BILLY RAY CYRUS
STORM IN THE HEARTLAND
(Mercury 526081)
November 8/1994 Produced by Joe Scaife & Jim Cotton
Reggie Young, Billy Joe Walker, Don VonTress, Terry Shelton, Ronny Scaife - guitar
Sonny Garrish, Dan Dugmore - steel/dobro
Mike Brignardello, Corky Holbrook, Gary Lunn - bass
Eddie Bayers, Greg Fletcher - drums/percussion
Matt Rollings, Mike Lawler, Randy McCormick, Barton Stevens - piano/keyboards
Vocals:
Mark Collie, Dave Loggins, Clyde Carr, Jim Cotton, Joe Shirley, Danny Shirley
1.
STORM IN THE HEARTLAND
(Billy Henderson - Donald Burns - Curt Ryle)
« © '94 Kissin CVousins Music, BMI / Pier Five Music, BMI / Wooley Swamp Music, BMI »
The leaves on the trees are turnin' inside out
From the Great White North thre's a big block cloud
Run for shelter if you can
There's a storm in the heartland
We made it through the Flood of 93
But this is gonna be the death of me
I can't hide the tears of a desperate man
There's a storm in the heartland
She's leavin' me just like a restless wind
And I can see my world is comin' to an end
Like the sound of thunder angry words ring out again
There's a storm in the heartland there's a storm in the heartland
[ guitar ]
The love she gave was like a breath of spring
Sweet and pure as a mountain stream
I couldn't see the danger close of hand
There's a storm in the heartland
She's leavin' me just like a restless wind...
There's a storm in the heartland
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2.
DEJA BLUE
(Donny Lowery - Craig Wiseman)
« © '94 Almo Music, ASCAP / BMG Songs, ASCAP /
Major Bob Music, ASCAP / Micropterus Music, ASCAP »
Now as she's walking out the door saying she don't want me no more
As her tires are a squealing Lord I get this funny feeling
That I've been in this position before
A different time another flame still it's spooky how it seems the same
Deja blue deja blue
Yeah I'm feelin' pretty certain that this cryin' and a hurtin'
Is something I've already been through
Oh Lordy here I go again tell me will it ever end
Same old fool nothing new deja blue
Now it started in the second grade with little blondie what's her name
I toted all her books and gave her long and gooshy looks
And all she wanted was my brother Jay
That first time nearly done me in
But I've been there a hundred times since then
Deja blue deja blue
Yeah I'm feelin' pretty certain...
[ guitar ]
Deja blue deja blue
Yeah I'm feelin' pretty certain...
Same old fool nothing new deja blue
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3.
REDNECK HEAVEN
(Terry Shelton - Billy Ray Cyrus - Mark Collie - Danny Shirley)
« © '94 Careers Music, BMI / Screaming Woo Music, BMI /
Sly Dog Publishing, BMI / Songs Of Universal, BMI / Two Seats Down Music, BMI »
Take me to redneck heaven when I'm dead and gone
Where my southern roots are buried and Van Zandt still lives on
Where some smokey poolroom's standin' with Jesus on the wall
Take me to redneck heaven when the good Lord comes to call
Comes to call comes to call
Mother Mary ridin' proud on the dashboard of my truck
To remind me to count my blessings and to pray for just a little luck
Brother Levi waits for me and the local seven eleven
Just in case I don't make it there send me to redneck heaven
Take me to redneck heaven...
There I was walkin' on the sawdust streets of gold
And I saw Conway Twitty and there was Keith Whitley
Before I could say Hank Williams I turned around
And I was face to face with the king of rock and roll
You can have your streets of gold sawdust'll do just fine
And about those singing angels just give me Patsy Cline
If I could only meet the king I'll feel I've rolled a seven
Gimme swingin' doors instead of pearly gates take me to redneck heaven
Take me to redneck heaven...
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4.
CASUALTY OF LOVE
(Don VonTress - Billy Ray Cyrus)
« © '94 Sly Dog Publishing / Millhouse Music, BMI / Songs Of PolyGram »
Mama used to tell me tales bout a part of town
Where people cry the blues most everyday
She said don't go down there boy you know love'll cut you down
And you ain't yet a man hear what I say
She said listen to me son it's so
Let me tell you I been down there and I know
That on love street they've got signs that say watch for falling victims
Dreams get run down in the night Lord and yours might be the next one
Down where lies'll cut you deep and goodbyes are loaded guns
You can take one through the heart another casualty of love
But still I had to find out just how a love would feel
I got tangled in the arms of one gone bad
Now I sit and wait and wonder as I cry myself to sleep
Why I couldn't heed what my mama said
Now here every word rings clear and true
Now I come to realize what love can do
That on love street they've got signs...
[ guitar ]
That on love street they've got signs...
