Well, Hank made a living out of lonely
Sang like a freight train whistle moan
Said,"You'll never get out of this world alive"
As if he'd always known, Lord, Lord
As if he'd always known
Rode down that Hillbilly highway
Took a big black Cadillac on home
And he said,"Driver keep on driving
'Til all the lonely's gone"
'Til all the lonely, 'til all the lonely
'Til all the lonely's gone, gone, gone...
You just wanna be weird
You're just hopin' that someone will notice you
Go ahead and be weird
'Cause we know it's just a phase you're goin' through
You're so concerned with being cool
You're so concerned with being hip
And every move is for effect
But just how strange can you get
You haven't scratched the surface yet
Go ahead and be weird
Dye your hair so it will match your purple shoes
We all...
People talkin', think I'm alright
Think I'm doin' fine
Goin' through the motioms of my life
Go to work now, every mornin'
Yeah, I play the part
Hide away the contents of my solemn heart
But when the sun goes down
And the moon is high
I can't control the flow of all these tears inside
And if they only knew
They'd be so surprised
I'm just a good pretender in a great disguise
Keep'em guessin', ke...
There's a tomcat in the alley scarin' up a fight
There's a mother softly kissing her little one goodnight
There's peace and then there's chaos, reality and dreams
We're all trying to strike a balance between a whisper and a scream
Sometimes I need atttention when you need left alone
Sometimes you feel like clinging when I feel like being gone
But love me soft and tender and we'll make the raft...
In the after hours
Slowly shifting down
Last call is over
The sign is turned around
The chairs are on the tables
The drinks are on the house
The talk is on the level
The truth is coming out
Lonesome hounds
Hangin' 'round
In the after hours
Slowly shifting down
Misery loves company
No need to hurry home
'Cause we're all in this together
We are all in this alone
Lonesome hounds
Hangin' 'round
In...
Have you ever seen a wild magnolia
There's only one place it grows
On the shady banks of the Tennessee River
Sheltered, untouched and alone
There's a place in my heart where nobody has been
And I keep it for you
There's a door to my dreams and one day you'll walk in
And until that day I'll be true
'Cause I can't wait to see what you'll do
With all of this love that I'm saving for you
All of th...
She'll turn thirty-four this weekend
She'll go out with her girlfriends
They'll drink some margaritas, cut up and carry on
There'll be guys and there'll be come ons
She'll probably get hit on
But she thinks all the good ones are gone
She's got friends down at the office
And she can't help but notice
That when the day is over, how they all hurry home
Every day there's guys she works with
And ev...
You come banging on my screen door
Begging me to let you in
All I got to say is, "Honey where you've been?"
This time I think it's you that's surrenderin'
You see I've already fallen, yeah I've already fallen
And if you're waiting on me you're backing up
I'm way in over my head in love it's true, oh yeah
Well I've already fallen for you, yeah, yeah, yeah
Well you look so serious leaning on the...
We can talk and talk all night
If you want to that's all right
Till I've heard every word you've got to say
Go ahead and take your time
If you've got something on your mind
Oh but it won't change the way I feel anyway
That's ancient history to me now
Something we don't have to talk about
You know I love you anyhow
That's ancient history to me now
There's a tale you've got to tell
How you stumb...
Who?s that knockin' in the middle of the night
With a hand full of flowers to make it all right
If you?re thinkin', I?ll forgive you one more time
I ain?t that lonely and love ain?t that blind
Well, I?d be better off blue for a couple of nights
Better blue now than the rest of my life
Better off findin' somebody new
After what you put me through
Oh baby, I?m better off blue
Wasn?t it you who s...
Now Betty was your average ordinary girl
Never wanted very much out of this world
Just an occasional dinner and twirl, from a regular guy
So Betty sat up one lonely night
Trying to figure out what a man might be like
Then like a bolt right out of the blue, she got herself a plan
Oh Betty's got a bass boat, Betty's got a truck
All of a sudden things are looking up
She's the most popular girl in...
Her lips and her dress
They're both ruby red
She thinks that's how you hide
The pain you feel inside
And she comes out every night
To soak-up the neon light
Her perfume fills the air
People stop and stare
But blue rose is looking for the moon in someone's eyes
Blue rose is willing to believe in someone's lies
Blue rose's petals have been crushed along the way
Oh, blue rose is just growing blue...
Tonight I'm burning old love letters
Photographs and memories of you
Hoping somehow I'll feel better
And when the smoke is gone I won't want you
Burning memories
Teardrops fall while I am
Burning memories
Burning all the memories of you I can't lose
My heart to you no longer matters
And I can't live on memories
Into the fire those dreams you've shattered
And when smoke is gone then I'll be fre...
