Lyrics

• Love Who You Love

  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

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  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

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• Here Comes Goodbye

  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 –

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  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

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• Close

  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

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  To saying goodbye, getting
  On with her life
  Maybe give love another try
  One more try
  Oh, one more try

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  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

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• Forever

  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

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  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

  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)

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• She’d Be California

  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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• Unstoppable

  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 unstoppable
  So you made a lot of mistakes
  Walked down the road a little sideways
  Love, love is unstoppable

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• Things That Matter

  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

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• Summer Nights

  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!

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• Holdin’ 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 he
  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

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• Once

  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

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  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

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• Why

  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

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