Pam Tillis

Written by Marty Stuart and Pam Tillis

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 enough to know
It was simply meant to be

God was there when the firefly lied
At the angel's side
And the maiden's heart
As she played her part
As she scooped him up
Headed into town
That's the way it all went down
On the way to Holy Ground
Milk and honey bound

One night that little prince was tossed
Into a stormy prophet's dream
And it took a while for him to understand
What he had seen
When that boy became a man
Those dreams they did transpire
He wandered into the desert
Where he talked to a bush of fire

And a voice said
"I'll be there, I'll be there
I'll be there with you
Deliver my people out of Pharaoh's chains
And I will see you through"

God was there in the prophet's dream
And the sparkled stream
That flowed from the rock
In the burning bush
On the mountain top
All across that desert sand
Fingerprints of the master's hand
He cried out "Pharaoh
I'm headin' back to town"
That's the way it all went down
Milk and honey bound

Yeah, I've come to lead my people out
Milk and honey bound
I've come to lead my people out
I've come to lead my people out
Milk and honey
Milk and honey

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

Chorus:

What was I supposed to do
Standing 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 once in a Williams play
Heard about you in a country love song
Summer night beauty took my breath away

Chorus

Every night now since I've been back home
I lie awake drifting in my memory
I think about you on your momma's front porch swing
Talking that way so soft to me

Chorus

Maybe it was Memphis
Maybe it was Southern summer nights
Maybe it was Memphis
Maybe it was Southern summer nights

Chorus

There's no mistakin' what's takin' place here
I can't pretend anymore
You know that I love you, but it's not enough to
Keep you away from that door
Now it's too late to wonder, what's left to be tried
Your mind is made up, and my hands are tied

Chorus:

It's just one of those things that I can't do nothing about
Your love is something that I'm going to have
To learn to live without
I could beg, I could plead, and get down on my knees
But I think I finally figured it out
It's just one of those things I can't do nothing about
So bring on the tears, and bring on the heartaches
Let me get on with my pain
If this is goodbye then let's get it over
There's nothing left to explain
Now God knows I've tried, I've tried for so long
What's left of my heart will have to be strong

Chorus

Well it's all I can stand, but it's out of my hands
Your leaving is leaving more room for doubt
It's just one of those things, I can't do nothing about

THERE GOES MY LOVE
WRITER BUCK OWENS

There goes the guy I used to know there goes the guy 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
Well you're the first love of my life and you might be my last
I don't want to be just another memory in your past
There goes the guy
I've got a feelin' for you yet that's with my night and day
Just because we're far apart don't make it go away
There goes the guy I used to know there goes the guy 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

THOSE MEMORIES OF YOU
WRITER ALAN O'BRYANT

Chorus:
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 call your name
But you're not there, and I'm so lonesome
Without your love I'd go insane

Repeat Chorus

I close my eyes and you're there with me
Your kiss I feel, your face I see
It's not your lips now that drive me crazy
It's just your haunting memory

Repeat Chorus

Tag:

Until the day they lay me down

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 is true
I wish she wouldn't treat you that way baby
I wish she wouldn't treat you that way
She ain't the only one
Who loves you dear
She ain't the only one
Who needs you near
How am I ever goin' to have my day
I wish she wouldn't treat you that way
I wish she wouldn't treat you that way
See you walkin' with her
Hand in hand
By the look on your face
You're a happy man
She's ruinin' all of my best laid plans
I wish she wouldn't treat you that way baby
I wish she wouldn't treat you that way
I wish she wouldn't treat you that way baby
I wish she wouldn't treat you that way
She ain't the only one
Who loves you dear
She ain't the only one
Who needs you near
How am I ever goin' to have my day
I wish she wouldn't treat you that way
I wish she wouldn't treat you that way
wish she wouldn't treat you that way baby
I wish she wouldn't treat you that way

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 hollow
Calling my name the way you did then
I close my eyes and I lay my head on the pillow
Soon you'll be here in peaceful dreams with me 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
Here in my heart you'll always be mine

FIVE MINUTES
WRITER BETH NIELSEN CHAPMAN

You look so disbelieving at my suitcase by the door
My taxi's on its way I can't take it anymore
Lately you've forgotten what loving me's about
Well now you've got five minutes to figure it out
You've got five minutes to tell me what I've needed 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 doubt
And you've got five minutes to figure it out
Now I've got your attention here's what I've got to say
You'd better do some talking cause my taxi's on its way
We used to set the nights on fire now everyday's the same
But now you've got five minutes to kindle the flame
You've got five minutes...
You can start with please don't leave me and end with I love you
And if you'd only kiss me the way you used to do you could see a miracle come true
You've got five minutes...
You've still got five minutes to figure it out

