With Unstoppable, Gary, Joe Don and Jay release their most powerful and accessible album to date, taking their career and country music another large step forward. Produced by Dann Huff and Rascal Flatts, the record applies the group's formidable talents to a spectrum of songs that range from the pure drama of "Forever," which deals, as the group has so often in the past, with the pain of a broken relationship, to the pure fun of "Summer Nights," a romp through a world of coolers and bikinis guaranteed to be a concert favorite. The trio is as proud of the project as they've ever been.
"This is the best group of songs we've ever had," says Joe Don, and given the band's storied history, that is no small statement. Their deliberate approach is much of the reason.
"We started early on this record," says Jay, "so we could take the time to cut when we wanted to cut. We set out from the beginning to track when we got songs we believed in. That allowed us to take a deep breath now and then and take our time, and the great thing is every song means something very deeply to us." That conviction is evident in every vocal.
"Songs like 'Why,' which deals with a very important and sensitive topic," says Gary, "put me in a place vocally where I've never been. Overall, these were songs I could pour all of myself into."
I should have stolen every moment
Now there's a page
With not enough on it
Where we belong
I guess i'll never understand it
Why do we take it all for granted
Until it's gone
'Cause then it's gone
(Chorus)
Love who you love
With all that you have
And don't waste the time
That flies so fast
Love who you love
And say that you do
Hold on as tight as they'll let you
Love who you love
Give all you've got
Like it's your last day
Your heart and soul
Before it's too late
And pull them in so close
Enough that they can feel it
With every single breath that
You're breathing
Breathe it in again and again
(repeat chorus)
Hold on, Hold on
Yeah, Love who you love
Say that you do - Yeah
(repeat chorus)
Yeah, Love
Love who you love
Say that you do
Hold on, Keep on holdin' on - yeah
Yeah, With every single breath
You're breathing
I can hear the truck tires
Comin’ up the gravel road
And it’s not like her to drive that slow
And nothin’s on her radio
Footsteps on the front porch
I hear my doorbell
She usually comes right in
Now I can tell –
Chorus
Here comes goodbye
Here comes the last time
Here comes the start of every sleepless night
The first of every tear I’m gonna cry
Here comes the pain
Here comes me wishin’ things had never changed
And she was right here in my arms tonight
But here comes goodbye
I can hear her say “I love you”
Like it was yesterday
And I can see it written on her face
That she had never felt this way
One day, I thought I’d see her
With her daddy by her side
And violins would play
“Here Comes The Bride” but –
(Repeat Chorus)
Why’s it have to go from good to gone
Before the lights turn on
Yeah, and you’re left alone, all alone
But here comes goodbye
(Repeat Chorus)
It's just another simple
Voicemail message
I'll pick you up and we'll do
Dinner by the fire
And we'll just watch it snow
It's from a year ago
Baby, I love you
And I can't wait to see you tonight
I've been thinking about you
All day long
She pushes nine to save
But still can't erase 'cause --
[Chorus]
It makes her feel close
Makes her smile
It's like he's with her almost
Til the tears take over
She's still in hell
But she tells herself
She's ready to let him go
'Cause that makes her feel close
It's just a worn out
Notre Dame t-shirt
She's gotten mad
And tried to throw that thing away
At least a hundred times
But she's got it on tonight
He used to wear it on the weekend
Just runnin' around
Probably forgot he even left it
behind
She says it keeps her warm
Oh, but it's so much more
[Chorus]
It makes her feel close
Makes her smile
It's like he's with her almost
Til the tears take over
She's still in hell
But she tells herself
She's ready to let him go
'Cause that makes her feel close
To saying goodbye, getting
On with her life
Maybe give love another try
One more try
Oh, one more try
[Chorus]
It makes her feel close
Makes her smile
It's like he's with her almost
Til the tears take over
She's still in hell
But she tells herself
She's ready to let him go
'Cause that makes her feel close
It makes her feel close
Makes her feel close
It's just a worn out Notre
Dame t-shirt
She's gotten mad and tried
To throw that thing away
At least a hundred times
But she's got in on tonight
I miss you so much
your light, your smile, your way
and everything about us
though you're gone, you still here
in my heart, in my tears
yeah, you sure left your mark
and we were just getting started
(Chorus)
It wasn’t long, it wasn’t long enough
Together…
But it was long enough, yeah it was long enough…
to last forever
Sometimes I get so mad;
I scream and swear at this
Cuz’ this isn’t how we planned it
I sit here, in a cold room.
Praying
Waiting on you
To run back through that door, the way it was before
(Chorus)
You left, it wasn’t long enough, it wasn’t long enough together
But it was long enough, yeah it was long enough
to last forever
I feel Cheated (I feel Cheated), defeated (can’t believe it)
can’t believe that you’re gone (your gone, your gone)
Oh it was wrong (so wrong)
It wasn’t long enough
It wasn’t long enough, it wasn’t long enough…
Nooo
(chorus)
it wasn’t long enough, it wasn’t long enough…
Together (Together)
But it was long enough; yeah it was long enough, to last,
to last, to last forever...
(It wasn’t long enough, it wasn’t long enough, it wasn’t long enough)
No it wasn’t long enough…
(It wasn’t long enough, it wasn’t long enough, it wasn’t long enough)
Long enough…
(It wasn’t long enough, it wasn’t long enough, it wasn’t long enough)
She got the long blond hair
Got the red sports car
And you know she’s got the
Top laid back
Se got the movie star smile
Got the sun kissed tan
Santa Barbara in summer
Yeah, she feels like that
Hey she’s like a canyon drive
In a midnight sky
Those yese are deep enough
To get lost
Her legs are palm tree tall
The way she walks
Like the heat on a runway
When the cameras go off
She’s small town from the country
She ain’t big time but she could be
(Chorus)
Hey, Hollywood never looked this good
Bright as the big screen burns
Hey, I bet drivin’ down sunset
They’re lookin’ for a face like hers
Yeah, I’ve been all around this world
And she’d be California
If California was a girl
She’s like a red, red wine
Like a righteous wave
She’s a day at the beach in corona del mar
She’s never been out there
Felt the bright spot light
But she could have her own star
On that dreamer’s boulevard
I’ve driven down that coastline
And I’ve stood there under that big sign
Hey, Hollywood never looked this good
Bright as the big screen burns
Hey, I bet drivin’ down sunset
They’re lookin’ for a face like hers
Yeah, I’ve been all around this world
And she’d be california
If california was a girl
I’d chase that wild sunset
I’d be gone on my way,
Way out west
Yeah, I’ve been all around this town
Hey, Hollywood never looked this good
Bright as the big screen
Hey, I bet drivin’ down sunset
Lookin’ for a face like hers
Yeah, she’d be California
If California was a girl
Now she’d be California
Hey California
She got the long blonde hair
Got the red sports car
And you know she’s got the
Top laid back
Se got the movie star smile
Got the sun kissed tan
Santa Barbara in summer
Yeah, she feels like that
Yeah, she’d be California
Hey, Hollywood
Yeah yeah yeah..
Hey
So, so you made a lot of mistakes
Walked down the road a little sideways
Cracked a rib when you hit the wall
Yeah, you’ve had a pocket full of regrets
Pull you down faster than a sunset
Hey, it happens to us all
When the cold hard rain just won’t quit
And you can’t see your way out of it
CHORUS
You find your faith has been lost and shaken
You take back what’s been taken
Get on your knees and dig down deep
You can do what you think is impossible
Keep on believing, don’t give in
It’ll come and make you whole again
It always will, it always does
Love is unstoppable
Love, it wear the ring of stone
Bring you back to being born again
oh, it’s a helping hand when you need it most
A lighthouse shining on the coast
That never goes dim
When your heart is full of doubt
And you think that there’s no way out
CHORUS
You find your faith has been lost and shaken
You take back what’s been taken
Get on your knees and dig down deep
You can do what you think is impossible
Keep on believing, don’t give in
It’ll come and make you whole again
It always will, it always does
Love is unstoppable
Like a river keeps on rolling
Like the north wind blowing
Don’t it feel good knowing
Yeah
CHORUS
You find your faith has been lost and shaken
You take back what’s been taken
Get on your knees and dig down deep
You can do what you think is impossible
Keep on believing, don’t give in
It’ll come and make you whole again
It always will, it always does
Love is unstoppable
Love is unstobbale
So you made a lot of mistakes
Walked down the road a little sideways
Love, love is unstoppable
Sometimes he lets that boss get in his head
He can’t see past that mountain of deadlines on his desk
5oclock he’s that last one out of the gate
And he gets cut off flipped off ticked off out on the interstate
And he wonders why this world won’t leave him alone
Till he hears that little voice holler “daddy’s home”
Things that matter
Things that don’t
She’s held on to that grudge all her life
Had thirty years of anger
Since her dad walked out that night
She thinks of all the moments that he’s missed
All the birthdays ballets first dates
That seems too much to forget
She gets that call that said he don’t have long
She walks in
He starts crying
The past is gone
Things that matter
Things that don’t
Time ain’t on my side
Don’t want to leave this world
With why didn’t I?
Why didn’t I?
Yeah why didn’t I?
Sometimes I take on this world by myself
Thinking I got all the answers
Don’t need anybody’s help
Well god was right there waiting for me all along
To fall down on my knees surrender all
Things that matter
Things that don’t
Things that matter
Things that don’t
Ha ha ha ha ha
It’s summer nights, babe!
Woo! Yeah, yeah, yeah
Come on ladies, it’s time to pop that top
And fellas, I know you’re ready to rock
We went crazy cooped all winter long
And school is out, so let’s get it on
Flip flop tans and some white sand, I know the perfect spot
Well, the sunset better set soon
So we can get in the mood
Things start getting all heated up
When it starts getting cool, yeah
Summer nights, everybody, are you with me?
Let that Igloo cooler mark your piece of paradise
Summer nights, everybody’s feeling sexy
Holler if you’re ready for some summer nights
A-come on, oh yeah, yeah
Now fellas, you better watch your step
Don’t let them teeny French bikinis make you lose your breath
Back to the ladies, y’all keep doing y’all’s thang
‘Cause everything about you makes me wanna scream
The sun is getting low, there it goes
Here we go, here comes the moon, yeah
Things start getting all heated up
When it starts getting cool, yeah
Summer nights, everybody, are you with me?
Let that Igloo cooler mark your piece of paradise
Summer nights, everybody’s feeling sexy
Holler if you’re ready for some summer nights
It’s a party down in Padre
Big bonfire on the beach
It’s Coronas in Daytona y’all
Where it’s wild and it’s free
Summer nights, everybody, are you with me?
Let that Igloo cooler mark your piece of paradise
Summer nights, everybody’s feeling sexy
Holler if you’re ready for some summer nights
A-come on
Summer nights, everybody, are you with me?
