You say our loving has died down to nothing
Compared to everyone else
But if all you can give me is just your opinion
Well you can keep that to yourself
The longer the distance keeps growing between us
The harder the trouble is to see
But I guess it's the simple things that make love complicated
Or at least that's how it is with you and me
We're just two people trying to hold it together
and l...
ALL TANGLED UP IN LOVE
Writers Bob McDill, Jim Weatherly
DUET WITH GUS HARDIN
You were the heartbreak kind
Out for a one night stand
And me I'd been hurt
And I needed some help to forget
We didn't want any lasting thing
Just someone to hold till the morning came
We said there'd be no looking back
No ties that bind
No strings attached
But oh how we changed when the sun came up
Look at the two o...
You were just another pretty face in the crowd
I was just hangin' out
I wasn't ready for love when I looked in your eyes
You took me by surprise
You weren't supposed to say that you loved me
You were just gonna stay for the night
I've never held a hand that could touch me
And leave me with stars in my eyes
Oh angel in disguise
You're just an angel in disguise
You almost made it too easy for me...
1st verse spoken
I came home early this morning
and she was gone
So I turned to the mirror
but the mirror seemed to say
Down in the valley
Across the city
Through the dark alleys
Filled with self-pity
Where people are victims of their own fears
Have you come down to the devil's table
Drinking poison, 'til you're not able
To see how your laughter has turned to tears
Boy you're as low as you can...
In solemn response, to your wishes and wants
I stand with my heart in my hands
Though the courage it takes to live with mistakes
Makes me feel less than a man
Because girl you're the beat that robs me of sleep
By keeping my face in the rain
But how can I rest, when your love's the test
That leaves me with no one to blame
And proves I'm attracted to pain
Unintentional pain
Like a continual rain...
I feel like a midnight train running out of track
It's going boys but it ain't coming back
I've got money running through my hands like water down the drain
I get worried every time it rains
But I'm trying hard to go down easy
And it's a crying shame to live this way
Oh but baby comes and then it goes right on down the line
When you're living on borrowed money, working on borrowed time
But I'm...
We shared the same last name and the same color eyes
But we fought like tigers over that old red bike
"I'm battin' first and you can't use my glove"
It wouldn't take long until push came to shove
But we looked out for each other
With brotherly love
You hated girls 'til I had my first date
I brought her home from the movies, you stayed up late
Three on the couch watchin' TV
I was smilin' at her...
Like a young and courageous fool
Ready to take on the night
You came dressed to kill all of the boys
And it looks like you've done enough right
You say that love is your only rule
It kinda comes from the heart
When it all comes down to what lovers do
You fall in love and just fall apart
But that's the chance you take with a lonely heart
That's the price you pay with a lonely heart
That's the g...
I woke up this morning holding my head
And the girl with the Hollywood face
And I'm out every evening to run with the crowd
But I feel Like I'm going no place
Cause my heart won't love no one but you
My heart won't love no one but you
Yeah I met lots of women for one night of love
Who gave it their heart and their soul
But all that leaves me is never enough
And I feel like a wheel that won't r...
You're on my mind, I'm in the dark
You're takin' your time, I'm fallin' apart
Girl, you hold my mind in your hands and you know it
I'll get it right if you'll give me the chance to come closer
I'll give you my heart if that's what you're after
I'll give you my love and that's all that matters, think it over
Yeah that's all right with me, if you wanna play hard to please
Don't make it easy for ...
I woke up crying, I thought I had a dream
But you would not answer up when I called your name
I ran to my window but all I saw was rain
I know you're going somewhere girl I can feel the pain
But I wouldn't dream of sleeping with anyone but you
And anyone who knows me knows that I love you
No I wouldn't dream of sleeping with anyone but you
But anyone can tell you dreaming's all I do
You always...
In and out of honky tonks from one town to the next
But anything worth loving, Lord, just too hard to forget
Everyday's another way of feeling more the same
Looks like I'll run out of highway before I out run the rain
But if there's fire and smoke
Ooh, what a rush I got when your love was hot
Oh, but I couldn't see that when the flame burned out
You'd leave a cold dark cloud, a raining down on...
Way up in the sky, moon and planets fly
Comets streak and shooting stars fall down
But I'm just sitting here sipping on my second beer
And doing my star gazing on the ground
Where all those heavenly bodies come out at night to play
Heavenly bodies that just take my breath away, yeah baby
I'm gonna sit here from now until closing time
Just working on making your heavenly body all mine
Pretty bl...