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
But baby, aren't you gettin' outta 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 do

You're no longer in charge of my thinkin'
You're already in love with someone else
So if I'm into all night honky tonkin'
Well I'm a big girl, I can take care of myself

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 do

There's no mistakin' what's takin' place here
I can't pretend anymore
You know that I love you, but it's not enough to
Keep you away from that door
Now it's too late to wonder, what's left to be tried
Your mind is made up, and my hands are tied

Chorus:

It's just one of those things that I can't do nothing about
Your love is something that I'm going to have
To learn to live without
I could beg, I could plead, and get down on my knees
But I think I finally figured it out
It's just one of those things I can't do nothing about
So bring on the tears, and bring on the heartaches
Let me get on with my pain
If this is goodbye then let's get it over
There's nothing left to explain
Now God knows I've tried, I've tried for so long
What's left of my heart will have to be strong

Chorus

Well it's all I can stand, but it's out of my hands
Your leaving is leaving more room for doubt
It's just one of those things, I can't do nothing about

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

Chorus:

What was I supposed to do
Standing 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 once in a Williams play
Heard about you in a country love song
Summer night beauty took my breath away

Chorus

Every night now since I've been back home
I lie awake drifting in my memory
I think about you on your momma's front porch swing
Talking that way so soft to me

Chorus

Maybe it was Memphis
Maybe it was Southern summer nights
Maybe it was Memphis
Maybe it was Southern summer nights

Chorus

Love you're gettin' lazy
You're forgettin' to give me
Sweet sugar words that I want to hear
You've been neglectin' me
You know jealousy, it is bitter as a green spring berry

You're 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

Chorus:

I'll shake the sugar tree
Till I feel your love falling
All around me
You've got to tend to what you've planted
And if you take my love for granted baby
I'll shake the sugar tree

Another night and you're sleepin'
I'm awake and I'm dreamin'
Oh honey 'bout the way you used to be
A little time's gone by
Now do you think that I'm content
With the cookin' and the payin' of the rent
No, I want to know if your love's all spent

Chorus

I've got to raise some commotion
Before you show me
Some real emotion

Mary was married with children
Had the perfect suburban life
Til her husband came clean with the help of Jim Beam
And confessed all his sins in one night
Said he'd fallen in love with a barmaid
Said she made him feel reckless and young
And when he got through, what else could she do
She just let that pony run

Chorus:

You do what you gotta do
You know what you know
You hang on til you can't hang on
And then you learn to let go
You get what you want sometimes
But when it's all said and done
You do what you gotta do
And then you let that pony run

Mary moved to West Virginia
After the shock wore off
She got a divorce and a chestnut horse
And a barn with an old hayloft
And sometimes she rides by the river
Says it makes her feel reckless and young
She closes her eyes and she holds on tight
And she lets that pony run

Chorus

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 'cause you knew better
But there's no use crying over spilled perfume

There's a big difference between lonely
And lonely for way too long
And I knew when he made his move
You weren't feeling all that strong

So I bit my tongue 'cause I saw it coming
As you danced so close to him
It's two steps forward and three steps back
When a heart is on the mend

Did you really think last night would last forever?
Did you really think that guy hung the moon?
Right now you hate yourself 'cause you knew better
But there's no use crying over spilled perfume

You fell in a moment of weakness
Well, you just got to pull yourself back up
Dry your morning after tears
'Cause what's done is done

Did you really think last night would last forever?
Did you really think that guy hung the moon?
Right now you hate yourself 'cause you knew better
But there's no use crying over spilled perfume

No use crying over
No use crying over
No use crying over spilled perfume

I can feel a new expression on my face
I can feel a glowing sensation taking place
I can hear the guitars playin' 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 feel a summer's night with a magic moon
Every time that you walk in the room

Baby it's a dream come true
Standin' right along side of you
Wish I could show you how much I care
But I only have the nerve to stare

I can feel a something pounding in my brain
Just any time that someone speaks your name
Trumpets sound I hear thunder boom
Every time that you walk in the room

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

Chorus:

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 passion set you free

Chorus

Here in the firelight I see your tattoo
Mi vida loco, so you're crazy too

Chorus

We'll go where the wind blows
And I'll be a wild rose
Welcome to my crazy life

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 the telephone rang
And she called out "Honey, it's Ray"
Like a piece of dust on a four lane road
Honey I was blown away

