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WONDER IF WE DID
(L. Wright, W. Lunsford, H. Cronin)
You can try all night to catch my eye
I can act like I don’t notice you
You don’t have to buy my glass of wine,
And I don’t have to drink it if you do
We don’t have to meet like this
But I wonder what would happen if we did…
You don’t have to ask me for a dance
I’d probably just be stepping on your shoes
We could sneak away from all our friends
And act like we don’t got a thing to lose
We don’t have to start this with a kiss
But I wonder what would happen if we did
We don’t have to have a picket fence
A big old house with a couple of kids
We don’t have to love each other till the end
But I wonder what would happen if we did
Let’s go find a place to be alone
Tailgate in the parking lot will do
Because the last thing on my mind is going home
Unless you mind me going home with you
If we see a shooting star
We don’t have to make a wish
But I wonder what would happen if we did
We don’t have to have a picket fence
A big old house with a couple of kids
We don’t have to love each other till the end
But I wonder what would happen if we did
You can try all night to catch my eye
I can act like I don’t notice you.
THE HOUSE OF THE LORD
(L. Wright, W. Lunsford, D.Fields, M.Smith)
Don’t look down, look straight ahead
Trouble gives you trouble and a crick in the neck
Redemption is a promise, if you ain’t found it yet
It’s not a question of whether
It’s a question of when
Everybody’s bleeding, Everybody’s hurting
Every lamb is lost, Every soul is searching
If love is what you’re looking for…
There’s plenty in the House of the Lord
Water rising high, your on the tip of your toes
Grasping at the thread, don’t even notice the rope
Forgotten & forsaken, but you got it wrong
Child, you’re only waiting, it’s all here for the taking
Everybody’s bleeding, Everybody’s hurting
Every lamb is lost, Every soul is searching
If love is what you’re looking for…
If joy is what you’re looking for
If peace is what you’re looking for
There’s plenty in the House of the Lord
You don’t even have to knock on the door
Come on in to the House of the Lord
OVER YOU
(L. Wright, W. Lunsford, Monet Maddux)
How can me and my head
And me and my heart
Be so so many many miles apart
Miles apart
Over you?
Yeah, I know
I said I never want to see you again
Yeah, I know what I said
But here I am
Here I am
I ain't over you
Standing right in front of me
I see lost & lonely is all I'll ever be
I know we're through
I ain't over you
Nothing I can do
Got to face the truth
I ain't over you
Used to leave the door open
Making love all night
Now it's shut
It's just the place we said Goodbye
Why'd we say Goodbye?
Yeah, It's pretty messed up
How it all washed out
It got ugly seeing me
Seeing you going out
Going out
Now we're the talk of the town
Standing right in front of me
I see lost & lonely is all I'll ever be
Oh, I know we're through
Do you feel it too
There's no excuse
I ain't over you
Nothing I can do
Got to face the truth
I ain't over you
How can me and my head
And me and my heart
Be so so many many miles apart
Miles apart?
LOOK AT US
(L. Wright, W. Lunsford, B. Armstrong, P. Larney)
Lately, I’ve been feeling low
Come sit by me, baby
I’d like you to know
I’ve been sad
Honey, I’ve been blue
But I still feel like a million bucks
Whenever I’m with you
I knew from the moment I saw you
They thought we were crazy when we started out
Look at us, baby where we are now
They never thought we’d stay in love
But look at us, we’re still in love
I lived a lifetime before we met
That’s all over and I forget everyone I loved before
Did I even love before you?
I know, I’ve been away for a while
It’s been a long time
Since you’ve seen me smile
This old heart, beaten down
I’ve been anything but easy, boy I guess you need me
Cause you stuck around
Did I even love before?
