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You never woke up beside a stranger
But you never spent the night alone In your jacket is a flask of Southern Comfort In your pocket you got a comb I know you I know you You've been pushed right to the limit Lived on a lonesome road Chopped up an old pine dresser To heat the house once in the cold I know you Yeah, I know you Well, I know where you go when you want to be alone I know just how hard you work and how much money you bring home You love the sound of church bells but you hate sitting in the pew Baby, I know you D.H. Lawrence wouldn’t be your favourite poet If you thought poetry was cool You have too much pride to be a thief And just enough gut to be a fool Baby, I know you, I know you Well, I know the sound of your thunder And I know the smell of your rain I know every time you walk out that door You might stumble back in it again Yeah, I know you Yes I do, baby blue, I know you Well, I know that you feel bad for every bad thing that you do You got a scar on your right cheek and the fear of God embedded in you Your mother had a wooden spoon and a shamrock tattoo Baby, I know you Well, no other woman's gonna feel beneath the skin that you are in No other woman's gonna read your mind or be sorry for your sins I know you I know you Well, I know what you look like just before you cry I know how to make you sick and I know how to make you die The only thing I could never do is let you say goodbye Say goodbye ‘Cause I know you I know you You never woke up beside a stranger But you never spent the night alone In your jacket is a flask of Southern Comfort In your pocket you got a comb |
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Understated, overrated site
Carnival ride Curtains faded, thread bill rugs real nice The baby stayed up all night How wonderful Rhinestones on black satin shoes How beautiful The ones I never get to use No frills, no fuss, perfectly us Unglamorous Frozen dinner, jelly, glass of wine Tastes just fine Two bread winners, five kids in short time With eyes just like mine How wonderful Crowded dinners at the kitchen table How beautiful One TV set, no cable No frills, no fuss, perfectly us Unglamorous No diamonds in our bathtub rings Peanut butter on everything No frills, no fuss Unglamorous Unglamorous How wonderful A gravel road leading to a front door How beautiful Old wool socks on a bedroom floor No frills, no fuss, perfectly us Unglamorous Unglamorous Unglamorous |
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Well, she lives a few doors down
Says she wants you to take her out Have some coffee somewhere Just some coffee You saw her out in the parking lot And any plans you had you can break So wash your face Let yourself go Everybody is a sinner Everybody makes mistakes And there ain't nobody Who needs nobody Don't forget to look her in the eye Laugh and show your smile There's not much more to lonely Than being less lonely I stood and watched the stars fade Right there, from your eyes Baby, I think I know just What your next lover will be like You hate cigarettes so she won't smoke But she don't mind this bar you're in She sits right up there on that stool Puts her pocketbook down and smiles at you You think she's about five foot three That makes her taller than me But you're not thinking about that now No, it ain't right to think about that now I stood and watched all the stars fade Right there, from your eyes Baby, I think I know just What your next lover will be like And I hope she can fix you And I hope she's someone Who will never let you down I hope she reminds you nothing of me and As crazy, as crazy as it sounds. I hope she's beautiful ‘Cause I still watched all the stars fade Right there, from your eyes Baby, I think I know just What your next lover will be like ‘Cause there ain't nobody who needs nobody There ain't nobody who needs nobody |
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Well, I can fall in love in the middle of the afternoon
With the TV blaring in the very next room I fall in love again at the end of a raging fight The kind that keeps us staying up all night But baby, I'm not crazy I just love the way you look at me Baby, I'm not crazy I just expect ecstasy And I'm trying not to take everything to the extreme I'm wide awake and you're still my dream Baby, I'm not crazy Sometimes I hear a voice telling me that you're the only one And I'd be nothing but a fool if I let this all come undone Every now and then I see the vision of a perfect man When you turn around and smile like you understand That baby, I'm not crazy I just love the way you look at me Baby, I'm not crazy I just expect ecstasy And I'm trying not to take everything to the extreme I'm wide awake and you're still my dream Baby, I'm not crazy Well, there's a dull sweetness in this life of ours Pretty as graffiti And I'm dancing without any music on But you're the only one who sees me Hey, baby, I'm not crazy I just love the way you look at me Baby, I'm not crazy I just expect ecstasy And I'm trying not to take everything to the extreme I'm wide awake and you're still my dream Baby, I'm not crazy Oh, no Baby, I'm not crazy I just love the way you look at me I just love the way you look at me I just love the way you look at me I just love the way you look at me |
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I went to high school with that kid
He was even strange back then The type whose eyes don't leave the floor Blend in with the cement Well, I felt so bad for that kid One day I saw his face turn green And as he tumbled to the floor The thought of reaching out never occurred to me Why don't we open up Knowing that we all falter? When will we learn To reach out for each other? Well, he lived out on the edge of town And I'm pretty sure he had a brother It seemed that boy could walk for days I suspect to avoid his mother And I always knew he had it bad Tougher than any of us others did Still, I never asked him how he was doing What could I do? I was just a kid Why don't we open up Knowing that we all falter? When will we learn To reach out for each other? So, now he's the new town bum He talks to himself and picks up cans all day And when my kids ask me about him What'll I say? What'll I say? Why don't we open up Knowing that we, we all falter? And when will we learn? When will we learn to open up Knowing that we all falter? When will we learn? (When will we learn?) I said, when will we learn? When will we learn To reach out for each other? |
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Someone was crying and the bells rang
