ALISON KRAUSS
FORGET ABOUT IT
(Rounder 0465)
August 3/1999
Produced by Alison Krauss
Alison Krauss - vocal/fiddle
Pat Bergeson - el.guitar
Dan Tyminski, Ron Block - ac.guitar
Jerry Douglas - steel/dobro
Barry Bales - bass/vocals
Viktor Krauss - ac.bass
Kenny Malone, Jim Keltner - drums
Sam Bush - mandolin/vocals
Matt Rollings - piano
Vocals:
Dolly Parton, Lyle Lovett, Evelyn Cox, Sidney Cox, Suzanne Cox
1.
STAY
(Larry Byrom - Allyson Taylor)
« © '99 Nehemiahs Wall Music »
Where have you been my long lost friend it's good to see you again
Come and sit for a while I've missed your smile today the past is goodbye
Time can't erase a lover's embrace
Can't you hear it calling a new day dawning you were longing to find
Love's taken you far away from my heart and I've been here all alone
Have your eyes failed to find qhat took you from mine
A vision that's faded through time
But you sailed away a fine summer's day
Cause you heard it calling a new day dawning you were longing to find
There is a way to make you stay darling don't turn away
Don't doubt your heart and keep us apart I'm right where you are stay
[ dobro ]
There is a way to make you stay darling don't turn away
Don't doubt your heart and keep us apart I'm right where you are stay
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2.
FORGET ABOUT IT
(Robert Lee Castleman)
« © '94 Sixteen Stars Music, BMI »
Forget about it I'm admittin' I was wrong
So I'll just take my old guitar and walk out the door
Forget about it I split and I'll be gone
And you'll have memories you'll find hard to ignore
Cause after all I'll see you sometimes maybe
When I can't recall how you drove me crazy
Forget about it when forever's over I won't remember
How much I love you anymore
Forget about it put me out of your head
Now that you're free and easy out there on the town
Forget about it when you're lying in your bed
Just wishing I was there to lay my body down
Cause after all I'll see you sometime maybe
When you will recall how I drove you crazy
Forget about those star lit nights layin' by the fireside holdin' tight
I can't remember when it felt so right so just forget about it
[ guitar - fiddle ]
Forget about it if you see me on the street don't wave don't wink
Don't try to tease me with your smile
Forget about it if we chance to meet somewhere
Don't think it's cause I'm tryin' to reconcile
Cause after all I'll see you sometime maybe
When I can't recall how you drove me crazy
Forget about those star lit nights...
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3.
IT WOULDN'T HAVE MADE ANY DIFFERENCE
(Todd Rundgren)
« © '94 Earmark Music »
Do you remember the last time I said
If I ever thought of lying I'd rather think of dying instead
And the last time you called me to say we were through
How it took a million tears just to prove they all were for you
But it wouldn't have made any difference if you loved me
How could you love me when it wouldn't have made any difference
If you loved me you just did not love me
Cause I know of hundreds of times I could be
In the most unfaithful arms that you always picture me
Though I can't always show proof I was true
No one else could change my mind or stop me coming home to you
But it wouldn't have made any difference if you loved me
How could you love me when it wouldn't have made any difference
If you loved me you just did not love me
Enough to believe me enough not to leave me
Enough not to look for a reason to be unhappy with me
And make me regret ever wanting you
[ guitar ]
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4.
MAYBE
(Gordon Kennedy - Phil Madeira)
« © '99 PolyGram Int, ASCAP »
Yesterday the odds were stacked in figure of my expectation
Lying above the rest never falling from the nest
Tuesday came and went now I've been a little situation
Maybe it's for the best I can live alone I guess
Maybe I can stand alone maybe I'm strong as stone
Even though the bird has flown maybe you fly on home
Forgive me if I'm keepin' you apart from better conversation
Come with the moonlight down tryin' to sort the whole thing out
Tell me that I'm smart enough to deal with all the information
Spinning inside my head every word he ever said
Maybe I can stand alone...
[ guitar ]
Maybe I can stand alone...
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5.
EMPTY HEARTS
(Michael McDonald - Michael Johnson)
« © '80 Genevieve Music »
Are you leaving are you going
Did you think you could lose that feeling without me knowing
Are you wishing you'd never met me
Does it take some train whistle blowin' to forget me
All the losing and the knowing that you love her still
Could be nothing to what empty hearts must feel
Tell me what an empty heart must feel
[ steel ]
Are you leaving are you going
Did you think you could lose that feeling without me knowing
All the losing and the knowing...
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6.
