Operator please connect me with 1982/ I need to make apologies for what I didn�t do/ I sure do need to tell her that I�ve thought the whole thing through/ And now it�s clear that she is what I should have held onto/ (Chorus) They say hindsight�s 20/20 but I�m nearly going blind/ From staring at her photograph and wishing she was mine/ It�s that same ole lost love story/ It�s sad but it�s true/ There was a time when she was mine in 1982// Postman can you sell me a special kind of stamp/ One to send a letter from this crazy, lonely man/ Back into the wasted years of my living past/ I need to tell her now I know how long my love will last/ (Repeat Chorus)// Losing my mind, going back in time to 1982
On one hand I count the reasons I could stay with you/ And hold you close to me all night long/ So many lovers� games I�d love to play with you/ On that hand there�s no reason why it�s wrong/ (Chorus) But on the other hand there�s a golden band/ To remind me of someone who would not understand/ On one hand I could stay and be your loving man/ But the reason I must go is on the other hand// In your arms I feels the passions I thought had died/ When I looked into your eyes I found myself/ And when I first kissed your lips I felt so alive/ I�ve got to hand it to your girl, you�re something else/ (Repeat Chorus)// Yeah, the reason I must go is on the other hand
Last night I took your picture out from our old dresser drawer/ I set it on the table and I talked to it �til four/ I read some old love letters right up �til the break of dawn/ Yeah, I�ve been sittin� alone diggin� up bones/ Then, I went through the jewelry and I found our wedding rings/ I put mine on my finger and I gave yours a fling/ Across this lonely bedroom of our recent broken home/ Yeah, tonight I�m sittin� along diggin� up bones/ (Chorus) I�m diggin� up bones, I�m diggin� up bones/ Exhuming things that�s better left alone/ I�m resurrecting memories of a love that�s dead and gone/ Yeah, tonight I�m sittin� alone diggin� up bones// Then, I went through the closet and I found some things in there/ Like that pretty neglig�e that I bought you to wear/ And I recall how good you looked each time you had it on/ Yeah, tonight I�m sittin� alone diggin� up bones/ (Repeat Chorus)// I�m resurrecting memories of a love that�s dead and gone/ Yeah, tonight I�m sittin� alone diggin� up bones/ (Repeat Chorus�twice to fade)
Well, there�s my easy chair just sittin� there/ I�ve spent a lot of time/ Thinkin� of this perfect love/ I know is yours and mine/ And oh how I love that old picture on the wall/ Of you and me and the kids/ My most favorite times in life/ I�ve spent right here where we live/ (Chorus) There�s no place like home/ There�s no place like home/ It just hit me as I was leavin�/ There�s no place like home// From the bedroom I smell perfume/ My favorite kind you wore/ And it brings back memories of all those nights/ Behind our bedroom door/ And the saddest things I think I�ve ever seen/ Was my closet all cleaned out/ It�s sad to think that one must leave/ �Cause we can�t work things out/ (Repeat Chorus)// So, baby say that I can stay for just a day or so/ Then maybe I can change your mind and I won�t have to go/ Just look into these baby blues and tell me it�s okay/ I love that smile, it drives me wild/ No love won�t die today/ There�s no place like home/ There�s no place like home
You may think that I�m talking foolish/ You�ve heard that I�m wild and I�m free/ You may wonder how I can promise you now/ This love that I feel for you always will be/ You�re not just time that I�m killing/ I�m no longer one of those guys/ As sure as I live this love that I give/ Is gonna be yours until the day that I die/ (Chorus) I�m gonna love you forever/ Forever and ever, Amen/ As long as old men sit and talk about the weather/ As long as old women sit and talk about old men/ If you wonder how long I�ll be faithful/ I�ll be happy to tell you again (Just listen to how this song ends)/ I�m gonna love you forever and ever/ Forever and ever, Amen// They say time takes its toll on a body/ Makes a young girl�s brown hair turn gray/ Well honey I don�t care I ain�t in love with your hair/ And if it all fell out I�ve love you anyway/ They say time can play tricks on a memory/ Make people forget things they knew/ Well it�s easy to see it�s happening to me/ I�ve already forgotten every woman but you/ (Repeat Chorus)// I�m gonna love you forever and ever/ Forever and ever, Forever and ever/ Forever and ever, Amen
You�re my always-and-forever/ You�re the one that hung the moon/ After all these nights together/ I still get lost in your perfume/ And if I could write a love song/ Every line would tell the truth/ It would be a warm and soft one/ And my heart would say to you/ (Chorus) When you see me walk on water/ When the sea don�t reach the shore/ When the fires of hell freeze over/ I won�t need you anymore// Oh the feelings lay so easy/ Lying here the way we are/ No one else could ever hold me/ Like the heavens hold the stars/ (Repeat Chorus)// I won�t need you anymore
