This ol' highway's getting longer/ Seems there ain't no end in sight/ To sleep would be best, but I just can't afford to rest/ I've got a ride in Denver tomorrow night/ I called the house but no one answered/ For the last two weeks no one's been home/ I guess she's through with me, to tell the truth I just can't see/ What's kept the woman holding on this long/ (Chorus) And the white line's getting longer and the saddle's getting cold/ I'm much too young to feel this damn old/ All my cards are on the table with no ace left in the hole/ I'm much too young to feel this damn old// The competition's getting younger/ Tougher broncs, you know I can't recall/ A worn out tape of Chris LeDoux, lonely women and bad booze/ Seem to be the only friends I've left at all/ (Repeat Chorus)/ Lord, I'm much too young to feel this damn old
Sometimes late at night/ I lie awake and watch her sleeping/ She's lost in peaceful dreams/ So I turn out the lights and lay there in the dark/ And the thought crosses my mind/ If I never wake up in the morning/ Would she ever doubt the way I feel/ About her in my heart/ (Chorus) If tomorrow never comes/ Will she know how much I loved her/ Did I try in every way to show her every day/ That she's my only one/ And if my time on earth were through/ And she must face the world without me/ Is the love I gave her in the past/ Gonna be enough to last/ If tomorrow never comes// 'Cause I've lost loved ones in my life/ Who never knew how much I loved them/ Now I live with the regret/ That my true feelings for them never were revealed/ So I made a promise to myself/ To say each day how much she means to me/ And avoid that circumstance/ Where there's no second chance to tell her how I feel/ (Repeat Chorus)/ So tell that someone that you love/ Just what you're thinking of/ If tomorrow never comes
When loving turns to parting I'm always the first to leave/ 'Cause when it comes to heartaches I'd rather give than to receive/ I've never cried myself to sleep just praying I'll get through/ I've never lost at love not counting you/ (Chorus) Not counting you I've never had a heartache/ Not counting you I never have been blue/ There's no exceptions to the rule/ I've never been nobody's fool/ I've never lost at love not counting you// I've never got down on my knees and asked the Lord above/ If He would only bring me the one I'm dreaming of/ Begging to be taken back and swearing I'll be true/ Has never crossed my mind not counting you/ (Repeat Chorus)/ There's no exceptions to the rule/ I've never been nobody's fool/ I've never lost at love not counting you/ No, I've never lost at love not counting you
Looking back on the memory of/ The dance we shared 'neath the stars above/ For a moment all the world was right/ How could I have known that you'd ever say goodbye/ (Chorus) And now I'm glad I didn't know/ The way it all would end the way it all would go/ Our lives are better left to chance I could have missed the pain/ But I'd of had to miss the dance// Holding you I held everything/ For a moment wasn't I a king/ But if I'd only known how the King would fall/ Hey whose to say you know I might have chanced it all/ (Repeat Chorus)/ Yes my life is better left to chance/ I could have missed the pain/ But I'd of had to miss the dance
Blame it all on my roots/ I showed up in boots/ And ruined your black tie affair/ The last one to know/ The last one to show/ I was the last one you thought you'd see there/ And I saw the surprise/ And the fear in his eyes/ When I took his glass of champagne/ And I toasted you/ Said, honey, we may be through/ But you'll never hear me complain/ (Chorus) 'Cause I've got friends in low places/ Where the whiskey drowns/ And the beer chases my blues away/ And I'll be okay/ I'm not big on social graces/ Think I'll slip on down to the oasis/ Oh I've got friends in low places// Well, I guess I was wrong/ I just don't belong/ But then, I've been there before/ Everything's all right/ I'll just say goodnight/ And I'll show myself to the door/ Hey, I didn't mean/ To cause a big scene/ Just give me an hour and then/ Well, I'll be as high/ As that ivory tower/ That you're livin' in/ (Repeat Chorus)/ (Live-3rd Verse) Well, I guess I was wrong/ I just don’t belong/ But then, I’ve been there before/ Everything’s all right/ I’ll just say goodnight/ And I’ll show myself to the door/ Hey, I didn’t mean/ To cause a big scene/ Just wait till I finish this glass/ Then, sweet little lady/ I’ll head back to the bar/ And you can kiss my a**/ (Repeat Chorus 3 times and fade)
Just the other night at a hometown football game/ My wife and I ran into my old high school flame/ And as I introduced them the past came back to me/ And I couldn't help but think of the way things used to be/ She was the one that I'd wanted for all times/ And each night I'd spend prayin' that God would make her mine/ And if he'd only grant me this wish I wished back then/ I'd never ask for anything again/ Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers/ Remember when you're talkin' to the man upstairs/ That just because He doesn't answer doesn't mean He don't care/ Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers/ She wasn't quite the angel that I remembered in my dreams/ And I could tell that time had changed me/ In her eyes too it seemed/ We tried to talk about the old days/ There wasn't much we could recall/ I guess the Lord knows what He's doin' after all/ And as she walked away and I looked at my wife/ And then and there I thanked the Good Lord/ For the gifts in my life/ Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers/ Remember when you're talkin' to the man upstairs/ And just because He may not answer doesn't mean He don't care/ Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered.../ Some of God's greatest gifts are all too often unanswered.../ Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers
Yea, she's my lady luck/ Hey, I'm her wild card man/ Together we're buildin' up a real hot hand/ We live out in the country/ Hey, she's my little queen of the south/ Yea, we're two of a kind/ Workin' on a full house/ She wakes me every mornin'/ With a smile and a kiss/ Her strong country lovin' is hard to resist/ She's my easy lovin' woman/ I'm her hard-workin' man, no doubt/ Yea, we're two of a kind/ Workin' on a full house/ Yea, a pickup truck is her limousine/ And her favorite dress is her faded blue jeans/ She loves me tender when the goin' gets tough/ Sometimes we fight just so we can make up/ Lord I need that little woman/ Like the crops need the rain/ She's my honeycomb and I'm her sugar cane/ We really fit together/ If you know what I'm talkin' about/ Yea, we're two of a kind/ Workin' on a full house/ This time I found a keeper, I made up my mind/ Lord the perfect combination is her heart and mine/ The sky's the limit, no hill is too steep/ We're playin' for fun, but we're playin' for keeps/ So draw the curtain, honey/ Turn the lights down low/ We'll find some country music on the radio/ I'm yours and you're mine/ Hey, that's what it's all about/ Yea, we're two of a kind/ Workin' on a full house/ Lordy, mama, we'll be two of a kind/ Workin' on a full house
Three thirty in the morning/ Not a soul on sight/ The city's lookin' like a ghost town/ On a moonless summer night/ Raindrops on the windshield/ There's a storm moving in/ He's headin' back from somewhere/ That he never should have been/ And the thunder rolls/ And the thunder rolls/ Every light is burnin'/ In a house across town/ She's pacin' by the telephone/ In her faded flannel gown/ Askin' for a miracle/ Hopin' she's not right/ Prayin' it's the weather/ That kept him out all night/ And the thunder rolls/ And the thunder rolls/ (Chorus) The thunder rolls/ And the lightnin' strikes/ Another love grows cold/ On a sleepless night/ As the storm blows on/ Out of control/ Deep in her heart/ The thunder rolls// She's waitin' by the window/ When he pulls into the drive/ She rushes out to hold him/ Thankful he's alive/ But on the wind and rain/ A strange new perfume blows/ And the lightnin' flashes in her eyes/ And he knows that she knows/ And the thunder rolls/ And the thunder rolls/ (Repeat Chorus)/ (Live-3rd Verse) She’s runs back down the hallway/ And to the bedroom door/ She reaches for the pistol/ Kept in the dresser drawer/ Tells the lady in the mirror/ “He won’t do this again”/ ‘Cause tonight will be the last time/ She’ll wonder where he’s been/ (Repeat Chorus)
His eyes are cold and restless/ His wounds have almost healed/ And she'd give half of Texas/ Just to change the way he feels/ She knows his love's in Tulsa/ And she knows he's gonna go/ Well, it ain't no woman, flesh and blood/ It's that damned old rodeo/ (Chorus) Well, it's bulls and blood/ It's dust and mud/ It's the roar of a Sunday crowd/ It's the white in his knuckles/ The gold in the buckle/ He'll win the next go 'round/ It's boots and chaps/ It's cowboy hats/ It's spurs and latigo/ It's the ropes and the reins/ And the joy and the pain/ And they call the thing Rodeo// She does her best to hold him/ When his love comes to call/ But his need for it controls him/ And her back's against the wall/ And it's "So long girl, I'll see you"/ When it's time for him to go/ You know the woman wants her cowboy/ Like he wants his rodeo/ (Repeat Chorus)/ It'll drive a cowboy crazy/ It'll drive the man insane/ And he'll sell off everything he owns/ Just to pay to play her game/ And a broken home and some broken bones/ Is all he'll have to show/ For all the years that he spent chasin'/ This dream they call Rodeo/ (Repeat Chorus)/ It's the broncs and the blood/ It's the steers and the mud/ And they call the thing Rodeo
Well I'm shameless when it comes to loving you/ I'll do anything you want me to/ I'll do anything at all/ And I'm standing here for all the world to see/ Oh baby, that's what's left of me/ Don't have very far to fall/ You know now I'm not a man who's ever been/ Insecure about the world I've been living in/ I don't break easy, I have my pride/ But if you need to be satisfied/ I'm shameless, oh honey, I don't have a prayer/ Every time I see you standin' there/ I go down upon my knees/ And I'm changing, swore I'd never compromise/ Oh, but you convinced me otherwise/ I'll do anything you please/ You see in all my life I've never found/ What I couldn't resist, what I couldn't turn down/ I could walk away from anyone I ever knew/ But I can't walk away from you/ I have never let anything have this much control over me/ I work too hard to call my life my own/ And I've made myself a world and it's worked so perfectly/ But it's your world now, I can't refuse/ I've never had so much to lose/ Oh, I'm shameless/ You know it should be easy for a man who's strong/ To say he's sorry or admit when he's wrong/ I've never lost anything I've ever missed/ But I've never been in love like this/ It's out of my hands/ I'm shameless, I don't have the power now/ I don't want it anyhow/ So I got to let it go/ Oh, I'm shameless, shameless as a man can be/ You can make a total fool of me/ I just wanted you to know/ Oh, I'm shameless, I just wanted you to know/ Oh, I'm shameless, Oh, I'm down on my knees.../ Shameless
Last time I saw her it was turnin' colder/ But that was years ago/ Last I heard she had moved to Boulder/ But where she's now, I don't know/ But there's somethin' 'bout this time of year/ That spins my head around/ Takes me back, makes me wonder/ What's she doin' now/ (Chorus) 'Cause what she's doin' now is tearin' me apart/ Fillin' up my mind and emptying my heart/ I can hear her call each time the cold wind blows/ And I wonder if she knows...what she's doin' now// Just for laughs, I dialed her old number/ But no one knew her name/ Hung up the phone, sat there and wondered/ If she'd ever done the same/ I took a walk in the evenin' wind/ To clear my head somehow/ But tonight I lie here thinkin'/ What she's doin' now/ (Repeat Chorus 2 times)
Papa drove a truck nearly all his life/ You know it drove mama crazy being a trucker's wife/ The part she couldn't handle was the being alone/ I guess she needed more to hold than just a telephone/ Papa called Mama each and every night/ Just to ask her how she was and if his kids were alright/ Mama would wait for that call to come in/ When Daddy'd hang up she was gone again/ (Chorus) Mama was a looker/ Lord, how she shined/ Papa was a good'n/ But the jealous kind/ Papa loved Mama/ Mama loved men/ Mama's in the graveyard/ Papa's in the pen// Well, it was bound to happen and one night it did/ Papa came home and it was just us kids/ He had a dozen roses and a bottle of wine/ If he was lookin' to surprise us, he was doin' fine/ I heard him cry for Mama up and down the hall/ Then I heard a bottle break against the bedroom wall/ That old diesel engine made an eerie sound/ When Papa fired it up and headed into town/ Oh, the picture in the paper showed the scene real well/ Papa's rig was buried in the local motel/ The desk clerk said he saw it all real clear/ He never hit the brakes and he was shifting gears/ (Repeat Chorus)
