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Thats How Every Empire Falls

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John Prine (born October 10, 1946 in Maywood, Illinois-died April 7, 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee) was an American country/folk singer-songwriter who has achieved widespread critical (and some commercial) success since the early 1970s.

The son of William Prine and Verna Hamm, his grandfather had played guitar with Merle Travis and he started playing guitar himself at 14 years old. He was a postman for 5 years and spent a couple of years in the army before starting his musical career in the Chicago area.

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That's How Every Empire Falls
John Prine/ R.B. Morris

[Intro]
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He caught a train from Alexandria
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Just a broken man in flight
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Running scared with all his devils
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Saying prayers all through the night
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But mercy can't find him
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Not in the shadows where he calls
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Forsaking all his better angels
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That's how every empire falls

[Instrumental]
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The bells ring out on Sunday morning
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Like echoes from another time
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All our innocence and yearning
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And sense of wonder left behind
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Oh, gentle hearts remember
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What was that story his they lost
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When religion loses vision
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That's how every empire falls

[Instrumental]
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He toasts his wife and all his family
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The providence he brought to bear
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They raise their glasses in his honor
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Although this union made 'em share
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Of a man that lives among them
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But still a stranger to them all
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For when a heart is never open
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That's how every empire falls

[Instrumental]
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Lock the door and board the windows
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Put the people in the street
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It just my job he says I'm sorry
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And draws the jackels home to eat
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But at night he tell his woman
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I know I hide behind the laws
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She says you are only taking orders
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That's how every empire falls

[Instrumental]
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A bitter wind blows through the country
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A hard rain falls on the sea
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If terror comes without a warning
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There must be something we don't see
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Well, fire begets this fire
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Like torches thrown into the straw
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If no one ask and no one answers
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That's how every empire falls

[Outro]
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