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Still Doin' Time Lyrics
Has it been a year since the last time I've seen her
My God I could swear it was ten
And the ocean of liquor I drank to forget her
Is gonna kill me but I'll drink 'til then
I've been living in hell with a bar for a cell
Still paying for my cheating crime
And I've got a long way to go
Still doing time
(Chorus:)
Still doing time
In a honky tonk prison
Still doing time
Where a man forgiven
My poor heart is breaking
But there?s no escaping
Each morning I wake up and I find
Still doing time
Oh when your caught cheating twice
It?s twenty to life in a place
Where the sun never shines
And tomorrow you're gonna find me right here
Still doing time
My God I could swear it was ten
And the ocean of liquor I drank to forget her
Is gonna kill me but I'll drink 'til then
Still paying for my cheating crime
And I've got a long way to go
Still doing time
Still doing time
In a honky tonk prison
Still doing time
Where a man forgiven
My poor heart is breaking
But there?s no escaping
Each morning I wake up and I find
Still doing time
It?s twenty to life in a place
Where the sun never shines
And tomorrow you're gonna find me right here
Still doing time
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Hard to believe there are no comments on this classic Jones tear-jerker ... the meaning is obvious, but I love the metaphor of a bar as a prison; he's serving a life sentence in there (until he drinks himself to death) for the crime of cheating (and apparently it's two strikes and you're out in this judicial system). Well, it's actually 20 to life, which I suppose means he could get out on good behavior if he agrees to go to AA and sober up after doing 20 years in the Honky Tonk Prison.
Most of us don't think of being in a bar as incarceration, but most of us aren't alcoholics who cheated on their significant others multiple times. Anyway, an "ocean of liquor" is a perfect description for the quantity Jones has put through his liver in his 81 years. How he survived that long is beyond me.