lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

TIME FOR ME TO FLY

(Kevin Cronin) « © '78 Fate Music, ASCAP »
I've been around for you been up and down for you
But I just can't get any relief
I swallowed my pride for you I've lived and lied for you
But you still make me feel like a thief
You've got me stealing your love away cause you never give it
Peeling the years away and we can't relive it
I make you laugh and you make me cry I believe it's time for me to fly

Time for me to fly I've got to set myself free
(Time for me to fly) that's how it's got to be
I know it hurts to say goodbye but it's time for me to fly
[ steel ] You said we'd work it out you said that you had no doubt
I thought we were really in love
Oh but I'm tired of holding on to a feeling I know is gone
I do believe I've had enough
I've had enough of falseness of a worn out relation
Enough of this jealousy and intoleration
I wonder why I even try I believe it's time for me to fly

Time for me to fly I've got to set myself free...
Time for me to fly
[ guitar ] Time for me to fly I've got to set myself free...
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2.

YELLOW ROSES

(Dolly Parton) « © '89 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
Hello you said the day we met handing me a yellow rose
You asked me out and to your surprise and to mine I said I'd go
I thought it so romantic and I found you sweet and bold
Though we'd only met I still said yes to a single yellow rose

And for years to come you were the one to sleep with me at night
To laugh and talk and share my thoughts and hold me when I'd cry
And on every rare occasion and for no good reason to
A big bouquet or a single yellow rose was sent from you

Yellow roses the color of sunshine
You loved me at one time why did you have to go
Yellow roses are you sending your new love
My bright yellow rose buds I still love you so

I never see a yellow rose that I don't think of you
It's still my favorite flower though the yellow's turned to blue
The day you left my teardrops fell upon your farewell note
You said goodbye like you said hello with a single yellow rose

Yellow roses the color of sunshine...
Yellow roses the color of sunshine...
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3.

WHY'D YOU COME IN HERE LOOKIN' LIKE THAT

(Bob Carlisle - Randy Thomas) « © '89 Benny Hester Music, ASCAP »
Why'd you come in here lookin' like that
In your cowboy boots and your painted on jeans
All decked out like a cowgirl's dream
Why'd you come in here lookin' like that

Here comes my baby dragging my heart behind
He's driving me crazy who says love is blind
He's got a wandering eye and a traveling mind
Big ideas and a little behind
Out with a different woman every night
But I remember when he was mine

Why'd you come in here lookin' like that
In your cowboy boots and your painted-on jeans
All decked out like a cowgirl's dream
Waltzing right in here lookin' like that
Why'd you come in here lookin' like that
When you could stop traffic in a gunny sack
Why you're almost givin' me a heart attack
When you waltz right in here lookin' like that

I just can't stand it to see him on the town
He's out slow dancing with every girl around
I'm a softhearted woman he's a hardheaded man
And he's gonna make me feel just as bad as he can
He's got himself a mean streak a half a mile wide
But now he's dancing on this heart of mine

Why'd you come in here lookin' like that...
[ guitar ] Why'd you come in here lookin' like that...
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4.

SLOW HEALING HEART

(Jim Rushing) « © '84 Tree Publishing, BMI »
When I left I left walking wounded I made my escape from the rain
Still a prisoner of hurt I had months worth of work
Just freeing my mind of the pain
I had hours of sittin' alone in the dark
Listening to Ronstadt and coming apart
Lord knows I made cussin' an art woe is a slow healing heart

A slow healing heart is dying to mend
Longing for love and lonely again
When the spirit is broken and the memories start
Nothing moves slower than a slow healing heart
[ guitar ] How I prayed for blind faith to lead me to places where I'm not afraid
Now I'm doing fine both body and mind but some hurt takes longer to fade
There's a part of my feelings ever on guard
Against looks that are tender and words that are hard
Cause I still remember those cutting remarks oh it's painful a slow healing heart

A slow healing heart is dying to mend...
Oh nothing moves slower than a slow healing heart
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5.

WHAT IS IT MY LOVE

(Dolly Parton) « © '89 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
You hurt me you use me you lie
You're heartless and hateful and cold
You don't care how you make me cry
You must have the last word and be in control
What is it about you I love
You're selfish and stubborn and proud
You're arrogant boastful and vain
You're careless and thoughtless and loud
A flirt and a taste and you cause me such pain
What is it about you I love what is it what is it my love

There's something about you that I seem to need
Cause I have a hunger you know how to feed
You satisfy me like nobody else
Those moments of heaven are worth all this hell
And I know that you love me in your own crazy way
And I know you need me more than you can say
I may be a fool but I'll never give up
Cause there's something about you I love
What is it what is it my love
[ fiddle ] There's something about me that you seem to need
Cause you have a hunger I know how to feed
And I satisfy you like nobody else
Those moments of heaven are worth all this hell
And I know in my heart that you want to be good
I understand that you're misunderstood
You're insecure and defensively tough
There's something about you my love what is it what is it my love
There's something about you my love that I seem to need
What is it what is it my love
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6.

