It's the coldest night in Boston In the history of winter Black as a murder of crows I'm six days clean and sober With a bottle on the table And a hurt inside that nobody knows One shot away from shooting My soul straight through the ceilin' And I could fly away from feelin' All this pain that still ain't gone Oh but flying's kind of risky When your wings are made of whiskey And I know that I'll come crashing down Just after dawn
[Chorus] When there's no one around And the silence in your soul is the only sound In the darkness that surrounds you Are you hiding from the light When you finally hit rock bottom Will you do what's wrong or right You're gonna find out what you're made of... In the middle of the night
'Cause the night can keep a secret And hold it deep inside Every sin that keeps you sinning Every lie you've ever lied But my heart is bent to breaking From all the hell I've put it through All the love that I've forsaken On the run from what is true Oh now what you gonna do
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Ah oh In the middle of the night
It's the coldest night in Boston In the history of winter Black outside like a murder of crows
Way down in the middle Middle of the night and you find your self In the middle of the night you gotta let it go Way down in the middle Way down in the middle Way down [Repeat: x8]
Baby's just a little bit tired of the city, Billboards and bullshit got her down, Seem like you need a little hill country, A Little back roads driving, Little bit of the old top down,
Yeah, everybody gotta get away sometime, Forget about yourself for awhile, Seems to me that all you need is a ragtop car to ride with me, OK, Alright Just might get a little high tonight , OK, Alright, Carry on,
Ol' Walt Wilkins lives up in Nashville, You know his eyes have seen the miles, Walt why don't you jump in Jim T's caddy, Come down to Texas and drink with me awhile
Yeah, everybody gotta get away sometime, Forget about yourself for awhile, Will go down to El Arroyo have some tacos and beer Yeah and let ourselves go Okay Alright, Just might try to get it right tonight, Okay Alright Carry on
I'ma make sure that you got your troubles, I'ma make sure that you work too hard, Ain't nobody that don't get tired, Watch your troubles pile up big in your own backyard,
Sometimes you've got to grab your world with your own two hands, Set it spinning off on a course all your own, Take yourself a big bag for your shoulder, Find yourself some good times, Bring them on back home,
Yeah, everybody gotta get away sometime Forget about yourself for awhile, Lay your whole life upon a shelf, got no one to blame but your own damn self, OK, alright, Heaven only know what gonna happen tonight, OK, alright, I'm OK, I'm alright, I'm OK, I'm alright, I'm OK, I'm alright, Oh carry on, yeah -
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One night in New Orleans I met a painted lady She swore that she knew just how to save me She said it wouldn't take long just to do you a minute Believe me boy you won't soon forget it But I was too dead and I told her no She grabbed my hand and she wouldn't let go She said listen here boy we ain't that different you and me
And it's human nature been that way since Cain and Able If there's bread in your pocket it don't matter how you got it As long as there's food on the table. Yeah and sooner or latter your gonna figure it out honey If you ain't in it for love your in it for the money
Ah your in it for the money
I met and old-timer behind Tootsies Lounge In the shadow of the Ryman as the sun when down. He said they'll steal your soul in a radio song They say you want fame but it won't last long He said you'll be tempted but you better say no He grabbed my hand and he wouldn't let go He said cowboy we ain't that different you and me
Yeah it's human nature been that way since Hank and Waylon You put fame in your pocket but as soon as you got it your star is already fadin' Yeah and sooner or latter this old town sure seems funny And you ain't in it for love your in it for the money For the money
Everybody's temped Well everybody's temped Well have you been temped Yeah yeah yeah
And it's human nature been that way since Cain and Able If there's bread in your pocket it don't matter how you got it As long as there's food on the table. Yeah and sooner or latter you better ask yourself honey Do you do what you do for love Do you do what you do for love And if you ain't in it for love Then your in it for the money It's all about the money
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Keep your head there on my shoulder. Let's just lay here for awhile. We can hurry when were older. Girl don't worry about tomorrow. That just seems so far away. Luckily me and you, all that we have to do is follow, Just follow.
Let me be the one who sets your feet up on a road where you've never been, Oh and baby then, You can let me take these arms and wrap you up inside a night that will never end. I wanna be that man, if you let me. Come on baby let me.
