Your friends go to pieces when they see you walk with me. We're two different species; your the more or less elite. Let 'em know how I made you smile.
I spent a lot of time. I spent a lot of energy. Set in my mind. Set in my ways. Sitting here lonely. Keeping my space. And holding my own key. Making my way.
At 17 my mother's screams at night could wake the dead. Four days this week I didn't make the bed. What's important to you now is something we don't share.
Well I love her and she's leaving. She met a man, plays in a band, last weekend. And he lives out on the west coast. She says she's gotta go. . But it's a long, long way from Myrtle Beach to L.A..
Verse 1:. We got the horses moving. we got the woofers grooving. we got the waylon wailin. everybody's head is bobbin. . I got the muffler flowin. I got my horn a-blowin.
Oh Yea. Did you see me lookin' cool. In my white tee shirt. And my cowboy boots. And my baby blues. Starin' at you from across the room. Did you see me looking at you?.
Three red burning candles,. Two glasses of red wine.. She hopes that he remembers. It's already after nine.. Shadows dancing on the table. makes such a lonely sound..
Sometimes I get angry. for Feeling sorry for myself. I worry myself crazy. till I can catch my breath. I see life as a struggle. and answers hard to find.
My imperfections. You let them mean nothing. I'd have done the same with yours. If you had any. . But just because I'm a mess. Doesn't mean this has to end.
I say cheaters have no hearts but I cheated on the one that I loved, for life and. I say tattoos are turn offs but look at my arms and look at the mess on them.
How could I try to make you stay,. You know full well that I'd do anything.. If I underline I feel the same,. Could you just tell that we're everything..
Do you recall the day. when our hearts were undone. And I was quite content. Not having anyone. I knew something would unfold at 22 years old. But I was in a band.
I'd be lying if I said I never thought of dying alone. But I'm so vulnerable to just about everyone. And only one friend knows me. I sigh when another year is over.
Are you sick of all this change?. In a century that keeps feet so firmly off the ground,. You can't stand this place.. . Well, I'm with you 'till the end,.
I used to know you incomplete. Saving souls of men like me. In a town that sees things. In black and white. A young girl was a yellow light. The almighty kicked up the dust.
God saved the queen, but he left you a dream. With your brave stuffed in bellies of ships that drifted in. . The gate to the west was wide open. This promised land seemed an infinite land.
I've always been so hard. Hard to impress, harder to please, hard to hold on to. You're easier than me. Easy to love, easy to please, easy to cling to.
With her eldest out in the field. Since the day that the orders came. And took her youngest boy away. . Took him over the ocean. Like a soldier. He showed no emotion.
You thought you could survive a life alone. Love was not a stranger, and you could recognize the dangers. And soon you found yourself surrounded by these walls.