Sweet and the Burn

Have you seen the old town

It’s like a record with the needle down

You can think you’re playing it

The more you do the more it skips

And you’ll be begging for another turn

The sweet comes with the burn

Walking on a knife edge

Wondering why I’m not dead yet

“Cause it’s something that you can’t refuse

I paid Charlie just to be excused

And I’ll be begging for another turn

The sweet comes with the burn

The sweet comes with the burn

The sweet comes with the...

Burn

If the liquor doesn’t do me in

It will hold me like an old friend

Dancing with me all night

And tell me that it’s all right

And I’m still begging for another turn

The sweet comes with the burn

The sweet comes with the burn

The sweet comes with the...

Burn

The sweet comes with the burn

The sweet comes with the burn

It’s a lesson that I never learn, yeah

The sweet comes with the burn

The sweet comes with the burn

The sweet comes with the...