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Bon Jovi Lyrics for Song: Dry County
 Lyrics for Album: Keep The Faith [1992]
 
 
 
 13155>Across the border they turn
 
 Water into wine.
 
 Some say it's the devil's blood
 
 They're squeezing from the vine
 
 Some say it's a saviour.
 
 In these hard and desperate times
 
 Seeing it helps me to forget
 
 That we're just born to die
 
 
 
 I came here like so many did
 
 To find the better life
 
 To find my piece of easy street
 
 To finally be alive
 
 I knew, nothing good comes easy
 
 All good things take some time
 
 I made my bed I'll lie in it
 
 To die in it is the crime
 
 
 
 You can't help but prosper
 
 Where the street are paved with gold
 
 They say the oil wells ran deeper here
 
 Than anybody's known
 
 now I packed up on my wife and kid
 
 And left them both back home
 
 See, there's nothing in this paydirt
 
 The ghost are all I know
 
 
 
 Now the oil's gone
 
 and the money's gone
 
 all the jobs are gone
 
 Still we're hangin' on
 
 
 
 Down in dry county
 
 They're swimming in the sand
 
 Praying for some holy water
 
 To wash the sins from off our hands
 
 in dry county
 
 The promise has run dry
 
 Where nobody cries
 
 And no one's getting out of here alive
 
 
 
 In the blessed name of Jesus
 
 I heard a preacher say
 
 That we are all God's children
 
 And that he'd be back, back someday
 
 I hoped that he knew something
 
 as he drank his cup of wine
 
 I didn't have too good of a feeling
 
 As I head out to the night
 
 
 
 I cursed the sky to open
 
 I begged the clouds for rain
 
 I prayed to God for water
 
 For this burning in my veins
 
 It was like my soul's on fire
 
 And I had to watch the flames
 
 All my dreams went up in ashes
 
 And my future blew away
 
 
 
 Now the oil's gone
 
 and the money's gone
 
 all the jobs are gone
 
 Still we're hangin' on
 
 
 
 Down in dry county
 
 They're swimming in the sand
 
 Praying for some holy water
 
 To wash the sins from off our hands
 
 in dry county
 
 The promise has run dry
 
 Where nobody cries
 
 And no one's getting out of here alive
 
 
 
 Men spend this whole life Waiting,
 
 praying for their big reward
 
 But it seems sometimes
 
 That payoff leaves you feeling
 
 Like a dirty whore
 
 If I could choose the way I'll die
 
 Make it by the gun or knife
 
 'Cause the other way there's too much pain
 
 night after night after night after night,
 
 
 
 Down in dry county
 
 They're swimming in the sand
 
 Praying for some holy water
 
 To wash the sins from off our hands
 
 Here in dry county
 
 The promise has run dry
 
 Where nobody cries
 
 And no one's getting out of here alive
 
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| Album Lyrics: Keep The Faith [1992] |  
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  Bon Jovi
 "Keep The Faith [1992]"
 
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