ok...here's the deal...to me,lyrics are not poetry...they're lyrics..meant to be sung or heard and not read from a page...that being said....here are the lyrics for songs on the first 4 recordings.....chords available on request...hell, i'll even come over and show you how they go....

i'm watching you as you watch me and something's moving in my brain

there's nothing else that counts as much or means as little as what remains

of all i used to want to be,wild and careless,brave and free

it's nothin but a shadow now but something more than that some how

     i'm wanting you as you want me and something's happened to my heart

     when every nerve inside screames stop and every impulse says to start

      to let it roll on over me,wild and careless,brave and free

     it's softer than a shadow now,but something harder anyhow

i'm using you as you use me and something broke inside the mirror

favorite words that lose their sting the moment you start drawing near

the center of this thing we found,the eye of the storm,the sacred ground

it's darker than a shadow now,but brighter than the sun somehow

the night was still,the stars were bright,the air was cold on a winter's night

and everything you'd tried had worked out well

you said a toast and you raised a glass,that all the troubled times had passed

and that was when the falling stars all fell

(chorus) now time is dragiing you behind the truck,like a muffler hanging,and it's just your luck

              there's light out there but where you just can't tell

             and the sparks are flying as your future drags,your eyes are drifting and your shoulders sag

            you're living where the falling stars all fell

now once upon another time,there was no slippery slope to climb

and heaven was just a stone's throw up from hell

now that's all gone and what you get,is a promise that will not be kept

that's what was left when the falling stars all fell

   repeat chorus

the night was still,the stars were gone,we waited in the dark til dawn

and tried to give away what wouldn't sell

we're all just prisoners of the night,we will not go,we've earned the right

to live out where the falling stars allfell....

we're living where the falling stars all fell

i was sitting in the restaurant,i wasn't hurting anyone

i was thinking about the consequences of all the things i'd done

i was folding the napkin,pushing my plate and tapping my cup with my spoon

i was losing my grip,and a bet with the man in the moon

well the waitress brought the coffee,she had a very pretty smile

i was distracted for the moment,i let the moment last awhile

but the feeling was ther and i just couldn't shake it,i knew it wouldn't leave soon

so i left her a tip and i flipped off the man in the moon

now the dreamers walk the streets and wake up to this world

and the men and women act like they're still little boys and girls

say it's venus and mars,but it's not planetary,it's more like an old favorite tune

like the one you were singing that night to the man in the moon

aw baby,if you're wondering please don't wonder anymore

no one's won or lost and sure as hell,there's no one keeping score

and back at the restaurant,the waitress is smiling,damn she lights up the room

and sends some other loser to talk to the man in the moon

yeah back at the restaurant,the waitress is smiling,damn she lights up the room

and sends some other loser to talk to the man in the moon

mama,sweet mama,what do you want me to do?

i got more time than money and i want to spend it all on you

and baby,sweet baby,i got some ideas in my head

some might get me arrested,and some might get me dead

   howlin like a dog on a full moon night,3 sheets to the wind,high as a kit

   the neighbors are calling the cops again

  and your husband is wondering where you been

aw darlin,sweet darlin,you're just like a runaway train

ain't nothin gonna stop you and nobody dares to complain

    howlin like a dog on  full moon night,3 sheets to the wind,high as a chinese kite

    the neighbors are callin 9 1 1 again

and your husband's still wonderin where you been

aw darlin,sweet darlin,you're just like a runaway train

ain't nothin gonna stop you and nbobody dares to complain

and mama,sweet mama,what do you want me to do?

