LIFE AND LOVE AND ALL THE STAGES
(River North 1140)
April 18/1995
Produced by Joe Thomas & Holly Dunn
1.
I AM WHO I AM
(Chris Waters - Tom Shapiro - Holly Dunn)
« © '95 Mike Curb Music, BMI / Music Of Stage Three, BMI / Tree Publishing, BMI »
Whatever you want I've been willing to try
But whatever I do you're not satisfied
Why don't you admit that I'm not what you need
So I can find someone who'll love me for me
I am who I am I am who I am
You've tried to remake me again and again
You can bend but not brake me I'm taking a stand
You get what you see baby I am who I am
I've been changing myself from my hair to my shoes
Now I'm changing my mind about changing for you
I'll never be perfect but I'll be all right
Now that I've started to live my own life
I am who I am...
No regrets no apologies I can't be right for you
If it's not right for me
I am who I am...
I'm all I can be baby I am who I am I am who I am
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2.
IT'S NOT ABOUT BLAME
(Chris Waters - Linda Hardgrove)
« © '95 Music Of Stage Three, BMI »
Love is gone but feelings linger there's no point in pointing fingers
Finding fault where there's no fault to find
Along the way we discovered we are better friends than lovers
Forever wasn't meant to be this time
It's not about blame it's not about wrong it's about change and moving on
We were just two people who weren't where they belong
Better to go our separate ways than to regret it if we stay
It's about life and love and time and us but it's not about blame
We could stay and be mistaken longing for the road not taken
Or we could do the right thing and walk out
And baby there's no way of knowing when we get out to where we're going
We may end up closer then than now
It's not about blame...
It's about life and love and time and us but it's not about blame
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3.
WONDER OF LOVE
(Chris Waters - Tom Shapiro - Holly Dunn)
« © '95 Mike Curb Music, BMI / Music Of Stage Three, BMI / Tree Publishing, BMI »
Till you I never knew what love could mean
You taught this heart of mine so many things
I saw another side I'd never seen and never dreamed of
I didn't realize what it could do all the feelings I'd be going through
Till you introduced me to the wonder of love
You made me wonder where you were at night
Wonder how much I could cry
And wonder what it'd take to give you up
You made me wonder when you didn't call why I even cared at all
Yet you introduced me to the wonder of love
You opened up a whole new world for me
Where things are not what they appear to be
And now I think it's time for me to leave I've seen enough
Someday I'm gonna find somebody new and be a little wiser when I do
Since you introduced me to the wonder of love
You made me wonder where you were...
Oh yet you introduced me to the wonder of love
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4.
ROCK-A-BILLY
(Holly Dunn)
« © '95 Music Of Stage Three, BMI »
Billy was born in a one room shack
On the Tennessee line by the railroad track
Caught a bad fever and he went blind
And his daddy ran off about the same time
His mama didn't know what to do with the boy
So she gave him daddy's old guitar as a toy
Billy used to sit on the front porch swing
Pullin' off licks and bendin' those strings
Playing to the rhythm of the southbound train
Notes flyin' off his fingers like a hurricane
Couldn't see nothing never said a word
But he could sure imitate anything he heard
He could rock he could roll (rock rock rock rockabilly)
Cry blues with soul (rock rock rock rockabilly)
Never went to school one single day but oh that boy could play
He could rock rock rock rock-a-billy
[ guitar ]
One day a man came to Billy's town
To hear that boy and his guitar sound
He said son you should be a star
Now Billy's ridin' around in a big long car
Making more money than he'll ever spend
Cause he still has what he had back then
He can rock he could roll...
He can rock rock rock rock-a-billy
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5.
LOVING EVERY MINUTE
(Tom Shapiro - Monty Chriswell - Michael White)
« © '95 Blackwood Music, BMI / Tree Publishing, BMI »
I once was in love for a week that felt like a year or two
But I'm loving every minute of loving you
Well I've spent too many nights that just couldn't end too soon
But I'm loving every minute of loving you
I like taking my time every time you kiss me
I'd stop every clock to keep you right here with me
Oh I don't care if it takes forever until we're through
Cause I'm loving every minute of loving you
[ dobro - guitar ]
I like taking my time every time you kiss me
I'd stop every clock to keep you right here with me
Well there's nowhere that I wanna go and nobody I wanna see
And there's nothing any better anywhere for me
And I don't care if it takes forever until we're through
Cause I'm loving every minute of loving you
And I'm loving every minute of loving you
Love love loving every minute love love loving every minute
Love love loving every minute love love loving every minute
Love love loving every minute of loving you
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6.
