Loveless gets a little more adventurous with each album, though she never forgets to include sure-fire hits like "Hurt Me Bad (In a Real Good Way)" and "Jealous Bone." This time she invites comparisons to Patsy Cline with "Can't Stop Myself from Loving You" and implies that God is female by switching the pronouns in Lyle Lovett's "God Will."
PATTY LOVELESS
UP AGAINST MY HEART
(MCA 10336)
September 3/1991
Produced by Emory Gordy & Tony Brown

Steve Gibson - guitar/mandolin
Steuart Smith, Mac McAnally - guitar
Paul Franklin - steel
Jerry Douglas - dobro
Emory Gordy - bass
Larrie Londin - drums
Stuart Duncan - fiddle/mandolin
John B. Jarvis - piano/keyboards
Vocals:
Dolly Parton, Lyle Lovett, Deborah Allen, Vince Gill, Tim Hensley, Tammy Steffey
1.
JEALOUS BONE
(Steve Bogard - Rick Giles)
« © '90 BMG Songs, ASCAP / Curb Songs, ASCAP / Rancho Bogardo Music, ASCAP /
Songs Of Mosaic, ASCAP / WB Music, ASCAP»
Somewhere deep down inside my heart makes me feel things that tear me apart
Got a jealous bone got a jealous bone
Ever since you walked into my life can't bear to see you out of my sight
Got a jealous bone got a jealous bone
And I know I'm gonna run you off if I don't learn to let you go
But oh you make me lose control I was born with a jealous bone
See hands turn when you walk in a room
I know what they're thinking cause I'm thinking it too
Got a jealous bone a jealous bone
Feel blood pound through all of my veins every last part of me is calling your name
Got a jealous bone got a jealous bone
And I know I'm gonna run you off...
Jealous bone jealous bone jealous bone got a jealous bone
[ guitar ]
Got to have you baby all to myself I can't stand the thought of you with anyone else
Got a jealous bone jealous bone
Jealous bone jealous bone jealous bone got a jealous bone
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2.
NOBODY LOVES YOU LIKE I DO
(Kostas)
« © '91 Seven Angels Music, BMI / Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
Leave your heartaches just outside the door lean your troubles up against my heart
And anytime you need a friend to laugh or cry with you
Remember nobody loves you like I do
Sometimes things just don't go your way sometimes rain clouds cover up the sky
And if someday you think that I've grown tired of you
Remember nobody loves you like I do
There's no one else in the whole wide world could ever take the place of you
And no one else in the whole wide world could ever love you like I do
Don't be afraid of what today may bring yesterday don't matter anymore
Just as long as you need me I'll be there for you
Cause darling nobody loves you like I do
Just as long as you need me...
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3.
I ALREADY MISS YOU (LIKE YOU'RE ALREADY GONE)
(Jim Rushing - Allen Shamblin)
« © '91 Almo Music, ASCAP / BMG Songs, ASCAP / PolyGram Int, ASCAP »
Oh friend the hour is near you must go and I'll be here
To face an empty life on my own
I can't hide it when I'm sad after all the joy we've had
I already miss you like you're already gone
If you could rock my heart to sleep with your breath upon my cheek
I could dream you'd be returning with the dawn
But when I face reality hands of time don't turn for me
I already miss you like you're already gone
I already suffer with this pain in my heart
When I stare out my window my whole world's turning dark
In the time that remains I will try to be strong
But I already miss you like you're already gone
[ dobro - fiddle ]
I already suffer with this pain...
I already miss you like you're already gone
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4.
HURT ME BAD (IN A REAL GOOD WAY)
(Rafe VanHoy - Deborah Allen)
« © '91 Mike Curb Music, BMI / Posey Publishing, BMI / Warner-Tamerlane Publishing, BMI »
Would've never found you if he had wanted to stay
Oh he hurt me bad in a real good way
Well he opened my eyes to a world beyond
That impossible dream I was living on
And I thank my lucky stars each night
When you're in my arms and your holdin' me tight
I realize what it means to have your true love
I would've never found you if he had wanted to stay
Oh he hurt me bad in a real good way
[ guitar ]
And I thank my lucky stars each night
When you're in my arms and your holdin' me tight
I realize what it means to have your true love
When I look back on my life before
How my heart got shattered with a slammin' door
I see how it all had to be for the two of us
Oh the river of tears that flow from my eyes
Was only moving me on to this paradise
I would've never found you if he had wanted to stay
Oh he hurt me bad in a real good way
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5.
