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Tim McGraw

Greatest Hits 2

(# 1 top country album)
(# 2 top pop album)

Curb 78891
Mar / 2006

Produced by Byron Gallimore, James Stroud

1.

(# 1 country hit)
(# 29 pop hit)

Live Like You Were Dying

Craig Wiseman - Tim Nichols

He said I was in my early 40's with a lot of life before me
And a moment came that stopped me on a dime
I spent most of the next days looking at the X rays
Talking 'bout the options and talking 'bout sweet time

I asked him When it sank in that this might really be the real end
How's it hit you when you get that kind of news
Man what'd you do and he said

I went sky diving I went Rocky Mountain climbing
I went 27 seconds on a bull named Fu Manchu
And I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter
And I gave forgiveness I'd been denying
And he said Someday I hope you get the chance
To live like you were dying

He said I was finally the husband that most the time I wasn't
And I became a friend a friend would like to have
And all of a sudden going fishing wasn't such an imposition
And I went three times that year I lost my dad
Well I finally read the good book and I took a good long hard look
At what I'd do if I could do it all again and then

I went sky diving I went Rocky Mountain climbing...

Like tomorrow was a gift and you've got eternity
To think about what you'd do with it what did you do with it
What can I do with it what would I do with it

Sky diving I went Rocky Mountain climbing...

To live like you were dying to live like you were dying
To live like you were dying to live like you were dying

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2.

(# 6 country hit)
(# 79 pop hit)

My Old Friend

Craig Wiseman - Steve McEwan

My old friend I recall the times we had hanging on my wall
I wouldn't trade them for gold cause they laugh and they cry me
Somehow sanctify me they're woven in the stories I have told
And tell again

My old friend I apologize for the years that have passed
Since the last time you and I dusted off those memories
But the running and the races the people and the places
There's always somewhere else I had to be
Time gets slim my old friend

Don't know why don't know why don't know why don't know why

My old friend this song's for you cause a few simple verses
Was the least that I could do to tell the world that you were here
Cause the love and the laughter will live on long after
All of the sadness and the tears we'll meet again my old friend

Goodbye goodbye goodbye goodbye
My old friend my old friend goodbye goodbye

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3.

(# 5 country hit)
(# 45 pop hit)

Like We Never Loved At All

Vicky McGhee - John Rich - Scott Sacks

with Faith Hill

You never looked so good as you did last night
Underneath the city lights
There walking with your friend laughing at the moon
I swear you looked right through me
But I'm still living with your goodbye
And you're just going on with your life

How can you just walk on by without one tear in your eye
Don't you have the slightest feelings left for me
Maybe that's just your way of dealing with the pain
Forgetting everything between our rise and fall
Like we never loved at all

You I hear you're doing fine
Seems like you're doing well
As far as I can tell
Time is leaving us behind
Another week has passed
And still I haven't laughed yet
So tell me what your secret is
I wanna know I wanna know I wanna know
To letting go letting go like you did

How can you just walk on by without one tear in your eye...

Did you forget the magic did you forget the passion
Did you ever miss me ever long to kiss me
Oh oh baby baby

Maybe that's just your way of dealing with the pain
Forgetting everything between our rise and fall
Like we never loved at all

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4.

(# 1 country hit)
(# 33 pop hit)

The Cowboy In Me

Craig Wiseman - Al Anderson - Jeffrey Steele

I don't know why I act the way I do
Like I ain't got a single thing to lose
Sometimes I'm my own worst enemy
I guess that's just the cowboy in me

I got a life that most would love to have
But sometimes I still wake up fighting mad
At where this road I'm heading down might lead
I guess that's just the cowboy in me

The urge to run the restlessness
The heart of stone I sometimes get
The things I've done for foolish pride
The me that's never satisfied
The face that's in the mirror when I don't like what I see
I guess that's just the cowboy in me

The urge to run the restlessness...

Girl I know there's times you must have thought
There ain't a line you've drawn I haven't crossed
But you set your mind to see this love on through
I guess that's just the cowboy in you

We ride and never worry about the fall
I guess that's just the cowboy in us all

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5.

