I'm gonna tell you something you don't want to hear. You never listen when I talk, Maybe you'll listen when I walk. So I made up my mind and made a sandwich And I didn't shed a tear. I gave you one last minute of my time In this mess I left behind.
You'll come home tonight, And turn on the light, Don't you be surprised to find, My little goodbyes.
Empty hangers by the closet door, Lipstick tube on the bathroom floor(My Little Goodbyes). Unpaid bills by the kitchen phone, I took the Beatles, left Billy Joel. My little goodbyes Little good, little goodbyes
I'm sure you're sure I'll be back in just an hour or two. You'll tape a Hallmark to my door, They always said it better than you. And if you're wonderin' when you're gonna hear from me, Well take a real good look around boy, And it won't be hard to see.
When you come home tonight, And turn on the light, Don't you be surprised to find, My little goodbyes
Took your favorite Dodgers hat, Left the litter, but I took the cat. My little goodbyes Loaded up the TV in the back of my car, Have fun watching the VCR. My little goodbyes Little Goodbyes, oh baby, little good, little goodbyes
Bridge: So cry to your mom and your sympathetic friends, And tell 'em how the story ends.
My Little Goodbyes Took the hourglass left the sand, Now you got time on your hands. My little goodbyes Took the statue from Japan, Funny little Buddah man. My little goodbyes Change my voice on the machine, Or there'll be little goodbyes with every ring. My little goodbyes Left the pictures took the frames, Got the umbrella, here comes the rain. Yeah, yeah, yeah Rain, yeah, yeah, yeah Hey, yeah,yeah, yeah Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah Little Goodbyes Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah Little Goodbyes
I won't be your dirty secret I won't be your cure-all pill And I won't run to fetch the water Just to tumble down the hill
I won't be your Friday paycheck I won't be the prize you flaunt And I won't be your Martha Stewart, baby Or your all-night restaurant
But I will, I will, I will be your everything If you make me feel like a woman should I will, I will, I will be the whole shebang You know I will...but
I won't be your crutch to lean on I won't wear stiletto heels I won't walk a mile in your shoes Just so I know how it feels
I won't be your obligation I won't be your Barbie doll I won't be the portrait of perfection To adorn you wall
But I will, I will, I will be your everything If you make me feel like a woman should I will, I will, I will be the whole shebang You know I will...but
Hey - you know, you know I will All right
I won't be your lifetime girlfriend I won't be just one of the guys I won't be your mama's favorite I refuse to be the last in line
But I will, I will, I will be your everything If you make me feel like a woman should I will, I will, I will be the whole shebang You know I will...but
Yeah, I will, I will, I will be your everything I will, I will be the whole shebang I will, I will be your everything I will, I will, I will, I will - yeah
You know I will You know, you know I will You know I will You know, you know I will - yeah
This woman that takes on the world And picks up you shirts, keeps it together somehow This same woman, that melts with your touch Wants you to feel what I'm feelin right now
Chorus 'Cause this woman needs A safe place to land The strength in your hands To know you know What this woman needs Is somewhere to cry So lay by my side And I'll tell you, I'll tell you
This woman needs to be reassured That my heart's your home and love is what wills you to stay I need you to see me in every light And hear that you still think I'm beautiful anyway
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What this woman needs Yeah, yeah, yeah Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, what this woman needs Is somewhere to cry So lay by my side And I'll tell you, I'll tell you
What this woman needs Yeah, what this woman needs Yeah, yeah, yeah - What this woman needs
Every kiss before this Was nothing by a waste of breath And every I love you was just a whoop-de-doo Never knew what I missed before this
Da, doo, doo, doo Ooo,Ooo
Yea, And every love song before you came along Was always about someone else Oh well every star was just a wish to far Always the realest, yea before this
(chorus) And the way things go, you never know Where love will lead you to And everything we've ever dreamed Lies before me and you
People say it's not everyday That you find the perfect fit But when I fell for you, I found the other shoe Cupid was a myth, before this
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Yeah- Da, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo Da, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo Da, doo, doo, doo, doo Yeah
You always say that I have multiple personalities I bounce somewhere between dreams and reality So where'd you dig up the odacity to ask me How we've all been doing Since you broke our hearts (well so far..)
