Ever reaching arms Trespassing feet Don’t be alarmed Everybody here was built with those very same limbs Candy apple brown And fever red, just look around Everybody here is envy green, and lonesome blue Just like you Just like you Your tugging at your clothes And your hair and your soul and your heart and your so uncomfortable With what you thought you share tonight. You can be anything that you want but alone So you find someone to take you home But you wake up in a bed that is inevitably empty Just like you Just like you Won’t someone shine some love in here Upon these open hands and great demands and Upon these stage lights and late nights and sticky floors Shine some love in here before It’s to late Everybody here Is already almost Just like you Just like you

I remember I was singing about September When you walked across the boardwalk to that smoky bar And I’d been singing for the last six nights And I could barely talk to tell you just how pretty you were, But you were, as pretty as a preachers wife on Sunday And I was useless like a church bell on a Friday night I felt like a tragedy all dressed in dirty clothes When you walked out before I could say How when you stopped in And the world stopped spinning I gotta let you know Just how I’ve become an artist At how things fall apart Its the only thing I know Won’t you just stay here Would you just stay here Won’t you just stay here We can just stay here Spent the whole next night on the telephone We were both alone and waiting on a change And I remember I felt as suave as a prom date 15 minutes late in a rented suit and his mothers car The next night was a Monday and you came over to my house We hardly talked about anything, but it never got quiet till we Kissed our first of many and the clock hands took reprieve From the round the clock labor of their day to day Cause when you stopped in And the world stopped spinning I've gotta let you know That I know it will I don’t know when that time will matter again But I don’t want to let you go Won’t you just stay here Won’t you just stay here We can just lay here We can just lay here I was thinking I’d swing by sometime around midnight Turn my headlights off when I get near Lets say you and me, we get the hell out of this town Cause we’re the only thing that ever happened here I’ve got 50 dollars and if we ride with the windows down And i screen my smokes I think we’ll make it into Georgia And improvise from there Everybody know from here That you can’t go to hell without passing through Atlanta first I’ll find a dead end job and Try to write a dead end song Just thoughtless enough to make the radio And we’ll drink wine like water As if we had a sorrow to drown If that don’t work it’s alright baby We can just stay here We can just stay here Because when you stopped in And the world stopped spinning I gotta let you know Just how I’ve become an artist At how things fall apart Its the only thing I know Won’t you just stay here We can just stay here We can just lay here We can just lay here We can just stay here We can just stay here We can get away dear We can just stay here I remember I was singing about September When you walked across the boardwalk to that smoky bar

The city lights light up the skies and sidewalks And I realized the second they came on Surely that must be where all the light goes when it gets dark back home All the brunettes in New York City And all the hills and rain in Tennessee We road through them all for what seemed like years But I was thinking about you and me Oh Suzanna Don't you cry for me I'm coming home to Alabama because I've got no place else to be. Oh Suzanna It's me who cries for you Lord I'm coming home to stay and honey you're just passing through. I played my guitar out on the shore line And the fireworks, they burned our in the bay We drank til July fifth and then we slept right through the sixth And I thought about you all three days Then I guess I woke up sometime on a Friday And realized that drug store wine, it just don't taste the same Without the sweetness of your kiss to end the bottle, but man, it damn sure still works wonders on the pain Oh Suzanna Don't you cry for me I've got bones beneath my skin to keep me who I've got to be Oh Suzanna It's me who cries for you You sure do walk away a straight line for all the circles that you do. Your entrance killed the laughter in the room And my presence killed the laughter in you And the cue card guy quit yesterday You're left without a thing to say You kindly pass on through That's how I'll see you That's how I'll see you That's the portrait that I'll paint in my head every time I think of you It don't take much for me Just a tree line, some cheap wine and a back yard sky Hovering over me like forgiveness just dangling on a string It could turn it all around Let's turn it all around Oh Suzanna Don't you cry for me I've got bones beneath my skin to keep me who I've got to be Oh Suzanna It's me who cries for you You sure do walk away a straight line for all the circles that you do. You sure do walk away a straight line for all the circles that you do. You sure do walk away a straight line for all the circles ........... that you doooooooooo.