(# 4 country hit)
(# 37 pop hit)

When The Stars Go Blue

Ryan Adams

Dancing when the stars go blue
Dancing when the evening fell
Dancing in your wooden shoes in a wedding gown

Dancing out on 7th street
Dancing through the underground
Dancing with the marionette are you happy now

Where do you go when you're lonely
Where do you go when you're blue
Where do you go when you're lonely I'll follow you
When the stars go blue stars go blue
Stars go blue stars go blue

Laughing with your pretty mouth
Laughing with your broken eyes
Laughing with your lover's tongue in a lullaby

Where do you go when you're lonely...

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6.

(# 1 country hit)
(# 27 pop hit)

Real Good Man

George Teren - Rivers Rutherford

Girl you've never known no one like me
Up there in your high society
They might tell you I'm no good
Girl they need to understand just who I am
I may be a real bad boy but baby I'm a real good man

I may drink too much and play too loud
Hang out with a rough and rowdy crowd
That don't mean I don't respect
My mama or my Uncle Sam yes sir yes ma'am
I may be a real bad boy but baby I'm a real good man

I might have a reckless streak at least a country mile wide
If you're gonna run with me it's gonna be a wild ride
When it comes to loving you I've got velvet hands
I'll show you how a real bad boy can be a real good man
(Here we go)

I take all the good times I can get
I'm too young for growing up just yet
Ain't much I can promise you cept to do the best I can
I'll be damned I may be a real bad boy
But baby I'm a real good man

I may be a real bad boy oh but baby I'm a real good man yes I am

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7.

(# 2 country hit)
(# 27 pop hit)

She's My Kind Of Rain

Tommy James - Robin Lerner

She's my kind of rain like love in a drunken sky
She's confetti falling down all night

She sits quietly there like water in a jar
Says baby why are you trembling like you are

So I wait and I try I confess like a child

She's my kind of rain like love from a drunken sky
Confetti falling down all night she's my kind of rain

She's the sun set shadows he's like Rembrandt's light
She's the history that's made at night she's my lost companion
She's my dreaming tree together in this brief eternity
Summer days winter snow she's all things to behold

She's my kind of rain like love from a drunken sky
Confetti falling down all night she's my kind of rain

So I wait and I try I confess all my crimes

She's my kind of rain like love from a drunken sky
Confetti falling down all night she's my kind of rain

She's my kind of rain like love from a drunken sky
Confetti falling down all night she's my kind of rain

She's my kind of rain rain on me
She's my kind of rain she's my kind of rain
She's my kind of rain

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8.

(# 1 country hit)
(# 25 pop hit)

Grown Men Don't Cry

Tom Douglas - Steve Seskin

I pulled into the shopping center
And saw a little boy wrapped around the legs of his mother
Like ice cream melting they embraced
Years of bad decisions running down her face
All morning I'd been thinking my life's so hard
And they wore everything they own living in a car
I wanted to tell him it would be OK
But I got just got in my suburban and I drove away

And I don't know why they say grown men don't cry
I don't know why they say grown men don't cry

Keep having this dream about my old man
I'm 10 years old and he's holding my hand
We're talking on the front porch watching the sun go down
But it was just a dream he was a slave to his job and he couldn't be around
So many things I wanna say to him
But I just placed a rose on his grave and I talk to the wind

And I don't know why they say grown men don't cry
I don't know why they say grown men don't cry don't cry

I'm sitting here with my kids and my wife
And everything that I hold dear in my life
We say grace and thank the Lord
Got so much to be thankful for
Then it's up the stairs and off to bed and my little girl says
I haven't had my story yet

And everything weighing on my mind disappears just like that
When she lifts her head off her pillow and says
I love you dad

I don't know why they say grown men don't cry
I don't know why they say grown men don't cry
And I don't know why they say grown men don't cry
I don't know why they say grown men don't cry don't cry

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9.

