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BROOKS & DUNN

TIGHT ROPE

[ # 1 top country album ] [ # 5 top country album ] Arista 18895
September 21/1999
Produced by Don Cook & Byron Gallimore
Cover Kix Brooks & Ronnie Dunn - vocal
Brent Mason, B James Lowry, Larry Byrom, Mark Casstevens - guitar
Paul Franklin, Bruce Bouton - steel
Glenn Worf, Mike Brignardello - bass
Lonnie Wilson - drums/percussion
John B. Jarvis, Steve Nathan - piano/keyboards
Rob Hajacos, Aubrey Haynie, Larry Franklin - fiddle
Vocals:
John Wesley Ryles, Kim Fleming, Vicki Hampton, Curtis Young, Dennis Wilson, Robert Bailey
Recorded:
Spring/1999, Soundshop Studio, Nashville

1.

GOIN' UNDER GETTIN' OVER YOU

(Terry McBride - Ronnie Dunn)
« © '99 Showbilly Music, BMI »
I woke up in the front yard in the back seat of a Buick
With the lights and the radio on
I stumbled across the grass to the front porch through the door
Of a house that once was our home
If love once lived here you can't tell it if I could just let go I'd sell it
Oh I'm goin' under gettin' over you

Made my way down the hall through the boxes to the bed
Where I used to hold you all night long
Your perfume on the pillow where you once laid your head
Stays there to remind me you're gone
It's gonna tear me apart if I let it I should just move on and forget it
But I'm goin' under gettin' over you

The days are long and the nights are tough all alone it's just too much
I'm not handlin' well what I'm goin' through
The whiskey ain't strong enough my hearts down to givin' up
I'm down to my last cigarette too oh I'm goin' under gettin' over you
[ guitar - steel ] The days are long and the nights are tough all alone it's just too much...
Yeah I'm goin' under gettin' over you
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2.

MISSING YOU

(Mark Leonard - Charles Sandford - John Waite)
« © '84 Alley Music, BMI »
Everytime I think of you I always catch my breath
And I'm still standing here and your miles away and I'm wondering why you left
And there's a storm that's raging through my frozen heart tonight
I hear your name in certain circles and it always makes me smile
I spend my time thinking about you and it's almost driving me wild
There's a heart that's breaking down this long distance line tonight
I ain't missing you since you've been gone away
I ain't missing you no matter what I might say
There's a message in the wire and I'm sending you this signal tonight
You don't know how desperate I've become and it looks like I'm losing this fight
In your world I have no meaning I try so hard to understand
It's my heart that's breaking down this long distance line tonight
I ain't missing you since you've been gone away
I ain't missing you no matter what my friends say say
There's a message that I'm sending out like a telegraph to your soul
And if I can't bridge this distance stop this heartbreak overload
I ain't missing you since you've been gone away
I ain't missing you no matter what my friends say say
I ain't missing you I ain't missing youI ain't missing you
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3.

TEMPTATION NO. 9

(Bob DiPiero - Kix Brooks)
« © '99 Buffalo Prairie Songs, BMI »
Yeah I've been hurt and I've been blue
And I've been thinking bout the changes love has put me through
I've told myself it's got to end I've had enough and I ain't going back again
I've watched 'em come I've watched 'em go
Six seven eight and I can still say no
And then tonight you came along and only a fool would wanna be that strong

Temptation No 9 make a man wanna cross that line
Face to face with a chance like this there's only so much that a man can resist yeah
[ guitar ] I walked alone I played it safe trying not to count the times I walked away
Cause when you love and love goes wrong
A broken heart just seems too much to gamble on
I first saw you I had to think
Oh another pretty woman just what I don't need
But when I look into your eyes
Hey I see something makes me wanna roll the dice

Temptation No 9 make a man wanna cross that line...
[ guitar ] Ooh you got it shaking ooh there's no mistaking
You're the next trip that I'll be taking

Temptation No 9 make a man wanna cross that line...
Temptation No 9 make a man wanna cross that line...
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4.

