Pam Tillis

You just wanna be weird You're just hopin' that someone will notice you Go ahead and be weird 'Cause we know it's just a phase you're goin' through You're so concerned with being cool You're so concerned with being hip And every move is for effect But just ho...

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People talkin', think I'm alright Think I'm doin' fine Goin' through the motioms of my life Go to work now, every mornin' Yeah, I play the part Hide away the contents of my solemn heart But when the sun goes down And the moon is high I can't control the flow o...

There's a tomcat in the alley scarin' up a fight There's a mother softly kissing her little one goodnight There's peace and then there's chaos, reality and dreams We're all trying to strike a balance between a whisper and a scream Sometimes I need atttention...

Here we are on different sides of the fence These angry words just don't make any sense It doesn't really matter who's right or wrong I'd rather hold you than argue all night long I'm gonna walk out that door, walk right back in Straight to your arms and star...

In the after hours Slowly shifting down Last call is over The sign is turned around The chairs are on the tables The drinks are on the house The talk is on the level The truth is coming out Lonesome hounds Hanginround In the after hours Slowly shifting down Mi...

Have you ever seen a wild magnolia There's only one place it grows On the shady banks of the Tennessee River Sheltered, untouched and alone There's a place in my heart where nobody has been And I keep it for you There's a door to my dreams and one day you'll w...

She'll turn thirty-four this weekend She'll go out with her girlfriends They'll drink some margaritas Cut up and carry on There'll be guys and there'll be come ons She'll probably get hit on But she thinks all the good ones are gone She's got friends down at...

You come banging on the screen door Begging me to let you in All I got to say is, "Honey, where you been?" This time I think it's you that's surrenderin' You see I've already fallen Yeah, I've already fallen If you're waiting on me you're backing up I'm way i...

We can talk and talk all night If you want to That's allright 'Till I heard every word You got to say Go ahead and take your time If you got something on your mind But it won't change the way I feel, anyway That's ancient history to me now Something we don't...

Who's that knocking in the middle of the night With a hand full of flowers to make it all right If you're thinking I'll forgive you one more time I ain't that lonely and love ain't that blind I'd be better off blue for a couple of nights Better blue now than...

Now Betty was your average ordinary girl Never wanted very much out of this world Just an occasional dinner and twirl From a regular guy So Betty sat up one lonely night Trying to figure out what a man might like Then like a bolt right out of the blue She got...

Her lips and her dress, they're both ruby red She thinks that's how you hide the pain you feel inside And she comes out every night to soak up the neon light Her perfume fills the air, people stop and stare, but... Blue Rose is looking for the moon in someone...

Tonight I'm burning old love letters Photographs and memories of you Hoping somehow I'll feel better And when the smoke is gone I won't want you Burning mem'ries (teardrops fall while I am) burning mem'ries Burning all those memories of you that I can't lose M...

Sweet Abilena looks out at the midwestern sky Sweet seventeen with a faraway look in her eyes She said, "I feel like a bird in a cage But come September I'm flying away" I said, "I'm gonna miss you" then I made her promise to write Since we were tall as the c...

Well, I said he had a lot of potential, He was only misunderstood. You know, he really didn't mean to treat me so bad, He wanted to be good. And I swore one day I would tame him, Even though he loves to run hog wild. Just call me Cleopatra, everybody, Cause I'...

Come on and sing girl sing boy sing a happy song Come on and sing girl sing boy this old world may not last long Most everybody's doing too much fighting and there's not enough singing going on How many people have you ever seen fight while they were singing a...

Well, I see the world thru an unusual lens A little nutty if you ask my friends I probably bought my shrink a Mercedes Benz But its paying off now From clear across the room its easy to see Unmistakeable electricity But thats coming from someone warped as me...

You know everyday I walk down memory lane Trying to find a way past the same old pain Ah you know, but now the message is loud and it's clear There ain't no way to get there from here Yeah I've finally realized that's the way things are I got the bleedin...

I got walls around my soul, Walls around my heart, Walls around these walls, I've built a prison in the dark. A fortress full of trouble, It's a monument of pride, Built with the bricks of selfishness, Ambition, fear, and lies. Demolition Angel, Tear it...

I wanna go home I wanna go home oh how I wanna go home Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City And I dreamed about those cottonfields and home I dreamed about my mother dear old papa sister and brother I dreamed about that girl who's been waiting for so lon...