COWBOYS ARE MY WEAKNESS
(Chris Waters - Tom Shapiro - Holly Dunn)
« © '95 Mike Curb Music, BMI / Music Of Stage Three, BMI / Tree Publishing, BMI »
I can say no to cherry pie ala mode a Mercedes don't tempt me a bit
I can resist buying designer clothes but heaven knows I've got to admit
Cowboys are my weakness from LA to Abilene
Cowboys are my weakness could it be the genes
I really go for a rodeo Romeo I gotta know what's under that hat
Show me a man who loves his old pickup truck you gotta love somebody like that
Cowboys are my weakness from LA to Abilene
Cowboys are my weakness could it be the jeans
[ guitar - fiddle ]
They're so strong they're so shy a little bit wild but so am I
I love their walk and I love their ways makes me wanna go yippee yo ki ay
Cowboys are my weakness from LA to Abilene
Cowboys are my weakness ooh you know what I mean
[ guitar ]
Cowboys are my weakness cowboys are my weakness
Cowboys are my weakness from LA to Abilene
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7.
WHAT KIND OF LOVE
(Chris Waters - Holly Dunn)
« © '95 Music Of Stage Three, BMI »
You keep trying to talk me into love
You sure have a way with words when it comes to us
But before we get carried away let's get something straight
What kind of love are we talking about what kind of love are we talking about
When you're telling me all those tender things
I gotta know for sure what you really mean
There's love that will never die there's love that will make you cry
What kind of love are we talking about what kind of love are we talking about
When you talk about forever do you really mean tonight
Or do those four little letters mean
We'll be together for the rest of our lives oh ooh
[ steel ]
I hear everything you say but just so there's no mistake
What kind of love are we talking about what kind of love are we talking about
What kind of love are we talking about what kind of love are we talking about baby
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8.
LOVE ACROSS THE LINE
(Chris Waters - Tom Shapiro - Holly Dunn)
« © '95 Mike Curb Music, BMI / Music Of Stage Three, BMI / Tree Publishing, BMI »
Two a.m. in Austin that truck stop looks promising but don't they at all
That Silver Eagle's slowing down maybe there'll be time enough to call
I don't want to wake him but if I wait later then I'll miss my good chance
I just want to hear his voice I've just got to know he understands
I send my love across the line
The road leads back to us until then I send my love across the line
I wish that I could be there to show him that he is where I'd rather be
But for now these words along the wire will have to take the place of me
I wonder if we ever know the reasons why we take the roads that drive us on
When all that really matters are the ones we always leave behind at home
I send my love across the line...
I send my love across the line...
The road leads back to us until then I send my love across the line
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9.
I'D KNOW THAT HEARTACHE ANYWHERE
(Chris Waters - Holly Dunn)
« © '95 Music Of Stage Three, BMI »
I knew it was you walking through the door without even turning around
It was just like the feeling I had before on the night that I watched you walk out
And I saw your shadow pass over the wall and I had to get out of it's way
I'd know that heartache anywhere
I've felt it so many times I know when it's there
I recognize the signs in your eyes and so I won't be buying your lies
When you try to tell me you care I'd know that heartache anywhere
I hoped through the smoke and the neon light
I could slip out the way that I came
But just as I stepped out into the night I heard you calling my name
There are some things in life that you'd like to forget
But they just keep coming around
I'd know that heartache anywhere...
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10.
1001 WAYS
(Chris Waters - Chuck Jones - Holly Dunn)
« © '95 Music Of Stage Three, BMI »
I've got to say one thing for you when it comes to lettin' me down
You've always got some new way to tear me up when you come around
I'd have though that well had run dry by now
How many ways can you find to hurt me
How many times can you make me fall apart
You could write a book about it no one should love without it
One thousand and one ways to break somebody's heart
I wonder if you just came back so you can say goodbye again
After all the times you've done that why do I still let you in
How can it be over if it never ends
How many ways can you find to hurt me...
[ guitar ]
How many ways can you find to hurt me...
One thousand and one ways to break somebody's heart
One thousand and one ways to break somebody's heart
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