1.

Souvenirs

Gretchen Peters

© Purple Crayon Music, ASCAP

I set out like Kerouac
In my American car
Carryin' a dream and a road map
Deep in my American heart
But where's them mountain majesties
Where's those waves of grain
Billboards from sea to shining sea
Man it ain't the same

I've been searching for the promised land
But it's just another neon come on roadside stand
Little tin toys that fall apart
That's all they got here
I come all this way to find my heart
All I get is souvenirs

They got Mount Rushmore on a cup
Everybody needs one of those
For a dollar more they'll fill it up
You can drink out of Lincoln's nose
They got the Hard Rock T shirts
They got Elvis too
Sooner or later mark my words
They're gonna get you

I've been searching for the promised land...

Baby I believed in you
I thought you believed in me
I thought we had a love that's true
Not a close facsimile
Now I don't want your dime store ring
Turns my finger green
I don't want your dimestore love
I want the real thing

I've been searching for the promised land...

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2.

In A Perfect World

Gretchen Peters - Bryan Adams

© Purple Crayon Music, ASCAP

Baby I've been thinking about me and you
Baby I've been dreaming like we used to do
Things ain't what they used to be
I can't change them anyway
But the world would be a better place
If I had my way

Superman would win the fight
Everyone would do what's right
And I would always be your girl
In a perfect world

Maybe we were crazy breaking all the rules
Maybe we were dreamers maybe we were fools
Maybe it was madness to believe that we could win
But boy I would give anything just to feel that way again

Superman would win the fight...

Maybe this is all there is maybe we just pack it in
Spread our wings and fly but baby that don't make it right
That don't get me through the night
I still believe in a perfect world

Superman would win the fight...

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3.

I Don't Know

Gretchen Peters

© Purple Crayon Music, ASCAP

Quit my job and cashed my check
Pawned the pearls around my neck
And kissed it all goodbye
Gassed my car and fixed my flat
Told that boy just where it's at
And had a real good cry
I got this feelin' in my bones
It's time for me to leave the comfort zone

I don't know if I'm fallin' or flyin'
I don't know if I'm laughin' or cryin'
I don't know if I'm hurtin' or healin'
I don't know how I'm feelin'
But it sure feels good

Waitress pours my coffee black
Windshield wiper beats 'em back
And the road goes on and on
These are things that I can see
These are things that set me free
And keep me movin' on
I got this feelin' in my bones
It's time for me to put some distance on

I don't know if I'm fallin' or flyin'...

How long have I been asleep
Are these my tears upon my cheek
Well I just don't
Know is this my hand upon the wheel
I always wondered how I'd feel
If I just let go

I don't know if I'm fallin' or flyin'...

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4.

Love And Texaco

Gretchen Peters

© Purple Crayon Music, ASCAP

I had a big black Pontiac
She burned a little oil but she flew
We had it all there in the back
Baby I burned for you
We were bulletproof
We were bathed in the neon glow
Underneath the stars of love and Texaco

You had a long dark history
Some of it was even true
Baby you were enough for me
And I tried to be enough for you
We were bulletproof
Nobody ever told us no
Didn't need nothin' but love and Texaco

And every night when the trucks'd go by
We'd gas her up a kiss for luck and we'd let her fly

I have a sweet sweet memory
Of a boy I used to know
And baby it's still a mystery
How I ever could have let him go
But we were living proof
That life is a long hard road
And you can't run forever on love and Texaco

Just a little cash for cigarettes
And gas love and Texaco

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5.

Love Is A Drug

Gretchen Peters

© Purple Crayon Music, ASCAP

Baby where are you tonight
I'm lookin good I feel alright yeah yeah yeah
I ain't really missin you
It's just a kind of deja vu yeah yeah yeah
Me I'm out here in the clutch I'm hangin' on to nothin' much
I'm hungry for that human touch yeah yeah

Love is a drug love is a drug love is a
Oh yeah
Love is a drug love is a drug love is a

Romeo's on the internet
He's searching for his Juliet yeah yeah yeah
Got her picture in his head
He's got her poster by his bed yeah yeah yeah
And Juliet she's looking cute and he just needs a substitute
For all of this forbidden fruit yeah yeah

Give us a kiss give us a hug
Give us a fix love is a drug

Up there on the senate floor
They're kickin down the bedroom door – yeah yeah yeah
CNN is keepin score
Hey all is fair in love and war yeah yeah yeah
So tell us how it's come to this
We wanna share your carnal bliss
Yeah give us all our daily fix yeah yeah

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6.

Like Water Into Wine

Gretchen Peters

© Purple Crayon Music, ASCAP

Baby open up that bottle come and lay down by my side
I don't have no special reason just this ache I feel inside
I wanna lose my inhibitions I wanna lose those words we said
I wanna drink my fill of you babe and let it go right to my head

Tonight I want to hold you I wanna look into your eyes
I wanna watch these broken dreams turn into memories
Just like water baby just like water into wine

Don't wanna think about tomorrow
Don't wanna count my last regrets
I can't hate you anymore babe
And I can't love you any less

Sometimes I've been ungrateful sometimes you've been unkind
But all the pain and sorrow and all the bitter tears
They're just water baby just water into wine

So baby open up that bottle
Come and lay down by my side
I can't think of one good reason
We should not be satisfied

Jesus walked upon the water healed the sick the lame the blind
We are miracles of science we are accidents divine
We're just water baby just water into wine

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7.

