adam it s mama i was just callin to check on ya love you bye i ve been meanin to call you but i ve been busy it s been crazy between work and classes i barely have time to sleep i meant to tell ya thanks for the 50 that you mailed me for my birthday it ll come in handy in panama city next week yeah we ll have a good time and be careful don t worry about me well i know i don t call you near enough it s alright don t be tearin up just know i m out here doin fine and you re always on my mind i ve been meanin to call you you won t believe it i finally found her i bet you started wonderin if i d end up alone you re gonna love her she s the daughter of a preacher a third grade teacher she s the closest thing to perfect i swear i ve ever known are you free on friday i d love to bring her back home well i know i don t call you near enough it s alright don t be tearin up just know i m out here doin fine and you re always on my mind i ve been meanin to call you she lost her first tooth she said to tell you that the tooth fairy left a whole dollar right by her bed last week she drew a picture of grandpa fishin in heaven no i still don t think she understands can t imagine how quiet that house is with him gone mama i promise i ll call more often from now on i ve been meanin to call you i ve been meanin to call you oh i ve been meanin to call you1

i know that i should turn around settle up take the last one down but neon words are shining got me sharing my last cigarette with you and the hell if i go home i know that i should be the one to end this now and cut this off but i m buying your bullshit and you re drunk on every line i m selling you so the hell if i go home ooh i know that i should leave we re both better off alone ooh don t leave it up to me i can t do this on my own no so darling bless your soul cause the hell if i go home we ll talk this into something fast as something leads to nothing and nothing gets you running like a sober waking up in someone s bed but the hell if i go home ooh i know that i should leave we re both better off alone ooh don t leave it up to me i can t do this on my own no so darling bless your soul cause the hell if i go home i know that i should go and i know you know it too but leaving isn t easy unless i m leaving here with you ooh i know that i should leave we re both better off alone ooh don t leave it up to me i can t do this on my own no so darling bless your soul cause the hell if i go home and ooh so darling bless your soul cause the hell if i go home

can you hear my voice from the bottom can you hear how scared it sounds scared that there s no coming out scared you re too far down i m terrified and tangled up if i don t make it through please don t mistake this for giving up on you cause how i wish i could hold your whole world on my shoulders put out the fires you lit in your living hell and sometimes love can keep a long lost songbird it kills me to say this but you ll have to save yourself mmmmmm is the old you in that body is he hiding scared and lost if he s listening then i love you boy and i forgive for all you ve done but the truth is i can t watch you drown i ve done all i can do please don t mistake this for giving up on you oh cause how i wish i could hold your whole world on my shoulders put out the fires you lit in your living hell and sometimes love can keep a long lost songbird it kills me to say this but you ll have to save yourself don t leave when you haven t lived life here first my prayers up to heaven and my head s turned cause how i wish i could hold your whole world on my shoulders put out the fires you lit in your living hell and sometimes love can keep a long lost songbird it kills me to say this it s killing me to say this but you ll have to save yourself you ll have to save yourself mmmmmm

how d your really think this phone call would go i m just sayin you re gonna wish i didn t pick up at all i almost left it ringin i was gonna let you squall at the tone but then i got to thinkin there s a few more things you should know girl like for instance next time it s 3 am and you ve got tequila blues you re wishin i was him remember i m glad she ain t you these calls just waste my minutes don t even dial my digits me and you are finished babe that bed you made keep sleepin in it what d you really think i d say if we talked come on now be honest no wait i almost forgot you ain t familiar with the process if conversation s what you want well darlin now you ve got it so before it s time for hanging up i m making sure you got that next time it s 3 am and you ve got tequila blues you re wishin i was him remember i m glad she ain t you these calls just waste my minutes don t even dial my digits me and you are finished babe that bed you made keep sleepin in it i think she s starting to wake up so before she does just know that next time it s 3 am and you ve got tequila blues you re wishin i was him just give up that wish won t come true these calls just waste my minutes don t even dial my digits me and you are finished babe that bed you made keep sleepin in it that bed you made keep sleepin in it yeah how d you really think this phone call would go i m just saying

