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Intro

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Got a lot of memories tied up in this place

  So much time spent in so little space

  What looked like the world through the eyes of a child

  Kind of closes in on you after awhile

  It's a place to grow up and a place to grow old

  You keep your mouth shut and you do what you're told

  I told mama the day that I ran

  This ain't no place for an angry young man

  Mama if you could see me right now

  You'd be so sure you failed me somehow

  Mama you never could understand

  There ain't no peace for an angry young man

  A cheap hotel a long way from my home

  So many people make you feel so alone

  Dreams die easy out here in these streets

  And hearts grow cold in the city heat

  I ain't never been the patient kind

  I got to live like I please or die tryin'

  At a filling station with a gun in my hand

  The only way for an angry young man

  Mama if you could see me right now

  You'd be so sure you failed me somehow

  Mama you never could understand

  There ain't no peace for an angry young man

  Got a lot of memories tied up in this place

  Tonight they're starin' me right in the face

  A lonely grave on the outskirts of town

  It's three in the morning, ain't no one around

  Just like a ghost I come out of the night

  But I'll be gone before the morning light

  Mama I hope that you understand

  This ain't no place for an angry young man

  Mama if you could see me right now

  You'd be so sure you failed me somehow

  Mama you never could understand

  There ain't no peace for an angry young man

  Mama if you could see me right now

  You'd be so sure you failed me somehow

  Mama you never could understand

  There ain't no peace for an angry young man