COLLIN RAYE
THE WALLS CAME DOWN
(Epic EK-68876)
July 14/1998
Produced by John Hobbs & others
1.
ANYONE ELSE
(Radney Foster)
« © '98 St Julien Music, ASCAP / PolyGram Int, ASCAP »
Baby I bought wine and roses on my way home
Yeah I know we can't afford it but life doesn't last too long
This world has gone crazy and knocked us both to our knees
I'm fumbling for the words to try and tell you I love you for hanging onto me
When anyone else would've been long gone packed it up and headed back home
And not a soul would blame you after what I put you through
Yeah anyone else would've gone insane called the game on account of rain
Anyone else anyone else anyone else anyone but you
Mayday baby all the rivets popped loose it's a total tailspin
Too much grindstone too little time with you girl you know it's wearing thin
Baby let's trade in these teardrops for warm kisses on skin
You got a drawer full of IOU's and it's high time you called those things in
When anyone else would've been long gone...
You've passed up so many chances to walk right out the door
Instead of dodging a champagne cork and watching the wet clothes fall to the floor
When anyone else would've been long gone packed it up and headed back home
And you can hide behind a cheshire cat grin but you know it's true
Yea anyone else would've gone insane called the game on account of rain
Anyone else anyone else anyone but you
Anyone else girl anyone but you
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2.
I WISH I COULD
(Tom Douglas - Randy Thomas)
« © '97 Tree Publishing, BMI / Tom Douglas Music, BMI / Cal IV Entertainment, ASCAP »
Looking out my window see you playing in the leaves
It's amazing how a little girl means all the world to me
When I tell you that I love you I love you more than words can say
Smile say cheese pretty please I wanna take your picture
How'd you ever get so big I gotta take your picture
And hold on to the mem'ry before the whole things slips away
I wish I could save these moments and put 'em in a jar
I wish I could stop the world from turning keep things just the way they are
I wish I could shelter you from everything not pure and sweet and good
I know I can't I know I can't but I wish I could
When you kiss me for no reason it goes straight to my heart
When I feel your arms around me I almost fall apart
It's time for bed you whisper daddy we forgot to pray
I wish I could save these moments...
When I watch you sleeping all my worries slip away
A little bit of heaven close on your gentle face
I wish I could save these moments...
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3.
START OVER GEORGIA
(Scott Wray - Collin Raye)
« © '97 Britsar Music, BMI »
I think I feel like an old beat up two lane
The one that the state's not about to repair
From where I'm falling I think I might meet you
Below where we were just above just don't care
The way the world's changing I just can't accept it
No right or wrong all in between
The faith we were raised on is weathered and shaken
But baby it don't have to be
Cause I still believe in a prayer before supper
Passing the time round the old courthouse square
We've got nothing to keep us from start over Georgia
We'll leave all the baggage and start over there
[ fiddle ]
Well I've never been to that part of the country
Save for some old movies and deep in my mind
Where it's accepted and even rewarded
To stand on your own right side of the line
Nobody wins here we're all scared of losing
I feel scarred right down to the bone
Maybe we'll find ourselves close to the ocean
Where freedom first breathed on it's own
Cause I still believe in a prayer...
Oh we've got nothing to keep us...
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4.
I CAN STILL FEEL YOU
(Kim Tribble - Tammy Hyler)
« © '97 Brian's Dream Music, ASCAP / Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP /
Miss Hallie Music, ASCAP / Willdawn Music, ASCAP »
It's that feeling that someone is standing behind me
And I turn around and there's no one there
And it's the sensation that someone just whispered
Yeah I still hear your voice but you're noy really here
Your mem'ry is like a ghost and my heart is it's host
I can still feel you just as close as skin every now and then
All by myself in a crowded room or my empty bed
There's a place you've touched with your love no one gets close to
I can still feel you I can still feel you I can still feel you I can still feel you
You said you'd love me forever then you said it's over
And left me without the missing link
I thought I'd forget you but I guess I forgot to
And lately I've been too confused to think
When I reach for someone new it's like I'm touching you
I can still feel you just as close...
[ mandolin - guitar ]
In everything that moves in everything I do
I can still feel you just as close...
Oh I can still feel you I can
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5.
SOMEONE YOU USED TO KNOW
(Rory Lee - Tim Johnson)
« © '98 Melanie Howard Music, ASCAP / Warner-Tamerlane Publishing, BMI »
I ain't gonna lie to you and say it didn't hurt
To see you with someone new and you were wearing my old blue shirt
But it didn't kill me until we said hello and I became someone you used to know
Like a friend like a fool like some guy you knew in school
Didn't we love didn't we share or don't you even care
I know we said we were through but I never knew how quickly I would go
From someone you loved to someone you used to know
Bet you didn't tell him bout those weekends at the coast
Or how we used to argue bout who loved who the most
Well I guess I won that one cause I still need you so
But to you I'm just someone you used to know
Like a friend like a fool...
[ guitar ]
Didn't we love didn't we share...
I'm not someone you loved I'm someone you used to know
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6.
CORNER OF THE HEART
(Hugh Prestwood)
« © '98 Careers Music, BMI / Hugh Prestwood Music, BMI »
Way down at the bottom both sides come together and form a V
And that's what mama calls the corner of the heart
She says a lot of couples never turn that corner they don't love that deep
They care a little while then they drift apart
Well now baby if you wonder why I'm telling you all of this
It's because something is changing I can feel it when we kiss
And if the moon keeps rising you better hold on I am
Turning the corner of the heart
Back in the Albuquerque near the river there was a cottonwood
One summer hooked up with a climbing rose
And by the time it snowed they were so tangled nothing on earth could
Get that handsome couple to let go
Well now baby this world spins too quick for the eye to see
The slow changing of a stranger into family
But if the moon keeps rising...