i got more time than money and i want to spend it all on you

i crossed the bridge,just to see michelle

and the devil was the desk clerk in a michigan motel

and he called for the boy by ringing a bell

said he'd getit himself but he's not feeling well

  and i know you paid the devil but it's pretty hard to tell

  if you're coming or you're going,into heaven or some kind of hell

  and that great,gray fog curtain rose then it fell

 out of the blue and that was just like michelle

walking up main street feeling awful blue

looking for the woman,with the new tattoo

and her hair's all pulled back and she wears a simple dress

she's got a whole lot of sins that she needs to confess

  and i don't wear a collar but i know it must be true

  that all of the postcards i got came from you

  yeah they all came from you it was easy to tell

  on a blanket of clouds and that was just like michelle

picking up driftwood down at the shore

throwing it back into the waves once more

back to the waves as the red sun fell

off in the distance and that's just like michelle

  and i know you paid the devil but it's pretty hard to tell

  if you're coming or you're going into heaven or some kind of hell

  and that great,gray fog curtain rose then it fell

  out of the blue and that was just like michelle

i make a wish on a shotting star,i look up and there you are

i turn around to find you gone,like the line between what's right and wrong

(chorus)-samantha give your smile to me,shine your light and set me free

              smoke and waves and stars and dreams

               samantha give your smile to me

i had a dream just the other night,in life defining black and white

you were in my arms and i was laughing at a cloudy sky

(repeat chorus)

i always heard that love was blind,they used to tell me love was kind

now i know how right and wrong that was,there's no explaining what love does

(repeat chorus twice)

backing down a mountain road on a foggy night with a trailer load of dynamite that could explode

if i don't yell out cut....at the right time

holding on to nothing but the straws that weren't worth grasping at and knowing that just makes it

that much harder to feel better...without tequila every night

(chorus) but someday it won't matter,although tonight it does

             budgets just get battered,scripts the get ignored

             it's just talking ,moving pictures,that's all it ever was

             but tell that to peckinpah and ford

running thru a village with the sunlight streaming muc crashing women screaming

one hand on my mega[phone,barking orders at the frightened,pretty gitls

and since you left there's demon's there,they're all around my folding chair

offering the bottles and the powder that will kill me as i slowly lose control of my own world

(repeat chorus)

well i found out that my dad was dead,so i stuck a helmet on his head

and i strapped him to the back of my bike

we rode down to the corner bar,for a couple beers and a fine cigar

"cause that's the kind of stuff the old man like

(chiorus)-flying thru the countryside,no one's been this free

              we're just out for one more ride,my dead old man and me

well you should've seen my mother's face,half amused and half disgraced

she put another hot dish out to cool

and my sisters they were both surprised,they couldn't believe their eyes

when me and dad drove twice around the pool

(repeat chorus)

we rode until the sun was low,then we got a room with h b o

and we slept in the next mornin,cuz we could

and i'm sorry if i made the preacher nervous,but even if we'd have missed the service

i'm sure the old man would've understood

(repoeat chorus)

in a bookstore,in a corner of texas,swept under the rug of convenience

kept like a key to an old rusted padlock,you never had reason to use

in a burst in a flash of the lightning,in the brightness and breath of the morning

it comes and it goes,it ebbs and it flows

and it feels like the abilene blues

in the minutes that turned into hours,moments pressed like homecoming flowers

stolen and stashed and sometimes forgotten

and sometimes pulled out and abused

but they never get damaged completely,and somehow you hold them and lately

they call back to you but you just think it's truw

when it's really just the abilene blues

so write a book,go tell your story,about the sunlight you found in the movies

you can blame every sad broken heart on pandora

and you'd just be a little confused

'cause there's nothin to wanting it all babe,and once you've cracked open that wall safe

just take it and laugh and then break it in half

when you've stolen the abilene blues

aw they;re only the abilene blues

the sky's held hostage by the rain,there's a hammer pounding inside my brain

and all those roads still lead to rome,rome';s pretty different from my home

   yeah rome's pretty different from my home town,from the city square to the theatre in the round

   and all those road's still lead to rome,rome's pretty different ferom my home

the whitewash rolls down off the fence,and a truckload of lawyers couldn't make it all make sense

and the city streets still look the same,but they built new houses and changed the names

   yeah they built new houses and changed the names,from the hall of justice to the hall of fame

   and the city streets still look ok,that's the difference between tomorrow and yesterday

   yeah rome's pretty different from my home town,from the city square to the theatre in the round