Baby leave those candles burning, Slide on over here to me. If you run with me girl, you know we'll make this world stop turning, Just stop turning.
Let me be the one who sets your feet up on a road where you've never been, Oh and baby then, You can let me take these arms and wrap you up inside a night that will never end. I'd like to be that man, if you'd let me. Oh, oh.
Let me be the one who sets your feet up on a road where you've never been.
Yeah! Let me take these arms and wrap you up inside a night that will never end. I wanna be that man, if you let me. Sweet baby let me.
Well I sure am tired of these coffee house gigs Cause there ain't no money and there ain't no chicks It's getting harder and harder to get my kicks so I bought a little ticket to nashville Cause I wanna see my name up in neon lights drink pink champagne and party every night All them lucky mothers up there living the life man I gotta get my ass to nashville
Cause
I wanna be a country star And take it all way to far Drinking free in every bar Just like bocephus
A I think it'd be a crying shame Not to have my own airplane I wanna go up in flames me and my guitar Man I wanna be a country star
Well I got a drinking problem so I'll fit right in Gonna sing me some hits and get some famous friends I'll be riding shotgun with Kenny, faith, and Tim And I wonder how they lived without me
I'll get "big & rich" rich and build a big ol' house With a big ol' fence to keep the rif raf out Call my old girlfriends say "how ya like me now" C'mon baby tell me what ya love about me
I'm gonna be a country star And take it all way to far Breaking all the young girls hearts Just like Keith urban
Man I'm thinking that sure sounds fun Rocking out with Brooks and Dunn All the way to number 1 Me and my guitar Man I wanna be a country star
Playing golf with Vince and Willie Hanging out with Carrie underneath those big spotlights
Yeah yeah
Yeah yeah
I'm wanna be a country star Take it all way to far Breaking all the young girls hearts Just like Keith urban
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Man I think it sure sounds fun Rocking out with Brooks and Dunn All the way to number 1 Me and my guitar Man I wanna be a country star
My little brother got an engine on him Got an engine on him And he cant slow down My little brother got an engine on him Got an engine on him And he cant slow down
But he dreams, and he holds on, Better than anyone I've ever known, In this world, In this world.
My little brother got an engine on him Got an engine on him And he cant slow down.
My little sister is pretty as a princess, And hotter than a pistol when the sun goes down. My little sister is pretty as a princess, And hotter than a pistol when the sun goes down.
And all the dreams make her role on. Trying to find a place to call her own. In this world, In this world.
My little sister is pretty as a princess, And hotter than a pistol when the sun goes down.
It must have fallen pretty hard, When you fell in love with money, 'cause looking at her now, The sunny days don't seem so sunny. But the clouds are filled with music. So let it fall on us like rain, I can feel it in the air, See it dancin' on my window pain.
I guess the gods that hold the key, Stone waters to believe, In this world I believe, In this world I believe.
My little guitar got a few songs in her, Got a few songs in her, That ain't been found.
My little guitar got a few songs in her, Got a few songs in her, That ain't been found.
I hope you get to be on a TV game show And win a million dollars 'cause that's lucky And I hope a bartender appears with a shot and a beer Every time you holler 'cause that's lucky
And I hope you get to live in a big old crib And a fancy neighborhood 'cause that's lucky And you never have to fight for an invite To the coolest parties out in Hollywood, oh that's lucky
But if you were just a regular guy Living beneath this red, white and big blue sky With your job, your car, your family, your friends The love of a girl that you know will never end
Then you've already got it made every single day Yeah, you know what it's like to be lucky
Well, I hope you get the chance for a paparazzi romance With a supermodel 'cause, yeah man that's lucky And I hope you're getting chased first place full throttle In a NASCAR race, oh that's lucky
But if you were just a regular guy Living beneath this red, white and big blue sky With your job, your car, your family, your friends The love of a girl that you know will never end
Then you've already got it made every single day Yeah, you know what it's like to be lucky, yeah Well, don't you feel lucky?
