Let those wings go to rust chorus Not hard to talk to, is she. Like it did all those years when your foot steps kissed this floor Do your fingers know the chords to every song you wrote here. I just wanna make you smile. Cause I fell just like all the rest. I was too broke down to fly. Take a chance on me Daddy, this may be all we got. The night be black and the road may be long. Your voice may crack and it all sounds wrong. It seems your luck has all been shot. Chorus No use asking why. Everything you ever tried to be was just a fantasy. All you ever needed was someone to tell you you were right. And all you ever wanted was to put off some of your own light. There you are, singing Desperado in the car at night. There you are, with everybody looking up at you. I had a baby but the good lord took her. She was an angel but her wings were crooked. I guess he figured he could love her better than me. Some girls marry and some girls wait. Some do better without that ball and chain…singing… Oh me, Oh my tell me it gets easier with time. With the way you drink and the brows you raise. You can bet they wonder how the bills get paid, when you dance all night and you sleep all day. Girl when you gonna settle down, say my name if you love me let me hear make your mama proud. Chorus Oh no, not now. They say the good times go too fast. And you make a scene, you get your picture in a magazine. Why you make a beggar out of your best friend. Oh heaven knows, you love to dress me up in ribbons and bows. I go to get myself a coffee and everybody stares at me. They know you treat me awful mean. When the mailman brings the letters he tries to talk some sense to me. So listen Honey and believe me, cause this is all I got to say… Anyone would have to be a fool to love you like I do. He was forty-six with the wife and the kids and the job with the suit and the tie. Oh but I, I wanna be your child again. I wanna remember when everything was new. And damn this pride that lives inside the hearts of men. I wanna be whole again. Chorus I passed a truck filled with old street signs, it seemed like one of them was mine, a long long time ago, before I knew you Caroline. Now the bus is leaving, wish I could stay. You know I love you in my way. We sat out on the front steps and shared a cigarette. We watched the neighbors go to bed. They fed the dog and shut the lights, and we were on our own again. But as the sun began to rise. We were running out of shadows to hide ourselves behind. Would you love me one more time, before we raise the blinds and make the bed. Your eyes are smiling but your cheeks are wet. We fell asleep just like we used to, legs all tangled in the sheets. I know you dreamed that bus to Houston, heard you talking in your sleep. I would have held you all day long. But when I opened up my eyes you were already gone. Chorus The time has come to bring it home. So what do you say. I watch the dust dance across the floor. It used to be so easy to ignore the sun has set, but the sun will rise. Another one has already wrung all of the tear drops from your eyes. Still every time you smile I think that everything is gonna be just fine. I know, I got no fight. When you found me I was broken clear in two. My heart was split wide open, tired of hoping, tired of playing the fool. But you did what I thought nobody could do. Now say my name if you love me let me hear ask for nothing more than to be by my side. And when you say it like you say it, Love, your smile makes it easy to oblige. All the hurting and the flirting that I thought would never end. If you were holding my hand. Chorus Oh Brother can we please go back. I miss the river and the railroad track. I gotta know if it all still means what I thought it did when I was seventeen. Was born a winner now I live to lose. And every day is up and down, like the price of gasoline. And go limping home to Caroline, where the rain will fall and the sun will shine. Chorus Nobody else can tell you what it takes. You put your heart on a shelf or you let it break. Chorus The rain came down with the thunder and the lightning. I do believe that we will pay for our mistakes. But the songs we sing together are the ones that bring me home. So give me a kiss, give me a smile, guess this is it before the final bullets sing. I wanna see you spread your wings. This is a game I never learned to play. So give me a kiss, give me a smile. Before the final bullets fly, take to the sky. Or would you take all that I got. If you had a little, would you save a little piece. Got your eye on the top shelf. Is he hitting you again. How could you ever lie to me. How could you dare to let me dream?.