   and all those roads still lead to rome,rome's pretty different from my home

the sky's held hostage by the rain,there's a hammer pounding inside my brain

and all those roads still lead to rome,rome's pretty different from my home

i like the way you look at me at the end of the day

and i like the way you say my name when i'm comin home after being away

and i like it when you tell me all those things you want me to know

  but baby when you hold me,that's when i love you so

  baby when you hold me tight,that's when i love you so

i like the way your eyes light up when i bring you a cup and a smoke

and i like it when you laugh out loud at all my corny jokes

and i like the things you say to me when the candle light is low

  but baby when you hold me,that's when i love you so

  baby when you hold me tight,that's when i love you so

      and i could lay fiorever holding you against my skin

      it feels like what love feels like and i never want it to end...no

i like the way your body moves when the music plays

and i like the way those dimples show when a smile crosses your face

and i like the way you show me just how far a love can go

  but baby when you hold me,that's when i love you so

  baby when you hold me tight,that's when i love you so

when i look in your eyes i see mystery

i see a road i do not know that leads to someplace i can't see

it's where the shadows go with the promises and lies

i see a flash of scarlette there when i look in your eyes

when i look in your eyes i don't know a thing

i turn from what i thought was true and i forget remembering

it lets me go to you where i am not surprised

to see a flash of scarlette there when i look in your eyes

    when i look in your eyes i'm blind to all but what i see

                 in your eyes is what i want and where i want to be

when i look in your eyes i see mystery

i see a road i do not know that leads to someplace i can't see

it';s where the shadows go with the promises and lies

i see a flash of scarlette there when i look in your eyes

don't ask me what i'm thinkin' if you don't want any bad news

nothin' about the president,no muslims and no jews

don't ask me how my day was,that stuff just makes me mad

don't ask me what i'm thinkin' and you won't hear anything bad

don't ask me how i'm doing and you won't get the wrong idea

nothin' about how i waste my time and i never come to see ya

don't ask me what i'm up to,or remind me of what i had

don't ask me what i'm thinkin' and you won't hear anything bad

    and i used to have a family and i used to have a home

    now all i feel is guilty and all i am is all alone

don't ask me where i'm livin' if you really don't want to know

you want to keep it light and pleasant well those are places i won't go

we can talk about the weather,something meaningless like that

but don't ask me what i'm thinkin' and you won't hear anything bad

yeah we can talk about the weather or something meaningless like that

but don't ask me what i'm thinkin' and you won't hear anything bad

she said i want you to talk dirty to me on the telephone

she said i like it when you say nasty things 'cause i'm here all alone

she said the nights are cold and it's gettin old i tried gettin drunk and stoned

she said i want you to talk dirty to me on the telephone

she said i want you to talk dirty to me on the telephone

she said i love it when you say my name in that whiskey baritone

she said i hate my job and i'm sick of my friends all they do is piss and moan

she said i want you to talk dirty to me on the telephone

(bridge)    she said some girls like the forearms,some girls like the rear

                  but if she had her choice she'll take a sexy voice

                    saying bad things in her ear

she said i want you to type dirty to me on the internet

she said tell me what you'd do to me use the whole alphabet

i said it's hard to type one handed when my desire is fully grown

so why don't i just talk dirty to you on the telephone

  (repeat bridge)

she said i want you to talk dirty to me on the telephone

she said c'mom,reach out and touch some one somewhere past the skin and bone

she said tell me what you're wearing doug,once more,nic eand deep and slow

she said i want you to talk dirty to me on the telephone

well you told me once that you had all the answers

you said jesus told you what you need to know

well that was in your youth,do you still think that's the truth

or did you give up tryin to find the truth long ago

i remember how you used to hold your bible

like  a shield against the people that you met

you were so afraid of sin,you wouldn't let anybody in

you just shut em out with scripture bernadette

   chorus....and bernadette you're on your knees tonight

                 tryin to convince yourself  again that black is white

                 with your mother's cross against your throat and that rosary in your hand

                  bernadette is it more than you can stand

well you told me once that nothin worldly mattered

you said we all were gonna be swept away

but that was way back when,things have kind of changed since then

you still think all you have to do is pray

    repeat chorus

well i know you'll say a prayer for me tonight

though you're sure my soul is a lost and hopeless case

if that's what you're gonna do,i just might say a prayer for you

one to lift the sadness from your face

    repeat chorus

                                                                                   Well tonight there's a beer being poured in a glass at a bar on a street in a town
There's a guy puttin' money in a Wurlitzer juke box and a tv with the volume turned down
There's a girl at the bar with flamin' red hair
She'll kiss you or kick you, man she doesn't really care
And tonight there's a beer bein' poured in a glass a t a bar on a street in a town