You�ve been too gone for too long/ It�s too late to come back now/ It�s been so long since you�ve walked out my door/ Now you�re just an old song nobody sings anymore/ I�ve got a new love and she�s a true love/ But darlin� how could you have known/ You�ve been too gone for too long/ Now it�s too late to come back home/ You came a long way goin� the wrong way/ Don�t even set your suitcase down/ You wanted to roam, now you�re paying the bills/ You�re an old rolling stone who rolled over the hill/ I had a good cry when you said goodbye/ I didn�t want to let you go/ But you�ve been too gone for too long/ Now it�s too late to come back home/ I had a good cry when you said goodbye/ I didn�t want to let you go/ But you�ve been too gone for too long/ So why don�t you just stay gone/ Now you�ve been too gone for too long/ Now it�s too late to come back home
Suppose I called you up tonight/ And told you that I love you/ And suppose I said I want to come back home/ And suppose I cried and said I think I finally learned my lesson/ And I�m tired of spending all my time alone/ If I told you that I realize you�re all I ever wanted/ And it�s killing me to be so far away/ Would you tell me that you love me too and would we cry together/ Or would you simply laugh at me and say/ (Chorus) I told you so, I told you so/ I told you someday you�d come crawling back/ And asking me to take you in/ I told you so but you had to go/ Now I�ve found somebody new/ And you will never break my heart in two again// If I got down on my knees/ And told you I was yours forever/ Would you get down on yours too and take my hand/ Would we get that old-time feeling/ Would we laugh and talk for hours/ The way we did when our love first began/ Would you tell me that you�ve missed me too/ And that you�ve been so lonely/ And you�ve waited for the day that I returned/ And we�d live and love forever/ And that I�m your one-and-only/ Or would you say the tables finally turned/ And would you say�/ (Repeat Chorus)// Now I�ve found somebody new/ And you will never break my heart in two again
Dirt road in the twilight, woods so cool and dark/ Up ahead pale neon, somewhere a dog barks/ Honky tonk moon keeps shining on my baby and me/ Breaking up the pool balls, chalking up the cues/ Jukebox pumping softly, lazy summer blues/ Honky tonk moon keeps shining on my baby and me/ Through the blue smoky haze, all through the days/ Troubles seem to melt away/ My heart�s on a roll, I�m easy in my soul/ There�s no hurry no worry, things are going my way/ My arms around my baby shuffling on the floor/ Cigarettes and sawdust, squeaky old screen door/ Honky tonk moon keeps shining on my baby and me/ Through the blue smoky haze, all through the days/ Troubles seem to melt away/ My heart�s on a roll, I�m easy in my soul/ There�s no hurry no worry, things are going my way/ Outside the dark has fallen, stars are winking bright/ An old hoot owl is calling, everything�s all right/ Honky tonk moon keeps shining on my baby and me/ Honky tonk moon keeps shining on my baby and me
I�ve heard those city singers singing �bout how they can love/ Deeper than the oceans, higher than the stars above/ Well, I come from the country and I know I ain�t seen it all/ But I�ve heard that ocean�s salty and the stars, they sometimes fall/ And that would not do justice to the way I feel for you/ So I had to sing a song about all the things I knew/ (Chorus) My love is deeper than the holler/ Stronger than the river/ Higher than the pine trees growing tall upon the hill/ My love is purer than the snowflakes/ That fall in late December/ Honest as a robin on a springtime window sill/ And longer than the song of a whippoorwill// From the back roads to the Broadway shows/ With a million miles between/ There�s a least a million love songs that people love to sing/ Everyone is different and everyone�s the same/ This just another way of saying the same thing/ (Repeat Chorus�twice)// A whippoorwill
Being without you has turned out to be so inconvenient/ And wishing I was with you just seems to use up all my time/ You�ve been gone so long that it�s hard to recall/ Just how the dream went/ And all but this broken heart in me I guess is doing fine/ (Chorus) Is it still over? Are we still through?/ Since my phone still ain�t ringing I assume it still ain�t you/ I�ve half the mind to take the time to find somebody new/ But I�m not too sure that I�m still over you// That lie that I tried to slip by you/ Was told with good intentions/ It was just another way to say I love you/ And protect you from the truth/ And half a pound of cure is surely worth a half an ounce of pure prevention/ And trying to explain while I�m insane/ Is the hardest thing I�ve ever tried to do/ (Repeat Chorus�twice)// If I repeat myself it�s �cause I�ve nothing else to do/ And I�m not too sure that I�m still over you/ I�m not too sure that I�m still over you
Cheap perfume and painted faces/ Fallin� angels fill the places/ Where I go when my troubles pull me down/ All the lies I know they�ll tell me/ And the time that they will sell me/ For a while I�ll be the biggest man in town/ Back at home in bed she�s cryin�/ For her love for me is dying/ But she�ll pray I make it safely through the night/ When the mornin� sun starts showin�/ To her bedside I�ll be goin�/ And she�ll hold me while I face the mornin� light/ And I�ll make promises, promises to change/ I�ll make her promises, swear I�ll rearrange/ And I�ll start giving all the love she needs if only she will stay/ Once again she�ll reassure me/ And I believe her love will cure me/ And I�ll fall asleep with tears on my face/ And I know she�s just a woman/ And her love can�t last forever/ And someday soon I know she�ll leave without a trace/ For broken promises will tear her dreams apart/ Just token promises will someday break her heart/ And for the last time, she�ll hold me when I cry/ And while I�m sleepin� she�ll quietly say good-bye