I'm talking 'bout smithereens
Just you in a pair of jeans
Now I know what crazy means

Big sister said "You'd better watch out"
I slammed my door and said
"You don't know what you're talkin' about"

Then one Tuesday night Daddy said
"Some guy's on the porch with a big bouquet"
You stood there with your slicked-back hair
And honey, I was blown away

And when we slipped out back
Across the railroad track
And you softly touched my face
Well I never did feel a train go by
But honey, I was blown away

No, I never did feel a train go by
But honey, I was blown away

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, till I met you

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

Chorus

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
It's so fine, fine, very fine love

You are more precious to me every day
Life is better now in every way
You don't have to lay the world at my feet
You have made my world complete

Chorus

I've got no apprehensions
You've got the best intentions
We've got a, we've got a....
Fine, fine, very fine love

Chorus

Chorus:

Sweetheart's dance, that's what we 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 move me, you move me
This love don't make no sense
We make each other crazy baby
And dance the sweetheart's dance

Love sets us in motion and gets down around
our feet
We're living to the rhythm of our heart's together beating
I love you, I love you, let me whisper in
your ear
Let me kiss you on the shoulder honey
Let me hold you near

Chorus

Got your hand in my back pocket
Got your eyes all off in space
How 'bout we just get out of here
And find a quiet place

Chorus

Now Betty was your average ordinary girl
Never wanted very much out of this world
Just an occasional dinner and a twirl from a regular guy

So Betty sat up one lonely night
Trying to figure out what a man might like
Then like a bolt right out of the blue she got herself a plan

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 town
Since she got a new rifle and a hunting hound
It might be coincidental, just might never know
Oh, but things sure got a lot better
Since Betty got a bass boat

Now lately getting a date isn't all that hard
There's a half a dozen bubbas fighting in the yard
She won 'em all over with her southern charm and a satellite dish

Now Betty can't believe her popularity
She's thinking 'bout marketing her recipe
So ironic that the funny thing is she never even liked to fish

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 town
Since she got a new rifle and a hunting hound
It might be coincidental, just might never know
Oh, but things sure got a lot better
Since Betty got a bass boat

She's got bowling shoes, she can't lose
She's got them boys just blowing their fuse
She's got a big screen, she's in the "in scene"
They're even gonna make her watermelon queen

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 town
Since she got a new rifle and a hunting hound
It might be coincidental, just might never know
Oh, but things sure got a lot better
Since Betty got a bass boat

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 from that dark cloud
What's done is done
Don't you go down believing
You're the only one
That ever felt heartache
Turn to regret
We've all got something
We'd like to forget...that's right
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
Lean on my shoulder
And whisper your tears
We all need someone
To echo our fears
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
In the land of the living
The world is turning
Life goes one
In the land of the living

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

Chorus:

It's lonely, so lonely
Go on and get your share
But believe me baby
It's lonely out there

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 go
Our love is dying for you to know

Chorus

There's people out there tryin' to look like they're havin' fun
Do you really want to be one
They're just remembering what they had
Or waitin' for their next chance at love
Love, Love, Love

It's lonely, so lonely
We got such a good thing here
Believe me, baby
It's lonely out there

It's lonely, so lonely
We got such a good thing here
Don't go now, baby
It's lonely out there
It's lonely out there
It's lonely out there

You say you're not missin' me darlin'
I know you are and always will be
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

Chorus:

You can't have a good time without me
You're going to see me in your memory
You're going to hear me in that melody
You can't have a good time without me

I remember those sweet nights with you dear
When I had you all to myself
Now those times are gone, but love still lingers on
You won't find with anyone else
Ah, well you may wear a smile, fool yourself awhile
But your heart and your mind will disagree
So I'll be seeing you in the middle of the blues
'Cause you can't have a good time without me

Chorus

You can't have a good time, no you just can't have no fun
You can't have a good time without me

The 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

Chorus:

Listen to the mandolin rain, listen to the music on the lake
Listen to my heart break, every time that he goes away
Listen to the banjo wind, a sad song drifting low
Listen to my tears roll, down my face as he turns to go

A cool evening dance
Listening to the bluegrass band takes the chill
From the air 'til they play the last song
And I'll do my time
Keeping you off my mind but there's moments
That I find, I'm not feeling so strong

Chorus

Running down by the lakeshore
He did love the sound of a summer storm
It played on the lake like a mandolin
Now it's washing him away once again
Once again, once again

Chorus

Listen to my tears roll, down my face as he turns to go

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 mem'ries (teardrops fall while I am) burning mem'ries
Burning all those memories of you that 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 the smoke is gone then I'll be free
Burning mem'ries (teardrops fall while I am)...
Burning all those memories of you that I can't lose
Oh those burning mem'ries (teardrops fall while I am)...
Burning mem'ries (teardrops fall while I am)...