Let that Igloo cooler mark your piece of paradise
Summer nights, everybody’s feeling sexy
Holler if you’re ready for some summer nights
Yeah, oh, are you ready?
Are you ready? Are you ready?
For some summer nights
Yeah baby
Summer nights!
It’s summer nights
Come on!
There’s a mountain dew can with lipstick on it Rollin’ round his truck bed. He just leaves it back there One of the things he still has left of her When he drives into the late day sun You can see a set of footprints. He ain’t going to clean that windshield He’d rather just live with the hurt.
Chorus:
He’s holdin’ on to the wheel
To the way she made him feel.
To the shifter to the pictures.
Every precious moment with her.
Like the left behind colors in the sky
When the sun is gone.
He’s holdin’ on.
Oh he’s holdin’ on.
There’s that voicemail on his cell phone
He don’t dare erase.
She ended with i love you
And he saves it just in case
It might still be true.
No he ain’t through.
Chorus
To the past
To the last time he held her
The breath on his neck.
The three words she said.
Oh oh oh
He’s holdin’ on to the wheel
To the way she made him feel.
To the shifter to the pictures.
Every precious moment with her.
He’s holdin’ on
Yeah he’s holdin’ on
He’s holdin’ on
He’s holdin on
Should’ve been much further
Than this by now
Little bit more gone a little
Less twisted around
Shouldv’e been much better,
You’d think
But I’m not, I’m still stuck
I’m still here in this rut
Looking back on everything
That we had
Holding on to words that we
Can’t take back
What am I to do with the past
When it’s all that I have
And I can’t get you back
[Chorus]
Now I wait by the phone
In the dark, drunk on hope
I’m so lost, I’m so low
and I just want you to know
Everywhere that I go
I’m reminded of us
Where we’ve been, all we’ve done
And all the love that we shared
Once
Oh, once—
I remember you saying I was the one
And nothing could change that
But you were wrong
Its funny how life turns on a dime
Now we don’t even talk
I just just stare at these walls and
[Chorus]
Now I wait by the phone
In the dark, drunk on hope
I’m so lost, I’m so low
and I just want you to know
Everywhere that I go
I’m reminded of us
Where we’ve been, all we’ve done
And all the love that we shared
Once
Once, you made the world feel
So right
Once, you were my morning,
Noon and night
Why’d we slip away
Why did it all change
Now will I ever be the same
Now I wait by the phone
In the dark, drunk on hope
I’m so lost, I’m so low
And I just want you to know
Everywhere—all we’ve done
Oh, by the phone, baby
I’ve been so lost
I just want you to know
Yeah, where we’ve been
Should’ve been much further
Than this by now
Little bit more gone a little less
Twisted around
You must have been in a place so dark
You couldnt feel the light
Reaching for you through that stormy cloud
Now here we are gathered in our little home town
This cant be the way you meant to draw a crowd
Oh why, thats what I asking
Was there anything i could have said or done
Oh I had no clue you were masking a troubled soul
God only knows what went wrong and whyy youd leave the stage in the middle of a song
mmmmm
Now in my mind ill keep you frozen as a 17 year old
Rounding third to score the winning run
You always played with passion no matter what the game
When you took the stage you shined just like the sun
Oh why thats what I keep asking
Was there anything I could have said or done
Oh I had no clue you were masking a troubled soul
Oh God only knows what went wrong and why you would leave the stage in the middle of a song
Yeahhhhh
Now the oak trees a swaying in the early autumn breeze
The golden sun is shining on my face
Tangled thoughts i hear the mocking bird sing this old world really aint that bad a place
Oh I theres no comprehending and who am i to try judge or explain
But I do have one burning question
Who told you life wasnt worth the fight
They were wrong
They lied
Now your gone and we cry
Its just not like you to walk away in the middle of a song
Your beautiful song
Your absolutely beautiful song
After spending more than twenty-five weeks at the top of the radio charts and selling more than 17 million albums, country music’s favorite band, Rascal Flatts, will release its first ever greatest hits collection on October 28.
Greatest Hits Volume 1 will chronicle Rascal Flatts’s rise as the biggest selling country band of the decade and will highlight the band’s best songs that have made them the ACM, CMA, CMT and AMA reigning Group of the Year for several years running. It will offer up sixteen tracks, including thirteen of the vocal group’s smash hits like “What Hurts The Most,” “Life Is A Highway,” “I’m Movin’ On” and the six week #1 smash “Bless The Broken Road.”
<1>The initial limited edition release will be presented in a special foil-embossed 2 CD package. This limited edition version will include three newly recorded Christmas songs as bonus tracks – the classic “White Christmas,” “Jingle Bell Rock” and an a capella version of “I’ll Be Home For Christmas.” The three holiday tracks will be available as part of Rascal Flatts’s Greatest Hits Volume 1 for a limited time and are the only Christmas songs currently available from the band.1>I don’t want to spend another lonely night
Oooo, Oooo, Oooo
I’ve got the lights turned up
The door is locked, the bedroom TV’s on
Doing the only thing that gets me through the night
Since you’ve been gone
Chorus
Prayin’ for daylight, waiting for that morning sun
So I can act like my whole life ain’t going wrong
Baby come back to me, I swear I’ll make it right
Don’t make me spend another lonely night
Prayin’ for daylight
(Prayin’ for daylight)
I made a bad miscalculation
Betting you would never leave
‘Cause if you’re getting on with your new life
Then where does that leave me
Prayin’ for daylight
(Prayin’ for daylight)
Bridge
Prayin’ for daylight
Hoping that I didn’t wait too long
(I didn’t wait too long)
That this is just the dark before the dawn
Deep in my heart I know
That you love me as much as I love you
And that you must be lying somewhere
Looking up to Heaven too
Prayin’ for daylight
I don’t want to spend another lonely night
I don’t want to spend another lonely night
(Prayin’ for daylight)
Prayin’ for daylight
I don’t want to spend another lonely night
Oooo, Oooo, Oooo, Oooo, Oooo
Prayin’ for daylight
I’ve dealt with my ghosts and I’ve faced all my demons
Finally content with a past I regret
I’ve found you find strength in your moments of weakness
For once I’m at peace with myself
I’ve been burdened with blame, trapped in the past for too long
I’m movin’ on
I’ve lived in this place and I know all the faces
Each one is different but they’re always the same
They mean me no harm but it’s time that I face it
They’ll never allow me to change
But I never dreamed home would end up where I don’t belong
I’m movin’ on
Chorus
I’m movin’ on
At last I can see life has been patiently waiting for me
And I know there’s no guarantees, but I’m not alone
There comes a time in everyone’s life
When all you can see are the years passing by
And I have made up my mind that those days are gone
I sold what I could and packed what I couldn’t
Stopped to fill up on my way out of town
I’ve loved like I should but lived like I shouldn’t
I had to lose everything to find out
Maybe forgiveness will find me somewhere down this road
I’m movin’ on
I’m movin’ on
I’m movin’ on
Hey baby, is that you
Wow, your hair got so long
Yeah, yeah I love it, I really do
“Norma Jean,” ain’t that the song we’d sing
In the car driving downtown
Top down, making the rounds
Checking out the bands on Doheny Avenue
Yeah, life throws you curves
But you learned to swerve
Me, I swung and I missed
And the next thing you know, I’m reminiscing
Dreaming old dreams
Wishing old wishes
Like you would be back again
Chorus
I wake up in teardrops that fall down like rain
I put on that old song we danced to and then
I head off to my job, guess not much has changed
Punch the clock, head for home, check the phone just in case
Go to bed, dream of you
That’s what I’m doing these days
Yeah, that’s what I’m doing
Someone told me after college
You ran off to Vegas
You married a rodeo cowboy
Wow, that ain’t the girl I knew
Me, I’ve been a few places
Mostly here and there once or twice
Still sorting out life but I’m doing alright
Yeah, it’s good to see you too
Well hey girl you’re late
And those planes, they don’t wait
But if you ever come back around
This sleepy old town
Promise me you’ll stop in
To see an old friend
And until then
(Repeat Chorus Twice)
I wake up in teardrops that fall down like rain
I put on that old song we danced to and then
I wake up in teardrops that fall down like rain
I put on that old song we danced to and then
I wake up in teardrops that fall down like rain
I put on that old song we danced to and then
(Fade)
When you light those candles
Up there on that mantle, setting the mood
Well, I just lie there staring
Silently preparing to love on you
Well, I can feel the heat from across the room
Ain’t it wild what a little flame can make you wanna do
Chorus
I melt every time you look at me that way
It never fails, anytime, any place
This burn in me is the coolest thing I’ve ever felt
I melt
Don’t know how you do it
I love the way I lose it, every time
What’s even better
Is knowing that forever you’re all mine
The closer you get, the more my body aches
One little stare from you is all it takes
(Repeat Chorus Twice)
Every time you look at me that way
I melt, I melt
Sometimes it feels like this world is spinning faster
Than it did in the old days
So naturally, we have more natural disasters
From the strain of a fast pace
Sunday was a day of rest
Now, it’s one more day for progress
And we can’t slow down ‘cause more is best
It’s all an endless process
Chorus
(Well) I miss Mayberry
Sitting on the porch drinking ice-cold cherry Coke
Where everything is black and white
Picking on a six string
Where people pass by and you call them by their first name
Watching the clouds roll by
Bye, bye
Sometimes I can hear this old earth shouting
Through the trees as the wind blows
That’s when I climb up here on this mountain
To look through God’s window
Now I can’t fly
But I got two feet that get me high up here
Above the noise and city streets
My worries disappear
(Repeat Chorus)
Bridge
Sometimes I dream I’m driving down an old dirt road
Not even listed on a map
I pass a dad and son carrying a fishing pole
But I always wake up every time I try to turn back
(Repeat Chorus)
Bye, bye
(I miss Mayberry, I miss Mayberry)
(Fade)
I woke up this morning
With this feeling inside me, that I can’t explain
Like a weight that I’ve carried, been carried away, away
But I know something is coming
I don’t know what it is
But I know it’s amazing, can save me my time is coming
I’ll find my way out
Of this longest drought
Chorus:
And it feels like today, I know
It feels like today, I’m sure
It’s the one thing that’s missing
The one thing you’re wishing
The last sacred blessing
And hey, feels like today
Feels like today
I treated life like a picture
But it’s not a moment that’s frozen in time
It’s not gonna wait till I make up my mind, at all
So while this storm is breaking
While there’s light at the end of the tunnel
I’ll keep running towards it
Releasing the pressure that’s my heartache
Soon this dam will break
Chorus:
And it feels like today, I know
Feels like today, I’m sure
It’s the one thing that’s missing
The one thing you’re wishing
The last sacred blessing and hey
Feels like today
Feels like today
I set out on a narrow way many years ago
Hoping I would find true love along the broken road
But I got lost a time or two
Wiped my brow and kept pushing through
I couldn’t see how every sign pointed straight to you
Chorus:
Every long lost dream led me to where you are
Others who broke my heart they were like northern stars
Pointing me on my way into your loving arms
This much I know is true
That God blessed the broken road
That led me straight to you
I think about the years I spent just passing through
I’d like to have the time I lost and give it back to you
But you just smile and take my hand
You’ve been there you understand
It’s all part of a grander plan that is coming true
Chorus:
Every long lost dream led me to where you are
Others who broke my heart they were like northern stars
Pointing me on my way into your loving arms
This much I know is true
That God blessed the broken road
That led me straight to you
Now I’m just rollin’ home into my lover’s arms
This much I know is true
That God blessed the broken road that led me straight to you
Staring at you taking off your makeup
Wondering why you even put it on
I know you think you do, but baby, you don’t need it
Wish that you could see what I see when it’s gone
Chorus:
I see a dust trail following an old red Nova
Baby blue eyes and your head on my shoulder
Wait, baby don’t move, right there it is
A T-shirt hanging off a dogwood branch
That river was cold but we gave love a chance
Yeah To me
You don’t look a day over fast cars and freedom
That sunset, riverbank, first time feeling
Yeah smile and shake your head as if you don’t believe me
I’ll just sit right here and let you take me back
Got Cougar up on ten, Little Diddy ‘Bout Jack and Diane
You’re laughing, singing with your feet up on the dash
Remember that
Chorus:
I see a dust trail following an old red Nova
Baby blue eyes and your head on my shoulder
Wait, baby don’t move, right there it is
A T-shirt hanging off a dogwood branch
That river was cold but we gave love a chance
Yeah To me
You don’t look a day over fast cars and freedom
That sunset, riverbank, first time feeling
Sara Beth is scared to death
To hear what the doctor will say
She hasn’t been well, since the day that she fell
And the bruise just won’t go away
So she sits and she waits with her mother and dad
And flips through an old magazine
Till the nurse with the smile stands in the door
And says will you please come with me
Sara Beth is scared to death
Cause the doctor just told her the news
Between the red cells and white, something’s not right
But we’re gonna take care of you
Six chances in ten, it won’t come back again
With the therapy we’re gonna try
It’s just been approved, it’s the strongest there is
And I think that we caught it in time
And Sara Beth closes her eyes.
