It's 3:00 in the morning
On this side of town
A lonely dog barking
Is the only other sound
I'm sitting in my car
Outside this judge's house
Ten years to the day he brought
His gavel down

Ten years ago
But I recall it
Like it was yesterday
A man remembers  when you take
Ten years of his life away

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The Judge lives here
In this part of town
Where the grass is green
And the driveways are long
Like memory
They go on and on and on…

The yellow bus was parked
At the schoolyard gate
I stepped on the gas, went around it
Didn't see her till to late
Whiskey on my breath
Made the trial a formality
You did what your lawbooks said
You had to do with me

Now Judge, I had a burning anger
That was ten years long
And I had a plan for you
But that's all gone
Some forgotten thought
In the morning dew

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Now Judge, your kids are older
And mine are too
Yours come around to see you
Mine never do
And somewhere on a wall in a house
On this side of town
Hangs a picture of a little girl
Who'll never come around

Judge, I got a fistful
Of roses
And I toss them on your lawn
Put the car in drive
And I'm gone, I'm gone

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