IF YOU DON'T WANT ME
(Emory Gordy - Monte Warden)
« © '91 Hollywood Avenue Music, BMI / Paulding County Publishing, BMI / Tree Publishing, BMI »
Never really felt like I belonged just about that time you came along
Lead me to expect your love and your respect
But lately you don't let those feelings show
I don't really want somebody else but I won't be your prize upon a shelf
I'd rather feel this emptiness than be something you possess
If you don't want me let me go
Can't we both admit we made the most of it and we were wrong
Don't you realize the best years of our lives will soon be gone if you hold on
I know there must be more to life than this neglected vows wrapped in a token kiss
Lonely and ignored I can't take it anymore
If you don't want me if you don't love me of you don't want me let me go
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6.
I CAME STRAIGHT TO YOU
(Kevin Welch - John B. Jarvis)
« © '91 Tree Publishing, BMI / Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP »
All I've got is what I've got I can't act like what I'm not
Got an old soul a tender heart and I came straight to you
Well I do my best to tell the truth ask my friends if you need proof
If you don't count my wreckless youth I came straight to you
Thought I walked a twisted trail till I saw where it led me to
Yeah one foot in front of the other baby and I came straight to you
[ fiddle ]
Had this picture in my mind of someone who I hoped I'd find
Honey I've known you a long long time and I came straight to you
Well it seemed like such a long shot but somehow my aim was true
Like a moonbeam across the water baby I came straight to you
[ dobro - guitar ]
All I've got is what I've got I can't act like what I'm not
Got an old soul a tender heart and I came straight to you
Thought I walked a twisted trail till I saw where it led me to
Yeah one foot in front of the other baby and I came straight to you
Like a moonbeam across the water baby I came straight to you straight to you
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7.
IF IT'S THE LAST THING I DO
(Doug Gill - Phyllis Austin)
« © '91 Bull's Creek Publishing, BMI / Just Good Music, BMI »
Pain falls around me like a shadow in the night
And it hangs like a curtain till morning brings light
I've been hurting so long I'm starting to wonder if I will leave you behind
I know I'll forget you it's a matter of time
If it's the last thing I do I'll sleep without dreaming
Your mem'ry won't wake me to cry in the dark
When my heart isn't beating it might finally quit aching
I'll get over you if it's the last thing I do
You're my love of a lifetime the one I knew would last
And I know I'll spend my future livin' in my past
But there will come a time when my tears have all fallen
And I can keep livin' for today and this heartache will release me and I can fly away
If it's the last thing I do...
I'll get over you if it's the last thing I do
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8.
CAN'T STOP MYSELF FROM LOVING YOU
(Kostas - Dean Folkword)
« © '91 Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
Raindrops fall from the sky teardrops fall from my eyes
Can't stop myself from loving you
Your heartaches found a home I walk these streets alone
Can't stop myself from loving you
I know I shouldn't waste my time in dreams of yesterday
But your mem'ry's all that I have left since you've gone away
No matter what I do my heart stays cold and blue
Can't stop myself from loving you
[ guitar - steel ]
They say that time can heal a lonley heart that's broke in two
But time ran out on me the day you walked out of my world
So let the teardrops fall the rain will hide them all
Can't stop myself from loving you can't stop myself from loving you
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9.
WAITING FOR THE PHONE TO RING
(Joe Tassi - Bob Tassi)
« © '91 Tri Spectra Music, ASCAP »
How many nights you cried so sad and lonely
Wondering if he'll call waitin' for the phone to ring
Waitin' for the phone to ring
He said his love was true you want to believe him
You're out there on a limb waitin' for the phone to ring
Waitin' for the phone to ring
How can you love a man when he holds you like dirt in the palm of his hand
His kind will always stray after got through he'll throw you away
Another night goes by he's not there to hold you
You sit there like a fool waitin' for the phone to ring
Waitin' for the phone to ring
Waitin' for the phone to ring now baby waitin' for the phone to ring
[ fiddle ]
How can you love a man...
Waitin' for the phone to ring now baby waitin' for the phone to ring
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10.
GOD WILL
(Lyle Lovett)
« © '91 Lovett-Goldstein Music, ASCAP »
Who keeps on trusting you when you been cheatin'
Spending your nights on the town
Who keeps on saying that she still wants you
When you're through running around
Who keeps on lovin' you when you been lyin'
Saying things that ain't what they seem
Well God does but I don't God will but I won't
And that's the difference between God and me
God does but I don't God will but I won't
That's the difference between God and me
[ steel ]
So who says she'll forgive you says that she'll miss you
And dream of your sweet memory
Well God does but I don't...
Well God does but I don't...
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