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Sweetest Portion Lyrics by Spin Doctors

If the River Was Whiskey

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When the train is slowing
And the street light is on
And when the bread that you've been eating
Is crumb gone, crumb gone
And when the spots on the knife, on the table, on the floor
Are as yellow as the mat you wipe your feet on right the door
When your friends you used to laugh with, are crying awful more
Then it's time to put that doorframe behind you
Just once more

Oh, people can be kind
Just like on a movie screen
And people can be pretty
Just like any magazine
And people do the damndest things
Ain't better than they seem
But most folks are ignorant and me

Well, I could balloons forever
Never, never once explain
Where we could needle in this haystack
Or we could, fractor in the rain
Well, I've stood on my head
To impress the living dead
Me and my big stick talk softly
Until we don't know what we've said

And I've been searching for my heart
And I can only find my head
And lately, I've been thinking, I need a damn sign on my bread

Well, I [?]
To [?]
I got more bad plumbing than a junk shop saxophone
And that's why I wanna know, that you're honking on my horn
'Cause a man can't live on bread, just not alone

When it's early in the morning
And you know that I'm free
When them walking blues is all I can hear
And my walking shoes is all I can see
When my fork and knife
Keeps shoving trouble its strife
And that mean ol' living drummer man is making threats upon my face
And know I stay at home
Just like a big wood stone

Because you're the sweetest portion of my life
Oh, you're the sweetest portion of my life
Oh, you're the sweetest portion of my life
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Spin Doctors

Spin Doctors

About “Sweetest Portion” by Spin Doctors

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"Sweetest Portion" is credited to Spin Doctors. Songwriting credits may include additional writers listed on the release; check the credits section on this page for linked collaborators.

"Sweetest Portion" appears on "If the River Was Whiskey".

Visit the Spin Doctors artist page at /artist/spin-doctors for biography, popular tracks, and links to more lyric pages.

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