But if you're just a regular guy Living beneath this red, white and big blue sky With your hopes, your dreams, your faith and your prayers Every breath you take, every moment you share
Then you've already got it made every single day Yeah, you know what it's like Yeah, brother you know what it's like to be lucky, yeah To be lucky yeah, to be lucky yeah
I woke up this morning with the afternoon at my window I must have tied one on pretty tight last night I don't even know if I picked up the phone to call you If I did babe I apologize
I can't believe I even made it out here Praise the Lord baby, I'm glad I did Most times I'm just kinda laid back looking for nothing Never thought someone who looked like you come looking for me
I live my life one drink at a time, happily out of my mind I never thought I'd find somebody like you to give my whole life to Hope I don't let my hopes get up too high I don't know tomorrow you might change you're mind But I'm feeling pretty good tonight
Tell you something baby, you're as pretty as a Sunday morning But every Sunday morning's gotta have a little Saturday night Maybe I could help you make it through 2000 Tuesdays Maybe you just get wasted away sometime
I live my life one drink at a time, happily out of my mind I never thought I'd find somebody like you to give my whole life to Hope I don't let my hopes get up too high But I don't know tomorrow you might change you're mind But I'm feeling pretty good tonight
I live my life one drink at a time, happily out of my mind I never thought I'd find somebody like you to give my whole life to Babe I might have finally got things right But I hope tomorrow you don't change you're mind 'Cause I'm feeling pretty good tonight, feeling pretty good tonight
We are walking in the footsteps of our fathers Standing in the shadows of our mothers Trying to learn from those who came before us We see the road maps in the lines upon their face
And as I look out on this crazy congregation The truth is inside we're all the same Come on all my sisters and my brothers Let's go walking Walking in the footsteps of our Father
Now I'm the first to say I don't know what I'm doin' And I ain't gonna preach what I don't know I ain't no deep theologer, no PhD psychologer I'm makin' all this shit up as I go
But I know for sure we're all in this together And in a thousand years we still won't get it right So let's rip a page out of ole' Hank Williams' hymnal Let's have a little church right here tonight
As I look down at the brother of my daughter As I kneel and kiss my sister of my son I only hope I leave a righteous path to follow As they go walking Walking in the footsteps of their Father
We are walking in the footsteps of our fathers Standing in the shadows of our mothers Trying to learn from those who came before us We see the road maps in the lines upon their face
And as I look out on this crazy congregation The truth is inside we're all the same Come on all my sisters and my brothers Let's go walking Walking in the footsteps of our Father
We are walking in the footsteps of our Father Of our heavenly Father
Close my eyes And ask myself a question Why is I do what I do Am I looking for some happy definition? Life, and love and the corners of the truth Or am I just some curious bystander Looking at the world through a child's eyes Sunlight, always shining on my shoulder While the storm rages on deep inside
And it seems so hard To keep it all together When the walls are fallin' down On every side I'll be damned If I give up on you easy I've worked too hard To put the barricades aside
This world is a stage We're meant to play on Direction from inside On what to do I don't know how I could have all the answers When inside I don't have a clue
And it seems so hard To keep it all together When the walls are fallin' down On every side I'll be damned If I give up on you easy I've worked too hard To put the barricades aside
Tell me something And I'll be okay Told myself I'd be alright No doubt So when do I know When I've been lyin'? I can't believe it took 30 years To figure that shit out
And it seems so hard To keep it all together When the walls are fallin' down On every side I'll be damned If I give up on you easy I've worked too hard To put the barricades aside
A thick plush blue carpet at my feet A peacock stained glass window staring back at me A nine foot crushed white velvet sofa in the hallway
There's a TV in the kitchen She's cooking in her panties Flipping them little sandwiches likes she's flipping her hair Sure is nice to have someone to hold me
I'm the king of kings you see Everything you need Baby, I'm Elvis
I got a hundred golden records in this one room I got fifty golden knobs upon my door I got one black twenty-five foot stretch Cadillac to drive you home
Downstairs there's a room in the basement It's mostly made of yellow and black Some folks call it the jungle I just think its a nice place to relax
Once a year they all come to see me I watch them throwing flowers at my toes There's a line that stretches down the driveway Past my plane and ends at the gift shop
