Kenny Rogers - 20 Greatest Hits [compilation] (1994) by Kenny Rogers (보컬) on maniadb.com

Lady
I'm your knight in shining armor
And I love you
You have made me what I am and
I am yours
My love
There's so many ways I want to say I love you

Let me hold in my arms forever more
You have gone
And made me such a fool
I'm so lost in your love
And oh
We belong together
Won't you believe in my song?

Lady
For so many years I thought I'd never find you
You have come into my life and
Made me whole

Forever
Let me wake to see you each and every morning
Let me hear you whisper softly
In my ear

In my eyes
I see no one else but you
There's no other love like our love
And yes
Oh yes I'll always want you near me
I've waited for you for so long

Lady your love's the only love I need
And beside me
Is where I want you to be
Cause my love there's something
I want you to know
You're the love of my life
You're my lady

Love Lifted Me

I’ll write myself a simple song
Get the whole world to sing along
I’ll call it a love song for you

And who knows
I’m liable to take a song from the bible
And then when I’m thro’
I’ll just sing:

Love lifted me, love lifted me
When nothing else would do
You know, love lifted me

Everybody’s lookin’ for a way
To say something
Nobody said but that's hard to do

They're searchin’ their mind
Tryin’ to find the one of a kind way
That they could say something new
I just say:

Love lifted me, love lifted me
When I was down and out
You know, love lifted me
Love lifted me, …

While she lays sleeping, I stay out late at night and play my songs
And sometimes all the nights can be so long
And it's good when I finally make it home, all alone
While she lays dreaming, I try to get undressed without the light
And quietly she says how was your night?
And I come to her and say, it was all right, and I hold her tight

And she believes in me, I'll never know just what she sees in me
I told her someday if she was my girl, I could change the world
With my little songs, I was wrong
But she has faith in me, and so I go on trying faithfully
And who knows maybe on some special night, if my song is right
I will find a way, find a way...

While she lays waiting, I stumble to the kitchen for a bite
Then I see my old guitar in the night
Just waiting for me like a secret friend, and there's no end
While she lays crying, I fumble with a melody or two
And I'm torn between the things that I should do
And she says to wake her up when I am through,
God her love is true...

And she believes in me, I'll never know just what she sees in me
I told her someday if she was my girl, I could change the world
With my little songs, I was wrong
But she has faith in me, and so I go on trying faithfully
And who knows maybe on some special night, if my song is right
I will find a way, while she waits... while she waits for me for me!
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In a bar in Toledo,across from the depot,
On a barstool she took off her ring.
I thought I'd get closer
So I walked on over.
I sat down and asked her her name.
When the drinks finally hit her,
She said,'I'm no quitter,
But I finally quit living on dreams.
I'm hungry for laughter,
And here ever after
I'm after whatever the other life brings.'

In the mirror I saw him,
And I closely watched him.
I thought how he looked out of place.
He came to the woman
Who sat there beside me.
He had a strange look on his face.
The big hands were calloused,
He looked like a mountain,
For a minute I thought I was dead.
But he started shaking,
His big heart was breaking,
He turned to the woman and said,

'You picked a fine time to leave me,Lucille
With four hungry children and a crop in the field.
I've had some bad times,
I've lived through some sad times,
But this time the hurtin' won't heal.
You picked a fine time to leave me,Lucille.

After he left us,I ordered more whiskey.
I thought how she'd made him look small.
From the lights of the barroom to the rented hotel room
We walked without talking at all.
She was a beauty,but when she came to me
She must have thought I'd lost my mind.
I couldn't hold her, for the words that he told her
Kept comin' back time after time.

---You Decorated My Life---


All my life was a paper once plain, pure and white;

till you moved with your pen changin´ moods now and then

till the balance was right.

Then you added some music, ev´ry note was in place;

And anybody could see all the changes in me by the look on my face.

And you decorated my life; created a world where dreams are a part.

And you decorated my life by paintin´ your love all over my heart,

You decorated my life.

Like a rhyme with no reason in an unfinished song;

There was no harmony life meant nothin´ to me, until you came along.

And you brought out the colors, what a gentle surprise;

Now I´m able to see all the things life can be shinin´ soft in your eyes

And you decorated my life; created a world where dreams are a part.

And you decorated my life by paintin´ your love all over my heart,

You decorated my life.

Everyone considered him the coward of the county
He`d never stood one single time to prove the county wrong
His mama named him Tommy, the folks just called him yellow
But something always told me they were reading Tommy wrong

He was only ten years old when his daddy died in prison
I looked after Tommy `cause he was my brother`s son
I still recall the final words my brother said to Tommy
"Son, my life is over, but yours is just begun"

"Promise me, son, not to do the things I've done
Walk away from trouble if you can
It won't mean you're weak if you turn the other cheek
And I hope you're old enough to understand
Son, you don't have to fight to be a man"

There's someone for everyone and Tommy's love was Becky
In her arms he didn't have to prove he was a man
One day while he was working the Gatlin boys came calling
They took turns at Becky and there was three of them

Tommy opened up the door and saw his Becky crying
The torn dress, the shattered look was more than he could stand
He reached above the fireplace and took down his daddy's picture
As his tears fell on his daddy's face I heard these words again

Promise me, son, not to do the things I've done
Walk away from trouble if you can
It won't mean you're weak if you turn the other cheek
I hope you're old enough to understand
Son, you don't have to fight to be a man

The Gatlin boys just laughed at him
When he walked into the barroom
One of them got up and met him half way 'cross the floor
When Tommy turned around they said

"Hey look! old yellow's leaving"
But you coulda heard a pin drop when
Tommy stopped and blocked the door

Twenty years of crawling was bottled up inside him
He wasn't holding nothing back he let 'em have it all
When Tommy left the barroom not a Gatlin boy was standin
He said, "This one's for Becky" as he watched the last one fall
And I heard him say

"I promised you, Dad, not to do the things you've done
I walk away from trouble when I can
Now please don't think I'm weak
I couldn't turn the other cheek, and Papa
I sure hope you understand
Sometimes you gotta fight when you're a man"

Everyone considered him the coward of the county