1.

Water And Bridges

Craig Wiseman - Tim Nichols

© Blackwood Music, BMI

I was young so was she
Life didn't stay a mystery for very long
We could do no wrong
Then she called said she was late
So we took a little drive upstate and took care of that
Yeah just took care of that

But now I'm longing back at some of my decisions
Now that it's much too late to change
How a father could have held his son
If I could undo what's been done
But I guess everyone is living
With water and bridges

Now my old man he had it rough
Cause like his daddy when he drank too much
He'd get mean and take it out on me
So with angry words I was gone
I never even tried to go back home the night he died
Momma said he apologized

Now I'm longing back on some of my decisions...

We could all go crazy from
Things that only time can dull
I guess that's why everyone is given
Water and bridges water and bridges
Water and bridges

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2.

Someone Is Me

Josh Kear - Joe Doyle

© Bug House, ASCAP

There's aluminium cans and cigarette butts
Lyin' in the sides of street
Baseball field in the county park
Buried in a blanket of weeds

There's a swastika sprayed from an aerosol can
Displayed on the overpass
Drivin' around it's easy to see
This town's goin' down real fast

Somebody should do somethin' about it
How hard could it be
Somebody should do somethin' about it
Maybe that someone is me

Followed a couple into Ferguson's Grille
The doors swung back in my face
Closed my eyes but I felt the stares
When I bowed my head to say grace

Watched the table of suits stiff the waitress a tip
Like they didn't have a nickel to spare
Walked out in the heat risin' on Main Street
But I felt the chill in the air

Somebody should do somethin' about it
(Somebody somebody)
How hard could it be
Somebody should do somethin' about it
(Somebody somebody)
Maybe that someone is me

I don't expect this world to be heaven
But it sure could be better
I could sit around bitchin' stand around waitin'
But I might be waitin' forever
(Forever forever)

Somebody should do somethin' about itThere's aluminium cans an' cigarette butts
Lyin' in the sides of street
Baseball field in the county park
Buried in a blanket of weeds

There's a swastika sprayed from an aerosol can
Displayed on the overpass
Drivin' around it's easy to see
This town's goin' down real fast

Somebody should do somethin' about it
How hard could it be
Somebody should do somethin' about it
Maybe that someone is me

Followed a couple into Ferguson's Grille
The doors swung back in my face
Closed my eyes but I felt the stares
When I bowed my head to say grace

Watched the table of suits stiff the waitress a tip
Like they didn't have a nickel to spare
Walked out in the heat risin' on Main Street
But I felt the chill in the air

Somebody should do somethin' about it
(Somebody somebody)
How hard could it be
Somebody should do somethin' about it
(Somebody somebody)
Maybe that someone is me

I don't expect this world to be Heaven
But it sure could be better
I could sit around bitchin' stand around waitin'
But I might be waitin' forever
(Forever forever)

Somebody should do somethin' about it
(Somebody somebody)
How hard could it be
Somebody should do somethin' about it
(Somebody somebody)
Maybe that someone is me
(Somebody somebody)
How hard could it be
Somebody should do somethin' about it
(Somebody somebody)
Maybe that someone is me

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3.

Someone Somewhere Tonight

Davis Raines - Walt Wilkins

© Dennis Morgan Music, BMI

Someone somewhere tonight
Is taking their first steps
Letting go of the hands that held them
And trusting themselves
And somewhere somewhere tonight
Is hearing their last rites
And prayin' with all their might
That there's something else

So baby lie down here beside me
Let's lie real still
And tell me you love me
And you always will

Someone somewhere tonight
Is tasting their first kiss
Whispering softly this wish
For this night to go on
While someone somewhere
Is holdin' on to a bottle
Pourin' one more and hopin' that God will
Get them through till the dawn

So baby lie down here beside me...

Someone somewhere tonight
Is stuck in a prison
Breathin' but just barely livin'
Behind walls of their own
Ooh and someone somewhere tonight
Just found their own wings
And found some beauty and found some meaning
(They found some truth)
Found some truth in spite of it all

So baby lie down here beside me...
And you always will

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4.

