[Part 1] There's a jukebox in the corner And the Bud Light neon glows And he's on the stage, guitar in hand With a name nobody knows There's an old man rolling a cigarette A woman nursing her wine He sings his lonesome memories And he remembers his whole life And his one and only child Raven haired and deathly pale Terrified she'd lose it all To the needle and the nail And every time he tries to save her She slips further and further away The only place he's worth a dime Are in these songs that he plays So let him play, ooohh So let him play, ooohh, oh [Part 2] Burned so many bridges Only one or two remain And the ones who choked on all his smoke Through the burden of the flame Yeah, they laugh about the good all days 'Bout the brothers who reminisce How can a man like Moses end up just like Judas kiss And that big black dog runs down the man Who strains to lift his head Good old days fly high as a kite And the bad ones wish him well There's the sound of fear and shame As he's tuning that old six string That he hides behind and lives inside With these songs that he sings So let him sing, ooohh So let him sing, ooohh, oh [Piano Solo] [Part 3] A big fish in a small town They called him the next big thing But the battle scars they dealt him cards Got between the in-between There are times where he almost believes He was worthy of the fame But here he sits, playing for tips And no one knows his name And the potential weighs so heavy with The weight of "could have been" And now he's just a never was Playing rooms that no one's in But you're safest in the shadows When your mind's your enemy It's the torment of his talent That will never set him free So let him be Ooohh, it's just a ballad of a broken dream Ooohh, oh, it's just a ballad of a broken dream Ooohh, it's just a ballad of a broken dream Ooohh, oh, it's just a ballad of a broken dream
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