I've been so wrong, for so long
Thought I could live without the love that you give
I was wrong, oh, so wrong
I've been so wrong, for so long
I didn't know that I loved you so
I was wrong
CHORUS:
Well, 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
REPEAT CHORUS
REPEAT LAST VERSE

Well how can 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 his name your mind is de-arranged

And where did you get the backbone and grit
To come back now expecting me to fit
Right back into plans that we once made
Plans that now are gone forever to return never ever
I don't want you anymore so get away from my door
And let me live live live and let me live live live
Don't come messing up my life again

And how can you have the courage and the nerve
To come back now expecting me to love
You after the way that you've done me
Guess you think that I'm a fool but you're the one that's blew their cool
I don't need you anymore so get away from my door and let me live
Guess you think that I'm a fool but you're the one that's blew their cool
I don't need you anymore so get away from my door
And let me live live live and let me live live live
And let me live live live and let me live live live

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 untrue
A flower that's wild they say has no home
And just like the violet I'm left all alone

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
Then send me some violets, I'm blue as can be

I ain't never I ain't never
Seen nobody like you oh oh oh never have I ever seen nobody like you
You call me up and say to meet me at nine
I have to hurry hurry but I'm there on time
I walk a right up and knock on your door
The landlord says she ain't a here no more

I ain't never oh darling seen nobody like you
Oh oh oh but I love you yeah I love you I love you just the same

Well you tell me sweet things that you don't mean
You've got me a livin' in a hunted dream
You make me do things I don't wanna do
My friends say Tillis what's wrong with you
I ain't never oh darling...
Oh I ain't never oh darling...
I love you just the same I love you baby I love you just the same

You may see me and think that I'm happy
Cause 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?

Please, believe me that looks are deceiving
And so often a smile has the truth
Take a second look at me
And you are bound to see
That it's not like it was with you

Not like it was holding you
I tried forgetting, what else could I do?

Please, believe me that looks are deceiving
And so often a smile has the truth
Take a second look at me
And you are bound to see
That it's not like it was with you
That it's not like it was with you

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 door and pull out your peroxide hair
I never was your woman cause you were never true
So all in all if the curtain should fall I hope that it falls on you
And I'll have sweet sweet sweet mental revenge
I'll have sweet sweet sweet mental revenge oh yeah
I never was your woman cause you were never true
So all in all if the curtain should fall I hope that it falls on you
And I'll have sweet sweet sweet mental revenge
I'll have sweet sweet sweet mental revenge
I'll have sweet sweet sweet mental revenge oh yeah

I love you so much that I can't leave you even though my mind tells me I should
But then you make me think you really want me
Then 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
[ steel - fiddle ]
Now friends tell me they see you out with others and in my heart I try hard to forget
But you come home and tell me you still love me
And I still hope there's some chance for us yet
You've got me heart over mind...
Cause my heart won't let my love for you change

I've been reeling around Wheeling West Virginia just a little too long
Now I gotta be leaving cause one deceiving free wheeling man done me wrong
And 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 hanging round this old town
Cause I've got a feeling that I've been concealing many thoughts bout traveling on
Well things ain't grooving so I'd better be a moving
When you wake up in the morning big Wheeling I'm gonna be gone gone gone
I'm gonna be gone gone gone
Since he don't need me Lord I can't see me any longer hanging round this old town
Cause I've got a feeling I've been concealing...
Well it's goodbye Wheeling
Gone gone gone gone gone gone

Emotions what are you doing oh don't you know you'll be my ruin
You've got me crying crying again when will you let this heartache end
Emotions you get me upset make me remember what I wand to forget
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 made a mistake
Oh can't you see what you're doing to me emotions please set me free
You worry my days oh you torture my nights...
Set me free

I wanna go home I wanna go home oh how I wanna go home
Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City
And I dreamed about those cottonfields and home
I dreamed about my mother dear old papa sister and brother
I dreamed about that boy who's been waiting for so long