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5.
ONE LAST THRILL
(Dave Loggins - Reed Nielsen)
« © '94 Avalon Way Music, ASCAP / Longitude Music, BMI »
So I'll be leavin' this house without you
That's the last thing I thought I'd ever do
How could we come so far and be so close
And have such a distant point of view
I won't stand here and cry over differences
I won't say things I'll regret
I'll be on my way with this broken heart
But the mem'ries I'll caress
Darlin' would you honor this last request
Let's take one last drive just one last time
And go up on old lovers hill
Let's take one last look at those city lights
Like the first time we come up here and learned how to feel
Let's take one last look at those stars that shine
I remember how it was still
Then let me take one long lasting look at your face
Give me one last kiss one last thrill
Then I'd be happy and I'd take you home
You wouldn't even have to ask me in
By then I'll be like a stranger baby
But I'll walk you to the door like a gentleman
And I'll drive away and I won't be back
It doesn't matter which way I go
I'll always be on a one way street always down a dead end road
I will always love you and that's all I know
Let's take one last drive just one last time...
Then let me take one long lasting look at your face
Give me one last kiss one last thrill
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6.
I AIN'T EVEN LEFT
(Corky Holbrock - Billy Ray Cyrus - Joe Scaife)
« © '94 Cory Beth Music, BMI / Fat'n Brite Music, BMI /
Sly Dog Publishing / Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
My bags are packed this evening you know I'll soon be leaving
It's gonna be another long night hmm a long long night
I know that we just said hello now it's time for me to go
You wouldn't want me to miss my flight not out of mind but out of sight
I ain't even left and it already don't feel right
How in the hell can we let love grow when the only thing we ever know
Is I'll call you or you call me love is blind so I can't see
The only thing I know is baby
I ain't even left and it already don't feel right
I ain't even left and it already don't feel right
All I know is I can't control this missing you inside
Loneliness like I've neven known till you walked into my life
And I ain't even left and it already don't feel right
And I ain't even left and it already don't feel right
[ guitar ]
I ain't even left and it already don't feel right...
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7.
HOW MUCH
(Gregg Sutton - Danny Tate)
« © '94 Irving Music, BMI »
One candle burns brightly it flickers and it almost dies like me
Alone against the wind
But this moments has magic it's keepin' that flame alive
As we hold on to the night
There'll be another day we'll have another chance
But not like this no nothing can compare
To the way that I feel right now
Do you feel the same way I do tell me
(How strong) how strong do you want it to be
(How do) how do you want to hear it from me
(How long) how long and baby tell me how deep
How much love do you want from me
Somebody must have scared you left you wounded and afraid to love again
You are just like me
Cause nobody ever held me so close so desperately
And I I never held anybody like you
There'll be another day we'll have another chance...
How much love do you want from me
One tender moment is all I need
This world's gone crazy baby shelter me
You've gotta shelter me
[ guitar ]
There'll be another day we'll have another chance...
[ guitar ]
How much how much
How much love do you want from me
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8.
PATSY COME HOME
(Ronny Scaife - Katie Wallace)
« © '94 Songs Of PolyGram, BMI / Virgin Timber Music, BMI / PolyGram Int, ASCAP »
Mile marker nenety two on forty goin' west
I'd been drivin' without rest the whole night through
I saw this little cardboard sign about to fade away
Made a tear roll down my face with just one line
Patsy come home it said Patsy come home
I bet a mother's watchin' out a window or a lover's waitin' by the phone
No matter who's wrong no matter what you're running from
Somebody's tryin' to tell you they love you Patsy come home
By Little Rock the rain was turning into snow
By now I'd prayed she'd gone back home again
I won't forget for some time the hopeful kind of love
Or the desperation of that cardboard sign
It said Patsy come home Patsy come home...
Somebody's tryin' to tell you they love you Patsy come home
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9.
HEART WITH YOUR NAME ON IT
(Phillip Douglas - Brett Beavers)
« © '94 Homesick Cowboy Music, BMI / Set The Hook Music, BMI / BMG Songs, ASCAP »
Girl I've got somethin' just a waitin' for you
That's gonna make you smile and never leave you blue
I've carried it around waitin' for the right time
To give it to you and make you mine
Just give it a chance and you're gonna want it
Cause I've got a heart with your name on it
It beats strong it beats true
And you'll love the love that it's gonna give you
You might as well take it you already own it
I've got a heart with your name on it
I've got a heart with your name on it
I could feel the heat when I look in your eyes
You were carvin' your name with a burnin' fire
Now I'm a brand new man branded with the thought of you
Holdin' me tight the whole night through
All you've gotta do is say that you want it
Cause I've got a heart with your name on it
It beats strong it beats true...
[ guitar ]
Well it beats strong it beats true...
