Tracy Lawrence Album

I met him in a dive down in New Orleans I recognized his handsome face
It was none of my business but I had to know what he was doing in this kind of place
Cause he use to have money use to have honeys he used to be society's prince
But he still wore a grin when I sat beside him and ask where all that money went
He said some was spent on gamblin' a lot was spent women
A little on some good Cabernet
Three or four divorces at least as many horses that never left the startin' gates
Diamond rings and furs swamp land in New Jersey that week I spent a year in LA
I hate to admit I threw the rest away

He said money don't mean nothing is this game of life it's just a way of keeping score
Show me a man who's got everything I'll show you one who wants even more
Well so smoke 'em if you got 'em cause when you hit bottom
You gotta have a reason to smile
You can have a little piece of the rock I'll take a little piece of mind
He said some was spent on gamblin'...
[ guitar ]
Diamond rings and furs...
I threw the rest away

I never felt as helpless, as I do today
My world just fell around me as I watched you drive away
Theres nothing left between us, somehow we've grown apart
Cause I've got through my head, I just can't break it to my heart

(Chorus)
I can't believe this is me on the hurtin side of pain
Siftin through the ashes still tryin to find a flame
But the flame has turned to embers left glowing in the dark
I've got it through my head, I just can't break it to my heart

If I could, Lord knows I would spin back the hands of time
and piece these scattered memories that are cluttered in my mind
Pick up where we left off and make a brand new start
I've got it through my head, I just can't break it to my heart

(Chorus)
I can't believe this is me on the hurtin side of pain
Siftin through the ashes still tryin to find a flame
But the flame has turned to embers left glowing in the dark
I've got it through my head, I just can't break it to my heart

Every night when i come home
to this old house,it's always dark
you don't wait up like you used to
like you did at the start
and i can feel changes
as i'm walking the door
we still live in the same house
but,we don't love here anymore

we still share the same old bed
but now our dreams sem worlds apart
we don't touch the way we used to
and it's breaking my heart
we're turning into strangers
the ties that bind are frayed and worn
we still live in the same house
but we don't love here anymore

and i would do anything
for what we had before
we still live in the same house
but we don't love here anymore

(instrumental)

repeat chorus

first he said he loved you,he promised he'd be true
then he was unfaithful,word got back to you
tonight when he came calling you wouldn't let him in
now your tears are falling and you swear they'll never end

(chorus)
but crying aint dying,losin' aint forever
it's kind of like the weather
it changes everyday
you learned yourself a lesson
'bout loving and lying
but you will live to love again
'cause crying aint dying

even though he hurt you he's still the one you want
you're gonna feel this way till the day you don't
you can pull the shades down,grieve what's gone before
but you can't keep tomorrow from walkin' through that door

(chorus)

you learned yourself a lesson
'bout loving and lying
but you will live to love again
crying aint dying
you wil live to love again
'cause crying aint dying

she knows every move that a man could make
she knows every trick in the book
she knows how to give
she knows how to take
cuz so many times shes been taken a fool
by those

Chorus:
alibis and lyin eyes and all the best lines
lord knows shes heard them all
shes been cheated on and pushed around and left alone
lord knows what ive put her through
and boy you can bet if a move can be made
she knows how to make one on you

she once thought that love wasnt just a game
her feelings once came from the heart
one day i gave her a wedding ring
in one night i tore all those feelings apart
with my

Chorus:
alibis and lyin eyes and all the best lines
lord knows shes heard them all
shes been cheated on and pushed around and left alone
lord knows what ive put her through
and boy you can bet if a move can be made
she knows how to make
her own

alibis and lyin eyes and all the best lines
lord knows shes heard them all
shes been cheated on and pushed around and left alone
lord knows what ive put her through
and boy you can bet if a move can be made
she knows how to make one on you

There's a honky-tonk on the edge of town
I used to call my second home.
It's a place I'd go just to get away,
When I wanted to be alone.
Well early one mornin, I had a fight with my darlin.
That went from bad to worse.
It ended when she said, "your second home,
Just became your first".

