FIRST TIME AGAIN
Best Movie Ever the beginning was the clincher hooked me from the start like my favourite song but better and you gave me a part a little drama and adventure seems to have it all I’m so glad you’re my director and I came to the casting call it’s like the best movie ever this life I live with you I wanna see it last forever like a dream I hope is true because the best movies ever we wish that they won’t end so many scenes that I remember I’d like to see again is it a romance or a thriller? i’m up too close to know we’re just like Scarlett, Kate, or Stiller here in our own show there’s no need to know the ending cause we can’t write how it does every day’s a new beginning i’m gonna watch again because
Let It Blow the wind out of the south is getting stronger different kinds of birds are moving in every night the days keep lasting longer but I know that’s the way it’s always been so let it blow, let the warm wind blow you can’t say winter’s done till it’s all over cause mother natures’ going to have her say I know every day it’s getting closer but I know it’s wrong to wish the time away so let it blow, let the warm wind blow some stick it out and some go south spring can’t come on soon enough up here for all the rest i’m gonna stick it out till I feel the sun there’s more to do than I’ll get done I guess The moon seems to sit there on the river bank I feel the wind come creeping up my sleeve you never know when old man winters’ coming back i’ve never been so glad to see him leave so let it blow, let the warm wind blow Time to let us go, let the warm wind blow
First Time Again Greg H, Gary Straub I saw you again for the first time this morning you glanced from a frame, I passed in the hall the years might have changed me, outside but not in some days time hasn’t changed me at all and you’re still the one, my eyes came to life for and I’m still the one, who just stood at your door there’s nothing so different, as it’s ever been here we are for the first time again around and around, and back here by tonight we can’t get away, can’t let ourselves go what would we see different, in some other light till we’re there, there’s just no need to know
Diamonds on a night that’s filled with diamonds, they don’t seem so far away they still the time, I feel their shine, more than I can say and while I stand out in the dark, myself but not alone they seem so much brighter, on a night the moon won’t show now the Earth has fell so silent, I can almost feel it turn steady, slow, reflections show, the biggest star still burns white and silver up above, green off the North Pole A light for everyone we love, a star for every soul staring straight up in the night, I almost see a face we know someone, then they’re gone they can never be replaced souls are stars that glow inside our minds like diamonds I don’t know the constellations, I don’t know much at all but an empty moon, will fill up soon I turn to watch one fall a star I might not see again streaks around the sun to have you here with me again i’d wish on every one
After You A couple little kids, I asked you on a dare can’t remember what I did, only you and I were there on a bike or from a tree, you might have fallen on your head Who was it going to be, I remember what you said after you let me see what you can do after you if you survive, then I will too that doesn’t look so tough, if you’re strong enough I know that I am too i’ll do whatever you can do, after you was a long long time, till we were face to face again in the ticket line, at the fair out in the rain and getting soaking wet, running for a tent would you remember when? and I hope you did, cause this is what I said when you yelled let’s get in after you this time it’s only fair after you I knew I’d go anywhere did I say too much, or know you long enough? it sure feels like I will follow wherever you go too after you
To Do List there’s 99 things here on my to do list and I could start another, with the things that I missed I don’t fix what ain’t broke, can’t fix what I do and the fix that I’m in, it just ain’t nothing new i’m still gonna do this, still gonna do that don’t know where to start but right here where I’m at there ain’t nobody doing, what I ain’t getting done so the next thing on my to do lists’ number one there’s a crack in the wall, and a creak in the floor my wife’s at the mall and the wolfs’ at the door but here I am at the counter, just trying to think clicking my pen, to the drip in the sink now the wind keeps a tapping, that branch on the eave and meanwhile, here back at the ranch when I leave The fall and the winter, and the weather won’t wait and you think I’d know better, than to procrastinate still gonna do this, been gonna do that don’t know where to start but right here where I’m at there ain’t nobody doing, what I ain’t getting done so the next thing on my to do lists’ number one yeah, the next thing on my to do lists’ number one
SONGS FROM
A SMALL ROOM
