Am I not pretty enough? Is my heart too broken
Do I cry too much? Am I too outspoken
Don't I make you laugh? Should I try it harder
Why do you see right through me

I live, I breathe, I let it rain on me
I sleep, I wake, I try hard not to break
I crave, I love, I've wait

Arkansas, my head hurts
I'd love to stick around and maybe make it worse I got a girl out in Henrietta And her loves like tornado weather It's girls like this that keep me tryin'
She goes off like an air raid siren
Come in clean, leave torn apart
A bad liver and a broken heart

I saw you leanin' on a memory
With your back turned to the crowd
In that little bar on Murphy
Where they play guitar too loud
There were people drinkin' whiskey
There were hearts about to leave
It was cold as hell for Houston
It was almost New Years Eve

All the

In my mind I see a picture and my thoughts begin to roam
to the rowlden hills and valleys that surround my childhood home
I can almost smell the flowers growing wild along the track down to the stream.

I hear grandpa telling stories sitting on the front porch swing

scattered

I've had my share of crosses to bear
I've had a boyfriend or three
And I tend to fall with no warning at all
When I see a man smiling at me
So that's why I'm here pouring this beer
With a man half asleep in my chair
Now when he looks at me
I'm damned if I see whatever

Don't bother putting on your tie, I'd rather a casual guy
And don't be putting on those fancy airs
I like my men Devil may care
Don't spend your money when you've got none
It won't cost a dollar for my kind of fun
Don't try and be somebody you'll never be
That high and mi

Thrift store cowboys, five and dime junkies
Red dirt plowboys, asphalt monkeys
Holy rollers, signal callers
Truck stop angels, backstreet brawlers
Van Zandt groupies, guitar slingers
Hallelujah gospel singers
Freight-train mamas, pistol shooters
My first girlfriend wo

I've got a woman she's wild as Rome
She likes to lay naked and be gazed upon
She crosses a bridge and then sets it on fire
Lands like a bird on a telephone wire

Wine bottles scattered like last nights clothes
Cigarette papers and dominoes
She laughs for a minute about t

The record player's scratchin' out an old and dusty tune On the front porch, on a Sunday, on an Arky afternoon We were lyin' 'round like gypsies, thinkin' 'bout goin' to town And Jimmy's drinkin' whiskey straight and lyin' in the shade Jamie's dancin' round the kitchen with a glass of lemonade L

Pencils in her pocket and ketchup on her clothes
She's a real nice girl, pretty as a plate
The boys call her Katie when they ask her on a date
And who knows Katie?
Maybe you could be the one

There's a boy outside standin' in the rain
His hands are in his pockets, he's a

Five O'clock in the office
New girl looks too good to mention
Call home...honey I'll be late
Something needs my personal attention
This wife won't wait around and leave his dinner in the oven
He can work all he wants to
I'm going out to get a little lovin'

CHORUS: I

Something good is going on in the cool night air
What it is or what it's not I really don't care
Lets not over analyse
And let the moment pass right on by
Cause wherever this feeling goes I want to go there

CH: I don't know what the moon has got in mind
I don't know why

Well its way too soon to have the seven year itch
But he's getting cranky and I'm just a bit....unsure
I'll tell you what I mean
You see when we first met I thought well this is it
But it turns out my head was just full of sh....ining stars
Things just ain't what they seem

Saw a friend the other day, I hadn't seen in quite a while
I remember when she used to smile
I listened to her story....broken promised and shatered dreams
Told me things ain't always what they seem
When I gave her my sympathy she said living with regret is something
that com

Everyday heros and Everyday lives
Do what they must just to survive
They never make the front page news
But heaven knows they pay their dues
You can see the Little Victories shining in their eyes

CH: They don't need fortune and they don't need fame
They are already winn

Well, I'm doin' ten to twenty
In the frozen granite state
And every day I go to work
To stamp out license plates
Everyday I got to work
And every night I cry
Cause every license plate I make tells me to
Live Free or Die

Live Free or Die
Oh Lord tell me why

Ramblin' boy you been around
From Dallas to the underground
High above and down below
Places I was scared to go

You sang it loud in case they heard
Hangin' on to every word
Gentle as a lullaby
Firecrackers in your eyes

CHORUS:
And I would give anything

Well bless my soul what's wrong with you all crowded round the bar
The girls are on the dance floor while you brag about your cars
You don't have to move like Elvis to get out on the floor
Cause men Don't Dance Anymore

Well you shake my nerves and rattle my brain but you just d

I live life a little too close to the edge
You won't ever find a halo on my head
I still stand up for the things that I believe
There's times the devil on my shoulder gets to leave

Sometimes exactly what you see is what you get
You think you know me but you ain't seen nothi

I'm a Single Woman, what you get is what you see!
I've built a life where I am only answering to me
But still you ask about me
With sympathy in mind you with all your boyfriends, husbands, lovers in your lives
I hate to disappoint you, but girls I've got some news
You expect