it s that ole devil called love again gets behind me and keeps giving me that shove again putting rain in my eyes tears in my dreams and rocks in my heart it s that sly ole sun of a gun again he keeps telling me that i m the lucky one again but i still have that rain still have those tears and those rocks in my heart suppose i didn t stay and ran away wouldn t play that devil what a potion he would brew he d follow me around build me up tear me down till i d be so bewildered i wouldn t know what to do might as well give up the fight again i know darn well he ll convince me that he s right again when he sings that siren song i just gotta tag along with that ole devil called love he d follow around build me up tear me down till i d be so bewildered i wouldn t know what to do

night and day you are the one only you neath the moon or under the sun whether near to me or far it s no matter darling where you are i think of you day and night night and day why is it so that this longin for you follows wherever i go in the roarin traffic s boom in the silence of my lonely room i think of you day and night night and day under the hide of me there s an oh such a hungry yearnin burnin inside of me and its torment won t be through til you let me spend my life makin love to you day and night night and day night and day you are the one only you neath the moon or under the sun whether near to me or far it s no matter baby where you are i think of you day and night night and day why is it so that this longin for you follows wherever i go in the roarin traffic s boom silence of my lonely room i think of you day and night night and day under the hide of me there s an oh such a hungry burning inside of me and its torment won t be through til you let me spend life makin love to you day and night night and day3

wake up it s over again the day s getting colder head aches my mind breaks kicked the covers on the floor downstairs they re laughing everybody s seeming happy i say it s too early to smile i haven t done that in a while cause i can t see your face any longer not a trace any longer i can t hide i m not laughing anymore i can t be who you wanted me to be who you wanted me to see i don t know now what s in store anymore flashbacks of times past i would just forget to make it last turning on the lights i m waiting nothing seems to be changing books are on the desk blank papers every sign of life just seems to taper cause i can t see your face any longer not a trace any longer i can t hide i m not laughing anymore i can t be who you wanted me to be who you wanted me to see i don t know now what s in store oh hear me out nothing s gonna break nothing s gonna break me down me down nothing s gonna take nothing s gonna take me out oh

dream life outcries standby allies poolside childlike downside goodbyes sympathetic tones don t match a sympathetic lie so darling don t leave fix me you re my only entrance i m just looking an exit from my real life meantime is my saving grace while i m just looking for your face amongst the deadbeats back streets stories tell me child brides pigsties thick ties unwise don t just hold each other back i m clearing up my path so darling don t leave fix me you re my only entrance i m just looking an exit from my real life meantime is my saving grace while i m just looking for your face inside the crowd i m so sorry i apologize in advance we were never friends i didn t mean to hurt you yet again i don t mean my cruelty it s just the poetry you were looking for so darling don t leave save me you re my only exit i m just looking an entrance to my real life meantime is my saving grace while i m just looking for your face inside the crowd

shanandoah how long will i miss you tonight you re far away as the kentucky moon and i know you hold a secret of mine or two tonight little darlin my heart s with you wabash between us felt the cannon ball blues maybe i really did see the light halfway to heaven s fine but i could not be sure halfway isn t all there ever was but i know you hold a secret of yours or two tonight little darlin my heart s with you there s just so much a man can miss and just no end to what he can regret and i m holdin on to whatever hope shows through and tonight little darlin my heart s with you tonight little darlin my heart s with you

cool me cool my fever high hold me when i cry i need it so much makes you want to get down and crawl like a beggar for its touch and all the while it s free as air like plants the medicine is everywhere love love love we crave it so badly makes you want to laugh out loud when you receive it and gobble it like a candy we think it s easy sometimes it s easy but it s not easy you re going to break down and cry we re not important we should be grateful and if you re wondering why love love love the price that we pay when evil walks the planet and love is crushed like clay the master races the chosen people the burning temple the weeping cathedrals