Night is fallin' on this honky-tonk city Country music spillin' out on the street Well, it sure can sound good to a hard-workin' man At the end of a hard-workin' week Did you kiss him when he left this morning And does he know that he's needed at home Well, i...

We tried and we tried but it's over. Guess I didn't fit the image in your mind. Now you tell me to find another lover, oh but baby aren't you getting out of line? Don't tell me what to do. You've already said we are through. I'm a page that you have turned, I...

My eyes may be hollow My face may be pale I may just be a shadow of my former self But tonight the ghost of heartaches past Is steppin' into town Gonna haunt the places where we used to hang around Draggin' my chains Draggin' my chains I'm movin' in slow moti...

Emotions what are you doing oh don't you know you'll be my ruin You've got me crying crying again when will you let this heartache end Emotions you get me upset make me remember what I wand to forget I've been lonely lonely too long emotions please leave me al...

Every time that you walk by I can't believe that I Have to live without you Every time I hear your name It hits me just the same I wish that I knew how to Make you notice, make you see Turn your angel eyes to me Let me show you all the love I'm hiding Just wh...

I never knew how good a love could be All I'd ever known was make believe So many times I played the fool Baby, till I met you Now everything has fallen in place You can tell by the smile on my face For every lonely tear that I've cried I'm that much satisfie...

You look so disbelieving at my suitcase by the door My taxi's on its way I can't take it anymore Lately you've forgotten what loving me's about Well now you've got five minutes to figure it out You've got five minutes to tell me what I've needed to hear You've...

I've been reeling around Wheeling West Virginia just a little too long Now I gotta be leaving cause one deceiving free wheeling man done me wrong And it's goodbye Wheeling West Virginia I don't guess I'll settle down Since he don't need me Lord I can't see me...

I love you so much that I can't leave you Even though my mind tells me I should Then you make me think you really want me And all my thoughts of leaving do no good You've got me heart over mind worried all the time Knowing you will always be the same You keep...

You've been spreadin' the blues All over the place Walking around with that look on your face Teardrops fallin hard on the cold cold ground It's time you lay the heartache down Well I know shes done you wrong I know she told you lies Said forever then goodbye...

She saw the ragged edge of nowhere from a fast moving train Watched the scenery fly by with a fever in her brain Seemed like a good time at the time, rolling down that track Now the only thing she wants is a one-way ticket back She's a homeward looking angel a...

Honey honey honey won't you open that door This is your sweet daddy don't you love me no more It's cold outside let me sleep on the floor Honey won't you open that door I honky tonked around Dallas I got in a poker game But somebody must have been cheastin' I...

Baby I've got this sinkin' feeling I've done something I can't undo And I could kick myself from Tennessee to Texas If I just lost the love I found with you So tell me I just gotta know, how too far did I go And how gone is goodbye Is that last bridge burnin'...

Ain't tried cigarettes There is always alcohol I could stay up all night long Don't need to sleep at all I've got credit cards I could run'em up I could play with knives I could drink and drive And if that ain't enough If I need another way to hurt myself If I...

I ain't never I ain't never Seen nobody like you oh oh oh never have I ever seen nobody like you You call me up and say to meet me at nine I have to hurry hurry but I'm there on time I walk a right up and knock on your door The landlord says she ain't a here n...

Under the sun, under the moon Under the sky midnight blue Under the maple, under the roof I got down on my knees and told the truth I told Him I was tired of feeling lonely And I could really use my one and only Oh, oh, I said a prayer for you baby And someh...

Oh yeah...uh huh... Lost and all alone, looking for a reason for being in this crazy world Trying to go on lookin for the answers to the questions, There u were. From the moment u appeared everything became so clear. I'm so glad you found me, boy. I smile...

You drove up in your pickup truck That hot September day Not a wisp of wind in the parking lot But honey I was blown away And later on that fall at the Dixie Mall When I didn't know what to say I seen hide nor hair of no dynamite But honey I was blown away B...

The way she treats you Is a dog gone crime I just get blue about it all the time Drives me crazy how she walks that line I wish she wouldn't treat you that way baby I wish she wouldn't treat you that way I ain't sayin' that she's bad to you She does every litt...

I know it was pretty strange timing and maybe the odds were bad We were awkward as a couple of left-footed dancers Baby we were pretty sad You tried to tell me that it just wouldn't work Your heart was too far gone And it might have been easier to leave...

So good When it's good I wanna spend my whole life lovin' you But I'm tired And you don't know how close I've come to leaving you You try my patience And you race me to the wire It takes every ounce of my will and desire If I didn't love you If I didn't love y...

