1.

Bon Voyage

Joe Young - Sam Lewis - Walter Donaldson

© Donaldson Pub, ASCAP

[ instrumental ]


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2.

(# 10 country hit)
(# 54 pop hit)

Southern Comfort Zone

Charles Dubois - Kelley Lovelace - Brad Paisley

© House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP

When your wheelhouse is the land of cotton
The first time you leave it can be strange it can be shocking
Not everybody drives a truck not everybody drinks sweet tea
Not everybody owns a gun wears a ball cap boots and jeans
Not everybody goes to church or watches every Nascar race
Not everybody knows the words to Ring of Fire or Amazing Grace

Oh Dixie Land I hope you understand
When I miss my Tennessee home
And I been away way too long
I can't see this world unless I go
Outside my Southern comfort zone

I have walked the streets of Rome I have been to foreign lands
I know what it's like to talk and have nobody understand
I have seen the Eiffel Tower lit up on a Paris night
I have kissed a West Coast girl underneath the Northern lights
I know what it's like to meet the only one like me
To take a good hard look around and be a minority

And I miss my Tennessee home I can see the ways that I grown
I can't see this world unless I go outside my Southern comfort zone

I miss your biscuits and your gravy fireflies dancing in the night
You have fed me and saved me Billy Graham and Martha White

I have since become a gypsy and I just can't wait to pack
Cause I know the route I leave on it will always bring me back

I wish I was in Dixie again I miss my Tennessee home
I've been away way too long
I can't see this world unless I go
Outside my Southern comfort zone

Look away look away

Oh Dixie Land I hope you understand...
I wish I was in Dixie away look away

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3.

(# 9 country hit)
(# 46 pop hit)

Beat This Summer

Charles Dubois - Luke Laird - Brad Paisley

© House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP

Like the first wheel goes around and around
Well the trouble with up is there's always a down
First I'm holding your hand and we're on the boardwalk
There's heaven right here on these streets and these docks

But the sun keeps settin' the days go fast
And the sand the beach is like an hourglass
I can just feel it all slipping away
And babe I can already say that

As long I live whatever I do
As great as it is you know what's a bummer
I ain't ever gonna beat this summer with you baby it's true
The taste of your kiss is so bittersweet
I ain't gonna beat no way I'm gonna beat this summer with you

Before you know it it's all gonna stop
They'll be rolling up windows and puttin' up tops
Be a cold wind blowin' the leaves through the air
You won't find a tan line anywhere

Baby I know that it ain't over yet
So let's make the most of what we have left
But it's hard living for this moment we're in and
Knowing it's all gonna end

As long I live whatever I do...

Yeah looking at you girl standing there
Got your wayfarers on and the sun in your hair
And just like the song in a seashell you'll be stuck in my mind
Bouncing around in my head and baby I can tell

As long I live whatever I do...

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4.

Outstanding In Our Field

Charles Dubois - Brad Paisley

© House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP

with Roger Miller & Dierks Bentley

Christina waits on tables and Clara bills cafe
Now she's waitin' on a bench for Johnny at the end of another hard day
Hey hey he just got paid for washing all them cars
They ain't goin' to the movies and they ain't goin' to a bar
They gonna pick up the keg I'm gonna pick up the ice
We're gonna show you how the experts kill us a Friday night

We drive out in the country to set something on fire
Is that an ice cold beer on a tractor tire
Underachievers look different than the rest
Till we're burnin' up the moonlight
Chillin' on a hot night that's what we do best
We ain't nothin' special we ain't no big deal
But if you wanna throw a party in the middle of nowhere
We're outstanding in our field

Well everyone except for David was passed out in the grass
Somebody grab me a sharpie he's about to grow a mustache
Sam's already dancing turn up the radio
Kenny's always got some moonshine if the keg starts running low
We're all pyromaniacs this place about to blow

We drive out in the country to set something on fire...

We can take a hundred acre big old empty pasture life is so fun
And turn into the hottest weekend nightclub spot from here
To Sunset Boulevard that's just who we are
No we ain't nothin' special we ain't no big deal
But if you wanna throw a party in the middle of nowhere
We're outstanding in our field

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5.