(# 1 country hit)

Not A Moment Too Soon

Wayne Perry - Joe Barnhill

I was standing at the end of my rainbow
With nowhere to go and no pot of gold in sight
All my wishes were just way too much to hope for
But when I saw you I knew I'd seen the light

And not a moment too soon without a minute to spare
You touched my heart when I didn't have a prayer
In my darkest hour with my world filled with gloom
Your sweet love saved me not a moment too soon

I used to think that love would never find me
And the one who cares was lost somewhere in time
But when you found me I knew I'd found forever
You rescued me just before I crossed the line

And not a moment too soon without a minute to spare
You touched my heart when I didn't have a prayer
In my darkest hour with my world filled with gloom
Your sweet love saved me not a moment too soon
Your sweet love saved me not a moment too soon
Not a moment too soon

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10.

(# 1 country hit)
(# 32 pop hit)

Watch The Wind Blow By

Anders Osborne - Dylan Altman

Creek goes rippling by
I've been bare footing all day with my baby
Brown leaves have started falling deading the way

I like it best just like this doing nothing all the way
So let's lay down in the tall grass dreaming away

And all I wanna do is let it be and be with you
And watch the wind blow by
And all I wanna see is you and me go on forever
Like the clear blue sky slowly there's only you and I
And all I want to do is watch the wind blow by

Girl you know you told me not so long ago
To let it come then let it pass
And all your troubles and your sorrows
They won't last

So let me kiss you now little darling
Beneath this autumn moon
Cold winds another season will be here soon

And all I wanna do is let it be and be with you...

Yeah and all I want to do is watch the wind blow by
And all I want to do is watch the wind blow by

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11. Over And Over

Jason Bridges - James Hargroves

with Nelly

Cause it's all in my head
I think about it over and over again
And I can't keep picturing you with him
I need her so bad yeah cause it's all in my head
I think about it over and over again
I replay it over and over again
And I can't take it yeah I can't shake it

No I can't wait to see you
Want to see if you still got that look in your eyes
That one you had for me before we said our goodbyes
And it's a shame that we got to spend our time
Being mad about the same things over and over again
About the same things over and over again
Oh but I think she's leaving ooh man she's leaving
I don't know what else to do

Cause its all in my head...

No I remember the day you left
I remember the last breath you took right in front of me
When you said that you would leave
I was too damn stubborn to try to stop you or say anything
But I see clearly now
And this choice I made keeps playing in my head
Over and over again playing my head over and over again
I think she's leaving ooh man she's leaving
I don't know what else to do (I can't go on not loving you)

Cause its all in my head...
Cause its all in my head...

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12.

(# 1 country hit)

Everywhere

Craig Wiseman - Mike Reid

We were born in this little town growing up I was counting down
Every single day till we made our getaway
But you said you could never see yourself trying to make a life anywhere else
This would be your home and I was on my own
But ever since you said goodbye I've been out here on the wind
Baby you would be surprised all the places you have been I've seen you in

Albuquerque waiting out a blizzard Arizona dancing cross the desert
Watching the sunset in Monterrey girl I swear just the other day you were
Down in Georgia picking them peaches in Carolina barefoot on the beaches
No matter where you choose to be in my heart I'll always see you
Everywhere

Nowadays when I'm passing through the conversation always turns to you
And I hear you're doing fine living out by the county line
Got a man that's home every night a couple of kids and the kind of life
That you wanna lead guess you could say the same for me
But you and I made our choices all those years ago
Still I know I'll hear your voice and see you down the road
Maybe in

Oklahoma driving cross the prairie in Dallas Texas isn't that where we
Always said we would like to try never did so maybe that's why you're on
Every highway just beyond the high beams right beside me in all of my sweet dreams
No matter where you choose to be in my heart I'll always see you in

Albuquerque waiting out a blizzard Arizona dancing cross the desert...