Eddie's First Wife

Gretchen Peters

© Purple Crayon Music, ASCAP

Eddie's first wife was a vision
The bride on the wedding cake
He thought he was the luckiest man alive
That was his first mistake
He'd found him the perfect woman
That's what he thought he had
Found him a girl just like the girl
Who married dear old dad

Where have you gone Betty Crocker
Come back Brigitte Bardot
Eddie was in for a shocker
How was he supposed to know
About the secret life
Of Eddie's first wife

Eddie came home one evening
She met him at the door with a drink
Said I got something to tell you baby
But you better sit down I think
She said I found me somebody
Someone who rocks my world
I'm in love and I don't care who knows it
And she's a good old fashioned girl

Where have you gone Betty Crocker
Come back Brigitte Bardot
Eddie wasn't much of a talker
How was he supposed to know
About the secret life of Eddie's first wife

She might look like the Venus de Milo
She might be the marryin' kind
But you can't judge a book by the cover
You got to read between the lines

Where have you gone Betty Crocker
Come back Brigitte Bardot
Eddie was in for a shocker
How was he supposed to know
About the secret life
Of Eddie's first wife

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8.

Picasso And Me

Gretchen Peters

© Purple Crayon Music, ASCAP

Picasso's in the kitchen stirring up a stew
He pours himself a bowl and then he fixes me one too
And we sit out on the terrace and the birds fly through the trees
And he captures them on canvas and I capture them in dreams
And we pass a lazy afternoon as happy as can be
With the brushes and the turpentine just Picasso and me

He picked me up in Paris I was scrounging in the streets
He shared his cream for coffee and I curled up at his feet
And ever since that moment I've been his confidante
He says that it's uncanny how I know just what he wants
But we both like our freedom and quiet company
In the end we're not so different Picasso and me

Sometimes he gets angry when they say he's just a fraud
And he curses at the canvas and he shakes his fist at god
Who are these rogues who are these fools
Who made this game who made these rules

The critics criticize him and the women come and go
They'll never understand him they don't know what I know
They're just too damned demanding they just won't let him be
And the lazy summer afternoons the sunlight through the trees
And the brushes and the turpentine and Picasso and me

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9.

Lillies In The Field

Gretchen Peters

© Purple Crayon Music, ASCAP

Billy had a yearning and an ache inside
So he got himself a Harley and he learned to ride
Purred just like a baby low and sweet and true
And he aimed it at the place where the blacktop turns to blue

Penny was a waitress down in Tupelo
They said that she was trouble I don't really know
But something in her spirit touched something in his soul
And he took her to his heart and he never let her go
She said if i had an ounce of courage I would leave this town
Life'll get you nowhere til they put you in the ground

But the lilies of the field they neither reap nor sow
I wanna buy me a Winnebago and a map of Mexico
Go rollin down the highway where life's secrets are revealed
Dancin' in the wind like the lilies of the field

Penny had a secret growin' deep inside
And she'd never known a man to love another's child
Somewhere west of Tucson she just ran out of time
So she made a quick decision and she made him walk the line
She said if you had an ounce of courage you would take a stand
Don't nobody argue with a pistol in your hand

Billy pleaded guilty ninety nine to life
Penny disappeared into the desert night
Then she took his pistol out on Highway 2
And she aimed it at the place where the blacktop turns to blue
She said if you had an ounce of courage you would leave this town
Life'll get you nowhere til they put you in the ground

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10.

Waiting For Amelia

Gretchen Peters

© Purple Crayon Music, ASCAP

True north is hard to find
These long long nights play tricks upon the mind
I tried my best but I'm lost I guess
What I thought was freedom was just aimlessness

Now I'm waiting for Amelia to come in from the west
Waiting for Amelia and the light is fadin' fast
C'mon Amelia you have got this battle won
You know that only angels fly into the sun

I have never learned to wait
I yearn for skies my heart can't navigate
It's been so long since I held someone
And all my dreams of freedom they don't keep me warm

Now I'm waiting for Amelia to come in from the west...

Maybe the night was dark
And the sky was a starry dome
Maybe she lost her way
Or maybe she just didn't wanna come home

Now I'm waiting for Amelia to come in from the west...

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11.

Revival

Gretchen Peters

© Purple Crayon Music, ASCAP

I went walking one night on Tupelo Street
All the way to the county line
Heard a sidewalk sermon and a blind man preach
And written on a cardboard sign

Revival revival
This lamb has gone astray
Revival revival
Gonna wash your sins away

Now I have done everything that I know to do
But you left a hole that I just can't fill
And If god can forgive me baby why can't you
But I guess you never will

Revival revival...

Baby you were my weakness and my saving grace
My salvation and my sin
And I would give anything just to see your face
Just to see your face again

Revival revival...

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