Sweet Abilena looks out at the midwestern sky
Sweet seventeen with a faraway look in her eyes
She said, "I feel like a bird in a cage
Come September I?m flying away"
And I said, "I?m gonna miss you"
Then I made her promise to write
Since we were tall as the corn in the spring
We shared every secret, shared every dream
So anxious to grow in the new summer rain
And bloom like a rose on the Calic...
Well I said, he had a lot of potential
He was only misunderstood
You know, he didn?t really mean to treat me so bad
He wanted to be good
And I swore one day I would tame him
Even though he loved to run hog wild
Just call me Cleopatra everybody
?Cause I?m the queen of denial
I knew he didn?t have any money
Yeah that?s why he couldn?t buy me a ring
Oh and just because he bought himself a brand n...
Come on and sing girls, sing boys
Sing a happy song
Come on and sing girls, sing boys
This old world may not last long
Most everybody doing too much fighting
And there's not enough singing goin' on
Hey, how many people have you ever seen fight
While they were singing a song?
Come on and sing girls, sing boys
Sing a happy song
Come on and sing girls, sing boys
This old world may not last long
M...
Well, I see the world thru an unusual lens
A little nutty if you ask my friends
I probably bought my shrink a Mercedes Benz
But its paying off now
From clear across the room its easy to see
unmistakeable electricity
But thats coming from someone warped as me
So I'll show myself out
Your left of centers somewhere over the line
The tall dark and dysfunctunal kind
your just my type but baby some ...
You know everyday I walk down memory lane
Trying to find a way past the same old pain
Ah but now the message is loud and it's clear
You know there ain't no way to get there from here
Yeah I've finally realized that's the way things are
I got the bleeding stopped but there's gonna be a scar
I know I'll go on living but you're always gonna be around
Deep down, deep down
Well, I know an old soldi...
I got walls around my soul,
Walls around my heart,
Walls around these walls,
I've built a prison in the dark.
A fortress full of trouble,
It's a monument of pride,
Built with the bricks of selfishness,
Ambition, fear, and lies.
Demolition Angel,
Tear it down,
Burn it down,
Set me free,
Come with fire on your wings,
Deliver me,
Demolition Angel.
Well I had turned away from those who loved me th...
Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City
And I dreamed about those cottonfields back home
I dreamed about my mama, dear old papa, sister and brother
And I dreamed about the boy that's been waiting for so long
I wanna go home, I wanna go home
Oh, how I want to go home
Home folks think I'm a big deal in Detroit City
From the letters that I write, they think I'm doin' fine
But by day I make the...
Night is fallin' on this honky tonk city
Country music spliin' out on the street
Sure can sound good to a hard workin' man
At the end of a hard workin' week
Did you kiss him when he left this morning?
Does he know that he's needed at home?
If you don't feel that old thrill then somebody else will
There's some mighty good women all alone
It's ten o' clock, do you know where your man is?
And are...
Night is fallin' on this honky tonk city
country music spliin' out on the street
sure can sound good to a hard workin' man
at the end of a hard workin' week
did you kiss him when he left this morning
does he know that he's needed at home
if you don't feel that old thrill
then somebody else will
there's some mighty good women all alone
It's 10:00....... Do you know where your man is
and are you...
We tried and we tried, but it's over
Guess I didn't fit the image in your mind
Now you tell me to find another lover
Oh, but baby, aren't you gettin' out of line
Don't tell me what to do
You've already said we are through
I'm a page that you have turned
I'm no longer your concern
So, don't tell me what to do
I'll love you forever if I want to
You're no longer in charge of my thinking
You're al...
My eyes may be hollow
And my face may be pale
I maybe just a shadow
Of my former self
But tonight the ghost of heartaches past
Is steppin' into town
Well, I'm gonna haunt the places
Where we used to hang around
Draggin' my chains
Draggin' my chains
Well, I'm movin' in slow motion
But it's motion just the same
Pullin' the weight of yesterday's pain
Well, I may not be free yet
But I'm draggin' m...
Emotions, what are you doin'?
Oh, don't you know, you'll be my ruin
You've got me cryin', cryin' again
When will you let this heartache end?
Emotions, you get me upset
Make me remember what I want to forget
Oh, I've been lonely, lonely too long
Emotions, please leave me alone
You worry my days, you torture my nights
Never a dream turns out right
Emotions, give me a break
Let me forget that I m...
Every time that you walk by
I can't believe that I
Have to live without you
Every time I hear your name
It hits me just the same
I wish that I knew how to
Make you notice, make you see
Turn your angel eyes to me
Let me show you all the love I'm hiding
Just when I think, I find the words
I go and lose my nerve
And I die a little every time
Every time I say this prayer
I say how much I care
And ...