Then I don't remember a thing You were talking but the words came From somebody else Someone said “kiss her” and so you did I was smilin' like a little kid You kissed my teeth and then we both hid Inside each other's arms All you really need is someone to be here Someone who never lets you disappear And I will be that witness to your life This may be just be a softer place to fall But somebody will answer when you call And I will be that witness to your life You got that job and joined the Union Fought every urge that told you to run Stared down the barrel of an empty gun And wondered a bit Stopped listening to all your friends They think this is where life begins and ends No one reaches, no one transcends They just learn to live with it All you really need is someone to be here Someone who never lets you disappear And I will be that witness to your life You should never have to be alone Someone will always call you home And I will be that witness to your life All you really need is someone to be here Someone who never lets you disappear And I will be that witness to your life Baby, I will be that witness to your life I float, your car comes into view And from our front lawn I just smile at you And everyday I thank the Lord that you Took the right road home |
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You knocked those pictures right off the wall
I slammed the bathroom door so hard it doesn't close right at all Last week we broke my mother's favourite serving plate All just casualties of a love that's lost it's way You and I baby don't even know how to fight We don't know nothin' 'bout nothin' Except how to survive How come we keep this TV up so loud? What are we so afraid of that we keep drowning out? Well, this is not the life that we deserve And talking might make it better But what if it makes it worse? Cause you and I baby don't even know how to fight We don't know nothin' 'bout nothin' Except how to survive We take times just coming out for real Oh, and I could cry about it but my tears don't work around here Last night I caught myself just looking at you But I only saw a stone wall, impossible to break through Oh, you and I baby don't even know how to fight We don't know nothin' 'bout nothin' Oh, we don't know nothin' bout nothin' Except how to survive How to survive How to survive |
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Well, I left your life by the side of the road
I got a clear conscience, decoded the code Your bags are packed, you're already gone And that's the last you'll hear of me Move on, move on I got a 'For Sale' sign and a brain in my head I have paid my dues, I'm not crazy or dead I know life is hard, well so am I Don't cry for me, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye ‘Cause I have laid down my guns and ammunition You can go now, you can go now, you can leave now This is my written permission Well, I've been fighting for you for most of my life I fought as a girlfriend, I fought as a wife Oh, prisoners they say are no one to love Well, I am throwing in the towel, I am taking of the gloves ‘Cause I have laid down my guns and ammunition You can go now, you can go now, you can leave now This is my written permission So when you tell Susan that you love her you can look her in the eye And when you tell Gina you can look her in the eye. You can sleep with yourself, you can sleep with your lies Your lies, your lies, your lies I'm okay now Goodbye Some do it for the kids, some do it for God Some do it forever but some are frauds Some taste perfection and love the flavour But don’t stay beside me thinking you’re doing me some sort of favour ‘Cause I have laid down my guns and ammunition You can go now, you can go now, you can leave now I have laid down my guns and ammunition You can go now, you can go now, you can leave now This is my written permission Written permission Written permission |
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The number to the house is on the door
But every time you open it as if you are not sure If you even live here anymore Anymore Well, I know what you're about to say I know that look there on your face But I'm tired of reading your mind this way So why don't you say it? You're tearing me up inside Tearing me up inside It feels like something in me died Feels like something in me died All of the bright colours that lived inside of me Are now just tiny little pieces of what used to be And it just feels like confetti Well, I remember on our wedding day Thinking that all of those flowers would all just fade away And it seemed like such a waste Of beauty And now you're tearing me up inside Tearing me up inside It feels like something in me died Feels like something in me died All of the bright colours that lived inside of me Are now just tiny little pieces of what used to be And it just feels like confetti Confetti Isn't it a crying shame That nothing ever stays the same? I can't fit into that wedding dress Or be twenty-three again But you're looking at me now Like you don't know who I am And it's tearing me up inside All of the bright colours that lived inside of me Are now just tiny little pieces of who I used to be And it just feels like confetti Confetti Confetti |
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I am six years old in the back of my mother's car
And I will be seven in December She will be gone by the beginning of next spring And I will be left to remember To remember I ask my little questions and she laughs a little laugh But she won't tell me where we're going She looks in my eyes with her eyes in the mirror And says, "Some things you're better off not knowing" Not knowing But I don't know what her voice sounds like I don't know what her skin feels like I only know what it might feel like When a mother holds her daughter When that mother knows she's leaving this life Leaving this life She's left with that reflection of me at six years old And I have her eyes in the mirror Well, she and I, we are defined by what we have lost Don't you wonder whose loss is dearer? Dearer She doesn't know what my voice sounds like She doesn't know what my skin feels like And I only know what it might feel like When a mother holds her daughter When that mother knows she's leaving this life Leaving this life And I don't know what her voice sounds like And I don't know what her skin feels like I only know what it might feel like When a mother holds her daughter When that mother knows she's leaving this life Leaving this life Leaving this life Leaving this life Leaving this life |
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