Someday, someway, you�ll realize that you�ve been blind/ Yes darlin�, you�re gonna need me again/ It�s just a matter of time/ Go on, go on, �til you�ve reached the end of the line/ �Cause I know you�ll pass my way again/ It�s just a matter of time/ After I gave you everything I had/ You laughed and called me a clown/ Remember in your search for fortune and fame/ What goes up must come down/ I know, I know that one day you�ll wake up and find/ That my love is a true love/ It�s just a matter of time/ Someday, in some way, girl you�ll realize that you�ve been blind/ Yes darlin�, I know you�re gonna need me again/ It�s just a matter of time/ After I gave you everything I had/ You laughed and called me a clown/ Remember in your search for fortune and fame/ What goes up must come down/ I know, I know that one day you�ll wake up and find/ That my love was a true love/ It�s just a matter of time
Since the day I was lead to temptation/ And in weakness did let your love down/ I have prayed that with time and compassion/ You�d come around/ (Chorus) And I keep waiting for you to forgive me/ And you keep saying you can�t even start/ And I feel like a stone you have picked up and thrown/ To the hard rock bottom of your heart/ To the hard rock bottom of your heart// Now this home we have built is still standing/ Its foundation is on solid ground/ Do we roll up our sleeves and repair it/ Or burn it down/ (Repeat Chorus)// We can�t just block it out/ We�ve got to talk it out/ Until our hearts get back in touch/ I need your love, I miss it/ I can�t go on like this/ It hurts too much/ (Repeat Chorus)// To the hard rock bottom of your heart/ To the hard rock bottom of your heart
He wore starched white shirts, buttoned at the neck/ He�d sit in the shade and watch the chickens peck/ And his teeth were gone, but what the heck/ I thought that he walked on water/ Said he was a cowboy when he was young/ He could handle a rope and he was good with a gun/ And my mama�s daddy was as old as the sun/ And I thought that he walked on water/ (Chorus) If the story is told only heaven knows/ But his hat seemed to me like an old halo/ And though his wings they were never seen/ I thought that he walked on water// He tied a cord to the end of a mop/ And said �Son here�s a pony, keep her at a trot�/ And I�d ride in circles while he laughed a lot/ Then I�d flop down beside him/ And he was ninety years old in �63/ And I loved him and he loved me/ And Lord I cried the day he died/ �Cause I thought that he walker on water/ (Repeat Chorus)// I thought that he walked on water
Not too many years ago when dreams weren�t coming true/ I�d reach for inspiration, sometimes it would be you/ I�d hear you on the radio, I sure did like your sound/ Say it�s good to know there�s still a few ole country boys around/ From the smoke it�s hard to tell what�s coming down the line/ We heard you were a fast train coming out of Caroline/ We wondered what you were hauling when you rolled into town/ Say it�s good to know there�s still a few ole country boys around/ You must have felt that same ole feeling more than once or twice/ Guitars pressed against out hearts under the neon lights/ I�ve got to say that feeling is the best that I have found/ Lord, it�s good to know there�s still a few ole country boys around/ There�s a lot of truth, you know, in our kind of songs/ About the life you�re living and how love�s done you wrong/ As long as there�s a jukebox and a honky-tonkin� town/ It�s good to know there�s still a few ole country boys around/ It�s good to know there�s still a few ole country boys around
I ain�t lived forever, but I�ve lived enough/ I�ve learned to be gentle and I�ve learned to be tough/ I found only two things that last to the end/ One is your heroes, the other�s your friends/ (Chorus) Your heroes will help you find good in yourself/ Your friends won�t forsake you for somebody else/ They�ll both stand beside you through thick and through thin/ And that�s how it goes with heroes and friends// I grew up with cowboys I watched on TV/ My friends and I sometimes pretended to be/ Years have gone by, but now and again/ My heart rides the reins with my heroes and friends/ (Repeat Chorus)// And that�s how it goes with heroes and friends