There's room at my table, why don't you pull up a seat? The music's inviting but I'm staying off of my feet The floor's getting crowded, but I don't wanna take part I bet you can guess it's got someting to do with my heart I could sure use your company now Bu...

Surely you can sit down a while Maybe you can even smile And I'll try to pretend That you love me again But it might take me a little while Soon you'll be holding me tight You'll know when the moment is right I was broken into It was all because of you But ba...

The first I heard you close in my arms I was sure that our love could survive any storm I wish I could say I still felt the same And what's causing these blues is only the rain But It isn't just raining It's really coming down The sun's not just hiding It can...

I can't make you stay, and boy I wouldn't want to Go on walk away, but don't say I didn't warn you Have you forgotten how it was Before I wrapped you in my love It's lonely, so lonely Go on and get your share But believe me baby It's lonely out there You th...

You say she wounded your heart And it's too tender to touch Oh, baby I know Words can be sharper than knives And they can cut just as much Oh, baby I know Just like you I've cried alone in the dark Know how it feels when your love's ripped apart Jagged hearts...

Those safe at home days Are gone for little girls They're out there with the boys Out in the big bad world Intense pressure hanging over my head Tonight I need your super tough lovin' instead Killer comfort Killer comfort Killer comfort All night 'Cause ther...

You gave him some good years Now you'd like them back Mistakes become clearer After the fact Now when you pick up the pieces But you can't make them fit Don't waste all your time Trying to make sense of it Chorus Just hurry back To the land of the living Thin...

Take the last train to Clarksville And I'll meet you at the station You can be be here by four thirty 'Cause I've made your reservation Don't be slow Oh, no, no, no Oh, no, no, no 'Cause I'm leavin' in the morning And I must see you again We'll have one more...

You've been spreadin' the blues All over the place Walking around with that look on your face Teardrops fallin hard on the cold cold ground It's time you lay the heartache down Well I know shes done you wrong I know she told you lies Said forever then goodbye...

Mary was married with children, had the perfect suburban life, 'til her husband came clean with the help of Jim Beam and confessed all his sins one night. Said he'd fallen in love with a barmaid, said she made him feel reckless and young. And when he got throu...

It's a potentially dangerous situation Baby you're my kind of trouble Livin' ain't livin' if you don't take risks Can't you feel the magic whenever we kiss Oh we'd both be crazy To turn our backs on a feelin' like this Some temptation You should never resist...

Tonight I am the hero that you dream Tonight I am the angel that you see Tonight We shine with love so new But time alone will tell us what is true Cause time can bring an angel down to earth And time stands every hero 'gainst the world In time All lover's dr...

First time that you caught my eye I said to myself that guy is a little bit gun shy Gonna have to be sly I knew that it would be wrong If I came on too strong Gonna treat it with kid gloves You're so suspicious of love Oh love is sneaking up on you It's gonna...

You are a stranger, a stranger to me One more face without a history I've been so lonely, so lonely too long That tonight all my inhibitions are gone And you got no lines that I haven't heard Anyway, a kiss is worth a thousand words Just make it feel better M...

Song came and went,like the times that we spend I melt from the rain,under the carnival tent I'd laugh and he'd smile And it would last for a while You don't know what you got til you lose it all again Listen to the mandolin rain Listen to the music on the la...

Looking at you through a misty moonlight Catydid sing like a symphony Porch swing swayin' like tenessee lullaby Melody blowin' through a wilow tree What was I supposed to do Standing there looking at you Lonely boy far from home Maybe it was Memphis...

A baby with a baby Just barely seventeen My mother mourned her innocence As she bounced on her knee A daddy on the road Added to the tears and trials Like silver rain they fell upon this melancholy child The sounds of my childhood still linger in my song my...

I hope that the friend you've thrown yourself with gets drunk and loses her job And ever road you're walking on gets cold rocky and hard I couldn't make you love me you only made me blue So all in all if the curtain should fall I hope that it falls on you I ho...

If you're coming with me you need nerves of steel Cause I take corners on two wheels It's a never-ending circus ride The faint of heart need not apply Mi Vida Loca over and over Destiny turns on a dime I go where the wind blows You can't tame a wild rose Welc...

As the fireflies buzzed around him Like so many dancing stars God told all the angels From Jupiter to Mars There's a basket in the river Bearing something dear to me Embarking on a journey To fulfill his destiny A pretty maiden on the banks Stood with open ar...

