Alabama - The Essential [compilation] (1998) by Alabama (보컬) on maniadb.com

I saw you staring at each other.
I saw your eyes begin to glow.
An I could tell you once were lovers.
You ain't hidin' nothing that I don't know.

*There's an old flame buring in your eyes that tears can't drown and
make-up
can't disguise.
Now that old flame might not be stronger, but it's been burnin'
longer than
any spark I might have started in your eyes.

You said it ended when he left you.
You say your love for me is strong.
But those old mem'ries still upset you.
And Imight be a mem'ry before too long.

*Repeat

There's an old flame burning in your eyes that tears...

Drinkin' was forbidden in my Christian country home
I learned to play the flattop on them good ol' Gospel songs
Then I heard about the barrooms just across the Georgia line
Where a boy could make a livin' playin' guitar late at night

Had to learn about the ladies; too young to understand
why the young girls fall in love with the boys in the band
When the boys turn to music, the girls just turn away
to some other guitar picker in some other late night place

Yeah, I held on to my music; I let the ladies walk away
took my songs and dreams to Nashville and then on to L.A.
Up to New York City, all across the USA
I lost so much of me but there's enough of me to say (that my)

*..home's in Alabama, no matter where I lay my head
My home's in Alabama, Southern born and Southern bred

What keeps me goin'? I don't really know.
can't be the money the Lord knows I'm always broke
could it be the satisfaction of bein' understood
when the people really love ya and let you know when it's good

Well I'll speak my Southern English just as natural as I please
I'm in the heart of Dixie, Dixie's in the heart of me
and someday when I make it, when love finds a way
somewhere high on Lookout Mountain I'll just smile with pride and say
that my

*Repeat

Sometimes her morning coffee's way too strong
And sometimes what she says she says all wrong
But right or wrong she's there beside me
Like only a friend would be
And thats close enough to perfect for me

Now she's been known to wear her pants too tight
And drinking puts her out just like a light
Heaven know's she's not an angel, but she'd really like to be
And that's close enough to perfect for me

*She kisses me each morning
And smiles her sleepy smile
And she don't have to say it
I can see it in her eyes
Don't you worry about my woman
Or what you think she ought to be
'Cause she's close enough to perfect for me

Well sometimes she gets down and starts to cry
But then again a lady has a right
She's everything I ever wanted, she's all I'll ever need
She's close enough to perfect for me

*Repeat

Oh, she's close enough to perfect for me

*Oh, play me some mountain music, like grandma and grandpa used to
play.
Then I'll float on down the river to a Cajun hideaway

Drift away like Tom Sawyer, ride a raft with ol' Huck Finn.
Take a nap like Rip Van Winkle, daze dreamin' again.

*Repeat

Swim across the river, just to prove that I'm a man.
Spend the day bein' lazy, just bein' nature's friend.
Climb a long tall hick'ry. Bend it over, "skinnin' cats."
Playin' baseball with chert rocks, usin' sawmill slabs for bats.

Play some back-home, come-on music that comes from the heart.
Play something with lots of feelin', 'cause that's where music has to
start

Oh, play me some mountain music, like grandma and grandpa used to
play.
Then I'll float on down the river to a Cajun hideaway, hey hey.

Oh play me mountain music
Oh play me mountain music
Oh play me mountain music
Oh play me mountain music

It's her first night on the town
since she was just eighteen
a lady down on love
and out of hope and dreams.
The ties that once bound her
now are broke away
and she's like a baby
just learning how to play.

She never thought that love
could ever end so soon.
Her mind drifts back in time
to a mid-summer moon
when he asked her to marry
and she glady said O.K.
and a woman came to be
from the girl of yesterday.

Now she's a lady
down on love.
She needs somebody
to gently pick her up.
She's got her freedom
but she'd rather be bound
to a man who would love her
and never let her down.

Well I know a lady
that's down on her love
'cause I used to hold her
and have that special touch.
But work took me away
from home late at nights
and I wasn't there
when she turned out the lights.
Then both of us got lonely
and I gave into lust
and she just couldn't live
with a man she couldn't trust.

Now she's a lady
down on love.
She needs somebody
to gently pick her up.
She's got her freedom
but she'd rather be bound
to man who will love her
and never let her down.