No, I never loved before you
A THING OR TWO (Lovin You)
(L. Wright, W. Lunsford, L.Longley)
I’ve had one night stands
And couldn’t stand to stick around
Walked past, dressed up, turned heads,
Just to turn ‘em down
Throw out a line, reel ‘em in and watch ‘em drown
Don’t know much about love
But lovin you, I know a thing or two
I’ve cheated and I’ve been cheated on
When I never gave a damn, I still led ‘em on
Sweet talk a ring off any hand
Don’t know much about love
But lovin you, I know a thing or two
Lovin you, I can do it with my eyes closed
Lovin you, like I’ve done it all along
All of the wrongs and the trouble I’ve made
Every stumble pushed me out of place and
I fell into loving you
I’m loving you
I’ve been known to go just a little too fast
Find a match, light a fire, let it burn
but it never lasts
It goes up in smoke
You can’t get it back
Don’t know much about love
But lovin you, I know a thing or two
All of the wrongs and the trouble I’ve made
Every stumble pushed me out of place
Though I did not know it then
I’d do it all again
Cause it led me to loving you
Baby, I’m loving you
BUILT FOR BREAKING
(L. Wright, W. Lunsford, B.Young)
I’ve been thinking, over thinking
…hmmmm
Is something missing?
Is this worth fixing?
We didn’t make a clean break
You keep tearing me apart
I keep tearing you apart
Some hearts were built for breaking
Love meant to throw away
It’s all there for the taking
Words we didn’t mean to say
Maybe it’s that simple
We just make it hard
Some love ain't made for making
Some hearts were built for breaking
We do this over and over
But it still ain’t over
Ain’t we had enough yet?
No satisfaction, just distraction
From all this misery inside of me
You keep tearing me apart
I keep tearing you apart
Some Hearts
(Some Hearts)
Some Hearts
(Some Hearts)
Some Hearts like yours and mine
SHE WAS MINE
(L. Wright, W. Lunsford, D.Fields, M.Dane)
Hey, it’s me
I know it’s been a while
Seems so easy, bowing my head
I just haven’t had the time
I’ve been busy comforting everyone
But I’m tired of faking smiles
God, I believe
But that don’t mean I can’t ask, “why?”
I don’t need all the answers
But I could use a sign
Why can’t you send her in a dream
Put her face in a clouded sky?
When you called her home
You left me behind
I know she’s yours
But it sure felt like she was mine
I dried her tears
And she always had my back
We made plans for tomorrow
And we were all each other had
I was a scene
Such a drama Queen
She was the one with the joke
Now forever I’ll be asking Why?
There’s no punch line
When I could use it the most
Oh the dark is a little darker
Even the easy things got harder
Now, what’s done is done
And I feel like you owe me one
BEEN HERE THE WHOLE TIME
(L. Wright, W. Lunsford, H. Cronin)
We didn’t get to say goodbye
My leaving kind of came as a surprise
I didn’t wanna go
The choice it wasn’t mine
There’s so much we never did
So many words I left unsaid
Things a daddy wants to tell his kid
I’ll be that angel on your shoulder
The whisper in your ear
Lay beside you when the nights get colder
I’ll catch you when you stumble
I’m holding every tear
I was with you then
I’m with you now as you get older
Look around
You’ll see the signs
Baby, I’ve been here the whole time
I see you and your mom on the front porch swinging
I always love to hear you sing
When you don’t feel like singing
Would you sing to me?
Girl, be brave
Go do it all
Don’t be afraid
I won’t let you fall
BURIED ME TOO
(L. Wright, W. Lunsford, P. Larney, L. Longley)
I’m a ghost
Talking to myself most of the time
Running through the house
My empty eyes
Tossin in these sheets
All alone
No matter how much light they shine on me
There’s a darkness no one ever sees
I’m heavy as a stone
They lowered you down
Flowers on the ground
Can’t get back up now
When they took you
They buried me too
If ur a ghost
Maybe then you’ll answer when i call
Maybe we’ll rub shoulders in the hall
Oh, you might hear me crying
Here i am
Swaying in the living room again
I’m waiting for your feet to touch the floor
It’s almost like before
NOTHING LIKE YOUR LOVIN
(L. Wright, W. Lunsford, C. Robbins, M. Davey)
City lights don’t burn as bright
From one room with a view
Red wine doesn’t taste the same
If I’m not drinking with you
Silk bedsheets half empty
Like a Queen without her King
There ain’t nothing like your lovin
Even from a million miles away
There ain’t nothing like that feeling
And I feel it
When you’re holding me
There ain’t nothing like your lovin
(Nothing like your love)
There ain’t nothing like your lovin
High heels, standing in the corner
Makeup bag still on the couch
No point of slipping on this dress
Ain’t no use in going out
All these things mean nothing
To her a Queen without her King
In the morning, I will sing a different song
On my way to you right where I belong
I’ll be wrapped up in your arms
WHERE ARE YOU LONESOME?