I never knew how good a love could be
All I'd ever known was make believe
So many times I played the fool
Baby, 'til I met you
Oh now everything has fallen in place
You can tell by the smile on my face
For every lonely tear that I've cried
I'm that much satisfied
We've got a fine, fine, very fine love
We've got a fine, fine, very fine love
You know it when you find one
Shining like a diamond
I...
You look so disbelievin' at my suitcase by the door
And my taxi's on its way here, I can't take it anymore
Well, lately you forgotten what lovin' me is about
Well, you've just got five minutes to figure it out
You've got five minutes to tell me what I'm needin' to hear
You've got five minutes to show me that you're really sincere
That's not much time to change my mind, it'll take a miracle, no...
I've been dealin' around Wheeling, West Virginia
Just a little too long
Now I gotta be leavin' 'cause one deceivin'
Free wheelin' man done me wrong
Well, it's goodbye Wheeling, West Virginia
I don't guess I'll settle down
Since he don't need me, Lord, I can't see me
Any longer hangin' 'round this old town
'Cause I've got a feelin' that I've been concealin'
Many thoughts about travelin' on
Well...
I love you so much that I can't leave you
Even though my mind tells me I should
Then you make me think you really want me
And all my thoughts of leaving do no good
You've got me heart over mind, worried all the time
Knowing you will always be the same
You keep hurting me I know, but I just can't let you go
'Cause my heart won't let my love for you change
Friends tell me they see you out with o...
Jamie O'Hara
You've been spreadin' the blues
All over the place
Walking around with that look on your face
Teardrops fallin hard on the cold cold ground
It's time you lay the heartache down
Well I know shes done you wrong
I know she told you lies
Said forever then goodbye
Made you feel like the biggest fool in town
But its time to lay the heartache down
Lay the heartache down and
Leave the mem...
She saw the ragged edge of nowhere from a fast moving train
Watched the scenery fly by with a fever in her brain
Seemed like a good time at the time, rolling down that track
Now the only thing she wants is a one-way ticket back
She's a homeward looking angel and she's feeling mighty tired
Her party dress is tattered but her vision is inspired
And that girl looking back in the mirror, Lord, mad...
Honey, honey, honey won't you open that door?
This is your sweet daddy, don't you love me no more?
It's cold outside, let me sleep on the floor
Honey won't you open that door?
I honky tonked around Dallas
I got in a poker game
Somebody musta been a cheatin'
I lost everything but my name
Well, I walked halfway to Memphis
I finally got back home
But I'd been better off where I was
'Cause here's ...
Baby, I've got this sinkin' feeling
I've done something I can't undo
And I could kick myself from Tennessee to Texas
If I just lost the love I found with you
So tell me I just gotta know, how too far did I go
And how gone is goodbye
Is that last bridge burnin'
Is that point of no returnin'
What I'm seeing in your eyes
How gone, how gone is goodbye
Well, I'm afraid that I already know the answe...
Ain't tried cigarettes
There is always alcohol
I could stay up all night long
Don't need to sleep at all
I've got credit cards
I could run 'em up
I could play with knives
I could drink and drive
And if that ain't enough
If I need another way to hurt myself
If I really miss the heartache
If I wanna hear some empty promises
If I really need the pain
I know where to find you
If I need another way...
I ain't never, I ain't never seen nobody like you
Never have I ever seen nobody like you
When you call me up say you meet me at nine
Have to hurry hurry but I'm there on time
Walk a right up knock on your door
The Landlord says, "He ain't a here no more"
I ain't never, oh darling seen nobody like you
But I love you, yeah I love you, I love you just the same
Well now you tell me sweet things th...
Under the sun, under the moon
Under the sky midnight blue
Under the maple, under the roof
I got down on my knees and told the truth
I told him, I was tired of feeling lonely
And I could really use my one and only
Oh, oh, I said a prayer for you baby
And somehow it got through
Oh, oh, I said a prayer for you baby
Now look at you, wasn't God feelin' good that day
Na na na na na na
I heard you pr...
Oh yeah
Uh huh
Lost and all alone
Lookin' for a reason for being in this crazy world
Trying to go on
Lookin' for the answers to the questions
There you were
From the moment you appeared
Everything became so clear
I'm so glad you found me, boy
I smile when I think about the way you turned my life around
I smile when I think about the happiness in you I've found
I'm so amazed at what your love h...
You drove up in your pickup truck
That hot September day
Not a wisp of wind in the parking lot
But honey, I was blown away
And later on that fall at the Dixie mall
When I didn?t know what to say
I seen hide nor hair of no dynamite
But honey, I was blown away
Big sister said, "You?d better watch out"
I slammed my door and said
"You don?t know what you?re talkin' about"
Mama said, I sang when th...