I've got a heart with your name on it
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10.
ONLY GOD COULD STOP ME LOVING YOU
(Robert J. Lange)
« © '94 Zomba Enterprises, ASCAP »
We saw the moon in Colorado
Made music in Tennessee
We found the gold in El Dorado
It's so good makinG love you and me
These arms they will never hold another
These eyes they are blind to any other
These lips no other girl will ever kiss
This heart it will always feel like this
Only God could stop me loving you only God could tell me not to
He sent you from heaven just to make my dreams come true
When he opened the door that you came walking through
Only God could stop me loving you
Now we struck oil in Oklahoma
Yeah we won the Oscar in Hollywood
We climbed the canyons of Arizona
And baby makinG love never felt so good
These arms they will never hold another...
[ guitar ]
Well there ain't no girl in the whole wide world could take away my heart
And there ain't no man who could steal your hand and tear us apart
But there is one God in heaven above
Who gave me love strong enough to call my own
Only God could stop me loving you only God could tell me not to
Only God could stop me loving you only God could tell me not to
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11.
ROLL ME OVER
(Corky Holbrock - Billy Ray Cyrus - Terry Shelton)
« © '94 Cory Beth Music, BMG / Screaming Woo Music, BMI /
Sly Dog Publishing / Two Seats Down Music, BMI / Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
Reckless and wild in the clutch
I didn't care if it was tackle or touch
I never ever asked you for much
Yet you're drivin' me crazy and things of such
Roll me over ooh roll me over ooh
You straighten me up just enough to roll me over
You don't ask I don't do
I can't believe what you put me through
Yet you say I've embarased you
But son you ain't walked a mile in my shoes
Roll me over...
[ guitar ]
Monkey see monkey do some day the tide will turn on you
Roll me over...
Roll me over roll me over roll me over roll me over
You straighten me up just enough to roll me over
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12.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
(Don VonTress - Billy Ray Cyrus - Keith Hinton)
« © '94 Sly Dog Publishing / Millhouse Music, BMI / Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
Ain't it sad Johnny had another accident
Down some steps and landed on a lit cigarette
Must've made daddy mader than he thought he had
So his little mind becomes a bomb that ain't exploded yet
Said he talks to angels in these moments of pain
One day they'll point their pearly wings and say
That enough is enough enough tears have been shed
Enough hurt has been hidden enough blood has been bled
I said enough is enough let it rain love and trust
Till the steel fist of rage has fallen into rust enough is enough
In the board room of a squirrelly third world government
Hammerin' tunes there on the bones of the innocent
Greedy little minds sit tradin' guns and bad medicine
Could it be it's time for Brother Abel to raise some cain
If we hold our dreams pressed in the palm of our hands
There'll come a day when we all will stand
And say enough is enough enough...
[ guitar ]
You know enough is enough enough...
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13.
PAST
(Billy Ray Cyrus)
« © '94 Sly Dog Publishing / Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
Back when I was young when I was just a kid
The foolish things we done the secrets that we hid
Out on our playground where I first touched your lips
Our first taste of love upon our fingertips
Now I go back in time to a place they call the past
Where dreams are make believe and love can really last
Sometimes it's all so real and it's always way too fast
It's crazy world we live in the past
[ guitar ]
Now I go back in time...
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14.
GERONIMO
(Don VonTress - Billy Ray Cyrus - Keith Hinton)
« © '94 Sly Dog Publishing / Millhouse Music, BMI / Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
It was a wildcat of a hot night the stars were rippin' holes in the sky
The crickets in the thicket clicked quicker every minute poppin' like a 4th of July
On a tall paint pony on a bolt of white light rode a fire eyed medicineman
He said my name is Jerome and you're standin' in my home
Hounting was a song that he sang
He said the salt from my tears made a mountain so high
The moon had to jump to get over
I was cheated and beat but I never denied
The sun's my daddy and the earth is my mama
Wanderin' ghosts you made my tribe and my bride
Their prayers filled my ears as they fell
Then you drug me through the gutter till it hurt like hell
But if you think I look bad bud you better check out yourself
He said your bad dreams spinnin' in my mama's head
You strapped the foul breathed wolf to the back
You ride a steel horse racin' toward a rainbow's end
While her seas and her rivers run black
He said look what you done to her native son
Buddy look what you did to her skies
You trap her power and her glory in your company funds
But your prophets only make me cry
He said the salt from my tears...
[ guitar ]
He said boy can't you se that you're part of the planet
No less or more than the sea of the granite
She tries to give you all her love still you just want to ride her
What will you give for your last cup of water
What kind of price will you put on your brother
What are the secrets of your sould she's keepin' deep down inside her
Unless you really wanna know don't ask Geronimo
Unless you really wanna know don't ask Geronimo
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