girl i might be wrong but i think i know what s wrong with you saw the way that phone tricked you and the way the song hit you so you re missin him huh what s he done with you did you do somethin wrong or was it all him i don t mean to pry know it s none of my business l ve just been in the same position and got a little wisdom if you got a little bit of time to listen first step we can skip cause the first step s drinkin and you got that locked down the second step gettin over him is gettin knocked out slow dancin with a total stranger girl i swear it makes the pain hurt less and oh maybe it ll come back later but you won t feel it in the time that s spent spinnin and swayin around the truth that s been troublin you playin pretend you put it in the past i could tell someone you love fell out of love with you girl take these teardrops and put them on my tab girl don t get me wrong not tryna take you home with me don t care if you don t kiss me you can buy your own whiskey but why be alone when you can be alone with me he might just walk on in and catch you lookin so pretty slow dancin with a total stranger girl i swear it makes the pain hurt less and oh maybe it ll come back later you won t feel it in the time that s spent spinnin and swayin around the truth that s been troublin you playin pretend you put it in the past i could tell someone you love fell out of love with you girl take these teardrops and put them on my tab yeah go on and put em on my tab these songs keep playin till 2am and girl that might be enough to keep your heart from breakin tonight i m payin so baby keep runnin it up if you re down with just slow dancin with a total stranger girl i swear it makes the pain hurt less and oh baby it ll come back later at least you won t feel it in the time that s spent spinnin and swayin around the truth that s been troublin you playin pretend you put it in the past i could tell someone you love fell out of love with you girl take these tear drops and put em on my tab oh yeah put em on my tab oh girl i might be wrong but i think i know what s wrong with you saw the way that phone tricked you saw the way the song hit you

well you know they say they say that i m a rollin stone girl that boy s a dead end road yeah you re better off alone and i know i can t say girl i can t say they re wrong i m pretty set in my ways but maybe it s time that changed and all you wanna know is what s it gonna take you d have to be crazy to love me oh but i wish you would you d have to be outta your mind but deep inside i think you could be the only chance in hell to save me from myself so come on save me oh yeah baby be crazy i know you say you say you re gonna hang on to this train wreck baby so you think you re that strong deep down what i want i want you to tie me down i want so bad to trust you baby don t burn me now all we can do is try i ain t tryin to say goodbye you d have to be crazy to love me oh but i wish you would you d have to be outta your mind but deep inside i think you could be the only chance in hell to save me from myself so come on save me oh yeah baby be crazy yeah oh you d have to be crazy to love me oh but i wish you would you d have to be outta your damn mind but deep inside i think you could be the only chance in hell to save me from myself so come on save me yeah baby c mon save me yeah baby be crazy baby be crazy oh baby be crazy yeah oh

girl you ve had a little too much maybe that buzz is making you say things girl you got a little too drunk thought about us knew that i d take these calls a little alcohol it makes me tipsy wishing you were with me just pick up where we left off talk it s just what the whiskey wants it ain t fair to be twisting me up just cause you re mixing your cup to strong out there you go and hit me up just cause you re getting your tore up on well i swear you say that you love me tonight but you ll hate me tomorrow so straight up why do you chase me i know that we re broke up but you can still break me why you gotta do this to me baby you drink and drive me crazy girl you re a little too late is what i would say if i was just stronger oh but you re good at this game you know it feels great and i know i m on your mind you go and drop a line say you want me if only i could not be opening this door right now pouring us a coke and crown it ain t fair to be twisting me up just cause you re mixing your cup to strong out there you go and hit me up just cause you re getting your tore up on well i swear you say that you love me tonight but you ll hate me tomorrow so straight up why do you chase me i know that we re broke up but you can still break me why you gotta do this to me baby you drink and drive me crazy you drink and drive me crazy it ain t fair to be twisting me up just cause you re mixing your cup to strong out there you go and hit me up just cause you re getting your tore up on girl i swear you say that you love me tonight but you ll hate me tomorrow so straight up why do you chase me i know that we re broke up but you can still break me why you gotta do this to me baby you drink and drive me crazy so go on and do it to me baby oh yeah you drink and drive me crazy

a smile what a smile look at that face it ain t hard to tell what s going on these days no it ain t no secret you can see it oh it s everywhere she goes there ain t nothing like a woman with that look in her eyes you know there s someone somewhere that s been treating her right she s shining like that diamond right there on her left hand and oh what it do when it does what it does ain t nothing like a woman a woman in love move every move feet off the ground so high on the ride way up in them clouds no she ain t falling she s all in and loving everywhere she s at there ain t nothing like a woman with that look in her eyes you know there s someone somewhere that s been treating her right she s shining like that diamond right there on her left hand and oh what it do when it does what it does ain t nothing like a woman a woman in love oh yeah there ain t nothing like a woman with that look in her eyes you know there s someone somewhere that s been treating her right she s shining like that diamond right there on her left hand and oh what it do when it does what it does ain t nothing like a woman a woman in love oh and everyday i m thanking the good lord above for sending me this woman this woman in love