Well tonight there's a home bein' wrecked in an instant at a bar on a street in a town
There's a hand on a knee, a smile and a whisper and a laugh that's a little too loud
There's a girl at the bar with light in her eyes, love on her lips tellin' sweet little lies
And tonight there's a home bein' wrecked in an instant at a bar on a stret in a town
And you're sayin' somethin' it must be important, you're grabbin' my collar and pullin' me near,

The truth is pourin' from out of you're eyes and I'm listenin' but you know I can't hear…

And tonight there's a dream bein' drained from a bottle at a bar on a street in a town
There's guy on a stool, he's spent his last dollar and he's tryin' to con one more round
There's a girl at the bar with raven-dark hair
She used to be a redhead man she still gets her share
And tonight there's a dream bein' drained from a bottle at a bar on a street in a town
Yeah tonight there's a beer bein' poured in a glass at a bar on a street in a town

                                       You know the ferris wheel shut down and i just saw a clown                                                                            drinkin' Sterno and howlin' at the moon

Some teenaged girls and some old men got their weight guessed,

lost and then ran off and left the scent of cheap perfume

You know the midway is not what it used to be, it never used to smell that way to me

The ticket lady needs a shave and you think you see an early grave in her future

man she's only twenty three

And the tunnel of lust is what the sign should say but it doesn't

and you guess that's okay for breakfast she had beer and LSD

You know the carnival's not what it used to be,it never used to feel like that to me

Aw the singin' dogs , the Harmonicats ,

the lady they call Michigan Fats when she dies her coffin will be a piano crate

The music from the carousel calliopes

and you can't tell what else all blarin' some old song you hate

You know the county fair's not what it used to be,

it never smelled or felt or sounded like that to me

You know the Ferris wheel shut down

and I just saw a clown drinkin' Sterno and howlin' at the moon

Life has taken her places she never thought she'd go and fate has dealt the cards she's had to play,

tell her that she's pretty she'll smile and say she knows, buy her a drink and chances are she'll stay

Chorus:

And she might go home with you or she might pick someone else

Don't ask for explanations she doesn't know herself
Some people say she's evil but I don't think she's bad
She's just unhappy when she's happy and only happy when she's sad

Now you can see that she was beautiful about twenty years ago

and she's not afraid to tell you where she's been,

and as long as you keep buyin' then the words

and whiskey flow she doesn't think the party's ever gonna end

Repeat chorus

(bridge)

She's unhappy when she's happy but she won't admit it though
Sometimes she cries at night when she forget she's not alone
So if you're on a barstool and she sits down next to you

