Clint Black Album

Well, I'm goin' down to the river
I've got a canepole in my hand
I've got my redworms
In a Maxwell house coffee can.

I'm gonna sit under a shade tree
On a riverbank where its cool
I'm gonna close my eyes and dream
And let that cork bob away my blues.

Well, I wake up every mornin'
I pick peaches all day
And on Saturday night we'll have a dance or two
We might waller in the hay.

Now the only thing that ever whipped my pa
Was this bad dude called old age
And his last years was his best years
And this is what he had to say.

He siad, boy I've worked this dirt all my life
But things ain't been good for awhile
Why don't you move to the city, make a little money
You might be the first one in the family
Ever to die with a smile.

Well, I took his advice, things goin' well
But my friends are far and few
But whoever said a city boy
Can't have the the country blues?

Whoever said a city boy
Can't have the the country blues?

Whoever said a city boy
Can't have the the country blues?

Well, honey they ain't talked to me and you...

(Waylon Jennings)

Lord, it's the same old thing
Fiddle and guitar
Where do we take it from here?
Rhinestone suits new shiny car
Well, It's been the same way for years
It's bound to change.

Somebody told me when I came to Nashville
"Son you finally got it made"
Ole Waylon made it here and we're all sure that you will
But I don't think Waylon done it this way
No, I don't think Waylon done it this way.

--- Instrumental ---

Ten years on the road making one night stands
Speeding my young life away
Tell me one more time just so's I'll understand
Are you sure Waylon done it this way?
Did ole Waylon done it this way?

--- Instrumental ---

I've seen the world with an eight piece band
Looking at the back side of me
Singing my songs one of his now and then
But I don't think Waylon done it this way
No,I don't think Waylon done it this way.

--- Instrumental ---

Woke up this morning, it was drizzin' rain
Around the curve come a long black train
Heard somebody yodel and a hobo moan
Jimmy he's dead he's been a long time gone.

Yeah
(Woop,woop,woop)...

I haven't been there, I haven't done that
I never been one to know where it's at
I've been around and I've seen a few things
I don't know what a lot of it means
The truth'll never ring clear as a bell, but I...
Don't believe that you never can tell
Most things I don't have a clue
But I can tell by lookin' I know all about you.

Chorus:
You don't have to put your hand in the fire
To know your little fingers are gonna get burned
You don't have to be standing on the moon
To know your little planet is gonna get turned
You don't have to take a walk in the sea
To know it gets a little deep and it's really not blue
I don't have to have my arms all around you
To know I wanna hold you and to know that I love you.

I've never been one to go to extremes
I see 'em coming and I get in between
Never ahead and never behind
I figure everything'll happen in time
And just in time it's happening now
It's not up to either one of us to ever know how
With both eyes closed I could easily see
It's happening to you and it's gonna be me.

Chorus:
You don't have to put your hand in the fire
To know your little fingers are gonna get burned
You don't have to be standing on the moon
To know your little planet is gonna get turned
You don't have to take a walk in the sea
To know it gets a little deep and it's really not blue
I don't have to have my arms all around you
To know I wanna hold you and to know that I love you.

You don't have to put your hand in the fire.

You don't have to be standing on the moon
No. No, No No.

Now, You don't have to take a walk in the sea
To know it gets a little deep and it's really not blue
Now, I don't have to have my arms all around you
To know I wanna hold you and to know that I love you.

You don't have to put your hand in the fire
No, not to feel the heat, no
You don't have to be standing on the moon
Not to know that I took the time to see
You don't have to take a walk in the sea
It's gettin' deep, I know it's gettin' deep now.

You don't have to put your hand in the fire
Ahh, not to feel the heat, no
You don't have to be walkin' on the moon
Walkin' on the moon, walkin' on the moon
I don't have to have my arms all around you
To know I wanna hold you and to know that I love you.

Yes, I do, love you...