i got flaws i can t disguise i ve been running from them all my life on the surface i m all smiles but i m only living half a life stuck behind the glass and the walls are closing in stuck inside a past that won t let me leave cause i m in chains while you re breaking free stuck behind the glass and i m waiting for your call nothing ever lasts for a prisoner but i m in chains while you re breaking free and it s killing me i got flaws i can t disguise and you tried to pull me to the light i can t go back and make it right and i wonder where you sleep tonight stuck behind the glass and the walls are closing in stuck inside a past that won t let me leave but i m in chains while you re breaking free stuck behind the glass and i m waiting for your call nothing ever lasts for a prisoner and i m in chains while you re breaking free and it s killing me and we were never born to make it out of this alive and we were never born to make it how could we survive stuck behind the glass and the walls are closing in stuck inside a past that won t let me leave cause i m in chains while you re breaking free oh oh stuck behind the glass and i m waiting for your call nothing ever lasts for a prisoner and i m in chains while you re breaking free and it s killing me and it s killing me

you call me up you ain t even gotta say a single word i already know it s been one of those days honey something s got ya stirred up weighing down like an anchor that ya gotta drag around but i know just what you need i ll be home soon to kiss away the world burn your troubles down i m gonna make you forget when i m holding you there s only room for us nothing else allowed tell all your worries there ain t much time left it s time to go cause i ll be home soon yeah i m running reds so i can run my fingers through your hair girl i can feel it now and i m coming for you honey you can lay it on me every care baby fall and i ll be there to catch you i m on my way and i ll be home soon to kiss away the world burn your troubles down i m gonna make you forget when i m holding you there s only room for us nothing else allowed tell all your worries there ain t much time left it s time to go cause i ll be home soon i ll be home soon to kiss away the world burn your troubles down i m gonna make you forget when i m holding you there s only room for us nothing else allowed tell all your worries there ain t much time left it s time to go cause i ll be home soon i ll be home soon you call me up you ain t even gotta say a single word cause i already know

i saw your number on my phone i said yeah i m here alone i saw the lights opened the door before you rang my bell hey how ya been and you leaned in and i just told myself one little kiss never killed nobody one little drink never wrecked no party thought we were over baby but you kept getting closer baby one little touch never broke no heart girl but i always wanna finish what you start girl now you re gone and it s hitting me like a bullet and it s hard to breathe one little kiss never killed nobody but me ain t going out ain t getting drunk don t need a shot to get messed up i m thumbing through pictures of you replaying our last night thought i d be fine to see you one more time yeah right one little kiss never killed nobody one little drink never wrecked no party thought we were over baby but you kept getting closer baby one little touch never broke no heart girl but i always wanna finish what you start girl now you re gone and it s hitting me like a bullet and it s hard to breathe one little kiss never killed nobody but me right here they said i never would have listened when you whispered in my ear last night when you said baby it s alright one little kiss never killed nobody one little kiss never killed nobody one little drink never wrecked no party thought we were over baby but you kept getting closer baby one little touch never broke no heart girl but i always wanna finish what you start girl now you re gone and it s hitting me like a bullet and it s hard to breathe one little kiss never killed nobody but me nobody but me

heyy it s a take it easy slow ride everything is alright it s a roll down your window night moves on the radio kinda night kinda night it s a you and i here and now reckless in our hometown kinda night kinda night ohh ohh it s all ours baby ohh ohh it s our time heyy it s a take it easy slow ride everything is alright high on us kinda night heyy it s a chase away the sunrise pull up to the moonlight kiss you bout a thousand times kinda night it s a drive through the desert stars go on forever kinda night kinda night it s a beautiful getaway sayin everything we wanna say kinda night kinda night ohh ohh it s all ours baby ohh ohh it s our time heyy it s a take it easy slow ride everything is alright high on us kinda night heyy it s a chase away the sunrise pull up to the moonlight kiss you bout a thousand times kinda night it s all ours baby it s our time it s all ours baby you and i heyy it s a take it easy slow ride everything is alright high on us kinda night heyy it s a chase away the sunrise pull up to the moonlight kiss you bout a thousand times heyy it s a take it easy slow ride everything is alright high on us kinda night heyy it s a chase away the sunrise pull up to the moonlight kiss you bout a thousand times kinda night kinda night it s that kinda night

