Jack Ingram Album

Where in hell did you go
You left us all alone I wasn’t even eighteen
You never turned around
Like some kid out on the run
You headed for the fun down in Biloxi
And the Gulf of Mexico

Where I guess the girls they’re pretty
And nobody says it’s late
And you can stay out all night long and never have hell to pay
Down in Biloxi
Even when you’re forty-one
Just forget your problems
Down in Biloxi

And you only came around
To take a rest and come down from Biloxi
But you were not the same
Pretending that you cared
Pretending you were there and not in Biloxi
And the Gulf of Mexico

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Did you really think you’d find
More than you left behind back home in Houston
We all felt the loss
I don’t mean to bring you down
But I wonder what you found there in Biloxi
Tell me, was it worth the cost

Well I hope the girls were pretty
And nobody said it was late
And I hope you stayed out all night long and never had hell to pay
Down in Biloxi
When you were forty-one
You forgot your problems
Down in Biloxi

Head over heels
Falling faster
Spinning wheels
Going round and round

No big deal
Just one more disaster
I’ll take my chances
If I’m falling down

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‘Cause I feel like I’m falling in love
I feel like I’m falling in love

I’m not afraid
Of my heart breaking
I have paid
That price before

All of my mistakes
Add up to nothing
We’ve got something
I want more

‘Cause I feel like I’m falling in love
I feel like I’m falling in love
This time it’s different
This time it’s real
I feel like I’m falling in love

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We’ve got to fight just to find something to talk about
It ain’t right that we’re got nothing to say
I always thought I could run
Now I’m under the gun
And I fight just to find something to say

It used to be we could walk around in silence
You could see things were good
Now the pain of what ain’t said
It’s gone to my head
Cause anyone can see things ain’t good

I ain’t saying there ain’t no more love here
It’s just that I fear something’s wrong
Can’t you see that I’m doing the best I can now
To figure out how we can get along

We’ve got to fight just to find something to talk about
I ain’t saying there ain’t no more love here
It’s just that I fear something’s wrong
Can’t you see that I’m doing the best I can now
To figure out how we can get along
We’ve got to fight just to find something to talk about
‘Cause it ain’t right that we’ve got nothing to say

I always thought I could run
Now I’m under the gun
And I fight just to find something to say

Yeah, I always thought I could run
Now I’m under the gun
And I fight just to find something to say

I know why you asked me here
You’re not sure the coast is clear
You’re about to speak your mind
This small talk is a bad sign

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How many days have I been here tonight
How many days have I been here tonight

You keep stalling probably
Stretch it to eternity
Can’t feel guilty say your lines
Breakin’ my hearts not a crime

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I can’t stand the suspense
How long can I go on like this
How many days have I been here tonight

Repeat Chorus

I can’t stand the suspense
How long can I go on like this
How many days have I been here tonight

Repeat Chorus

How many days have I been here tonight
Since I’ve been here tonight

I really want to work this out
Is there something I’ve got to do
Tell me how to make this right
‘Cause I’ve got to get through to you

If I could find the right thing to say
That would finally take away your doubt
We can’t throw this away
I really want to work this out

Tell me there’s one thing I can’t do again
I won’t do that again
That something we’re missing, we’ll find it again

I really want to work this out
Right here and now
Before we have to be apart
Before we make the same mistakes again

I really want to find a place
Stop wasting all this time
I guess what this is all about
Is I really want to work this out

If I close my eyes a while
Maybe I'd see through
Yeah I'd see through the miles
That won't keep me from you
And an arms length away
Is to far of a place
And maybe what you need
Is to be my saving grace

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And I would if I could
And I want you to know
If you ask I would give
You better believe I would

Well they say nothing lasts
I don't believe that’s true
I would do my best
Just make this good for you

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And I would if I could
And I want you to know
If you ask I would give
Yeah, you better believe I would

I bet you'd be amazed
If I just shut my mouth
And listened to you say
That you're letting me stick around

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And I would if I could
And I want you to know
If you ask I would give
You better believe I would

Yeah I would if I could
And I want you to know
If you ask I would give
You better believe I would
Yeah, you better believe I would
Yeah, you better believe I would