It's the third hardest thing I'll ever do
Leavin' here without you
And the second hardest thing I'll ever do
Is tellin' her about you
She's been good to me when things were goin' rough
How can I tell her now, good ain't good enough
Oh, the hardest thing I've ever had to do
Is holding her and loving you
If she'd give me one good reason I'd be gone
She ain't done, one thing wrong
So don't expect...
Nothing's been said, nothing's been done
It's hard to see a difference between the rising and the setting sun
But I can feel a change, it's there in her touch
It's subtle but it's deep and it hurts us both so much
Me, because I'm losing her and her because she feels
She's honor bound, bound by promise that she made so long ago
But I love her so much that I can't let her know I know
Oh, I know ...
Hey, how have you been?
Good to see you again
Gee, it's been a long time
How's that new man
Momma and Dad
Since I told you goodbye?
Now I'm still the same
Still raisin' Cain
Nobody's worried 'bout me
I come and I go, just as I please
Since I set myself free
But I can't win for losin' you
I just can't get over you
Bein' footloose and fancy free
Ain't all it's cracked up to be
And the grass ain'...
I have held you girl but you ain't never made me feel so good before...mmm love you some more
And I have kissed you girl but your lips ain't never tasted quite so sweet and warm...mmm sweet and warm
And I have loved you girl but I ain't never really loved you from the heart but tonight I'm gonna start
Oh with every touch you're painting pretty pictrures with your hands
Creating precious feelin...
Make the best of some bad romances
Held on much too long to past mistakes
Always holding out for something better
Seems I'm either too early or a little too late
And I need a good woman bad
To laugh when I'm happy, cry when I'm said
I know she's out there somewhere waiting for me
I need a good woman bad
One I can have without being had
If that ain't too much to ask I need a good woman bad
Now ...
You stood there in the doorway bathe din golden candlelight
While helpless hearts were melted by your style
So many gazing faces swaying softly in the night
Whose thoughts were making love to your sweet smile
Your sweet smile
Like Cinderella, you were the queen of the ball
Yeah you were the fairest of all
but why did I let you fall
I tried to keep your love above me girl when you reached out a...
I'm a lonely rider
She's the sole survivor of this love affair
But she don't care
She's a real heart breaker
And I can't find a taker
No, that can compare
'Cause she's so rare
She never let me hurt for love
She gave me all she had
But that was only long enough
To go from good to bad
Oh, but love don't care whose heart it breaks
It don't care who gets blown away
If it all falls through as a bad...
I don't brag about you to everyone I meet
I don't sing your praises in a crowd
Oh, but deep inside my heart you're the most important part
Oh, I'm just no good at love out loud
And when you're here beside me laying in my arms
Well, I can't seem to get my feelings out
I know that you deserve the tenderest of words
But I'm just no good at love out loud
Love out loud it don't come easy, love out ...
I'm Gonna Listen To
You don't call till it rains to say you've changed,
And you're missin' your shadow.
I'll call you, the next time, I wanna hear the wind blow.
Don't need a lotta room or a promise of the moon,
To sleep at night.
Or a walk in the dark, to know in my heart, I've seen the light.
Honey, love's the only voice I'm gonna listen to.
An' if my heart had a choice, you'da made my dream...
The heart isn't blind it just sees what it wants to see
I hope yours is lookin' at mine the way that you're lookin' at me
Girl I've been around I've taken chances before
But this time I'm hopin' for more you're makin' it easy
Nobody falls like a fool, nobody loves like a believer
After so many dreams have fallen through it's time that one came true
Nobody falls like a fool, nobody loves like a...
Nine times out of ten, she's right and I am wrong
When I won't give in, she just goes along
Standing by my side, sitting home alone
I'll never know what keeps her hanging on
When anybody else would be long gone
But once in a blue moon, I'll do something right
And once in a blue moon, I'll make her feel so fine
I can make her laugh, and make her cry
She hates the way she loves me sometimes
But ...
The first time that I met you I was sure as sure it could be
Don't ask me how but there was no doubt you were the one for me
Love was intuition is a feeling you just can't fight
So I follow through with my plans for you
And now I know that I was right
Right from the start I had this feeling in my heart
Baby I knew you were right for the part
Right from the start
Don't you remember me saying ou...