From the highest highs To the lowest lows We've gone as far as two can go And we'll never, never be the same And we fought to keep our love alive When it was hard enough just to survive And we'll never, never be the same Looking at old photographs Can you bel...

I walked into the club last night I hadn't been there for so long Thinking foolishly I might find you sitting all alone But oh how dreams lie When she put her arms around you And I watched you close your eyes Ain't no two ways about it, something here had cha...

You may see me and think that I'm happy 'Cos I'm out with somebody new Well, I made make believe He's everything I need But it's not like it was with you If I'm always the laugh of the party And it looks like my heartaches are few You may think that I found W...

I followed you around like a little lost child barely dancin' with your shadow I didn't say a thing, I let you run wild 'til your love pierced me like an arrow Right to the heart right straight through the heart, you broke it in two Hey way to go you let me go...

I've got a scrap book full of pictures Frozen in the air Needin' lots of lace And baby's breath in my hair Don't wanna say that I was just rehearsing For the new love we have found Oh, but now we know what not to do The second time around And I'll be wearing...

There's no mistakin' what's taken place here, I can't pretend anymore, You know that I love you, but its not enough To keep you away from my door. Now its too late to wonder what's left to be tried Your mind's made up and my hands are tied. It's just one of t...

Babysitter said seven She's fifteen minutes late Jimmy's still playing in the bath Cold macaroni on his plate And I still haven't done my hair I hate doin' my hair It never comes out right I must have changed my clothes A half a dozen times Ended up in this l...

Her name pops up in every conversation Got a way of firin' up the boy's imagination Oh yeah, she's popular girl She's a popular girl She's obscene in all the right places Not good at names but she don't forget the faces Oh yeah, she's a popular girl She's so...

You think you're a special case, That the world's got it out for you. You talk like you're full of good reason, But you act like it just ain't, too. You hope all you wanna hope, brother. Hope, it won't make it untrue. Let this Friday night pull your hat down t...

Well she broke your heart into a million pieces And your confidence is scattered on the wind Your mind is set on never even tryin' love again But you don't own the only heart that's been broken Baby I've been through it all before And the quickest way around t...

It's been kicking around since '72 And there's not a whole lot that it ain't been through Never quite learned to play by the rules And there's one in every dreamer Well, it's hung around where it didn't belong And given in when it should've been strong And yo...

Love, you're getting lazy. You're forgetting to give me Sweet sugar, Words that I wanna hear. You been neglecting me, You know jealousy it is bitter as a green spring berry. And just like fruit from a fickle vine, You turn sweet in the nick o' time. Love, you...

Silver wings shining in the sunlight Roaring engines headed somewhere in flight They're taking you away, and they're leaving me lonely Silver wings slowly fading out of sight Don't leave me, I cry Don't take that airplane ride But you locked me out of your mi...

I've been so wrong, for so long Thought I could live without the love that you give I was wrong, oh, so wrong I've been so wrong, for so long I didn't know that I loved you so I was wrong Well, I never knew I could want you darlin' Oh, so much Now that yo...

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

I'm stuck in a concrete canyon traffic jam Can't part the red light sea I set sail on this asphalt river Five o'clock rush hour, no one's gettin' anywhere Staring at a billboard of the American dream I need space; stand back and let me breathe I need air wash...

I ain't even gonna ask you I can read you like a book Girl, if I ever saw one that's an I can't believe I did that look You look like something That the cat drug in So I won't kick you while you're down Just let me tell you, friend to friend About a block I've...

We gave the day up to a back road And let it take us out of town To a spot down by the river To watch the sun go down We must have sat and talked for hours Not giving in to the night And that day I saw the sunset In a whole new light Now the stars came out l...

Sweetheart's dance, that's what we do The two heart two-step baby, that's me and you Sweetheart's dance round and round Make out in the corner Lover's quarrel, sweetheart's dance Sometimes babe I hate you cause my love's so strong And then you make me feel so...

Sunlight is gone, a wind stirs the willow Whippoorwills call from high on the hill Deep shadows fall as I wait for you by the window Soon you'll be here, drawing me near to you again These Tennessee nights roll on like a river So gentle and slow with you by m...

It's a slow, smoky scene at the county line cantina Where strangers stop to hear her sing a song She's a legend 'round these parts For stealing all the hearts of cowboys on their way to San Antone She used to be a desert rose with ballerina toes But that wasn...

Jimmy was a bareback rider Back in my hometown Cowboys fall hard The whole town saw Katie let him down Saw him just the other day 15 years since I've been gone Couldn't believe it when I heard him say I don't think she's comin' home That was a heartache No l...