There is a point when you can not walk away/ When you to stand up straight and tall and mean the words you say/ There is a point you must decide just to do it �cause it�s right/ That�s when you become a point of light/ There is a darkness that everyone must face/ It wants to take what�s good and fair lay it all to waste/ And that darkness covers everything in sight/ Until it meets a single point of light/ (Chorus) All it takes is a point of light/ A ray of hope in the darkest night/ If you see what�s wrong and you try to make it right/ You will be a point of light// There are heroes whose names we never hear/ A dedicated army of quiet volunteers/ Reaching out to feed the hungry, reaching out to save the land/ Reaching out to help their fellow man/ There are dreamers who are making dreams come true/ Taking time to teach the children there�s nothing they can�t do/ Giving shelter to the homeless, giving hope to those without/ Isn�t that what this land�s all about/ One by one from the mountains to the sea/ Points of light are calling out to you and me/ (Repeat Chorus)// If you see what�s wrong and you try to make it right/ You will be a point of light
First we were strangers down on our luck/ And both in need of a friend/ We promised each other too much to live up to/ And now we�re strangers again/ I came like a stranger and you took me in/ And I felt at home in your arms/ We had nothing but good times as long as the sun shines/ But we just couldn�t weather the storm/ You came like a stranger and I took you in/ And you gave me some reasons to live/ I gave the good times and you gave the sunshine/ �Til we ran out of good things to give/ Now we are strangers back down on our luck/ And both in need of a friend/ We promised each other too much to live up to/ And now we�re strangers again/ Strangers again
I took you for granted so many years/ I gave you no hope, broken promises and tears/ But when I was down, it was you who was there/ To pick up the pieces and show me you cared/ (Chorus) Forever together, �til death do we part/ Forsaking all others, I�ll give you my heart/ Through good times and bad times, wherever we are/ Forever together in each other�s arms// You seem to know what we had all along/ That you had the love and the faith to go on/ It took some time but now I realize/ That I see it all when I look in your eyes/ (Repeat Chorus)// Forever together in each other�s arms
I�m gettin� out of this high-rise penthouse suite/ Where we pretend life�s rosy and sweet/ I�m going back to the folks that I used to know/ Where everyone is what they seem to be/ And these high class friends that you like the hang around/ When they look my way they�re always looking down/ And I�m tired of you spending every dime I make/ To finance this way of life I�ve learned to hate/ (Chorus) I�m going back to a better class of losers/ This uptown livin�s really got me down/ I need friends who don�t pay their bills on home computers/ And they buy their coffee beans already ground/ If you think it�s disgraceful that they drink three-dollar wine/ Well, a better class of losers suits me fine// You said the grass is greener on the other side/ But from where I stand I can�t see grass at all/ And the concrete and the steel that changed the way you feel/ It takes more than caviar to have a ball/ (Repeat Chorus)// Yes, a better class of losers just suits me fine
I wake up to a silence in a room where I once heard,/ �Good morning, dear�/ I never thought I�d miss the early mornin� smell/ Of hairspray in the air/ And all the little things I used to take for granted/ Now I miss them most of all/ Ain�t it funny how a woman walking out the door/ Can bring a man to crawl/ (Chorus) I�d surrender all to bring you back to me/ Give up everything I own, get down on my hands and knees/ Just to hear the phone ringing down the hall/ Oh, if you would only call, I�d surrender all// Now I�m staring out the window/ Praying every passing car would bring you home/ So I could take you in my arms/ And give the kind of love you should have known/ (Repeat Chorus)// If you would only call, I�d surrender all
Well, I lost my heart on the day we met/ But I gained a lot that I don�t regret/ Then, I hung around �til you said, �I do�/ I knew I wouldn�t have nothing if I didn�t have you/ Well, it changed my thinkin� when you changed your name/ And neither one of us will ever be the same/ And I swear I�m never gonna be untrue/ �Cause I wouldn�t have nothing if I didn�t have you/ (Chorus) If I didn�t have you I�d long ago/ Been left in the dark, out in the cold/ Blowin� around from town to town/ Like a feather in the wind/ If I didn�t have you I know I�d be/ Flounderin� around like a ship at sea/ Lost in the rain of a hurricane/ And that�s where I�d have been// But I didn�t get lost �cause I saw your light/ Shining like a beacon on a cold, dark night/ Then the sun came up and the skies turned blue/ No, I wouldn�t have nothing if I didn�t have you/ Well, I count my blessings every night I pray/ That the Lord let�s me keep you just one more day/ And everyday he does �cause God knows too/ That I wouldn�t have nothing if I didn�t have you/ (Repeat Chorus)// But I didn�t get lost �cause I saw your light/ Shining like a beacon on a cold, dark night/ Then the sun came up and the skies turned blue/ No, I wouldn�t have nothing if I didn�t have you/ Well, I�ve already said it, but I swear it�s true/ I know I wouldn�t have nothing if I didn�t have you
I remember how it used to feel/ Ridin� down ole Two Mile Hill/ Tennis shoes up on the handlebars/ Paying no mind to the passing cars/ No doubts, no fears/ Just like when you are here/ (Chorus) No chains, no strings, no fences, no walls/ No net, just you to catch me when I fall/ Look heart, no hands// It took a little time to get up the speed/ To find the confidence and strength I�d need/ To just let go and reach for the sky/ You know sometimes it felt I could fly/ No doubts, no fears/ Just like when you are here/ (Repeat Chorus)// It doesn�t take much, just a smile or a touch/ And I�m a kid again, I can almost feel that wind/ (Repeat Chorus)// Look heart, no hands