(L. Wright, W. Lunsford, B. Armstrong, P. Larney, M.Dane)
Where are you lonesome?
Where do you go to cry?
Where do you let down your hair,
Hide when you’re scared
Or run when the tide rises high?
I loved you and then some
Guess you got where you wanted to be
Lord knows I’m lonesome
And wherever you’re lonesome
That’s where I’ll be
Worn out old easy chair
Where I sit and stare
Day after day
Wooden pew in the back
Where I unpack and put it all away
Have you been here before
I’ve been here before
And I guess I’m planning to stay
I owe it all to you
That much is true
You left me lonesome
Hope it all disappears
While I’m laying here staring at the phone
Used to be on the other side
Of the line
Now you’re just gone
If I could hear your voice
Just to hear your voice
It would mean the world to me
Oh to hear it ring, I’d give anything
Where are you lonesome?
All by my lonesome
That’s where I’ll be
OLD SONGS
KEEPING ME ALIVE
(L. Wright, W. Lunsford, B. Young, P. Larney, M. Dane)
She heard you before I took a breath, Momma held me cryin
She felt all the love you had beating in my chest & lookin in my eyes
Who would have thought all the hell you'd put me through a million times?
You want what you want and nothing on this earth can change your mind
You’ve got some bruises, You’ve got some dents
Just when I think you're broken you pick up the beat again
Sometimes you're in my stomach, Sometimes you're in my chest
You’ve loved me at my worst, You’ve seen me at my best
When there ain't no blue left in my sky
You keep keepin me alive
I was standing in the cold the day you stopped when he walked by
It was a year to the day I can't forget the way you ached when he said goodbye
But you want what you want and nothing on this earth can change your mind
We all climb a little higher trying to find a better view,
When the one truth in this world comes from the bottom of you
HALF AS GOOD
(L. Wright, W. Lunsford, K. Foster, P. Larney)
Never spent time in the kitchen, cause why just cook for one?
I’d always have leftovers and they just sit there when I's done
And go to waste even though they tasted just fine
Always listened to the radio play the same old songs about love and having someone
And sure I'd sing along, not cause I knew, it's just what I'd do to pass the time
It wasn't right it's like I knew
Something was missing from the way that I was just sleep walking through
I was divided, broke in two
And I realized that I was living my whole life only half as good
My nights out are twice as fun, Long drives are half as long
Share the remote and split the bills and the dishes all get done
Just little things, oh, but ain't that everything in love?