You know a dream is like a river/ Ever changin' as it flows/ And a dreamer's just a vessel/ That must follow where it goes/ Trying to learn from what's behind you/ And never knowing what's in store/ Makes each day a constant battle/ Just to stay between the shores...and/ (Chorus) I will sail my vessel/ 'Til the river runs dry/ Like a bird upon the wind/ These waters are my sky/ I'll never reach my destination/ If I never try/ So I will sail my vessel/ 'Til the river runs dry// Too many times we stand aside/ And let the waters slip away/ 'Til what we put off 'til tomorrow/ Has now become today/ So don't you sit upon the shoreline/ And say you're satisfied/ Choose to chance the rapids/ And dare to dance the tide...yes/ (Repeat Chorus)/ And there's bound to be rough waters/ And I know I'll take some falls/ But with the good Lord as my captain/ I can make it through them all...yes/ (Repeat Chorus)/ Yes, I will sail my vessel/ 'Til the river runs dry/ 'Til the river runs dry
(Chorus) Hey, the old man's back in town/ He's spreadin' cheer around/ He's come a long, long way/ With his reindeer and his sleigh/ He's bringin' lots of toys/ For all good girls and boys/ So spread the news around/ Yeah the old man's back in town// He's been waitin' all year long/ Just to bring his gifts to you/ All the elves and Mrs. Claus/ Have been waitin' all year too/ Now they're hookin' up his reindeer/ And they're loadin' down his sleigh/ So take my advice you best be nice/ 'Cause the old man's on his way/ (Repeat Chorus)/ Now the mistletoe is hung/ And the tree is all aglow/ The carolers have sung/ Every Christmas song they know/ And the kids are all in bed now/ With Santa on their mind/ So the scene is set and you can bet/ He'll show up any time/ (Repeat Chorus)/ Everybody gather 'round/ 'Cause the old man's back in town
This ain't comin' from no prophet/ Just an ordinary man/ When I close my eyes I see/ The way this world shall be/ When we all walk hand in hand/ When the last child cries for a crust of bread/ When the last man dies for just words that he said/ When there's shelter over the poorest head/ We shall be free/ When the last thing we notice is the color of skin/ And the first thing we look for is the beauty within/ When the skies and the ocean are clean again/ Then we shall be free/ We shall be free/ We shall be free/ Stand straight, walk proud/ 'Cause we shall be free/ When we're free to love anyone we choose/ When this world's big enough for all different views/ When we all can worship from our own kind of pew/ Then we shall be free/ We shall be free/ We shall be free/ Have a little faith, hold out/ 'Cause we shall be free/ And when money talks for the very last time/ And nobody walks a step behind/ When there's only one race and that's mankind/ Then we shall be free/ We shall be free/ We shall be free/ Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith, hold out/ We shall be free/ We shall be free/ We shall be free/ Stand straight, walk proud/ We shall be free/ We shall be free (Repeat and fade)
He could see the storm clouds rollin' across the hill/ He barely beat the rain in from the field/ And between the backdoor slammin' she heard him say/ "Damn this ring and damn this wasted day"/ But she'd been waitin' for this day for oh so long/ She was standin' in the kitchen with nothin' but her apron on/ And in disbelief he stood and he stared a while/ When their eyes met, they both began to smile/ (Chorus) Somewhere other than the night/ She needs to hear I love you/ Somewhere other than the night/ She needs to know you care/ She wants to know she's needed/ She needs to be held tight/ Somewhere other than the night// They spent the day wrapped up in a blanket on the front porch swing/ He'd come to realize he'd neglected certain things/ And there are times she feels alone even by his side/ It was the first time she ever saw him cry/ (Repeat Chorus)/ To know she's needed/ She needs to be held tight/ Somewhere other than the night
I went to work for her that summer/ A teenage kid so far from home/ She was a lonely widow woman/ Hell bent to make it on her own/ We were a thousand miles from nowhere/ Wheat fields as far as I could see/ Both needin' somethin' from each other/ Not knowin' yet what that might be/ 'Til she came to me one evening/ Hot cup of coffee and a smile/ In a dress that I was certain/ She hadn't worn in quite a while/ There was a difference in her laughter/ There was a softness in her eyes/ And on the air there was a hunger/ Even a boy could recognize/ (Chorus) She had a need to feel the thunder/ To chase the lightnin' from the skies/ To watch the storm with all its wonder/ Raging in her lover's eyes/ She had to ride the heat of passion/ Like a comet burnin' bright/ Rushing head long in the wind/ Out where only dreams had been/ Burnin' both ends of the night// That summer wind was all around me/ Nothin' between us but the night/ And when I told her that I'd never/ She softly whispered that's alright/ And then I watched her hands of leather/ Turn to velvet in a touch/ There's never been another summer/ When I have ever learned so much/ (Repeat Chorus) (We)/ I often think about that summer/ The sweat the moonlight and the lace/ And I have rarely held another/ When I haven't seen her face/ And every time I pass a wheat field/ Watch it dancin' with the wind/ Although I know it isn't real/ I just can't help but feel/ Her hungry arms again/ (Repeat Chorus)/ Rushing head long in the wind/ Out where only dreams had been/ Burnin' both ends of the night
I burned my hand, and I cut my face/ Heaven knows how long it's been/ Since I've felt so out of place/ I'm wonderin' if I'll fit in/ Debbie and Charley said they'd be here by nine/ And Deb said she might bring a friend/ Just my luck, they're right on time/ So here I go again/ (Chorus) I'm gonna smile my best smile/ And I'm gonna laugh like it's goin' out of style/ Look into her eyes and pray that she don't see/ That learning to live again is killing me// Little cafe, table for four/ But there's just conversation for three/ I like the way she let me get the door/ I wonder what she thinks of me/ Debbie just whispered, "You're doin' fine"/ And I wish that I felt the same/ She's asked me to dance, now her hand's in mine/ Oh, my God, I've forgotten her name/ (Repeat Chorus)/ Now here we are beneath her porch light/ And I say what a great time it's been/ A kiss on the cheek, a whisper goodnight/ And I say "can I see you again"/ And she just smiles her best smile/ And she laughs like it's goin' out of style/ Looks into my eyes and says, "We'll see"/ Oh this learning to live again is killing me/ God this learning to live again is killing me