You drove up in your pickup truck
That hot September day
Not a wisp of wind in the parking lot
But honey, I was blown away
And later on that fall at the Dixie Mall
When I didn't know what to say
I'd seen hide nor hair and no dynamite
But honey, I was blown away
Big sister said, "You'd better watch out"
I slammed my door and said
"You don't know what you're talkin' about"
Mama said I sang when ...
I WISH SHE WOULDN'T TREAT YOU THAT WAY
WRITERS WALTER IGLEHART, KEVIN WELCH
The way she treats you
Is a dog gone crime
I just get blue about it all the time
Drives me crazy
how she walks that line
I wish she wouldn't treat you that way baby
I wish she wouldn't treat you that way
I ain't sayin' that she's bad to you
She does every little thing a lover should do
Any fool could see that her love ...
I know it was pretty strange timing and maybe the odds were bad
We were awkward as a couple of left-footed dancers
Baby we were pretty sad
You tried to tell me that it just wouldn't work
Your heart was too far gone
And it might have been easier to leave you alone
I've seen enough to know, a heart worth savin'
Enough to know, a chance worth takin'
Even though you're tryin' not to let it show
Th...
IF I DIDN'T LOVE YOU
WRITERS TINA ARENA, PAM RESWICK, STEVE WERFEL
So good When it's good I wanna spend my whole life lovin' you
But I'm tired And you don't know how close I've come to leaving you
You try my patience And you race me to the wire It takes every ounce of my will and desire
If I didn't love you If I didn't love you like crazy If I didn't love you baby As much as I do
I'd just walk...
There's room at my table, why don't you pull up a seat?
The music's inviting but I'm staying off of my feet
The floor's getting crowded, but I don't wanna take part
I bet you can guess it's got something to do with my heart
I could sure use your company now
But don't be mistaking my smile
I'm only in between dances
Sitting it out for a while
The partners are chosen, look at them waltzing away
...
Surely you can sit down a while
Maybe you can even smile
And I'll try to pretend that you love me again
But it might take me a little while
Soon you'll be holding me tight
You'll know when the moment is right
I was broken into, it was all because of you
But baby, I need you tonight
It ain't easy to be easy you know
You're the one who took my heart and my soul
Walked away and left me out of con...
The first time I held you close in my arms
I was sure that our love could survive any storm
I wish I could say I still felt the same
And what's causing these blues is only the rain
But it isn't just raining, it's really coming down
The sun's not just hiding, it can't be found
And I'm more than just lonely
Tonight while you're running 'round
It isn't just raining, it's really coming down
Each t...
I can't make you stay and boy I wouldn't want to
Go on, walk away but don't say I didn't warn you
Have you forgotten how it was
Before I wrapped you in my love
It's lonely, so lonely
Go on and get your share
But believe me baby
It's lonely out there
And you think there's some adventure that you're missin'
Some thrill undone or sweeter lips you could be kissin'
So you wonder and you want to let...
You say she wounded your heart
And it's too tender to touch
Oh baby, I know
Words can be sharper than knives
And they can cut just as much
Oh baby, I know
Just like you, I've cried alone in the dark
Know how it feels when your love's ripped apart
Jagged hearts are so hard to heal I know
Feels like it's gonna go on like this forever
Jagged hearts can mend, scars can heal
And then it's so amazin...
Those safe at home days are gone for little girls
They're out there with the boys, out in the big bad world
Intense pressure hanging over my head
Tonight I need your super tough lovin' instead
Killer comfort
Killer comfort
Killer comfort
All night
'Cause there's a kind of pain that only love can kill
And there's a hunger, fame and fortune cannot fill
Tender touch is what I'm talking about
Don'...
You gave him some good years
Now you'd like them back
Mistakes become clearer
After the fact
Now when you pick up the pieces
But you can't make them fit
Don't waste all your time
Trying to make sense of it
Just hurry back
To the land of the living
Things have changed
Since you've been gone
The world is turning
In the land of the living
Take a deep breath
Life goes on, life goes on
Come down fr...
Take the last train to Clarksville
And I'll meet you at the station
You can be be here by four thirty
'Cause I've made your reservation
Don't be slow
Oh, no, no, no
Oh, no, no, no
'Cause I'm leavin' in the morning
And I must see you again
We'll have one more night together
'Til the morning brings my train
And I must go
Oh, no, no, no
Oh, no, no, no
And I don't know
If I'm ever coming home
Take...
You've been spreadin' the blues all over the place
Walking around with that look on your face
Teardrops fallin' hard on the cold cold ground
It's time you lay the heartache down
Well, I know she's done you wrong
I know she told you lies, said forever then goodbye
Made you feel like the biggest fool in town
But it's time to lay the heartache down
Lay the heartache down and leave the memories
Sh...