Chorus:
And she dreams she’s dancing
Around and around without any cares
And her very first love is holding her close
And a soft wind is blowing her hair
Sara Beth is scared to death
As she sits holding her mom
Cause it would be a mistake for someone to take
A bald headed girl to the prom
For just this morning, right here on her pillow
Was the cruelest of any surprise
And she cried when she gathered it all in her hands
The proof that she couldn’t deny
And Sara Beth closes her eyes
Chorus:
And she dreams she’s dancing
Around and around without any cares
And her very first love is holding her close
And a soft wind is blowing her hair
Bridge
It’s quarter to seven, that boy’s at the door
And her daddy ushers him in
And when he takes off his cap
They all start to cry
Cause this morning where his hair had all been
Softly she touches just skin
And they go dancing, around and around
Without any cares
And her very first true love is holding her close
And for a moment she isn’t scared
I can take the rain
On the roof of this empty house
That don’t bother me
I can take a few tears now and then
And I just let ‘em out
I’m not afraid to cry every once in a while
Even though goin’ on with you gone still upsets me
There are days every now and again
I pretend I’m okay
But that’s not what gets me
Chorus
What hurts the most
Was being so close
And havin’ so much to say
And watchin’ you walk away
And never knowin’
What could’ve been
And not seein’ that lovin’ you
Is what I was tryin’ to do
It’s hard to deal with the pain
Of losin’ you everywhere I go
But I’m doin’ it
It’s hard to force that smile
When I see our old friends and I’m alone
Still harder gettin’ up, gettin’ dressed, livin’ with this regret
But I know if I could do it over
I would trade, give away
All the words that I saved in my heart
That I left unspoken
Not seein’ that lovin’ you
That’s what I was trying to do
Oooo, Oooo, Oooo –
I hope the days come easy and the moments pass slow
And each road leads you where you want to go
And if you’re faced with the choice and you have to choose
I hope you choose the one that means the most to you
And if one door opens to another door closed
I hope you keep on walkin’ ‘til you find the window
If it’s cold outside, show the world the warmth of your smile
But more than anything, more than anything
Chorus
My wish for you
Is that this life becomes all that you want it to
Your dreams stay big, your worries stay small
You never need to carry more than you can hold
And while you’re out there gettin’ where you’re gettin’ to
I hope you know somebody loves you
And wants the same things too
Yeah, this is my wish
I hope you never look back but you never forget
All the ones who love you
And the place you left
I hope you always forgive and you never regret
And you help somebody every chance you get
Oh, you find God’s grace in every mistake
And always give more than you take
But more than anything, yeah more than anything
This is my wish
I hope you know somebody loves you
May all your dreams stay big
You feel like a candle in a hurricane
Just like a picture with a broken frame
Alone and helpless, like you’ve lost your fight
But you’ll be alright, you’ll be alright
Chorus
‘Cause when push comes to shove
You taste what you’re made of
You might bend ‘til you break
‘Cause it’s all you can take
On your knees you look up
Decide you’ve had enough
You get mad, you get strong
Wipe your hands, shake it off
Then you stand, then you stand
Life’s like a novel with the end ripped out
The edge of a canyon with only one way down
Take what you’re given before it’s gone
And start holdin’ on, keep holdin’ on
Every time you get up and get back in the race
One more small piece of you starts to fall into place – yeah
Yeah then you stand – yeah
Yeah, baby
Woo hoo, Woo hoo, Woo hoo
Then you stand – yeah, yeah
Whooo umm yeah…
Life’s like a road that you travel on
When there’s one day here and the next day gone
Sometimes you bend, sometimes you stand
Sometimes you turn your back to the wind
There’s a world outside ev’ry darkened door
Where blues won’t haunt you anymore
Where brave are free and lovers soar
Come ride with me to the distant shore
We won’t hesitate
To break down the garden gate
There’s not much time left today
[Chorus:]
Life is a highway
I wanna ride it all night long
If you’re going my way
I wanna drive it all night long
Through all these cities and all these towns
It’s in my blood and it’s all around
I love you now like I loved you then
This is the road and these are the hands
From Mozambique to those Memphis nights
The Khyber Pass to Vancouver’s lights
Knock me down get back up again
You’re in my blood
I’m not a lonely man
There’s no load I can’t hold
Road so rough this I know
I’ll be there when the light comes in
Just tell ‘em we’re survivors
[Chorus]
Gimme gimme gimme gimme yeah
[Chorus]
There was a distance between you and I (between you and I)
A misunderstanding once
But now we look it in the eye
Ooooo…Yeah!
There ain’t no load that I can’t hold
Road so rough this I know
I’ll be there when the light comes in
Just tell ‘em we’re survivors
[Chorus: (x3)]
Life is a highway
I wanna ride it all night long
If you’re going my way
I wanna drive it all night long
Gimme gimme gimme gimme yeah
I’m dreaming of a white Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Where the tree tops glisten and children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow
I’m dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white
I’m dreaming of a white Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
So may your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white
Ohhh Yeah
Jingle bell jingle bell
Jingle bell rock
Jingle bell swing and jingle bells ring
Snowin’ and blowin’ up bushels of fun
Now the jingle hop has begun
Jingle bell jingle bell jingle bell rock
Jingle bells chime in jingle bell time
Dancin’ and prancin’ in jingle bell square
In the frosty air
Oh the bright time it’s the right time
To rock the night away
Jingle bell time is a swell time to go
Glilding in a one horse sleigh
Giddy up jingle horse pick up your feet
Jingle around the clock
A mix and a mingle in the jingling feet
That’s the jingle bell rock
Yeahhhhh Ohhhhh
(Ohh bop)
(Ohh bop)
(Dance the night away)
(Ohh bop)
(Ohh bop)
Music
(Ahh Ahhh)
Jingle bell jingle bell jingle bell rock
Jingle bells chime in jingle bell time
Dancin’ and prancin’ in jingle bell square
In the frosty air
Ohh a bright time is the right time to rock
The night away
Jingle bell time is a swell time
To go gilding in a one horse sleigh
Giddy up jingle horse pick up your feet
Jingle around the clock
A mix and a mingle in the jingling feet
That’s the jingle bell that’s the jingle bell
That’s the jingle bell rockkkkk!
Sure is ohhhh!