Now she's a lady
down on love.

She said, "I spent eight years in California.
That's the reason why I talk the way I do.
But I've hear how Southern men respect the ladies, and I'd like to meet a
gentleman like you."

Well, I spent most of my life in Alabama.
That's the reason why I talk the way I do.
And I've always had this thing for sun-tanned ladies, and I'd really like to
spend some time with you.
And we walked on the beach till early morning.
And we watched as the sun came up again.
And somehow we both shared the feelin' that we'd just made a very special
friend.

Tomorrow I'll go back to Alabama, and you'll fly from Atlanta to L.A.And I'll
get back to takin' care of bus'ness, and you'll go back to starrin' on the
stage.
But we'll think of the beach come Monday morning, when both of us get back to
push and shove.
And somehow we will always remember the night we shared a very special love.

I spent most of my life in Alabama.
That's the reason why I talk the way I do.
I know we shared a very special friendship the night we made a very special
love.

He said goodbye to the angels of heaven
And He came to earth as a common man
He taught us how we could love one another
There was healing in His hands

There were those who believed and followed Him
And there were those who wanted Him dead
They thought the grave would silence Him forever
But they found out instead

You can close your eyes
You can say it's a lie
You can stick your head in the sand
You can turn away, even try to explain
He was just another man
When they nailed Him to the cross by His hands and feet
and the put Him in the ground
Three days later everybody found out that you can't
No you can't keep a good man down

I hear you say that it all sounds crazy
It's a good story but it can't be true
How could a man who was dead and buried
Mean a thing to me and you

Here we are two thousand years later
and still the choice is just the same
You can say that you don't believe it
But it doesn't change a thing

repeat chorus

I can take you to the hill where they hung Him on a cross
I can take you to the empty tomb
I can tell you He's alive 'cause He lives in me
But the rest is up to you

repeat chorus

She and I live in our own little world
don't worry about the world outside
She and I agree
She and I lead a perfectly normal life
Ah but just because we aren't often seen socially
people think we've got something to hide.
But all our friends know we're just a little old fashioned
She and I

Oh ain't it great
aint it fine
to have a love for someone that others can't find
Aint it wonderful to know all we ever need is just the two of us
She and I
so wonderful
She and I

She and I share with every body else
the same wants, needs and desires
She and I save
She and I pay on everything we acquire

Ah but just because we aren't often seen separately
people think we live one life.

Its hard for them to see how anyone could be as close as
She and I

You're still the lady of my dreams
You're still my high school beauty queen
To me it's still magic when we touch
And I have never loved you so much
As right now

As right now

You're still my actress on the screen
Still the leading lady in my scenes
To me it's still magic when we touch
And I've still never loved someone so much
As right now

As right now

As right now

You're still the one I'm with when I'm alone
And you're still the lover calling on my phone
To me it's still magic when we touch
And I will never love someone so much
As right now

As right now
As right now
As right now
As right now
As right now
As right now...

Lyin' beside you watching you sleepin'
After you've loved me so tenderly
I'm searchin' for some way to tell you
How good it felt when I held you
There's so many ways you get to me.

'Cause you've got the touch
It turns me on and on
You light the fire in me
That keeps burning strong
The longer I'm with you
The deeper and deeper in love I fall
You've got the moves
You move me so much
You've got the touch.

As you wake up you pull me closer
And whisper good morning warm in my ear
Nobody could do that like you do
You make it so easy to love you
And I know I will for a million years.

'Cause you've got the touch
You turns me on and on
You light the fire in me
That keeps growing strong
The longer I'm with you
The deeper and deeper in love I fall
You've got the moves
That move me so much
You've got the touch.

Nobody can touch me like you do
You make it so ease to love you
And I know I will a million years.

'Cause you've got the touch
You turns me on and on
You light the fire in me
That keeps growing strong...
The longer I'm with you
The deeper and deeper in love I fall
You've got the moves
That move me so much
You've got the touch

You've got the moves
That move so much
You've got the touch

Before we ever made the headlines
Or toured the concert halls
We survived our share of bar rooms
Stared at many motel walls.

The years in Carolina
And all the one night stands
What kept the fires a burnin'
Back then, was you the fans.