(chorus) Number 5 just cries a river a minute 7 wants to tie you up and drown you in it Yeah, 14 just wants to say so long, bygones 32 wants to do things to you that'll make you blush 10 wants to key the el camino that you love so much And there ain't nobody that wants to mess with 23 Oh, lucky 4 you tonight I'm just me
I guess this party's more than your new barbie bargained for She's got you by the sleeve slowly easing towards the door She's probably right, you should be movin' on Don't know how long we can behave Better have the valet get your car (cause you know how women are)
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Bridge: Forgfveness is the key According to my shrink But it's not up just up to me (I don't know girls, what d'ya think? )
Never thought I'd be in this place It's someone else's life I'm living Wish I were living a lie The hardest part is when the bough breaks Falling down and then forgiving You didn't kiss me good-bye I'm choking on the words I didn't get to say And pray I get the chance one day
I stil run, I still swing open the door I still think, you'll be there like before Doesn't everybody out there know to never come around Some things the heart won't listen to I'm still holding out for you
I can hear you smile in the dark I can even feel your breathing But daylight chases the ghosts I see your coat and I fall apart To those hints of you I'm clinging Now's when I need them most I should get up, dry my eyes and move ahead At least that's what you would have said
I stil run, I still swing open the door I still think, you'll be there like before Doesn't everybody out there know to never come around Some things the heart won't listen to I'm still holding out for you
Faithfully, I trace your name while you sleep It's the the only true comfort I feel
I still run, I still swing open the door I still think, you'll be there like before
I stil run, I still swing open the door I still think, you'll be there like before Doesn't everybody out there know to never come around Some things the heart won't listen to I'm still holding out for you
I thought that was supposed to feel good And if you were really mine I guess it would I didn't fall in love 'Cause it was the right thing to do I just went ahead and fell for you
(chorus) Oh, somewhere down along the line I guess that love became a crime This contradiction makes no sense This is punishement I feel like this is judgement day I'll raise my hand stand up and say I don't believe I'm innocent This is punishment
Truth is your heart was never mine to take Now I'm stuck in a feeling That I'll never shake I prayed for it to go God knows I want it to stay But here I am loving you either way
(repeat chorus)
Bridge: You'll never feel all the things I can't say And I'll never know if it's better this way
(repeat chorus)
Oh, somewhere down the line I guess that love became a crime This contradiction makes no sense (This is punishment) This is punishment This is punishment I feel like this is judgement day I'll raise my hand stand up and say I don't believe I'm innocent (This is, this is, this is punishment)
Hey Jack, take back All those lines you're tripping That's not who I am It ain't that quaint Your composure's slipping Right into my hands ('Cause when - just a little bit, just a little bit) I smile (Just a little bit) You fall hard
Stop listening to you Start listening to me I'll know when the lights are changing, you'll see If you're liking the view Baby, it don't come free - yeah, yeah (Never, never, never) I think you're gonna stay, 'cause I like it that way I think you're gonna stay, 'cause I like it that way
Time to undo All your archaic thinking We're supposed to share this cave Bye, bye, tough guy Won't know what hit you 'til you're down Your heart is mine to save ('Cause when - just a little bit, just a little bit) I smile (Just a little bit) You fall hard
Stop listening to you Start listening to me I'll know when the lights are changing, you'll see If you're liking the view Baby, it don't come free - yeah, yeah (Never, never, never) I think you're gonna stay, 'cause I like it that way I think you're gonna stay, 'cause I like it that way
Da, da, da, da, da - hey Da, da, da, da, da Da, da, da, da, da - hey ('Cause when - just a little bit, just a little bit) I smile (Just a little bit) You fall hard
Stop listening to you Start listening to me I'll know when the lights are changing, you'll see If you're liking the view Baby, it don't come free - yeah, yeah (Never, never, never) I think you're gonna stay, 'cause I like it that way I think you're gonna stay, 'cause I like it that way
I think you're gonna stay, 'cause I like it that way I think you're gonna stay, think you're gonna stay I think you're gonna - stay Uh, huh
What if my heart Had walked right past you What if my eyes Had never asked you To come and take the chains That kept me weighted down If you never saved me Oh, I know I'd still be
(chorus) Walking in sinking sand Flying with no place to land Oh, I'd be lost Searching for you Heaven would be out of reach My soul left incomplete That's where I'd be Without your love
You're the reason I feel so safe The way you hold me Holds my heart in place I'm just thankful to be Where I am right now Without your arms around me I'd be where you found me
