One Hell Of A Heartache

It's the first morning after, it's so hard to face
'Cause you left your memory all over this place
They say it gets easier, I wonder how
Goodbye couldn't hurt more than it hurts right now.

Chorus:
You're gonna be one hell of a heartache
I've had some and I really should know
It hurts me a lot but I know I've still got
One hell of a heartache to go.

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You took me to heaven when you held me tight
If heaven's forever where are you tonight
They say time is a healer but I don't think that's true
It'll take more than time to get me over you.

Chorus:
You're gonna be one hell of a heartache
I've had some and I really should know
God, it hurts me a lot but I know I've still got
One hell of a heartache to go.

One hell of a heartache to go...

One Sided Conversation

If I must live alone, I'd rather do it by myself
For I've never known a mirror to shake it's head and turn and walk away
Lookin' at myself and all the things that I believe in
Left dying in the silence of the things you never say.

I'm sleeping by myself, somehow I've never had you
Oh, I wish I knew the reason, I'm sure there's an answer to it all
Talking to myself is something else that I've grown used to
One-sided conversations with a narrow-minded wall.

Talk to me, oh, can't you see
That I can't bear to give my dream to someone
Who would stand and let it fall.

A prisoner to myself, I'm the only one that holds me
In one-sided conversations with a narrow-minded wall.
In one-sided conversations with a narrow-minded wall.

Only Yesterday

Fancy meeting you here
I guess I always knew there'd
Come a time we'd meet this way
It's good to see your face again
How long has it been
It seems like only yesterday.

You know I still remember
Time we spent together
Little things we'd do and say
The night you said goodbye
Stays here on my mind
As if it were only yesterday.

Chorus:
I feel the unrelenting march of time
And every day I fall another day behind
I want no other love, I wish on stars above
Not for tomorrow only yesterday.

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Chorus:
I feel the unrelenting march of time
And every day I fall another day behind.

Our love builds on for me
It is my everything
But for you it's only yesterday

But for you it's only yesterday...

Paper Rosie

The sun goes down in Calvin county
Neon lights from an old beer sign
Shown through the window out on the sidewalk
As I walked in to pass the time;
I looked around, sat down at a table
Ordered beef on rye and a glass of wine
And through the door came a little old lady
She was selling paper roses and they only cost a dime.

Paper Rosie ...Paper Rosie ...
She sold you Paper Roses; But they only cost a dime.

Silver hair that's lost its' Gold
Trembling hand as she passed the rose
Red Crepe paper, made nature's bouquet
Help a little old lady buy a rose today;
I took the rose from her trembing hand
With eyes of age, she smilled and walked away
Like a breath of spring I could smell the rose
It came alive and I heard her say.

Buy my Roses, pretty roses
They're only made of paper
But they only cost a dime.

I went to look for her outside
A spray of roses lay by her side
The sky lit up and the choir sang
A thousand voices as the church bells rang.

They sang Rosie (Rosie), paper Rosie (Rosie)
She sold you Paper Roses
But they only cost a dime.

Paper Rosie (Rosie), Paper Rosie (Rosie)
She sold you paper roses
But they only cost a dime.

Pick The Wildwood Flower

Them Texas fields were hot and
That tractor never was my kinda livin'
And when I hit sixteen I had the size
And I hit the road to freedom
And I'm glad I wasn't there to see my mama
'Cause she must have cried for hours
I still hear her sayin', Gary
Get your guitar and pick the wildwood flower

Now Dallas it was big and hard to find a job
And so I didn't
It was easier to hitch a ride to Houston
And it was more like livin'
Now, I've been down every road
And I've stood on every porch where they were givin'
And if they had an hour or a dime
I would pick the wildwood flower

It's hard to turn around and look back
Down the roads that I have travelled
'Cause like a never ending ball of twine
My dreams have come unravelled
And now as evening lays it's shawl
Across the shoulders of my life I have found
I couldn't tie my life together
With guitar strings and a poet's heart felt line

And I'm so glad I wasn't there to see my mama
'Cause she must have cried for hours
I still hear her sayin', Gary
Get your guitar and pick the wildwood flower

Precious Memories

Precious mem'ries, unseen angels
Sent from somewhere to my soul
How they linger, ever near me
As the sacred past unfolds.

Precious father, loving mother
Fly across the lonely years
Through old home scenes of my childhood
With fond memories appear.

Precious mem'ries how they linger
How they ever flood my soul
In the stillness of the midnight
Precious, sacred scenes unfold.

