Baby, i got your message this morning
Asking if your letter ever came
Well baby, that’s your letter on the table
Saying you’ll always be with me just the same

Can you hear me scream, can you hear me crawl
Can you hear me knocking holes in the wall
Yeah, i just can’t take it, but i got my hands on something, somehow
Oh, and baby, i’m going under now

Baby when you took off for the city
When your bigger dreams meant leaving me behind
You should have taken all your pretty pictures
Cause they lie to me, and say you’ll change your mind

Can you hear me scream, can you hear me crawl
Can you hear me knocking holes in the wall
Yeah, i just can’t take it, but i got my hands on something, somehow
Oh, and baby, i’m going under now 

If you could hear me scream, if you could hear me crawl
If you could hear me knocking holes in these here walls
Oh, then i just might make it
But i got my hands on something for now
Oh, and baby i’m going under now

Late last night, I was holding you tight
And I blinked my eyes, and you were in flight
But i did not move, I just watched you fly away

Understood, it would feel so good
To have you here in my own world
But i will not move, I’ll just watch you fly away

So take off now, and think of me another day
Spread your wings, ain’t no one gonna make you stay

Days will come when i’ll miss you some
And i’ll pray to god to have you back home
But i will not move, I’ll just watch you fly away

And i will dream of a thousand scenes
Where i will watch you come to me
But i will not move, I’ll just watch you fly away

So take off now, and think of me another day
Spread your wings, ain’t no one gonna make you stay

Late last night, I was holding you tight
And I blinked my eyes, and you were in flight
But i did not move, I just watched you fly away

I don’t feel no shame
When I hear them speak your name
Whispering she’s to blame for this change in him

Cause I don’t really care
What’s going on out there
I got you, and i don’t wanna share with any of them

Cause it feels so right
Staying out of sight
Holding you so tight
|Just sitting here, alone on a Saturday night

My friends used to hang on behind
As I’d hit the town like a landslide
But these days, I just want to hide
Right here with you, on the inside

Cause it feels so right…

With my favorite view
Sharing this armchair, staring at you

Cause it feels so right…

She got eyes of moonlight, hair all up in curls
Shining like an angel in her dress and plastic pearls
She got an Eldorado, she got a filthy mouth
She ain’t like no other girls I have seen around

She’s my freight train lady she gonna bring me out
She gonna roll me, roll me from this baby town

She can’t wait to kiss me, whiskey on her breath
Moaning about that old husband, scares her half to death
He won’t give her nothing, hits her when she steals
I got me a father, so I know how that feels

She’s my freight train lady, she gonna bring me out
She gonna roll me, roll me, from this baby town
She’s my freight train lady, she gonna tug me down that line
She gonna hold me, hold me, ‘til she’s only mine

She says when we leave here, we’ll go all around
She done been to Nashville, says I got the sound
Well, i don’t have much money, but I’m saving every dime
To spend along the highways when she says it’s time

Cause she’s my freight train lady, she gonna bring me out
She gonna roll me, roll me, from this baby town
She’s my freight train lady, she gonna tug me down that line
She gonna hold me, hold me, ‘til she’s only mine

Only heaven knows where i’m gone today
Only heaven knows where i’m gone today
I tried to be so brave and strong just like they say
But only heaven knows where i’m gone today

I had a life way back in Tennessee
Still got a picture of my bride to be
She said that she would always wait for me

But then the war began and i was young
I got my letter and they made me strong
With words that promised we were justified, and they were wrong

And only heaven knows where i’m gone today…

I killed a soldier for the greater good
I crossed the lines and shot him where he stood
I killed a man because they said i should

Another came and shot me in return
Screaming at me how i was going to burn
And that’s the last thing that i ever learned along the way

And only heaven knows where i’m gone today…

I don’t want to start no more
Talking about my heart no more
Pull the pieces apart no more, no more

I don’t want to go out no more
It’s not that i want to pout no more
But i got nothing to shout no more no more

I don’t want to tear myself in two
When i’m already losing you

I don’t want to be strong no more
Lead somebody along no more
When i know it’s gonna feel so wrong no more no more