I’ll be home for Christmas – Rascal Flatts
I’ll be home for Christmas
You can count on me
Please have snow and mistle toe
And presents under the tree
Christmas Eve will find me
Where the love light gleams
I’ll be home for Christmas
If only in my dreams
I’ll be home, I’ll be home
If only in my dreams
I’ll be home, I’ll be home
If only in my dreams
I’m dreamin’ tonight
Of a place I love
Even more than I usually do
(Usually do)
And although I know
It’s a long road back
I Promise You
I’ll be home for Christmas
You can count on me
Please have snow and mistle toe
And presents under the tree
Christmas Eve will find me
Where the love light gleams
I’ll be home for Christmas
If only in my dreams
I’ll be home, I’ll be home
If only in my dreams
Released Sept. 25, 2007
“Take Me There” first single off album #1- co-written by Kenny Chesney
New single “Winner At A Losing Game- co-written by all three Flatts
STILLS FEELS GOOD third consecutive #1 debut album selling 547,000 copies first week
There’s a place in your heart nobodys been
Take me there
Things nobody knows, not even your friends
Take me there
Tell me about your mama, your daddy, your hometown
Show me around, I want to see it all
Don’t leave anything out
CHORUS
I wanna know everything about you then
And I want to go down every road
you’ve been
Where your hopes and dreams and wishes live
Where you keep the rest of your life hid
I want to know the girl behind that pretty stare
Take me there
Your first real kiss, your first true love
You were scared
Show me where you learned about life,
spent your summer nights
Without a care
I wanna roll down Main Street, the back roads,
like you did when you were a kid, what made you who you are
Tell me what your story is
Repeat Chorus
Yeah, I wanna know everything about you
Yeah, everything about you baby
I wanna go down every road you’ve been
Where your hopes and dreams and wishes live
Where you keep the rest of your life hid
I want to know the girl behind that pretty stare
Take, me, take me, take me there
Oh, I wanna roll down Main Street
I wanna know your hopes and your dreams
Take me, take me there-yeah
There’s a place I’ve been lookin’ for
That took me in and out of buildings
Behind windows, walls and doors
And I thought I found it
Couple times, even settled down
And I’d hang around just long enough
To find my way back out
I know now the place that I was trying to
reach
Was you, right here in front of me
CHORUS
And I wouldn’t change a thing
I’d walk right back through the rain
Back to every broken heart
On the day that it was breakin’
And I’d relive all the years
And be thankful for the tears
I’ve cried with every stumbled step
That led to you and got me here, right here
It’s amazing what I let my heart go through
To get me where it got me
In this moment here with you
And it passed me by
God knows how many times
I was so caught up in holding
What I never thought I’d find
I know now, there’s a million roads
I had to take
To get me in your arms that way
Repeat Chorus
In a love I never thought I’d get to get to
-here
And if that’s the road
God made me take to be with you
Repeat Chorus
And I’d retrieve all the years
And be thankful for all the tears
I’ve cried with every stumbled step
That led to you and got me here, right here
Oh, baby-Ooo
Oh, got me here
Bob that head
Awwh, Awwh, ah
Yeah-yeah, yeah,yeah
Tricked out truck kit
Runnin’ boards black lit
KC roll bar
Had to mow an extra yard
Just so he could
Install satellite
Rascal Flattin’all night
King cab, bass tubes
Stop light, boom-boom
Five days, all week
Two jobs so he can
CHORUS
Bob that head
Every Friday night
Got the windows rolled down
The seat reclined
Givin’everybody that rock on sign
Yeah, turn it up to ten
Hey, y’all join in
Bob that head
Come on, bob that head
Bob that head
Hot girl wants a ride
Climbs up inside
Feelin’ that rhythmn
Right along with him
Now he’s cruisin’
Don’t want to lose it
Loop around Sonic
And right back on it
Low gear, drive by
Up and down
That’s right
Repeat Chorus
Come on, feels good
Let it go, shake it loose
Don’t it make you wanna
CHORUS
Bob that head
Every Friday night
Got the windows rolled down
The seats reclined
Givin’ everybody that rock on sign
Yeah, turn it up to ten
Hey, y’all join in
Come on, let the party begin
Let’s do it again
Bob that head
Bob that head
Every Friday night
Bob that head, bob that head
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Bob that head-yeah
Bob that head
Bob that, bob that
Bob that head
Bob that, bob that
Bob that, bob that
I know that you’re leavin’
As soon as the sun
Comes through the window
There’s no talking this over
The damage is done
There’s just too much hurt
Too much to forgive
Oh, but we both know
We were’nt always like this
CHORUS
Help me remember
The way that we used to be
When nothin’ else mattered
“cause you were lovin’ me
Just for the night, one last time
One more good memory
When I look back
That’s what I wanna see
Oh, help me remember
Those days that were so good
Those nights that we held
Held on forever
When we weren’t pretenders
We were as real as we felt
Oh, I don’t want to fight anymore
Don’t want the last thing I hear tonight
To be a slammin’ door
Baby, let it be like before
Repeat Chorus
This could be the last time
I look in your eyes
Help me remember
The way that it used to be
When nothin’ else mattered
‘Cause you were lovin’ me
Oh, help me remember
Oh, help me, help me
Oh, oh, oh, oh-
FADE
Ooo, Ooo, Ooo-come on,
Still feels good-oh,oh,oh
That old t-shirt you wear to bed
Hangin’ off your shoulder by a thread
The one you ripped off me when
we first met
Still feels good
That old familiar song blarin’
from my car
We know every note, every word
by heart
Puts a smile on your face ‘cause
you know it’s ours
And it still feels good
CHORUS
Your fingers hooked around
my belt loops
Leanin’ up against my ride
Remember that first time I touched you
It doesn’t matter-I’ve held you a
million times
Oh, and it still feels good
We made some crazy plans, had some
crazy dreams
And now that we’ve reached
a few you would think
That it would get old to you and me
But it still feels good, still feels good
Repeat Chorus
Oh, your fingers hooked around
my belt loops
Leanin’ up against my ride
Remember the first time I touched you
It doesn’t matter, I’ve held you-
I’ve touched you
I’ve felt you-I’ve loved you-
and it still feels good
Yeah and it still feels good, baby
Yeah, it still feeld good-yeah, yeah, yeah
Still feels good
Still feels good, baby
Baby, look here at me
Have you ever seen me this way
I’ve been fumblin’ for words
Through the tears and the hurt and the
pain
I’m gonna lay it all out
On the line tonight
And I think that it’s time
To tell this uphill fight goodbye
CHORUS
Have ever had to love someone
That just don’t feel the same
Tryin’ to make somebody care for you
The way I do
Is like tryin’ to catch the rain
And if love is really forever
I’m a winner at a losin’ game
I know that baby, you tried
To find me somewhere inside of you
But you know you can’t lie
Girl, you can’t hide the truth
Sometimes two hearts
Just can’t dance to the same beat
So I’ll pack up my things
And I’ll take what remains of me
Repeat Chorus
I know that I’ll never be the man that you need or love
Yeah, baby it’s killin’ me to stand here and see
I’m not what you’ve been dreamin’ of
Repeat Chorus
Oh, oh, if love is really forever
I’m a winner at a losin’ game
Ooo, I’m tired of losing
Oh, oh, oh-
She left that loser in a dust cloud
Heart in his hand, chin on the ground
Cried her last tear for that clown
She can see a little clearer now
She said, “Oh, oh, I gotta go and find me”
Oh, oh she found the strength to break free
CHORUS
Like a painted wild mustang
Flyin’ out across the open range
Finally gets to live her life that way
No fear, no fences, nobody-no reins
No reins
All she’s ever felt is held back
She says, “It’s kinda nice to hear myself laugh”
She’s gonna do a lot more of that
She’s makin’ plans and makin’ tracks
She said, “Oh, oh I gotta go and find me”
Oh, oh she found the strength to break free
Repeat Chorus
Oh, oh she’s learnin’ how to let go
Oh, oh whichever way the wind blows
Oh, oh she’s learnin’ how to let go
Repeat Chorus Twice
No reins
You could’ve bowed out gracefully
But you didn’t
You knew enough to know
To leave well enough alone
But you wouldn’t
I drive myself crazy
Tryin’ to stay out of my own way
The messes that I make
But my secrets are so safe
The only one who gets me
Yeah, you get me
It’s amazing to me
CHORUS
How every day
Every day, every day
You save my life
I come around all broken down and
crowded out
And you’re comfort
Sometimes the place I go
Is so deep and dark and desperate
I don’t know, I don’t know
Repeat Chorus
Sometimes I swear, I don’t know if
I’m comin’ or goin’
But you always say something
without even knowin’
That I’m hangin’ on to your words
With all of my might and it’s alright
Yeah, I’m alright for one more night-
every day
Every day, every day, every day
Every day, every day
You save me, you save me, oh, oh, oh
Every day
Every, every, every day-
Every day you save my life
Whoa! Hey, hey-
Oh what a ride
What a perfect sky to frame
your hazel eyes
I’d scream on the inside
But right now it feels like I’ve
been tranquilized
Oh, what a fool am I
To be tongue-tied
Sitting next to her
The princess and the passenger
You touch the rain and suddenly
there’s waterfalls
Now every day is something more
worth fighting for
CHORUS
Baby, you make the sun shine down
You make the sun shine down
You can paint the darkest clouds
And turn them into rainbows
You take your secret smile
The one that turns me on
Hey girl, you’ve been what I’ve waited for
Feet back on the pavement to the
basement
On the bright side of the road
Fumbling my lines to a lazy cat
On the step outside her door
She opens up
And I’m in the Polaroid
Standing next to her
The princess and the passenger
Touching the rain and suddenly
there’s waterfalls
Now every day is something more
worth living for
REPEAT CHORUS
On a day like this when the world
is elevated
On a day like this when I know just
why I waited
On a day like this when the world
is elevated
On a day like this when I know just
why I waited
If i had one call to make
I would dial yesterday and warn myself
Tell my lips the words to say
Not let you just walk away
With someone else
With someone else
[Chorus]
Next time, i wont suffer this kind of pain
Own my mistakes
Not just pass off all the blame
If you were here, we could figure this out
Then i wouldn’t be bitter
I’d just be better now.
To be the strong and silent one
A lot of good that has done
Yes, you’d agree
No more tryin’ to understand
Or fix these things because you can
Guess it’s up to me
Yeah, it’s up to me
[Repeat Chorus]
I’d be much better off
Much better off, maybe
If i could just let it go
With no regrets then
[Chorus]
Next time, I won’t suffer this kind of pain
Own my mistakes
Not just pass off all the blame
You’d still be here,and we’d figure this out
Then i wouldn’t be better (I wouldn’t be better)
oh, no I wouldn’t be bitter
I’d just be better now
oh
No limits, no lines are drawn
The whole world disappears when
we’re alone
That thin white cotton dress is
blowin’ in the wind
She takes my hand and the dance begins
CHORUS
With every move she makes
I’m deeper than I’ve been
Holding on and letting go
She just keeps givin’ in
Takin’ me higher and further
There she goes again givin’ more than
she takes
‘Cause it’s more than love she makes
She goes all the way
No questions, no talking at all
Only the sound of our hearts as the fall
No matter what I need, her answer’s
Always yes
I only have to dream and she does the
rest
REPEAT CHORUS TWICE
Ooo, ooo, ooo
My baby goes all the way, the way
She goes all the way
My baby goes all the way
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah
When she told you goodbye
You didn’t flinch
When she looked back
You didn’t even budge an inch
You stood there like stone
But now that she’s gone
CHORUS
How strong are you now
Without her around
You can’t even keep one little bitty tear
From fallin’ down
Tell me how strong are you know
Before she left you told yourself
It can’t hurt that much
Now you’re doubled over
Like you took a punch
No, she ain’t coming back
Tell me how much can you take of that
REPEAT CHORUS
Tell me how strong are you now – yeah
How strong are you now – oh, oh
What’s that rule you live by
You say tough guys never cry
But how strong are you now
Tommy found his daddy’s gun
And Joey had never seen one
Real cowboy all dressed up
As he held it in his hand
Said, “You be good and I’ll be bad”
Then he pulled the trigger back
Stopped little Tommy in his tracks
And said, “Get up, man”
People came from miles to say goodbye
To the Wilson’s youngest son
His innocent life had just begun
CHORUS
It’s not supposed to go like that
It’s not intended to end that way
Life is a journey constantly turning
Down an unknown path
But it’s not supposed to go like that
Jimmy had his daddy’s car
And the keys to Jenny’s heart
A fifth of whiskey on the floorboard
Almost gone
Havin’ the time of their life
Had only one thing on their mind
Never saw the flashin’ lights
Or the train comin’ on
Now there’s a wreath and two small crosses
On the right side of the road
Reminders of a love that won’t grow
REPEAT CHORUS
I wonder if guardian angels cry
When they see it all played out
And as they stand with their hands tied
Oh, do they cry out loud
It’s not suppose to go like that
No, it’s not supposed to go like that
No, it’s not supposed to go like that
No, it’s not supposed to go like that
No, it’s not supposed, it’s not supposed to go like that
No, no, no, it’s not supposed to go like that
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‘Cause when push comes to shove
You taste what you’re made of
You might bend ‘til you break
‘Cause it’s all you can take
On your knees you look up
Decide you’ve had enough
You get mad, you get strong
Wipe your hands, shake it off
Then you stand, then you stand
Life’s like a novel with the end ripped out
The edge of a canyon with only one way down
Take what you’re given before it’s gone
And start holdin’ on, keep holdin’ on
Every time you get up and get back in the race
One more small piece of you starts to fall into place – yeah
Yeah then you stand – yeah
Yeah, baby
Woo hoo, Woo hoo, Woo hoo
Then you stand – yeah, yeah
I can take the rain
On the roof of this empty house
That don’t bother me
I can take a few tears now and then
And I just let ‘em out
I’m not afraid to cry every once in a while
Even though goin’ on with you gone still upsets me
There are days every now and again
I pretend I’m okay
But that’s not what gets me
Chorus
What hurts the most
Was being so close
And havin’ so much to say
And watchin’ you walk away
And never knowin’
What could’ve been
And not seein’ that lovin’ you
Is what I was tryin’ to do
It’s hard to deal with the pain
Of losin’ you everywhere I go
But I’m doin’ it
It’s hard to force that smile
When I see our old friends and I’m alone
Still harder gettin’ up, gettin’ dressed, livin’ with this regret
But I know if I could do it over
I would trade, give away
All the words that I saved in my heart
That I left unspoken
Not seein’ that lovin’ you
That’s what I was trying to do
Oooo, Oooo, Oooo –
I was sittin’ on a bar stool in a barbeque joint in Tennessee
When this ole boy walked in and he sat right down next to me
I could tell he’d been through some hard times
There were tear stains on his old shirt and he said –
“Ya wanna know what ya get when you play a country song backwards?”