We two stepped out to Texas
Round and round the dance hall floors
Played the fair in Minnesota, mm
I wish we could've played one more.

We hope you remember
We're just the boys in the band
And what keeps the fires a burnin'
Is always, you the fans.

(la da da, da da, la da)

I wish this night could last forever
Ah, but the show must go on
And we'll take home the memories
And we'll leave you with our songs.

It's been good to see ya'll
Can we come back again? and again, and again
What keeps the fires a burnin'
In us, is you the fans.

As long as you remember, the boys in the band
We'll keep the fires a burnin'
For all of You
Our fans...

It was July hot 'cross Georgia on my way to Myrtle Beach
I just got my diploma so I set out in search of me
The honeymoon was over, and Alabama was far away
From being little more than just a southern state.

I got a gig down at the Bowery
I played for tip and watered drinks
Just a novice in a business
That's seldom what it seems.

And where are you goin' Tar Top
Where's J. C. And The Chosen Few
I saw the Flash without T. Gentry
And B. V. left for Malibu.

I was July hot and thirty, some years down the line
When the Boys touched the nation, unaware at the time
I got to go to Texas, California, New York too
A farm boy who is thankful to be standin' in his shoes.

But in the Bowery hangs the mem'ries
Of dreams that still come true
Every time I see the spotlight
I'm one of the chosen few.

And where are you going Tar Top
Where's J. C. and the Chosen Few
There's no Flash without T. Gentry
And B. V. where are you?

Where are you goin' Tar Top
Which direction will you take
What's this contrabanded clamor
About the music that you make?

And where are you goin' Tar Top
Is it country enough
Is it contemporary glamour
No it's us, just us.

Uh huh...

She told me I should straighten up my ways
Or she'd be walkin' out
I guess I was just too blind to see
Or maybe just too proud
So I never thought twice
When she loaded up her things and drove away
'Cause I knew she'd be back someday
I knew she'd be back

Took off my work clothes
And left them right there on the floor
'Cause I knew she'd pick 'em up
When she got home like a hundred times before
And just to make it easier for her
I left the light on on the porch
'Cause I knew she'd be back someday
I knew she'd be back

I guess I showed her
How much she had to lose
Showed her, who was really who
I know she's hurtin' now
Looks like I showed her

I must have seen the movie of the month
A dozen times or more
I watched my favorite team play ball
But I never heard a score
'Cause the whole time I was listening
For the moment when she'd walk through the door
'Cause I knew she'd be back someday
I know she'll be back

I guess I showed her
How much she had to lose
Showed her, who was really who
I know she's hurtin' now
Looks like I showed her

If I could I show her how much she had to lose
I'd show her I've been hurtin' too
If I could hold her now
I'd really show her...

We didn't know that times were lean
Round our house the grass was green
It didn't seem like things were all that bad
I bet we walked a thousand miles
Chopin' cotton and pushin' plows
And learnin' how to give it all we had.

As life went on and years went by
I saw the light in daddy's eyes
And felt - the love in mama's hands
They kept us warm and kept us fed
Taught us how to look ahead
Now lookin' back, I understand.

*We Were Walkin' in High Cotton
Old times there are not forgotten
Those fertile fields are never far away
We Were Walkin' in High Cotton
Old times there are not forgotten
Leavin' home was the hardest thing we ever faced.

When Sunday mornings rolled around
We dressed up in hand-me downs
Just in time, together with the church
Sometimes I think how long it's been
And how it impressed me then
It was the only day my daddy wouldn't work.

*Repeat (x2)

We Were Walkin' In High Cotton.

If I had you we'd run like gypsies in the wind
We'd be lovers, we'd be friends,
Oh, if I had you.

If I had you, we'd count the stars all one by one
We'd make love 'til they were gone
Oh, if I had you/

'Cause you light a fire way down in my soul
The flame keeps growin stronger there ain't no control
And there's nothing, no there's nothing, no there's nothing that I wouldn't do
If I had you.

If I had you, we'd sail the 7 seas as one
We'd never say "It can't be done"
No, if I had you.

'Cause you light a fire way down in my soul
The flame keeps growing stronger 'cause there aint no control
And theres nothing, no there's nothing, I know there's nothing that I wouldn't do
If I had you...