(# 17 country hit)
(# 93 pop hit)

I Can't Unlove You

William Robinson - Wade Kirby

© Warner-Tamerlane Pub, BMI

Postcards and letters and pictures made to last forever
To be boxed up and tossed away knickknacks and souvenirs
In an afternoon they're out of here they'll disappear without a trace
But what they mean to me can never be replaced

I can't unthink about you I can't unfeel your touch
I can't unhear all the words unsay all the things that used to mean so much
I wish I could unremember everything my heart's been through
And finding out it's impossible to do oh it's no use I can't unlove you

Interstates and old songs like time they go on and on
I guess I could learn to do the same
I could wake up without you
These two arms not around you
Tell myself it's meant to be this way
No matter how I try somethings I can't change

I can't unthink about you I can't unfeel your touch...

I wish I could unremember everything my heart's been through
And finding out it's impossible to do
Oh oh it's no use I can't unlove you

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5.

(# 53 country hit)

Calling Me

Craig Wiseman - Annie Roboff

© Blackwood Music, BMI

with Don Henley

There's a back road leadin' off the hard-top
Half a mile past the slingshot tree
Wanders round through a million mem'ries
It's callin' me callin' me

There's a white house with fading shutters
The old front door that never needed a key
And I hear my Momma in the hush of the evenin'
Callin' me yeah she's callin' me

And no matter where I'm goin'
It reminds me of where I'm from
Just as long as I can hear it
I know I'm not too far gone

There's a first kiss under the willow
Love so honest it was hard to believe
And even when my heart is breakin'
It's callin' me callin' me

Yes it's callin' me (ooh yeah yeah)
Callin' me callin' me

And no matter where I'm goin'
It reminds me of where I'm from
Just as long as I can hear it
I know I'm not too far gone

There's a tiny country chapel
Filled with voices singin' harmony
and when my soul is lost in the silence
Oh it's callin' yes it's callin' me

Yes it's callin' me (callin' me)
Callin' oh it's callin'
Yes it's callin' me

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6.

Half A Man

Anthony Smith

© Almo Music, ASCAP

I can chop wood from dusk till dawn
I can swing a hammer till the daylight's gone
I can build a barn I can make a home with these two hands
But if I didn't have all your love I'd be half a man

I can fly a plane up in the big blue sky
Blaze a trail through the woods in my four-wheel drive
With a team of horses or an old John Deere I can plough this land
But if I didn't have all your love I'd be half a man

I can hang the stars I can rope the moon
Walk across Texas in these cowboy boots
I can run a train till it runs out of track
With the weight of the world laid across my back
My life still wouldn't be worth a damn
If I didn't have all your love I'd be half a man

I can build a fire with nothin' but a stick
If I put my mind to it there ain't much I can't fix
I can read and count I can figure things out if you give me a chance
But if I didn't have all your love I'd be half a man

I can hang the stars I can rope the moon...
Whoa I can hang the stars I can rope the moon...

If I didn't have all your love I'd be half a man
Ah ha whoa yeah

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7.

I Can Feel You Drifting

Billy Kirsch - Bat McGrath

© Music Of Stage Three, BMI

You took me out so far that I can't swim to shore
I've been holdin' on but you're not any more
Our love would always lead us home constant as the Northern Star
Here's a storm we won't get through cause it's not in your heart

I can feel you drifting slowly out of reach
Out there in the distance there's something else you need
If I could be what's missing that's all I'd want to be
I can feel you drifting

In the silence that's become the company we keep
I realize how far we are from what we used to be
A part of you has gone somewhere that I can't seem to touch
I could stay and take what's left but baby that's not us

I can feel you drifting slowly out of reach...

If I could be what's missing that's all I'd want to be
I can feel you drifting I can feel you drifting you're out of reach

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8.