and lets you buy her drinks and hold her hand,

be gentle with her mister no matter what you do

'cause I don't know how much more her heart can stand

Repeat chorus

There's a blanket of snow on the frozen ground

I got no place to go so I'm hangin' around ,

lookin' for light on the dark side of town

I'm pickin' 'em up and I'm layin' 'em down

Now she's standin' there lookin' good as gold

but she won't think for herself

she'll just do what she's told ,

I'm lettin' her slip and I'm throwin' the fight

The moon is a ship on an ocean of night

Now the lessons we learn are like cash in our hand

you can squander it all or you can build and plan,

well I gambled and lost now my fortune is shot

and there's no use pretending I am what I'm not

Now she's standin' there lookin' good as gold

but she won't think for herself

she'll just do what she's told ,

I'm lettin' her slip and I'm throwin' the fight

The moon is a ship on an ocean of night

She thought she found a dream until the mornin' light broke through

But when the truth sank in she didn't know what she would do

Now she knows…there she goes…and I think she means it too

Now she's walkin' away and it looks like we're through,

I'm struck where I stand it was her road to choose,

I'm lettin' her slip and I'm throwin' the fight

The moon is a ship on an ocean of night

Don't ask me man I don't know just what it is you found

Don't ask me man I don't know just what it is you found

You're smilin' like you're not quite sure your shovel's in the ground

I stood out on the shoreline rocks and watched the waters pound

I stood out on the shoreline rocks and watched the waters pound

I called your name a hundred times and never heard a sound

Sometimes silence settles in and that's the sweetest sound

Sometimes silence settles in and that's the sweetest sound

When daylight fades away and leaves the darkness all around

So don't ask me man I don't know just what it is you found

So don't ask me man I don't know just what it is you found

You're smilin' like you're not quite sure your shovel's in the ground

You're smilin' like you're not quite sure your shovel's in the ground

You're smilin' like you're not quite sure your shovel's in the ground

The angels quit one morning, they just up and went on strike
Compensation and conditions were not what they would have liked
They flew around with picket signs and hoped to arbitrate
But when they brought their demands to the table-they found out they were too late

God fired 'em all and brought in scab angels ,yeah up from hell they came
Dealin' with the devil got him the likes of Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, Billy the Kid and Jesse James and they all got wings and haloes and they all got harps of gold
And they took over the real angels' jobs of tending mortal souls

So instead of bein' righteous it's been just wrong since then
And that explains a lot of things that have been happenin' to me and my friends
We all try to do our best but we never reach our goals
That's 'cause we've got scab angels tendin' our mortal souls

So don't think badly of me,it's not that I'm not good
But I make the turn for shouldn't and miss the turn for should
'Til I'm standin' at St. Peter's gates my story full of holes
I'll blame it on scab angels tendin' our mortal souls
You know the angels quit one mornin' they just up and went on strike
Compensation and conditions were not what they would have liked

Melanie lives in a trailer court in Terre Haute Indiana

She dreams of bein' a cover girl and all that that would give her

When Melanie's boyfriend moved away to Tuskeegee, Alabama

She cried enough tears to overflow the banks of the Wabash river

Chorus:
I don't know but I've been told it's hard to dream in Terre Haute

well I don't know that's just what I've been told

Melanie dines from her microwave in her Indiana trailer
She dances 'round the kitchen 'til the beep tells her it's done
And as she eats she wonders why in spite of all the failure
She keeps on tryin' to hold a dream that fades with the light of the sun

Repeat chorus

Bridge-And as the sun rides low, she is singin' soft and slow

and as the moon rides high she begins to cry

Melanie called me by mistake one night in mid December
She told me things she'd never told her sisters or her friends
And that was strange and I suppose it's something I'll remember
There's a story in there somewhere I'm just not sure how it ends

Repeat chorus twice

Maria doesn't like me she says that I'm too stiff
I asked her what she meant by that she just pointed at her upper lip
And then she took my rope out and dared me to get loose
My chest was in her tourniquet my neck was in her noose

Chorus:
And the past will leave you breathless and the future makes you blind
Sometimes we get so far ahead we end up far behind

Maria shoots real daggers out of both her flashin' eyes
And every time I see her man I wish I had a new disguise
But even if I had one I don't think it would help
'Cause nothin'will disguise you when you're hidin' from yourself

Repeat chorus

So I'm standin' on the corner in the middle of the street
I'm goin' 'round the square in circles and the rain's a solid sheet
I've never seen a crystal ball or read a Tarot deck so
Maybe that's the reason I don't know what happens next

Repeat chorus

One man's mirage is another man's lake-Someone's big idea can be a big mistake
I know what you're thinkin', you've had that thought When the ship was sinkin', when that war was fought
Chorus:
And one man;s nightmare can be another man's dream
You can have it all right there but then the match hits the gasoline
And it explodes in a fireball and then it's gone, gone, gone
All it leaves is darkness like just before the dawn

