Lori Mckenna - Unglamorous (2007) by Lori Mckenna (보컬) on maniadb.com

You never woke up beside a stranger
But you never spent the night alone
In your jacket is a flask of Southern Comfort
In your pocket you got a comb
I know you
I know you

You've been pushed right to the limit
Lived on a lonesome road
Chopped up an old pine dresser
To heat the house once in the cold
I know you
Yeah, I know you

Well, I know where you go when you want to be alone
I know just how hard you work and how much money you bring home
You love the sound of church bells but you hate sitting in the pew
Baby, I know you

D.H. Lawrence wouldn’t be your favourite poet
If you thought poetry was cool
You have too much pride to be a thief
And just enough gut to be a fool
Baby, I know you, I know you

Well, I know the sound of your thunder
And I know the smell of your rain
I know every time you walk out that door
You might stumble back in it again
Yeah, I know you
Yes I do, baby blue, I know you

Well, I know that you feel bad for every bad thing that you do
You got a scar on your right cheek and the fear of God embedded in you
Your mother had a wooden spoon and a shamrock tattoo
Baby, I know you

Well, no other woman's gonna feel beneath the skin that you are in
No other woman's gonna read your mind or be sorry for your sins
I know you
I know you

Well, I know what you look like just before you cry
I know how to make you sick and I know how to make you die
The only thing I could never do is let you say goodbye
Say goodbye
‘Cause I know you
I know you

You never woke up beside a stranger
But you never spent the night alone
In your jacket is a flask of Southern Comfort
In your pocket you got a comb

Understated, overrated site
Carnival ride
Curtains faded, thread bill rugs real nice
The baby stayed up all night

How wonderful
Rhinestones on black satin shoes
How beautiful
The ones I never get to use
No frills, no fuss, perfectly us
Unglamorous

Frozen dinner, jelly, glass of wine
Tastes just fine
Two bread winners, five kids in short time
With eyes just like mine

How wonderful
Crowded dinners at the kitchen table
How beautiful
One TV set, no cable
No frills, no fuss, perfectly us
Unglamorous

No diamonds in our bathtub rings
Peanut butter on everything
No frills, no fuss
Unglamorous
Unglamorous

How wonderful
A gravel road leading to a front door
How beautiful
Old wool socks on a bedroom floor
No frills, no fuss, perfectly us
Unglamorous
Unglamorous
Unglamorous

Well, she lives a few doors down
Says she wants you to take her out
Have some coffee somewhere
Just some coffee
You saw her out in the parking lot
And any plans you had you can break
So wash your face
Let yourself go

Everybody is a sinner
Everybody makes mistakes
And there ain't nobody
Who needs nobody
Don't forget to look her in the eye
Laugh and show your smile
There's not much more to lonely
Than being less lonely

I stood and watched the stars fade
Right there, from your eyes
Baby, I think I know just
What your next lover will be like

You hate cigarettes so she won't smoke
But she don't mind this bar you're in
She sits right up there on that stool
Puts her pocketbook down and smiles at you
You think she's about five foot three
That makes her taller than me
But you're not thinking about that now
No, it ain't right to think about that now

I stood and watched all the stars fade
Right there, from your eyes
Baby, I think I know just
What your next lover will be like

And I hope she can fix you
And I hope she's someone
Who will never let you down
I hope she reminds you nothing of me and
As crazy, as crazy as it sounds. I hope she's beautiful

‘Cause I still watched all the stars fade
Right there, from your eyes
Baby, I think I know just
What your next lover will be like

‘Cause there ain't nobody who needs nobody
There ain't nobody who needs nobody

Well, I can fall in love in the middle of the afternoon
With the TV blaring in the very next room
I fall in love again at the end of a raging fight
The kind that keeps us staying up all night

But baby, I'm not crazy
I just love the way you look at me
Baby, I'm not crazy
I just expect ecstasy
And I'm trying not to take everything to the extreme
I'm wide awake and you're still my dream
Baby, I'm not crazy

Sometimes I hear a voice telling me that you're the only one
And I'd be nothing but a fool if I let this all come undone
Every now and then I see the vision of a perfect man
When you turn around and smile like you understand

That baby, I'm not crazy
I just love the way you look at me
Baby, I'm not crazy
I just expect ecstasy
And I'm trying not to take everything to the extreme
I'm wide awake and you're still my dream
Baby, I'm not crazy

Well, there's a dull sweetness in this life of ours
Pretty as graffiti
And I'm dancing without any music on
But you're the only one who sees me

Hey, baby, I'm not crazy
I just love the way you look at me
Baby, I'm not crazy
I just expect ecstasy
And I'm trying not to take everything to the extreme
I'm wide awake and you're still my dream
Baby, I'm not crazy

Oh, no
Baby, I'm not crazy
I just love the way you look at me
I just love the way you look at me
I just love the way you look at me
I just love the way you look at me

I went to high school with that kid
He was even strange back then
The type whose eyes don't leave the floor
Blend in with the cement

Well, I felt so bad for that kid
One day I saw his face turn green
And as he tumbled to the floor
The thought of reaching out never occurred to me

Why don't we open up
Knowing that we all falter?
When will we learn
To reach out for each other?

Well, he lived out on the edge of town
And I'm pretty sure he had a brother
It seemed that boy could walk for days
I suspect to avoid his mother

And I always knew he had it bad
Tougher than any of us others did
Still, I never asked him how he was doing
What could I do? I was just a kid

Why don't we open up
Knowing that we all falter?
When will we learn
To reach out for each other?

So, now he's the new town bum
He talks to himself and picks up cans all day
And when my kids ask me about him
What'll I say? What'll I say?

