Kenny Chesney Album

All he could think about was I'm too young for this.
Got my whole life ahead.
Hell I'm just a kid myself.
How'm I gonna raise one.

All he could see were his dreams goin' up in smoke.
So much for ditchin' this town and hangin' out on the coast.
Oh well, those plans are long gone.

And he said,
There goes my life.
There goes my future, my everything.
Might as well kiss it all good-bye.
There goes my life.......

A couple years of up all night and a few thousand diapers later.
That mistake he thought he made covers up the refrigerator.
Oh yeah..........he loves that little girl.

Momma's waiting to tuck her in,
As she fumbles up those stairs.
She smiles back at him dragging that teddy bear.
Sleep tight, blue eyes and bouncin' curls.

He smiles.....
There goes my life.
There goes my future, my everything.
I love you, daddy good-night.
There goes my life.

She had that Honda loaded down.
With Abercrombie clothes and 15 pairs of shoes and his American Express.
He checked the oil and slammed the hood, said your good to go.
She hugged them both and headed off to the West Coast.

And he cried,
There goes my life.
There goes my future, my everything.
I love you.
Baby good-bye.

There goes my life.
There goes my life.
Baby good-bye.

"Jack and Diane" painted a picture of my life and my dreams,
Suddenly this crazy world made more sense to me
Well I heard it today and I couldn't help but sing along
Cause everytime I hear that song...

I go back to a two toned short bed Chevy
Drivin my first love out to the levvy
Livin life with no sense of time
And I go back to the feel of a fifty yard line
A blanket, a girl, some raspberry wine
Wishin time would stop right in its tracks
Everytime I hear that song, I go back

I used to rock all night to "Keep On Rockin Me Baby"
Frat parties, college bars, just tryin to impress the ladies
I heard it today and I couldn't help but sing along
Cause everytime I hear that song....

I go back to the smell of an old gym floor
The taste of salt on the Carolina shore
After graduation and drinkin goodbye to friends
And I go back to watchin summer fade to fall
Growin up too fast and I do recall
Wishin time would stop right in its tracks
Everytime I hear that song, I go back, I go back

We all have a song that somehow stamped our lives
Takes us to another place and time

So I go back to a pew,preacher, and a choir
Singin bout God, brimstone, and fire
And the smell of Sunday chicken after church
And I go back to the loss of a real good friend
And the sixteen summers I shared with him
Now "Only The Good Die Young" stops me in my tracks
Everytime I hear that song, I go back....

All he could think about was I'm too young for this
Got my whole life ahead
Hell I'm just a kid myself
How I'm gonna raise one

All he could see were his dreams going up in smoke
So much for ditching this town and hanging out on the coast
Oh well, those plans are long gone

[Chorus]
And he said
There goes my life
There goes my future, my everything
Might as well kiss it all good-bye
There goes my life.......

A couple years of up all night and a few thousand diapers later
That mistake he thought he made covers up the refrigerator
Oh yeah..........he loves that little girl.

Momma's waiting to tuck her in
As she fumbles up those stairs
She smiles back at him dragging that teddy bear sleep tight,
Blue eyes and bouncing curls

[Chorus]
He smiles
There goes my life
There goes my future my everything
I love you, daddy goodnight
There goes my life

She had that Honda loaded down
With Abercrombie clothes and 15 pairs of shoes and
His American express
He checked the oil and slammed the hood,
Said your good to go
She hugged them both and headed off to the west coast

[Chorus]
And he cried
There goes my life
There goes my future, my everything
I love you
Baby good-bye

She hit the door, 6:55
Sack full of groceries split down the side
Canned goods scattered all the way to the curb
Look on her face sayin "don't say a word"
So it's me and her and a can of beans
Sittin there on the front porch swing
A western sky all turnin red
Head on my shoulder, she sighed and said

I've been gopherin, chaufferin, company chairman
Coffee maker, copy repairman
Anymore there ain't nothin I swear man
That I don't do
I been jugglin, strugglin, closin big deals
Dancin backwards in high heels
Just when it feels like I can't make it through
She said, it sure is nice to just be the woman with you