* chorus
Now the juke box is my alarm clock.
I wake up in a corner booth.
I don't have a tab, don't need no cab,
'cause the dance floor's my living room.
Well I might die from a broken heart,
but I'll never die of thirst.
Now that my second home has become my first

Well, I don't have to pay no mortgage.
I don't have to mow no lawn.
A lot of friends come see me,
some stay until the break of dawn.
I can paint the town without leavin the house,
I can feel good til it hurts.
Now that home sweet second home
Just became my first

*chorus
Tag; Lord, now that my second home has become my first

Lately I've been seeing a certain glow upon your face
But I know I'm not the reason you wear that different smile these days
Though you haven't said you're leavin' darling I've already heard
And don't you know your silence is talking louder than your words
Don't talk to me that way cause it's my heart that's being broken
Goodbye still hurts the same even if it goes unspoken
You're tearing me apart with everything that you don't say
There's so much I haven't heard and that's less than I deserve
Don't talk to me that way
[ steel ]
Why can't you lay it on the line and say you found somebody new
I can't take the silence as well as I can take the truth
And I don't want you here beside me if that's not where you want to be
But you ain't said a single word and that's not enough for me
Don't talk to me that way cause that ain't no stranger's heart that's being broken
Goodbye still hurts the same even if it goes unspoken
You're tearing me apart with everything that you don't say
There's so much I haven't heard and that's less than I deserve
Don't talk to me that way
There's so much I haven't heard that's less than I deserve
Don't talk to me that way

Last night she wasn't sleeping when I came slipping in
I knew I had it coming cause she knew where I'd been
She said a part of me walks out that door everytime you leave
So remember this while you are losin' me
It only takes one bar to make a prison
You've been doing too much time away from home
She said it takes two hearts to hold a love together
But it only takes one fool to be alone

She said I've sat here in the darkness one too many times
And stealin' thoughts of holding you has been my only crime
Right then I realized she'd always have the key
And locked up in her arms is the only time I'm free
It only takes one bar to make a prison
I've been doing too much time away from home
It takes two hearts to hold a love together
But it only takes one fool to be alone
It only takes one bar to make a prison and it only takes one fool to be alone

It's a crying shame what fools we have been
To fight for no good reason when neither one of us gives in
I don't love you is what it takes to end it all
But instead we'll go back to bed back to back to face the wall
Back to back we're falling out of love
As giving in gets harder to do we start giving up
We lay together facing the dark each tear that falls is breaking our hearts
Back to back side by side and miles apart
[ fiddle ]
What a fool I am to lay here and not hold her
In a bed where love once burned our hearts that just grow colder
I love you are the words that's on my mind
But the stones we threw in anger have built a wall that we can't climb
Back to back...
Back to back side by side and miles apart

It was Sunday morning, I was seven years old
In the backyard playing in a big mud hole
I was all decked out, ready for church
Had my brand new suit all covered in dirt
Mama hit the ceiling, she was fit to be tied
Talkin' 'bout how she's gonna tan my hide
But Daddy was laughing when I changed my clothes
Saying, "Mama, leave the boy alone

Cuz if the good die young, if the good die young
Our little boy's gonna have a lot of fun
Cuz he's gonna live forever if the good die young!"

Ten years later had a hot-rod Ford
Constable clocked me at a hundred and four
Judge said, "Boy you're gonna hurt yourself
You'd a long been dead if you was anybody else

Cuz if the good die young, yeah if the good die young
Oh, there ain't a sentence gonna hold you son
Cuz your gonna live forever if the good die young"

Well I got a good heart, I wouldn't hurt a soul
But I'm gonna keep rockin' til they call that roll
Old St. Peter's gonna have to wait
I'm gonna go to Heaven but I might be late

Cuz if the good die young, Lord if the good die young
Pedal to the metal, let your motor run
Cuz I'm gonna live forever if the good die young

And if the good die young, Lordy if the good die young
Take out the jams, we'll have some fun
Cuz I'm gonna live forever if the good die young
I'm gonna live forever if the good die young