Mom & Daddy's Girl she's a lawyer or a teacher maybe the mother of a son fashion designer, a firefighter ordinary or known by everyone maybe the leader of the nation or the mayor of your town but she's feeling the weight of obligations falling away when they're around she could be in the heart of everybody a celebrity all around this world, whenever she's home she's still her mom and daddy's girl you should've seen her when she saw them the minute she stepped off of the plane all of the love onboard she brought em a word or a picture can't explain wearing her heart right there on her face same little girl they knew so well hugging it out till there's one suitcase going around the carousel it's the bond with them that keeps her beating a trail to their front door whatever the hand this life will deal her it's something she'll always be there for
Don't Mind If You Do fly us to France teach me to dance dine and parlez vous hold my hand in Mazatlan i don't mind if you do book us a plane a boat or train from here to Timbuktu let's go to Spain you know i'm game i don't mind if you do and if your plans include a man i'd like to be that guy that's how i feel don't turn a wheel without me by your side if i get home to find you bought new blinds chairs and table too if you take a mind to redesign i don't mind if you do if you jump at the chance to dance with anyone who asks you to before we go if we dance slow i don't mind if you do i'm for it all it's been a ball won't you keep me around especially when you ask me to lay this guitar down so fly us to France teach me to dance dine and Parlez vous work on your tan in Mazatlan i don't mind if you do book us a plane a boat or train from here to Timbuktu let's go to Spain you know i'm game i don't mind if you do
Without You Too i quit smoking cigarettes haven't had to have one yet hardly ever drink at all it always made me take a fall try to practice self restraint but there's no reason why i can't i know what i have to do i'll get along without you too you're the one i turn to someday i'm gonna learn to stay away for good cause when i think about it i start to think i should cause you're the reason why i walk in my sleep at night deep down i've always known something just ain't right i know what i have to do i'll get along without you too
There For You when life is defeating, nowhere leading here is your place to go the worst is behind you, never to find you if i'm here to say it's so i'll be there for you your heart took a beating, you're still breathing i'm ready to drop and roll i'm staying grounded, i've still found there's so much we can still control and i'll be there for you i want to see what's still yet to be there's mountains we'll still climb stars to be under shelter to run for now till the end of time i'll be there for you you're gonna be strong i want to be on a basis of need to know if we're only here once, only near once i know what i'm here for to be there for you with you here beside me whatever will try me i'll have the strength to do days are fleeting, i'll be believing i'll spend them all with you and i'll be there for you
It's OK when you feel, like you're all alone and the hope's all gone what could there be left to do give it awhile, and the time to see through another smile it's ok just to be it's ok to take a walk it's ok to run it's ok to wonder if you'll ever find the one it's ok to answer it's ok to call it's ok to run for cover after you fall it's ok to wonder it's ok to know it's ok to dream about the places you might go it's ok to hurt it's ok to laugh it's ok to pour a glass of wine and run a bath it's all right to wake up mad it's ok to go down sad it's all right to look around and find a friend who makes you glad it's ok to be a shoulder it's ok to lean it's ok to hide until you're ready to be seen it's ok to walk it's ok to run it's ok to look around to see how far you've come if you feel, like you're all alone who would i be to say don't i'm not there in your shoes give it awhile and the time to see through another smile it's ok just to be, it's ok just to be
Wrong About Texas i dreamed about Austin one night getting lost in your eyes knowing i never should my defenses wide open my preconceived notions never have done me much good self esteem took a beatin my pride it got eaten alive like a babe in the woods i held on to that dream that turned nightmare as long as i could now we all come from somewhere and it's time i got back there in one piece with only my skin i've seen movies describe it and romanticize it but a tougher place i've never been so goodbye Maria cause i know i won't see ya getting out is the right thing to do turns out i was wrong about Texas and wrong about you goodbye Maria i know i won't see ya waking up is the right thing to do turns out i was wrong about Texas and wrong about you
Forget & Forgive there's something that we both need to talk about now i can't remember what it's all about guess it wasn't nothing worth dwelling on why can't we just leave it there and just move on if we both still feel the same it's water underneath a bridge and we won't have to play this game why can't we just forget and forgive there's some people having troubles bigger than our own tell me baby, what is it that i did wrong i didn't realize what you're going through it matters to me, if it matters to you
