Do What You Do
Written by Angelo & Georgia Middleman
Slow down, that's right
Give it all you got
Yeah, you got the right stuff
Kick back, let go
Trust yourself to know
Yeah what you got is good enough
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Hey, don't give them what they think they want
'Cause they don't have a clue
Yeah, if you really wanna give 'em something different
Something to sink their teeth into
Well baby, then you just do what you do
All eyes, were on Alice
They laughed and made her cry
Yeah she was a little different
But, hey you know what?
She found a way to fly
You see Alice, she got her strength from the inside
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The cost of living just went up today
(As) Soon as you started doing things your way
You'll be shaking 'em off your coattails from every side
They'll be trying to catch that free ride
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Do what you do, yeah
Do what you do
Yeah yeah yeah yeah Yeah yeah yeah...
Anything's Better Than Feelin' The Blues
Written by Matraca Berg & Randy Scruggs
I send myself a dozen roses
Right before the office closes
Just to make my girlfriends green with envy
Ever since I lost you
All the crazy things I do I didn't even know I had it in me...
Oh but
Hey, it's alright It's just another Saturday night
Got nobody...got no nothin' to lose
I'm gonna get dressed up go downtown
Spread a little misery around
Anything's better than feelin' the blues
Found a restaurant on my way
(I) Told 'em it was my birthday
Just to hear the waiter sing off-key
Sprung a loose wire...that's a fact
Got a strange little monkey on my back
But I kinda like the company..
And I guess
Hey, it's alright It's just another Saturday night
Got nobody...got no nothin' to lose
I'm gonna get dressed up go downtown
Dance the little monkey around
Anything's better than feelin' the blues
Hey, it's alright It's just another Saturday night
Got nobody...got no nothin' to lose
I'm gonna get dressed up go downtown
Live it up and never live it down
Anything's better than feelin' the blues
Anything's better than feelin' the blues
I Love You
Written by Tammy Hyler, Adrienne Follese & Keith Follese
The sun is shinin' everyday
Clouds never get in the way for you and me
I've known you just a week or two
But baby I'm so into you
Can hardly breathe
And I'm in so totally
Wrapped up emotionally
Attracted so physically
Actin' so recklessly
I need you so desperately
Sure as the sky is blue
Baby, I love you,
I never knew that I could feel like this
Can hardly wait till our next kiss
You're so cool
If I'm dreaming please don't wake me up
Cause baby I can't get enough
Of what you do
And I'm in so electrically
Charged up kinetically
Actin' erratically
Need you fanatically
You get to me magically
Sure as the sky is blue
Baby, I love you
I can't believe that this is real, the way I feel
Baby I'm gone head over heals
And I'm in so totally
Wrapped up emotionally
Attracted so physically
Actin' so recklessly I need you so desperately
Sure as the sky is blue (Yeah)
And I'm in so electrically
Charged up kinetically
Actin' eratically
Need you fanatically
You get to me magically
Sure as the sky is blue
Baby, I love you
Baby, I love you
Do you love me too
Baby, I love you
Make Me Believe
Written by James Leblanc & Don Srygley
(I'm still waiting...)
Tell me you love me and make me feel it
Convince me that your heart is true
Don't say you need me if you really don't mean it
'Cause boy I ain't nobody's fool, yeah
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Baby I'm trying to find a place inside your heart
Oh but it's hard to start a fire without a spark
If you wanna be the man that rocks me to my knees
Baby just make me believe
('Cause I'm still waiting...)
very night I bring you all my broken pieces
But you just put them on your shelf
Tell me why you put this wall between us
And keep your reasons to yourself, ah...
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You say you feel the same but my heart's full of doubt
You say you'll find the time
So we can work it out (But I'm still waiting...)
