Mark Stuart, Stacey Earle
I almost hate to go back home
Somebody's died every time I've been gone
I ain't saying I don't want to know
Just that it brings me down so low
I was needing more out of life
I forgot how to be your wife
Everybody's settlin' for settlin' down
Hear the jingle of the chains rattling around
I never really gave much thought
I m sure its my own fault
I just figured after ye...
I believe in dancin' with them that brung me
That heart that won me
He brang me these flowers I wear
He said to me, "Gearle, come along
They're playing our song
You'll be the loveliest there"
I don't know, everyone there sure is pretty
And, from the city
They look like they've done this before
I'm sure glad you're with me
I'm gettin' dizzy
Just watchin' them spin around the floor
He's such a f...
Did I say, "I'm sorry"
Did I say, "I'm sorry"
Oh, did I say, "I'm sorry"
Well, I'm?
See, sometimes I forget
I say things I regret
Getting harder to admit
I just don't know when to quit
I get all caught up in the night
Nothin' seems to be going right
Why, look who's standing there
Why, this could be perty fair and square
Oh, I'm, Oh, I'm, Oh, I'm?
I find words so easily
But, only those that loo...
Mark Stuart, Stacey Earle
Grow up downtown
Grew up wise
Know it well
Lived there all your life
Know it like
Your own backyard
Never have to leave
To get that far
Her warm glow surrounds
Cradling her town
Holding her upright
Up come the lights
Head up Broad
Be on time
You can almost taste it
A real good find
Walk right into
A brand New Year
Horns a blowin'
Music to your ear
She will never sleep...
Mark Stuart, Stacey Earle
I'm here entertaining
No room for complaining
In a fishbowl, swimming in a circle
I watch them stop and stare
I feel I'm getting nowhere
In a fishbowl, swimming in a circle
Looking through my glass house
Watch them all play cat and mouse
Skipping rocks in my fishing hole
Stones thrown, shattered glass
Fish out of water it wont last
I need a change of water in my fishb...
When you left me last summer
You took everything
When you came back to me
You asked me everything about everything
You asked me if
There was somebody new
How could there be
My heart was with you
When you said, "good-by
I'm leaving you
Oh, good-by, I'm leaving you
Oh, yes, good-by, I'm leaving you, good-by"
So, why did you come back
Was it for the rest of me
I already told you
You would always ...
I don't worry about you anymore
I don't run and lock my door
Hold my breath and sit real still
Hoping, praying only you will
Go away, don't turn the knob
Only makes me feel like I'm not
Doing everything I can
And, I guess that's why I ran
So, we don't talk much anymore
Sometimes less only means that much more
Use to be I'd say the first thing to come along
But, then again anything I'd say, I'd...
Mark Stuart, Stacey Earle
If you want to go out in your nicest gown
Be part of the crowd and laugh out loud
Well paint the town if you want go out
If you want to dance slow with a Romeo
Or Valentino, I'm a regular Joe
Just say so, if you want to dance slow
I don't mind if you're not ready for me
You'll find I will wait patiently
In your time, only far as you see
Its you I'm thinkin' of if you ...
I know about those things you want
I know there are some things that you need
I know between the two you'll manage
'Cause you know how to make do
But, Is it enough I love you
I won't make promises I can't keep
I'll only fill your head with sweet dreams
They were made just for you
A little somethin' you can hold on to
I have no gold for you
But, right now will my silver do
My silver wears so th...
Everything that you hold
Turning worth its weight in gold
Unfold your hand
Through your fingers slips out sand
Bits and pieces of broken hearts
One here and there the spare parts
Grab 'er your gonna need her
That baby, she's a keeper
She'll keep you warm at night
So, be sure and kiss her goodnight
Nothing else you'll ever need
Nothing quite like her, why, your life's complete
Oh, what a find
T...
Hold on and sit real still
Thru a driving rain
That turns my wheel
Why, you sure do turn me on
Turned on and sure do feel
Like a long, dark road
Dirt got no hill
My heart done gone and lost its will
Lay down, find comfort in
Strong arms that
Hold you to till the end
Steal a kiss, then, thrower into the wind
And then go back
Where you come from
Safe and warm to the only one
One who truly yearns...
Mark Stuart
Keep yourself poor with nothing to show
Always put the ones who love you on hold
Still seeking riches down another mans road
And the prize is under your nose
You're looking for fools gold, you don't want to know
In front of your face is a vein of pure gold
If you mined your own heart you'd find an empty hole
Foolish pride dressed up as fools gold
Glitter will blind you till you can...
It's that every now and then
That one given moment
You say "please, don't let it end
It's mine and I own it"
Leaves my heart beating fast
And, then, it all seems clear
If I happen to ask
"Oh God, what am I doing here?"
I'll say that it makes me happy
Oh, isn't that all that matters anyway
As long as you can hear me laughing
You know I have lived for one day
Don't you forget it
That's not why I...