Your Leaving Me, Won't Leave Me Alone Greg H, Nathan Scott, Reese Klaiber nothing more lonesome you're gonna find than a heart when it's blown wide open like mine just laying out on a hill like a stone your leaving me won't leave me alone none of your shoes tripping me at the door none of your clothes in a pile on the floor but not everything to remind me is gone your leaving me won't leave me alone i'm feeling the time ticking off of the clock but i know the reminders ain't gonna stop bouncing off of the walls still calling them home your leaving me won't leave me alone the impression you left on your side of the bed the impression you left here inside of my head i'm telling all of the memories we ever owned it wasn't to be just leave me alone i can hear everything you and i ever said i'll weather today it's the night that i dread you'll never call but i look at my phone your leaving me won't leave me alone
A Road I Don't Know just shuffling around in circles in my tiny universe wearing out these tired verses less for better, more for worse i dreamed no one needs to wake me safe in my comfort zone so ready for life to take me by my hand and lead me on a road that i don't know it was the only way to go down a road that i don't know less a lover more a hater straight ahead my sight was blind i'll curse you now thank you later if you try to change my mind broke down and rolling slower i dimmed my lights and picked my lane but this ride just can't be over and life ain't never gonna be the same, on a road that i don't know it's the only way to go down a road that i don't know it was the only way
Be There a parent's advice is staying with me still it sounded so wise take it as you will try to keep those dreams out in front of you hard as it seems all there is to do is beware of the ones who will lead you astray be fair with the people who you deal with, everyday be square it ain't the same to say as to do and be there for the ones who depend on you now they're on the way and you're letting go and you'll have to deal with what you don't know agree with fear to never be your guide for those we'll never always be beside
Can't Take It With You he was sharp and always steady always strong and i'm just a dreamer searching for a song when this morning broke across those river banks what i saw reminds me that i'm only here by chance every plank and every post, and every nail he left them here and left us not to fail what he always said will always still be true you'll never change the weather and you can't take it with you now i'm going through his tools and things he said and i still try to hear those lessons in my head talk and think about him like he's just outside cause what he kept was so much less than what he left behind i see his hands on every gate, and every wire he could not say quit he wouldn't say retire till the end i asked him what he would have done his frame grew weary but the spirit left is strong every plank and every post, every nail he left them here and he left us not to fail what he always said will always still be true you'll never change the weather and you can't take it with you try to leave it better ain't you got something to do we'll try to leave it better and we'll never change your view
THE NEXT DAY
The Next Day my today was a world of trouble i can't wait to bid it a good night gonna dream from in my bubble all about a new day on the rise praying my saving graces forgive and time erases and the morning brings another try and i'll get along with the next day of my life i'm hanging on and the world keeps turning my head is spinning and daylight's burnin fast i'm outta luck and my mind keeps churning it's gonna change i know this time won't last and i'll get along with the next day of my life in the next day of my life, i'll do better in the next day of my life i'll be a stronger, wiser, lover, fighter i'm laying down but i won't quit trying and yesterday can take a hike a few were dreams, a few were diamonds others of em, nothing went down right so let's get along with the next day of my life
My Future is Behind Me days are moving faster than i thought still busy wasting time that i ain't got shot out a barrel like a cannonball with all the time to try to do it all the wheel of time is gonna grind me i'm the one who led my blindly everything i see reminds me looks like my future is behind me ain't seen it all and all i want is more i'm outta time and time to save it for feels like the middle but i see the end still bigger than i'm gonna comprehend it's going longer than i planned on can't see the day i'm gonna land on it ain't so bright that it'll blind me looks like my future is behind me up the road too far to turn around a lady singing i can hear the sound no bit of time beyond the stitch i'm on my fuse is shorter and my shadow's long no controls to get my hands on where's something comfortable to land on the night is dim but why go gently i'll take the heat but it'll bend me if i'm complaining don't you mind me looks like my future is behind me don't know where it's gonna find me looks like my future is behind me can't afford to sell my soul to stay look for the guy to do the deal today it's going on for better or for worse looking ahead and dreaming in reverse
