Bad for good

Well, I changed my ways to please that woman
But I could never be good enough
I gave up drinkin' and took up churchin'
And for awhile it wasn't tough

But barkeep I've made a decision
After doing the best I could
That for better or worse
I'm gonna be bad for good

So bring on the whiskey
Turn up the jukebox loud
These boots were made for tonkin'
Warn every woman around

I'm gonna wind it up tonight
A little tighter than I should
Yeah, for better or worse
I'm gonna be bad for good

I really like my reputation
And how I'm known all over town
Of being the first in my generation
To close every single honky tonk down

I'm gonna be a tough act to follow
Doin' what I said I would
Yeah, for better or worse
I'm gonna be bad for good

So bring on the whiskey
Turn up the jukebox loud
These boots were made for tonkin'
Warn every woman around

I'm gonna wind it up tonight
A little tighter than I should
Yeah, for better or worse
I'm gonna be bad for good
Oh, somebody be bad

I'm gonna wind it up tonight
A little tighter that I should
Yeah, for better or worse
I'm gonna be bad for good
Yeah, for better or worse
I'm gonna be bad for good

Big wheel

Three feet tall, five years old
Starin' down to the bottom of Mountain Top road,
Hands wrapped tight around those plastic handle grips
I took off flying pickin' up speed
The world was a blur of rocks and weeds
It was all worth the pain of landing
Getting my first three stitches
Everyone said that I shouldn't do it
Cut and bruised but I got through it
I still got the scars to prove it

Life's like a big wheel keeps on turning
Time runs away, every day I'm learning
To roll with the punches, follow my hunches
Loving the way it feels
Just to be alive
Getting the chance to ride on the big wheel

I'm takin my share of dead end curves
Had to steady my nerves and steal my courage
Had a lot of hard landings but I ain't hanging up my wings
Yeah I'm still rippin' down that hill
Still hanging on with all my will
Lookin' back now I still
Wouldn't change a thing
I've had a few lovers leave their mark
I've broken my pride and I've broken my heart
But I'm gonna live my life before it all goes dark

(Repeat Chorus)

On the big wheel

Just to be alive
Getting the chance to ride on the big wheel
On the big wheel
On the big wheel
I'm still learning to ride on the big wheel
I'm still learning to ride on the big wheel
On the big wheel

Consider this

Things don't always work out like you plan
But you can't let that hold you back from tryin' again
I've been fallin' for you, you need not fear
I've got this propsition I think you should hear
Consider this, living life together
Consider this, seeing the world
Consider this, building a home of our own, a front porch, picket fence and 3 kids
Girl you and I we can't miss
Consider this
Consider this
Everyday is a new day, take it as it comes
Theres a world out there waiting so seize it and run
You've got nothin' to lose, and everything to gain
Won't you please consider what my heart has to say
Consider this, living life together
Consider this, seeing the world
Consider this, building a home of our own, a front porch, picket fence and 3 kids
Girl you and I we can't miss
Consider this
We can watch every sunset
Every storm roll in over the shore
Through the good and the bad girl we'll have our love
This could be everything you've dreamed of and more
Consider this, living life together
Consider this, seeing the world
Consider this, building a home of our own, a front porch, picket fence and 3 kids
Girl you and I we can't miss
Consider this
Consider this
Consider this.. seein the world
Consider this.. buildin a home
Consider this.. a front porch, picket fence
Consider this.. 3 kids
Consider this.. maybe 2 kids
Consider this.. every sunset
Consider this.. every storm

Don't even think about it


I was thinking ‘bout the perfect words
To say to that living doll
By the time that I had worked it out
She was half way down the hall

My schoolboy fears of being shot down
Kept that dream from getting off the ground
Lookin back I figured out I thought about it too long

Sometimes you just gotta jump in, get yourself movin’
Countdown the clock is runnin
Sometimes there’s no time to doubt it, just gotta do it
Don’t even think about it

So, baby if it seems I’m coming on too strong
It’s just that I don’t want to feel this feeling gone
Cuz in this moment there could be a golden opportunity
To tell you what you mean to me
Don’t want to think about it too long

Chorus

Solo

Chorus

Don’t even think about it

Done you wrong

Here we are again and you sure look fine
you smile at me and the sparks just fly
I can't understand why this is taking so long
somebody must have really done you wrong

'Cause everytime I reach for you,
you hold back and i'm so confused
how can you pull away from something so strong
somebody must have really done you wrong

He hurt you bad, and your heart still aches
but why should we pay for his mistakes
ohhh why
I don't know what he did but he's long gone
well he must have really done you wrong

'Cause everytime I reach for you,
you hold back and i'm so confused
how can you pull away from something so strong
somebody must have really done you wrong

I wanna tear down the walls that you built up
and baby open your heart to all my love

everytime I reach for you,
you hold back and i'm so confused
how can you pull away from something so strong
somebody must have really, really
somebody must have really done you wrong

somebody must have really done you wrong
somebody must have really done you wrong
done you wrong, really, really, really done you wrong

Eighteen

That?s a death defying walk she?s got
Dancing to the parking lot, ooo eighteen
What she does to T-shirts
So good make my eyes hurt, ooo eighteen

Somebody ought to write a song about it, so I did
It makes me wish I was a kid again, eighteen
We were made out of asbestos
Dairy Queen for breakfast at eighteen, eighteen