It ain't at all what it appears to be
Ain't at all what its suppose to be
Maybe just ain't what Id hoped it be
But maybe that's just me
A good time for a bad one had
Some of the worst are the best ones had
But maybe that's all one had
And maybe that's just me
Take somethin', give somethin' back
Take a little more, give more back
Give and take until it don't come back
Maybe that's just me
But a...
Hell come calling tonight
Tomorrow will come too soon
Bring me morning light
I will sleep till noon
Curtains pulled back tight
Linens blowing in the wind
From my window opened wide
There, Ill let him in Ill let him in
No one but me and the man in the moon
And our shadows bouncing off the walls
Timbers a creakin', moonlight a beamin'
Dancing in our all
And things are looking real, real good
And...
Never stood a chance
Never saw it comin'
But, the best kind of lovin'
Just comes all of a sudden
I caught that bug
Before I knew what it was
It was Boom Boom
Out went my lights
I was a' stumblin' around
Into the night
It was hopeless
I'm helplessly in love
Oh, honey it must be love
You know it must be love
Comes from the heavens above
Oh, baby it must be love
You know it must be love
It's hope...
Mark Stuart
I must have dreamed you up in my head many years ago
But you never existed or at least I thought Id never know
Its like a thing so rare
You came out of thin air
Now, I'm laughing with you
Now, I'm talking with you
Now, I'm holding you
And I'm never gonna let you go
Now, I'm touching you
Now, I'm looking at you
Now, I'm loving you
And I'm never gonna let you go
I wonder if you ever ...
Can't run, can't hide,
From somethin' down deep inside.
I feel it; even seen it.
Why when I lay me down to sleep, I dream it.
Wakes me up in the middle of the night.
Ain't enough, so I turned on the light.
Says: "Gearle, where you gotta go,
"Is from your heart," said in my my soul."
Well you don't get down.
Take a look around.
You know you might just try the next door down.
Go on down, go on d...
No new shoes today
She wears the same ones as yesterday
And the day before
Her red dress zipped up half her back
Any further might leave the track
As silver threads of Rik n' Rak spun around the floor
If she'd squint her eyes a' tight enough
Quicksilver turned to diamonds in the rough
Spreading out the fairy dust
Through the kitchen, down the hall
Build a mansion with them great big tall walls...
I wake up when the morning comes
I work all day out in the heat of the sun
The evening never fails to cool me down
Sending me to sleep, tomorrow is found
And our world just keeps on spinning around
We can run with the human race
But well still get there, just stand in one place
Slow down, stop and smell the flowers
Why, were still moving a thousand miles an hour
While our world just keeps on t...
No curtain on the window.
Outside the sun is sinking low.
I feel like letting go,
I will promise you anything.
Wind whisper in your ear.
I'll tell you what you want to hear.
If you'll only let me near,
I will promise you anything.
Well, I don't have to prove my intentions are golden.
I don't have to tell you where we're goin'.
Feel somethin' wild baby, out there blowin',
If you follow me.
Oh, ...
I'm gonna spread my wings
Fly 'em like a dove
Hear them angels sing, Rise above
Sittin' right and I
See things never saw
From here, them big things seem so silly and small
Another day
Come what may
Into a sky of blue
Catch me a breeze
Grabbing on my wings
I'll fly away
Yes I'll fly away
Riding high above
Spreading out my wings like a dove
But I'm no lonesome dove
I wont fly alone
Why, I have s...
Mark Stuart, Stacey Earle
If you can't find your way back
Turn around you left a track
One that leads right up to our back door
Pieces that you left behind
And the day I woke to find
Your note I found there on the floor
Some who will come and go
Those, heaven only knows
Those who cant take it anymore
I sure hope you will understand
Find yourself a better man
That's all it said and nothing more...
Little baby please don't cry
How can I help you
If I don't know why
We have so much to learn
First words you're a daddy's boy
Your mama knows
You're just making noise
I'm here to sing your lullabies
First step, we all fall down
Around the room
We go spinning around
Running fast, jump real high
Oh what a wonderful life
First day you seem so scared
First grade so many there
And, as she reached o...
She's a dreamer
And if you let her
Fall asleep too fast
Just to make it last
Stay what seems forever
For her there's nothing better
So better go and get her
Before time slips on by
Up an attic stair
She knows she can find it there
Pulling out the cedar chest
Slipping off her Sunday best
Slipping into lace
Veil pulled over face
Hides disgrace, puts her in her place
And time slips on by, time sl...
One shinin' bright
The other hung the moon
Just like night and day
One must leave the room
Oh why, tell me why
First, second, third
Sounds just like a lover
Home went way out left field
Left his base uncovered
Oh why, tell me why
Newton found his theory
Lyin' underneath a tree
But, long before that
Ly Mr. Adam, Ms. Eve
Oh, why
Why, Why, Why
Why you wanna make me cry
Why, you wanna make me do t...