Stuff I'm Going Through there's a shelf in the attic full of old magazines comics and national geographics and a few my eyes have only seen so if you try to call me i'll have to get back to you i'm alright, i've just been busy with some stuff i'm going through chorus haven't laid eyes on these for it's feeling like forever time and my memories rewind a crinkled page attached to a time and a place i'm back to everytime i close my eyes here's a note i never gave her couldn't work up the nerve if i knew they might have saved her i wouldn't change a single word but here's a call i need to answer something else i have to do but i'm just staring at the rafters sitting here listening to you chorus
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Yellow House Greg H, Mike Page there was a yellow house out on the prairie so long ago, not far away where a kind young man his wife and baby made their home, and made their way before the road, before the wires horse and wagon, and a dream struggled through the cold, the droughts and fires then came the year, 1918 when a stranger came, no word no warning unheard unseen, nowhere to run left him there to deal, there alone and mourning no doctor's cure, no struggle won no money only time to mourn boards and nails, from buildings worn no hearse no funeral in town i hear the buggy wheels see him looking down i've read their names, i've dreamed their faces found no trace, of life they knew i've only seen, their resting places their time is gone, their stories too he left this home, so sad and broken and by 22, he'd passed their way are their souls, whose time was stolen left to wander, to this day where the coyotes howl, their mournful way i found their place, one cold November took so long, to find where they lay no sound no sign, i can remember just a shiver, as i walked away to those two souls, i spoke one name
Out Of the Country i like to see the glowing lights of town but once i'm there i can't help think of home i get what i need and then turn back around i don't stay out of the country for too long the sound of strings is gentle on my mind with songs there's only really just two kinds three chords and the truth, sounds like home i don't stay out of the country for too long i dig Duke and Ella, Louis too Elvis, Etta, Muddy, Blues there's one sound i can't bear to lose out here walking in my shoes it's the same place we all started from precious as the grass and apple pie and mom i'm just getting back to what i grew up on i don't stay out of the country for too long i get a lonesome feeling in my bones for Hank and Lefty, Haggard, Jones steel and fiddle, Pride and Price i'm pinin for some Skaggs and Rice Reba, Patty, Patsy Cline Buck and Vince, I Walk the Line Waylon, Willie, Dolly too Loretta, Alan, Emmylou Carrie, Marty, Brooks and Dunn Roger Miller sure was fun Kenny, Kacey, Brad and Keith Martina and Miranda, Faith Texas swing to keep me Strait a cold beer when the band is great and if some folks feel inclined to put it down maybe they've been out of the country for too long i'm just getting back to what i grew up on i don't stay out of the country for too long
Talk To Me Siri i walk around whispering cause you're always listening and nobody speaks face to face anymore i'll pay what the price is left to my devices cause i'm still so ready to say so much more they don't text me, they ghost me don't hear from them mostly all of my homies, got me on ignore but you're here in my pocket or plugged in a socket you still hear when i lock it that's what friends are for so won't you talk to me Siri i know you can hear me no one else listens, the way that you do if i speak slow and clearly and hold you so near me the only one i need beside me is you you're cordial, you're clever i can ask you whatever you have every answer that i'm searching for but if you keep your distance and show some resistance i won't ask you nothing you're not ready for
She's All That of all the days she's saw me through there ain't no two the same all the ways i've made mistakes she never counts the blame all my personalities there for every one and somehow still around here with whatever i've become the direction of my every dream the pretty face i see she makes sense of all my struggles the remote for our tv the attraction that i'm seeing the foundation i have found and when i waste time looking back she turns my head around chorus when i'm out of hope, down and broke a kid and an old man an anchor or a kite, there's no way to understand she's the antidote, floats my boat makes my crazy sane the light i see for miles through my frosty windowpane she's always here where i need her to be she's all that for me she's all i need to lean on still my port in every storm stronger than i could have known the night our son was born the open door i'm looking for it might be too much the ceo, the one who knows the one i want to touch chorus
All She Left Me Were the Blues she left me broken and downhearted she left with all i had to lose she left me right here where i started all she left me were the blues the only things she never loaded were the walls, the floor and this guitar a song so sad you know i wrote it my clothes and the payments on the car chorus the sounds in this old house might haunt me it's just darkness memories and booze now she's gone and she don't want me all she left me were the blues she could have anyone she chooses since she left i don't feel right he wins and i'm the one who loses i wonder where she is tonight