Six o'clock on Friday evening/ Mama doesn't know she's leaving/ 'Til she hears the screen door slamming/ Rubber squealin', gears a-jamming/ Local country station just a-blarin' on the radio/ Pick him up at seven and they're headin' to the rodeo/ Mama's on the front porch screamin' out her warning/ Girl you better get your red head back in bed before the morning/ Nine o'clock the show is ending/ But the fun is just beginning/ She knows he's anticipating/ But she's gonna keep him waiting/ Grab a bite to eat and then they're headin' to the honky tonk/ But loud crowds and line dancing just ain't what they really want/ Drive out to the boondocks and park down by the creek/ And where it's George Strait 'til real late and dancing cheek to cheek/ (Chorus) Ain't going down 'til the sun comes up/ Ain't givin' in 'til they get enough/ Going 'round the world in a pickup truck/ Ain't goin' down 'til the sun comes up// Ten 'til twelve is wine and dancing/ Midnight starts the hard romancing/ One o'clock that truck is rocking/ Two is comin' still no stopping/ Break to check the clock at three/ They're right on where they wanna be/ And four o'clock get up get going/ Five o'clock that rooster's crowing/ (Repeat Chorus)/ Six o'clock on Saturday/ Her folks don't know he's on his way/ The stalls are clean the horses fed/ They say she's grounded 'til she'd dead/ And here he comes around the bend/ Slowing down she's jumping in/ Hey mom your daughter's gone/ And there they go again/ (Repeat Chorus)
If your paycheck depends on/ The weather and the clock/ If your conversation calls for/ A little more than a coffee pot/ If you need to pour your heart out/ And try to rectify some situation/ That you're facin'/ Contact your American Honky-Tonk Bar Association/ When Uncle Sam dips in your pocket/ For most things you don't mind/ But when your dollar goes to all of those/ Standing in the welfare line/ Rejoice you have a voice/ If you're concerned about the destination/ Of this great nation/ It's called the American Honky-Tonk Bar Association/ (Chorus) It represents the hard-hat (mud-flapped)/ Gunrack (six pack), achin'-back (beer-crack)/ Over-taxed, flag-wavin' fun lovin' crowd/ Their heart is in the music/ And they love to play it loud/ There's no forms or no applications/ There's no red tape administrations/ It's the American Honky-Tonk Bar Association// We're all one big family/ Throughout the cities and the towns/ We don't reach for handouts/ We reach for those who are down/ And every local chapter has a seven day a week/ Available consultation/ For your frustration/ It's called the American Honky-Tonk Bar Association/ (Repeat Chorus)/ Go join your American Honky-Tonk Bar Association/ Do not delay, contact today/ Your AHBA, your AHBA
We call them cool/ Those hearts that have no scars to show/ The ones that never do let go/ And risk the tables being turned/ We call them fools/ Who have to dance within the flame/ Who chance the sorrow and the shame/ That always comes with getting burned/ But you got to be tough when consumed by desire/ 'Cause it's not enough just to stand outside the fire/ We call them strong/ Those who can face this world alone/ Who seem to get by on their own/ Those who will never take the fall/ We call them weak/ Who are unable to resist/ The slightest chance love might exist/ And for that forsake it all/ They're so hell bent on giving, walking a wire/ Convinced it's not living if you stand outside the fire/ (Chorus) Standing outside the fire/ Standing outside the fire/ Life is not tried it is merely survived/ If you're standing outside the fire// There's this love that is burning deep in my soul/ Constantly yearning to get out of control/ Wanting to fly higher and higher/ I can't abide standing outside the fire/ (Repeat Chorus 3 times)
There's not a lot of things to do/ I wouldn't rather do with you/ Guess I'm funny in a way/ Lately I just sit and stare/ I talk to people who aren't there/ To get through one night a day/ (Chorus) One night a day/ One step away/ From leavin' you behind// I sit up with the radio/ Sing along with the ones I know/ To get through one night a day/ (Repeat Chorus)/ I'm callin' every friend I've had/ Wake 'em up and make 'em mad/ Let 'em know that I'm OK/ I used to sit and talk to you/ They're all just a substitute/ To get through one night a day/ (Repeat Chorus)/ I stay up with the late, late show/ Just another way I know/ To get through one night a day/ To get through one night a day
I spent last night in the arms/ Of a girl in Louisiana/ And though I'm out on the highway/ My thoughts are still with her/ Such a strange combination of a woman and a child/ Such a strange situation stoppin' every hundred miles/ Callin' Baton Rouge/ A replay of last night's events/ Roll through my mind/ Except a scene or two/ Erased by sweet red wine/ And I see a truck stop sign ahead/ So I change lanes/ I need a cup of coffee/ And a couple dollars change/ Callin' Baton Rouge/ (Chorus) Operator won't you put me on through/ I gotta send my love down to Baton Rouge/ Hurry up won't you put her on the line/ I gotta talk to the girl just one more time// Hello Samantha dear, I hope you're feelin' fine/ And it won't be long until I'm with you all the time/ But until then I'll spend my money up/ Right down to my last dime/ Callin' Baton Rouge/ (Repeat Chorus)/ Callin' Baton Rouge/ Sweet Baton Rouge/ My Baton Rouge
Moonlight on canvas, midnight and wine/ Two shadows starting to softly combine/ The picture they're painting is one of the heart/ And to those who have seen it, it's a true work of art/ (Chorus) Oh, the red strokes/ Passions uncaged/ Thundering moments of tenderness rage/ Oh, the red strokes/ Tempered and strong (Fearlessly drawn)/ Burning the night like the dawn// Steam on the window, salt in a kiss/ Two hearts have never pounded like this/ Inspired by a vision that they can't command/ Erasing the borders with each brush of a hand/ (Repeat Chorus)/ Oh, the blues will be blue and the jealousies green/ But when love picks its shade it demands to be seen/ (Repeat Chorus 2 times)/ Steam on the window, salt in a kiss/ Two hearts have never pounded like this
