Everything That's On My Mind
Charlie Peacock
Words and music by Charlie Peacock
(c) 1995 Andi Beat Goes On Music, Inc. (ASCAP) 

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I've been out here for so long riding fences
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I don't know what it finally was that brought me to my senses
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Was it the cold?  Was it the loneliness?
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Was it my shame at the sickness of my flesh?

Rebuilding fences is an introspective undertaking
There's no diversion to distract you from the deeper aching
I cut the wood, I swung the hammer
Every strike like a flash of understanding

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I    have to say everything that's on my mind
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I can not keep it bottled up inside me
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I have to pray, it took me far too long to find out
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That my weakness is my testimony

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All my labor was the protest demonstration
Of a man who had the gall to call conviction condemnation
Till I cried for grace and I finally meant it
Till I left my pride behind me nailed to those fences

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Up in this altitude the cold at night can kill
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My fingers got so numb, my body got so chilled
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It seeps into your bones and devastates your will
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Oh, I'm not the strongest man, no, I'm not the only man
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No, I'm not the strongest man that's been broken in those hills

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