and I see double

You're everybody's idea of a waste of time

You still come around 'cause I used to listen

I run a steamship, I don't run a mission

Don't be mistaken in thinking you're a friend of mine



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Those hard luck stories, it's all I ever get from you

Hard luck stories, you're gonna drive me out of my mind

Those hard luck stories, it's all I ever get from you

Hard luck stories, you're gonna drive me out of my mind



Well, cops won't give you change of a penny

Everybody's got money but you haven't any

If I cared about you I'd say it was a crying shame

Your wife ran away, left you on a Sunday

She cried when she left, she was laughing on Monday

She should have known better and never gone and changed the name



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Why don't you grow up, why don't you settle down?

Why don't you get a job, why don't you leave town?

Even a chicken has to do what it has to do

You don't like one thing, you don't like another

You don't like anything that looks like bother

Everyone don't like something and we all don't like you



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