I had to grow once you showed me there's no use living just because
What I wanted what I felt even who I was
HOLDIN’ ON
(L. Wright, W. Lunsford, B. Young)
You hurt me and I hurt you
We just don't talk about it now
You have your secrets and I have mine
But they'll never make a sound
Down another dead end road
How we got here I guess we'll never know
I could pull the chute before I hit ground
But I love you too damn much to turn back now
I keep holding on but you're already gone
I hate you then I crave you
Nobody likes to sleep alone
Sweet temptation the love we're faking
That's as far as this thing goes
(give it to ‘em one time, Wes)
Can't wait around on maybes
Maybe you were never really mine
Even when you say you love me
We're just wasting time
OLD SONGS
(L. Wright, W. Lunsford, D. Fields)
The words ran out in Maryville
So you turned on the radio
Static comin' in and out
Till it settled on a lonesome sound
Oooooooooo
You had your head against the glass
And your feet up on the dash
While you halfway hum the tune
But you don't know it like I do
When the rhythm is the tappin of the rain
And they're rhyming every word I couldn't say
I'm waving on a platform at a train
I'm there and then I'm gone
And you think we're just listening to old songs
It was years before I knew you
Love was young at 22
We were everything then nothing
I don't think of it that often, but I do
We just crossed the state line
You've been asleep for a while
And the song ended a long time ago
But I'm still waving on a platform at a train
UNTIL I DIE
(L. Wright, W. Lunsford)
Too many nights sleepin' alone
Waitin' up by the telephone
For one to love when you were out of sight
I held on as long as I could
Lettin go hurt more than it should
But I ’ve never been too good at goodbye
The guilt set in I knew I couldn't live like this
Because together don't mean forever
It ain't clever to ever say it ever
When I did I'm sorry that I lied
Behind the shirt of my left pocket you'll always live
No other could stop it
I will love you until I die
It wasn't you and it sure wasn't me
Just the strain of life got in between
And I couldn't love you halfway
Everyday of the same old thing
I thought happiness was routine
I learned happiness was walking away
All these years have just left tears and not another kiss
DADDY’S GIRL
(L. Wright, W. Lunsford, D. Fields, P. Larney)
Mama said when I was one day old
“The whole world changed for him” and
“He never drove that slow”
A left on Cavet Drive, fifth house on the right
He took me in his arms and I was home
He gave me the best years of my life
I must've took a few from him cause I was not an easy child
I made mistakes made ‘em again but it never changed a thing for him
Cause he knows who I am when I'm not sure
If I'm anything in the world, I'm daddy's girl
I can't stand cigarettes and I hate the cold
But I'm freezing on the front porch
Cause that's where daddy smokes
That's where he was waiting up
When my curfew'd come and gone
A little angry mainly happy I was home
Daddy's girl tells him everything
Daddy's girl can ask for anything
Daddy's girl makes him cry
Every time she sings
KIND OF COMPANY
(L.Wright, W. Lunsford)
I saw it comin' a long time ago
Ain't nobody's fault we all get to choose our own road
There ain't just one reason there's too many of them
Why you kill yourself everyday just to live
Poison in your veins
And you think it's just a game
You wonder how you got that way but then you do it again
Tracks run down your arm
Cause you don't wanna feel your heart break
You always get back on that train so you don't feel it again
I'll always love you, baby
But I'll never be your kind of company
Talkin bout the plans we made, your future was secure
But now all I see is a ghost of who you once were
In our beds we have to lay but I don't know how you're sleepin there
I may not know your pain but you'll never understand how unfair it is
SAWMILL WAGES
(L. Wright, W. Lunsford, B. Gladden)
He came home from working twelve hours at the sawmill
Found a note on the table that she wrote
I can't live on sawmill wages and muddy roads
I can't live on sawmill wages and muddy roads
There's no future here, darling
I've got to go
I still love you but I can't stay
I'm walking away
Don't you know? I can't live on sawmill wages and muddy roads”
She rode a trailway bus to Atlanta
To walk on city streets instead of muddy roads
She said “I'm leaving the baby cause there's a world I wanna know
And I can't see it on sawmill wages on muddy roads
Baby it's not you that I'm leaving
It's this place and way of life
I know you won't leave these mountains
And I don't expect you to go
I can't live on sawmill wages and muddy roads
HARD TO BE HAPPY
(L. Wright, W. Lunsford, B. Young)
I miss those mornings you had coffee made
Memories hang on the wall in a frame
