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Artist: Patty Griffin
Canonical path: /griffin-patty/not-a-bad-man
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Not A Bad Man
Read Not A Bad Man lyrics by Patty Griffin on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Not A Bad Man
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I am not a bad man
I want you to know
I signed up when I was nineteen
Now I’m twenty-four years old
There’s ghosts that follow me around
Things I’ve seen and did
I am not a bad man
Just an American kid
I bet you see a stranger
When you look at me
When I look in the mirror
I know that’s what I see
Got some pills to get my head right
But they don’t work so well
So I drank a little more tonight
And here is where I fell
I bet you see a stranger
When you look at me
When I look in the mirror
I know that’s what I see
I just want a little sleep now
A sleep that’s silent as the snow
But I am not a bad man
I just wanted you to know
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