simple to see where we come from harder is where we are that s the core of the treason the promise is never the answer well why do you need to know there ain t a rhyme or a reason try to stay in the season passion is feeling in motion compassion is standing still this isn t just a vocation hearing is letting it happen but to listen s a work of will beware of cheap imitations thankful for small revelations just as heavy the hammer hard is the harder stone harder still is the notion come here and tell me you love me or just leave my heart alone most of the will is the motion most of the rest is devotion

i don t talk to haters i need a translator annita baker i give you the best i got i used to wear pagers double my paper give me an hour meet me at the howard johnson five pounds of mid thought we was major five pounds of haze thought that we made it i know bout my money don t know bout no faker i grew in rodeo blowing jamaica i m running the city i might run for mayor ran into your bitch and that shit was a layup i got to hustle its no time to lay up no time no wait up i know that you hate us its no time to worry no time to stop you know we not stopping cause we want it all i used to cop a pound then break it down with my niggas i need a couple mil to pass around to my niggas we so for real so please don t play around with my niggas i can t force it i can t fake it that s the way we are i do me and you do you unless they way apart you tryna to be somebody else and i just play my part and i can t be no one but me that s just the way we are and i ain t read no script that s just the way we are i can t make up none of this shit that s just the way we are i ve been that nigga fore all this that s just the way we are i ve been had work i ve been had bitches that s the way we when you move up like george they talk down for sure i cop galore and make sure we score i smoke like i m rich for the days we was poor the days had mid when we was ignored now your shorty record every time we record my neck is wow we never reform i used to trap til like 6 in the morn now i smoke an l and i lay in the lawn stress free on the best weed i m so gone i m so high got to hang glide to come get me catch me where them checks be got nike i mean benji not a little i need plenty she got a little butt but she sexy i m a little drunk so don t tempt me cause i slam dunk in that pussy i slam dunk in that pussy i slam dunk in that pussy i can t force it i can t fake it that s the way we are i do me and you do you unless they way apart you tryna to be somebody else and i just play my part and i can t be no one but me that s just the way we are and i ain t read no script that s just the way we are i can t make up none of this shit that s just the way we are i ve been that nigga fore all this that s just the way we are i ve been had work i ve been had bitches that s the way we are i can t force it i can t fake it that s the way we are that s the way we are i ve been had work i ve been had bitches that s the way we are that s the way we are i can t force it i can t fake it that s the way we are i do me and you do you unless they way apart you tryna to be somebody else and i just play my part and i can t be no one but me that s just the way we are and i ain t read no script that s just the way we are i can t make up none of this shit that s just the way we are i ve been that nigga fore all this that s just the way we are i ve been had work i ve been had bitches that s the way we are

always and forever each moment with you is just like a dream to me that somehow came true and i know tomorrow will still be the same cause we got a life of love that won t ever change and everyday love me your own special way melt all my heart away with a smile take time to tell me that you really care and we ll share tomorrow together i ll always love you forever ever ever ever there ll always be sunshine when i look at you it s something i can t explain just the things that you do if you get lonely call me and take a second to give to me that magic you make and everyday love me your own special way melt all my heart away with a smile take time to tell me you really care and we ll share tomorrow together ooh baby i ll always love you forever1

oh the way you looking like you own the room yeah you do it so well that i can t tell if it s okay to take you home with me if just for tonight or the rest our lives i will take my time to show you how you re always on my mind so can you take off that brown shirt so i can get to know you better you ve got me wrapped around your finger you ve got me wrapped around your finger every time i close my eyes i pray for night time to take me home and the clouds in the sky lit up by moonlight are my only guide to take me home if just for tonight or the rest our lives i will take my time to show you how you re always on my mind so can you take off that brown shirt so i can get to know you better you ve got me wrapped around your finger you ve got me wrapped around your finger so stand up or sit down you always had a funny way of not knowing what to do and oh it seems to mean much more when you you bat your eyes and tell me the truth but if you listen to the sound of my heart beat you know you can truly tell the feeling that you get when our eyes meet it s something more than you ve ever felt the night is over all the lights are out just you and i in this empty house we ve got so much time we ve got so much time so step back and never let go your voice is the only thing that guides me home so step back and never let go cause it s something i just thought that you should know