He promised a night to remember Oh, and she knows it will be A happy little celebration For their seventh anniversary Her new dress is cut a bit lower Her lips a brighter shade of red She spent all day setting those blonde curls Tonight's she's gonna knock him dead She's gonna show him how The fire's burning now Her heart beats faster as she thinks back on that day
(chorus 1) When he vowed they'd stay together To have and hold her in his heart She promised him forever Until death do us part Sealed with a tender kiss She can't help but reminiace and smile No doubt, this will be a night to remember
They drive up to the top of the canyon And pull up to the edge They have dinner up above those city lights WIth a bloodless moon overhead There's a distance in her emerald eyes Her voice is a little cold As he takes another sip from his champagne glass He wonders could she know Hidden inside her coat Are letters his lover wrote Her heart beats faster as she asks him to remember
(chorus 2) When he vowed they'd stay together To have and hold her in his heart She promised him forever Until death do us part Sealed with a final kiss She can't help reminiace and smile No doubt, this will be a night to remember
Bridge: She whispers in his ear and tells him that she knows She throws the car in gear, plunging to the earth below She whispers in his ear and tells him that she knows She throws the car in gear, it blossoms like a fiery rose
(chorus 3) When he vowed they'd stay together To have and hold her in his heart She promised him forever Until death do us part Sealed with a fateful kiss Love takes a fatal twist No doubt, this will always be a night to remember
Ooo, Ooo, Ooo, Ooo Ooo, Ooo, Ooo Oh, to remember Ooo, Ooo, Ooo, Ooo Ooo, Ooo,Ooo (a night, a night, a night) To remember Ooo,Ooo,Ooo,Ooo Ooo,Ooo,Ooo (A night, a night, a night) To remember Ooo,Ooo,Ooo,Ooo, Ooo,Ooo,Ooo,
Somewhere between What can and can't be seen I knelt in your spring You dusted off my wings Your kiss upon my face Feels like a brush with grace Baby, that's all it takes To take me higher
(CHORUS) If true love really does exist It would feel as pure as this Baby, it's as if We're dancing with angels... Stealing light from shooting stars We're just taking what is ours In each other's arms We're dancing with angels...
How did we find Smooth blue in a crooked sky Could be love winds Gold threads through a grand design Your whisper on my skin Familiar healing wind We must be slipping in Heaven's windows
Look at me,I'm gorgeous in my housecoat with my coffee cup I bend down to get the paper,every neighbor tryin' to check me out Look at me,I'm lovely as I wave beside my minivan Look at how my diamonds seem to sparkle on the garbage can
Chorus: God bless the American housewife How she does it all I'll never know God bless the American housewife She could use a miracle for sure God bless the American housewife Cleanin' up the world for you and me God bless the American housewife (Ah Ah Ah Ah AH)
Look at how my children play Commando in the cul-de-sac Look at how my husband has survived another heart attack Look at all the other mothers envious of all my things Have to call the plummer Cause my daughter flushed my wedding ring
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Look at me, I'm beautiful and glamorous in rubber gloves Look how my tiara can be bent back to the shape it was I can do the laundrt and make dinner while I'm on the phone Look at me, I'm sexy as the devil when I mow the lawn
Chorus 2x
How she does it all I'll never know God bless the American housewife
She stares all night at the plaster peeling Off of the shadows she painted on the ceiling Trying to find some philosophical meaning to life But the truth is Ruth is ready to hatch She's gotta break the door down, gotta bust a latch She's gotta super-sized itch That's gotta be scratched, alright
She stands up and gets down And digs her heels out of that pea-pickin' town
(Chorus:) Hey, hey, hey, hey - yeah, what a waste There's more to life than just takin' up space Hey, hey, hey, hey - this is s'posed to be fun 5 4 3 2 ready run
So she sold her diamond ring and bought a Winnebago Found her way to Heaven on the way to San Diego Chased her ruby red boots anywhere that they'd go, anytime She got sidetracked and backpacked her way to Atlanta Picked a pocketful of posies, got here busted in 'Bama Truck stop trollop, selling roses from a van for a dime She woke up and broke down Collect call to that pea-pickin' town
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(Bridge:) Run, run, run, run all the way back home Run away from the great unknown It felt good for a mintue, 'til she got stuck in it Stuck in it
Her yellow brick road crashed Right through the rose-colored glass Rose-colored glass
(Second Chorus:) Hey, hey, hey, hey - yeah, what a waste There's more to life that the thrill of the chase Hey, hey, hey, hey - this is s'posed to be fun 5 4 3 2 ready run
I wish you lived on the corner where I live So I could look at you all the day long Lickety lip got me flippin' my lid, yeah Nibblin' my thumb 'cause I want me some Oooo, Oooo, Oooo just a little bit a Oooo, Oooo, Oooo Am I making you uncomfortable?