Pressing On A Bruise

Kelley Lovelace - Mat Kearney - Brad Paisley

© House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP

with Mat Kearney

You were a pain girl a thorn in my side
Drove me insane girl a white knuckle ride
So why do I go lookin' through old photographs
And chase you down the hallways of our checkered past
Hold on for dear life and keep the fire fed
I oughta let go but instead

It's like I'm pressing on a bruise
To see if it still hurts
Right now that's all I've got left of you
Everybody knows that just makes it worse
But still I do

I could start a new life I could move on
I could do a drive by and see if you're home
Now there's a fine fine line between a memory
And something any shrink would call an injury
But it's not over long as you're still hurtin' me
And as I turn onto your street

It's like I'm pressing on a bruise to see if it still hurts
Right now that's all I've got left of you
Anybody knows that just makes it worse but still I do
Still I do still I do still love you

But she's the kind of girl puts your world on hold
Walk the halls and you check your phone
Gave up the ghost and the ghost keeps holdin' on
And you run from the sun but you curse the rain
Lost the love so you nurse the pain
Goin' on and on singin' that same song

But she's gone (I can't let it alone)
And you get drunk on those glory days (I can't just let it heal)
With a broken heart and a bitter taste (no I can't just let it go)
Well you light it up as she burns you down (I can't just let it heal)
You're smokin' those memories to the ground (like I'm pressing on a bruise)
Yeah that's the thing about love and pain
They may look alike but they're not the same
(No I can't just let it go)
You've got to let it go go go (no I can't just let it heal)

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6.

(# 33 country hit)
(# 122 pop hit)

I Can't Change The World

Charles Dubois - Kelley Lovelace - Brad Paisley

© House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP

A gun goes off in a far off city
A siren wails right here at home
Well sometimes life ain't all that pretty
When you're watching it all alone

You build a wall around your feelings
Just another heart afraid to break
And you don't wanna let me in cause really
What difference can I make

I can't change the world baby that's for sure
But if you let me girl I can change yours
I bet I can change yours

So let Jesus look down on this mess
And let the powers that be just fuss and fight
Cause everyone needs to pick their battles and we all realize

That I can't change the world baby that's for sure
But if you let me girl I can change yours
I bet I can change yours

And every time you light a flame
You just get burned and you feel like it's all in vain
You feel like you need to learn that no one's gonna save you
No no one's gonna save you
But I'm standing here my heart's on my sleeve
Never gonna let you down never ever gonna leave you

Baby that's for sure oh I can't change the world
But I can change yours I bet I can change yours

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7.

Onryo (Quiet Female)

Justin Williamson - Randle Currie - Brad Paisley

© House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP

[ instrumental ]


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8.

Karate

Charles Dubois - Kelley Lovelace - Brad Paisley

© House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP

with Charlie Daniels

She doesn't dare go in the place with those bruises on her face
So she goes through the drive-thru and keeps her sunglasses on
She didn't know when she married that man
She'd get to know him like the back of his hand
But now she's had enough and the battle lines are drawn

He's in a bar chasing Cuervo with Tecate
He doesn't know she's been taking karate
The way she figures it about July
She'll finally have the belt to match her eye
She's on a mission as the months pass
Five days a week and never misses a class
And now she's up to breakin' boards and concrete blocks

He's in a bar chasing Cuervo with Tecate
He doesn't know she's been taking karate
Now here it is just about July
She's gonna get that belt to match her eye
He stumbled through the door tonight
And started treatin' her rough
Well she took one look at him and her training kicked in
And she'd finally had enough

He threw a punch she spun around
Grabbed his arm and put him on the ground
Grabbed a cuttin' board on his way down and she kicked it in half
His knees hit the floor his chin hit a chair
Knocked out his tooth and it flew through the air
Grabbed his head by the back of his hair and slammed him into the fridge
She landed a left a right and then a left
She landed a roundhouse right in his chest and a scissor punch upside his head
Broke his nose swept a leg he started to fall
And on his way down she took a bow and the lights went out

He's on the floor like he went a round with Rocky
He didn't know she'd been taking karate
A hundred bucks says tomorrow night
She's got a brand new belt that's gonna match his eye
He doesn't dare go in the place with those bruises on his face
So he goes through the drive-thru with his sunglasses on

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9.

Death Of A Married Man

Brad Paisley

© House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP

with Eric Idle

I had a heart attack (he had a heart attack)
While I was playing charades
Everybody yelled heart attack
(Pledge of allegiance)
But it was too late

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10.

Harvey Bodine

Charles Dubois - Kelley Lovelace - Brad Paisley

© House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP

Harvey Bodine died at 11:09
And he left behind a miserable wife
And at 11:14 his heart came back on the screen
Thanks to that defib machine he came back to life

Oh but those five minutes were heaven
A peace unlike he'd ever known
And as he came back to the living
He thought please God don't make me go back to life

They told him what happened how that green line had flattened
Oh Harvey just started laughing he said you're telling me I died
(You're telling me I died)

Oh and he thought about that woman how she treated him for years
All a yellin' and a screamin' and the nagging and the tears
And the way it wasn't really all that bad when he lost his life

Because those five minutes were heaven a peace unlike he'd ever known
And now he was back with the living and he found himself reaching for the phone
He called his lawyer he called his priest told 'em bout how they restarted his heart
How his wedding vows were technically till death do us part

You'll probably judge me then so be it
But you know boys here's how I see it

Harvey Bodine died at 11:09
And he left behind a miserable wife
Oh but at 11:14 my heart came back on that screen
Thanks to that defib machine I've come back to life

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11.