HURT TRAIN

(Terry McBride - Ronnie Dunn)
« © '99 Showbilly Music, BMI »
Ridin' on a hurt train mhm making tracks
Ridin' on a hurt train ain't no turning back
I'm out here on a hurt train the moanin' of the rails
Seems like a sad song last call farewell

A hundred tons of cold steel rusting in the rain
The singing of the rolling wheels are calling out her name
That whistle keeps blowing that high lonesome sound
It tells me where I'm going is gonna be a long way down

Ridin' on a hurt train mhm making tracks...

Now here I sit loaded wondering what went wrong
The whiskey I can hold it I just don't know how long
[ organ - guitar ] A hundred tons of cold steel rusting in the rain
The singing of the rolling wheels are calling out her name

Ridin' on a hurt train mhm making tracks...
[ guitar ] I'm out here on a hurt train ain't no turnin' back
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5.

CAN'T STOP MY HEART

(Chris Waters - Tom Shapiro - Kix Brooks)
« © '99 Buffalo Prairie Songs, BMI »
Sittin' in my world alone I catch myself reachin' for the phone
Gotta get outta here and find a place to get my head clear
I make a wrong turn down your road and how I got here I'm afraid I know oh
A part of me keeps going too far I can't stop my heart

Yeah it feels what it wants to feel and it does what it wants to do
I tell it no then before I know it it's a right back to loving you
Can't stop my heart before it's through
It's gonna break itself in two I can't stop my heart
[ guitar ] I do my best to leave the past but I can't keep my heart from going back
What am I gonna do it just remembers what it wants to
And once it lets your memory in I let myself get swept away again and again
I know it's always tearin' me apart I can't stop stop my heart

Oh it feels what it wants to feel and it does what it wants to do...
Yeah it feels what it wants to feel and it does what it wants to do...
I can't stop my heart can't stop it can't stop my heart
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6.

TOO FAR THIS TIME

(Ronnie Dunn)
« © '99 Showbilly Music, BMI »
She said out with the boys don't cut it no more
And I'm sorry is just noise she's heard it all before
Said that ring on her finger well it feels like prison
She's talked till she's blue and I don't listen

I went too far this time crossed over that line
I'm past the point of no return livin' proof some fools never learn
Well I pushed my luck now she's giving up
Oh something tells me I went too far this time
[ piano ] She said save your breath boy I've heard it all
Keep your place there with your back to the wall
Said I'm leaving you lonely cause I've had my share
Save those worn out I love you's for someone that cares

I went too far this time crossed over that line...
[ guitar ] Well I pushed my luck now she's giving up
Oh something tells me I went too far this time
Something tells me I went too far this time
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7.

YOU'LL ALWAYS BE LOVED BY ME

(Terry McBride - Ronnie Dunn)
« © '99 Showbilly Music, BMI »
I know forever is a long long time for a girl to put her heart on the line
Trust is a tight rope we all have to walk baby don't be afraid I won't let you fall
With a little faith mountains move you and me we can't lose

You can count on the sun to rise and stars to come out at night
As long as there's air to breathe you'll always be loved by me

Love comes so many times goes so much out there we'll never know
Call it fate call it destiny but I think we were meant to be
This old world it spins so fast so many times they just don't last

You can count on the sun to rise and stars to come out at night...
You can count on the sun to rise and stars to come out at night...
You'll always be loved by me
**********

8.

I LOVE YOU MORE

(Bob DiPiero - Kix Brooks)
« © '99 Buffalo Prairie Songs, BMI »
You've stood too long with your tears in the doorway
I guess I've run out of the right things to say
Made up your mind that he'll make you happy
I don't have the heart to stand in your way
Maybe tonight you think you're in love but baby tomorrow when you wake up

Just remember when he looks at you he don't see what I see
That little girl smile that woman in your eyes that always got to me
Just remember when you turn down the lights who you're really reaching for
Yeah he can tell you he loves you but I love you more

I was the one that told you he loved you you were afraid you couldn't be loved
I was the one who you could believe would never leave when times got tough
I'll never say I told you so but take this with you when you go

Just remember when he looks at you he don't see what I see...

Yeah he can tell you he loves you but I love you more
Oh he can tell you he loves you but I love you more
**********

9.