Mary was married with children
Had the perfect suburban life
Till her husband came clean with the help of Jim Beam
And confessed all his sins one night
Said he'd fallen in love with a barmaid
Said she made him feel reckless and young
And when he was through, what else could she do
She just let that pony run
'Cause you do what you gotta do
And you know what you know
You hang on till you can't h...
It's a potentially dangerous situation
Baby you're my kind of trouble
Livin' ain't livin' if you don't take risks
Can't you feel the magic whenever we kiss
Oh we'd both be crazy
To turn our backs on a feelin' like this
Some temptation
You should never resist
Oh baby let's get crazy
Let's get crazy
We just can't turn our backs on a feelin' like this
We're just like two gamblers with nothing to ...
Tonight, I am the hero that you dream
Tonight, I am the angel that you see
Tonight, we shine with love so new
But time alone will tell us what is true
'Cause time can bring an angel down to earth
And time stands every hero 'gainst the world
In time all lovers dreams touch down
And love must live much closer to the ground
When I'm just a man, when I'm just a woman
Will you love me then, will yo...
First time that you caught my eye
I said to myself that guy is a little bit gun shy
Gonna have to be sly
I knew that it would be wrong
If I came on too strong
Gonna treat it with kid gloves
You're so suspicious of love
Oh love is sneaking up on you
It's gonna get you before i'm through
My heart's learned a trick or two
And love is sneaking up on you
I'll take you unaware
I'll act like I don't ...
You are a stranger, a stranger to me
One more face without a history
I've been so lonely, so lonely too long
That tonight all my inhibitions are gone
And you got no lines that I haven't heard
Anyway, a kiss is worth a thousand words
Just make it feel better
Make it feel better
Tell me that you understand
Make it feel better, make it feel better
Baby I know you can, I know you can
Modern life i...
Song came and went like the times that we spent
Hiding out from the rain under the carnival tent
I'd laugh and he'd smile and it would last for a while
You don't know what you got 'til you lose it all again
Listen to the mandolin rain, listen to the music on a lake
Listen to my heart break, everytime that he goes away
Listen to the banjo wind, a sad song drifting low
Listen to my tears roll do...
Lookin' at you through a misty moonlight
Katydid sing like a symphony
Porch swing swayin' like a Tennessee lullaby
Melody blowing through the willow tree
What was I supposed to do
Standin' there lookin' at you
A lonely boy far from home
Maybe it was Memphis
Maybe it was southern summer nights
Maybe it was you maybe it was me
But it sure felt right
Read about you in a Faulkner novel
Met you onc...
A baby with a baby
Just barely seventeen
My mother mourned her innocence
While she bounced me on her knee
A daddy on the road
Added to her tears and trials
Like silver rain they fell upon
This melancholy child
The sounds of my childhood
Still linger in my song
My mother's lullaby
That train that ran behind our home
A whippoorwill on a window sill
It should have made me smile
But everything sou...
I hope that the friend you've thrown yourself with
Gets drunk and loses her job
And ever road you're walking on gets cold rocky and hard
I couldn't make you love me, you only made me blue
So all in all if the curtain should fall
I hope that it falls on you
I hope that it falls on you
Well, I hope that the train from Caribou Maine
Runs over your new love affair
You walk the floor from door to d...
If you're coming with me you need nerves of steel
'Cause I take corners on two wheels
It's a never-ending circus ride
The faint of heart need not apply
Mi vida loca over and over
Destiny turns on a dime
I go where the wind blows
You can't tame a wild rose
Welcome to my crazy life
Sweetheart before this night is through
I could fall in love with you
Come dancing on the edge with me
Let my passi...
If you're coming with me you need nerves of steel
'Cause I take corners on two wheels
It's a never-ending circus ride
The faint of heart need not apply
Mi vida loca over and over
Destiny turns on a dime
I go where the wind blows
You can't tame a wild rose
Welcome to my crazy life
Sweetheart before this night is through
I could fall in love with you
Come dancing on the edge with me
Let my passi...
As the fireflies buzzed around him
Like so many dancing stars
God told all the angels from Jupiter to Mars
There's a basket in the river
Bearing something dear to me
Embarking on a journey to fulfill his destiny
A pretty maiden on the banks stood with open arms
God put it in her heart
To keep that baby safe from harm
She said "Don't matter where you come from
Now you belong to me"
She was wise...
From the highest highs
To the lowest lows
We've gone as fare as two can go
And we'll never, never be the same
And we fought to keep our love alive
When it was hard enough just to survive
And we'll never, never be the same
Looking at old photographs
Can you believe we dressed like that
Two crazy kids that nobody could tame
Would we do it all again
If someone had told us then
That we'd never, ne...