Rock and roll was king
And cars were everything at eighteen, eighteen
Nobody could have told us anything and if they tried
It gave us something to fight about, eighteen

Blue jeans, young hearts knockin' out
Big dreams, you and me work
We?re burning like gasoline
It?s amazing that we ever lived past, eighteen

Shooting city limit signs
Chasing girls and wasting time, ooo eighteen
Pretending we were tough
Telling stories we made up, ooo eighteen

Dressing like the pictures
Hanging in our bedroom
We tore out of a magazine, eighteen

Blue jeans, young hearts knockin' out
Big dreams, you and me work
We?re burning like gasoline
It?s amazing that we ever lived past, eighteen, eighteen, eighteen

Cruisin' in convertibles
Completely indestructible
We were hookin' up and hangin' out
Believing what we sang about, eighteen

Kroeger on a Friday night
Making circles out of headlights
Yeah, it felt so good being alive, eighteen

Heart like a hurricane


She’s not easy to get close to
When you’re on the outside looking in
Just when you think you’ve got her figured out
She’ll turn and run away again

She’s got a heart like a hurricane
Causing everyone around her pain
But in the eye of the storm
There’s a place that’s safe and warm
In her heart like a hurricane

If you think you can’t stand the weather
Afraid of running through the rain
Deep inside her soul
There’s a place where she can hold you
Close to her and never let you go

Chorus

Solo

Chorus

In her heart like a hurricane
In her heart like a hurricane

Hold my beer


I've been watching you
Watchin every girl in the bar
Payin no attention to the one on your arm
You're a dog
Man, she's smokin
I've seen your kind before
And you think you're so cool
This country boy's gonna take you to school
Hold out your hand
No man, I ain't jokin

And hold my beer
While I kiss you're girlfriend
Cause she needs a real man
And not a boy like you-ou
Hold my beer
Yeah I"m a man on a mission
You don't see what you're missin
But I do, so here
Hold my beer

Well friend I wouldn't blame you
If you wanted to fight
If you wanna later we can take it outside
But for now
Do me a favour

And hold my beer
While I kiss you're girlfriend
Cause she needs a real man
And not a boy like you-ou
Hold my beer
Yeah I"m a man on a mission
You don't see what you're missin
But I do, so here
Hold my beer

Well guys like you
You ain't good for nothin, no
Hold on a second
You gotta be good for something
For somethin
I know

Hold my beer
While I kiss you're girlfriend
Cause she needs a real man
And not a chump like you-ou
Hold my beer
Yeah I"m a man on a mission
You don't see what you're missin
But I do, so here
Hold my beer

Hold my beer
Hold my beer
Hold my beer
But don't drop it (hold my beer)
No, seriously man, don't drop it
(hold my beer)
Cause I-I-I just bought it (hold my beer)
You gonna be hangin around here awhile
You wanna watch my jacket? (hold my beer)
Ah thanks man, I'm gonna be out here dancin
With-with your girlfriend (hold my beer)
Hold my beer
Hold my beer
Hold my beeeee-eeeer

How do I get there

It's a long, long way from here to you
Tell me, how do I get there?

There's so much I wish I could undo
Tell me, how do I get there?

Can a million wrong turns ever turn me around?
Can I ever un-burn the bridges I've burned to the ground?
Nowhere's too far
And I'd go anywhere
Tell me how do I get there from here?

Your touch is beyond my fingertips
It lingers in me

Your heart is where forgiveness is
Tell me, how do I get there?

Can a million wrong turns ever turn me around?
Can I ever un-burn the bridges I've burned to the ground?
Nowhere's too far
And I'd go anywhere
Tell me how do I get there from here

I'm sitting here, asking where to go
With all I am, all I'll ever know

So can a million wrong turns ever turn me around?
Can I ever un-burn the bridges I've burned to the ground?
Nowhere's too far
And I'd go anywhere
Tell me how, tell me how

Nowhere's too far
Yeah, I'd go anywhere
Tell me, how do I get there?
Tell me, how do I get there?
From here

Well how do I get there?
Oh, please tell me now
How do I get there?
Oh, tell me now
How do I get there?
Tell me
How do I get there?

John Roland Wood

Go tell the sheriff, John Roland Wood's found Jesus
Now he's living at the foot of the cross
He testified on the main drag this evening
Said he's gonna spread the gospel to the lost

The meanest sinner to ever live and breathe
Said he's been clean and sober for a week
He said his soul is not troubled anymore
He hocked his gun and gave the money to the Lord

Go tell the sheriff, John Roland Wood's found Jesus
At a tent revival right outside of town
Oh, what a friend this town has in Jesus
If you look at what John Roland has tore down

Before the spirit touched his soul
He kept the streets signs full of bullet holes
Back then when he was raising hell
You knew he was coming by the blue lights on his tail, look out

Go tell the sheriff, John Roland Wood's found Jesus
Now that water tower must be full of wine
Let not your weary heart be troubled
Turn your women and your children back outside

What will we do on Friday nights
Without John Roland shootin' out the lights
Carry that ol' jukebox away
He traded B-9 for 'Amazing Grace'

Go tell the sheriff, John Roland Wood's found Jesus
Now he is living at
I said he's living at the foot of
He's living at the foot of the cross, oh yeah