I�ve walked a million miles across this floor/ But I never have quite made it to the door/ I never thought the time would come, I�d ever see this day/ You could make me feel so thrown away/ (Chorus) I�m feelin� like an old pair of shoes/ All worn out from walkin� through these blues/ There�s a hole in my soul and I�m really feelin� used/ I�m just like an old pair of shoes// You�ve always been my one and only love/ It ain�t no easy thing to give you up/ Lookin� back I�m feelin� like there�s nothing left to lose/ This time I may just walk out on you��cause/ (Repeat Chorus)// There�s a hole in my soul and I�m really feelin� used/ I�m just like an old pair of shoes
When he swings in the saddle he�s a real gone cat/ With his Spanish spurs and his buckaroo hat/ Camps in an old line shack way back in the sticks/ He loves to tie �em down and burn their hide/ And there ain�t no rough string that he can�t ride/ But cuttin� a rug is how he gets his kicks/ (Chorus) He does the cowboy boogie/ The cowboy way/ The cowboy boogie/ Come-ah-ty-yah-yippy-yippy-yah-yah-yippy-yippy-yay// ???/ And down the road to turn it loose/ At an old dance hall he cuts that gal out straight/ Spins her sideways through the herd/ He�s buckin� like he�s being spurred/ Twistin� and rockin� like a bronc coming out of the gate/ (Repeat Chorus)// When he swings in the saddle he�s a real gone cat/ With his Spanish spurs and his buckaroo hat/ ???/ The Fred Astaire of hill and range/ Two parts cool and one part strange/ He�s the best out west at any altitude/ (Repeat Chorus)// He does the cowboy boogie/ The cowboy way/ Cowboy boogie/ Come-ah-ty-yah-yippy-yippy-yah-yah-yippy/ Come-ah-ty-yah-yippy-yippy-yah-yah-yippy/ Come-ah-ty-yah-yippy-yippy-yah-yah-yippy-yippy-yay
I�d been ridin� fence all day/ Way upon the summer range/ Found a place to make my bed/ As the evening shadows spread/ Beyond the campfire light/ Through the stillness of the night/ Came the call of the coyote choir/ And the song of the wind in the wire// As I strung the rusty string/ It sang a long forgotten pain/ Many moons and many suns/ Of the real American/ When the arrow and the bow/ Stalked the range of the buffalo/ And the call of the coyote choir/ And the song of the wind in the wire// As the ghostly balladeer/ Hypnotized me, I could hear/ Bugle calls and battle cries/ Broken promises and lies/ The spirits of the plain/ Still sing their sad refrain/ In the call of the coyote choir/ And the song of the wind in the wire// Spirits of the plain/ Still sing their sad refrain/ In the call of the coyote choir/ And the song of the wind in the wire
Must be doing something wrong, baby, I don�t know/ But the goldfish is floatin� at the top of the bowl/ And the dog, he won�t eat, he just lays around/ All night long he makes a lonesome sound/ I know I had it coming and it�s all my fault/ But baby come back before you kill us all// The way the plants are dying, you�d swear it�s fall/ Looks just like autumn up and down the hall/ And I talk to �em baby, like you�re supposed to do/ But there tired of hearing �bout me missing you/ And I know you told me not to call/ But baby come back before you kill us all// Well, it�s a desperate situation/ I�ve got a strong will to survive/ But if this place is any indication/ I may not make it out alive/ Well, it�s an eerie feeling in the still of the night/ Knowing that the cat�s down to three more lives/ You�ve turned us all into nervous wreaks/ We just sit around and wonder who�s gonna be next/ And I know I had it coming and it�s all my fault/ But baby come back before you kill us all// Baby come back before you kill us all (repeat and fade)
I heard a freight train out across the way/ I heard a woman sing Amazing Grace/ I heard a night bird call to its mate/ When I heard you whisper my name/ I heard freedom break its chain/ I heard a heartbeat where once no sound remained/ I heard angels rise and praise/ When I heard you whisper my name/ (Chorus) I heard music bring a heart of stone to tears/ I heard peace ring like an anthem through the years/ I heard hatred fall from grace/ When I heard you whisper my name// Beating softly against the waves/ Fell the sound of an early morning rain/ And though the lightning and thunder came/ I still heard you whisper my name/ (Repeat Chorus)// I heard angels rise and praise/ When I heard you whisper my name
Lately I get the feelin� / There�s a feelin� that you�re holding in/ Why do you keep your distance/ As close as we�ve been/ Do you think your silence is saying/ There ain�t nothing wrong with you/ This is me you�re not talking too/ (Chorus) This is me, the one who knows you inside out/ The one you�ve leaned on �til know/ Don�t you know I�m still here for you/ So what do you think you�re doing/ Who do you think you�re fooling/ This is me you�re not talking too// You can run to me/ No matter what you�re running from/ If it�s something I�m doing/ I�ll get it undone/ Just don�t let me be a stranger/ To what you�re going through/ Hey, this is me you�re not talking too/ (Repeat Chorus)// Hey, this is me you�re not talking too