She said, the girl I was with a business degree
Probably wouldn't recognize me
I was gonna run the bank, I was gonna run the math
Now all I wanna run is a bubble bath
Back then, ya know, I had this plan
Before all this reality set in
Here come life, boy, ready or not
Hey, I wanted it all and that's what I got

Cuz I'm gopherin, chaufferin, company chairman
Coffee maker, copy repairman
Anymore there ain't nothin I swear man
That I don't do
I been jugglin, strugglin, closin big deals
Dancin backwards in high heels
Just when it feels like I can't make it through
She said, it sure is nice to just be the woman with you

She said, I'm gopherin, chaufferin, company chairman
Coffee maker, copy repairman
Anymore there ain't nothin I swear man
That I don't do
I been jugglin, strugglin, closin big deals
Dancin backwards in high heels
Just when it feels like I can't make it through
She said, it sure is nice to just be the woman, the woman with you
The woman with you

His old man was a rebel yeller,
Bad boy to the bone, he'd say,
Can't trust a color'd feller
He'd judge em by the tone of their skin,

He was raised to think like his dad,
Narrow mind and full of hate,
On the road to nowhere fast,
Till the grace of God got in the way,

Then he saw the light,
and hit his knees and cried and said a prayer,
Rose up a brand new man, left the old one right there,

(Chorus:)
Here's to the strong thanks to the brave,
Don't give up hope, some people change,
Against all odds, against the grain,
Love finds a way, some people change,

She was born with her mothers habit,
guess you could say it's in her blood,
She hates that she's gotta have it,
She feels her glass up,
She'd love to kill that bottle,
But All she could think about is a,
Better life a second chance,
And everyone she's lettin down,
She throws that bottle down,

(Chorus:)
Here's to the strong thanks to the brave,
Don't give up hope, some people change,
Against all odds, against the grain,
Love finds a way, some people change,

Thank God for those who make it,
Let them be the light,

(Chorus)

Some people change,
Here's to the strong thanks to the brave,
Don't give up hope, some people change,
Against all odds, against the grain,
Love finds a way, some people change, yea
Some people change
Some people change
Some people change
Some people change

Walking along beneath the lights of that miracle mile
Me and Mary making our way into the night
You can hear the cries from the carnival rides
The pin-ball bells and the ski-ball slides
Watching the summer sun fall out of sight
There's a warm wind coming in from off of the ocean
Making its way past the hotel walls to fill the street
Mary is holding both of her shoes in her hand
Said she likes to feel the sand beneath her feet

And in the morning I'm leaving, making my way back to Cleveland
So tonight I hope that I will do just fine
And I don't see how you could ever be anything but mine

There's a local band playing at the seaside pavilion
And I got just enough cash to get us in
And as we're dancin Mary's wrapping her arms around me
And I can feel the sting of summer on my skin
In the midst of the music I tell her I love her
We both laugh cause we know it isn't true
Ah but Mary there's a summer drawing to an end tonight
And there's so much that I long to do to you

But in the morning I'm leaving, making my way back to Cleveland
So tonight I hope that I will do just fine
And I don't see how you could ever be anything but mine

And in the morning I'm leaving, making my way back to Cleveland
So tonight I hope that I will do just fine
And I don't see how you could ever be anything but mine

Mary I don't see how you could ever be anything but mine

We had a dog named Bocephus livin in the front yard
He likes sleepin out on top of the car,
He drank beer out of a mason jar,
He'd climb up on everyone's bed.
A white frame house in a college town,
A bunch of people always hangin around,
No real problems we needed to drown,
But we tried our best anyway.
We went to class just to pass the time, back in 89'

(Chorus:)
We had a keg in the closet, pizza on the floor,
Left over from the night before.
Where we were going we didn't really care we had all we ever wanted,
And that keg in the closet.

This old guitar taught me how to score right there on the Lambda Chi Porch,
Mary Anne taught me a little more about wantin what you cant have.
Sweatshirts and flag football, Spring Breaks down in Panama,
For awhile we had it all we'd never dream it wouldn't last.
We went to class just to pass the time, back in 89'.

Chorus

We all kinda went our separate ways, but I swear it seems like yesterday.