Chorus
Ya get your house back – ya get your dog back
Ya get your best friend Jack back
Ya get your truck back – ya get your hair back
Ya get your first and second wives back
Your front porch swing, your pretty little thing
Your bling, bling, bling and a diamond ring
You get your farm and the barn
And the boat and the Harley
First night in jail with Charlie
It sounds a little crazy, a little scattered and absurd
But that’s what you get when you play a country song backwards
Well, I never heard it said quite like that
It hit me in the face
‘Cause that’s where I’m at
I almost fell flat out on the floor – he said
“Wait a minute, that’s not all, there’s even more”
Chorus
Ya get your mind back, your nerves back
Your first heart attack back
You get your pride back, get your life back
You get your first real love back
You get your big screen TV
A DVD and a washing machine
You get the pond and the lawn
The bail and the mower
You get to go back where you don’t know her
It sounds a little crazy, a little scattered and absurd
But that’s what you get when you play a country song backwards
We sat there and shot the bull about how it would be
If we could turn it all around and change this C-R-A-P
I should be out in that driveway stoppin’ you
Tears should be rollin’ down my cheek
And I don’t know why
I’m not fallin’ apart like I usually do
And how the thought of losin’ you’s not killin’ me
Chorus
I feel bad
That I can stand here strong, cold as stone
Seems so wrong, I can’t explain it
Maybe it’s just I’ve cried so much
I’m tried and I’m numb, baby I hate it
I feel bad
That I don’t feel bad
I could let myself be angry over wasted time
And sad about just throwin’ love away
Yeah, I almost wish my heart was breaking
But I can’t lie
All I want to do is turn the page
(Repeat Chorus)
Bitter, alone
I just feel it’s time – it’s time to move on
I just gotta move on and on and on and on – yeah
Maybe it’s just I’ve cried so much
I’m tired and I’m numb, oh baby I hate it
I feel bad
That I don’t feel bad
No, I don’t feel bad
I hope the days come easy and the moments pass slow
And each road leads you where you want to go
And if you’re faced with the choice and you have to choose
I hope you choose the one that means the most to you
And if one door opens to another door closed
I hope you keep on walkin’ ‘til you find the window
If it’s cold outside, show the world the warmth of your smile
But more than anything, more than anything
Chorus
My wish for you
Is that this life becomes all that you want it to
Your dreams stay big, your worries stay small
You never need to carry more than you can hold
And while you’re out there gettin’ where you’re gettin’ to
I hope you know somebody loves you
And wants the same things too
Yeah, this is my wish
I hope you never look back but you never forget
All the ones who love you
And the place you left
I hope you always forgive and you never regret
And you help somebody every chance you get
Oh, you find God’s grace in every mistake
And always give more than you take
But more than anything, yeah more than anything
This is my wish
I hope you know somebody loves you
May all your dreams stay big
From the moment that we met
My world was turned around, upside down
To some degree I still regret my memory
For keeping you around
Girl, I thought that you were mine
But my broken heart’s been shattered
One too mine times
Chorus
And I don’t wanna see you anymore
I’m just not that strong
I love it when you’re here
But I’m better when you’re gone
I’m certain that I’ve given
And oh how you can take
There’s no use in you lookin’
There’s nothin’ left for you to break
Baby, please release me
Let my heart rest in pieces, in pieces
Someone let you down again
So you turn to me, your convenient friend
Oh, but I know what you’re doin’ and what you hope to find
I’ve seen it a thousand times
All the fire we had before
Are now just bitter ashes
Left scattered on the floor
We both know that you don’t need me
Let my heart rest in pieces, in pieces
Let it rest
Ooo, Ooo, Ooo, Ooo
Do I cry in the night
Do I long to hold you tight
Do I wake wanting you
Yes I do
Do I recall every day
How you took my breath away
Do I remember loving you
Yes I do
Chorus
Yes I do dream of all we had together
Guess it’s true we lost it all forever
Do I pray anyway
Yes I do
I don’t live in the past
Wanting love that wouldn’t last
And I don’t ache like I used to
Yes I do
Yes I do
Do I pray
Yes I do dream of all we had together
Yes I do – and yes I do
You waved your hand and it was done
Said let it be and there it was
A mountain so high
It broke through the sky
A canyon so deep
It’d bring a man to his knees
Chorus
I’ve seen what you can do
I’ve seen you make miracles
And hopeless dreams come true
You made the heavens and the stars
Everything – come on, how hard could it be
To make her love me
I said some things I shouldn’t have
Tried everything to win her back
I’m human, I messed up
Is she gone, are we done
Forgiveness, another chance
That’s all I want, it’s in your hands
To make her love me – yeah, yeah, yeah
To make her love me – Ooo, Ooo, Ooo
In a book in a box in the closet
In a line in a song I once heard
In a moment on a front porch late one June
In a breath inside a whisper beneath the moon
There it was at the tip of my fingers
There it was on the tip of my tongue
There you were and I had never been that far
There it was the whole world wrapped inside my arms
And I let it all slip away –
Chorus
What do I do now that you’re gone
No back up plan, no second chance
And no one else to blame
All I can hear in the silence that remains
Are the words I couldn’t say
There’s a rain that’ll never stop falling
There’s a wall that I’ve tried to take down
What I should’ve said just wouldn’t pass my lips
So I held back and now we’ve come to this
And it’s too late now –
Are the words I couldn’t say
I should have found a way to tell you how I felt
Now the only one I’m tellin’ is myself
What do I do, what do I say
And no else to blame
All I can hear in the silence that remains
Are the words I couldn’t say
Way on down to southern Alabama
With the guitars jammin’
That’s where we’re headed
Straight up to Butte, Montana
Singin’ “Lord, I Was Born a Ramblin’ Man”
California to Oregon, even New York City
Got one or two hillbillies
Ready to hit the road
Chorus
It’s a brothers and a sisters kind of thang
Raise up your hands if you all wanna hang
With me and my gang
We live to ride, we ride to live
Me and my gang, jump on that train
Grab hold of them reigns
We’re gonna rock this thang, cock this thang
Me and my gang, yeah – me and my gang
We got hippies, gypsies, freaks and geeks
High class women in Daisy Duke denim
Bangin on gongs and singing our songs
Dude named Elrock jammin’ on an iPod
Beer and bonfires
Wide open throttle
Coors in a bottle
It’s all for one and one for all, ya’ll
Yeah – Woo!
Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na
Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na
Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na
Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na
Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na
Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na
Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na
Yeah – With me and my gang
Jump on that train – whoa!
Grab hold of them reigns, baby!