On the top shelf in the closet/ In the workshop where he spent his extra time/ Was a dusty wooden box/ That I had never noticed �til that night/ Then we set it on the table/ And carefully we opened up the top/ And stared into the memories/ That he kept inside the box/ There was a letter from mama when she went out to Reno/ To help her sister out in �62/ And a flower from Hawaii where they went on vacation/ It was the first time that my daddy ever flew/ And a pocketknife I gave to him on Father�s Day/ Years ago, I thought it had been lost/ We all thought his heart was made of solid rock/ But that was long before we found the box// I guess we always knew it/ But I love you was hard for him to say/ Some men show it easily/ Some just never seem to find the way/ But that night I began to see/ A softer side of someone I had lost/ I saw the love he kept inside the first time/ When we opened up the box/ There was a picture that was taken when he and mom were dating/ Standing by his 1940 Ford/ And a faded leather Bible he got when he was baptized/ I guess no one understood him like the Lord/ And a poem that he had written all about his wife and children/ The tender words he wrote were quite a shock/ We all thought his heart was made of solid rock/ But that was long before we found the box// We all thought his heart was made of solid rock/ But that was long before we found the box
It wasn�t just the music/ It wasn�t just the wine/ Some other kind of magic/ Sending shivers up my spine/ And I was falling/ And I fell for you, and how/ Darlin�, are we in trouble now// They say we�re grown up/ We�ve been searchin� all this time/ And I wouldn�t own up/ Never would admit to flying blind/ But in the darkness/ We found each other anyhow/ Darlin�, are we in trouble now// When we talk in over/ Our love was a cry from a distant shore/ Then we found each other/ And all that we�d been searchin� for/ And I�m done denying/ I guess by now you�d know/ I�m through with trying/ Can�t bring myself to let you go/ And all these feelings/ Said we never would allow/ Darlin�, are we in trouble now// Darlin�, are we in trouble now
Would I, would I, would I/ Would I go out honky-tonkin� with you every night/ Dance every dance �til I got �em all right/ Would I do every step the way you thought I should/ If I had you baby, maybe yes I would// Would I/ Would I wake up every mornin�, bring you breakfast in bed/ With the right amount of butter on your toasted bread/ Would I fix your brunch, lunch and dinner just as good/ If I had you baby, maybe yes I would// Well, if I had you there�d be nothing you could do or say/ To ever make me make you go away/ Would I, would I, would I/ Would I cut my hair and changed the way I dressed/ Finally get around to cleaning up this mess/ Would I have to give up my bachelorhood/ If I had you baby, maybe yes I would// Would I/ Would I tear everybody from my little black book/ They �em all I was over my urge to look/ Would I marry you then, just to make sure they understood/ If I had you baby, maybe yes I would// Well, if I had you there�d be nothing you could do or say/ To ever make me make you go away/ Would I, would I, would I/ If I had you baby, maybe yes, yes I would
I wonder how we got like this/ Your heart wasn�t mine to take/ Mine wasn�t mine to give/ And love wasn�t ours to save/ I should�ve let you go when I could/ When the memories weren�t so many or so good/ And one night was such a small price to pay/ (Chorus) A small price to pay/ When a touch was all it was/ When the fire was just a kindled flame/ Throwing shadows of us/ What I wouldn�t give now/ For those long gone yesterdays/ When one night was such a small price to pay// Well, I guess we�d better go/ Maybe this time for good/ But the last time wasn�t though/ But never again sure feels good to say/ When I think back to the times/ When everything I treasured wasn�t on this fragile line/ And one night was such a small price to pay/ (Repeat Chorus)// Back when one night was such a small price to pay
(Chorus) Trailers, for sale or rent/ Rooms to let, fifty cents/ No phone, no pool, no pets/ I ain�t got no cigarettes/ But two hours of pushing broom/ Buys a eight by twelve, four bedroom/ I�m a man of means by no means/ King of the road// Third boxcar, midnight train/ Destination Bangor, Maine/ Old worn out suit and shoes/ I don�t pay no union dues/ I smoke old stogies I have found/ Short, but not to big around/ I�m a man of means by no means/ King of the road// I know every engineer on every train/ All of their children and all of their names/ Every handout in every town/ And every lock that ain�t locked when no one�s around�I sing/ (Repeat Chorus)// I know every engineer on every train/ All of their children and all of their names/ Every handout in every town/ And every lock that ain�t locked when no one�s around�I sing/ (Repeat Chorus�twice)// King of the road/ King of the road