But if the moon keeps rising...
Turning the corner of the heart (turning the corner of the heart)
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7.
ALL MY ROADS
(Karen Taylor Good - Annette Cotter)
« © '95 Universal Sheddhouse Music, ASCAP »
Looking back from where I stand tonight I wouldn't change a thing about my life
Wrong turns I had to take back in those crazy years
Could not have been mistakes if they brought me here
Cause all my roads have led me to this night this love I share with you
And though the road was never smooth life has made me someone who
Could be the right someone for you
I don't regret a single broken heart that taught me what love is and what it's not
Someone must have planned our two paths would cross
I couldn't see it then but I was never lost
Cause all my roads...
Detours dead ends endless explorations you were my only destination
Cause all my roads..
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8.
WALLS CAME DOWN
(Collin Raye)
« © '97 Britsar Music, BMI »
Today the air cleared up the lights came on bright
Years of heavy weight in a moment turned light
I'd thought love could only look dark as if through a glass
I just turned into an open book readin' easy at last
Tonight my walls came down like a brick through a plate glass window
With a wrecking ball sound like old Jericho
Laid swift to the ground I'm not sure when
But baby you're how the walls came down
I've never trusted much got my reasons like most
Stayed well protected from every thorn on each rose
Taking those wayward trips only to turn back and run
Sailing all my relationships could not have dreamed up this one
Tonight my walls came down...
You make sense to me in a world where just a few things do make sense to me
In your hrart I'll put my trust through whatever is in front of us
Tonight my walls came down...
Ooh baby you're how the walls came down
Oh baby you're how the walls came down
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9.
APRIL FOOL
(Hugh Prestwood)
« © '98 Careers Music, BMI / Hugh Prestwood Music, BMI »
I'm just a fool for April there's nothing more to say
Long as I can remember she's led my heart astray
When I was green as willow she had me ditchin' school
And even then she tricked me I'm just an April fool
She tangles dogwood blossoms into her yellow hair
She uses the same perfume the smoky mountains wear
She keeps the flame of summer round her neck like a jewel
She breezes in to see me and I'm an April fool
She entrances me and she dances me and she flies me like a kite
And I soon forget she's only come to play
Then there comes a day when she will not stay and I lie awake all night
Hoping next time April may
When I walked out this morning April had up and gone
And it was clear as water she'd only led me on
And it will be next winter before my heels will cool
And then I will forgive her I'm just an April fool
She knows I will forgive her I'm just an April fool
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10.
MAKE SURE YOU'VE GOT IT ALL
(Bill Anderson - Steve Wariner)
« © '98 Mr Bubba Music, BMI / ATV Songs, BMI / Steve Wariner Music, BMI »
I'm watching you go from room to room with all your boxes and your broom
Packing up sweeping out and taking down from off the wall
Everything that's part of us tear my whole world down if you must
Don't even leave one little speck of dust make sure you've got it all
Take my heart take my soul take it all with you when you go
Just leave the floor here to catch me when I fall
You stole my pride and dignity you took it all away from me
Take one last look around girl before you leave and make sure you've got it all
[ steel ]
Don't even leave one photograph the mem'ry of one smile or laugh
Check the closet up in the attic and down the hall
Take your time take your rings take the sandbox and the swings
Without a family oh they're just things make sure you've got it all
Take my heart take my soul...
Take one last look around girl before you leave and make sure you've got it all
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11.
SURVIVORS
(Scott Wray - Jim Daddario)
« © '98 Britsar Music, BMI / Tree Publishing, BMI »
You've been my best friend all these years
You've kept holding on to me through all the trials and tears
Only you and I could know all the sacrifices that let this feeling grow
There were so many times we could've said goodbye
We could have called it quits but honey you and I
We're survivors we made it through the storm
When I've needed shelter I've found it in your arms
Survivors in love enough to fight together in this thing for life
There were times I lost my mind took some wrong turns you got me back in line
There were times you lost control but I stood by you I loved you heart and soul
When faith was tested and dreams were fadin' fast
We held each other close until the rain have passed
We're survivors...
A little time and tenderness has seen us through the years
We'll still be side by side when the final smoke has cleared
We're survivors...
Together in this thing for life
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12.
DARK SECRETS
(Larry Cansler)
« © '98 Key Lime Music, BMI »
[ instrumental ]
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13.
ELEVENTH COMMANDMENT
(Karen Taylor Good - Lisa Aschmann)
« © '95 Nashville Geographic, ASCAP »
She hears his heavy breathing in the dark
His footsteps coming closer down the hall
She's so ashamed she's daddy's secret love
She wants to cry she wants to die but he can't get enough
The bruises on his face will go away
Mom keeps him home from school till they fade
She's sorry he was born and tells him so
He takes it in he hangs his chin he ducks another blow
Did God overlook it what ought have been written
The eleventh commandment honor Thy children
He cries for hours cries and never stops
He shakes so hard his little cradle rocks
He'll never have the chance to be brand new
He'll never walk he'll never talk he's addicted too
Did God overlook it...
Thou shalt not kill Thou shalt not steal
Thou shalt not take the Lord's name in vain
Thou shalt not cause Thy children pain
God does not overlook it what ought have been written
The eleventh commandment honor Thy children honor Thy children
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