WHITE LIMOZEEN

(Dolly Parton - Mac Davis) « © '89 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
Fresh scrubbed hot off the bus dressed up and feeling good
Eyes full of stars a heart full of dreams Daisy Mae in Hollywood
Struttin' down the boulevard the walkway of the stars
With a vision of her name in lights reflecting off the cars
And dreaming of a white limozeen she wants to have a white limozeen

Well the days to come were long and dark and the nights were hard and cold
She met the devil in the City of Angels but she never lost her soul
She kept her dreams close to her heart like a family photograph
She cried sometimes and died sometimes but still she knows how to laugh
Dreaming of a white limozeen dreaming of a white limozeen

Now she's a living her dreams like a movie queen
Diamond rings and all things good
From the breadlines to the headlines she's the toast of Hollywood
[ dobro ] (White limozeen white limozeen)

Now she's really ridin' high she's a woman of the world
But deep inside she never changed she's the same old downhome girl
And when the airplane brings the kinfolk to visit for awhile
There's a friendly guy in a red bowtie to take 'em around in style
He drives 'em in a white limozeen she finally got a white limozeen

Now she's a living her dreams like a movie queen...
She's fresh scrubbed hot off...
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7.

WAIT TILL I GET YOU HOME

(Dolly Parton - Mac Davis) « © '89 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
[ with Mac Davis ]
You never cease to amaze me you can still make me crazy
Baby you can turn me on with just your eyes
You're just so darn appealing you stir up sexy feelings
Every man in the room would love to try you on for size

Baby wait till I get you home wait till I get you alone
Wait till I get my hands on you wait till I get you home
Sweet baby wait till I get you home

Oh baby you still make me feel feelings that can take me
To places where I've never been before
Well honey I've got a feeling we'll make some shadows on the ceiling
Tonight by candlelight behind closed doors

Baby wait till I get you home...

Your loving gets better each time we're together
It's always exciting and new
Each time we discover we're still like young lovers
It's always been magic with you

Baby baby wait till I get you home...
Sweet darling wait till I get you home...
Sweet baby wait till I get you home
Sweet darling wait till I get you home
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8.

TAKE ME BACK TO THE COUNTRY

(Karen Staley) « © '88 BMG Songs, ASCAP »
Well this big city life is gettin' me down there's just too many people around
There's dirt in the air and crime in the street high rise buildings and cold concrete
This rat race sure enough takes a toll I wanna run off to my fishin' hole
Take me back take me back take me back to the country
Take me back take me back take me back to the country

Where the stars at night outshine those city lights
Take me back to the country
Where the eagles fly and the treetops touch the sky
Take me back to the country

This traffic jam is a making me mad I miss the simple life I had
Peace and quiet running free I wanna go home to my family
I'm sick of the clock sick of the phone out in the country my time's my own
Take me back take me back to the country take me back to the country

Where the stars at night outshine...
To the country oh take me boy
[ guitar ] Where the stars at night outshine...
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9.

MOON THE STARS AND ME

(Wayland Patton - Diana Rae) « © '89 Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
Tonight I feel a chill in the air as cold as that look on your face
I hear what you're saying but coming from you goodbye seems so out of place
Now how can you stand there and honestly say
There never were any real promises made
The moon is my witness the stars will agree
They all heard you promise you'd always love me
I know that it's true but it's hard to believe
You lied to the moon the stars and me
[ steel ] And what about all of those warm tender nights
Did they mean nothing to you
And where are the feelinmgs I thought that we shared
Or have you forgotten them too
Did you think I just put your memory behind
When your words are still so very clear in my mind
I know that it's true but it's hard to believe
You lied to the moon the stars and me you lied
[ guitar ] The moon is my witness the stars will agree...
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10.

HE'S ALIVE

(Don Francisco) « © '77 New Pax Music Press, ASCAP »
The gates and doors were barred and all the windows fastened down
I spent the night in sleeplessness and rose at every sound
Half in hopeless sorrow and half in fear the day
Would find the soldiers breaking through to drag us all away

And just before the sunrise I heard something at the wall
The gate began to rattle and a voice began to call
I hurried to the window looked down into the street
Expecting swords and torches and the sound of soldier's feet

But there was no one there but Mary so I went down to let her in
John stood there beside me as she told me where she'd been
She said they've moved him in the night and never of us knows where
The stone's been rolled away and now his body isn't there

We both ran toward the garden then John went on ahead
We found the stone and empty tomb just the way that Mary said
But the winding sheet they wrapped him in was just an empty shell
And how or where they'd taken him was more than I could tell

Oh something strange had happened there just what I did not know
John believed a miracle but I just turned to go
Circumstance and speculation couldn't lift me very high
Cause I'd seen them crucify him then I saw him die

Back inside the house again the guilt and anguish came
Everything I'd promised him just added to my shame
When at last it came to choices I denied I knew his name
And even if he was alive it wouldn't be the same

But suddenly the air was filled with a strange and sweet perfume
Light that came from everywhere drove shadows from the room
And Jesus stood before me with his arms held open wide
And I fell down on my knees and I just clung to him and cried

Then he raised me to my feet and as I looked into his eyes
The love was shining out from him like sunlight from the skies
Guilt in my confusion disappeared in sweet release
And every fear I'd ever had just melted into peace

He's alive yes he's alive yes he's alive
And I'm forgiven heaven's gates are open wide
He's alive yes he's alive yes he's alive
And I'm forgiven heaven's gates are open wide
He's alive he's alive hallelujah he's alive I believe it he's alive sweet Jesus
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