As I travel on life's pathway
I know not what life shall hold
And as I wander, hope grows fonder
Precious mem'ries floods my soul.

Precious mem'ries how they linger
How they ever flood my soul
In the stillness of the midnight
Precious, sacred scenes unfold.

Precious, sacred scenes unfold

Roads And Other Reasons

It's a lonely kinda livin, never stayin' never givin'
More than moments to remember as I'm passing through
the day
Satisfaction is in season but there's roads and other
reasons
To be movin' toward the morning when you'll find me
gone away

I'm just here and you can hold me on the nights you
need a man
But it's nicer when I know you understand
That the only thing that lingers is the feeling of my
fingers
As they touched your olive body and you melted in my
hands

I'm proud of bein' me and just as proud of bein' free
And if that don't fit in your planin' better take me
off your mind
'Cause the plans that I've been in have ways of comming
to an end
Abruptly, when the dreamer wakes to find I've gone on
down the line

I'm just here and you can hold me on the nights you
need a man
But it's nicer when I know you understand
That the only thing that lingers is the feeling of my
fingers
As they touched your olive body and you melted in my
hands

There's roads and other reasons that will always lead
to leavin'
I won't bother you with details it's a story all my own
And the things we've done together were so good that I
would rather
Not say anything to change the way you'll feel after
I'm gone

I'm just here and you can hold me on the nights you
need a man
But it's nicer when I know you understand
That the only thing that lingers is the feeling of my
fingers
As they touched your olive body and you melted in my
hands

Rollin' Home

The sun wasn't even up yet when I left Pittsburgh P.A.
With a load of cold steel headed for that volunteer state
Got a woman on my mind waitin' back in Tennessee
She's savin' all her sweet love for me
And I'm rollin' home
Got to keep these big wheels hummin' their song
And if I'm lucky, by tonight, well
I'll see the lights of Nashville through my windshield
That old sun is sinkin' down
Lord I'm Dixie bound, goin' home

Be two weeks ago tomorrow since she watched me drive away
And I know that she knows that I've been countin' every day
Lord knows, this endless highway sure gets rough on a man's bones
But she makes the leavin' worth it commin' home
And I'm rollin' home
Got to keep these big wheels hummin' their song
And if I'm lucky, by tonight, well
I'll see the lights of Nashville through my windshield
Well, I've got that hammer down
Lord, I'm Dixie bound, I'm goin' home

Well, I'm rollin' home
Got to keep these big wheels hummin' their song
And if I'm lucky, by tonight, well
I'll see the lights of Nashville through my windshield
Well, I've got that hammer down
Lord, I'm Dixie bound, I'm goin' home

Well, I'm rollin' home
Got to keep these big wheels hummin' their song
And if I'm lucky, by tonight, well
I'll see the lights of Nashville through my windshield
Well, I've got that hammer down
Lord, I'm Dixie bound, I'm goin' home, goin' home

Rose In The Sand

Your beauty's like a rainbow that God made with his hands
Your love's the answer to the prayers of, once, a loveless man
Lady, you're a ray of hope on the darkest night
You were such a welcome sight to lost and lonely eyes
Like a rose in the sand
A lighthouse on the stormy sea reaching out a hand
You're a special lady to an ordinary man
Like a rose in the sand
Your satin skin is pleasing for calloused hands to touch
Your eyes do all the talkin' when the words don't say enough
And when the road is rocky and life is hard to bear
I make it through the longest day jusy knowin' you were there
Like a rose in the sand
A lighthouse on the stormy sea reaching out a hand
You're a special lady to an ordinary man
Like a rose in the sand
Like a rose in the sand
A lighthouse on the stormy sea reaching out a hand
You're a special lady to an ordinary man
Like a rose in the sand

Shadows On The Wall

(Shadows)
(Shadows)
(Shadows)

I was walkin' past your window late last night
There were lights on but your shades were pulled down tight
I decided to come in and spend some time
Then I looked and somethin' made me change my mind

There were shadows, covered shadows on the wall
Holdin' one another, clingin' to each other
And I felt my heart fall
I just stood there not believin' what I saw
Right outside your window
Watchin' the shadows on the wall

Like a drownin' man who sees his past go by
I was seein' all my future slowly die
I believed you and I loved you all the time
But the shadows said you weren't really mine

There were shadows, covered shadows on the wall
Holdin' one another, clingin' to each other
And I felt my heart fall
I just stood there not believin' what I saw
Right outside your window
(fade) Watchin' the shadows on the wall