I�m in need of a remedy/ To cure me from loving you/ It may sound a little extreme/ But I�ll do what I have to do/ Bury your jacket in my backyard/ Carry your picture in my shoe/ And keep walkin� till the hurting stops/ Keep walkin� till my temperature drops/ Keep walkin� till the fever is gone/ And you�re out of my bones// I�m in need of medicine/ Something strong that will work real fast/ That I can take to fortify me/ To keep my arms from taking you back/ Chase that ghost out from under my bed/ Still these voices in my head/ That keep talkin� and weaving their spell/ But I�m talkin� to myself/ I keep talkin� from daylight till dawn/ Till you�re out of my bones// Sweet amnesia/ Come and set me free/ I just need to/ Get you out of me/ Bury your jacket in my backyard/ Carry your picture in my shoe/ And keep walkin� till the hurting stops/ Keep walkin� till my temperature drops/ Keep walkin� till the fever is gone/ And you�re out of my bones// You�re out of my bones
A friend of mine bought himself a shovel/ Said �I�m gonna tunnel me a mine�/ He set out to be a rich man/ Happiness is what he thought he�d find/ Got in too deep to see the diamonds/ Down too dark to see the gold/ Now he won�t let go of the shovel/ And he can�t dig out of the hole/ (Chorus) Deeper and deeper he�s goin� down/ Driving his future right into the ground/ He thinks he�s closer the further he goes/ But he�s still on the bottom/ And he can�t dig out of the hole// I tried to throw the man a lifeline/ I tried to send him down a rope/ I don�t think he hears me calling/ But every day I pray and I hope/ Somehow he finally gets the message/ Every spade of dirt he throws/ Only gets him closer to the devil/ And he can�t dig out of the hole/ (Repeat Chorus)// Maybe we could learn a little lesson/ Maybe this�ll shine a little light/ There�s no healthy way to mess with/ The line between wrong and right/ Use the one chance you�ve been given/ �Cause once you�re in the ground and cold/ It�s too late to start livin�/ You see you can�t dig out of the hole/ (Repeat Chorus)// It�s Hell on the bottom/ And you can�t dig out of the hole
He was sixteen, tender and tough/ And she was too, and he�d do anything to prove his love/ With so much riding on the choice at hand/ The spirit of a boy, or the wisdom of a man/ Hearts caught fire, and love ran wild/ She cried the day she called to say she was having his child/ With so much riding on the choice at hand/ The spirit of a boy, or the wisdom of a man// There�s a constant contradiction/ What feels good and what feels right/ You live with decisions/ That you make in your life/ And what steers your direction/ Is hard to understand/ The spirit of a boy, or the wisdom of a man// Now he drives a diesel out of Dallas/ Haulin� cars out to the coast/ It ain�t the dream that he remembered/ Just a few shorts years ago/ But tonight at a truck stop, while drinking a cup/ The waitress grins and winks at him/ And says, �My shift�s almost up�/ With so much riding on the choice at hand/ The spirit of a boy, or the wisdom of a man// With so much riding on the choice at hand/ The spirit of a boy, or the wisdom of a man
(Chorus) There�s a stranger in my mirror/ Who don�t know how to behave/ He keeps grinnin� �bout you and whistlin� tunes/ While he ought to be watchin� me shave/ We move alike and we look the same/ But I swear we�ve got totally different brains/ And the love we�re in with you just makes it clearer/ He used to be my twin/ No there�s a stranger in my mirror// And he doesn�t want to go out drinkin�/ With all of his friends no more/ He�s got both of us thinkin�/ You�re what we�re livin� for/ We�ve gone crazy and we can�t recover/ You�re always on one mind or the other/ I admit we should be certified/ He�s a little schizophrenic and so am I/ (Repeat Chorus)// And he�s always doin� little things/ I never thought I�d do/ Like lookin� at diamond rings/ Drawin� hearts and writin� I love you�s/ Thought it was just a case of mild affection/ Until I caught a glimpse of my reflection/ I looked up into my own eyes/ And saw someone starin� back I didn�t recognize/ (Repeat Chorus)// Lord I�m in love with you/ And there�s a stranger in my mirror
I was supposed to be the rock that you could stand on/ Stronger than an old oak tree/ But all you ever wanted was the one thing I never let you see/ The tender side of me/ I tried to be a mountain, solid and strong/ All it took was your leavin' to know I was wrong/ (Chorus) A man ain�t made of stone, a man ain�t made of steel/ The way I feel right now, I thought I�d never feel/ Sometimes all it takes is facing the night alone/ And that�s when you know/ A man ain�t made of stone// In this world of mine there was no room for weakness/ I covered every crack in the wall/ But there ain�t no way that I can keep this secret/ �Cause when you go, like Jericho, I fall/ You thought I wouldn�t shatter, would I ever care/ But there�s more to what I�m made of than this broken heart can bear/ (Repeat Chorus)// Sometimes all it takes is facing the night alone/ And that�s when you know/ A man ain�t made of stone/ That�s when you know a man ain�t made of stone