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Love's The Only House
Written by Tom Douglas & Buzz Cason
I was standing in the grocery store line
The one they marked express
When this woman came though with about 25 things
And I said don't you know that more is less
She said this world is moving so fast I just get more behind everyday
And every mornin' when I make my coffee
I can't believe my life's turned out this way
All I could say was
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Love's the only house big enough for all the pain in the world
Love's the only house big enough for all the pain
He was walking by the other day and I said
Hey baby...how you been?
Yeah, I got me a little girl now and she's 4 years old
And she's got her daddy's little grin
You only wanted what you can't have
And baby you can't have me now I gave my heart to another
Yeah I'm a mother
And he's a father and we're a family and we got each other
And I found out the hard way that
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You drive three miles from all this prosperity
Down across the river and you see a ghetto there
An' We got children walking around with guns
And they got knives and drugs and pain to spare
And here I am in my clean, white shirt,
With a little money in my pocket and a nice warm home
And we got teenagers walking around in a culture of darkness
Living together alone...all I could say is
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And I can't explain it, and I can't understand
But I'll come down and get my hands dirty and together we'll make
a stand
Somewhere 'cross the parking lot, some bands playin' out of tune
City streets are gonna burn if we don't do something soon
Senorita can't quit crying, baby's due now any day
Don Juan left, got sick of trying...no one there to show him the
way
She came down to the grocery store and
She said I, I wanna buy a little carton of milk, but I don't have
any money
I said Hey I'll cover you honey, cause the pain's gotta go somewhere
Yeah the pains gotta go someplace...
So come on down to my house
Don't ya know that
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There You Are
Written by Mark D. Sanders, Bob Dipiero & Ed Hill
There you are in the early light of day
There you are in the quiet words I pray
I've been blessed by the simple happiness
Of the perfect love we've made
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Every time I turn around
When I'm lost and when I'm found
Like an angel standing guard
There you are
Every time I take a breath
And when I forget to breathe
You're watching over me
There you are
When I'm looking for the light In the middle of the night
Searching for the brightest star
There you are
There you are standing in a crowded room
There you are, the earth and I'm the moon
My desire is to stand by the fire
That burns inside of you
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When I'm looking for the light in the middle of the night
Searching for the brightest star
There you are
There you are
There you are
It's My Time
Written by Billy Crain, Tammy Hyler & Kim Tribble
Red sun setting on the road behind her
A hundred miles out of her hometown
Drops a quarter in a beat up pay phone
Listens to it rattle on down
Voice's cold as the phone she's holding
The connection's way to clear
He's yelling where's my dinner
She's too far gone to care
She says listen here
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T here's a time to stand, and the time is now or never
Time to fly, a time to let go forever
Time to grow, and a time to discover
Life is precious, every second
You've wasted mine and it's my time
She puts a few more miles between them
He pours a distance of his own
Starts talking to the bottle It's all that's left now that she's
gone
He rages on 'till the national anthem
Comes on his tv
Then he looks straight at the bottle
Says you did this to me
And then he screams
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It's my time, it's my time, it's my time
And time is what you make it
It's my time, it's my time, it's my time
And time is what you're taking
I Ain't Goin' Nowhere
Written by Tia Sellers & Mark D. Sanders
When the world is on your shoulders
Just too much to bear
Boy my love can make you stronger
I ain't going nowhere
When your followin' all the rules
But life just won't play fair
Come to me and we'll roll with the punches
I ain't goin' no where
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By your side by your side day and night I will be always
There's a place in my heart in my heart
Just for you always
I ain't going nowhere I ain't going nowhere
I can't guarantee that your dreams
Won't fade into thin air
But as sure as I'm livin', breathin'
I ain't going nowhere
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But straight to you
No one else will do
My love will shine right though your rain I will lift you up,
I will lift you up
I will lift you up
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I ain't goin' nowhere
I ain't goin' nowhere
I ain't goin' nowhere (By your side by your side always) (I ain't
goin' nowhere)
I ain't goin' nowhere (By your side by your side always) (I ain't
goin' nowhere)
Anything And Everything
Written by Gordon Kennedy, Wayne Kirkpatrick & Billy
Mann
What do you dream about?
