I'd like to think that I'm alright
that I'm not empty every night
without your touch to fill me up

And I don't miss your face
beside me on that pillowcase
but I still do but I won't reach for you

A year from now I'll think about the best of times
and not the love

I took a drive today,
Saw an old willow tree,
I thought about a bedroom window,
I thought about you and me,
And talk about an endless summer,
I'm still livin' it now,
Burning in the heat of midnight,
Well I'll never forget how,

You would whisper,
Pull me to

I was 10
I was thin
I was playin first base
With a second hand glove
And dirt on my face
In nowhere Virginia
Who'd ever figure that kid in the yard
Would go very far
Cuz 419 Lakewood had no silver spoons
Just an old beat up upright
That played outta tune

What's become of our hearts, lately we just play the parts
We say the lines but there's no spark
We never miss a cue, but it's a passionless walk-through
"I love you" doesn't mean so much when there's no fire behind it
It was just here I know it was, it must be hiding

Behin

If you're headin' south on
Georgia one twenty-nine
Straight into Athens past the Clark County line
There's an old Texaco right across
From the Athens Woolworth
Billy Joe Taylor's underneath that lift
There ain't a car on the planet that he can't fix
He swears on his c

She's got, "Honky Tonk Woman" on her license plat
She's got black, leather britches and long, long legs
She's got a booty tattoo, red lips and a tongue
Well, some girls just know how to have fun
Start me up, sugar, let the tumbling dice roll
My baby, rocks like the Rolling St

Well maybe lately I've been acting a little bit strange
And maybe there's a few things
I need to explain
So what if I call you at work for now reason
And I sent you those flowers today
So what if my friends tell me
They never see me
And everyone's sayin' I've changed<

So many choices in my life these days
So much confusion, so many shades of gray
That sometimes I don't know
My left from my right
But I've got these old black and whites
Well, I'm every color that you can paint
A father, a lover, a mother, a sinner and a saint
From Su

Well, Bobbi's been a friend since I can't remember when
We all went together to school
A linebacker, a quarterback-sacker
Yeah Bobbi, he's as strong as a mule

So imagine our shock
'Bout ten o'clock down at the Whistle Stop one weekend
Yeah, the whole place stopped, you

Boy you sure look good there standin' in the doorway in the
Sunset light
Maybe i read you wrong thinkin' you could be my mr. right
I was puttin' my heart and soul on the line
Said you needed some time, just a little more time to make
Up your mind
Well it's been long enoug

I was lousy at math, failed historian Carlene was the valedictorian I was the quarter back in the back of classes She was the whiz kid in horned rim glasses It's been a long time since I've been

1st Verse

I was lousy at math, a failed historian
Carlene was the valedictorian, and I was
Quarterback in the back of the class, as
She was the whiz kid in the horned-rim glasses

2nd Verse

Been a long time since I'd been around
Since I set a foot on my ol

I rise and stumble from the bed
It wakes the worries in my head
And I pour myself a bowl of Cheerios
I think about the good and the bad
The happiness outweighs the sad
And the balance evens out the highs and lows
Today, there's lessons to be learned
There's progress t

We were eighteen and nineteen
And paired off on Saturday nights
Down in the basement, big killer stereo
Dimmer switch on the lights

Jane was a dancer, Paul was a drummer
Christine was a doctor to be
Life stretched out before us like one endless summer
And that bring

Said the cloud to the sun, "Today's no time to shine"
Didn't you know she's gone
Said the rain to the moon, "You're not needed tonight"
Didn't you know she's gone
You can keep your magical moments we don't need'em 'round here

Didn't you know she's gone by now
I thought

On a plane to the west coast
Laptop on my tray
Papers spread across my seat
A big dead line to make
An older man sittin next to me said, Sorry to intrude,
But 30 years ago my busy friend, I was you
I made a ton of money
And I climbed up the ladder
Yah I was superm

Things are too simple, things are too hard
Nobody's happy with the way things are
Looking for the quick fix, the short term loan
Got to rent 'cause you might not be here long enough to own
The way i see it the trouble with the world these days
It's getting way to easy just to

Bad move, baby i let you in
You're a tattoo under my skin
And i can't wash it off
It's a permanent mark
I try to let it go, i try to chill
But still i feel i'm under your spell
Oh why the hell can't i just move on?
Your memory stays with me
I can't escape, i'm run

Moving on wasn't in the plan
I was living in that happy-to-be-right-where-I-am space
And god knows that's a hard-to-get-to kind of place

But it took a right into another world
I didn't like much when you left me girl
I gotta tell you it's been pretty hard
But every now

Hot sun dancin' on the river
We're sittin on the bank and watch the world go by
Our feet in the water she pressed her lips to mine
We were so long on love but short on time
She could be a honeymoon sweet and a little wild
But she was mine oh, for a little while

And I la