BEER THIRTY

(Terry McBride - Ronnie Dunn)
« © '99 Constant Pressure Publishing, BMI »
I gotta six pack gotta single stem rose my baby's dressed up she's rearing to go
I got a jones for Thae Moad of a jukebox I like to two-step she likes to rock
That clock on the wall it rings it chimes it's beer thirty a honky tonk time

Life's too short let's get to livin' it let's give it all we can give it
Let your hair down turn the music up we're gonna paint the town flat tear it up
The party starts here get in line it's beer thirty a honky tonk time

I put in my forty I'm goin' home Lord my get up it's got up and gone
Got my paycheck I'm on my way it's finally Friday my kinda day
I punch the clock I hit the road flyin' it's beer thirty a honky tonk time

Yeah life's too short let's get to livin' it let's give it all we can give it...
[ guitar ] Yeah life's too short let's get to livin' it let's give it all we can give it...
It's beer thirty a honky tonk time
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10.

DON'T LOOK BACK NOW

(Don Cook - Kix Brooks)
« © '99 Buffalo Prairie Songs, BMI »
He doesn't want your love but he can't say goodbye
He's begging you to stay but he can't tell you why
You finally made your move your hand is on the door
You know the rest is hard you've been this far before

Don't look back now he's gonna see you crying
You'll turn around it happens everytime
That look will always break you down don't look back now

You pick your suitcase up you hear him call your name
You'd give your soul to him if things could be the same
You stop and close your eyes you grab some memories
You think of better days but that's all history

Don't look back now he's gonna see you crying...
[ guitar ] Don't look back now he's gonna see you crying...
Don't look back now don't look back now don't look back now
**********

11.

ALL OUT OF LOVE

(Terry McBride - Ronnie Dunn)
« © '99 Showbilly Music, BMI »
Are you gonna call it quits cause girl from where I sit
All the signs I read say you're over me
My world stopped and time stands still until I know I know how you feel
Are you all out of love

The story in your eyes tells me the well's run dry
Am I a fool for holding on for praying this feeling's wrong
If what I fear is really true then girl I wanna hear it from you
Are you all out of love are you all out of love

Now is this the end of the line is this as far as we go
Or can I somehow change your mind or will your heart be forever closed
Are you all out of love
[ steel ] Now is this the end of the line is this as far as we go...
Are you all out of love
[ guitar ] (All out of love all out of love all out of love all out of love)
**********

12.

TROUBLE WITH ANGELS

(Bob DiPiero - Kix Brooks)
« © '99 Buffalo Prairie Songs, BMI »
Alone here tonight lookin' up at the sky wondering how I let her go
Did I hold her too tight heaven only knows
A bottle of wine a day in the sunshine seems like we shared everything
Yeah I felt her love but I never saw her wings
And that's the trouble with angels that's the trouble with angels
You can try and make her stay but she's bound to fly away
That's the trouble with angels

Wherever you are no matter how far I hope you'll always understand
I'm savin' you a soft place to land
It's crazy I know talkin' like you're still so close but the memory endures
Are you listening I never know for sure

That's the trouble with angels that's the trouble with angels...
[ steel - guitar ] That's the trouble with angels that's the trouble with angels...

That's the trouble with angels that's the trouble with angels
She'll fly (she'll fly)
That's the trouble with angels that's the trouble with angels
She'll fly (she'll fly)
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13.

TEXAS AND NORMA JEAN

(Lewis Anderson - Kix Brooks)
« © '99 Buffalo Prairie Songs, BMI »
It was a foggy morning south of San Jose
We were sittin' in a crowded coffee shop with nothin' left to say
My cup grew cold and a teardrop rolled down her cheek and I brushed it away
I remember it all just like yesterday

And I see it now I feel it still
It's a day I can't forget and never will
And I hear her voice on the winds of Abilene
She used to call me Texas and I called her Norma Jean

Still see her wavin' through the radiator steam
She was stranded by the roadside on her way to bigger things
She threw her bags in back said she liked my hat her name was Marilyn Justine
I fell into her California dream

And I see it now I feel it still...

Yeah we took a lotta detours on our windin' way out west
Livin' for the moment forgettin' all the rest
The life that she had waitin' and the one I left behind
And now I'm back here tryin' to sort it out one fence post at a time
In that coffee shop the road just stopped and we faced reality
The place that she was goin' had no place for me

And I see it now I feel it still...
Yeah I called her Norma Jean
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