She's sun and rain, she's fire and ice/ A little crazy but it's nice/ And when she gets mad, you best leave her alone/ 'Cause she'll rage just like a river/ Then she'll beg you to forgive her/ She's every woman that I've ever known/ She's so New York and then L.A./ And every town along the way/ She's every place that I've never been/ She's making love on rainy nights/ She's a stroll through Christmas lights/ And she's everything I want to do again/ It needs no explanation/ 'Cause it all makes perfect sense/ For when it comes down to temptation/ She's on both sides of the fence/ No it needs no explanation/ 'Cause it all makes perfect sense/ When it comes down to temptation/ She's on both sides of the fence/ She's anything but typical/ She's so unpredictable/ Oh but even at her worst she ain't that bad/ She's as real as real can be/ And she's every fantasy/ Lord she's every lover that I've ever had/ And she's every lover that I've never had
He's got a split finger wrap/ And his rope's pulled way too tight/ He's got a lunatic smile/ 'Cause he's really drawn deep tonight/ He's got a fever, fever, fever, fever/ Grab a hold of anything and hold on tight/ It hits you like the venom from a rattlesnake bite/ We're all here 'cause he's not all there tonight/ He takes one last breath/ And time turns inside out/ Then the gate busts open/ To the world he dreams about/ He's got a fever, fever, fever, fever/ Stick a rope on anything 'cause he don't care/ He'd even take a ride in an electric chair/ We're all here 'cause he's not all there tonight/ He says it's really kinda simple/ Keep your mind in the middle/ While your butt spins 'round and 'round/ Take heed to Sankey's preachin'/ Keep liftin' and reachin'/ And ridin' like there ain't no clowns/ What he loves might kill him/ But he's got no choice/ He's a different breed/ With a voice down deep inside/ That's screamin' he was born to ride/ He's got a fever, fever, fever, fever/ Fever makes you crazy 'cause it makes no sense/ Like runnin' from your shadow out of self-defense/ But he won't run and baby he can't hide/ He thinks the odds are even leavin' one hand tied/ He gets so tired of hangin' on so tight/ I know you think he's crazy well I think you're right/ We're all here 'cause he's not all there that's right
They packed up all his buckles/ And shipped his saddle to his dad/ And by the way the house looked/ She must have took it bad/ The workers come on Monday/ To fix the door and patch the wall/ They say she just went crazy/ The night she got the call/ He was up in Wyoming/ And drew a bull no man could ride/ He promised her he'd turn out/ Well it turned out that he lied/ And all their dreams that they'd been livin'/ In the California sand/ Died right there beside him/ In Cheyenne/ (Chorus) They say she just went crazy/ Screamin' out his name/ She ran out into the ocean/ And to this day they claim/ That if you go down by the water/ You'll see her footprints in the sand/ 'Cause every night she walks/ the beaches of Cheyenne// They never found her body/ Just her diary by the bed/ It told about the fight they had/ And the words that she had said/ When he told her he was ridin'/ She said then I don't give a damn/ If you never come back from Cheyenne/ (Repeat Chorus)/ Nobody can explain it/ Some say she's still alive/ They even claim they've seen her/ On the shoreline late at night/ 'Cause if you go down by the water/ You'll see her footprints in the sand/ 'Cause every night she walks/ the beaches of Cheyenne/ Yes, every night she walks/ the beaches of Cheyenne
One hand/ Reaches out/ And pulls a lost soul from harm/ While a thousand more/ Go unspoken for/ And they say what good have you done/ By saving just this one/ It's like whispering a prayer/ In the fury of a storm/ (Chorus) And I hear them saying you'll never change things/ And no matter what you do it's still the same thing/ But it's not the world that I am changing/ I do this so this world will know/ That it will not change me/ This heart/ Still believes/ That love and mercy still exist/ While all the hatreds rage and so many say/ That love is all but pointless in madness such as this/ It's like trying to stop a fire/ With the moisture from a kiss/ (Repeat Chorus)/ As long as one heart still holds on/ Then hope is never really gone/ I hear them saying you'll never change things/ And no matter what you do it's still the same thing/ But it's not the world that I am changing/ I do this so this world we know/ Never changes me/ What I do is so/ This world will know/ That it will not change me
It's midnight Cinderella but don't you worry none/ 'Cause I'm Peter Peter the Pumpkin Eater/ And the party's just begun/ I guess your prince charming/ Wasn't after all/ 'Cause he sure seemed different/ Right after the ball/ I guess more than horses/ Are turnin' into rats/ And by the way he's walkin'/ I can guess where your slipper's at/ (Chorus) It's midnight Cinderella time that you should know/ There's gonna be some changes in the way this story goes/ It's midnight Cinderella but don't you worry none/ 'Cause I'm Peter Peter the Pumpkin Eater/ And the party's just begun// I'm gonna help you get over/ Bein' under that spell/ You're gonna learn to love midnight/ Inside this pumpkin shell/ I gotta few new magic tricks/ You godmother can't do/ And I'll show you what it means to/ Bip, bip, bip, bip, boppity boo/ (Repeat Chorus)/ It's Peter Peter the Pumpkin Eater/ And the party has now begun
She dropped her boy at school on time/ One less worry on her mind/ Now it's off to work and on the radio/ Comes an old familiar song/ And then the D.J.'s voice comes on/ And says he's back in town tonight for one last show/ Her eyes well up with tears/ God could it be it's been ten years/ Since that Autumn night outside the county fair/ When two strangers shared a night/ And in the darkness found a light/ That to this day is still alive and burning there/ He asked her twice to come along/ They said good-bye at the break of dawn/ 'Cause you can't hold back the wind/ If it's meant to be again/ Then someday he'll find his way back to her arms/ The marquee misspelled his name/ And not too many people came/ But that didn't matter to them/ They laughed and loved all through the night/ And as they faced the morning light/ They found themselves standing there again/ And he asked her twice to come along/ They said good-bye at the break of dawn/ As his bus left out she cried/ With him standing by her side/ That ol' wind had once again found it's way home/ Someday he'll tell her about the money he hid/ And someday she'll tell him that the boy is his kid/ But for right now they're both in love/ The only thing they're thinkin' of/ Is that they're finally where their hearts have always been
