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Summer Girls
03:12
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Summer girls come and summer girls go I get stuck with the Catholics stick with the hoes, they all come a knockin you don't even know but its gettin kinda late and I gotta go.
Back to my hometown born and raised all the kids are off at school gettin jobs that pay, more than writing these songs for you but its gettin kinda late and its all I know how to do.
You eyes move across the room and find there way to me, so I'll just smile and look away and lead you on another day don't stay the same, you're dyin to believe the words I wrote down were for you, but you were wrong you're never wrong, summer girl.
I quit saving money and I spent it all I bought a tape recorder and some alcohol I spent a couple of weeks with the friends I need, this old guitar and these piano keys. And the songs that got locked in this room like girls that haven't heard these tunes she said would you come to my room, no thanks I think I'm leavin soon. So try your best to make me stop and wonder, give me your worst to make me stay tonight.
You eyes move across the room and find there way to me, so I'll just smile and look away and lead you on another day don't stay the same, you're dyin to believe the words I wrote down were for you, but you were wrong you're never wrong, summer girl.
Some girls came and some girls went, but its the summer girls I wont forget, summer girl.
You eyes move across the room and find there way to me, so I'll just smile and look away and lead you on another day don't stay the same, you're dyin to believe the words I wrote down were for you, but you were wrong you're never wrong, summer girl.
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2. |
Sometimes I'm All Heart
03:13
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You're sick, sad, and so alone you got cheap red wine and those classy clothes
but the show that you see isn't really me
I'll be as sick, sad, alone as I need to be, as I need to be.
Surround me with your love, never tell me it's too tough
I'll be your hopes and dreams when you just can't believe.
You're sick, sad, and so alone you're not a friend just a name in my telephone
you work quick, so quick, so insincere, here my voice, so slick lets get out of here.
Lets get out of here.
Surround me with your love, never tell me it's too tough
I'll be your hopes and dreams when you just can't believe.
you were never enough in the first place, I should have known, right from the first taste, that everything you heard about me was wrong. So lets go back, to where we belong, cuz we lost track, we got this all wrong, and everything you heard about me is in this song.
Surround me with your love, never tell me it's too tough
I'll be your hopes and dreams when you just can't believe
(so I sat down and wrote a song, full of all the things I'd done, I wasnt scared just so naive, to think that fame would come so easy.)
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3. |
All Across Virginia
03:01
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They say Virginia's for lovers,
filled with green grass and tall hills.
With mountain views to die for,
and summer skies that give you chills.
They say were all alone
and were losing control and we don't even know it.
So we spent late nights looking for an answer,
on the rooftops hoping for so much more.
I spent my summers drinkin' jack and coke on the road,
I never thought that I'd be stuck here with nowhere to go,
but now Virginia doesn't feel like home,
because I lost the only home that I know.
So I'll say Virginia's for liars,
filled with dark skies and cheap thrills,
the seasons move slower, and winters are colder.
They say we'll never grow,
but were all on our own and we're learning to love it.
So we spent late nights looking for an answer,
on the rooftops hoping for so much more.
I spent my summers drinkin' jack and coke on the road,
I never thought that I'd be stuck here with nowhere to go,
but now Virginia doesn't feel like home,
because I lost the only home that I know.
So come on, come on,
cuz' we're losing control and we don't even know it.
So come on, come on,
cuz' were all on our own and were learning to love it.
So come on come on,
now we're learning to love it,
yeah Virginia's for lovers, and were learning to love it.
I spent my summers drinkin' jack and coke on the road,
I never thought that I'd be stuck here with nowhere to go,
but now Virginia doesn't feel like home,
because I lost the only home that I know.
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4. |
With Or Without (You)
03:48
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I was just 18 singing songs in the summer time, and we would dream and listen to lullibies, so I got thinking, to make a living, I would write songs about our lives. I took a trip down to Virginia in the spring time, and by the fall we had 5 songs and dreams in our minds. And so the times change, just like the seasons do, I should have left then, couldn't get over you.
I need to move far away cuz nothing gold can ever stay, I've got nothing to lose.
I'll live, with or without you, you'll fall when no one surrounds you, realize theres no one to miss you I'll never love you never like they do, I'll live, with or without you, you'll fall when no one surrounds you...I'll live with or without you.
We packed our bags and drove through Chicago, we passed through Memphis on our way to the left coast, we saw so many days, days passed and memories made, this was life on the road. We lived the high life, it was fast and so free, but time changed everyone, and it included me. So our lives changed, just liked the seasons do, I should have left then, but I still love you.
I need to move far away cuz nothing gold can ever stay, I've got nothing to lose.