Tin Can On A String

Kelley Lovelace - Ashley Gorley - Brad Paisley

© House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP

After the breakup I really thought we'd make up
Give her a little time I'd be on her mind
And suddenly she'd wake up
But today if you listen
Softly off in the distance
Somewhere cross town you can hear the sound
Of wedding bells ringing
And there's bird seed on the concrete
And she's waving goodbye

And they're driving away
And everybody cheerin' them on as the taillights fade
Yeah she's really gone
I thought someday that would be me
But now she's driving away in that limousine
And I'm holdin' on
Like a tin can on a string

Somewhere in my mind I'm the one by her side
In that backseat talkin' bout the beach
And that honeymoon flight
I'd play the whole thing out
From the kids to the house
To the future that we always dreamed about
But there's bird seed on the concrete
And back here in reality

She's driving away
And everybody cheerin' them on as the taillights fade
Yeah she's really gone
I thought someday that would be me
But now she's driving away in that limousine
And I'm holdin' on
Like a tin can on a string

I thought someday that would be me
But now she's driving away in that limousine
And I'm not ready to let go of everything
So I'm holdin' on I'm holdin' on
Like a tin can on a string

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12.

Death Of A Single Man

Kelley Lovelace - Lee Miller - Brad Paisley

© House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP

Remember when we got the news confirming our worst fears
I said he wouldn't make it six months and others gave him a year

And sure enough last Saturday we paid our last respects
He left us here still in this life and he's gone on to the next

I'd never seen him wear a tie but he looked so natural almost lifelike
The preacher spoke his mother cried when he said son you may now kiss the bride

Everyone cheered I thought how odd I didn't understand
Why with champagne and cake we celebrate the death of a single man

So many flowers he was so loved prior to the bride
As a matter of fact the maid of honor should be disqualified

To all his friends it's a wake-up call if it happened to him
It can happen to us all nothing says it's over man
Like a bad 80's cover band
How can we dance to My Sharona at the death of a single man

He was so young s full of dreams before the day he fell
Now he's gone on to a better place or possibly to hell

Now here we are seems so unfair
It's poker night and there's one empty chair
So many things we're gonna miss
His happy smile and that great laugh of his

I think of him in the after wife life I guess all good things must end
So with Jack and Coke we'll make a toast to the death of a single man

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13.

(# 24 country hit)
(# 105 pop hit)

The Mona Lisa

Charles Dubois - Brad Paisley

© House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP

Now there are men who make history
There are men who change the world
And there are men like me
That simply find the right girl
And in that very moment it all becomes clear
What I'm meant to do the reason I'm here
Now every night I thank the Lord I found you
And every time I put my arms around you

I feel like the frame that gets to hold the Mona Lisa
And I don't care if that's all I ever do

It never fails we walk in a room
Nobody sees me they're all lookin' at you
I disappear but that's fine with me
I feel the same way you're all I can see
Now they've written books about da Vinci's muse
Now I know it wasn't but it shoulda been you

Cause I feel like the frame that gets to hold the Mona Lisa...

Why don't we run off to Paris while we're still young
We could drink a little wine have a little fun
I could tell you I love you in a foreign tongue
We could work on our French in more ways than one
I could take your hand we could walk in the Louvre
I could show ‘em real beauty let ‘em get a load of you

Cause I feel like the frame that gets to hold the Mona Lisa...
I feel like the frame that gets to hold the Mona Lisa...

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14.

Accidental Racist

Lee Miller - L.L. Cool - Brad Paisley

© House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP

with L.L. Cool

To the man that waited on me at the Starbucks down on Main I hope you understand
When I put on that T-shirt the only thing I meant to say is I'm a Skynyrd fan
The red flag on my chest somehow is like the elephant in the corner of the south
And I just walked him right in the room
Just a proud rebel son with an ol' can of worms
Lookin' like I got a lot to learn but from my point of view

I'm just a white man comin' to you from the southland
Tryin' to understand what it's like not to be
I'm proud of where I'm from but not everything we've done
And it ain't like you and me can re-write history
Our generation didn't start this nation
We're still pickin' up the pieces walkin' on eggshells fightin' over yesterday
And caught between southern pride and southern blame

They called it Reconstruction fixed the buildings dried some tears
We're still siftin' through the rubble after a hundred-fifty years
I try to put myself in your shoes and that's a good place to begin
But it ain't like I can walk a mile in someone else's skin