In another’s eyes I’m someone who/ Loves her enough to walk away from you/ I’d never cheat, I’d never lie/ In another’s eyes/ In another’s eyes I can do no wrong/ He believes in me and his faith is strong/ I’d never fall or even compromise/ In another’s eyes/ (Chorus) In another’s eyes I’m afraid that I can’t see/ This picture perfect portrait that they paint of me/ They don’t realize and I pray they never do/ ‘Cause every time I look I’m seein’ you/ In another’s eyes// In another’s eyes starin’ back at me/ I see a sinking soul trying desperately/ To turn the tide before it dies/ In another’s eyes/ And what they don’t see is killing me/ And it’s a blessing and a curse that love is blind/ (Repeat Chorus)
(Chorus) Longneck bottle/ Let go of my hand/ Hey jukebox don’t start playin’ that song again/ ‘Cause there’s a girl at home who loves me/ You know she won’t understand/ Longneck bottle/ Let go of my hand// Hey barroom mirror on the wall/ Go stare at someone else/ Don’t show the world the fool I am/ Just keep it to yourself/ (Repeat Chorus)/ Dance floor seems you’re underneath my feet/ Everywhere I turn/ I oughta waltz right out of them swingin’ doors/ But that’s a step I just can’t turn/ (Repeat Chorus)/ There’s a girl at home who loves me/ You know she won’t understand/ Longneck bottle/ Let go of my hand
He followed her to work this morning/ He’d never seen that dress before/ She seemed to sail right through/ Those dark clouds forming/ That he knows he’s headed for/ After seven years of marriage/ He wanted out/ Now after seven months of freedom/ It’s clear that there’s no doubt/ (Chorus) She’s gonna make it/ And he never will/ He’s at the foot of the mountain/ And she’s over that hill/ He’s sinkin’ at sea/ And her sails are filled/ She’s gonna make it/ And he never will// And you know it’s not like she’s forgot about him/ She’s just dealing with the pain/ And the fact that she’s survived so well without him/ You know it’s driving him insane/ And the crazy thing about it/ Is she’d take him back/ But the fool in him that walked out/ Is the fool who just won’t ask/ (Repeat Chorus)/ She’s gonna make it/ He never will
I was feelin’ the blues/ I was watching the news/ When this fella came on the TV/ He said I’m tellin’ you/ That science have proven/ That heartaches are healed by the sea/ That got me goin’/ Without even knowin’/ I packed right up and drove down/ Now I’m on a roll/ And I swear to my soul/ Tonight I’m gonna paint this town/ (Chorus) So bring me two pina coladas/ One for each hand/ Let’s set sail with Captain Morgan/ And never leave dry land/ Troubles I forgot ‘em/ I buried ‘em in the sand/ So bring two pina coladas/ She said good-bye to her good timin’ man// Oh now I’ve gotta say/ That the wind and the waves/ And the moon winkin’ down at me/ Eases my mind/ By leavin’ behind/ The heartaches that love often brings/ Now I’ve got a smile/ That goes on for miles/ With no inclination to roam/ I’ve gotta say/ That I think I’ve gotta stay/ ‘Cause this is feelin’ more and more like home/ (Repeat Chorus twice and fade)
When the rain is blowing in your face/ And the whole world is on your case/ I could offer you a warm embrace/ To make you feel my love/ When evening shadows and the stars appear/ And there is no one to dry your tears/ I could hold you for a million years/ To make you feel my love/ I know you haven’t made your mind up yet/ But I would never do you wrong/ I’ve known it from the moment that we met/ There’s no doubt in my mind where you belong/ I’d go hungry, I’d go black and blue/ I’d go crawling down the avenue/ There ain’t nothing that I wouldn’t do/ To make you feel my love/ The storms are raging on a rolling sea/ And on the highway of regret/ The winds of change are blowing wild and free/ You ain’t seen nothin’ like me yet/ There ain’t nothing that I wouldn’t do/ Go to the ends of the earth for you/ Make you happy make you dreams come true/ To make you feel my love
This is how it seems to me/ Life is only therapy/ Real expensive/ And no guarantee/ So I lie here on the couch/ With my heart hanging out/ Frozen solid with fear/ Like a rock in the ground/ (Chorus) But you move me/ You give me courage I didn't know I had/ You move me/ I can't go with you/ And stay where I am/ So you move me// This is how love was to me/ I could look and not see/ Going through the emotions/ Not knowin' what they mean/ And it scared me so much/ That I just wouldn't budge/ I might have stayed there forever/ If not for your touch/ (2nd Chorus) Oh but you move me/ Out of myself and into the fire/ You move me/ Now I'm burning with love/ And with hope and desire/ How you move me// You go whistling in the dark/ Making light of it/ Making light of it/ And I follow with my heart/ Laughing all the way/ (3rd Chorus) Oh 'cause you move me/ You get me dancing and you make me sing/ You move me/ Now I'm taking delight/ In every little thing/ How you move me// Whoa, you move me/ Whoa, you move me/ Whoa, you move me
Standing in the spotlight/ On such a perfect night/ Knowing that you're out there listening/ I remember one time/ When I was so afraid/ Didn't think I had the courage/ To stand up on this stage/ Then you reached into my heart/ And you found the melody/ And if there ever was somebody/ Who made me believe in me/ It was you/ It was you/ (Chorus) It was your song that made me sing/ It was your voice that gave me wings/ It was your light that shined/ Guiding my heart to find this place where I belong/ It was your song/ Every night I pray/ Before the music starts to play/ I'll do my best and I won't let you down/ And for all the times I've stood here/ This feeling feels brand new/ Anytime I doubt myself/ I think of you/ (Repeat Chorus) Dreams can come true/ God's great angels like you/ (Repeat Chorus) It was your song/ It's always been your song