I'll live, with or without you, you'll fall when no one surrounds you, realize theres no one to miss you I'll never love you never like they do, I'll live, with or without you, you'll fall when no one surrounds you..and you'll realize
So forget what you know, move on and let it go, you wasted too much time, in thoughts of other lives, I see the other side, it's filled with better times, one filled with summer vibes, just like our old lives....with or without you
I'll live, with or without you, you'll fall when no one surrounds you, realize theres no one to miss you I'll never love you never like they do, I'll live, with or without you, you'll fall when no one surrounds you..and you'll realize...I'll live with or without you
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5. |
Stories
03:22
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Girl I gotta tell you
that I'm utterly impressed
with the way that you look
in those fancy clothes
As your headed out to parties
that you'd never find me near
with the boys that you met
at the bar
And do you drink until you're sloppy
smoke until you're done
or do you refrain cause it goes to your head
now your close enough to kiss me
lying next to me in bed
with your eyes stained red
from the evenings events
So she whispers and she says to me
Can I tell you the truth?
You're taking too many chances
on songs that you're singing
and too many stories from towns that you've seen
I'm screaming listen listen
it's all that I ask you believe me
once again
Girl I gotta tell you
that I'm desperately amused
with the way that you speak
and the things that you do
Showing up at every hour
and in every state of mind
makes me wish i could tell you
youre wasting my time
As she wakes me up from dreaming
and I stumble through the door
and I think to myself this has happened before
now she begging me to kiss her
with those eyes that i adore
and i think to myself
this has happened before
So she whispers and she says to me
Can I tell you the truth
You're taking too many chances
on songs that you're singing
and too many stories from towns that you've seen
I'm screaming listen listen
it's all that I ask you believe me
once again
You're taking pictures of all
of our times
so we remember our lives
when we change
I only hope that your will to forget
how our lives could have worked if I changed
Cause I won't try to change who I am and if that means our end
Well then the lights go down
across this worn out town
I'll say goodbye to an old friend
You're taking too many chances
on songs that you're singing
and too many stories from towns that you've seen
I'm screaming listen listen
it's all that I ask you believe me
once again
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6. |
Crazy Love
03:52
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A thousand miles to empty, I need you sitting by my side you were my life but our love died. So I spent nights alone pretending, that everything would find a place and with each breath I'd find a way.
I never felt so alone, I never felt so alive, I never took time to make my own life.
This is goodbye to love that had died dont say that you tried to make this right. Here's to new days to life that can change to those who know hearts will bend and not break.
Here's to better days.
How could I trust anyone everyone, how could I feel anything my everything, this pain alone it hurts to bad I understand, that you're life changed. So I'll just smile and rearrange everyday, so you can build a better place saving face, I understand that you don't care you're unaware, that you crushed me.
This is goodbye to love that had died dont say that you tried to make this right. Here's to new days to life that can change to those who know hearts will bend and not break.
Here's to better days.
So I'll use this verse for what it's worth so say goodbye and rewrite endings. And as our worlds collide I'll just close my eyes and sleep till light ends my cold winter. This is the lowest I can go, it is a world you'll never know, these are the days you never shared. And now my voice shakes in the air I can't forgive you.
Here's to new days to life that can change to those who know hearts will bend and not break.
Here's to better days.
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7. |
Hopeless Romantic
03:45
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I am a hopeless romantic with a knack for getting burned ill lay it out so you hear me its just a lesson learned now I start to fall apart
break my heart break my heart
so I turned our lives into art
break my heart break my heart
lets start at the ending on the 15th and cold
i was so dam in love you were letting go
with your eyes closed, you let me know
i was your life before but now you'll let me go
you always make it hurt somehow
break me down break me down
its killing me to see you now
break me down break me down
if all of our lives we lived for one day, those 2 years I lived were seconds that wasted away
you wanted songs about you,
well i wrote you 2
full of heart break, and heart ache, and learning to lose,
with my eyes closed, I moved on real slow
you were my life for so long
now i'll let you go
you always make it hurt somehow
break me down break me down
its killing me to see you now
break me down break me down
if all of our lives we lived for one day, those 2 years I lived were seconds that wasted away
lets start at the ending on the 15th and cold i was so dam in love you were letting go
I am a hopeless romantic with a knack for getting burned I am a hopeless romantic call it a lesson learned
if all of our lives (break me down break me down)
if all of our lives (break me down break me down)
if all of our lives we lived for one day, those 2 years I lived
you always make it hurt somehow
break me down break me down
its killing me to see you now
break me down break me down
if all of our lives we lived for one day, those 2 years I lived were seconds that wasted away
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