The things I do just to get a good look at you you walked into the room, looked me in the eye ain’t looked at me like that in quite some time and we talked for a while about the way things used to be you said hey baby ain’t this life strange Chorus: Honestly I don’t know if I’d be worth your time everybody’s on a tightrope and I’m just tryin to walk that line but if you’d like to try, yeah if you’d like to try slip on that party dress, I’m gonna take you out tonight I’m gonna take you out Lovin a woman will put you in the grave, lovin too many will drive you insane her hair slipped into her eyes as she leaned up against that wall poor girl don’t seem to notice at all and we both know that when it all comes down she won’t leave and I can’t stick around Chorus: These dusty roads have worn a sadness into your eyes that’s alright it looks good on you anyway you always knew how to keep in style and you looked over your shoulder like you were looking back through time like you had the past on a line

She ain’t been home in two nights and now I’m sitting here alone looking out like it was twilight and I was waiting on her to come home but I’m just dancing with my perceptions, flowing in and out of reality an artist of deception, a matador in a bullring Things are getting hazy baby, buy me a gun I hear there’s a war think I’m going crazy, can’t seem to tell a harlot from a whore that’s alright pretty baby I’ll get by and I’ll put your picture in a locket cause I’ve got some change in my pocket, I’ve got a little charm when I want it I’ve got five thousand strangers telling lies inside of my head putting their fingerprints all over me, sleeping in each other’s beds you tell your secrets to your lover, you send a letter with a rose everyone here wants to look like a movie star but this place sure smells like a ghost Chorus: I keep wanting to let her in but she ain’t at my door I keep wanting to let her in but she don’t come around here no more All of my best bets have floated away with the tide I think I’ll bet my last dollar on this one last ride I can’t remember a single word that ever brushed past that sweet girl’s lips you put your money down on a fine horse, put your hands on a good woman’s hips God she hated this place and I’m starting to hate it too pine walls like a cheap coffin, suck the blood right out of you you get snake bit at the waters edge and you can’t forget her face I’ve been thinkin about you darling, I guess some things never change Chorus: I saw your silhouette through the window of another man’s dream bet you were wearing a dress just as crimson as the color we all bleed you were standing in the corner like some cheap actress in a movie scene I was counting up my regrets wishing I looked a little more like James Dean I overheard two men talk politics, I’m starting to wonder if the world is round they said “the left is gonna kill the country if the right don’t burn it down” when the dust settles I’ll still be chasing you around hoping you look back one last time well I may be sleeping in Mississippi but I’ve got Texas on my mind Chorus:

A leaf falling from a tree, spinning on a breeze, falling softly through the crisp October sky to the earth like a touch of a hand, when she touched my hand the fall began, she said goodnight she turned her head and walked away, on dry land but I was drowning, she took my breath and disappeared into the blue I watched her skin fade with every step she’d take soft lips to kiss the night away as the moonlight cast her shadow, like a stone Chorus: Blue eyes you can take me down anytime A moment passing through time, a soft color passing through the light, close your eyes to see it better after its gone dancing reflections of the moon on a black car that left a bit too soon, a wanna be cowboy falling like a stone into all the things he’s never ready for, step inside close the door, and now a girl with a forgotten name sleeps inside your dreams trying so hard not to break, all the things that can never be replaced he watched a leaf falling from a tree, spinning on the breeze Chorus: Blue eyes you can take me down anytime

I woke up before the alarm And winter through the window makes its patterns on your face And I try not to stare but that would not be fair For my eyes opened only for this I’m on my way out of the dark On my way into the light that you've brought about this place And I’m throwing out skeletons and making developments And thought that I should notify you Suddenly my hands are worth the work that they commit me to And suddenly my ears are worth all the bad news Suddenly my mouth is worth the trouble that I get into And suddenly my eyes are worth carrying around For you For you I woke up before the alarm Defeated by time and moving in and out of space And you let down your hair and it falls everywhere And I never want to go to sleep again Day turns to night before I can breathe enough in and it’s all dancing by, So I light up the sky with fireflies And we never have to go to sleep again Suddenly my hands are worth the work that they commit me to And suddenly my ears are worth all the bad news Suddenly my mouth is worth the trouble that I get into And suddenly my breath is worth breathing For you For you For you Suddenly my hands are worth the work that they commit me to And suddenly my ears are worth all the bad news Suddenly my mouth is worth the trouble that I get into And suddenly my eyes are worth carrying around For you For you Winter through the window makes its patterns on your face You reflecting and radiating light on this place Winter through the window makes its patterns on your face Your saving what’s lost and reviving what’s waisted Winter through the window makes its patterns on your face Your reflecting and radiating love on this place Winter through the window makes its patterns on your face And suddenly my eyes are worth their weight for you

