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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 No, 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 it's 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 say you I know she'll want to hear 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 in that little shop in town And the times I've talked to her She's smilled 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 You know, the last time I was with her We went driving down the coast And something she said is worth saying one more time She said 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 Iow I have managed 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 really noticed it that much before But this place just doesn't feel like home anymore 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 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 their lives Taking the first offer that walks through the door Too tired, too bored, too scared to hold out for more 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 through Oh, 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 noplace 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 that once was there Now I'm wise enough to know Sometimes love means letting go Sometimes there's nothing else to do But 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 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 it behind CHORUS: Now the sails are full and they'll carry me down To the diamond lights of an island town A dark-eyed beauty and a bottle of rum Waithing 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 geet crazy every once in a while And try to do things that just ain't his style Try to make more than enough to get by He 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 But 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 Ah, 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 We were so innocent and pudre And the world belonged to us Of that much we were sure Back in the days that never were Back in the days 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 about 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: That road-tire whine out on Route 59 Was like music to my restless soul Well, that was years ago but I am still flying low I'm a stone that was born to roll People used to tell me, easy does it kid You've got 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 justs waited out the day until I finally got away But there were times when I thought I might explode And like rolling dynamite I would go Tearing through the night To answer the call of the road CHORUS |