We were wrapped up in a blanket
Red wine buzz kickin’ in
A little Sarasota moonlight
Driftwood fire burnin’
She was on break from Ohio State
And I was down there sellin’ parasail rides
Just another summer day
Till I strapped her in and watched her fly
Chorus
Talk about a sunset
All I could see were purples and reds
And her silhouette wavin’ goodbye
She didn’t come there lookin’ for love
And the cool thing was
Neither did I and neither did I
She dipped down in the water
As I slowed down holdin’ that line
Wet T-shirt on a two piece
We ditched that boat and hung outside
And we walked ankle deep in ocean
You know that place where footprints disappear
Just like that evenin’ she drove away
It’ll be burned in my mind for a million years
Woo, woo, woo
Grandma burned the biscuits
Nearly took the house down with it
Now she’s in assisted livin’
We all knew that day would come
We knew she was too gone to drive
The day she parked on I-65
Found her on the shoulder cryin’
She didn’t know where she was
It’s like her mind just quit
Oh, but bring up grandpa
It’s like someone flipped a switch
Chorus
A front porch light and blue Desoto
Couple of straws in a Coca-Cola
You could see it all goin’ down
A handsome boy in army green
A tear on his face, down on a knee
Shaky voice, a diamond ring
She’ll put you in that town
Tomorrow she won’t remember what she did today
But just ask her about Ellsworth, Kansas 1948
She takes out his medals
A cigar box of letters
Sits and scatters pictures
Black and whites of days gone by
We started losin’ her when she lost him
But to hear her carry on
You’d swear she’s seventeen again
Chorus
Football games and leaves are cracklin’
Walking her home in his letter jacket
You could see it all goin’ down
A perfect night on a front porch glider
Sayin’ goodnight for the next three hours
Her tired eyes grow wide and bright
When she talks about that town
Tomorrow she won’t remember what she did today
But just ask her about Ellsworth, Kansas 1948
While the world is fading all around her
Sharin’ a sundae at the counter
He’s goin’ on and on about her
Bet she’s right there right now
Tomorrow she won’t remember what she did today
But just ask her about Ellsworth, Kansas 1948
They tried their best to drag him out
Of a courthouse down in Montgomery
And now they wanna kick him out of school
And take him off our money
They can take those words off of paper and stone
But he ain’t gone, no
Chorus
He ain’t the leavin’ kind
He’d never walk away
Even from those who don’t believe
And wanna leave him behind
He ain’t the leavin’ kind
She stayed mad at him for a lot of years
For takin’ her husband
Started losin’ her faith
And thinkin’ that her life meant nothin’
But when she looks at those kids she raised all by herself
She knows she had some help, yeah she knows
No matter what you do
No matter where you go
He’s always right there with you
Even from those who don’t believe
And wanna leave him behind
He ain’t the leavin’ kind
No, no
He ain’t the leavin’, he ain’t the leavin’ kind
He ain’t the leavin’ kind
He ain’t the leavin’ kind
Released September 28, 2004
Fast Cars & Freedom, Skin (Sarabeth)
Singles:
Videos:
There you are standing strong
I’m a leaf holding on
You believe like a child
In this fire running wild
Oh I love how you see right to the heart of me
Chorus:
You’re a waterfall washing over me
I’m a thirsty man let me drink you in
I am on my way
You’re a mountain top
When I reach for you
Your love lifts me up
And all that I want is to be
Where you are
I’m the frozen ground
You’re the warm sunlight
Shining down on me
Baby, just in time
I have never been in love like this
Oh, you move my soul every time we kiss
And I love how you heal
I can’t believe how alive I feel
Chorus:
You’re a waterfall washing over me
I’m a thirsty man let me drink you in
I am on my way
You’re a mountain top
When I reach for you
Your love lifts me up
And all that I want is to be
Where you are
I set out on a narrow way many years ago
Hoping I would find true love along the broken road
But I got lost a time or two
Wiped my brow and kept pushing through
I couldn’t see how every sign pointed straight to you
Chorus:
Every long lost dream led me to where you are
Others who broke my heart they were like northern stars
Pointing me on my way into your loving arms
This much I know is true
That God blessed the broken road
That led me straight to you
I think about the years I spent just passing through
I’d like to have the time I lost and give it back to you
But you just smile and take my hand
You’ve been there you understand
It’s all part of a grander plan that is coming true
Chorus:
Every long lost dream led me to where you are
Others who broke my heart they were like northern stars
Pointing me on my way into your loving arms
This much I know is true
That God blessed the broken road
That led me straight to you
Now I’m just rollin’ home into my lover’s arms
This much I know is true
That God blessed the broken road that led me straight to you
I though about calling you when I got off the plane
Every time I see this city through the clouds I get that way
Call me crazy for missing you like this but I do
By now I figured you had all your numbers changed
It’s been at least a year since I called you up to say
We need to talk I got this job and I think I’m going to take it
Chorus:
Cause I been waiting all my life
For a break like this
It’s my chance of a lifetime I just know it is
I gotta go find these dreams
Was the last thing that I said
And then I did
I can see clear to the mountains as I head up our old street
I remember how we’d call in sick on days like these
And turn the music up roll the windows down and just drive
You talked me outta givin’ up on myself so many times
Convinced me to get in while I could regrets hang heavy on the mind
But you never doubted me you kept pushing me
Chorus 2:
Saying you’ve been waiting all your life for a break like this
It’s your chance of a lifetime you just know it is
You gotta go find those dreams
Was the last thing that you said
And then I did
*But you were wrong
Love was what I wanted all along
And now you’re gone.
Though about calling you when I got off the plane
Every time I see this city through the clouds I get that way
I woke up this morning
With this feeling inside me, that I can’t explain
Like a weight that I’ve carried, been carried away, away
But I know something is coming
I don’t know what it is
But I know it’s amazing, can save me my time is coming
I’ll find my way out
Of this longest drought
Chorus:
And it feels like today, I know
It feels like today, I’m sure
It’s the one thing that’s missing
The one thing you’re wishing
The last sacred blessing
And hey, feels like today
Feels like today
I treated life like a picture
But it’s not a moment that’s frozen in time
It’s not gonna wait till I make up my mind, at all
So while this storm is breaking
While there’s light at the end of the tunnel
I’ll keep running towards it
Releasing the pressure that’s my heartache
Soon this dam will break
Chorus:
And it feels like today, I know
Feels like today, I’m sure
It’s the one thing that’s missing
The one thing you’re wishing
The last sacred blessing and hey
Feels like today
Feels like today
Staring at you taking off your makeup
Wondering why you even put it on
I know you think you do, but baby, you don’t need it
Wish that you could see what I see when it’s gone
Chorus:
I see a dust trail following an old red Nova
Baby blue eyes and your head on my shoulder
Wait, baby don’t move, right there it is
A T-shirt hanging off a dogwood branch
That river was cold but we gave love a chance
Yeah To me
You don’t look a day over fast cars and freedom
That sunset, riverbank, first time feeling
Yeah smile and shake your head as if you don’t believe me
I’ll just sit right here and let you take me back
Got Cougar up on ten, Little Diddy ‘Bout Jack and Diane
You’re laughing, singing with your feet up on the dash
Remember that
Chorus:
I see a dust trail following an old red Nova
Baby blue eyes and your head on my shoulder
Wait, baby don’t move, right there it is
A T-shirt hanging off a dogwood branch
That river was cold but we gave love a chance
Yeah To me
You don’t look a day over fast cars and freedom
That sunset, riverbank, first time feeling
I spent the morning at an old friend’s grave
Flowers and amazing grace he was a good man
But he spent his whole life spinning his wheels
Never knowing how the real thing feels
He never took a chance or took the time to dance
And I stood there thinking as I said goodbye
Today’s the first day of the rest of my life
Chorus:
I’m gonna stop looking back start moving on
And learn how to face my fears
Love with all of my heart make my mark
I wanna leave something here
Go out on a ledge without any net
That’s what I’m gonna be about
Yeah I wanna be running when the sand runs out
Cause people do it every day promise themselves they’re gonna change
I’ve been there
But I’m changing from the inside out that was then this is now
I’m a new man yeah I’m a brand new man
And when they carve my stone they’ll write these words
Here lies a man who lived life for all it was worth
They got three in the front and four in the back of a civic
Camped out all night on the sidewalk just to get tickets
With their hands on the fence in the back by the buses and the limousines
Just to get a glimpse of a drummer or a singer yeah anything
And they come from miles around
For that moment when the lights go out they scream
Chorus:
It’s the girls in the front row singing
It’s the boys with the wheels that bring them
It’s the lighters in the air and you guys up there
You’re the heart and the soul and the reason we do what we do
Here’s to you
There’s a silver tongue blonde trying to sweet talk her way backstage
There’s a mom and a dad in the aisle not acting their age
There’s a wet corvette red lipstick print on a Coors Light cup
And judging by the way she’s dancing I’d say she’s had enough
The guitars come alive
And you make us want to stay all night when you scream
Chorus:
It’s the girls in the front row singing
It’s the boys with the wheels that bring them
It’s the lighters in the air and you guys up there
You’re the heart and the soul and the reason we do what we do
Here’s to you
Chorus:
It’s the girls in the front row singing
It’s the boys with the wheels that bring them
It’s the lighters in the air and you guys up there
You’re the heart and the soul and the reason we do what we do
Here’s to you
I had all but given up
On finding the one that I could fall into
On the day before you
I was ready to settle for
Less than love and not much more
There was no such thing as a dream come true
Oh, but that was on the day before you
Chorus:
Now you’re here and everything’s changing
Suddenly life means so much
I can’t wait to wake up tomorrow
And find out this promise is true
I will never have to go back to
The day before you
In your eyes I see forever
And it makes me wish that my life never knew
The day before you
Oh, but heaven knows those years without you
Were shaping my heart for the day that I found you
And if you’re the reason for all that I’ve been through
Then I’m thankful for the day before you
Chorus:
Now you’re here and everything’s changing
Suddenly life means so much
I can’t wait to wake up tomorrow
And find out this promise is true
I will never have to go back to
The day before you
Bridge
The day before you
Was the last day that I ever lived alone
And I’m never going back
I’m never going back
Chorus:
Now you’re here and everything’s changing
Suddenly life means so much
I can’t wait to wake up tomorrow
And find out this promise is true
I will never have to go back to
The day before you
Opened my eyes this mornin’ with a smile on my face
My arms wrapped around you took me away
And it got me to thinkin’ what we need to do
Is take a Sunday drive and drive on through
Monday, Tuesday, through Friday and Saturday too
Chorus:
Let’s disappear, gotta jet out of here
Feel the wind across our face
We’ll have some fun, gonna dance on the run
It’s a perfect day to break away
We’ll hit Tulsa by Tuesday follow the stars above
Spend the weekend in Vegas and gamble on sweet, sweet love
It don’t matter what we do as long as I’m with you
Chorus:
Let’s disappear, gotta jet out of here
Feel the wind across our face yeah
We’ll have some fun, gonna dance on the run
It’s a perfect day to break away
Bridge
Yeah, yeah
Break away
Yeah, yeah
Let’s disappear, gotta jet outta here
Feel the wind across our face yeah
We’ll have some fun, gonna dance on the run
It’s a perfect day
Let’s disappear, gotta jet outta here
Feel the wind across of face
We’ll have some fun gonna dance on the run
It’s a perfect day
Girl it’s a perfect day to break away
There’s three in the hall
From those pictures in the closet
Two in the bedroom
From that night that I lost it
And one deep inside me
Determined to stay
They don’t get any bigger
But they don’t go away
Chorus:
Holes in and around me
I keep falling back into
Holes dig in and surround me
God knows that I’m gonna do
To fill in these holes… left by you
I poured drink after drink
But nothing hit bottom
I’ve been on my knees
Admitted my problems
The love that we made
Is still barely an echo
I’ll try anything
In these vacant hollow
Chorus:
Holes in and around me
I keep falling back into
Holes dig in and surround me
God knows that I’m gonna’ do
To fill in these holes… left by you
There’s two through my hands and one through my feet
From this cross that I’ll bear till the day that I see
It’s guilt and it’s blame it’s shame and it’s hell
Seeking the truth… I’ve dug them myself
All these holes dig in and surround me
God knows what I’m gonna’ do
To fill up these holes… left by you
She’s got an ol’ dog it don’t like me much
And that thing starts to bark its head off every time we touch
Sittin’ on the porch and listenin’ to the radio
We sing every single song we know even the ones we don’t
She moves a little closer and she puts her hand in mine
Oh what I wouldn’t give just to stop the hands of time
Chorus:
She’s got long blonde hair big blue eyes
I got all I’ll ever need when that girl is by my side
And everything I love is there inside
The little brick house on the Oklahoma Texas Line
She got a part time job at the Tasty Freeze
She took the weekend off to spend a little time with me
I got an ol’ car we drove to the edge of town
We stopped by old man Miller’s farm just to watch the world spin around
She moves a little closer and she puts her lips to mine
Ain’t it funny how the good Lord outdoes himself sometimes
Chorus:
She’s got long blonde hair big blue eyes
I got all I’ll ever need when that girl is by my side
And everything I love is there inside
The little brick house on the Oklahoma Texas Line
Everything I love…
Is there inside of…
A little brick house with a blacktop drive a big ol’ tree names carved inside
Long blonde hair big blue yes
I got all I’ll ever need when that girl is by my side
And everything I love is there inside
In a little brick house on the Oklahoma Texas
In a little brick house on the Oklahoma Texas line
Sara Beth is scared to death
To hear what the doctor will say
She hasn’t been well, since the day that she fell
And the bruise just won’t go away
So she sits and she waits with her mother and dad
And flips through an old magazine
Till the nurse with the smile stands in the door
And says will you please come with me
Sara Beth is scared to death
Cause the doctor just told her the news
Between the red cells and white, something’s not right
But we’re gonna take care of you
Six chances in ten, it won’t come back again
With the therapy we’re gonna try
It’s just been approved, it’s the strongest there is
And I think that we caught it in time
And Sara Beth closes her eyes.