Why don't we open up
Knowing that we, we all falter?
And when will we learn?
When will we learn to open up
Knowing that we all falter?
When will we learn? (When will we learn?)
I said, when will we learn?
When will we learn
To reach out for each other?

Someone was crying and the bells rang
Then I don't remember a thing
You were talking but the words came
From somebody else
Someone said “kiss her” and so you did
I was smilin' like a little kid
You kissed my teeth and then we both hid
Inside each other's arms

All you really need is someone to be here
Someone who never lets you disappear
And I will be that witness to your life
This may be just be a softer place to fall
But somebody will answer when you call
And I will be that witness to your life

You got that job and joined the Union
Fought every urge that told you to run
Stared down the barrel of an empty gun
And wondered a bit
Stopped listening to all your friends
They think this is where life begins and ends
No one reaches, no one transcends
They just learn to live with it

All you really need is someone to be here
Someone who never lets you disappear
And I will be that witness to your life
You should never have to be alone
Someone will always call you home
And I will be that witness to your life

All you really need is someone to be here
Someone who never lets you disappear
And I will be that witness to your life
Baby, I will be that witness to your life

I float, your car comes into view
And from our front lawn I just smile at you
And everyday I thank the Lord that you
Took the right road home

You knocked those pictures right off the wall
I slammed the bathroom door so hard it doesn't close right at all
Last week we broke my mother's favourite serving plate
All just casualties of a love that's lost it's way
You and I baby don't even know how to fight
We don't know nothin' 'bout nothin'
Except how to survive

How come we keep this TV up so loud?
What are we so afraid of that we keep drowning out?
Well, this is not the life that we deserve
And talking might make it better
But what if it makes it worse?
Cause you and I baby don't even know how to fight
We don't know nothin' 'bout nothin'
Except how to survive

We take times just coming out for real
Oh, and I could cry about it but my tears don't work around here
Last night I caught myself just looking at you
But I only saw a stone wall, impossible to break through
Oh, you and I baby don't even know how to fight
We don't know nothin' 'bout nothin'
Oh, we don't know nothin' bout nothin'
Except how to survive
How to survive
How to survive

Well, I left your life by the side of the road
I got a clear conscience, decoded the code
Your bags are packed, you're already gone
And that's the last you'll hear of me
Move on, move on

I got a 'For Sale' sign and a brain in my head
I have paid my dues, I'm not crazy or dead
I know life is hard, well so am I
Don't cry for me, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye

‘Cause I have laid down my guns and ammunition
You can go now, you can go now, you can leave now
This is my written permission

Well, I've been fighting for you for most of my life
I fought as a girlfriend, I fought as a wife
Oh, prisoners they say are no one to love
Well, I am throwing in the towel, I am taking of the gloves

‘Cause I have laid down my guns and ammunition
You can go now, you can go now, you can leave now
This is my written permission

So when you tell Susan that you love her you can look her in the eye
And when you tell Gina you can look her in the eye.
You can sleep with yourself, you can sleep with your lies
Your lies, your lies, your lies

I'm okay now
Goodbye

Some do it for the kids, some do it for God
Some do it forever but some are frauds
Some taste perfection and love the flavour
But don’t stay beside me thinking you’re doing me some sort of favour

‘Cause I have laid down my guns and ammunition
You can go now, you can go now, you can leave now
I have laid down my guns and ammunition
You can go now, you can go now, you can leave now
This is my written permission
Written permission
Written permission

The number to the house is on the door
But every time you open it as if you are not sure
If you even live here anymore
Anymore

Well, I know what you're about to say
I know that look there on your face
But I'm tired of reading your mind this way
So why don't you say it?

You're tearing me up inside
Tearing me up inside
It feels like something in me died
Feels like something in me died
All of the bright colours that lived inside of me
Are now just tiny little pieces of what used to be
And it just feels like confetti

Well, I remember on our wedding day
Thinking that all of those flowers would all just fade away
And it seemed like such a waste
Of beauty

And now you're tearing me up inside
Tearing me up inside
It feels like something in me died
Feels like something in me died
All of the bright colours that lived inside of me
Are now just tiny little pieces of what used to be
And it just feels like confetti
Confetti

Isn't it a crying shame
That nothing ever stays the same?
I can't fit into that wedding dress
Or be twenty-three again
But you're looking at me now
Like you don't know who I am

And it's tearing me up inside
All of the bright colours that lived inside of me
Are now just tiny little pieces of who I used to be
And it just feels like confetti
Confetti
Confetti

I am six years old in the back of my mother's car
And I will be seven in December
She will be gone by the beginning of next spring
And I will be left to remember
To remember

I ask my little questions and she laughs a little laugh
But she won't tell me where we're going
She looks in my eyes with her eyes in the mirror
And says, "Some things you're better off not knowing"
Not knowing

But I don't know what her voice sounds like
I don't know what her skin feels like
I only know what it might feel like
When a mother holds her daughter
When that mother knows she's leaving this life
Leaving this life

She's left with that reflection of me at six years old
And I have her eyes in the mirror
Well, she and I, we are defined by what we have lost
Don't you wonder whose loss is dearer?
Dearer

She doesn't know what my voice sounds like
She doesn't know what my skin feels like
And I only know what it might feel like
When a mother holds her daughter
When that mother knows she's leaving this life
Leaving this life

And I don't know what her voice sounds like
And I don't know what her skin feels like
I only know what it might feel like
When a mother holds her daughter
When that mother knows she's leaving this life
Leaving this life

Leaving this life
Leaving this life
Leaving this life