Homefolks think I'm big in Detroit City
From the letters that I write they think I'm fine
But by day I make the cars by night I sing in bars
If only they could read between the lines

Cause you know I rode the freight train north to Detroit City
And after all these years I find I've just been wastin' my time
So I just think I'll take my foolish pride
And put on a Southbound freight and ride
And go on back to the loved ones I left waiting far behind
I wanna go home I wanna go home oh how I wanna go home

Come on and sing girl sing boy sing a happy song
Come on and sing girl sing boy this old world may not last long
Most everybody's doing too much fighting and there's not enough singing going
on
How many people have you ever seen fight while they were singing a song
Most everybody's mistreating one another just fight a personal game
But that wouldn't happen to the sisters and the brothers
When they hold back their heads and sing
Most everybody's doing too much talking talking it and just get mad
So if all that talking's gonna make you unhappy why don't just sing and be glad

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 amazing when jagged hearts fit together

You feel the ghost of her kiss lingering on your lips
Oh baby, I know, come lay your troubles to rest
And let me help you forget 'cause baby I know
Know what it's like when you need to be loved
But it's hard to feel when you're feelin' so good

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 amazing when jagged hearts fit together

You can't even tell where we were broken
When we hold each other close
When the pieces fit, you know it's

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 amazing when jagged hearts fit together
Together, together

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 amazing when jagged hearts fit together

I'm stuck in a concrete canyon traffic jam
Can't part the red light sea
I set sail on this asphalt river
Five o'clock rush hour, no one's gettin' anywhere
Staring at a billboard of the American dream

I need space; stand back and let me breathe
I need air washing over me
I need time to see, to feel, to be
I can love you more when I'm free

Like a star, like an ocean, like the branches on a tree
Like a crown, like a rocket, like an eagle, what I need is: space
Space

Well your heart wraps around me like fingers holding tight
And you call it love
I fell for a wind chasin' cowboy
The sky was wide open, you said we were going for it
Promised me no fences; this one went up

I need space; stand back and let me breathe
I need air washing over me
I need time to see, to feel, to be
I can love you more when I'm free

Like a star, like an ocean, like the branches on a tree
Like a crown, like a rocket, like an eagle, what I need is: space
Space

Alone makes me wanna be with you
All I want is a chance to miss you

I need space; stand back and let me breathe
I need air washing over me
I need time to see, to feel, to be
I can love you more when I'm free

Like a star, like an ocean, like the branches on a tree
Like a crown, like a rocket, like an eagle, what I need
Like a prayer, like a motion, like a crashing water fall
Like a ship, like a secret, like a herd, all I need is: space
Space

Stand back and let me breathe
Oh I need space

(male voice: sorry)

The first I heard 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 then just lonely
Tonight while you're running 'round
It isn't just raining
It's really coming down

Each time I look out for a sigh this will pass
All I see are tears on my face in the glass
'Cause you're out with her and I'm here alone
When you get back this time I'll be gone 'cause

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 then just lonely
Tonight while you're running 'round
It isn't just raining
It's really coming down

It isn't just raining
It's really comin' down

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?
Am I scared?
Is it worth it?
Should I even care?
What a tine to have these second thoughts
Man I like this guy
I really like him a lot

(Please let him be the right one)
Everything that I've been waiting for
(Please let him be the right one)
And all I've been praying for
(Please, please let him be the right one)
Let him be the dad, the friend, the man
(Please let him be the right one)
Let him cherish me for who I am
(Please let him be the right one)
Let him be the right one

Made it through dinner
Had a little too much wine
Probably talked too much
Went on and on about that little boy of mine
But he smiled, yeah he really smiled
I can't believe he smiled

Oh what a perfect night this has been
Should I say good-bye
Should I let him in
Calm down girl it's just a kiss
I know, I know, but it's been so long
Since I felt like this

(Please let him be the right one)
Everything that I've been waiting for
(Please let him be the right one)
And all I've been praying for
(Please, please let him be the right one)
Let him be the dad, the friend, the man
(Please let him be the right one)
Let him cherish me for who I am
(Please let him be the right one)
Let him be the right one

(Please let him be the right one)
Let him be the right one
(Please let him be the right one)
Everything that I've been waiting for
(Please let him be the right one)
And all I've been praying for
Let him be the right one
Let him be the right one

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 I'm breathing
I'm gonna be a big star some day
She was jumping into the deep end
On a leap of sweet blind faith.