When ya feeling inside out and insecure.
hmm hmm hmm
When life keeps getting you down.
When all lifes daily worries, hurry through your head.
You don't want to even get up.
You just ly around in bed.

When ya feel like ya just can't take it anymore
I can't take it.
And you wonder what on Earth it is all for.
Your love lifes on a war zone, your Tv's on the blink
It's enough to drive a drinking man,
To stop and take a think...

Just remember that you standing
On a planet that's evolving,
Revolving at 900 miles an hour.
It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The Sun and you and me
And all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day.
In an outer spiral orb, at 40,000 miles an hour,
Of the Galaxy we call the Milky Way.

Our Galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a 100,000 light years side to side
It bulges in the middle 16,000 light years thick,
But out by us it's just 3,000 light years wide.
We're 30,000 light years from galactic central point.
We go round every 200,000,000 years.
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding Universe.

--- Instrumental ---

Our Universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whiz
As fast as it can go, the speed of light you know, 12,000,000 miles a minute,
And that's the fastest speed there is!
So, remember when you're feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth.
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause I'm afraid that we've been cheated here on Earth.

Clint Black & Lisa Hartman Black

These times are trouble
And these times are good
There always gonna be
They rise and they fall
We take them all the way that we should
Together you and me
Forsaking them all

Deep in the night
And by the light of day
It always looks the same
True love always does
Here by your side or a million miles away
Nothin' is ever gonna change the way I feel
The way it is, is the way that it was

Chorus:
When I said I do, I meant that I will
Til' the end of all time
Be faithful and true, devoted to you
That's what I had in mind, when I said I do

Well this whole world keeps changin'
And the world stays the same
For all who came before
And it goes hand in hand

Only you and I can undo
All that we became
That makes us so much more (so much more)
Than a woman and a man

After everything
That comes and goes around
Has only passed us by
Here alone in our dreams

I know there's a lonely heart
In every lost and found
But forever you and I will be the ones
Who found out what forever means

Chorus

Truer than true
You know that I'll always be there for you

That's what I had in mind
That's what I had in mind

Together:
When I said I do

Clint Black & Steve Wariner

Did you ever wake up in the middle of the night
And wonder where you were
You need the one and only that can hold you tight
And you reach for her, but she's not with you
You just wish this trip would end
You know I've been there, I don't wanna go back again

Did you ever wake up in the middle of the day
And wonder who you are
You suddenly discover there's a price you pay
For gettin' this far, and it's the part of you
You really don't have to spend
You know I've been there, and I don't wanna go back again

There's so many moments that I've left incomplete
Those are the moments that I'm not gonna repeat, no

Did you ever wake up in the middle of a dream
That didn't come true
You think you're gotta give up on makin' that scene
And seeing it through, you feel like breaking
When you really just need to bend
You know I've been there, and I'll never go back again

There's so many moments that I've left incomplete
Those are the moments that I'm not gonna repeat, no

Clint Black & Bruce Hornsby
(Leon Russell - Chris Stainton)

Gather round me people, got a song to sing
About that sweet magnolia thyme
Black-eyed Susan made some catfish stew
And papa brought some homemade wine.

All you southern children like to rock'n roll
The TV mamas tell you why
They got it on the boat from Africa
It's that Dixie Lullaby.

Well, Blind Willie Time he had a dime shoe shine
Stand down on Beale Street
And Willie would stop and just to say hello
All the shoes he'd meet.

Why are you so happy said the clean white buck
You got no reason to be happy Mr Time
And Willie would stop and just pop his rag
And sing a Dixie Lullaby.

--- Instrumental ---

So now you know the story of my southern home
With a honeysuckle wine
And anytime you think that you might come yourself
You ought to keep this thought in mind.

All you easy riders better watch you step
And if you're walkin' down below the line
That Louisiana man is gonna get you yet
With his Dixie Lullaby.
He's got a Dixie Lullaby.
He's got a Dixie Lullaby...

