Strong
It's All How You Look at It
[Verse 1]
A little boy on a big jet plane
Taking off in the pouring rain
They're bouncin' 'round like a basketball
He says "Mama what if we fall?"
She looks in those big scared eyes
"Son think of it like a circus ride"
Next thing you know he's laughing out loud
Saying do it again as the wheels touched down
[Chorus]
I guess It's all how you look at it
You might see more than the side that you're seeing
Turn it upside down and shake it up a bit
It could be a good thing
Its all how you look at it ya ya
[Verse 2]
Businessman playing air guitar
He always dreamed he'd be a superstar
Quits his job and starts singing at night
Is he giving up his living or taking back his life?
[Chorus]
I guess it's all how you look at it
You might see more than the side that you're seeing
Turn it upside down and shake it up a bit
It could be a good thing
Its all how you look at it
[Bridge]
You've got your opinions and I've got mine
Can we agree to agree at least some of the time?
A glass half empty is a glass half full
And thats what makes life beautiful
[Chorus until end]
I guess It's all how you look at it
You might see more than the side that you're seeing
Turn it upside down and shake it up a bit
It could be a good thing
It's all how you look at it
It's all how you look at it
You might see more than the side that you're seeing
Turn it upside down and shake it up a bit
It could be a good thing
It's all how you look at it.
Strong
In her bare feet, white cotton dress
A ribbon holding back her curls
In a sweet gentle voice, she sings a lullaby
To two sleepy little girls
In the nightlight glow as her babies drift off
She looks so fragile, looks so so soft
(Chorus:)
She's strong
Solid as a rock
Like a lighthouse standing alone
She's strong got the world on her shoulders
She keeps carrying on
She can take the heat, she can take the cold winter
She's got faith there's no quit in her
She's strong
Yeah so strong
There's a crayon picture says 'We love you mom'
She keeps it in a frame on her desk
There's a friend of a friend
Who calls now and then
But she's not ready just yet
She might get lonely in the still of the night
But she'll hold out till she knows it's right
(Chorus)
And sometimes when nobody else is around
She gets down
And sometimes in a moment of weakness
A single tear falls, and that's all
She's strong
She's strong
She can take the heat she can take the cold winter
She's got faith there's no quit in her
She's strong
Yeah so strong
She's strong
Yeah so strong
Stones
Barely old enough, to call it love,
Showin off, skippin rocks across, the water,
Stones, I handed one to you,
You put it in your pocket,
Said you loved it, said you'd keep it
Forever, Stones
(Chorus)
One by one, they mark our passage,
Along this winding road we're on,
With each turn we take,
From the craddle to the grave,
Our lives are paved with stones,
A tiny velvet box,
One perfect little rock,
A little thing, just a ring,
But it says marry me,
Stones, we'll build ourselves a home,
Where loves a corner stone,
We'll have children, they'll have children,
Untill they roll off on their own,
Like stones
(Chorus)
One by one, they mark our passage,
Along this winding road we're on,
With each turn we take,
From the craddle to the grave,
Our lives are paved with.
(Bridge)
Birth stones stepping stones,
Skipping rocks, and dodging lots of
Sticks and stones,
And I've been on both sides of throwing stones
Years are like the wind,
Their here and gone and then,
They'll blow away, our every trace,
All except our names, engraved in,
Stones
(Chorus)
One by one, they mark our passage,
Along this winding road we're on,
With each turn we take,
From the craddle to the grave,
Our lives are paved with stones
Paint Me a Birmingham
He was sittin' there, his brush in hand
Paintin' waves as they danced, upon the sand
With every stroke, he brought to life
The deep blue of the ocean, against the mornin' sky
I asked him if he only painted ocean scenes
He said for twenty dollars, I’ll paint you anything
Could you Paint Me A Birmingham
Make it look just the way I planned
A little house on the edge of town
Porch goin’ all the way around
Put her there in the front yard swing
Cotton dress make it, early spring
For a while she’ll be, mine again
If you can Paint Me A Birmingham
He looked at me, with knowing eyes
Then took a canvas from a bag there by his side
Picked up a brush, and said to me
Son just where in this picture would you like to be
I said if there’s any way you can
Could you paint me back into her arms again.