Chorus:
And she dreams she’s dancing
Around and around without any cares
And her very first love is holding her close
And a soft wind is blowing her hair
Sara Beth is scared to death
As she sits holding her mom
Cause it would be a mistake for someone to take
A bald headed girl to the prom
For just this morning, right here on her pillow
Was the cruelest of any surprise
And she cried when she gathered it all in her hands
The proof that she couldn’t deny
And Sara Beth closes her eyes
Chorus:
And she dreams she’s dancing
Around and around without any cares
And her very first love is holding her close
And a soft wind is blowing her hair
Bridge
It’s quarter to seven, that boy’s at the door
And her daddy ushers him in
And when he takes off his cap
They all start to cry
Cause this morning where his hair had all been
Softly she touches just skin
And they go dancing, around and around
Without any cares
And her very first true love is holding her close
And for a moment she isn’t scared
The double CD/DVD set released during the height of the 2003 Melt tour.
DVD Song Listing: Too Good Is True, This Everyday Love, I Melt, Love You Out Loud, Mayberry, Lean on Me, Acoustic Medley (Like I Am/While You Loved Me/It's Not Just Me), Prayin' for Daylight, I'm Movin' On, See Me Through, These Days, Foreplay/Long Time Free Ride
Also includes:
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When you light those candles
Up there on that mantle, setting the mood
Well, I just lie there staring
Silently preparing to love on you
Well, I can feel the heat from across the room
Ain’t it wild what a little flame can make you wanna do
Chorus
I melt every time you look at me that way
It never fails, anytime, any place
This burn in me is the coolest thing I’ve ever felt
I melt
Don’t know how you do it
I love the way I lose it, every time
What’s even better
Is knowing that forever you’re all mine
The closer you get, the more my body aches
One little stare from you is all it takes
(Repeat Chorus Twice)
Every time you look at me that way
I melt, I melt
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Released October 29, 2002
Brooks & Dunn Tour, also CMT tour
Group
Singles:
Videos:
Hey baby, is that you
Wow, your hair got so long
Yeah, yeah I love it, I really do
“Norma Jean,” ain’t that the song we’d sing
In the car driving downtown
Top down, making the rounds
Checking out the bands on Doheny Avenue
Yeah, life throws you curves
But you learned to swerve
Me, I swung and I missed
And the next thing you know, I’m reminiscing
Dreaming old dreams
Wishing old wishes
Like you would be back again
Chorus
I wake up in teardrops that fall down like rain
I put on that old song we danced to and then
I head off to my job, guess not much has changed
Punch the clock, head for home, check the phone just in case
Go to bed, dream of you
That’s what I’m doing these days
Yeah, that’s what I’m doing
Someone told me after college
You ran off to Vegas
You married a rodeo cowboy
Wow, that ain’t the girl I knew
Me, I’ve been a few places
Mostly here and there once or twice
Still sorting out life but I’m doing alright
Yeah, it’s good to see you too
Well hey girl you’re late
And those planes, they don’t wait
But if you ever come back around
This sleepy old town
Promise me you’ll stop in
To see an old friend
And until then
(Repeat Chorus Twice)
I wake up in teardrops that fall down like rain
I put on that old song we danced to and then
I wake up in teardrops that fall down like rain
I put on that old song we danced to and then
I wake up in teardrops that fall down like rain
I put on that old song we danced to and then
(Fade)
I guess it’s cause and effect
Your heart and mine
The way that we connect
Keeps blowing my mind
There you go again, it never ends
What you do to me
Chorus
That I have seen the light of day
Love is finally going my way
Is it too good to be true
Give me one more kiss, one more touch
Baby, I just can’t get enough of you
This time, too good is true
All of a sudden
I’m not who I used to be
I had my heart locked
But you held the key
And you find a way, everyday
To show me even more
(Repeat Chorus)
Bridge
Some people say we’re too good to be true
But they don’t get to be loved by you
(Repeat Chorus)
Oh this time, too good is true
Yes it is, yeah
When you light those candles
Up there on that mantle, setting the mood
Well, I just lie there staring
Silently preparing to love on you
Well, I can feel the heat from across the room
Ain’t it wild what a little flame can make you wanna do
Chorus
I melt every time you look at me that way
It never fails, anytime, any place
This burn in me is the coolest thing I’ve ever felt
I melt
Don’t know how you do it
I love the way I lose it, every time
What’s even better
Is knowing that forever you’re all mine
The closer you get, the more my body aches
One little stare from you is all it takes
(Repeat Chorus Twice)
Every time you look at me that way
I melt, I melt
Sometimes it feels like this world is spinning faster
Than it did in the old days
So naturally, we have more natural disasters
From the strain of a fast pace
Sunday was a day of rest
Now, it’s one more day for progress
And we can’t slow down ‘cause more is best
It’s all an endless process
Chorus
(Well) I miss Mayberry
Sitting on the porch drinking ice-cold cherry Coke
Where everything is black and white
Picking on a six string
Where people pass by and you call them by their first name
Watching the clouds roll by
Bye, bye
Sometimes I can hear this old earth shouting
Through the trees as the wind blows
That’s when I climb up here on this mountain
To look through God’s window
Now I can’t fly
But I got two feet that get me high up here
Above the noise and city streets
My worries disappear
(Repeat Chorus)
Bridge
Sometimes I dream I’m driving down an old dirt road
Not even listed on a map
I pass a dad and son carrying a fishing pole
But I always wake up every time I try to turn back
(Repeat Chorus)
Bye, bye
(I miss Mayberry, I miss Mayberry)
(Fade)
I have always been a little shy
I’ve always been the quiet type till now
And I never let my feelings show
I never let anybody know
Just how much I was so deep in love
But now that you’re in my arms
Chorus
I’m gonna stand on a rooftop, climb up a mountaintop
Baby, scream and shout
I wanna sing it on the radio, show it on a video
Baby, leave no doubt
I want the whole world to know just what I’m all about
I love to love you out loud
You keep bringing out the free in me
What you do to my heart just makes me melt
And I don’t think I can resist
But I’ve never been one to kiss and tell
A love this true can’t be subdued
So I’m gonna let out a yell
(Repeat Chorus)
Bridge
Baby, I want the whole world to see
Just how good your love looks on me
(Repeat Chorus)
Baby, I love to love you out loud
Yeah, I love to love you out loud
A tall drink of water in a cotton dress
That preacher’s daughter, she sure is blessed
As sunlight passes through the fabric so soft
You can imagine what goes through my thoughts
She says there`ll be time for all of that
When my dress is white and your suit is black
Chorus
There`s so many fish in the sea
And I know it’s a great big world
But I couldn’t help but fall in love so hard
For my dry county girl
For my dry county girl, yeah
It’s widely known that I have my flaws
While she’s the Joan of Arkansas
Her lips won’t touch the demon wine
But her eyes are full of pure moonshine
And I get drunk just holding her hand
I get high thinking I could be her man
(Repeat Chorus)
For my dry county girl
Lord, I fell so hard
For my dry county girl
For my dry county girl, yeah
Yeah, talking about my
Lying here with you
I watch you while you sleep
The dawn is closing in
With every breath you breathe
I can feel the change
The change you’ve made in me
But will I ever see
All the things you see in me
Chorus
When you say that I’m one of a kind
Baby, I don’t see it but you believe
That I’m so strong and true, I promise you
I’ll try to be that kind of man
Because you love me like I am
When it comes to love
I may not know the rules
But there’s one thing I know
My heart belongs to you, just you
(Repeat Chorus)
Bridge
You show me you love me
With a fire that burns deep inside
(Repeat Chorus Twice)
– I am(Fade)
Melodically it felt like it was us, and, again, it was a song with a great, positive message, really fun to sing, and the harmonies really stand out.—GARY
Chorus
Every road that I’ve been down
The only truth that I have found
There’s only one thing I can’t live without
You
I was searching for something I thought I would never find
Losing my mind
In and out of bad love, I thought I was born to lose
Then came you
I thought I knew what the real thing was
But nothing shakes me like your love does
I’ve been hypnotized
Now I realize
(Repeat Chorus)
Every time I get lost in a temperamental mood
You still stay cool
Just when I think that this life`s about to drive me insane
You take the reins
Every time I feel I’m drifting off course
You’re my compass, you’re my one true north
In a mixed up world
You make sense to me girl
(Repeat Chorus)
Bridge
Yeah, every road girl
Leads me to you
And baby, that’s all I need to know
(Repeat Chorus Twice)
Every road that I’ve been down in my life
Every time I feel I’m taking off
Every road that I’ve been down in my life
Every road girl, leads me to you
Yes it did, yes it did
Every road girl
Every road leads me to you
(Fade)
There’s no gravity up here
It’s kind of hard to explain
Every time I’m holding you
It’s like backwards rain – yeah
Chorus
You lift me up like a kite on a string
Like a bird on newfound wings
So high on you, I’m floating and flying around
Your love is like fallin` upside down
You’ve got me so lightheaded
It’s a dizzy mood
Spinning uncontrollably
And gaining altitude
(Repeat Chorus)
Bridge
Look at me
Used to be, I could keep my feet on the ground
When you said you could take me higher
You weren’t playing around
(You weren`t playing around)
(Repeat Chorus)
I was lost in darkness and sinking sand
Well I was barely nothing, a broken man
But you picked up the pieces of my heart in your hand
Then you came and showed to me love’s second chance
Chorus
Shine on, shine on, shine on me
Whenever something’s missing
You’re exactly what I need
Your love has shown me the light and now I finally see
So shine on, shine on, shine on me, yeah
Lord knows that I’m not perfect but I sure do try
And I see the man that I can be in your eyes
Well there are times I still get lost in yesterday
But you put the past behind me and you light my way
(Repeat Chorus)
Shine on (let your love shine)
Shine on (on me)
Shine all your love on me, yeah
(Your love on me)
Shine all your love on me, yeah
(Repeat Chorus)
Shine on, shine on, shine on me
Won’t you keep on shining, yeah
Won’t you keep on shining your love
Down on me, baby
Won`t you keep on shining, yeah
Won`t you keep on shining your love
Yeah, you’re exactly what I need, baby
Yeah, you are
Last night you gave me a kiss
You didn’t know it, but I was awake when you did
You were quiet, you were gonna let me sleep
So I just laid there pretending to be
You said some things you didn’t know I could hear