(# 56 country hit)

Last Ten Years (Superman)

Tommy Conners - Vincent Williams

© Peer Music, BMI

Oh the last ten years it's been quite trip
Over thirty-six-hundred spins around without a cosmic slip
But within the realm of our atmosphere
We're 'bout as out of whack as we've ever been in a million years
We watched the Y2K scare in a panic
and we watched as time proved Nostrodamus wrong
and we watched as Mother Nature shook the planet
and cellular replaced the telephone
We lost Charlie Brown Ray Charles and Johnny Cash
We even lost Superman mhm

Well the last ten years look at the hills we've climbed
The best golfer's black the best rapper's white and it's about damn time
But we best beware there's a brand new fight you see
and I hate to say we might be our own worst enemy
We watched Oklahoma sifting through the damage
and we watched a US President get caught
We watched shareholders watch their savings vanish
We all cried when we watched those towers fall
We lost Minnie Pearl Ron Reagan and Sam I Am
We even lost Superman mhm

Expensive gas and free downloads
The dot-com boom and reality shows
What's gonna happen next is anybody's guess
Satellite radio and hybrid cars
Hand-held computers and a trip to Mars
It's all become a part of who we are
In the last ten years

In the last ten years
We lost George Harrison John Paul and June Carter-Cash
Hell we even lost Superman gonna miss you Kris

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9.

You'll Know Love

Don Pfrimmer - Mike Reid - Marc Beeson

© PolyGram Int, ASCAP

The night will start to fall
You'll lie awake recalling every tender thing she said
You'll think about her laugh
Her touch her smile becomes a photograph
You can't forget not just yet

You're gonna know that night
When you reach out and she's not there
and there's more pain than your heart can bear
Love's just a river till you've crossed it
Suddenly everything in your life feels wrong
You're alive but the reason's gone
You'll know love when you've lost it

You'll know the taste of tears
You know you will for years cause there's a truth you can't get past
Some bridges will not burn (some bridges will not burn)
But some corners must be turned so you can love again at last
And not look back

Still until that that night
When you reach out and she's not there
and there's more pain than your heart can bear
Love's just a river till you've crossed it
Suddenly everything in your life feels wrong
You're alive but the reason's gone
You'll know love when you've lost it

It's so easy to recognize
You'll know love when you've lost it

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10.

My Petition

Bryan Simpson - Wade Kirby - Ashley Gorley

© Diamond Cholla Music, BMI

I just sat down to watch the game when I heard the doorbell ring
and I wondered who in the world it could be
Through the peephole all that I saw there
Was a crooked cap on curly hair and some kid squintin' back at me
I said If you're sellin' somethin' well I ain't buyin' nothin'
But I appreciate you stoppin' by
Said I ain't askin' for a dime just a minute of your time
and your name here on the dotted line
Could you sign my petition

Had a spiral notebook in his hand
Handed me a chewed up pen
and I ask you What am I signin' up for
I scrolled down that wrinkled page
Saw a couple of neighbors names
I kept readin' then I sat down on the porch
It was a letter to the President
With a list that numbered one to ten

It said Make a law where daddy's don't work late
Keep Uncle Joe and those soldiers safe
Give those kids on TV all they want to eat
Put a stop to bullies on the bus
No crime no waits no hate no drugs
Give a blanket and a job to people on the street
I said Son sounds like a world I'd like to live in
And I signed his petition

He thanked me for my time
I headed back inside grabbed my beer
and got back to the game
Thought By now that boy he's three doors down
Here I am just sittin' round
Waitin' on the world to change
Must've blocked the whole game out
All that I could think about was

Make a law where daddy's don't work late...

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11.

One Life

Tim Johnson - Marc Beeson

© Blackwood Music, BMI

If there's a way of makin' time stand still for good I haven't found it yet
If I could love you for eternity I would but I regret

I've only got one life I've only got one life
And one lifetime's just not long enough to live
I've only got one heart I've only got one heart
And I wish I had a hundred more to give
Girl there's so little time and so much I want to do
But I've only got one life to love someone like you

Can't take my eyes off you I'm afraid of what I'll miss
It goes by so fast
So I'll treat each moment that I've been blessed with you
Like it's the last

I've only got one life I've only got one life
And one lifetime's just not long enough to live
I've only got one heart I've only got one heart
And I wish I had a hundred more to give
Girl there's so little time and so much I want to do
But I've only got one life to love someone like you
And I've only got one life and I give it all to you

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