I don’t want to tear myself in two
When i’m already losing you

I don’t want to pretend no more
That nothing’s come to an end no more
That i ain’t lonely again no more no more

I don’t want to tear myself in two
When i’m already losing you

Yesterday i had the moon on a string
My own private balloon above everything
And oh, my love was gold

And i had me a boat with a tiller of pearl
The waves would rock and tumble and curl
And oh, my love was gold

Time would roll from the east to the west
And then tuck itself under and leave us to rest
And we’d slip away free from its slumbering eye
And go toasting the town with the stars in the sky

Yesterday i had the laugh of a king
My thunderous roar would dumb the lightning
And oh, my love was gold

And i had a guitar that wrote its own songs
I’d just catch me the tune and start singing along
And oh, my love was gold

Time would roll from the east to the west
And then tuck itself under and leave us to rest
And we’d slip away free from its slumbering eye
And go toasting the town with the stars in the sky

I had a stone of my own yesterday
That i would not ever be skipping away
And oh, my love was gold

Whiskey’s my shepherd, oh and I shall not want
It maketh me lay down in a strange woman’s bed
It maketh me talk out of both sides of my mouth
Maketh me feel like I’d be better off dead

And daylight ain’t nothing that a man like me covets
Walking that long mile from her bed to her door
Laid bare to the morning, so you run for the darkness
Guilty as sin remembering the evening before

And they say that love is just a chemical reaction
But i say that makes this all too hard to explain
Chemicals for me have been my only safe bastion
They maketh me numb when ‘ere they run through my veins

When you get there you’re dusty, you’re dirty and desperate
But not desperate mind you for a woman’s sweet touch
Just desperate to feel like you belong to something
That something will own you when you want it too much

And they say that love is just a chemical reaction
But i say that makes this all too hard to explain
Chemicals for me have been my bulwark, my bastion
They maketh me numb when ‘ere they run through my veins

And I say that you are like a river in my dreams
Dark as a dungeon, just as deep as the same
But I’m just a man charged with wading across it
Love’s a fifty pound weight paired with a hundred pound chain

So whiskey’s my shepherd, oh and i shall not want
It maketh me lay down in a strange woman’s bed
It maketh me talk out of both sides of my mouth
Maketh me feel like I’d be better off dead

A.J. Roach

My friends have been asking how I’m feeling
You know, since what’s-her-name’s been gone
I ask them what the hell they’re saying
A grown man has to carry on
Yeah, i’ve hardly had a chance to notice
I’ve been so busy every day
But we should all go out for a whiskey
Just as soon as i can get away

It took awhile for me to know it, but when it came, it hit me hard
And I was back in ’87, the first time I was torn apart
She left me stranded at the fairgrounds, trying hard to be a man
And you’ve got me crying in my kitchen with two tickets in my hand

I sat awhile on the back porch
I pushed the leaves into a pile
I wandered over to the dime store
Turned over trinkets for a while
I smiled at someone I remembered
And we ran out of things to say
So I bought a pack of my old standby
Mostly to let her get away

It took awhile for me to know it, but when it came, it hit me hard
And I was back in ’87, the first time I was torn apart
She left me stranded at the fairgrounds, trying hard to be a man
And you’ve got me crying in my kitchen with two tickets in my hand

When I got home, I found your postcard
It said you both were doing well
And all at once i heard the echoes
Of that distant carousel

She left me stranded at the fairgrounds, trying hard to be a man
And you’ve got me crying in my kitchen with two tickets in my hand

Take me back home, sweet darlin’
Come out and meet me around this old door
Bring me on through, and keep me close to you
A home, it ain’t never the same when you’re living alone
But here I am with you and that was a long time ago

Let’s rest us awhile, sweet darlin’
Cause its been hard work not being with you
Let’s lay on the ground and watch the sky burn down
A sunset ain’t never the same when you’re watching alone
But here I am with you and that was a long time ago

Let’s make it this time, sweet darlin’
Let’s seal us all up in an old mason jar
And when the troubles come by, I’ll just hold you inside
A prayer, it ain’t never the same when you’re asking alone
But here I am with you and that was a long time ago