I had a blessin' but it didn't last-It hung like a question then it disappeared so fast
Somewhere an answer is floatin' out there lost
I never paid her so I don't know what it cost

Repeat chorus

So there it is and there it went-It feels like a fortune 'til it's all been spent
Yeah it runs like water through an open hand
And when it's just too late is when you finally understand

Repeat chorus

She was sittin' on down at Mongo's lounge she was drinkin' to forget
She put a buck and a half in the jukebox and she stared at the tv set
She's been there since 9 this mornin' they're gonna chase her out at two
She's got a hundred hard luck stories and she'll tell 'em all to you

Chorus:
She's a hard drinkin' no thinkin' queen of the bar
She's nobody's fool she'll beat you at pool she can win at dice or cards
The world could blow itself to hell but I don't think she'd change
She's pretty as a picture she's just crooked in the frame

Now she wishes she had a dollar for every time her heart got broke
She'd be a wealthy woman son and I swear that that's no joke
She'll drink you under the table then she'll crawl on down there too
The next day she'll be tellin' folks the weird stuff you made her do

Repeat chorus

Somebody's shoes in the middle of the road

They might've been dropped or they might've been thrown

They might've been tossed or they might've been hurled
They must've been lost by some boy or girl
Somebody's shoes in the mornin' sun
Two lost soles with their laces undone
How did it happen, I just don't know
But there's somebody's shoes in the middle of the road

Somebody's shirt by the A T M
Tossed in a ball by some her or him
Can't see no holes , no rips or tears
Looks like somebody left 'em a nice shirt there
Bridge-All of these clothes getting' left behind
What was he thinkin' what was on her mind
How do they explain it or don't they care
About leavin' their clothes out there
Somebody's hat and somebody's glove
Just layin' around waitin' to be picked up

Somebody somewhere is lookin' around for somethin' somebody somewhere else just found

Repeat bridge

Somebody's shoes in the middle of the road
They might've been dropped or they might've been thrown
How did it happen I just don't know
But there's somebody's shoes in the middle of the road

Strings can stretch too tight on your guitar
You play 'em for a while and then they snap and there you are
They're unpleasant but necessary things
Broken strings, broken strings

And strings can stretch too tight in the human heart
You jump too far too fast and you get stopped before you start
It's clear until they move the openings
Broken strings, broken strings

And once the strands unravel you can't tie 'em up again
Like once a road's been traveled it's just someplace that you've been
In life and love we often find the catch
Is sometimes even paradise can come with strings attached
Just one long line of rude awakenings

Broken strings, broken strings
It's clear until they move the openings
Broken strings, broken strings
They're unpleasant but necessary things
Broken strings, broken strings

Ya got me nervous, you're makin' me sweat, ya got me shakin'

and you haven't even touched me yet-I don't know what I'm gonna do

You keep lookin' at me and I'll get a crush on you

You're drinkin' vodka with a girl named Sheila think I'll step outside

and throw up all that tequila-I'll try to keep it off my shoe

You keep drinkin' with me and I'll get a crush on you

You just keep talkin' you do that pretty good,

you're the best talker in the neighborhood well many are called - We're the chosen few

You keep talkin' to me and I'll get a crush on you

I'm not a young man I've seen it all but somethin' about her had me on my knees

and out in the hall - I grew wings I up and flew

You're makin' me old but I still got a crush on you

Somewhere the sun is shinin' on a dirty garbage can somewhere a guy is cryin'

baby the guy who used to be your old man - I know why that guy is blue

That's how I'm gonna feel 'cause I've got a crush on you

I don't know where I'd be without your love, maybe in some crowded bus station
Holdin' a ticket in my hand, in line to find a destination
And I don't know where I'd be without your love

I don't know where I'd be without your love, maybe in some barroom drinkin' poison
Talkin' trash and singin' all night long.actin' bad for no good reason
And I don't know where I'd be without your love

And I don't know where I'd stand or how I could stand myself
If it wasn't for your love, babe I'd be too far gone to help
And I don't know where I'd be without your love, prob'ly in some screwed up situation
Holdin' a promise in my hand, in line to find a destination
And I don't know where I'd be without your love