Could you Paint Me A Birmingham
Make it look just the way I planned
A little house on the edge of town
Porch goin' all the way around
Put her there in the front yard swing
Cotton dress make it, early spring
For a while she’ll be, mine again
If you can Paint Me A Birmingham
Paint Me A Birmingham
Make it look just the way I planned
A little house on the edge of town
Porch goin' all the way around
Put her there in the front yard swing
Cotton dress make it, early spring
For a while she’ll be, mine again
If you can Paint Me A Birmingham
Oh Paint Me A Birmingham
Everywhere But Hollywood
Full count...3 runs down...bottom of the 9th
Two outs gone, three men on, they all roll their eyes,
It's Tiny's chance to prove em wrong,
And come out like a king,
He bites his lip, here comes a pitch,
With all his heart he swings,
Strike Three
Seeing mom, best dress on, another blind date,
First time in a long time, she stayed out that late,
A perfect night that ended whith a tender porch light kiss,
She really thought they hit it off, and he would call again,
He never did
(Chorus)
Everywhere you go you see the faces of reality,
Things don't always go the way we thought they would,
There's victories and broken dreams that never make the silver screen,
Real life seems everywhere you look
Yea Everywhere, Everywhere But Hollywood
He's workin late she said she'd stay and help him out again,
Something she's got just won't stop it's startin to get to him,
And just before he loses track with what's wrong and what's right,
She's an Eight-by-Ten with two great kids and him and his wife,
And calls it a night
(Chorus)
Everywhere you go you see the faces of reality,
Things don't always go the way we thought they would,
There's victories and broken dreams that never make the silver screen,
Real life seems everywhere you look
Yea Everywhere, Everywhere But Hollywood
There's victories and broken dreams that never make the silver screen,
Real life seems everywhere you look
Yea Everywhere, Everywhere oh Everywhere, Everywhere But Hollywood
Everywhere But Hollywood
Far Cry From You
I’m on a white line runnin’ down the interstate.
Tryin’ to wipe away the rain that’s runnin’ down my face.
Goin’ any old ware, any old place, just some place else.
By now you know, that I’m not there, and if you don’t know why.
Well, can’t you see the tears it took for me to say good-bye.
Yeah, I left a few on your old sweater.
I watched them fall on a love sick letters
and I cried a river, cried a mile wide one
I’d even cried some crocodile ones.
But from out here you can’t hear me callin’.
and you won’t see me when I start fallin’,
Cause this time, baby the next time, that I do,
I’ll be a far cry from you.
In a moment of truth, it’s a matter of fact.
There’s only one way to go, and that ain’t goin’ back.
So I ain’t stopped since I stopped for gas, a hundred miles ago.
And right now I’m caught somewhere between gone and gone for good.
And these tears will dry, but there have been times I wondered if they would.
Yeah, I left a few on your old sweater.
I watched them fall on a love sick letters
and I cried a river, cried a mile wide one
I’d even cried some crocodile ones.
But from out here you can’t hear me callin’.
And you won’t see me when I start fallin’,
Cause this time, baby the next time, that I do,
I’ll be a far cry from you.
Yeah, from out here you can’t hear me callin’.
And you won’t see me when I start fallin’,
Cause this time, baby the next time, that I do,
I’ll be a far cry from you.
Bobby Darwins Daughter
Bobby Darwin's daughter looks up from the bible
She's been reading to the clock on her dirty wall of a double wide, its 3 am.
Her husbands on the town shooting pool or foolin round,
Or all of the above it doesn't matter anymore,
She can't get through to him,
Seems like only yesterday they were married in a chapel.
Candlelight the whole nine yards,
Honeymoon in Vegas, they settled down.
Now its lonely nights and hungry kids,
She just keeps on looking for the life that's not the life she's living now.
Bobby Darwin's daughter used to ask her father
Where Santa Clause and babies and God came from,
And as she's gotten older all those easy
Answers are somewhere between here and kingdom come,
And in her darkest hours Bobby Darwin's daughter wishes she could go back when,
She'd ask where god came from instead of wondering where he's been.
Bobby Darwin's daughter dropping off the kids driving home
In the pouring rain sudden skid and just like that
She's clinging to her life,
Her husband rushes in the tiny room
And through his tears whispers I love you,
Baby please don't leave me now, you're my only life,
He bows his head and prays aloud this one thing I promise,
If I could get just one more chance to be the man
I should have been Ill be that man,
She awakens to another world, stares into his grateful eyes of love,
she smiles at him he takes her hand.
Bobby Darwin's daughter used to ask her father
Where Santa Clause and babies and God came from,
And as she's gotten older all those easy
Answers are somewhere between here and kingdom come,
And in her darkest hours Bobby Darwin's daughter never saw till now that
She was wrong about where God came From and that he's been here all along.
What The Flames Feel Like
Some take to drinkin'
Some take to usin'
Dont't matter what poison they choose
Some hit rock bottom, lose every dollar
Some get thier hearts broke in two
It's a long way down
And a hard road back