When She Wakes Up (And Finds Me Gone) (contributed by Craig Petroske)
(written by Tommy Barnes)
With a trembling pen in hand, I try the best I can
To write all the reasons I can't stay
And I hope she'll understand, I can't leave her like a man
'Cause a man would never leave her this way
A note of things I should've said
Lays beside her sleeping head
As I turn and make my way off in the night
By the time the morning's breaking
My heart will still be aching
Every time I think of what I've left behind
(Chorus)
'Cause I don't want to see me leaving in her eyes
And I can't stand to watch her watch me make her cry
And I don't know a right way I can do her wrong
So I don't want to be here in the morning
When she wakes up and finds me gone
It hurts to know how much she'll hurt
I've told myself things could be worse
And I've convinced myself she's better off this way
By the time she finds I'm gone
I'll be a long, long way from home
When she reads the note of things I couldn't say
(Repeat chorus)
Lord, I don't want to be here in the morning
When she wakes up and finds me gone
Where The Green Grass Grows (contributed by Craig Petroske)
(written by Jess Leary and Craig Wiseman)
Six lanes, taillights
Red ants marchin' into the night
They disappear to the left and right again
Another supper from a sack
A ninety-nine cent heart attack
I got a poundin' head and an achin' back
And the camel's buried in a big straw stack
(Chorus)
I'm gonna live where the green grass grows
Watchin' my corn pop up in rows
Every night be tucked in close to you
Raise our kids where the good Lord's best
Point our rocking chairs towards the west
Plant our dreams where the peaceful river flows
Where the green grass grows
Well I'm from a map dot
A stop sign on a black top
I caught the first bus I could hop from there
But all of this glitter is gettin' dark
There's concrete growin' in the city park
I don't know who my neighbors are
But there's bars on the corners and bars on my heart
(Repeat Chorus twice)