[Chorus ]
It's about hoping It's about dreaming
It's about never not- believing
It's about taking a walk out on the wire
And never looking down.
It's about living instead of dying
It's about spreading your wings and flying
Its all about trying
Oh yeah
It's been six years gone
Since she left home
And she hasn't made it big yet.
Oh but there's no second guessing
Baby, she's got no regrets.
She still works the late shift down
At the Greasy Spoon Cafe
And when she brings you out your milkshake
Honey, well you just might hear her say...

(Chorus)

It's about hoping It's about dreaming
It's about never not- believing
It's about taking a walk out on the wire
And never looking down.
It's about living instead of dying
It's about spreading your wings and flying
Its all about trying
Oh yeah
It's not weather you win or lose its
Getting in the game
Once you set your wings in motion
Well you'll never be the same

Repeat [chorus]

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 brings me
Thunder and roses

I want to be safe and warm
In a beautiful storm
With somebody who shakes me
And knows how to take me away from this world

Candies that burn all night
A lover that looks into my eyes
A man who loves me
And knows how to touch me everywhere

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 brings me
Thunder and roses

I've got a scrap book full of pictures
[?] 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
After all of the confusion, baby, it's so clear
When you tell me I look beautiful tonight in off-white

I was just [?]
I didn't know who I was
It said it wasn't her fault at all
You couldn't give till she just gave up

Yeah, we had our reservations
Cause we've seen one forever end
And it took a revelation
For us to wanna try again

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
After all of the confusion, baby, it's so clear
And you tell me I look beautiful tonight in off-white

This has come with a little baggage
Somethin' borrowed, somethin' blue
Drawn together by common sorrow
Till we stumble on somethin' new
The you and me, in me and you
And I'll be wearing off-white

After all of the confusion, baby, it's so clear
When you tell me I look beautiful tonight
Looks like it's time again we fall and get it right
In off-white, off-white

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 has done
And when I think the best is yet to come, I smile

Wandering in the dark, lost in the confusion
I thought I was losin' my mind for sure
I searched with all my heart, lookin' for direction
Somethin to believe in

There you were
And you were reachin' out to me
You were everything I needed
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 has done
And when I think the best is yet to come, I smile

'Cause you've turned all my gray skies
To the brightest blue
My life feels like sunshine and it's all because of you
All because of you

Oh yeah

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 has done
And when I think the best is yet to come

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 has done
And when I think the best is yet to come, I smile

La la la, ooh
Ooh, yeah

IF I DIDN'T LOVE YOUWRITERS TINA ARENA, PAM RESWICK, STEVE WERFELSo good When it's good I wanna spend my whole life lovin' youBut I'm tired And you don't know how close I've come to leaving youYou try my patience And you race me to the wire It takes every ounce of my will and desireIf I didn't love you If I didn't love you like crazy If I didn't love you baby As much as I doI'd just walk out the door I couldn't take it anymore I wouldn't put up with what you put me throughIf I didn't love youIt's hard But you won't give up 'till you Push me to the wall But I know You're the only one who'll be there for meWhen I call (oh yes you will) I can't help believing That it's worth it somehow Cause I've worked too damn hardTo wanna give up nowIf I didn't love you If I didn't love you like crazy If I didn't love you baby As much as I doI'd just walk out the door I couldn't take it anymore I wouldn't put up with what you put me throughIf I didn't love you If I didn't love you Nah, If I didn't If I didn't love you like I doWhen you love someone Nothings black or white When the riptide runs There's no wrong or rightI'll sail with you but I'll refuse to drown So don't you take me down, down Take me down down Don't you take me down, down, downIf I didn't love you If I didn't love you I'd walk out that door I don't need it anymoreNeed to put up with what you put me through If I didn't love you If I didn't love you If I didn't love youIf I didn't love you like I do I'd walk out that door I'm not comin' back no more No more

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Written By RESWICK, PAMELA / ARENA, TINA / WERFEL, STEPHEN
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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 girl I understand
An eagle can't sit waiting on the wind

If you rise for every challenge, if you run to catch your dreams
That star that you keep reaching for is closer than it seems
Heaven and earth reward all those who try and try again
And will not be caught waiting on the wind

Whatever strength you find in me I thank my father for
His wisdom faith and courage set me on a steady course
And when my sails are empty their words lift me up again
And I will not be caught waiting on the wind

If you rise for every challenge, if you run to catch your dreams
That star that you keep reaching for is closer than it seems
Storms of life may force you to change courses now and then
But never be caught waiting on the wind
Never be caught waiting, never be caught waiting on the wind