She holds the key to Eden's Gate Somewhere deep inside When she gives to me her patience And a hundred smiles none the same
Her eyes are the ocean I am drowning constantly I am lucky just to linger In the corners of her scene
[Chorus] I am lost inside the walls of Eden Don't you ever set me free I am lost inside the walls of Eden I'll never go back, no I'll never go back again
Outside the world's a bastard The son whose father never cared It keeps on raging like some crazy storm But not in here
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All it cost me was my whole life All it gives me is everything A love like fire, the taste of skin The feeling of falling again and again It's a long drink from a cool well It's everything, baby It's everything, baby, it's eveything
I am lost inside the walls of Eden Don't you ever set me free
We must be headed in the wrong direction Cause there's nothing but pain out there I heard you say something about the cross upon your back The truth is, baby, life ain't always fair Your whole life is water running down a sidewalk You Followed the rocks and the cracks as you crawl cross the ground I ain't seen you smile in so long You must of built a house in the misery you found
I'm tired, I'm tired now Tired of playing the same old game You got to get yourself together Say to yourself I ain't going down this way I ain't going down this way
Sifting through your memories deep in the ground with the dead Maybe you were high on the top of the cloud with the dragon that lives in your head Maybe you were dragging your wagon with your thoughts like old wooden toys Maybe you were looking for something that you lost when you were a boy
You eat when your hungry You sleep when your sleepy You drink like there's a hole in your soul All of your problems are begging to leave But you never want to let them go You never want to let them go
It's a fine line between living it up and losing it all It's a fine line between getting up and moving on It's a fine line between living it up and losing it all It's a fine line between living it up and moving on If you stay one more day babe Don't you know your going to die, your going to die
Finally free Finally gone Finally breathing again Finally back out on my own
Finally here In an otherwise empty room Where there's no one here to tear me all apart
[Chorus] Yeah tonight I'm gonna go out I'm gonna get a little wasted Yeah I'm one of those guys I'm one of those guys
I gotta run Gotta be free Don't hold me down No baby
Yeah and speakin' of faith I finally found me a song I'm in the same old place But there's a lot less screamin' and carryin' on Too much pain Too much hate Not enough fire Now its way too late
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You're looking back at me with your pretty little eyes And you want so bad for me to try and change You tried that one before Win the battle lose the war Just count your losses baby, and go Just count you losses baby, and go
Well I gotta run, gotta be free Don't hold me down No baby Yeah, I gotta run, I gotta be free Don't hold me down No baby
Yeah, I gotta run, I gotta be free Don't hold me down No baby
Born lucky, I guess Didn't hurt that I was in the right place At the right time too.
That girl she was dandelion beautiful, Damn she was beautiful. The winter wind blows her like a bird And the petals on the flower fly away Sometimes it don't matter what you say
All the good things fade away All the good things fade away
I found me a game out towards Shreveport Couple days just hiding from the sun. Good with the cards and Good with the dice You could say I had a lucky little run.
But what it all made it just a little bit more today But all the luck you have is just the bills you left unpaid
All the good things fade away, All the good things fade away.
Seems sure to me there has to be Such a thing as the good ol' days Some day somewhere my hair like my memories Will all just fade out to gray But they're all right now, And I'd just as soon keep it that way.
All the good things fade away All the good things fade away All the good things fade away All the good things fade away
Pouring rain, cracked front window I turned off my radio and reached for my boot For my favorite sterling horseshoe flask To take a drink of what it holds
She was looking at her feet When I saw her on the street She was holding tight to someone else's hand So I kept on rolling and now here I am And I'm gonna sing 'til I stop crying
The earth is slow out west of llano Better pull this car of mine off-road awhile And reached to the back for my daddy's old martin Hold it oh so close to me I'd sing me some Jones or sad Newberry song I'm Gonna Sing 'til I stop crying
Pull out my smokes, I pull out my Zippo And fire it up cause there's nothing left to do Well, the morning sun its a coming on Guess its safe to say that I won't make work today But a Roger Miller song sure sounds fine to me I'm gonna sing 'til I stop crying I'm gonna sing 'til I stop crying
Conway run to Miss Tammy Willie would you find Miss Emmy Lou Cause I'm gonna sing 'til I stop crying I'm gonna sing 'til I stop crying
