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I’m just a name you wore out loud

In a backseat fight, in a goodbye crowd

You said love’s a loaded gun

Well, darlin’, I think you already won

Tangled in your denim lies

I was just a kid with a crooked smile

Tried to play it cool, but you burned too bright

Like a July storm in a panhandle night

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Load me up, babe, I’m fallin’ slow

Takin’ hits in the heart where the wild things grow

We were never saints, never played it clean

But I’d go down swingin’ if you know what I mean

I’ll be that messed-up boy with a spark in his eye

Who’d bleed for you just to feel alive

Yeah, sugar, we’re crashin’ hard and loud

But at least we’re goin’ down

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You were church in a whiskey town

And I was baptized just to drown

All your secrets wore my name

You stitched your guilt into my shame

I ain’t bitter, I ain’t whole

Just a porch light waitin’ on a midnight soul

Your love was a bet I couldn’t fold

Now I’m playin’ these chords like they’re tales I told

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Load me up, babe, I’m fallin’ slow

Takin’ hits in the heart where the wild things grow

We were never saints, never played it clean

But I’d go down swingin’ if you know what I mean

I’ll be that messed-up boy with a spark in his eye

Who’d bleed for you just to feel alive

Yeah, sugar, we’re crashin’ hard and loud

But at least we’re goin’ down

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Don’t say you loved me just to win

Don’t come around askin’ where I’ve been

I gave you the truth, you gave me the show

Now I’m singin’ our wreck in this rodeo

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So load me up, babe, I’m fallin’ slow

Like the last verse of a song you know

We were fire and we were sin

But I’d still do it all again

I’ll be that boy with the backroad past

Still praisin’ your name with a shotglass

Yeah, sugar, we’re ashes on the ground

But damn if we didn’t go down