On one hand I count the reasons I could stay with you And hold you close to me, all night long. So many lover's games I could play with you and on that hand I see no reason why it's wrong
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But on the other hand, There's a golden band To remind of someone who would not understand On one hand I could stay and be your loving man But the reason I must go is on the other hand
In your arms I feel the passion, I thought had died When I looked into your eyes I found myself When I first kissed your lips I felt so alive I've got to hand it to you girl, you're something else
There's a dirty piece of cardboard That reads Montgomery Ward Taped across the window of my old Ford. A six-pack on the front seat and a box of chicken wings, I'm dialin' 'cross the radio for a song that I can sing
I'd better change my wandrin ways, I know I've seen my better days, Always gettin' high when I get low. Well, I left my soul out in the rain, Lord, what a price I've had to pay. The storms of life are washin' me away.
An old mail pouch, tobacco sign Fadin' on the barn, Bringin' back sweet memories of Mama's farm When love was just a country girl that lived on down the road. Spoken: you know, she almost had me turned around, But that was years ago.
I'd better change my wandrin ways, I know I've seen my better days, Always gettin' high when I get low. Well, I left my soul out in the rain, Lord, what a price I've had to pay. The storms of life are washin' me away. Yeah, the storms of life are washin' me away.
you're spreadin lies all over town about the way you brushed me off and put me down i'm her to say make no mistake my heart cracked but it did not break I cant deny the hurt was deep the way you slammed that door and walked right out on me but im telling you get one thing straight my heart cracked but it did not break shatterd dreams lay every where broken promises are all we share I finally took all I could take my heart cacked but it did not break well i was blue but for long cause this brand new love i got has made me strong and I'm over you and all the ache my heart cracked but it did not break shattered dreams lay everywhere broken promises are all we share I finally took all I could take mty heart cracked but it did not break
Well last night I dug your picture out from our old dresser drawer I set it on the table and I talked to it til four Then I read some old love letters right up til the break of dawn Well tonight I'm sittin alone diggin up bones
I'm a diggin up bones Exhuming things that's better left alone I'm resurrecting memories of a love that's dead and gone Well tonight I'm sittin alone diggin up bones
Then I went through the closet and I found some things in there Like that pretty lingerie that I bought you to wear Then I recalled how good you looked each time you had it on Well tonight I'm sittin alone diggin up bones
Then I went through the jewelry and I found our wedding rings I put mine on my finger and I gave yours a fling Across this lonely bedroom of our recent broken home Well tonight I'm sittin alone diggin up bones
I'm a diggin up bones Exhuming things that's better left alone I'm resurrecting memories of a love that's dead and gone Well tonight I'm sittin alone diggin up bones
Operator please connect me with Nineteen-Eighty Two I need to make apologies for what I didn't do I sure do need to tell her that I thought the whole thing through And now it's clear that she is what - I should have held onto.
They say hindsight's 20-20 but I'm nearly goin' blind From starin' at her photograph and wishing she was mine It's that same old lost love story - it's sad but it's true There was a time when she was mine in Nineteen-Eighty-Two.
Postman can you sell me - a special kind of stamp One to send a letter from this crazy lonely man Back into the wasted years of my living past I need to tell her, now I know - how long my love will last.
They say hindsight's 20-20 but I'm nearly goin' blind From starin' at her photograph and wishing she was mine It's that same old lost love story - it's sad but it's true There was a time when she was mine in Nineteen-Eighty-Two.
Losing my mind, going back in time - to Nineteen-Eighty Two.