You proved to me that I don't need
To be all by myself to feel alone,
But lately conversation only comes
When someone's calling on the phone,
Oh, but I'm not asking questions
Afraid that I might find out
What's really wrong
You give me that silent treatment
I can take it or leave
I'm getting that silent treatment
And it's working on me
Oh, but leaving off all the changes
I remember back when o...
Smokey Mountain memories
About my home in Tennesse
Yesterday keeps calling me,
Calling me home
Mountains rising in my soul
Higher than the dreams I've known
Misty eyed, they cling to me, my Smokey Mountain memories
An old gray man with a dog asleep at his feet
Played a worn out fiddle full of melodies,
He smiled with his eyes but the lines on his face
Told me as much as the tunes he played
Tal...
Well I met in a small town bar not far from home
She was having second thoughts about a man who was always gone
Said, "The only way to get to him was a telephone"
So she held on to me when she couldn't hold her own
She said, "I can be had but I can't be bought
And I can be bad Lord if I don't get caught
But I'd rather be loved than left alone
Than be here in the middle some where between right...
Well you'd t hink by now my reckless days were over
That running with the crowd would wear me out
With one woman in my pocket and another by my side
Tell me why you love me baby, tell me why
I've put you in a place that's not so easy
I've made you watch me tear your feelings down
But it leaves me with a questinos that unanswered in you eyes
Tell me why you love me baby, tell me why
Now once ag...
I loved her because she was there
And I knew all along that it wasn't fair but I didn't care
Then I got the Hell out of there
That was a close one
I kept my freedom intact, got rid of the hassle
And rid of the flack, yeah, I cut me some slack
And I never thought I'd want it back
But that was a close one
That was a close one
And if I hadn't of run she might have got away with my heart
So I play...
She wore that fallin' out of love look
I even swore upon the good book
Still the last lie I told her
Was the one she couldn't believe
No more crying on her shoulder
She won't even let me hold her
And this time I've hurt her more
Than she loves me
I've been too busy drinking
She's been too busy thinking
'Bout the kind of love she needs
And the man she never sees
But lord she's already stood mor...
There's a hell raising cowboy
In your truck driving heart
You've got the world narrowed down
To four lanes
But how could diesel blooded horses
Ever drag you apart
From the only girl who could ever
Ease your pain
She would follow your dreams
To the farthest extremes
But she needs more than just someone
To be true to
While it seems you just need someone sane
Who can drive all that noise
From you...
Talkin' to the mirror and whisperin' Your name
Just like You were here, You'd think I was insane
I hold these conversations in the silence of my room
Rehearsing all the things I'd say, should I run into You
How's it going? Might be what I'd say
You broke my heart You know, or it looks like rain today
Or maybe, God I missed You, since You went away
You're lookin' well or go to Hell, might be wh...
There's a lot of nice things that he never told her
And he forgets to hold her when she needs him sometimes
The promises he made her, he never got around to
Still the thought of leavin' never crossed her mind
'Cuz what she sees, is only what she wants to
And what she has, she thinks is enough
And what she does, is just look at the good things
And what she is, is a woman in love
He forgets to c...
I can see that you haven't recovered from the girl who let you down
You'd say one is left of you so pour another go round
You keep telling yourself she means nothing
Maybe you should call her bluff
You don't really believe it, you must not be drinking enough
Oh the perfume she wore you can buy now and the five and dime
But on some other woman it don't smell the same in your mind
You keep telli...
Seems like the good times
Happen too early
Or maybe they just start out growing old
You slipped through my arms
In such a hurry
Searching for a softer love to hold
But that's the story of my life
A taste of what love might be like
That's how it is but not the way I chose
And your love is just for strangers, I suppose
Yes your love is just for strangers, I suppose
Oh but ain't it sad the way th...
You keep talking with your body
And to your every move I can relate
Cause I've been feeling what you're thinking
And I guess your love says all there is to say
This party started in your arms tonight
And I can see forever in your eyes
Without a word you put me in my place
Your love says all there is, your love says all there is to say
I have never been loved helpless
From my feet you brought m...
You've never cheated, you've never lied
You've never had feelin's that you've had to hide
For she's got you thinkin' of somethin'
So different tonight
It's too late to worry what's right or what's wrong
And you're a little too crazy to leave it alone
When you're lookin' at somethin'
That is too good to push it aside
Boy, she's got your head in the clouds
And your heart in a bind
So how come yo...