(Clint Black & Steve Wariner)

It's a lonesome avenue, I'm barely livin' on
With a broken heart that's dyin' over you.
I've done all that I can do to try and make you love me too
Tell me where did I go wrong?

Girl, I've had enough of givin' you my love
When you won't give it back, I know
You don't love me, I'm on a one way street
Where your love won't go.

--- Instrumental ---

I won't cross the burnin' bridges you left behind
Though I've shed the tears to put those fires out
If I didn't do me part from the bottom of my heart
Then I don't know what love is all about.

Girl, I've had enough of givin' you my love
When you won't give it back, I know
You don't love me, I'm on a one way street
Where your love won't go.

Well, you gave me all the signs
Though it never crossed my mind
You would hurt me more than I could know
You don't love me, I'm on a one-way street
Where your love won't go...

--- Instrumental to fade ---

He gives her attention, he's constantly, carefully planting the seeds
The only thing missing, is really the only thing she needs
And he can't give that to her and she can't find it with him
So she'll have to find her way out of love she's not really in

(Chorus)
She can live with what goes with leavin
She knows it's the only way
Though it kills her to give up believin
She can't live with herself if she stays
She could settle for what she'd be feelin
If she gave in and worked this one out
She doesn't want the kind of love she can live with
She wants the kind of love she can't live without

She looks in the mirror and sees all the sadness in her eyes
It's never been clearer what he's askin her to sacrifice
But she can't be his forever, she can't even be his for now
She'll have to be kind to them both and let go of him somehow

(Chorus)
She can live with what goes with leavin
She knows it's the only way
Though it kills her to give up believin
She can't live with herself if she stays
She could settle for what she'd be feelin
If she gave in and worked this one out
She doesn't want the kind of love she can live with
She wants the kind of love she can't live without

And the hardest part is she loves him
But she doesn't want the kind of love she can live with
She wants the kind of love she can't live without

I guess you're off to have your fun
Another ending just begun
And I know what I don't see Really shouldn't bother me
So go and have yourself a ball
You'll be at no one's beck and call
And with that fire in your eyes
Another lover's moon will rise
And someone else will take the fall
And that's just the way you are,
I've known all along
Some candles always burn even when the night is gone
But the strongest of flames won't burn eternally
When you find another friend who'll light your candle up again

You can burn one down for me
So you don't matter anymore
I'll convince myself, I'm sure As if I give a damn
That's just the way I am
So go on and pour yourself some wine
With who'll ever spend your time
'Cause anyone can see you won't be crying over me
And you never were that kind

Chorus

Clint Black & Marty Stuart

The memories and emotions
That I've been through
Are things I can't unlearn
But I won't go on standing on the bridges
You've tried so hard to burn.

I can't put those fires out
And let somebody in
If everything my life's about
Is who we might've been
Till we forget the love we lost
We won't remember how to love again.

Chorus:
That's who I used to be
Holding onto nothing
Giving everything I used to be
To belong to someone
That I know is who
I used to see when I looked at you
You were never who I used to see
That's who I use to be,
And I'm not who I used to be

Coming to my senses now
I'm feeling things I thought I couldn't feel
I don't take for granted if it feels like love
It must not be real

I still find myself out on
Some bridges now and then
I'm stuck out in the middle
Trying to reach the other end
But I'm through holding back the flames
To show somebody how to love, again

Chorus:
That's who I use to be
Holding onto nothing
Giving everything I use to be
To belong to someone
That I know is who
I use to see when I looked at you
You were never who I use to see
That's who I use to be,
And I'm not who I use to be.

That's who I use to be,
And I'm not who I use to be...

Clint Black & Kenny Loggins

With the rivers running to the sky
To rain across the land
Our children's children's sands of time
Are slipping through our hands.

Take heed in what's become of Eden
You and me, from seed to seed
Just how does your garden grow?
It's likely only Heaven knows.

Harmony -- From the very start
Weren't we changing it?
Don't we all agree, that in every part
We're more than rearranging harmony.