i m sick of chasing after things i d rather them chase after me keeping up is bound to wear me down there s a million ways to skin a cat i ve put my choices in a hat picked a few and threw the bad ones out i know now so if you want me you d better knock me down cause i ain t easy and this ain t hallowed ground i ve been thinking about ol cain and able sitting at a breakfast table talking about the way things used to be well able looked at cain and said all that shit was in your head i d like to think that cain was hard to please i know now so if you want me you d better knock me down cause i ain t easy and this ain t hallowed ground she said no one loves you more than me i looked at her she looked at me i think she s waiting for me to believe i wish that love was all it took i d fall into you if i could hoping for a graceful recovery but i know now so if you want me you d better knock me down cause i ain t easy oh and this ain t hallowed ground

choices are made between truth and lies there s no question of the choice you ve made i see it in your eyes take your time just be still listen to the wind blow through the trees feel the rain on the window sill it feels right i can t be wrong why did i ever let it go why did i let it go so long i am wild and i am free lord it seems you always wanted that for me i m filled with love to the point i m springin leaks i m makin choices findin a little at a time the choice was always mine time and again our paths collide and i m still seein all the sadness that you haven t left behind it still haunts you that s clear as hell with all your demons floatin round you ve made a coward of yourself yeah but that s not me so i must be gone i have no time for feelin sorry for you i ll write it in a song i am wild and i am free lord it seems you always wanted that for me i m filled with love to the point i m springin leaks i m makin choices findin a little at a time the choice was always mine yeah i am wild and i am free lord it seems you always wanted that for me i m filled with love to the point i m springin leaks i m makin choices finding a little at a time the choice was always mine the choice was always mine

talk to me and tell me what you think of all these stars i know it s hard for you to find the time to come this far but i m glad that you do and i m glad that i do too because i know i ll feel fine when i m with you tell me once again just how long has it been it s alright cause we got time right now to sit and talk and dream and walk to wherever our path begins and i know that i ll see you again because with us there s no end you and i have had good times that no one can erase i can t recall a time that we found hard to face you tell me that the stars are nice but they re not what s in your heart it s for the people that you love that you come this far

that same moon that we watched so many nights still hangs in the august sky my rear view mirror is still slanted to the side from when i could look in it and see your eyes everything just keeps on driftin by like a tube on that river you and i and the only thing that i can t clearly see is why you left texas and me every time that i play this old guitar i wish i was still playin it for you i still can t think about that dusty hill country without feelin just a little blue and i knew just lookin at you my rear view would only show me the back of my seat in the days to come but these days just take forever i can t believe this month is over and you just keep slippin further away

relax relax make your mind make your mind with me with me verse 1 i m on my way home bout to hit the exit do you need sum n coz i know you had a long day do you miss me coz i miss you and that sexy lil thing you make your lips do way your hips move keep me thinkin bout the love i wanna give to you you deserve the world if i could give it stars will come to you and ask permission to shine coz only you shine chorus and tonight i got ur neck shoulders back baby i mma touch on all that once i pull in the garage once i hope up out the car i m gon relieve your stress yes baby fall back tonight i m gon be workin all that loose the panties and the bra i mma start with the massage from your head to your toes massage verse 2 ooh ooh girl cut off the tv ooh ooh ooh get the room ready for me pull the shades down turn the lights low i mma get the oil and the towel i m so close i m almost bout to turn the corner down of our road fact i m in the drive way now you deserve you deserve the world if i could give it stars will come to you and that s permission to shine coz only you shine chorus tonight i got ur neck shoulders back baby i mma touch on all that once i pull in the garage once i hope up out the car i m gon relieve your stress yes baby fall back tonight i m gon be workin all that loose the panties and the bras i mma start with the massage bridge from your head to your toes girl i promise i would gooo from your toes to your neck baby scream if you need more i m gon take my time rub it up and down all night just let me go where you want my hands i mma put em on ya anywhere they land baby let me warn you now once i lay you down promise you gon feel it from ya chorus neck shoulders back baby i mma touch on all that once i pull in the garage once i hope up out the car i m gon relieve your stress yes baby fall back tonight i m gon be workin all that loose the panties and the bra i mma start with the massage from your head to your toes from your toes to your neck just relax lay your body back give u a massage