I walked into the club last night
I hadn't been there for so long
Thinking foolishly I might find you sitting all alone
But oh, how dreams lie
When she put her arms around you
And I watched you close your eyes
Ain't no two ways about it, something here had changed
Ain't no going back now to that same old same
Used to be, you were always there for me
Now, there?s one thing I know that?s when to...
You may see me and think that I'm happy
'Cos I'm out with somebody new
Well, I made make believe
He's everything I need
But it's not like it was with you
If I'm always the laugh of the party
And it looks like my heartaches are few
You may think that I found
What makes the world go around
But it's not like it was with you
Not like it was holding you
I tried forgetting, what else could I do?
Ple...
I followed you around like a little lost child
Barely dancin' with your shadow
I didn't say a thing, I let you run wild
Till your love pierced me like an arrow
Right to the heart, right straight through the heart
You broke it in two
Hey, way to go, you let me go crazy without you
I won't go through that again, no, not me
Once is enough to be somebody's fool
You may find someone else willing to...
I've got a scrap book full of pictures
[Incomprehensible] frozen in the air
Needin' lots of lace
And baby's breath in my hair
Don't wanna say that I was just rehearsing
For the new love we have found
Oh, but now we know what not to do
The second time around
And I'll be wearing off-white but that's alright
This time the hand in hole is gonna last for life
Took a long way 'round to wind up here
...
There's no mistakin' what's taken place here
I can't pretend anymore
You know that I love you but it's not enough
To keep you away from my door
Now it's too late to wonder what's left to be tried
Your mind's made up and my hands are tied
It's just one of those things
That I can't do nothing about
Your love is something that I'm gonna
Have to learn to live without
I could beg, I could plead and...
Babysitter said, "Seven"
She's fifteen minutes late
Jimmy's still playing in the bath
Cold macaroni on his plate
And I still haven't done my hair, I hate doin' my hair
It never comes out right
I must have changed my clothes
A half a dozen times
Ended up in this little black dress
I had to mend the hemline
And now I can't find my shoes, I can never find my shoes
God, I hate this
Am I nervous? A...
Her name pops up in every conversation
Got a way of firin' up the boy's imagination
Oh yeah, she's popular girl
She's a popular girl
She's obscene in all the right places
Not good at names but she don't forget the faces
Oh yeah, she's a popular girl
She's so cool
She's so mod
Everybody wants her bod
Oh yeah, she's a popular girl, she's a popular girl
She's a big girl now
She's in the eighth gr...
You think you're a special case
That the world's got it out for you
You talk like you're full of good reason
But you act like it just ain't, too
You hope all you wanna hope, brother
Hope, it won't make it untrue
Let this Friday night pull your hat down tight
When there ain't nothin' else you can do
So, you laugh at the mirror, for the low down sight
Buckle up your britches, so that you face ju...
Well, she broke your heart into a million pieces
And your confidence is scattered on the wind
Your mind is set on never even tryin' love again
But you don't own the only heart that's been broken
Baby, I've been through it all before
And the quickest way around that lonesome feeling
Is a plain and simple straight line to my door
Put yourself in my place, come on over anytime
Put yourself in my ...
It's been kicking around since '72
And there's not a whole lot that it ain't been through
Never quite learned to play by the rules
And there's one in every dreamer
Well, it's hung around where it didn't belong
And given in when it should've been strong
And you think by now it would've turned to stone
But the flame burns bright as ever
Yeah, the flame burns bright as ever
I got a rough and tumb...
Love, you're getting lazy
You're forgettin' to give me
Sweet sugar words that I wanna hear
You've been neglectin' me
You know jealously, it is a bitter as a green spring berry
And just like fruit from a fickle vine
You turn sweet in the nick of time
Love you only come alive when you're losin' me
And it's a childish game
I've got to shake you up just to wake you up to make you love me
I'll shak...
I've been so wrong, ohh, so long
Thought I could live
Without the love that you give
I was wrong, so wrong
I've been so wrong for so long
I didn't know
That I loved you so
I was wrong
Well, now I never knew
I could want you, darlin', oh, so much
Now that you're gone, I dream of you
And your sweet touch
I was so wrong for so long
But I've seen the light
Darlin', I'll make it right
I was wrong
W...
Someone somewhere tonight
Is taking their first steps
Letting go of the hands that held them
And trusting themselves
An' somewhere somewhere tonight
Is hearing their last rites
And prayin' with all their might
That there's something else.
So, baby, lie down here beside me
Let's lie real still
An' tell me you love me
And you always will.
Someone somewhere tonight
Is tasting their first kiss
Whi...