And if you lived on the corner where I lived I'd hang around like an apple in a tree Borrow some bread, stick of butter, cup of milk, And some sugar for me- I'm cookin' something sweet Oooo, Oooo, Oooo just a little bit a Oooo, Oooo, Oooo
C H O R U S Lookin' once, lookin' twice Better get me a bucket of ice Go on do whatever you do I'll just sit here enjoying the view Whistlin' Dixie 360* of you- Oooo, Oooo
I picture me twisted up in your t-shirt Pink lemonade and a squeaky porch swing Don't know your name yet, I guess it wouldn't hurt If you gave me a ring- a big diamond ring Oooo, Oooo, Oooo Oooo, Oooo
R E P E A T C H O R U S
S E C O N D C H O R U S Lookin' once, lookin' twice You're a splash of Tabasco on hot apple pie Baby girls like it to Like to sit around enjoying the view Whistlin' Dixie, 360 Whistlin' Dixie, 360* of you, Oooo, Oooo
Just a little bit of you, Oooo, Oooo Gotsta, gotsta have you, Oooo, Oooo Just a little bit of you, Oooo, Oooo Oh, I'm gonna have you
When I said I love you, baby You said knock on wood I'm afraid I knocked harder Than I probably should Those mockingbird words got away from me Wish I could take them back, yeah
I wonder how you've been Since we kissed good-bye 'Cause the grass ain't any greener here on my side I thought the broken pieces would all blow away When the season changed But nothing's changed
[Chorus:] The alarm still rings at five-fifteen The day goes off like a rifle Mrs. Jones next door is still extreme Goes on and on about the Bible What comes around still goes around Sun comes up, sun goes down And love goes on Yeah, love goes on when you're gone
If we ran into each other, wonder what I'd say Baby, please come home Or, looks like rain today Heard you're moving to Denver No, I'd never have guessed Or would I just confess
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[Bridge:] It's an ache in the bones, it's a ghost in the trees It's the one little tear that could fill up the sea I happened to you, you happened to me But now that's gone And love goes on, yeah love goes on I said, love goes on And love goes on and on and on and on
[Repeat Chorus]
Yeah, when you're gone (It's an ache in the bones - it's a ghost in the trees) Yeah, yeah when you're gone (It's the one little tear that could fill up the sea)
God only knows how I've needed a friend Who can see through the boldness and pride Someone strong enough to put my faith in Someone willing to let me inside So be a man And be my man
[First Chorus:] I dare you to need me like nobody else I dare you to feel me like you've never felt I dare you to want to want Want to be good to me
Baby you've got your reasons dangling from kite strings Can you open your hands and let them fly I know you won't always say and do the right things But some things are worth a try If you can Be my man
[Second Chorus:] I dare you to know me like I've never known I dare you to show me that I can be shown Dare you to want to want Want to be good to me
[Bridge:] Tell me I'm Tell me I'm the one who deserves you And every time Every time you know that you want to Yeah, I dare you
[Third Chorus:] I dare you to hold me like you never will - again Kiss me and leave the earth standing still Dare you to want to want
[Repeat First Chorus]
Yeah, I dare you to want to want Want to be good to me
You got the bucket, baby I got the chicken You got the Smith and Wesson I got the ammunition Maybe we could shoot the town Or sit around finger lickin' yeah
[Chorus:] Alone we're not half bad But we could be a whole lot better Anybody knows us, knows we're good together Just a little sliver of sunlight in stormy weather Like a tear in my beer, we're good together Good together You're a pesky little fly I'm the pink plastic swatter
You're a back seat kinda guy And I'm the Bishop's daughter A steamin' jalapeno Think I need a drink of water
[Repeat Chorus]
[Bridge:] Let's have a little mixer, a little pick her upper And all night, hold me tight, candlelight supper No daddy, no mama, no sister, no brother Just you and me, a pod and a pea, we compliment each other Oh yeah, we're good together
Come on baby Turn me on I'll turn up the radio Beneath the velvet Elvis We can dance just like Jessco Twirl me like a trailer park in a tornado
I put away the groceries And I take my daily bread I dream of your arms around me As I tuck the kids in bed
I don't know what you're doin' And I don't know where you are But I look up at that great big sky And I hope you're wishin' on that same bright star
I wonder, I pray
(Chorus:) And I sleep alone I cry alone And it's so hard livin' here on my own So please, come home soon (Come home soon)
I know that we're together Even though we're far apart And I'll wear our lucky penny 'round my neck Pressed to my heart
I wonder, I pray
(Repeat Chorus)
(Bridge:) I still imagine your touch It's beautiful missing something that much But sometimes love needs a fighting chance So I'll wait my turn until it's our turn to dance
I wonder, I pray
(Second Chorus:) I sleep alone I cry alone Without you this house is not a home So please, come home soon
(Third Chorus:) I walk alone I try alone I'll wait for you, don't want to die alone So please, come home soon