There’s no more waiting/ Holding out for love/ You are my Godsend/ That I have been forever dreaming of/ My angel from above/ (1st Chorus) Heaven knows, I’m head over heels and it shows/ I've played every field, I suppose/ But there’s something about you/ When you’re around baby I have found/ I get lost in you// What is this feeling/ I’ve never known before/ That I should dare to/ Swear to surrender ever more/ That’s what I came here for/ (2nd Chorus) Heaven knows, I’m head over heels and it shows/ I've played every field, I suppose/ But there’s something about you/ When you’re around baby I have found/ I get lost in a wonderful daze/ (lost in your wonderful ways)// Heaven knows/ When you’re around baby I have found/ I get lost/ (Repeat 1st Chorus)
It don't matter to the sun/ If you go or if you stay/ I know the sun is gonna rise/ Shine down on another day/ There will still be a tomorrow/ Even if you choose to leave/ 'Cause it don't matter to the sun/ It matters to me// It ain't gonna stop the world/ If you walk out that door/ This old world will just keep on turning 'round/ Like it did the day before/ 'Cause see to them it makes no difference/ It just keeps on dropin' time/ 'Cause it ain't gonna stop the world/ But it'll be the end of mine// What can I say/ What can I do/ I'm still in love/ So without you// What can I say/ What can I do/ I'm still in love/ So without you// It don't matter to the moon/ It you're not in my life/ No the moon will just keep hangin' 'round/ Like it's just another night/ Find another place to shine on down/ On some other lovers dreams/ 'Cause it don't matter to the moon/ But it sure does matter to me/ No it don't matter to the moon/ But it matters to me
Maybe it's the movies/ Maybe it's the books/ Maybe it's the government and all the other crooks/ Maybe it's the drugs/ Maybe it's the parents/ Maybe it's the gangs/ Or the colors that we're wearing/ Maybe it's the high schools/ Maybe it's the teachers/ Tatoos, pipe bombs underneath the bleachers/ Maybe it's the music/ Maybe it's the crack/ Maybe it's the bible/ Or could it be the lack/ Come on people now/ Smile on your brother/ Everybody get together/ Try to love one another/ Right now/ Right now// Okay Maybe it's the papers/ Maybe it's the family/ Maybe it's the internet, radio, T.V./ Maybe it's the president/ Maybe it's the last one/ Maybe it's the one before that/ Maybe it's the atheletes/ Maybe it's the ads/ Maybe it's the sports fans, agents, fads/ Maybe it's the homeless, aliens, immigrants/ Maybe it's life/ Don't tell me that it's imminent/ Come on people now/ Smile on your brother/ Everybody get together/ Try to love one another/ Right now// Come on people now/ Smile on your brother/ Everybody get together/ Try to love one another/ Right Now/ You gotta love one another// Maybe it's the fallout/ Maybe it's the ozone/ Maybe it's the chemicals, the radiation, cell phones/ Maybe it's the magazines/ Maybe it's the next page, the lotteries, fast food, bad pleasure, road rage/ Maybe it's the unions, big business/ Maybe it's the KKK, and the skinheads/ Maybe it's the daughters/ Maybe the the sons/ Maybe it's the brothers or the mothers with the guns/ Come on people now/ Smile on your brother/ Everybody get together/ Try to love one another/ Right now// Come on people now/ Smile on your brother/ Everybody get together/ Try to love one another/ Right Now// You know if we don't talk about it/ It ain't gonna gonna get better/ You gotta love one another/ So what do you say/ Let's talk/ Maybe it's the arts/ Maybe it's the sex/ Maybe it's the talk shows/ Maybe it's a reflex/ Maybe it's the taxes/ Maybe it's the system,/ Judges, lawyers, prisons/ Maybe it's the Catholics/ Maybe it's the Protestents/ Maybe it's the addicts,/ And the hippies, and the communists/ Maybe it's a fashion/ Maybe it's a trend/ Maybe it's the future/ Maybe it's the end
Sometimes you've got to take the heat
If you're gonna walk down on the mean street
Take the heat and you see it through
'Cause sometimes it comes down to
Do what you gotta do
Sometimes it goes right down to the wire
And you might have to walk through the fire
Walk on, boy, all the way through
Sometimes it just comes down to
Do what you gotta do
Well, there's people that'll tell you it's just no use
And there's people that'll tell you that you're gonna lose
People that'll tell you anything you're gonna listen to
Do what you gotta do
Someday they're going to call you name
They'll come looking for someone to blame
What's you name, boy, hey, you just tell them true
'Cause they can't take the truth from you
So do what you gotta do
Well, they'll call you a hero or a traitor
But you'll find out that sooner of later
Nobody in the world is gonna do it for you
Do what you gotta do
There ain't nobody in the world that's gonna do it for you
Do what you gotta do
There’s a ship out on the ocean
At the mercy of the sea
It’s been tossed about, lost and broken
Wandering aimlessly
And God, somehow you know that ship is me
‘Cause there’s a lighthouse in a harbor
Shining faithfully
Pouring it’s light out across the water
For this sinking soul you see
That someone out there still believes in me
(Chorus)
On a prayer, in a song
I hear your voice and it keeps me hanging on
All through rain and doubt, against the wind
I’m reaching out till we reach the circle’s end
When you come back to me again
There’s a moment that we all come to
In our own time and our own space
Where all that we’ve done we can undo
If our heart’s in the right place
(Repeat Chorus)
And again I see my yesterdays in front of me
Unfolding like a mystery
You’re changing all that is and used to be
(Repeat Chorus)
When you come back to me again
From a phone booth in Cheyenne
I made a promise to Diane
No more rodeos
I’d gone my last go ‘round
The same promise that I made
In San Antone and Santa Fe
But tonight I saddled up
And let her down
(Chorus)
Wild horses keep draggin’ me away
And I’ll lose more than I’m gonna win someday
Wild horses just stay wild
And her heart is all I break
Wild horses keep draggin’ me away
She’ll watch me drive around her block
Gettin’ courage up to stop
To make her one more promise
That I can’t keep
The way I love the rodeo
I guess I should let her go
Before I hurt her more
Than she loves me
(Repeat Chorus—twice)
B Double E Double Are You In
Twenty-five minutes past quitting time
Seven of us crammed into that truck of mine
Paying no attention to the highway signs
Doing ninety miles an hour toward the county line
Quick sack, twelve pack, back again
It’s a B double E double are you in?