I took a walk, I walked to her door, Knocked once or twice and then I knocked some more,

She didn't answer I know she's inside, I sat down on her steps and I cried

I got nothin' if I ain't got my pride

I'd be just a hollow man with nothin' inside, leave me my dignity, I'd be satisfied

I got nothin' if I ain't got my pride

I go around and I tried the back way, I heard laughin' then I heard a guy say

"We didn't order no pizza, no burgers or fries" and then I heard some moanin' and a couple of sighs

I got nothin' if I ain't got my pride

I'd be just a hollow man with nothing inside, leave me my dignity I'd be satisfied

I got nothin' if I ain't got my pride

So I climbed on the roof and I slid down the chimney,

Caught 'em both in a clinch but that didn't convince me,

I said "baby I love you, take me back please" and she said

"not if you beg me, Doug get off of your knees"

I got nothin' if I ain't got my pride

I'd be just a hollow man with nothin' inside, leave me my dignity I'd be satisfied

I got nothin' if I ain't got my pride

Down the road and up the street when he was a younger man
He met a girl with a smile so sweet it would melt him where he'd stand
While he was busy meltin' she was busy meltin' too
She lost her soul he lost his self control and then they said "I do"

Chorus : And they cried so hard they had to laugh and then they laughed so hard they cried
Now she is his bitter half they're in hell but they haven't died
They're in hell but they haven't died

You see it in the photographs but you could hardly tell
They were weaving slightly off the path 'cause she could hide it well
While she was busy hidin' he was busy thinkin' hard
How he could run around the whole wide world and never leave his yard

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So that was then and now it's come to this she's disillusioned too
She's lookin' in the mirror and she's seein' how the years just flew
She's thinkin' that the money won't keep her warm at night
He knows what she's thinkin' and he knows that she's right

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There' lightnin' in the distance I hear the thunder rollin' low
Yeah there's lightnin' in the distance baby, I hear the thunder rollin' low
And I'm waitin' for Miranda, there's storm that's comin' though

The wind is howlin' murder, and the rain cuts like a knife
Yeah the wind is howlin' bloody murder baby, and the rain cuts like a knife
And I'm waitin' for Miranda, seems like I've been waitin' half my life

Well the moon is just a memory; clouds have swallowed up the sky
Yeah the moon is just a memory baby; clouds have swallowed up the sky
And I'm waitin' for Miranda; I'm feelin' black as this night

You got me walkin' on eggshells; you got me watchin' my step
It's a thin rope over the pits off hell and even the devil is holdin' his breath
Even the devil is holdin' his breath

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But don't ask me if I love you, don't wonder if my heart is true
You oughta know that I love you so
'Cause you always tell me I do, you always tell me I do

You got me walkin' the wire; you got me toein' the line
You got the eyes that spit smoke and fire, and I guess that's all well and fine
Yeah I guess that's all well and fine

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You got me walkin' in circles, you got me doin' a dance
You got me backed in a corner babe, and you got me convinced it's romance
You got me convinced it's romance

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Chorus:

She's still in jail again and love won't share the cot
They slapped the handcuffs on her in the Beach Club parking lot
I only try to love her every now and then
But romance don't have no chance 'cause she's still in jail again

Well I wish my baby hadn't run that red light,
And I wish her driver's license hadn't expired
And I wish she hadn't drank that case of Bud Lite
Before drivin' to the bar on squealin' tires
And when she cashed that rubber check I got real nervous
And I panicked when she asked to run a tab
Well she's guilty and I know that she deserves this
But judge my baby's not really wild when she's sober she's not bad

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Well I wish my baby hadn't broke that bottle
And held it to the bouncer's tremblin' throat
'Cause maybe then the bartender would not have called the cops
When she pulled that stolen gun from beneath her coat
And I wish she hadn't told the cop to do that
Hell it's physically impossible anyway
And I hope they called for back-up and a swat team
Before my baby steals a squad car and d rives into the lake

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