Baby if you care for me then shoot me in the heart cause right now I’d rather bleed than cry sitting in Las Fuentas eating cold enchiladas trying hard not to think of you me and the boys played until sunrise, took a little part in a bar room fight you brushed past me just like a stranger on a bus, just enough to let me know you were there and I’m tired of watching stars fall from the sky so I think I’ll stay inside for a while and everyone here will put there hands on you, but ain’t none of them got my smile Chorus: Hey senorita I hope he treats you right cause heartache ain’t nothing I’d wish out of spite and I hope I see you round town every once and a while cause I don’t want to forget your face yeah these changing times will spin your head around, you got a dime you better lay it down cause lovers and gamblers baby they’re all the same, just playing for different stakes I’ve got a lot on my mind these days, yeah she ain’t shy she’ll look you square in the eye sitting in Las Fuentas eating cold enchiladas trying hard just to keep my word this town is just as dry as a dessert grave, you choke on the dust just trying to say your own name I leave a couple of bucks on the table for the waitress, ain’t much, neither one of us cares so I reach out in a room full of shadows just to separate the shapes and none of these girls care much for conversation but they’ll sure keep you warm when it rains Chorus: Hey senorita I hope he treats you right cause heartache ain’t nothing I’d wish out of spite and I hope I see you round town every once and a while cause I don’t want to forget your face yeah these changing times will spin your head around, you got a dime you better lay it down cause lovers and gamblers baby they’re all the same, just playing for different stakes Yeah August moves slow when the year moves fast and this clock don’t keep time worth a damn and none of these girls will tell you their real names but they’ll sure turn you into a man Chorus: Hey senorita I hope he treats you right cause heartache ain’t nothing I’d wish out of spite and I hope I see you round town every once and a while cause I don’t want to forget your face yeah these changing times will spin your head around, you got a dime you better lay it down cause lovers and gamblers baby they’re all the same, just playing for different stakes oh sweet Maria sing a song for me cause this heart ain’t nothing but a memory invite me to your bed every once and a while, I don’t like sleeping alone

Pull in through the driveway, stop next to that beat-up old Chevrolet still smells of rust and mud as the moon comes up twenty four steps through the front door, eleven more to the bedroom shadows and essence make their way as the autumn night falls turn all the lights on, turn the stereo up try to remember the things you used to want, they don’t add up to much you tried so hard that you gave yourself away your older now but you will never look your age So you wait for it to come, you wait for it Chorus: So come home soon love This bed gets cold on these November nights So come home soon love these walls get thin just before daylight So come home soon love You look into the mirror to see the things you used to be all the differences from the things that you now see a little dark around the eyes look at how you’ve let yourself go Chorus: So come home soon love This bed gets cold on these November nights So come home soon love these walls get thin just before daylight So come home soon love

Chorus: I tried to love you right, I tried with all my might you got a piece of me yeah that’s a fact the one thing that I know, the sun has set on this rodeo I’m going back down south and I ain’t coming back This place ain’t what it used to be but then again neither am I I wondered why I stayed so long, well I guess that’s why mascara would stain that pretty white blouse, guess its good that you don’t cry well she swears she’ll make a lover out of me yet, well she damn sure better try Chorus: Well baby your easy on the eyes, hell on the heart wouldn’t have it any other way, I’ve never feared a little hurt a little hurt might would do you good, I’ll try and play my part I hope you see me every time you close your eyes, like gunshots in the dark