I'd give just about anything to get back all of the love we made
I let go of joy and hang on to pain
I thought through it all you'd still love me the same
I never knew until you walked away
That I might be the reason that you couldn't stay
Maybe we weren't meant to be
Or maybe, just maybe
I made it too hard to be happy
I heard you went and bought a big house
Stuck here cause I never could settle down
Out the window from this room I once shared with you
That was our city but now I just hate this damn view
I can almost hear what you used to say…
THEY DON’T MAKE EM LIKE YOU (TDMELY)
(L. Wright, W. Lunsford, P. Larney)
In the mountains is where I used to live
I remember even though I's just a kid
In the basement is where my daddy stayed
When he couldn't leave but wanted to get away
An old bottle of Dixie on the shelf
Some barely knew him but I knew him well
There's a clock that don't tick anymore
If time could have only stopped long before
They don't make em' like you anymore
Worked outside everyday but left your shoes by the door
You knew when to give a hug and when to throw a punch
You knew how to build an engine from the bottom up
Doesn't matter how good you look when you're built with a heart of gold
They don't make em' like you anymore
Tools hang on the wall one by one
To remind us of the things we did and things we left undone
And your books are in the corner by the door
Well, I ought to pick em' up cause you can't read em' anymore
And there's a painting my brother made for you
He always knew your favorite cartoons
And there's a sheet of dust that hides that stereo
It would play and we would sing but that was long ago
Oh, this house feels almost empty but I remember when it was filled
with you and all the things in this place we built
So much love and all the memories that will never go away
I'll never forget those days
When the good Lord made you He must have broke the mold
Goes to show
They don’t make em like you anymore
TWO
BETTER HAND
You love her like I want you to love me
I could try real hard or I could just let it be
She's got your heart, I've got your hand
Maybe I misunderstand
I'm drowning in what might not ever be
But in life sometimes you just can't have it all
Try to stand up straight but all I do is fall
Fall for you, why do I do it?
This is a game that's made for losin'
When my cards are on the table and she's got a better hand
It's fun tryin' to figure it all out
But there's been times when I wanna scream so loud
My feelings layin' in the dirt cause
I can't stand the thought of her having you first
I might overthink the situation
Oh but I, baby I, get tired of waitin'
She can't see what she has and
I just need one chance to change your mind
PARADISE
I'm gettin a little tired of every day life
It's all the same, wake up and work this nine to five
Then I come home just to do it again
Wondering if it'll ever end or if I can get away
So baby why don't you lay here with me?
We don't have to talk, we don't have to sleep
Sometimes words are best left unsaid
We can converse in this bed, whatcha think?
I wanna be anywhere I can be yours
Know every inch of you then learn a little more
Build a place we can revive
And have our own little piece of paradise
If heaven is anywhere but here I don't wanna go
I'd think I was looking at an angel if I didn't know better
They say the grass is much greener on the other side
But right now it's looking pretty fine to me
COMPLETELY
If you change your mind, I'll still be right here
With arms open wide and a love that won't ever disappear
I'll grip tight and hang on as long as you let me
Offer everything I've got and hope it's everything that you'll ever need
I'm waiting, I know you're chasing something that you don't know
I can be impatient but baby you're just one thing I won't let go
No rush, this is right where I'll be, til you love me completely
Go ahead, give me all that money could buy
No amount of material things could compare to that smile
They say the best things in life come free
There ain't no way in hell there'd ever be enough to show what you mean to me
Need you to need me and hold me when the days are long
Kisses so sweetly, fallin deeply in love with the man that you are
SEPTEMBER
Take me back to September to the first time that you kissed my lips
My hands were shaking and my heart was beating fast against your chest
From that moment on you had every bit of me that I had left
How could I forget?
Every day I'll learn to love you better
Every night I promise to kiss you more
When in this life nothing else seems to matter
I hope you remember that you are mine and I am yours
Take me back to the first time we made love in that queen size bed
You didn't have to say a word for anything to be said
I'd been there once or twice before but this was nothing like the rest
How could I forget?