Better Than the Blues you might hear me complain if it's too cold or hot i'll talk about the weather likelier than not but there's a feeling worse than any one i've got anything is better than the blues it's natural to feel like there's just some mistake harder than a virus is to finally shake and it's hardly ever gonna be a choice we make any feeling's better than the blues anything is better fair or stormy weather it's out of my control to choose what's gonna make me giggle anxious aloof or bitter frustrated fractious or amused they're likelier to hit you when you're all alone to cure the bug that bit you just pick up your phone i'm sure that the affliction's never just your own so let's the two of us go shake the blues
1935 second street, 1935 33 years before, i came alive a picture of black and gray and white i wonder what it looked like to be here, in 1935 i look at the way it looked back then things still the same but different some folks remember when the highway rolled right through downtown i wish i'd asked more questions when some of them were still around i wonder how it was back then so much has changed since way back when i wonder how it was back then when the old things looked brand new so much left to do second street, 1935 i heard things were hard to come by just to stay alive a picture of black and gray and white i wonder what it looked like, to be here in 1935 a picture is more than meets the eye i wonder what it looked like to be here in 1935
Walk On The Way one day near and one day farther what might or not be in the way the draws and hills they just get harder and when they're gone we'll never see day the day chorus walk on the way, the way might find me down the path, or nowhere near but every day, something reminds me somehow we'll still get there from here should i make or take my shelter the wind might blow our plans away weak or strong, we'll all need a helper when that day comes, we just can't say chorus comes a time, we can't be together when our freinds are far from sight just like the sun, i'll fail you never like light is day and dark is night chorus
Leave Me Alone from when i wake until the morning comes there's no question that you are the one and even though it's great to be together, leave me alone some days you'll argue that the sky's not blue there must be something that you need to do absence might make our hearts grow fonder leave me alone and when you get home we'll compare our notes you don't have to tell me everywhere you go later on i know i'll like you better, leave me alone you got a way of seeing things i'll never see and i'm still learning what you want from me and even though it's great to be together, leave me alone it's so good to know i'm yours, and you are mine but you drive me crazy, hanging around here all the time and even though it's great to be together, leave me alone i want you to stay with me forever, but leave me alone i'm not sure what i'll do if you ever, leave me alone
SOMETHING STRONGER
Something Stronger i don't need a pill to cure my ill a smoke to put me right won't twist it off, pour it down and then repeat all night what i'm missing, what i need to find is something stronger it's plain to see, you give me a buzz that just won't stop you're the one to calm me dowm and the one to light me up you're the cure, i can't leave behind i know you're stronger chorus we're all needing a kind of feeling somewhere to belong it takes a place fills a space maybe it's not right or wrong what i'm missing, what i need to find is something stronger a long long list of things i've missed to ease my mind the best just leaves a hole, they've got no soul like the one that you possess what i'm missing, what i need to find is something stronger chorus.......
High Road i know you know there's something wrong making it right might take too long it might not look good to someone else in the end you've got to please yourself it might not feel good right away that's the hand we're dealing with today it won't take two to make it right you can be the one who sleeps at night on the high road might not be easy feels like it's leading you nowhere on the high road we'll find some understanding there it might take a little time to forgive someone who's crossed a line you know what you need to do the truth is right in front of you on the high road might not be easy feels like it's leading you nowhere on the high road we'll find some understanding there
One Day Closer we're praying that it will every day it don't the sky's a staying blue the weather man he says it won't i'm standing in the shadows of clouds a passin over again you know that every day it doesn't is one day closer to a rain the grapes will feel the wrath the heats' a dryin up the wine the sun's a poppin corn and makin raisins on the vine my kids have never seen it and i'm wonderin if i'm gonna again you know my days are gettin numbered but i'm one day closer to a rain chorus one day closer to a rain it's gonna have to do it but when felt like today but then it wasn't and every day it doesn't is one day closer to a rain a bird'll pick a bone a gopher needs a snack the bank'll give a loan a farmer wants to pay it back tumbleweeds are rollin pullin on the fences again you know that every day it doesn't is one day closer to a rain