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We live in trailers and apartments too 
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From California to Kalamazoo
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Grow up get married and when that one ends 
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We hate sleeping alone so we get married again
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Don’t wanna be buried in debt or in sin
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So we pray to Jesus and we play the lotto
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Cause there ain’t but two ways
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We can change tomorrow
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And there ain’t no genie
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And there ain’t no bottle
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So we pray to Jesus and we play the lotto

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We love to complain about what we can’t fix
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Mostly mothers in law traffic and politics
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We tell our kids how hard it was back when
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Same way our parents did to us back then
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Thought we’d be different but we’re just like them
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Yeah we pray to Jesus and we play the lotto
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Cause there ain’t but two ways
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We can change tomorrow
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And there ain’t no genie
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And there ain’t no bottle
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So we pray to Jesus and we play the lotto   BRIDGE D  G  D  G A  A7  D

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We load our kids up in our new used car
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And after church we hit the mini mart
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Behind the counter up there on the wall
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It reads 200 million on the power ball
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Six little numbers that could change it all
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So we pray to Jesus and we play the lotto
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Cause there ain’t but two ways
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We can change tomorrow
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And there ain’t no genie
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And there ain’t no bottle
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So we pray to Jesus and we play the lotto
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Like a bumpersticker, like a poor man’s model
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Times are troubled and time is borrowed
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So we pray to Jesus and we play the lotto