Ever one to run away, ever one to leave/ Never one to hang around, never one to grieve/ If love turned into labor, I would just resign/ Working through the hard times never crossed my mind/ And I�m guilty of entering and breaking hearts so dear/ Guilty of unlawful flight and failing to appear/ I�ve committed all the crimes of love, every felony/ Now I have but one defense, to plead insanity/ (Chorus) Where can I surrender, I�m tired of being free/ I want love to come and make a prisoner out of me/ I�m a big offender, oh, love come capture me/ Lock me in your velvet cell and throw away the key// Events have come full circle now, I spend my nights alone/ Where love was once so full and free, love has up and gone/ If the Good Lord should see fit to bring sweet love my way again/ I�ll die before I run away and be the fool I�ve been/ (Repeat Chorus)// Lock me in your velvet cell and throw away the key
I walk in the rain and I whistle a tune
I talk to the man up there in the moon
I know I may sound like somebody gone insane
I'm a fool about you baby, but my heart can explain
(Chorus)
It's a little left of center by heavenly design
Love gets carried away and goes wild at times
When cupid aims his arrow, he's right on the mark
A little left of center just like my crazy heart
It leaps like a frog when you touch my hand
It beats like a drum in a marchin' band
Can't help what it does, I just follow where it leads
How my heart feels about you baby
Makes perfect sense to me
(Repeat Chorus)
When cupid aims his arrow, he's right on the mark
A little left of center just like my crazy heart
Politicians, coalitions, unionism, opposition
Activism, communism, skepticism, new vision, down with the old tradition
Vandalism, terrorism, ammunition, demolition, Darwinism, religion
A lot of people making catastrophic predictions
(Chorus)
But I�ll be right here loving you
Come what may, I know this much is true
Long as this world�s spinning like it�s supposed to do
I�ll be right here loving you
Computerize, organize, downsize, enterprise
Idolize, criticize, demoralize, sympathize, talk sweet and tell �em lies
Economics, electronics, atomic, supersonic
Saving whales, crowded jails, America Online, internet, E-mail
(Repeat Chorus)
Ecology, technology, energy, psychology
Evolution, revolution, everybody�s trying to find a new solution
(Repeat Chorus)
Long as this world�s spinning like it�s supposed to do
I�ll be right here loving you
The summer breeze made ripples on the pond
It rattled through the reeds and the willow trees beyond
Daddy in his good hat and Mama in her Sunday dress
Watched with pride as I stood there in the water up to my chest
And the preacher spoke about the cleansing blood
As I sank my toes into that cool East Texas mud
(Chorus)
(Then) it was down with the old man, up with the new
Raise to walk in the ways of light and truth
I didn�t see no angels, just a few saints on the shore
But I felt like a newborn baby cradled up in the arms of the Lord
Amazing Grace, oh how sweet the sound
There was glory in the air, there was dinner on the ground
And my sins which were many were washed away and gone
Along with the buffalo nickel I forgot to leave at home
But that seemed like such a small, small price to pay
For the blessed peace of mind that came to me that day
(Repeat Chorus)
This road is long and dusty, sometimes a soul it must be cleansed
And I long to feel that water rushing over me again
I didn�t see no angels, just a few saints on the shore
But I felt like a newborn baby cradled up in the arms of the Lord
I felt like a newborn baby cradled up in the arms of the Lord
She stands in the face of evil
And will not lose hope or faith
America the land of freedom
Is still the home of the brave
(Chorus)
So raise the banner called Ol'Glory
Let us join our fellow man
History will write the story
America will always stand
Walkin' through the fires of danger
There are those who gave their lives
They're the world's greatest heroes
And we won't forget the sacrifice
(Repeat Chorus)
America is not divided
Our enemies, they will be stopped
'Cause we the people are united
And still one nation under God
(Repeat Chorus)
A farmer and a teacher, a hooker and a preacher
Riding on a midnight bus bound for Mexico
One was headed for vacation, one for higher education
And two of them were searching for lost souls
That driver never ever saw the stop sign
And eighteen wheelers can�t stop on a dime
(1st Chorus)
There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway
Why there�s not four of them, heaven only knows
I guess it�s not what you take when you leave this world behind you
It�s what you leave behind you when you go
That farmer left a harvest, a home and eighty acres
The faith and love for growing things in his young son�s heart
And that teacher left her wisdom in the minds of lots of children
And did her best to give �em all a better start
And that preacher whispered can�t you see the Promised Land
As he lay his bloodstained Bible in that hooker�s hands
(Repeat 1st Chorus)
That�s the story that our preacher told last Sunday
As he held that bloodstained Bible up for all of us to see
He said bless the farmer and the teacher and that preacher
Who gave this Bible to my mama who read it to me
(2nd Chorus)
There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway
Why there�s not four of them, now I guess we know
It�s not what you take when you leave this world behind you
It�s what you leave behind you when you go
There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway
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