album: Regular Joe (1992)
album: Greatest Hits (1998)
album: Essential Joe Diffie (2003)
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I could tell he'd had a tough life 
By the way he sat and stared 
And me, I'd come to push and shove 
So I pulled up a chair. 

We talked of roads untraveled 
We talked of love untrue 
Of strings that come unraveled 
We were kings and kindred fools 
And just when I'd hit bottom 
That old man raised his glass 
And said at least we had our chances 
There's those who never have. 

So here's to all the soldiers 
Who have ever died in vain 
The insane locked up in them cells 
The homeless down on Main 
To those who stand on empty shores 
And spit against the wind 
And those who wait forever 
For ships that don't come in. 

He said it's only life's illusions 
That bring us to this bar 
To pick up these old crutches 
And compare each other's scars 
'Cuz the things we're calling heartaches 
Hell, they're hardly worth our time 
We bitch about a dollar 
When there's those without a dime. 

And as he ordered one last round 
He said I guess we can't complain 
God made life a gamble 
And we're still in the game. 

So here's to all the soldiers 
Who have ever died in vain 
The insane locked up in them cells 
The homeless down on Main 
To those who stand on empty shores 
And spit against the wind 
And those who wait forever 
For ships that don't come in. 

And those who forever 
For ships that don't come in. 

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