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13. Beautiful People

Craig Wiseman - Chris Lindsey

Carl's got a brand new haircut must have been the girl's first date
Baby blue front quarter panel on his old dark green Chevrolet

Probably never make the pages of People magazine
But you oughta see them sick kids' faces when he shows up on Christmas Eve

Dressed like old St Nick that missin' tooth don't matter a bit
But there's a lot like him around in every town

They're just family friends and neighbors doing what they've always done
Lovin' fathers lovin' daughters lovin' mothers and lovin' sons

They gather round ole glory round the tables and the steeples
The beautiful people the beautiful people

Debbie Jo down at the diner sunny side up burned the toast
Raisin' up two kids solo can't afford no fitness coach

She was goin' to California the year her mama got sick
So she hung around to do what she could had the first one and that was it

Then her mom passed on
But she still goes by the old folks home
Just to sit a while and bring a smile

They're just family friends and neighbors
Doing what they've always done
Lovin' fathers lovin' daughters
Lovin' mothers and lovin' sons

They gather round ole glory round the tables and the steeples
The beautiful people the beautiful people

A wrinkled old man wearin' medals that he earned on Omaha Beach
Sayin' goodbye to a grandson who was killed outside Tikrit

They gather round ole glory out behind the steeple
The beautiful people the beautiful people
The beautiful people man they're beautiful people yeah

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14.

(# 5 country hit)
(# 40 pop hit)

Red Ragtop

Jason White

I was twenty and she was eighteen
We were just about as wild as we were green
In the ways of the world

She picked me up in that red rag top
We were free of the folks and hiding from the cops
On a summer night running all the red lights

We parked way out in a clearing in a grove
And the night was as hot as a coal burning stove
We were cooking with gas knew it had to last

In the back of that red rag top
She said Please don't stop

Well the very first time her mother met me
Her green eyed girl had been a mother to be for two weeks

I was out of a job and she was in school
And life was fast and the world was cruel
We were young and wild we decided not to have a child

So we did what we did and we tried to forget
And we swore up and down there would be no regrets
In the morning light but on the way home that night

On the back of that red rag top
She said Please don't stop loving me

We took one more trip around the sun
But it was all make believe in the end
No I can't say where she is today
I can't remember who I was back then

Well you do what you do and you pay for your sins
And there's no such thing as what might've been
That's a waste of time drive you outta your mind

I was stopped at a red light just yesterday
Beside a young girl in a cabriolet
And her eyes were green I was in an old scene

I was back in that red rag top
On the day she stopped loving me
I was back in that red rag top
On the day she stopped loving me

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15.

(# 3 country hit)
(# 35 pop hit)

My Little Girl

Tom Douglas - Tim McGraw

Gotta hold on easy as I let you go
Gonna tell you how much I love you though you think you already know
I remember I thought you looked like an angel wrapped in pink so soft and warm
You've had me wrapped around your finger since the day you were born

You're beautiful baby from the outside in
Chase your dreams but always know the road that'll lead you home again
Go on take on this whole world
But to me you know you'll always be my little girl

When you were in trouble that crooked little smile could melt my heart of stone
Now look at you: I've turned around and you've almost grown
Sometimes you're asleep and I whisper I love you in the moonlight at your door
As I walk away I hear you say Daddy love you more

You're beautiful baby from the outside in...

Someday some boy will come and ask me for your hand
But I won't say Yes to him unless I know he's the half that makes you whole
He has a poet's soul and the heart of a man's man
I know he'll say that he's in love
But between you and me he won't be good enough

You're beautiful baby from the outside in...

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16. I've Got Friends That Do

Brett Beavers - Brad Warren - Brett Warren

This is for the nobody the one in the crowd
Who's got a lost look on his face
This is for the down trodden
The one that the world's forgotten
Waitin' on a better day
Well I'm in no position to judge him
Heaven knows they're just like me

And I'm not alone and knowing what it's like
To wonder where you're going in this crazy life
And I'm not alone knowing how it feels
To pray to God and sometimes wonder if He's real
Cause I got friends that do yeah I got friends that do

This is for the lost junkie
Who spends all his hard earned money
On something that he hates
And this is for the found guilty
Who ain't getting out until he
Pays his debt to the state
Well I'm in no position to judge him
Heaven knows it could've been me

And I may not know what it's like...

This is for yours truly just a little to remind me
We've all got somewhere to turn

And I may not know what its like...
Yeah I got friends that do we know we all got friends that do

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