Willie Nelson Album

(I'll always love you in my own peculiar way)
It would be a comfort just to know you never doubt me
Even though I give you cause most every day
Sometimes I think that you'd be better off without me
Although I love you in my own peculiar way
Don't doubt my love if sometimes my mind should wonder
To a suddenly remembered yesterday
Cause my mind could never stay too long away from you
I'll always love you in my own peculiar way
And though I may not always be the way you'd have me be
And though my faults may grow in number day by day
Let no one ever say that I've ever been untrue
I'll always love you in my own peculiar way
I'll always love you in my own peculiar way

I'll walk alone
Where once we wandered
It seems so strange
Since you are gone
Till you return
I'll stay the same, dear
I'll still be true
And walk alone

By stars above
I swear to love you
With all the love
I've ever known
While we're apart
I'll stay the same, dear
And when teardrops start
I'll walk alone

[ piano ]

The flame of love
Is brightly burning
And you know that I'm
Your very own
Each night I pray
For your returning
But while you're gone
I'll walk alone

I'd like to rush into somebody's arms
And lose myself inside
But just any arms won't do
They must belong to you
I'd like to know the soothing comfort
Of a love that never dies
But just any old love won't do
That love must come from you
I've tried so hard to find someone to love
Since I lost you,
But they only make me realize
How much that I need you
I'd like to know when I grow older
Someone's heart will still be true
But just any old heart won't do
It must belong to you

I'd be the last one to tell you that you shouldn't go.
And the first to say: "Be happy if you can."
But when you lie an' hurt someone who needs an' loves you so,
Do you mind too much if I don't understand?

I suppose that you're convinced this is the thing to do.
Life is short an' sweet; break all the hearts you can.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised: it's all a game to you.
But do you mind too much if I don't understand?

Forgive me but it all seems so unreal to me.
An' my heart an' me, we'd made so many plans.
But that's all over now, there's nothin' left to do.
But do you mind too much if I don't understand?

Instrumental break.

Forgive me but it all seems so unreal to me.
An' my heart an' me, we'd made so many plans.
But that's all over now, there's nothin' left to do.
But do you mind too much if I don't understand?

I always go the other way
But my car drove me down today
To a little house on the older side of town
Back when things were never hard
I used to play there in that yard
And I just drove by to see if things had changed

Cokes were just a nickel then
And across the street at the five and ten
A lot of things were cheap and square and strange
And the life that we had might have been
But it was one we loved believin' in
And I just drove by to see if things had changed

I wondered now if love is still
The way it was back then
I need to know that life is still
A place worth livin' in
There it is just like it was
A place where there was always love
And I just drove by to see if things had changed

[ guitar ]

In a world that seen it's better days
It's good to know some things remain the same
Though standing still is not times way
Take to heart while in it's spring
Oh love is just a fragile thing
And I just drove by to see if things had changed

I wondered now if love is still
The way it was back then
I need to know that life is still
A place worth livin' in
There it is just like it was
A place where there was always love
And I just drove by to see if things had changed

The lights go out each evening at eleven
And up and down our block there's not a sound
I close my eyes and search for peaceful slumber
And just then the local mem'ry comes around
Piles of blues against the door to make sure sleep will come no more
He's the hardest working mem'ry in this town
Turns out happiness againand then lets loneliness back in
And each night the local mem'ry comes around

[ guitar ]

Each day I say tonight I may escape him
I pretend I'm happy and never even a frown
But at night I close my eyes and pray sleep finds me
But again the local mem'ry comes around
Rids the house of all good news then sets out my crying shoes
What a faithful mem'ry never lets me down
We're both up till light of day chasing happiness away
And each night the local mem'ry comes around
And each night the local mem'ry comes around

Some people go to school tryin' to learn how to teach
Some people go to school tryin' to learn how to preach
But if you preach without goin' school
Brother you're ain't no preacher you're an educated fool
And that's all and that's all
You'd better change your way of livin' cause the good Lord say that's all

Now a feller I know it's a wiser man tryin' to save all the money that he can
One day undertaker lets him down
Where's he gonna spend that money under the ground
And that's all and that's all...
[ horns ]
Now a man come from monkey some people say
But the Good Book brother just don't tell it that way
And if you believe that monkey tale like some folks do
Then I'd rather be that monkey than you
And that's all and that's all...

Well my little song is ended and my little song is through
And I necessarilly mean this song for you
But if you don't like the way the little song goes
Well it's a mighty good sign that I've been trottin' on your toes
And that's all and that's all...

I let my mind wander,
And what did it do?
It just kept right on going,
Until it got back to you.
I let my mind wander.

Can't trust it one minute,
It's worse than a child.
Disobeys without conscience,
It's drivin' me wild,
When I let my mind wander.

Try to keep my mind busy,
On thoughts of today.
But invariably, memories,
Seem to lure it away.

My lonely heart wonders,
If there'll ever come a day,
When I can be happy,
But I can't see no way,
'Cause I let my mind wander.

Instrumental Break.

I try to keep my mind busy,
With thoughts of today.
But invariably, mem'ries,
Seem to lure it away.

My lonely heart wonders,
If there'll ever come a day,
When I can be happy,
But I can't see no way,
'Cause I let my mind wander.

Well you seem a little colder
When I say I must be leaving
But it's an ugly way for us to let it end
What's the use in being worried
Cause I'm going in an hour
When the time is running out that we can spend
What's the difference being different
When it's difference now that looks alike
You say I'm changing
I'm not sure that's wrong
It's just today it may be natural
Sitting here discussing it
Tomorrow just as natural to be gone

[ violin ]

There's no season in my mind
That I can count on for an answer
And I dug too many holes expecting snow
I'm not sure to where I'm headed now
I ride the hard line with it
If I return or when I think I might go
What's the difference being different...

Forgetting you, darling, is not my decision
For love has a mind of its own
I'd love to forget every time that you kissed me I'd love to forget that you're gone
And I'd gladly hold back each tear that I'm crying
But love has a mind of its own
Love is a ruler the greatest of kings
Love sets a pie on a throne
Forgetting you, darling, is not my decision
For love has a mind of it's own

I don't want to carry this worrysome heartache
I don't want to cry all night long
I wish I could run from the day that I met you
But love has a mind of its own
Love is a ruler the greatest of kings
Love sets a pie on a throne
Forgetting you, darling, is not my decision
For love has a mind of it's own

I'm writing you this note to say I'm sorry
That spells S-O-R-Y ever coming home
Can you find it in your heart dear to forgive me
That spells F-O how I miss you since you're gone
There are so many things
That I want to say tonight
But my mind keeps moving faster
Than my pen can write
But I hope and pray somehow
The message still gets through
That spells M-E-S-S-A-GE I love you

[ strings ]

There are so many things...

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