‘Cause I'm a white man livin' in the southland
Just like you I'm more than what you see
I'm proud of where I'm from but not everything we've done
And it ain't like you and me can re-write history
Our generation didn't start this nation
And we're still paying for mistakes
That a bunch of folks made long before we came
And caught between southern pride and southern blame

Dear Mr White Man I wish you understood
What the world is really like when you're livin' in the hood
Just because my pants are saggin' doesn't mean I'm up to no good
You should try to get to know me I really wish you would
Now my chains are gold but I'm still misunderstood
I wasn't there when Sherman's March turned the south into firewood
I want you to get paid but be a slave I never could
Feel like a new fangled Django dodgin' invisible white hoods
So when I see that white cowboy hat I'm thinkin' it's not all good
I guess we're both guilty of judgin' the cover not the book
I'd love to buy you a beer conversate and clear the air
But I see that red flag and I think you wish I wasn't here

I'm just a white man (if you don't judge my do-rag)
Comin' to you from the southland (I won't judge your red flag)
Tryin' to understand what it's like not to be

I'm proud of where I'm from (if you don't judge my gold chains)
But not everything we've done (I'll forget the iron chains)
It ain't like you and me can re-write history (can't re-write history baby)

Oh Dixieland (the relationship between the Mason Dixon needs some fixin')
I hope you understand what this is all about
(Quite frankly I'm a black Yankee but I've been thinkin' about this lately)
I'm a son of the new south (the past is the past you feel me)
And I just want to make things right (let bygones be bygones)
Where all that's left is southern pride
(RIP Robert E Lee but I've gotta thank Abraham Lincoln for freeing me know what I mean)
It's real it's real it's truth

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15.

Runaway Train

Charles Dubois - Kelley Lovelace - Brad Paisley

© House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP

Headlights on the ceiling as she pulls into the drive
She never says she's coming she never says goodbye
She's gonna bring the sunshine and she's gonna bring the rain
Its like I'm standing at the station and I'm waiting on a runaway train

When I was a youngu'n my momma used to pray
That I'd find me a Christian girl and settle down someday
But the devils at the front door and she's calling out my name
Its like I'm standing at the station and I'm waiting on a runaway train

Runaway train coming down the track
Runaway train it don't come back

Yeah I know what she's doing but right now I don't care
She can be Delilah and cut off all my hair
Woman's got a hold on me that I just can't explain
Its like I'm standing at the station and I'm waiting on a runaway train

Runaway train coming down the track...

In the morning when I wake and find that woman gone
I will swear this time that I'm finally moving on
Deep down in my heart I know nothings gonna change
And I'll be standing at the station and waiting on a runaway train

Runaway train coming down the track...

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16.

Those Crazy Christians

Kelley Lovelace - Brad Paisley

© House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP

Those crazy Christians I was gonna sleep in today
But the church bells woke me up and they're a half a mile away
Those crazy Christians dressed up drivin' down my street
Get their weekly dose of guilt before they head to Applebee's

They pray before they eat and they pray before they snore
They pray before a football game and every time they score
Every untimely passing every dear departed soul
Is just another good excuse to bake a casserole

Those crazy Christians go and jump on some airplane
And fly to Africa or Haiti risk their lives in Jesus' name
No they ain't the late night party kind
They curse the devil's whiskey while they drink the Savior's wine

A famous TV preacher has a big affair and then
One tearful confession and he's born again again
Someone yells hallelujah and they shout and clap and sing
It's like they can't wait to forgive someone for just about anything
Those crazy Christians

Instead of being outside on this sunny afternoon
They're by the bedside of a stranger in a cold hospital room
And every now and then they meet a poor lost soul like me
Who's not quite sure just who or what or how he ought to be
They march him down the aisle and then the next thing that you know
They dunk him in the water and here comes another one of those crazy Christians

They look to heaven their whole life
And I think what if they're wrong but what if they're right
You know it's funny much as I'm baffled by it all
If I ever really needed help well you know who I'd call
Is those crazy Christians

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17.

Officially Alive

Brad Paisley

© House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP

So you ruffled some feathers yeah you've done it now
Turned the tables in the temple clean upside down
You're out on a ledge and one thing's for sure
When you've got ‘em all wishin' you'd never been born

Congratulations you are officially alive
It's confirmation you are officially alive

It's not the double kick of an ultrasound
Or a piece of paper on file downtown
It takes more than a beat and a breath and a name
It's when you're so in love and so in pain

Congratulations you are officially alive
Here's affirmation you are officially alive

Yeah it's a tragedy to go through history and simply just exist
You're gonna realize how quick it flies by and everything you missed
And suddenly you're standing there in scrubs
Love has found new flesh and blood
It's a feeling you weren't ready for
When you're lookin' in eyes that look like yours

Congratulations you are officially alive
This is creation you are officially alive
You are officially alive

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