Do we move the mountains that we climb
Just because we're here?
Can we show the forests to the blind
To see the trees we clear?

And if Mother Nature holds her ground
And our seeds are still around
Will we watch our garden grow
To something only Heaven knows?

Harmony -- We're the only one's
Who can't live in it
Everything and everyone
Can get along in every way in harmony.

Harmony -- From the very start
Weren't we changing it?
Dont we all agree that in every part
We're more than rearranging harmony.

Chorus:
I believe it's gonna be
When everybody here can sing along
Singin' in harmony
Stand on up, say the word
Together, all of our voices can be heard
Everybody knows the key
To livin' in harmony.

Take heed in what's become of Eden
You and me, from seed to seed
Just how does your garden grow?
It's likely only Heaven knows.

Harmony -- We all just have to believe
Don't we all agree, that in every part
We're more than rearranging harmony.

Chorus:
I believe it's gonna be
When everybody here can sing along
Singin' in harmony
(Stand on up, I believe)
I believe in harmony
I believe
(Ooo, I believe, everybody knows)
Say the word, harmony (Stand on up)
I know we can do it now
I believe, I believe in harmony
Yeah, harmony
Everybody knows the key
To livin' in harmony...

There's no time to kill between the cradle and the grave.
Father Time still takes a toll on every minute that you save.
Legal tenders never gonna change the number of your days.
The highest cost of livin is dying, that's one everybody pays.
So have it spent before you get the bill, there's no time to kill.

If we'd known ten years ago today would be ten years from now
Would we spend tomorrows yesterdays and make it last somehow
Or lead the cheers in someone else's game and never learn to play
And see the rules of thumb are all the same that measure every day.
The grass is green on both sides of the hill, there's no time to kill.

No time to kill, even I've said it and probably always will
But I can look ahead and see that time ain't standin' still.
No time to kill but time to change the kind of hurry I've been in
And quit this work and worry looking back at where I've been.
If you don't look ahead nobody will, there's no time to kill.

If we had an hour glass to watch each one go by
Or a bell to mark each one to pass, we'd see just how they fly.
Would we escalate the value to be worth its weight in gold
Or would we never know the fortunes that we had til we grow old.
And do we just keep killin time until there's no time to kill.

No time to kill, even I've said it and probably always will
But I can look ahead and see that time ain't standin still.
No time to kill but time to change the kind of hurry I've been in
And quit this work and worry lookin back at where I've been.
If you don't look ahead nobody will, there's no time to kill.

No time to kill, even I've said it and probably always will
But I can look ahead and see that time ain't standin still.
No time to kill but time to change the kind of hurry I've been in
And quit this work and worry lookin back at where I've been.
If you don't look ahead nobody will, there's no time to kill.

No time to kill
No time to kill

I remember well the day we wed
I can see that picture in my head
I still believe the words we said
Forever will ring true

Love is certain, Love is kind
Love is yours and love is mine
But it isn't something that we find
It's something that we do

It's holding tight, It's lettin go
It's flying high and laying low
It lets your strongest feelings show
And your weakness too

It's a little and a lot to ask
An endless and a welcome task
Love isn't something that we have
It's something that we do

We help to make each other all that we can be
Though we can find our strength and inspiration independently
The way we work together is what sets our love apart
So closely that we can't tell where I end and where you start

It gives me heart remembering how
We started with a simple vow
There's so much to look back on now
And still it feels brand new
We're on a road that has no end
And each day we begin again
Love's not just something that we're in
It's something that we do

We help to make each other all that we can be
Though we can find our strength and inspiration independently
The way we work together is what sets our love apart
So closely that we can't tell where I end and where you start

Love is wide, Love is long
Love is deep and Love is strong
Love is why I love this song
And I hope you love it too

I remember well the day we wed
I can see that picture in my head
Love isn't just those words we said
It's something that we do

There's no request
Too big or small
We give ourselves
We give our all
Love isn't some place that we fall...
It's something that we do