Red Dirt Road [Arista Nashville] lyrics

What do I do to make you love me
Baby, like I love you
Why do you keep the key to your heart
Behind a door I can't get through

CHORUS:
I have faith
I bide my time
I'll be all right
I'll be fine
I'm a believer in love

Like a fool playin' with fire
While my flame burns alone
Like a slave to blind desire
Oh I keep hangin' on

CHORUS:
I have faith
I bide my time
I'll be all right
I'll be fine

My darling, I have wronged you
Down the devil's path I have roamed
Regret, sadness and sorrow
Now in my soul have found a home

[Chorus]
My Sweet Caroline
From your loving arms I've strayed
In your heart may you find
Forgiveness I pray
A fool to temptation
I surely played
I come to you for salvation
Have mercy in love's name

[Repeat Chorus]

The chilling cry of sin's wrath

What's it like girl
To have somebody love you
With a love
Too good to be true
You oughta know
Feels good don't it

How bout those lonely nights
You used to pray
Something like this
Would come your way
Thank your lucky stars
Lucky's what we are
Feels good don't it

Some people go through life
Never knowing
What love is
Or where it's going
Me and you girl we just walked up on it
Feels good don't it

(Niles Rogers/Jimmie Vaughan)

Say things to me like a cowgirl would
I'll do tricks for you like a cowboy should
You look romantic layin' in the hay
I need you tonight in a new kinda way

When you look at me with those eyes
It makes me start to fantasize
Do it to me like I know you could
So I can do it to you baby like a Cowboy should

Ridin' the range I think of you

Some folks call me crazy, my momma calls me hun'
And depending on the mood your in,
I might be either one
Hey, I get up and I go to work and I go to work
some more
When I get home I take it off and I throw it on
the floor

Chorus:
I'm a country boy and I'm a rockin'roller
Like a little crown in my Coca-Cola
Say a little prayer for all the soldiers
Fightin' for the USA

Chorus:
Some say a holy war is comin'
Gonna be the end of mortal man
There's a tv preacher sayin'
Armagedon is at hand
Sayin' the Jews, the gays, the junkies
The politicians and infidels
Have conjured up the devil
Upon the gates of hell

I turn on the tv
Lord, I can't believe my eyes
Oh, terror walks the streets
While a million mothers cry
Christians pray to Jesus
Lord, help us if you can

I sat down to say it
The words wouldn't come
I just couldn't play it
And it tore me all apart

The bell I tried to ring it
The words wouldn't come
I just couldn't sing it
And I used to know this song by heart

[Chorus]
I sued to sing this song to you
For days and days
In so many different manners
In so many different ways
I used to think this dream we had
Could never come apart

There's a house down on the corner with the porch light on
And a window I can look in and see you're always home
Waiting for me with the lights low in your silk night gown
Somewhere on the outskirts of memory town

Past the stoplight there's a desert where my Coupe Deville
Roars down a lonely highway and it always will
The wind is in your hair and we're nowhere to be found

(Kix Brooks/Ronnie Dunn/ Don Cook)

My baby's like a honky tonk
Open all night, make you feel right
Get's me going, got me buzzing like a neon light
Knock you out like a punch in a barroom fight

My baby's like a smooth shot of whiskey
Make you feel warm, kinda make you feel dizzy
Can't get my fill, I can't get enough of
My baby's everything I love

My baby's like a Coupe Deville

I was raised off of rural route three,
out past where the blacktop ends.
We'd walk to church on Sunday mornings,
race barefoot back to Johnson's fence.
That's where I first saw Mary,
on that roadside picking blackberries.
That summer I turned a corner in my soul,
down that red dirt road.

chorus:
It's where I drank my first beer.
It's where I found Jesus.
Where I wrecked my first car,

She said Good-bye to her Daddy, while her Mama cried
I kept the motor runnin' in my car outside
She kissed him on the cheek, Daddy's little girl
Then a woman walked out to take on the world

Through red tail lights and a cloud of dust
We went flyin' through the night, it was all about us
Sittin' in the seat, right next to me
We drove off with a tank full of gasoline

Chorus:
She was born to run

She said what she wants is a man to be faithful
A true heart somebody willin' and able
To stay by her side through thick and thin
A tender touch every now and then

She's not hung up on fairy tales
Or some dream at the bottom of a wishin' well
Fancy cars or diamond rings
What she wants most are the little things

[Chorus]
That's what she gets
That's what she gets

(Kix Brooks/Paul Nelson)

Sometimes I think about how lucky I am
To live where I do, to be what I can
And to know that you're mine
When I'm holding you close
And to never forget
What matters the most

I'm gonna run with the wind behind me
Have fun when the sun is shining
Stop when the world reminds me
Got to take the time to pray

Chorus:
Fight for the right to be free

Tommy got off at the Texaco
Came bustin' in to Norma's Cafe
Said come on man we gotta go
You know how those party girls hate to wait
Filled up his daddy's trunk with ice and beer
Yeah he was always stealin' the old man's car
Radio never came in too clear
So I'd hang out one on my piece of junk guitar

[Chorus]
Yeah we ruled from the blacktop
To the levee where the party never stopped

Connie came back for her second cousin's wedding
First time she'd been home in a year or two
Just in time for the rehersal dinner
That crazy Connie wasn't wearin' any shoes

Yea, She lives in L.A, she flies to New York City
That woman's been around the world
You can take the girl out of the Honky Tonk
But you can't take the Honky Tonk
Take the Honky Tonk
Outta the girl