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HEART HAS A WILL Oh, I did not see it coming. No, it took me by surprise. I looked up one day and it hit me, Just like a bullet between the eyes. It wasn't supposed to happen this way. I thought I'd learned a thing or two. I thought I knew how to keep My heart out of trouble, But I was not ready for you. CHORUS Oh, my heart has a will of its own And I can't make it leave love alone. Don't know how many times I've had it remind me Of something I should have known all along - My heart has a will. My heart has a will of its own. I should've headed for the nearest exit. I should've hit the streets on the run. I should've tried to get my heart out of there Before any damage was done. But you smiled and I hesitated And I felt myself starting to fall. I tried to explain about the tears and the pain But my heart wasn't listening at all. CHORUS CHANGING OF THE GUARD When I get back to town I'll tell her that I saw you. I'm sure she'll want to know how you have been. She says the last she heard you had gone out to Wyoming To try and straighten out your life again. She still lives in that house up the hill above the harbor. She still works down at that little shop in town, And the times I've talked to her she's smiled that same old way When she's mentioned how you used to come around. CHORUS But she says it's long ago; she says it's far away. She says the past is just a memory. She says what's gone is gone. She says life still goes on. She says the times will be what they must be. Most of those old faces drifted on to other places. It's a different crowd out on the avenue. It's a changing of the guard and change can come so hard If it happens when you least expect it to. CHORUS The last time I was with her we went driving down the coast, And something she said is worth saying one more time. She says you have to make yourself let go of broken dreams Before you can believe in any other kind. CHORUS WHITEBARK This is the life I have been given. These are the seasons of my time, And I am seeking out the light according to design. I've weathered storms I cannot count to make this world my home In a place where small and twisted things can split the hardest stone. In one like me you might not see how I have manages to exist, A fragile, crooked rack of limbs in terrain as rough as this; But to those who take their chances here experience has shown That sometimes small and twisted things can split the hardest stone. So shed no tears of pity here; spin no tales of tragic grace. Just let it be enough that life is blooming in this rocky place. It is the proof that seeds will grow wherever they are sown And that sometimes small and twisted things can split the hardest stone. READY TO RUN I've been out all night, covering ground, Thinking things over and looking around. Well, I never seemed to notice it all that much before But this place just doesn't feel like home anymore. And lately I've been feeling restless a lot Hungry for something, but I don't know what. I think these streets are losing their hold on me. This town just ain't as big as it used to be. CHORUS I'm ready to run, and I don't care what direction. I'm ready to run, before the hunger disappears. I'm ready to run, if only for my own protection. Something tells me if I wait too long I'll never get out of here. I don't want to end up like some of the guys, Just letting things happen for the rest of my life, Taking the first offer that walks through the door, Too tired, too bored, too scared to hold out for more. And I don't want to end up wishing someday I'd've made some kind of move before my feet turned to clay. I'm not gonna settle for just what I can get, A bird in the hand and a life of regret. CHORUS MEET YOU HALFWAY I'll meet you halfway, somewhere in the night. Look for me just past the moon, second star to the right. I'll meet you halfway, in a dream we are having somewhere And the two of us can go dancing among all our wishes and prayers. I'll meet you halfway and you'll know who I am. I'll be the one with that look in his eye The one with his heart in his hand. I'll wear my favorite colors; you wear your favorite shoes. We can waltz to the edge of the night and watch tomorrow come true. The sky is tied up with an indigo ribbon. The sun has gone down in flames. If we listen as hard as we can We might hear the stars singing our names. I'll meet you halfway; just call if you think you'll be late. There's no place that I have to be and I don't really mind the wait. I'll meet you halfway; come just as soon as you're free. I've already saved you this dance and time means nothing to me. CORNER OF MY HEART Seems like the way in this old world the best of things go by too fast. So much to do, so little time, before it slips into the past. And so it was with you in the time we had to share. Gone but not forgotten is the love we had to share. I am wise enough to know sometimes love means letting go. Sometimes there's nothing else to do but let it fly away from you. there's other loves I've left behind. There's other loves I've yet to find, But you will shine forever as a diamond in my time. And wherever you go may you walk in the light. May you rest in the promise you're not alone in the night. And though the miles come between us, And though the times keep us apart You will always have a place in some corner of my heart. LIGHT ON THE WATER Pocket full of wages burning holes in my jeans; An island beauty burning holes in my dreams; I guess you might say it's some kind of sign Telling me there's better things to do with my time. I've been up on the mainland much too long. The money wasn't bad, but the job was all wrong. Three days ago I made up my mind, Hauled up the anchor and left all that behind. CHORUS Now the sails are full and they'll carry me down To the diamond lights of an island town. Dark-eyed beauty and a bottle of rum Waiting for me at the end of my run. The dolphins are racing off of the beam; I lean on the wheel and let her run with the stream. Big yellow moon rising out of the sea, Light on the water points the way home for me. A man can get crazy every once in a while And try to do things that just ain't his style, Tries to do more than enough to get by, Ties himself down and don't even know why. Up on the mainland right about now I'd be taking time out to wipe the sweat from my brow. This time tomorrow all that'll seem Like some kind of joke or just a bad dream. CHORUS NOTHING TO REGRET There are times I wonder, where would we be now If hearts had not been broken, if love had been allowed? Would it have made a difference in the people we became Or would the way of everything be more or less the same? It's taken me all this time to clearly see the past, To see where we went wrong, to know why it could not last. We thought we had love cornered but it somehow slipped away, Yet there's no shame in that, you know; it happens every day. CHORUS And though it ended painfully there's nothing to regret. There's nothing I would change and nothing I'd forget. Any way I look at it I can see I was bound to win. It's true I lost a lover, but at least I found a friend. It's true I lost a lover, but you lost a lover too. We just tried too hard I guess, like lovers sometimes do. And if we had the chance we might not make the same mistakes again, But I don't think we were ever meant to be anything but friends. CHORUS BACK IN THE DAYS Back in the days that never were, life was so innocent and pure And the world belonged to us, of that much we were sure, Back in the days that never were, back in the ways that never were. Back in the days that never were wrong was wrong and right was right. We watched the pictures on TV. We learned to see things black and white. And we believed what we were told. We were the brightest and the best. We had our bibles and our guns. We were the bravest. We were the blessed. CHORUS Back in the days. Back in the days. Back in the days that never were. Back in the days. Back in the days. Back in the days that never were. Back in the days that never were, our dreams left little room for doubt. The future was waiting in the wings, and all we had to do was call it out. All we had to do was keep the faith. All we had to do was toe the line. All we had to do to keep the sky forever blue Was find a way to stop the hands of time. CHORUS STONE BORN TO ROLL Those warm summer nights in that little Texas town Did funny things to a young boy's mind. They put visions in his head of a world he'd never seen And made him feel like life was leaving him behind. Well, I was seventeen. I had a hot Ford machine, And every evening when the sun went down I'd crank up the engine, stomp on the gas, And go cruising down the highway out of town. CHORUS: The road-tire whine out on highway fifty-nine Was music to my restless ears. Well that was long go but I'm still flying low. I'm a stone that was born to roll. People used to tell me, "Easy does it, Kid. You have to learn how to take life slow." But I did not have the time to listen to that line; I had too much to do and too far to go; So I waited out the day until I finally got away But there were times when I thought I might explode, And like rolling dynamite I'd go tearing through the night To answer the call of the road. CHORUS |