The judge found me guilty of wrong doing And sentaced me to hang in mid-July He said to me "Your lifes a ruin" "If I was you I'd breake right down a cry"
Well, Nobody seems to care I ain't guilty I never did the things they said I've done
But I guess they have to hang somebody And It's looking like I'm gonna be the one
So send my body home on a freight trian Don't worry none if I don't go 1st class Send my body home of a fright train So everyone can see me when I pass
Don't worry none about no fancy funeral Cause it don't matter how they lay me down Just see they bury me out by Mama's Apple Tree and send my body back to my home town
My Mama was a damm ahrd working woman and she tried to raise he kids without a fault The last thing sh said, she was on her dying bed was "Son, on't get in trouble with the law"
When the time comes to meet my maker I'm gonna try my very best to take it like a man When they ask if I have one request
I'll just say "send my body home on a freight trian Don't worry none if I don't go 1st class Send my body home of a fright train So everyone can see me when I pass"
"Don't worry none about no fancy funeral Cause it don't matter how they lay me down Just see they bury me out by Mama's Apple Tree and send my body back to my home town"
I said one thing i'd never do was care or hang around for too long anywhere I could always move ahead with nothing left behind then you started messin with my mind This town was just another place to play have some fun then be on my way you were just another way for me pass some time then you started messin with my mind CHORUS I cant believe how much my mind has changed or the way my life's been rearanged I swore one thing I'd never do was be to stay inclined then you started messin with my mind The first in line for party time was me always the last to leave or try to be I never thought I'd wanna change I suited me just fine then you started messin with my mind CHORUS
A working day to long when everything goes wrong And a boss who don't know I'm alive
I once had a notion I'd get that promotion, but now I barley survive A wife to demanding with no understanding Of why I stay dead on my feet
A dimly lit tavern a willing young woman Are some of the reasons I cheat The hair that I'm losing and a women who's choosing To lay sound asleep by my side The bills they are mounting that's when I start counting On someone to help sooth my pride
A lady that knows me affection she shows me and a smile so easy and sweet The dreams that I've buried the load that I've carried Are some of the reasons I cheat
My children keep on growing me age keeps on showing Like all of my old friends I meet So I'm getting older my life's growing colder Just some of the reasons I cheat Yes I'm getting older my life's growing colder Just some of the reasons I cheat
There may no be a Superbowl in 2083 Cars and trains and video games will all be history The world just keeps on changing, things come and then they go Nothing lasts forever except one thing I know
There'll always be a honky tonk With a jukebox in the corner And someone crying in their beer And one old hanger-oner And a lady looking lonely From a losing love affair Yeah there'll always be a honky tonk somewhere Yeah there'll always be a honky tonk somewhere
There may be factories on the moon and farming out in space It seems there's nothing here on earth That something won't replace But as long as there's a broken heart there'll be a place to go Where good ole boys meet good ole girls And the wine and music flow
You've been too gone for too long It's too late to come back now It’s been so long since you walked out my door Now you're just an old song nobody sings any more I've got a new love and she's a true love But darlin' how could you have known You've been too gone too long Now its too late Io come back home You came a long way goin' the wrong way Don't even set your suitcase down You wanted to roam, now you're paying the bill You're an old rolling stone who rolled over the hill Well I had a good cry when you said goodbye I didn't want to let you go But you've been too gone too long Now it’s too late to come back home I had a good cry when you said goodbye I didn't want to let you go But you've been too gone too long So why don't you just stay gone You've been too gone too long Now it’s too late to come back home
My house is no mansion But it still holds my treasures Things that will never be sold Theres a few things in this world That just can't be measured By money, by silver and gold
My house is filled with the things that I love From her smile in the mornin' To her soft goodnight hugs Her whisper, her laughter Everything that she does My house is filled with the things that I love
This old bed that we sleep on Don't have satin covers But it holds some great memories No decorations can make better lovers In her arms I feel like a king My house is filled with the things that I love From her smile in the mornin' To her soft goodnight hugs Her whisper, her laughter Everything that she does My house is filled with the things that l love Yes, my house is filled with the things that I love
Mama always prayed that I'd be a better man than daddy And I determined not to let her down Deserted by the man she loved and left to raise four children We were the local gossip of the town.
I promised her that I'd live right and not be like the others But I wound up in jail on Chrismas day I told her I'd be home and not to worry 'bout my brothers When I got home my mom had passed away
And I hear tell the road to hell is paved with good intentions And mama my intentions were the best There's lotsa things in my life I just as soon not mention Looks like I've turned out like all the rest But mama my intentions were the best
A little boy with big blue eyes a-beggin' to go fishing I promised him but never took the time Now they won't let me see him and I sit here a-wishing Wishin' I could hold him one more time
And I hear tell the road to hell is paved with good intentions And mama my intentions were the best There's lotsa things in my life I just as soon not mention Looks like I've turned out like all the rest But mama my intentions were the best
All you wanted was a one night stand The fire and the wine and the touch of a man But fell in love and ruined all your plans Now what'll you do about me
Imagine the faces on your high class friends When I beat on the door and I beg to come in Screamin "Come On Love me again" Now what'll you do about me
Well you can change your number You can change your name You can ride like hell on the midnight train That's alright Momma that's okay But What'll you do about me
Picture your neighbors when you try to explain That good ol' boy standin' out in the rain With his nose on window pain Now what'll you do about me
What in the world are you planning to do When a man comes over Just to visit with you And I'm on the porch with a 2'2 Lady what will you do about me
Well you can call youer lawyer You can call yeah 'cause You can sound the alarm wake the neighbors up Ain't no way to stop a man in love Now what'll you do about me
All you wanted was a one night stand The fire and the wine and the touch of a man But fell in love and baby here I am Now what'll you do about me
Well you can change your number You can change your name You can ride like hell on the midnight train That's alright Momma that's okay Now What'll you do about me
Now what'll you do about me Now what'll you do about me Now what'll you do about me
You're my always and forever. You're the one that hung the moon. After all these nights together I still get lost in your perfume. And if I could write a love song, Every line would tell the truth. It would be a warm and soft one And my heart would say to you
When you see me walk on water, When the sea don't reach the shore When the fires of hell freeze over, I won't need you anymore
Oh, the feelings lay so easy, Lyin' here the way we are. No one else could ever hold me Like the heavens hold the stars.
