Tracy Lawrence
Crawling Again
I ain't got her, I ain't got a clue
Of what I did and didn't do
All I know is I'm wearing her number out
No explanation, it didn't take long
For her to go and tell me she's gone
My mama would be ashamed if she could see me now
Cause...
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I'm back on the bottle, crying out loud
I need holdin' and I need it now
Someone to rock me and then tuck me in
It takes a mama twenty years to make a boy a man
Another woman twenty seconds to have him crawlin' again
He made us first, but He let them
Be in control of the shape we're in
And every women knows why Adam worshipped Eve
From the day we're born 'til the day we die
We're at the mercy of a woman kind
And like a big baby, I miss her loving me
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It takes a mama twenty years to make a boy man
And another woman to twent seconds to have crawlin' again
Yeah, it takes a mama twenty years to make a boy man
Another woman twenty seconds to have crawlin' again
She'll have him crawlin' again
Life Don't Have to Be So Hard
Don't want to read the paper
Or turn on the news
Don't want another helping of the same old blues
Don't want to call nobody
Or answer the phone
What I want is everybody to leave us alone
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Let us sit down in the porch swing
Sip a little ice tea
Play with the kids in the yard
Hey it's time to get lazy
Had enough crazy
Life ain't got to be so hard
Oh, life don't have to be so hard
No it don't
Want to stop and smell the roses
I don't want to run
Want to catch up on the talkin that we hadn't done
The only big decision that I want to make
Is do we take this conversation down to the lake
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Or do we sit down in the porch swing
Sip a little ice tea
Play with the kids in the yard
Hey it's time to get lazy
Had enough crazy
Life ain't got to be so hard
Oh, life don't have to be so hard
More time with you less time for worry
More slowing down less in a hurry
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So we can sit down in the porch swing
Sip a little ice tea
Play with the kids in the yard
Hey its time to get lazy
Had enough crazy
Life ain't got to be so hard
Oh, life don't have to be so hard
No it don't baby
It's Got You All Over It
Today my radio played a new love song
Pretty soon I was singin' along
When the chorus came around I knew
Every word every line was written about you
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It's got you all over it
Like a sweet melody
That you can't forget
Reminds me of the love I'm in
It's got you all over it
From this ear-to-ear the grin the on my face
To this feeling that makes my heart race
Even in the dreams I dream at night
I guess you could say I got all one track mind
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The future so bright
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Getting Back Up
My heart is spent
My pride bent
Her love is gone and who knows where it went
And everyday is one more day
Little steps that I can barley take
They say falling out of love's
The hardest thing you'll ever do
But it's not true
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It may be the fall
That brings you to your knees
Yeah the losing it all leaves you weak
Yeah your heart drops
And your worlds stop when your falling out of love
But it's not the fall that's so hard
It's the getting back up
I was OK at first
Then it started to hurt
And the getting better just kept getting worse
But as bad as it's been
I'm not givin' in
Slowly but surely I'm finding my feet again
Every minute's one more minute
I just made it through
That's the best I can do
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Yeah your heart drops and your world stops
When you're falling out of love
It's not the fall that's so hard
It's the getting back up
It's Hard To Be An Outlaw
Graffti on the overpass
Skidmarks on the road
Things I grew up doing
I never did out grow
In the middle of those running years
She walked into my life
She couldn't get the devil outta me
Lord knows she tried
She was right as rain
She was good as gold
But I wouldn't change
Now she's gone and I'm just not the same
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It's hard to be an outlaw
Outrun or outdraw
The laws of life that you once could ignore
It's a desperate desperado
Who can't see through his sorrow
What he was running from or running for
It's hard to be an outlaw
When you're not wanted anymore
There was nowhere left to turn to but back to my old self
Living like there's no tomorrow now mean something else
The trails I used to live to blaze
Are winding up dead ends
With a voice inseide my head remindingf me what could have been
I was wild as the wind as cold as they come
Thinking I was cool
Now looking back
I'm looking at a fool
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It's a desperate desperado
Who can't see through his sorrow
WHat he was running from or running for
It's hard to be an outlaw
When you're not wanted anymore
Meant to Be
A crowded room, a sudden glance
More than just coincidence
Meant to be….you and me
To see the look that’s in your eyes
Makes the tears well up in mine
Destiny…and now I can see
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That some things are just meant to be
Just like sunsets, moonlight,
Stars that shoot across the sky at night
All that I am faithfully
I give everything
Cuz some things are just meant to be
More than chance, or circumstance
I never though two hearts could dance so perfectly
Just like you and me
And even when we’re old and gray
I’ll love you more than I do today
Eternity……haw!, can’t you see….