Chrorus

You know some times me and my lady have these crazy fights and when we do it
makes me wonder
Are we're ever gonna get it right

When I think about leaving I think about me
What my life would be like if I were back to being free
Go where I wanna go, do what I wanna do, wouldn't have a soul I had to answer to
When I think about leaving I think about me

You know I got a friend him and his wife just couldn't see eye to eye he had all
he could
Stand one day and just packed up and said good-bye

When I think about leaving I think about him
That little apartment cross town he's living in
Got an old corvette, got a new girlfriend, but only sees his kids every other
weekend
When I think about leaving oh I think about him

I never will forget her face or the day she told me about her dad, how he walked
out on her
And her mom when she was just a kid

When I think about leaving oh I think about her
Only five years old and her heart filled up with hurt
With her little arms wrapped around his neck saying daddy where you going, are
you coming
Back
When I think about leaving I think about her

You know the truth is, most of the time things were really great and I know we
got something
Special
When I think about leaving I think about us
How we build this love we share on faith and trust, honest way we talk, tender
way we touch,
All those nights we spent making love,
When I think about leaving oh I think about us

When I think about leaving I think again
Even though that thought crosses my mind every now and then
In my heart I know I would never leave, there's nowhere else on earth I would
rather be
When I think about leaving I think again

When I think about leaving
When I think about leaving
When I think about leaving:I think again

Well I drank til I stumbled
I drank til I fell
When the drunk part was over it hurt me like hell
Now I know about drinking so I know one things true
Being drunk's a lot like loving you

Cuz I loved til I stumbled
I loved til I fell
When the loving was over it hurt me like hell
Now I know what a taste of the wrong love can do
Being drunk's a lot like loving you

[Chorus]
And I've woke up some mornings and sworn off the drink
At that I've done reasonably well I think
But I haven't done well swearing off you and me
At that I've felt miserably

Well I've felt the hangover of loving all night
I've sat at the bar all alone in a fight
I've bottled up feelings and poured 'em out too
Being drunk's a lot like loving you

[Chorus]
And I've woke up some mornings and sworn off the drink
At that I've done reasonably well I think
But I haven't done well swearing off you and me
At that I've felt miserably

Well I drank til I stumbled
I loved til I fell
When the drunk part was over love hurt me like hell
Now I know about drinking so I know one things true
Being drunk's a lot like loving you

Though I know what a taste of the wrong love can do
Sometimes I still get drunk loving you.

Lets leave town on a permanent vacation
Lock up the house pack up the station wagon
Make paradise our final destination
As long as we're outta here

There ain't no time like the present they say
Lets cruise all the way down A1A
Put the top down and catch a few rays
Baby we'll be outta here

[Chorus]
Anywhere you want to go
As long as its sunny weather
Let the time fly by I don't mind
As long as we're together

South of the border there's a place I know
Where James Taylor sang about Mexica
And the suns so hot we'll forget to go home
Baby we'll be outta here

[Chorus]
Anywhere you want to go
As long as its sunny weather
Let the time fly by I don't mind
As long as we're together

Maybe drive to the country
Down to the lake see if the catfish are jumpin set our bait
And if we come up dry we'll just sleep in late
At least we'll be outta here
As long as we're outta here
Baby lets get outta here
Outta here

-Talking-
Come on baby lets get outta here
Cruise down A1A
Go hang out in Key West for awhile

There's a blue rocking chair
Sittin' in the sand
Weathered by the storms
And well oiled hands

It sways back and forth
With the help of the winds
It seems to always be there
Like an old trusted friend

I've read a lot of books
Wrote a few songs
Looked at my life
Where it's going, where it's gone

I've seen the world through a bus windshield
But nothing compares
To the way that I see it
To the way that I see it
To the way that I see it
When I sit in that old blue chair

From that chair I've caught
A few fish and some rays
And I've watched boats sail
In and out of Cinnamon Bay

I let go of a lover
That took a piece of my heart
And prayed many times for forgiveness
And a brand new start

I've read a lot of books
Wrote a few songs
Looked at my life
Where it's going, where it's gone

I've seen the world through a bus windshield
But nothing compares
To the way that I see it
To the way that I see it
To the way that I see it
When I sit in that old blue chair

That chair was my bed one New Year's night
When I passed out from too much Malibu
And I woke up to a hundred mosquito bites, I swear
Got 'em all sitting right there
In that old blue chair

There's a blue rocking chair
Sittin' in the sand
Weathered by the storms
And well oiled hands.