My buddies and their babies letting down their hair
As long as we’re together, it don’t matter where
Ain’t got a lot of money, but we just don’t care
Knowing half the fun is in the getting there
Aztec, long necks, paychecks spent
It’s a B double E double are you in?
I can’t stop thinking what the hell they were drinking
When they made this county dry
I got a week long thirst and to make it worse
Lord, it’s my turn to drive
Laughing and bragging and a' carrying on
We loaded up the wagons and we headed home
I guess half a dozen cases doesn’t last that long
Come tomorrow morning it’ll be all gone
Then, it’s turn around, leave town, sounds again
Like a B double E double are you in?
Hey, like a B double E double are you in?
Hey, come on Garth, let’s get in the truck
Okay, but I’m driving
How do I love you, well let me see
I love you like a lyric loves a melody
Baby, completely, wrapped up in you
How do I need you, well can’t you tell
I need you like a penny needs a wishing well
Baby, completely, wrapped up in you
Every now and then when the world that we’re living in is crazy
You gladly hold me and carry me through
No one in the world has ever done what you do for me and I’d be
Sad and lonely if there were no you
How do I love you, well count the ways
There ain’t no number high enough to end this phrase
Baby, completely, wrapped up in you
Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba
Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba
Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba
Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba
Every now and then when the world that we’re living in is crazy
You gladly hold me and carry me through
No one in the world has ever done what you do for me and I’d be
Sad and lonely if there were no you
How do I love you, well, don’t you know
I love you about as deep as any love can grow
Baby, completely, wrapped up in you
Baby, completely, wrapped up in you
Honey, I know you got a good job
You're out there making all that dough
They keep you late working that overtime
And I don't ever see you no more
I guess you're not checking your message machine
Seems like you're never in
But I've got a hunch if was can just do lunch
I could get your attention again
(Bridge)
I know you've got your schedule and you're keeping it tight
You've got something going morning, noon and night
But I've got something here I think you're going to like
Honey, can you squeeze me in
(Chorus)
Whoever said it's a man's world
Don't know what he's talking about
You've got me working around the clock
Honey, trying to figure you out
I know time is money
But there's more to life, honey
Than how much you can spend
You've got to make a little time for the good times
Honey, can you squeeze me in
I've got it circled in red on the calendar, baby
You told me that tonight's the night
I've got the champagne chilled
I've got a gourmet meal, soft music and candlelight
I try to get you on the phone, I get stuck on hold
I guess you keep getting sidetracked
I've been faxing you love notes all day long
But you don't ever fax me back
(Repeat Bridge)
(Repeat Chorus)
She was born in Kansas City, raised in Arkansas
Fell in love with an “ex-Marine”
She already had three babies; he had one of his own
They came together for another and me
Our family never shared the same last name
But our family was a family the same
(and they say) blood is thicker than water
Oh, but love is thicker than blood
Wreck out on the highway, rain falling down
Lord, he must have fell asleep at the wheel
There’s a number of people just standing around
Lord, I can’t condemn the fear that they feel
For that river of red could be the death of me
God, give me strength and keep reminding me
That blood is thicker than water
Oh, but love is thicker than blood
And if blood is thicker than water
Well, then what are we fighting for
We’re all sons and daughters
Of something that means so much more
I see it on my TV but I can’t understand
Lord, it’s one big contradiction to me
How in God’s name we love thy neighbor with fists in our hands
And kill each other when we just don’t agree
Why can’t we see the walls we can’t see through
And see what God’s been telling me and you
(and that is) blood is thicker than water
Oh, but love, love is thicker than blood
She was born in Kansas City, raised in Arkansas
Fell in love with an “ex-Marine”
I can hear that highway calling
As I watch the sunrise crawling across her shoulder
This is usually goodbye
And yet those words I just can’t find here as I hold her
She’s like no other woman
That I have ever known before
And it ain’t me to see the morning sun
From this side of the door
(1st Chorus)
Why ain’t I running, why ain’t I gone
How does she hold me without holding on
In love or a fight, she’s stronger than strong
Something’s not right if there ain’t nothing wrong
It’s got me wondering, why ain’t I running
Why ain’t I gone
All those worlds I left behind me
Praying they would never find me and my freedom
But if they stood right here beside me
They would never recognize me for all that she’s done
Once happiness was only
Whenever I was on my own
So now why do I feel lonely
Any time that I’m alone
(2nd Chorus)
Why ain’t I running, why ain’t I gone
How does she hold me without holding on
In love or a fight, she’s stronger than strong
Something’s not right if there ain’t nothing wrong
It’s got me wondering, why ain’t I running
No, they’ve never built a wall that high
Or made a chain that strong
And God ain’t never made a place
I felt like I belong
(Repeat 1st Chorus)
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