I ain't even gonna ask you
I can read you like a book
Girl, if I ever saw one that's
An I can't believe I did that look
You look like something that the cat drug in
So I won't kick you while you're down
Just let me tell you friend to friend
'Bout a block I've been around
Did you really think last night would last forever?
Did you really think that guy hung the moon?
Right now you hate yourself...
Pam Tillis/Dean Dillon
I ain't even gonna ask you
I can read you like a book
Girl if I ever saw one that's an
I can't believe I did that look
You look like something that the cat drug in
So I won't kick you while you're down
Just let me tell you friend to friend
'Bout a block I've been around
Did you really think last night would last forever
Did you really think that guy hung the moon
Right n...
We gave the day up to a back road
And let it take us out of town
To a spot down by the river
To watch the sun go down
We must have sat and talked for hours
Not giving in to the night
And that day I saw the sunset
In a whole new light
Now the stars came out like diamonds
On a deep blue satin sky
He said from where he stood
Honey, you sure look good
In sunset red and pale moonlight
Later we pull...
Sweetheart's dance, that's what they do
The two heart two-step baby, that's me and you
Sweetheart's dance round and round, make out in the corner
Lover's quarrel, sweetheart's dance
Sometimes babe I hate you 'cause my love's so strong
And then you make me feel so right, I think it must be wrong
You love me, you move me, this love don't make no sense
We make each other crazy baby and dance the ...
Sunlight is gone, a wind stirs the willow
Whippoorwills call from high on the hill
Deep shadows fall as I wait for you by the window
Soon you?ll be here, drawing me near to you again
These Tennessee nights roll on like a river
So gentle and slow with you by my side
These Tennessee nights will go on forever
?Cause here in my heart, you?ll always be mine
I hear the wind whisper low through the h...
It?s a slow, smoky scene at the county line cantina
Where strangers stop to hear her sing a song
She?s a legend ?round these parts
For stealing all the hearts of cowboys on their way to San Antone
She used to be a 'Desert Rose' with ballerina toes
But that wasn't in the cards she chose to play
The pages of her life are wrinkled but her Spanish eyes still twinkle
Every time she steps out on the...
I was always falling out of trees,
And slipping in the rain.
Momma sighed as she nursed my scratches and scraps,
Girl, why you gotta learn the hard way?
I fell fast, around seventeen,
Momma said she saw it coming,
As we drove off in his jacked up car.
Girl, Why you gotta learn the hard way?
I never liked the sound of good advice,
When I should have thought it over,
I never did think twice.
I l...
She follows the path of least resistance
She doesn't care to see the mountain top
She twists and turns with no regard to distance
She never comes to a stop
And she rolls, she's a river
Where she goes, time will tell
Heaven knows, he can't go with her
And she rolls, all by herself, all by herself
He's headed for a single destination
He doesn't care what's standing in his path
He's a line betwee...
There goes the one I used to know, there goes the one that I love so
There goes the arms that used to hold me tight
There goes the reason that I sigh, there goes the reason that I cry
There goes the lips I used to kiss goodnight, there goes my love
You're the first love of my life and you might be my last
I don't want to be another memory in your past
There goes the one I used to know, there g...
You're here in my arms right where you say you wanna be
While across the room I watch the one who set you free
It didn't take me long to mend the heart she tore in two
I guess they just don't break 'em like they used to
I bet she thought that wounded pride of yours would never heal
But you don't have one single scar as far as I can feel
And I see nothing but perfection when I look at you
I gue...
Those memories of you still haunt me
Every night when I lay down
I'll always love you, my little darling
Until the day they lay me down
In dreams of you my body trembles
I wake up and I call your name
Oh, but you're not there and I'm so lonesome
Without your love I'd go insane
Those memories of you still haunt me
Every night when I lay down
I'll always love you, my little darling
Until the day...
Once I had flowers at sunset
Breakfast in bed
And I hated myself for what I never felt
I couldn't love him
Then I had fire at midnight
Passion that brought tears to my eyes
It was like a joke, I couldn't get enough
But he didn't love me
I want to know why I can't have both
Someone that soothes my heart and burns my soul
Something I can trust, but I can't control
All I need is someone who bring...
Well, Hank made a living out of lonely
Sang like a freight train whistle moan
Said,"You'll never get out of this world alive"
As if he'd always known, Lord, Lord
As if he'd always known
Rode down that Hillbilly highway
Took a big black Cadillac on home
And he said,"Driver keep on driving
'Til all the lonely's gone"
'Til all the lonely, 'til all the lonely
'Til all the lonely's gone, gone, gone...
Train Without a Whistle
Written by Jon Randall and Jim McBride
You won?t ever see the danger
When you?re laying in the arms
Of that tall dark handsome stranger
With that sweet deceptive charm
You can?t tell how fast he?s going
Can?t see the wreck he?ll make of you
He?s bad for you but you won?t know it
Till you?re run over by the truth
He?s a train without a whistle
You won?t ever hear a sound...