And the words “I love you” never sounded so sincere
Chorus
It’s gonna make it hard to tell you that I’m leaving
Now that I know just how much you care
You finally gave me one good reason not to go
But staying here is my worst fear
This morning I rolled out of bed
Recalling all the sweet things you said
This was the day I was gonna hurt you bad
Called out your name, but you didn’t answer back
I searched the house to find out what was wrong
Like a ton of bricks, it hit me you were gone
(Repeat Chorus)
Bridge
All along I knew that there was something missing
And only one thing left to do
I had to leave behind this life that we’d been living
But the only thing that left was you
Second Chorus
It`s gonna make it hard to tell you that I`m leaving
Now that I know just how much you care
You finally gave me one good reason not to go
But being alone is my worst fear
And staying here is my worst fear
Released June 2000
Contains Singles: Prayin’ For Daylight, This Everyday Love,
While You Loved Me, I’m Movin’ On
Singles:
Videos:
I don’t want to spend another lonely night
Oooo, Oooo, Oooo
I’ve got the lights turned up
The door is locked, the bedroom TV’s on
Doing the only thing that gets me through the night
Since you’ve been gone
Chorus
Prayin’ for daylight, waiting for that morning sun
So I can act like my whole life ain’t going wrong
Baby come back to me, I swear I’ll make it right
Don’t make me spend another lonely night
Prayin’ for daylight
(Prayin’ for daylight)
I made a bad miscalculation
Betting you would never leave
‘Cause if you’re getting on with your new life
Then where does that leave me
Prayin’ for daylight
(Prayin’ for daylight)
Bridge
Prayin’ for daylight
Hoping that I didn’t wait too long
(I didn’t wait too long)
That this is just the dark before the dawn
Deep in my heart I know
That you love me as much as I love you
And that you must be lying somewhere
Looking up to Heaven too
Prayin’ for daylight
I don’t want to spend another lonely night
I don’t want to spend another lonely night
(Prayin’ for daylight)
Prayin’ for daylight
I don’t want to spend another lonely night
Oooo, Oooo, Oooo, Oooo, Oooo
Prayin’ for daylight
Can’t get enough of this everyday love
Can’t get enough of this everyday love
Each morning the sun shines through my window
Lands on the face of a dream come true
I shuffle to the kitchen for my coffee
And catch up on the front page morning news
Then she walks up behind me and throws her arms around my neck
Just another normal thing I’ve come to expect
Chorus
It’s ordinary plain and simple
Typical, this everyday love
Same ol’, same ol’ keeping it new
(Same ol’/This everyday love)
Emotional, so familiar
Nothing about it too peculiar
Oh, but I can’t get enough
Of this everyday love
Every afternoon I make a phone call
Listen to the voice that warms my heart
I drag myself through a few more hours
Then head on home to try and beat the dark
Her smile will be right there when I step through that door
And it will be that way tomorrow, just like everyday before
Bridge
Wouldn’t change one single thing about it
No, it’s run-of-the-mill, still I can’t live without it
Yeah, of this everyday love
Can’t get enough of this everyday love
Can’t get enough of this everyday love
Can’t get enough of this everyday love
Can’t get enough
If I ever write the story of my life
Don’t be surprised if you’re where it begins
Girl, I’d have to dedicate every line on every page
To the memories we made, while you loved me
Chorus
I was born the day you kissed me
And I died inside the night you left me
But I lived, oh how I lived
(I lived) While you loved me
I’d start with chapter one, love innocent and young
As the morning sun on a new day
Even though I know the end, Well I’d do it all again
‘Cause I got a lifetime in, while you loved me
There’s that star, the one they said we’d never reach
And just close your eyes
There’s the missing moon, there’s the Milky Way
Heaven’s straight ahead, we’ll be there today
Rainbows right and left, sunshine everywhere
If it couldn’t be baby, how did we get here
Chorus
Some say we’ll never get it off the ground
Some say we’ll never make it out of town
That someday we’ll end up a world apart
And some say we’re a couple of crazy kids
And some say that’s exactly what they did
And I say you got to go with your heart
And baby, look where we are
There’s that home, the one they said we’d never share
And just close your eyes
There’s the picket fence, there’s our mailbox
Puppy on the porch and roses up the walk
Shinny minivan, kids in every seat
Someday we’ll look back and say it wasn’t just a dream
Some say – Oh, oh
Some say, some say
Some say, yes they do, some say
Oooo, Oooo, Oooo, Oooo
Some say, some say, some say, yeah
Some say, someday, some say
Ah, yeah
Ah, yeah, yeah
Before we met I was free
I never had to worry about anyone but me
Now that boy is gone and in his place
Is a man who needs to hold you night and day
So if I stumble, if I fall
Forgive me, I’m just learning as I go along
Chorus
See me through, see me through
This aching heart has come so far
To be with you, see me through
With angel eyes, just look inside
At all this love I never want to lose
See me through
I know sometime I let you down
But I’m still getting used to having you around
And if I ever make you cry
There’s nothing I won’t do to make things right
I’m not perfect and that’s for sure
A little time is all I’m asking for
See me through this mask I wear
Well, I’m almost there, you know I care
I am the man you always thought you knew
See me through, yeah, see me through
Oh, see me through
Yeah, yeah –
Oooo, Oooo, Oooo, see me through
Oh, we’re almost there, can’t you see that
I’m almost, girl I’m almost there
This mask I wear
Girl, I’m almost there, I’m almost there
See me, see me through this mask I wear, I’m almost there
Oooo, Oooo, Oooo, girl
See me through, oh yeah
One good love
Erases all the bitter tears on a empty dance hall
All those lonely nights when she never called
It just don’t seem so tragic after all
With one good love
One good love
And daddy’s hands were strong and fair
And a momma understands because she’s been there
And all mistakes were just because they cared so much
With one good love
Chorus
One good love
You bless all my memories
You soften the fall of my tears
And in my arms you’re more than enough
You’re one good love
Hey, you’re one good love
Yeah, you’re one good love
One good love
And born again means more than pass the plate and bow your head
Yes, you bury what needs burying, you raise it from the dead
The very best, you heal the brokenness, give grace to everyone
With one good love
Yeah, oh, one good love
Hey, hey, one good love
Yeah, I’ll give you one good love
Oh, give me one good love now, love yeah
Oooo, Oooo, Oooo, Oooo, Oooo, yeah
Lord, I feel born again, yeah
You got to give me one good love now
One good love
Tell me you’ve had trouble sleeping
That you toss and turn from side to side
That it’s my face you’ve been seeing
In your dreams at night
Tell me that you wake up crying
And you’re not sure exactly why
Tell me that something is missing
In your life, in your life baby
Chorus
Tell me that you live for love
That forever is never enough
That you’ve waited all your life to see
That you want so badly to believe
Tell me that it’s not just me
I could have sworn I saw you smile at me
Standing in the pouring rain
At a loss for words and running out of time
I said this crazy thing (crazy thing), I said
Bridge
Hold me now and tell me that you do believe
In a soul, a soul mate
And tell me, and tell me, tell me
Everybody needs it
Everybody wants it
Everybody’s searching for someone
Been down a thousand highways
I never thought would end
Baby, I’ve been
Chorus
Waiting all my life to find you
Always been one step behind you
Your love babe
I’ve been waiting all my life
I was tired of waiting
Every night was praying
Everyday would be the day I’d find you
I grew so impatient, how long would it take
To know you were out there somewhere
Somewhere waiting, wondering just like me
Second Chorus
I’ve been waiting all my life to love you
All that time I was dreaming of you
Your love babe
I’ve been waiting all my life
Bridge
And did I lose faith, did I lose heart
Maybe I did, but I never lost my way
To where you are – I’ve been
Your love I’ve been waiting
Your love I’ve been waiting all my life
All my life, all my life
From time to time I have regrets
For all the things I didn’t say
That were on my list
From time to time my memory slips
But you’re the one thing in my life
I won’t forget
Chorus
There’ll never be a minute of the day
I won’t think of you
My feelings are so strong in me
I feel it through and through
There’ll never be a night that’s so dark that we won’t shine
Or a dream that we’ve lost that we can’t find
You’ll always be, oh the one for me
I think of you from time to time
And in between
You’ll always be, oh the one for me
I think of you from time to time
And in between
Oooo, yeah
You’ll always be, Oooo the one for me
From time to time
And in between yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah I do
I think of you from time to time
And in between, yeah
Sounds like a scene from the silver screen
Yeah, that’s how it was
Love doesn’t always look like a picture perfect storybook
Ah, but sometimes it does
Standing beside her the stars shined even brighter
And for a moment all the world was, all the world was still
I knew we belonged together the moment my eyes met hers
And I thought nothing lasts forever, but maybe this one will
Chorus
A deep breath and baby steps
That’s how the whole thing starts
It’s a long, slow, beautiful dance
To the beat of a heart
The world starts to spin again, you learn things you didn’t know then
Feels like the bloom is off the rose
But you weather a few storms and you pull out a few thorns
And together the garden grows and grows
It’s a long, slow, beautiful dance, my friend
The house is filled with so much love
We got more than enough for two
So we’ve been thinking about having a baby
I know it sounds crazy, but it seems like the natural thing to do
It’s a long, slow
It’s a long, slow
It’s a long, slow
I’ve dealt with my ghosts and I’ve faced all my demons
Finally content with a past I regret
I’ve found you find strength in your moments of weakness
For once I’m at peace with myself
I’ve been burdened with blame, trapped in the past for too long
I’m movin’ on
I’ve lived in this place and I know all the faces
Each one is different but they’re always the same
They mean me no harm but it’s time that I face it
They’ll never allow me to change
But I never dreamed home would end up where I don’t belong
I’m movin’ on
Chorus
I’m movin’ on
At last I can see life has been patiently waiting for me
And I know there’s no guarantees, but I’m not alone
There comes a time in everyone’s life
When all you can see are the years passing by
And I have made up my mind that those days are gone
I sold what I could and packed what I couldn’t
Stopped to fill up on my way out of town
I’ve loved like I should but lived like I shouldn’t
I had to lose everything to find out
Maybe forgiveness will find me somewhere down this road
I’m movin’ on
I’m movin’ on
I’m movin’ on