we went to the beach every year the middle of june we crammed into that astrovan tighter than a can of sardines and we went to the beach we fought in the back and dad got mad and mama rolled the windows down y all smell the salt of the beach well it was double beds with a kitchenette bedspreads of sea foam green it was sunburns and taking turns on boogie boards we d bring even if we spent every single cent to stay across the street we went to the beach we mowed a few yards i filled a coffee can with some benjamins just a couple of friends barely seventeen and we went to the beach and in the middle of march before real life starts partied so hard we could hardly remember a thing it was pbrs and tiki bars don t take my fake i d it was cigarettes girls we just met and making out on lifeguard seats and those polaroids of me and the boys is all the proof i need and we went to the beach girl don t you hate to leave it s been one hell of a week it was a vow to you too i do babe can you believe it was brand new tans brown golden bands of sand all in the sheets if i know you and me we only get one of these and we went to the beach we went to the beach we went to the beach we went to the beach

got a whole lot of years and a whole lot of pain and it all got me here where the river meets the clay rewindin through my past tryin to find some good but i can t seem to see what mama always could and that sun is shinin down on all my darker days they re comin to me now as i hear the preacher say in the name of the son and the father can i really leave it all in three feet of water i can t unbreak the laws straighten out the rules i ve bent take the broken dreams and hearts make em all whole again i been carryin around all the messes that i ve made but a few more steps from now they ll all be washed away and that sun is shinin down on all my darker days they re comin to me now as i hear the preacher say in the name of the son and the father who d ve thought i could leave it all in three feet of water washin over me amazing grace the choir sings and now i know what mercy s all about and that sun is shinin down and all my darker days they re nowhere to be found all that preacher had to say was in the name of the son and the father who d ve thought i could leave it all you took my cross so i could leave it all in three feet of water mmm in three feet of water mmm so it s that simple huh 2

i know she s gone packed up all the things she owns left without a warning or a note goodbye guess i probably should have been a better guy sometimes i swear i say things that don t get us anywhere well we fight and i pray that we ll make it up but i know this time it ain t enough so i turned my cell phone off cause i can t live this way waiting on your call hoping something s changed man it kills me to know that there ain t us anymore but the door is always open and my hearts been locked and chained and every now and then when i feel like talking i go back now my world is stopping on things that i can t handle wish there was something i could say to bring us back to when we had it all yeah back to yesterday there ain t no worries on our shoulders ain t no way to say goodbye no way that i d be lonely with you standing by my side everything felt right but somewhere we went wrong cause now you re gone but the door is always open and my hearts been locked and chained and every now and then when i feel like talking i go back now my world is stopping on things that i can t handle wish there was something i could say to bring us back to when we had it all yeah back to yesterday i turned my cell phone off cause i can t live this way waiting on your call hoping something s changed man it kills me to know that there ain t us anymore but the door is always open and my hearts been locked and chained and every now and then when i feel like talking i go back now my world is stopping on things that i can t handle wish there was something i could say to bring us back to when we had it all yeah back to yesterday

you heard wrong wrong wrong you heard wrong wrong wrong you heard wrong every time i m out on the town i bet your phone s blowin up all your friends trying to tell you that i m hookin up just cause i shot her a wink they get you thinking that i m over you but i ain t over you no you can t believe every single word that don t mean i ain t hurting baby truth is i m pretty good at putting on a show hanging and thinking ain t nobody gotta know that i m wanting you wanting you wanting you wishing that i was holding you holding you holding you yeah i m getting better at getting over us my head s a broken record and the needle gets stuck sometimes if you heard i m fine since you been gone gone gone you heard wrong wrong wrong you heard wrong wrong wrong you heard wrong everybody knows you and everybody s thinking that we had it all til it all came crashing down at our feet everytime i see you around i gotta act like i m over you but i ain t over you truth is i m pretty good at putting on a show hanging and thinking ain t nobody gotta know that i m wanting you wanting you wanting you wishing that i was holding you holding you holding you yeah i m getting better at getting over us my head s a broken record and the needle gets stuck sometimes if you heard i m fine since you been gone gone gone girl you heard wrong yeah girl you heard wrong oh you heard wrong wrong wrong you heard wrong wrong wrong you heard wrong you can t believe every word baby that don t mean i ain t hurtin baby truth is i m pretty good at putting on a show hanging and thinking ain t nobody gotta know that i m wanting you wanting you wanting you wishing that i was holding you holding you holding you yeah i m getting better at getting over us my head s a broken record and the needle gets stuck sometimes if you heard i m fine since you been gone gone gone girl you heard wrong oh girl you heard wrong yeah you heard wrong wrong wrong you heard wrong wrong wrong you heard wrong you heard wrong you heard wrong3