THE ROAD HOME
I drove up that old county road to the place where I'm from
Just to bring back memories that I made when I's young
I looked over across the creek at the church on the hill
The graveyard where all my kin sleep, so quiet and so still
From the rush of the people in the big city lights
I come back to the old home place where I played as a child
Not cluttered by tall buildings or hurried by time
I close my eyes and go back to the days that could only be mine
A swing on the porch and a sweet scent in the air
There's an old man inside who sits in a rocking chair
Oh, he taught me to love and work hard for what I want
Get out of this town but remember where you are from
TWO
Got everything packed hangin' from strings on my back, two shoes on my feet
Not a care in the world, just a small town girl who dances to her own beat
Nuthin' on my mind but a good time, ain't got time to be held up
Till a boy comes along with the sweetest song
And in no time at all, here comes love
How can we lose,
When it's me and you?
Ooh, I never knew
It'd be so much better with two
We ain't got much but this pickup truck will take us where we need to go
Stations we passed but no money for gas
I'd be okay with runnin' out on the side of the road
We're just two nobody's livin' in this big hell of place
But with your hand in mine it'll be just fine
ain't nothin that I couldn't face
BED OF ROSES
It ain't always gonna go your way
When you want it to shine, well, sometimes it's gonna rain
Some days it'll pour and some days it'll fade
How in the hell can you smile when all you feel is pain?
It's like you're laying on the tracks with ropes tied to your feet
You wanna close your eyes so you don't have to see
And nobody is there to give you a hand
Oh good God have mercy on me
If you're watching up there then
How does it manage to stab me in the back before I even know it?
I guess life can't always be a bed of roses
When you can't have the boy you want
No, it don't feel good and it hurts much worse than you thought
You're on the bottom thinking all this time you're on top
Crying cause you gave him everything that you've got
I LOVE HIM TOO
I've only seen you in pictures with your long dark hair
With your lips on his face, complete love in your stare
Right now I need you to know just how lucky you are
To have a man that lights up in a room that's dark
He's so close to me but he's so far
I wanna be the one he holds,
And know what it feels like in his arms
You think you know what you got, but baby I do
Oh, cause darlin', oh darlin', I love him too
So simple and perfect
I try and fight it every day
But you make it all so worth it
So I'll just beg you to stay
WORSE
Nothing hurts worse than the morning after
Than what I did the night before
Waking up too late beside a stranger
I found the attention I was looking for
A headache and an unfamiliar tee shirt
I see in the mirror on the wall
Aw, what in the hell was I thinking?
Now a day's I don't use my head at all
I thought just one drink would make it all better
Make me forget the things I don't want to remember
But I'm just lying to myself and trying to cover all this hurt
It only makes it worse
Raised up by a bad example
Who tried to teach me right from wrong?
Now all I know how to do is ramble
Put my feelings in an old sad song
Daddy never cared and momma never listened
Only heard what she wanted to hear
All their worries rolled up in the kitchen
They'd smoke it all til they disappeared
I thought just one hit would make it all better
Make me forget the things I don't want to remember
But I'm just lying to myself and trying to cover all this hurt
It only makes it worse
ISN'T ENOUGH
You live and you learn, a penny saved is a penny earned
But nothing in life comes free
You borrow and save and yet your bills still ain't paid
No one said it was easy
Just trying to get by, one day at a time
But shit just gets in the way
Your car's broken down and there's no food in the house
And nothing could make this okay
You're drowning yourself in nothing but love
that just isn't enough
You got it all figured out with the cutest boy in town
And nothing in this world could separate
No choice to inform him and he left you this morning
When he found out that you were two weeks late
Just trying to get by, one day at a time
But shit just gets in the way
You got the same last name and a baby to change
And nothing could make this okay
You're drowning yourself in nothing but love
that just isn't enough
You can't win for losin but maybe that's just me
So sick of the lifestyle I'm not even choosing
So tired of the same routine
A LIFETIME
You ever been in the kind of love that you can't fight?
There's too many you can't count the reasons why
The whole universe could change as long as they're by your side
Autumn leaves fade fast
Summer heat won't last
Winter snow will leave you feeling blue
But I want a lifetime with you
It's overwhelming if you stop to think
It's all gone if you take one second to blink
You'll grow old and I will too
And we'll win less than we'll lose
A hundred years or it might be fifty
You don't know how long you got but you got me
Time outlives us all even when we're feeling strong