Look at the stars, honey
All you gotta do is pick one out
And it's there for you I'll be the one who makes
Your every dream come true
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Close your eyes and baby
Make a wish and baby
I'll give you anything and everything
The sky's the limit and my heart is in it
I'll give you anything and everything
Anything and everything Where do you want to go?
Look at the world, baby
All you gotta do is just say so
And I'll take you there
Oh yeah, you know that
Love can take you anywhere
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I could spoil you
Make it easy
Make you happy if you let me
Won't you let me
I'll be the one who makes your every dream come true
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From The Ashes
Written by Hillary Lindsey & Austin Cunninghan
My right hand holds matches
My left holds my past I hope the wind catches
And burns it down fast I'm gonna step into the fire
With my failures and my shame
And wave goodbye to yesterday
As I dance among the flames
So
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Don't try to save me now
Let the walls of my world all burn down
Just stand back and wait 'til the smoke finally passes
And I will rise
From the ashes
From the ashes
From the ashes
For all that I'm losing
Much more will I gain
The hard part is choosing
To change what needs changed
My step will be much lighter
With these demons off my chest
I'm born a better spirit
And lay the old to rest
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I'll walk away stronger
I will be flyin'
Higher and truer
Than I've flown before
My right hand holds matches
My left holds my past
I hope the wind catches
And burns it down fast
Good Bye
Written by Patty Griffin
Occurred to me the other day
You've been gone now a couple years
Well I guess it takes a while
For someone to really disappear
And I remember where I was
When the word came about you
It was a day much like today
The sky was bright and wide and blue
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And I wonder where you are
And if the pain ends when you die
And I wonder if there was
Some better way to say goodbye
Today my heart is big and sore
It's trying to push right through my skin
Won't see you anymore I guess that's finally sinking in
Cause you can't make somebody see
With the simple words you say
All their beauty from within
Sometimes they just look away
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Some better way to say goodbye
This Uncivil War
Written by Gretchen Peters
There's a silence on the front lines
You can cut it with a knife
You can stay and take your chances
Or you can run to save your life
One side is retreating
And the other's runnin' scared
And the drums of war are beating
Even though it's undeclared.
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And both sides say they're winning
And both sides know they're losing
And neither one knows what they're fightin' for
And in the quiet little places
You can see the little faces
Huddled right outside the bedroom door
Praying for an end to this uncivil war.
Papa needs a new job
So he's swallowing his pride
Oh, but it don't go down easy
And it eats him up inside
And Mama, she don't notice
Little sister's ragged dress
Lately she don't notice
Much of anything I guess
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They're just fightin' off the hunger
Trying to keep from going under
But the wolves just keep on
Gatherin' 'round the door
There's no place to run for cover
So they're turning on each other
'Cause there really ain't no winners anymore
Just victims in this uncivil war.
There's a silence on the front lines
You can cut it with a knife
You can stay and take your chances
Or you can run to save your life
For The Love Of A Woman
Written by Tyler Castleton & Staci Peters
For the love of a woman
A man unlock his heart
And reveals all the secrets it holds
And the love of a woman
Will find a better part
When he gives her the key to her soul
He will listen to her dreams
He will ask her what she needs
He will help her build the life she wants to live
He will hold her when she cries
With a love that never dies
All these things he will give
For the love of a woman
For the love of a woman
A man will sacrifice
While he waits for a moment of grace
With the love of a woman
A man will pay the price
For the trust that he sees in her face
He will open any door
Leave the life he knew before
To convince her that she's all she'll ever need
And when he's afraid to start
He will step into the dark
'Cause he knows she'll give his eyes the power to see
With the love of a woman
And he promises to help her dreams come true
No there's nothing in this world that he won't do
Though he's not a work of art
He will try with all his heart
To become the man she knows
That he can be with
The love of a woman
He will give his love
For the love of a woman |