Saw him sittin on a sidewalk in Fresno
Braided hair and a tye-dyed t-shirt on
Talkin to himself about Vietnam
About the tour he did and the deal he got
He said this world ain't the same if you ask me.
If I could be somewhere else, I'd tell you where I'd be

I'd be rollin' on a river with Credence
Stealin' kisses from Peggy Sue
I'd be knee-deep in sand on a Panama beach
In the spring of '72
I'd be wastin' away on the dock of the bay
Watchin' the tide roll in
He said what I wouldn't give just to live those songs again.

Saw him workin' the counter at Walgreens
With a new haircut and a Bachelor's Degree
Talkin' to himself about his raw deal
Cussin' Uncle Sam and the GI bill
He said This world ain't the same if you ask me
If I could be somewhere else, I'd tell you where I'd be

I'd be rollin' on a river with Credence
Stealin' kisses from Peggy Sue
I'd be knee-deep in sand on a Panama beach
In the spring of '72
I'd be wastin' away on the dock of the bay
Watchin' the tide roll in
He said what I wouldn't give just to live those songs again.

He said This world ain't the same if you ask me
If I could be somewhere else, I'd tell you where I'd be

I'd be rollin' on a river with Credence
Stealin' kisses from Peggy Sue
I'd be knee-deep in sand on a Panama beach
In the spring of '72
I'd be wastin' away on the dock of the bay
Watchin' the tide roll in
He said what I wouldn't give just to live those songs again.

(Bill Luther/Tom Damphier)

I keep tellin' myself this is the right thing to do
I was wastin' her time, waitin' on dreams that just weren't comin' true
And this old highway seems to understand
Leadin' me on to somewhere that no one knows my name
I got the window rolled down, I got the radio up
I'm doin' all that I can to get my mind off us

What I need to do is turn this car around
Drive as fast as I can 'til I see the lights of our hometown
And run to her, take her in my arms
Make her see how sorry I am, well that shouldn't be so hard
But I drive on, and on, and on

Eighty-seven more miles gets me into Baton Rogue
There's a buddy of mine who says he might find some work that I can do
Or maybe head up north to Knoxville, Tennessee
I know my baby sister, has got a couch where I can sleep
Now the sun's goin' down on my broken heart
Lord, I gotta get back before I get too far

What I need to do is turn this car around
Drive as fast as I can 'til I see the lights of our hometown
And run to her, take her in my arms
Make her see how sorry I am, well that shouldn't be so hard
But I drive on 
Yes I drive on, and on, and on

Knowin' what I need to do
Girl, I'm comin' home to you

Knowin' what I need to do
Girl I'm comin' home to you
I'm comin' home to you
Knowin' what I need to do

Please come to Boston
For the springtime
I'm stayin' here with some friends
And they've got lots of room
You can sell your paintings on the sidewalk
By a cafe where I hope to be workin' soon
Please come to Boston
She said no, boy you come home to me

Chorus:
(And) She said, hey ramblin' boy
Why don't you settle down
(Boston, Denver, L.A.) ain't your kind of town
There ain't no gold
And there ain't nobody like me
I'm the number one fan
Of the band from Tennessee

Please come to Denver
To see the snowfall
We'll move up into the mountains
So far we can't be found
And throw I love you echos
Down the canyons
And then lie awake at night
Until they come back around
Please come to Denver
She said no boy you come home to me

Repeat Chorus:

Now that drifter's world
Goes round and round
And I doubt if it's ever gonna stop
But of all the dreams
He's lost or found
And all that I ain't got
I need somebody I can cling to
Somebody he can sing to

He said please come to L.A.
To live forever
A California life alone
Is just too hard to build
I live in a house that
Looks out over the ocean
And there's some stars
That fell from the sky
Livin' up on the hill
Please come to L.A.
I just said no
Boy, you come home to me

Repeat Chorus

I'm the number one fan
of the band from Tennessee
Tennessee