NEVER GOT OFF THE GROUND
(Danny O'Keefe - Dave Mallett)
« © '97 Bicameral Songs, BMI »
My father was a farmer but his head was in the sky
He worked everyday but Sunday till the day he died
He prayed for rain and thunder and listened for the sound
In the dry years he went under he never got off the ground
We all dream when we're younger that we will do great things
Me I used to have a hunger to wear a pilot's wings
[ mandolin ]
But the circle's that I ran in turned my head around
And the planes I had my plans in never got off the ground
Don't raise your hopes you hear so many say
The higher they get the closer they are to flying away fly away
[ fiddle ]
Don't raise your hopes you hear so many say
The higher they get the closer they are to flying away
They say there but for fortune is the way it would have been
If we could take a bigger portion we'd fill our hands again
You see them on the sidewalks in the parks all over town
Those who've taken flight never got off the ground
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7.
GHOST IN THIS HOUSE
(Hugh Prestwood)
« © '90 Careers Music, BMI »
I don't pick up the mail I don't pick up the phone
I don't answer the door I'd as soon be alone
I don't keep this place up I just keep the lights down
I don't live in these rooms I just rattle around
I'm just a ghost in this house I'm just a shadow upon these walls
As quietly as a mouse I haunt these halls
I'm just a whisper of smoke I'm all that's left of two hearts on fire
That once burned out of control
Took my body and soul I'm just a ghost in this house
I don't mind if it rains I don't care if it's clear
I don't mind staying in there's another ghost in here
He sits down in your chair and he shines with your light
And he lays down his head on your pillow at night
I'm just a ghost in this house I'm just a shadow upon these walls
A living proof of the damage heartbreak does
I'm just a whisper of smoke...
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8.
IT DON'T MATTER NOW
(Michael McDonald)
« © '99 Genevieve Music »
It's finally come is that sorry on your breath
Where were you when I was sittin' back here missing you to death
It don't matter now
How I wanna know can you tell me plain and true
How high will you fly without me there to be your sky
Well it don't matter now
Don't mean to leave you standing on your own
I think back on days and nights we had long ago
Maybe love is just a game you play ihis much I do know
It don't matter now
It's finally come...
Now I don't tell stories and I don't pretend
I won't be around to say I told you then
Cause it seems like something's finally broken that'll take a lot of mend
But it don't matter now
[ piano - dobro ]
Is that sorry on your breath
Where were you when I was sittin' back here missing you to death
It don't matter now it don't matter now it don't matter now
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9.
THAT KIND OF LOVE
(Michael McDonald - Pat Bergeson)
« © '99 Hannah And Arnolds Music »
Who would sell their soul for love or waste one tear on compromise
Should be easy enough to know a heartache in disguise
But the heart rules the mind and the going gets rough
Pride takes the fall when you find that kind of love
I can't help feeling like a fool since I lost that place inside
Where my heart knew its way and my soul was ever wise
Once innocence was lost there was not faith enough
Still my heart held on when it found that kind of love
Though beauty is rare enough still we trust somehow we'll find it there
With no guarantee it seems to me at least it should be fair
But if it's only tears and pain isn't it still worth the cost
Like some sweet saving grace or a river we must cross
If we don't understand what this life is made of
We learn the truth when we find that kind of love
Cause when innocence is lost there is not faith enough
We learn the truth when we find that kind of love
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10.
COULD YOU LIE
(Ron Block)
« © '99 Moonlight Canyon Publishing »
Go on and lie I've heard it all before
You had no shame this pain I feel you've never known
The rain outside is shifting in the wind
The road is looking lonelier alone again
Love is real then love goes on and on
The words you say condemn you as the guilty one
I guess you're not the kind you claim to be
Always looking out to get your love for free
Could you lie and say you love me just a little
One more wrong will keep us one more night
When quiet fades at the light of day
I see the truth it's on your face again
[ guitar ]
When morning breaks my heart won't understand
Spend a lifetime raising houses on the sand
The rain outside is shifting in the wind
The road is looking lonelier alone again
Could you lie and say...
[ dobro ]
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11.
DREAMING MY DREAMS WITH YOU
(Allen Reynolds)
« © '74 Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
I hope that I won't be that wrong anymore I hope that I've learned this time
I hope that I find what I'm reaching for the way that it is in my mind
Some day I'll get over you I'll live to see it all through
But I'll always miss dreaming my dreams with you
I won't let it change not if I can I'd rather believe in love
And give it away as much as I can to those that I'm fondest of
Some day I'll get over you...
[ guitar ]
Some day I'll get over you...
[ dobro ]
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