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That some things are just meant to be
Just like sunsets, moonlight,
Stars that shoot across the sky at night
All that I am faithfully
I give everything
Cuz some things are just meant to be
That Was Us
Twenty dollars out of mama's purse bought us a tank of gas
And some red man tobacco when we was just teenage kids
Yeah me and my ole' buddy Leroy we'd go driving around
If there was trouble to be found, man we dang sure did
Cuttin' donuts in the field 'till old man Smith would call the cops
And he'd come running out with a shotgun 'cause we was running down his
crops
I reckon he still wonders who that was
That was us
Some of those local boys moved on but we never changed a bit
Don't guess we had enough sense, at least that's what some folks said
Yeah we finally turned old enough to buy our own beer
Don't remember much about that year, lucky we ain't dead
'Cause somebody said they saw some boys with a truck looked just like mine
Trying to pull down that old water tank sits out on the county line
People wonder why it leans the way it does
That was us
Seems like small towns never change but thing get tough when times get hard
And they said when he got sick that old man Smith would have lost that farm
'Cause he was getting way behind on all his bills
But someone came and brought his crops in from the fields
Yeah folks 'round here still don't know who that was
That was us
Cuttin' donuts in the field 'till old man Smith would call the cops
And he'd come running out with a shotgun 'cause we was running down his
crops
Somebody said they saw some boys with a truck looked just like mine
Trying to pull down that old water tank sits out on the county line
That was us
Yeah that was us
She Loved the Devil Out of Me
You can't see a freight train comin'
With your back against the track
You can only take the wrong road so long
Before you can't come back I was heartbroke and lonley
Forgot what love was all about
But then just when I hit bottom
She reached down and pulle me out
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Led me to the promised land
My rock of ages when I felt to weak to stand
I was blind and could not see
She rescued me
Lord, that woman was my savior
She loved the devil out of me
I was once a believer
'Til life got the best of me
Just a ship without an anchor
Adrift and lost at sea
Like the wind she came and filled my sails
And put me back on course
She was the lighthouse in the harbor
That brought me back to shore
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I was blind and could not see
She rescued me
Lord that woman was my savior
She loved the devil out of me
That woman was my savior she loved the devil out of me
A Whole Lot of Letting Go
felt the tug of the ties that bind
As I crossed that city limit sign
Drivin' past the old school reminds
Of what I had with her
A lotta roads underneath there wheels
A lotta wounds that time has healed
But time ain't changed the way I fell
Or the way things were
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I've let go chasin' those long ago dreams
Turned the pages on some old memories
I've gotten over a lot of what i've been through
And I've let go of thinkin' I could ever go back
Broke the chains to ghosts from my past
When it comes to her one thing holds true
There's a whole lot of lettin' go that's left to do
I drove out to her family farm
But the live oak trees and fields were gone
Rows of houses with manicured lawns
Sat staring back at me
Just like the fire from a childhood flame
Guess we're all just victims of the winds of change
The things are, they're never the same
As the way things ought to be
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And I've let go of thinkin' could never go back
Broke the chains of ghosts from my past
When it comes to her one things holds true
There's a whole lot of lettin' go that's left to do
What A Memory
On the day mama died,she called daddy to her side.And said,"i'll be goin soon
,I know its gonna hurt you both. But, promise me before i go, you'll do what I
ask of you
In a big red folgers can, hid behind the pots and pans you'll find some money
that i've saved
And in the back of my dresser drawer I put away a little more for a rainy day
Go to town and buy that new guitar cause hes been workin awful hard to get his
own
to write his songs
What a memory,oh what a memory even in her final moments mom thought of me
what a memory
she was only 35 i was 15 askin why? The lord took her away he must known we
needed her
she was an angel here on earth i still miss her everyday.with all her friends
and half the town
and her family gathered round i bet she never felt so loved when everybodys
heads were bowed i did my
best to make her proud as i stood up and i sang rock of ages cleft for me as i
played it on that new six string
i couldnt help but cry as we said goodbye
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Even in her final moments mama thought of me
What a memory, What a memory
God's Green Earth
I shook off the blame and said some things
When I should have bit my tongue
My foolish pride made the knot we tied come undone
I've got more regrets then blades of grass
That covers up this dirt