I was always, fallin out of trees And slippin in the rain Momma sighed as she nursed my scratches and my scrapes She said, girl, why you gotta learn the hard way Was at 17, I fell hard Momma said she saw it comin as we drove off in his jacked up car And she sa...

She follows the path of least resistance She doesn't care to see the mountain top. She twists and turns with no regard to distance. She never comes to a stop. As she rolls, she's a river. Where she goes, time will tell. Heaven knows, he can't go with her. And...

There goes the guy I used to know there goes the guy that I love so There goes the arms that used to hold me tight There goes the reason that I sigh there goes the reason that I cry There goes the lips I used to kiss goodnight there goes my love Well you're th...

You're here in my arms right where you say you wanna be While across the room I watch the one who set you free It didn't take me long to mend the heart she tore in two I guess they just don't break 'em like they used to I bet she thought that wounded pride of...

Those memories of you still haunt me Every night when I lay down I'll always love you my little darling Until the day they lay me down In dreams of you my body trembles I wake up and call your name But you're not there, and I'm so lonesome Without your...

Once I had champagne at sunset Breakfast in bed And I hated myself for what I never felt I couldn't love him Then I had fire at midnight Passion that brought tears to my eyes It was like a joke, I couldn't get enough, but he didn't love me Oh oh oh I wanna k...

Well Hank made a living out of lonely He sang like a freight train whistle moan Said "You'll never get out of this world alive" As if he'd always known, Lord, Lord As if he'd always known Rode down that hillbilly highway Took a big black cadillac on home And...

You won't ever see the danger When you're laying in the arms Of that tall dark handsome stranger With that sweet deceptive charm You can't tell how fast he's going Can't see the wreck he'll make of you He's bad for you but you won't know it Till you're run...

In a cloud of dust On a greyhound bus She crossed the cook county line. Slept all the way to nashville Big dreams running through her mind. She said sure as Im breathing I'm gonna be a big star some day She was jumping into the deep end On a leap of sweet bl...

Well how can you have the unmitigated gall To come back now expecting me to fall Right down on my knees and kiss your feet yeah feet Feet that one day went a walking out on me with a fast talking Slob you hardly knew his name your mind is de-arranged And where...

A violet fell in love with a rose And started it flashing from its head to its toes Then one day the rose was kissed by the dew A new love was born and the violet turned blue Roses are red violets are blue I'm sending red red roses to you If you care to send s...

In the middle of the meadow I sit staring at my kite A ball of string And a paper dream That I could not make fly Then Daddy Pulled it to the sky Behind him as he ran And said Girl don't be caught waiting on the wind The time comes When a young girl Wants to...

So many nights we didn't fight but never talked much We just lost touch I think we knew our dream come true was slowly dying No denying Now comes the time we must decide to go or stay To get it back somehow or throw it all away We must be thinking alike You n...

Going out every night Doing all the wrong things to feel alright Waking up all alone Dying to call you on the telephone I moved way across town And you've got someone new hanging round Neither one of us is feeling any better All we've been doing is fooling ou...

I can see a new expression on my face I can feel a strange senstation taking place I can hear the guitars playing lovely tunes Everytime that you walk in the room I close my eyes for a second and pretend It's me you want Meanwhile I try to act so nonchalant I...

He was strong and of sound mind 'Til the day he crossed the line Between an east Kentucky girl and his wife In his heart there wasn't room So they tore his heart in two And he survived by pouring whiskey on the wound Another faithless heart Locked inside a ne...

The stage is set The lights are low Soft music on the radio The sheets are fresh The wine is cold And nights like this Were made for love And now there is only one thing wrong I wonder why I'm all alone Oh, I wish I was in love tonight Then everything would b...

You say you're not missin' me darlin' I know you are and always will be I saw you at the club actin' so in love Ah, but that don't mean nothing to me 'Cause as you danced by, that look in your eye Showed me where your heart is secretly Guess I'll be seeing yo...

You make all the right moves And you talk so smooth And you look like a winner to me With your sure-shot savvy, you're my heart's desire And I'm happy to be standing in your line of fire You don't miss You don't miss With your right-on-the-money-honey kiss Yo...

A baseball glove in the second grade put this little scar on my chin And at 31 they put glasses on me when I couldn't tell an "h" from an "n" I bounced back from all of that Nothin's ever bothered me Until you put the lonely on me You put the blue, you put the...