it was only last june when her old man ran away she couldn t stop crying cause she knew he was gone to stay it was 10 35 on a lonely friday night she was standin by the bar hmm she was lookin alright yeah i asked if she wanted to dance and she said all she wanted was a good man and wanted to know if i thought i was qualified yeah and i said baby don t waste your time i know what s on your mind i may be qualified for a one night stand but i could never take the place of your man it hurt me so bad when she told me with tears in her eyes he was all she ever had and now she wanted to die he left her with a baby and another one on the way she couldn t stop cryin cause she knew he was gone to stay she asked me if we could be friends and i said oh honey baby that s a dead end you know and i know that we wouldn t be satisfied and i said baby don t waste your time i know what s on your mind i may be qualified for a one night stand but i could never take the place of your man

here comes the music my head up in the clouds my feet so far up off the ground i wonder whether or not you know i m high as a kite and i just might f f fill my appetite of letting you go i find her pants next to my bed and under there my photograph of you and my window i think i m gon be late i said we d meet at half past 8 i ll drink my tea and i ll go i wonder wide away through your door it s no mistake for under old broken bones is a story and you re bleeding me them reasons time we ve all commited treason trying to keep it sinful coz i m a little bit fired at the thought and in the night i fought the red sea in my home town by hand this ain t gonna change and you re eyes they used to blind me lookin to other worlds this one s looking grim never ever ever nooo i never seen the light like that before smoke i never had it better than the lead with the soakin too many green moon that never be closin over priced pills like a homie s selling baby you copin i be on focus in the opus damn we re the dopest i make it rain more than any fucker hopin call it i m open curling a vaper round an old tin ropin tacitly noted lyal in my gold you should be jokin i meant that she copin i always supposed to be a draem about smokin in trying to let you know whether or not you go i ve been trying to let you know

down down down down be doo be doo down down down down be doo be doo he lives in my neighborhood when he walks by he looks so good want to get to know him wish that i could show him i want to love him so bad you know it s drivin me mad cause when i look in his eyes i can see it paradise so i can t help it i want to love him so bad i know his name his name is jim i can t be blamed for lovin him i could make him happy if he d only let me i could make him happy if he d only let me down down down down be doo be doo

i ve been having nightmares again and waking up and trying to pretend that you re still here and he s not gone and no one lost i drank my humor and my beauty away so sweetly lying you tell me that you love me and it s gonna be okay you ve been getting cigarettes again and you won t even try to pretend that the shaking in your jaw and spine will turn out fine well i hope you re happy cause i m not the girl i used to be you save yourself from you then grab me i drank my humor and my beauty away so sweetly lying you tell me that you love me and it s gonna be okay just rest a while and care for hysteria and sadness for genius i m not your baby i m not so crazy all your sweet talking is why i got done pull the trigger come undone it s hard to swallow you can t take lungs to half as much as me i am not the only one and you are not the only one i drank my humor and my beauty away so sweetly lying you tell me that you love me and it s gonna be okay

cry and fight the devil is out tonight swim with all your might but you re just out of time if it means nothing i m gonna say it again you know that i can lie with my eyes closed but it feels good to tell you everything i know you know i ll follow you wherever you go there are some places that a human ghost can follow wound so tight you can t even start the night so do whatever you like because you ll never let me be right if it means nothing and it means nothing i ll give you everything i ve got and what i ve got is not a lot you know that talking over you s just not my style so baby give it a while