i bet you d never guess who i saw tonight guess you didn t see me in those low dim lights i knew who she was by the ring still on her hand sure looked like you still wanted to be her man so i guess that means that things are better must not be so bad at home i thought it looked like you were leavin but it don t and i heard you tell her you still love her so it doesn t matter what you say i saw it all from a table away i thought she was pretty she s nothing like the things you said the woman you described couldn t even turn your head the two of you look lost inside a world all your own like you couldn t wait to get her alone so i guess that means that things are better must not be so bad at home i thought it looked like you were leavin but it don t and i heard you tell her you still love her so it doesn t matter what you say i saw it all from a table away and i heard you tell her you still love her so it doesn t matter what you say i saw it all from a table away yes you re gonna stay a table away

amy s got the letters i wrote my picture in a frame she s had a year to let go she s still wearing my ring it hasn t left her finger since the night that i proposed when i promised her forever before i took her home but i never made it home that night part of her died too i ve watched her losing her mind and there s nothing i can do oh sometimes she goes crazy screaming out my name saying baby please come save me i wish she knew i d do anything to kiss the tears right off her face tell her everything s okay feel her heart beat next to mine and make up for lost time oh but god i know i can t but you can t let her live this way it s too late for saving me but there s still hope for saving amy now 3 years have gone by she s finally living life and i still watch her sometimes just to make sure she s alright she knows i ll always be there in her heart and in her dreams cause god i promised her forever and that s one promise i intend to keep to kiss the tears right off her face tell her everything s okay feel her heart beat next to mine and make up for lost time oh but god i know i can t but you can t let her live this way it s too late for saving me but there s still hope for saving amy to kiss the tears right off her face tell her everything s okay feel her heart beat next to mine and make up for lost time oh but god i know i can t but you can t let her live this way it s too late for saving me but there s still hope for saving amy thank you god for saving amy for saving amy thank you god for saving amy saving amy yeah saving amy saving amy saving amy thank you god for saving amy3

oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh i wanna see the world i wanna touch your face i wanna go right there and never leave that place i wanna fall back down i wanna lose the day i wanna get it back in the baddest way i know it s there still see us there how d we get away how d we get away midnight pick you up take you on a slow drive you and i hanging there kissing in the street light didn t matter where or when we just went every time so tell me will you take me there somewhere only you know where i know we can be better than we ve ever been if we could be us again oh oh oh oh oh oh us again oh oh oh oh oh oh oh we were a friday night after a football game we were the coolest car moving down the interstate oh i know it s there still see us there how d we get away how d we get away midnight pick you up take you on a slow drive you and i hanging there kissing in the street light didn t matter where or when we just went every time so tell me will you take me there somewhere only you know where i know we can be better than we ve ever been if we could be us again soaked us deep in love we would fall every time we got back up so we laid there and just lose tonight so baby why don t i midnight pick you up take you on a slow drive you and i kissing in the street light didn t matter where or when we went every time yeah midnight pick you up take you on a slow drive you and i hanging there kissing in the street light didn t matter where or when we just went every time so tell me will you take me there somewhere only you know where i know we can be better than we ve ever been if we could be us again if we can be us again oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

bluebonnets down a long stretch of hill country highway windows down radio up ride shotgun next to you you were smoking camel lights behind the wheel i can still hear you say three hundred thousand miles you can t beat an ol beat up chevrolet well granny s in the kitchen smell of fried chicken frying she s cooking in her apron singing along with patsy cline playing ball in the front yard little sister runs in crying she climbs up in her arms i hear her laughing through the old screen door they don t make em like they used to they don t make em like they used to they don t make em like you anymore they don t make em like they used to they don t make em like they used to they don t make em like you anymore well the days have changed since the golden days in some ways we ve come so far but i never dreamed we d trade the american dream for a fancy foreign car have we sold our souls to save a buck traded hard work for dumb luck and those old country songs are sounding better than ever before they don t make em like they used to they don t make em like they used to they don t make em like you anymore now they don t make em like they used to they don t make em like they used to they don t make em like you anymore so you live the kind of life so long after you re long gone you ll always be there in their hearts and your love light will shine on and someday they ll sit around down at john t s country store they ll be laughing over stories you told a thousand times before saying say it they don t make em like you anymore they don t make em like you anymore they don t make em like they used to they don t make em like they used to they don t make em like you anymore they don t make em like they used to they don t make em like they used to they don t make em like you anymore well no news is good news tell me whose news really tells the truth the death toll rises high as gas prices shoot straight through the roof meanwhile politicians preach while some preachers politic well we need is lots of love yeah lots of love might do the trick instead we criticize we glamorize who s right or wrong who s left or right missing out on so many beautiful colors fighting over what s black and white we ve gotta forgive gotta learn to live together make the world a better place and just maybe someday somebody somewhere will look back on today look back on us and say they don t make em like they used to they don t make em like they used to they don t make em like you anymore