One in a million, Mama
That's good enough for me
And you can't make me stay here anyway
Now that I'm 18
With everything she had in a duffel bag
She set out to show the world
She was more then just a homecoming queen
And daddy's little girl
In a cloud of dust on a Greyhound bus
She crossed the Cook County line
Slept all the way to Nashville
Big dreams running through her mind
She said, "Sure as...
Well, how could you have the unmitigated gall
To come back now, expecting me to fall
Right down on my knees and kiss your feet, yeah, feet
Feet that one day went a walking out on me with a fast talking
Slob, you hardly knew your name, your mind is de-arranged
And where did you get the backbone and the grit
To come back now expecting me to fit
Right back into plans that we once made, I must say...
A violet fell in love with a rose
And started it blushing from its head to its toes
Then one day the rose was kissed by the dew
A new love was born and the violet turned blue
Roses are red, violets are blue
I'm sending red, red roses to you
If you care to send some flowers to me
Then send me some violets, I'm blue as can be
I wanted my love to bouquet with you
Just like the rose you've proven ...
In the middle of the meadow I sit staring at my kite
A ball of string and a paper dream that I could not make fly
Then daddy pulled it to the sky, behind him as he ran
And said, "Girl don't be caught waiting on the wind"
The time comes when a young girl wants to leave the nest and fly
I stood there sad and proud and smiled through tears and said goodbye
I gave you boosts, I gave you wings and ...
So many nights we didn't fight
But never talked much
We just lost touch
I think we knew our dream
Come true was slowly dying
No denying
Now comes the time
We must decide to go or stay
To get it back somehow
Or throw it all away
We must be thinking alike
You never held me so tight
We must be finally doing something right
I'm not about to give in
This is a fight we can win
And after all this tim...
Going out every night
Doing all the wrong things to feel alright
Waking up all alone
Dying to call you on the telephone
I moved way across town
And you've got someone new hanging ?round
Neither one of us is feeling any better
All we've been doing is fooling ourselves
Baby, you and me were meant to be together
Let's try love again, we've tried everything else
You hurt me, I hurt you
Don't make ...
Funny, just the other day
I was walking down the street
Stopped into that place
You know, the one where we used to meet
Thought I heard you call my name
And I whispered on the wind
And I remember you were going,
Never coming back again
Chorus:
But if love is what we believe in
I'll see you in heaven's first bright star
If seeing is believing
I look into the skies and there you are
You're not t...
I can see a new expression on my face
I can feel a strange sensation taking place
I can hear the guitars playing lovely tunes
Every time that you walk in the room
I close my eyes for a second and pretend it's me you want
Meanwhile I try to act so nonchalant
I see a summer night with a magic moon
Every time that you walk in the room
Maybe it's a dream come true
Standing right along side of you
...
He was strong and of sound mind
Till the day he crossed the line
Between an east Kentucky girl and his wife
In his heart there wasn't room
So they tore his heart in two
And he survived by pouring whiskey on the wound
Another faithless heart
Locked inside a neon tomb
Hiding in the dark and
Pouring whiskey on the wound
Well, the girl was just the first
In a string of bad to worse
Yet the bourbon...
The stage is set
The lights are low
Soft music on the radio
The sheets are fresh
The wine is cold
And nights like this
Were made for love
And now there is only one thing wrong
I wonder why I'm all alone
Oh, I wish I was in love tonight
Then everything would be alright
With someone to love
I take a look at all I've got
It doesn't really mean alot
With no one to love
I can't help but fantasize
O...
You say you're not missin' me darlin'
I know you are and always will be
And I saw you at the club actin' so in love
Ah, but that don't mean nothing to me
'Cause as you danced by, that look in your eye
Showed me where your heart is secretly
Guess I'll be seeing you in the middle of the blues
You can't have a good time without me
You can't have a good time without me
You're gonna see me in your ...
You make all the right moves
And you talk so smooth
And you look like a winner to me
With your sure-shot savvy, you're my heart's desire
And I'm happy to be standing in your line of fire
You don't miss
You don't miss
With your right-on-the-money-honey kiss
You don't miss
You don't miss
And you're love is a direct hit
Everything about you strikes me as wonderful
The way you dress, the way you d...
A baseball glove in the second grade put this little scar on my chin
And at 31 they put glasses on me when I couldn't tell an "h" from an "n"
I bounced back from all of that
Nothin's ever bothered me
Until you put the lonely on me
You put the blue, you put the fool, you put the tears on my face
You put the rain in an otherwise sunny day
Baby, you......you put the lonely on me
Now every little ...