When you see me walk on water, When the sea don't reach the shore When the fires of hell freeze over,
You may think that I'm talking foolish You've heard that I'm wild and I'm free You may wonder how I can promise you now This love that I feel for you Always will be
You're not just time that I'm killing I'm no longer one of those guys As sure as live This love that I give Is gonna be yours until the day that I die Oh baby
I'm gonna love you forever Forever and ever, amen As long as old men sit and talk about the weather As long as old women sit and talk about old men If you wonder how long I'll be faithful I'll be happy to tell you again I'm gonna love you Forever and ever Forever and ever amen
They say time takes its toll on a body Makes a young girl's brown hair turn gray Well, honey, I don't care I ain't in love with your hair And if it all fell out I'd love you anyway
Well, they say time can play tricks on a memory Make people forget things they knew Well, it's easy to see It's happening to me I've already forgotten every women but you Oh baby
I'm gonna love you forever Forever and ever, amen As long as old men sit and talk about the weather As long as old women sit and talk about old men If you wonder how long I'll be faithful Just listen to how this song ends I'm gonna love you Forever and ever Forever and ever amen I'm gonna love you Forever and ever Forever and ever Forever and ever amen
Suppose I called you up tonight and told you that I loved you And suppose I said "I wanna come back home". And suppose I cried and said "I think I finally learned my lesson" And I'm tired a-spendin' all my time alone.
If I told you that I realised you're all I ever wanted And it's killin' me to be so far away. Would you tell me that you loved me too and would we cry together? Or would you simply laugh at me and say:
"I told you so, oh I told you so I told you some day you come crawling back and asking me to take you in I told you so, but you had to go Now I found somebody new and you will never break my heart in two again".
If I got down on my knees and told you I was yours forever Would you get down on yours to and take my hand? Would we get that old time feelin', would we laugh and talk for hours The way we did when our love first began?
Would you tell me that you'd missed me too and that you'd been so lonely And you waited for the day that I return. And we'd live in love forever and that I'm your one and only Or would you say the tables finally turned?
Would you say:
"I told you so, oh I told you so I told you some day you come crawling back and asking me to take you in I told you so, but you had to go Now I found somebody new and you will never break my heart in two again".
"Now I found somebody new and you will never break my heart in two again".
I? do anything if you? just let me hold you I'd do anything to change your mind Climb the highest mountain or swim the deepest ocean Anything to make you mine
Anything, anytime Day or night, rain or shine There ain't nothin' I won't do To get to you
Is there anything I can say to make you love me Is there anything I haven't tried Well I? take you 'round the world Just to walk you down a dirt road Anything to make you mine
Anything, anytime Day or night, rain or shine There ain't nothin' I won't do To get to you
Well I give anything if I had you forever I'd give anything to see that time Well I walk upon my hands up the stairway to heaven Anything to make you mine
Anything, anytime Day or night, rain or shine There ain't nothin' I won't do To get to you
Everybody said I'd leave you They gave us six months to a year Said our love would just fall pray to The jukebox, women and the beer They wanna get those rumours flyin' They're watchin' for a rendez-vous But if they ever say I'm cheatin' They'll be lyin' The truth is lyin' next to you
Truth is I'm gonna be here for a long long time I'll stay forever or 'til you say goodbye Don't need a neon moon to make my night shine And if you need some lovin' proof Just reach out The truth is lyin' next to you
Over phone lines and back fences We're the talk of this whole town They just shake their heads in wonder They can't believe I'm still around
They can search the backstreet barrooms To see if I'm with someone new But if they ever say they saw me They'll be lyin' The thruth is lyin' next to you
Truth is I'm gonna be here for a long long time I'll stay forever or 'til you say goodbye Don't need a neon moon to make my night shine And if you need some lovin' proof Just reach out The truth is lyin' next to you
Truth is I'm gonna be here for a long long time I'll stay forever or 'til you say goodbye Don't need a neon moon to make my night shine And if you need some lovin' proof Just reach out The truth is lyin' next to you
Tonight were gonna tear down the walls Were gonna laugh and drink and dance and have a ball The good times ain't over after all And tonight we're gonna tear down the walls It seems we let the hard times come between us Like a wall around our hearts we couldn't see Hard luck and trouble came rainin down upon us They almost got the best of you and me
Once we loved to stay at home and make love Now work is all we ever seem to do We been spendin too much time makin money I think its time we had a laugh or two
Tonight were gonna tear down the walls Were gonna laugh and drink and dance and have a ball The good times ain't over after all And tonight we're gonna tear down the walls It seems we let the hard times come between us Like a wall around our hearts we couldn't see Hard luck and trouble came rainin down upon us They almost got the best of you and me
You put your party clothes and makeup And Ill polish that ol truck until it shines Dont worry bout a thing til monday mornin Just leave hard luck and troubles far behind (cause)
Tonight were gonna tear down the walls Were gonna laugh and drink and dance and have a ball The good times ain't over after all And tonight we're gonna tear down the walls
The good times ain't over after all And tonight we're gonna tear down the walls