I see you looking and I know what you think
You’re getting braver with every drink but
I am telling you something you need to know

She may look like a sweet young thing
Talking to him but she ain’t hearing a thing
If you were smart you’d turn around and let her go

That girls’ a Barbie doll
A Barbie doll
She’s real good-looking but she’s got no heart at all

She puts on her makeup and drives to the bar in her
Boyfriend’s old man’s brand-new car
She’s got no idea what she does or why

She does whatever she wants I guess
Whatever comes first or whatever looks best
Nobody I know has ever seen her cry

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You should have seen her last Saturday night
She had a friend of mine treating her right
She was hanging on him until she found a better deal

You should have seen how cold she got
My buddy asked why and she said why not
Nobody I know swears she’s even real

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Don’t you ever get tired of the noise
Don’t you ever get bored with the crowd
If they have so much to say
Would they have to talk so loud
Why don’t we get out of here
‘Cause I want to whisper in your ear

Hey you
Are you listening to me
I’ve got to tell you what you mean to me
You’re the one I want to tell my secrets to
Hey you

There’s some things I need to say
There’s some things we’ve got to talk about
I’ve got to have your full attention
I don’t want to have to shout
Even though you’re right here near me
I wonder if you ever hear me

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Everybody’s dyin’ to be heard
Everybody they want to know why
Everybody’s got to have the last word
And it’s always got to be goodbye
Why don’t we get out of here
I want to whisper in your ear

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I come home now my woman says to me
There’s got to be somewhere I’d rather be
She left me staring at an open door
Now I’m so broken I couldn’t walk the floor

You get a little bit of hugging, you get a whole lot of pain
You get a little bit of sunshine, you get a whole lot of rain
And a whole lot of heartache, For just a little good time
Anymore good loving, will drive me out of my mind

If I was any kind of man now I’d go downtown
I’d find me a sweet thing she wouldn’t run me round
But every woman I ever knew
You give her an inch, man and all you get’s the blues

Inna came from Mexico
She tried to find a job
Figured she’d work on rich girls’ nails
That couldn’t be so hard

Inna’s got a twelve year old
And she dies inside
She can’t clear the picture from her eyes
Of leaving that little girl behind

But she’s gonna find a daddy here
And her girl’s gonna come here too
But just like every other dream so far
She knows that one probably won’t come true

And you can see it in her smile looking at her eyes
Yeah that’s right, she keeps her smile when she’s about to cry
I think she knows the truth but she whispers faith
Inna’s friends back home think she’s got it made

Every week she sends some money home
Says things here are going well
She doesn’t let the tears touch the page
And stain the letter all to hell

I met Inna at a grocery store
We were waiting in line
I asked her who the Barbie doll was for
You’d thought that I had asked her who died

I started to apologize
I was just trying to kill some time
I still can’t keep Inna from my mind
But I will never look behind

‘Cause I can see it in her smile looking at her eyes
Yeah that’s right, she keeps her smile when she’s about to cry
I think she knows the truth but she whispers faith
Inna’s friends back home – they think she’s got it made

I don’t give a damn that your car’s on fire
It ain’t none of my concern
And I don’t really care that you think I’m a liar
I know it’s just caruse you’re getting burned

It ain’t none of my concern
‘Cause I’m watching your mustang burn

I know what you’re thinking man your heart is sinking
Your car’s going up in flames
And it’s driving you crazy just thinking that maybe
Someone like me is to blame

It ain’t none of my concern
‘Cause I’m watching your mustang burn

She was a vision the perfect dimension of
What you thought true love would be
And she looked so good while you were under her hood
While your girlfriend was smiling at me
What did you expect me to do
I ain’t got no ties to you
It ain’t none of my concern
‘Cause I’m watching your mustang burn

I know that you’ll see her before I do
‘Cause she told me I never would again
But I’ve got to get a message to her somehow
So I’m asking you this favor as a friend

If you see Juanita ask her for me
Why she’s holding on to something that I need
If you see Juanita ask her nicely
Won’t she please bring back my heart to me

She can keep all my Willie Nelson records
She can have my velvet poster of the king
She can keep almost everything she’s taken
‘Cause I all I really want is just one thing

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