Steers and Stripes [Arista Nashville] lyrics

Once I thought that love was something I could never do
Never knew that I could feel this much
But this yearning in the deep part of my heart for you
Is more than a reaction to your touch
It's a perfect passion and I can't get enough

The way you look, the way you laugh,
The way you love with all you have
There ain't nothing 'bout you
That don't do something for me

That wasn't me at a quarter to three
Back in our backyard
Tearing up the roses
And the home grown tomatoes in my new car
And those bottles in the driveway
And the bottles in the hall
Well I don't know where they came from
It must be burglars in the neighborhood
I sure hope they catch those bums

I know you've got your own version of the truth
There's only three things left now that I can do

Once upon a time
Somewhere in your past
Someone said "Forever,"
But the promise didn't last
Now you don't believe
Love is ever true
You steel yourself against the day
When I stop loving you

When the day comes that I don't love you
Every star will fall out of the sky
And every mountain will tumble down
And every river run dry

For every drop of rain
That ever touched the ground

That burning sunset in the sky
Is calling out to us tonight
And I won't work for my old man
Anymore than you fit into your mama's plans
There's a place for people like you and me
Where true love's still got room to breathe

And we can drive all night
'Til the morning light
Let's go west

It's our ticket out of here
Yeah we can disappear
Let's go west

And that painted sky was made for us

Some girls go to church on Sunday
Live life by the golden rule
You got girls gonna graduate one day
Summa cum laude from party school

Some they walk the straight and narrow
Some girls they just don't care
Good girls go to heaven
Bad girls, go everywhere

Some girls are into heavy metal
Dance with the devil everywhere they go
Others of 'em cut a rug to the fiddle

I breeze through the day,
And nothing much seems to get in my way
I don't have a care at all

You walk in a room,
Its always the same you call out my name
I turn, you smile, and I fall

I'm at home at night
just me and moon were doing alright
when out of the blue you call
I hang up the phone
I lay down in bed you're still in my head
I dream you smile and I fall

oh what could this feeling be?

Girl you've got lonely written all over you
I can read the writing from across this crowded room
All by yourself there in your world of blue
Lucky me, lonely you

Must be in the cards fate played a part
Brought us here tonight
Heaven must have lined the stars up in the sky just right

Girl you've got lonely written all over you
I can read the writing from across this crowded room

Maybe it was the moonlight
The scent of you on the breeze
Maybe it was your shadow that fell over me
Such a beautiful stranger
Eyes darker than coal
Your first look crossed the desert
Into my soul

Mi Corazon perdido en ti
My heart is lost to you
You have captured my love completely
My heart is lost to you
Oh my heart is lost to you

Maybe it was the music
The way it moved with your hair

Sun comin' up over New York City
School bus driver in a traffic jam
Starin' at the faces in her rear view mirror
Lookin' at the promise of the promised land.

One kid dreams of fame and fortune
One kid helps pay the rent
One could end up goin' to prison
One just might be president.

Only in america
Dreamin' in red, white, and blue
Only in america
Where we dream as big as we want to.

It started with a dare at a bar in Sarasota
A spring break party miles from Minnesota
Jane was with her friends to mark a celebration
Phi Beta Kappa for her college graduation
A little pomp and circumstance
See Jane dance

The bouncer led the ladies to an open-air cabana
A sea of Coppertone's and Hawaiian Tropicana's
A slew of southern beauties were causin' a commotion

I've been livin' on truck stop coffee
Cigarettes and vitamin C
It's a wonder that the devil ain't caught me
I guess he's tired of playin' hide-n-seek
I've been drivin' like I'm struck by lightin'
I think about ya and I start to speed
I might as well be playin' with matches
In a truckload of gasoline

If it's the last thing I do
If it takes me from Tupelo to Timbuktu
If it's the last thing I do

I know they say if you love somebody
you should set them free
but it sure is hard to do, sure is hard to do
I know they say if it don't come back again
then it's meant to be
Those words don't pull me through cause I'm still in love with you
I spend each day here waitin' for a miracle
But it's just you and me goin' through the mill
climbin' up a hill

this is the long goodbye
somebody tell me why,

I know you know
Just how it goes when it goes
And how it feels
To be lost and left alone
On your own
And what it's like
To give all you've got
And have to stand
And watch it
As it walks away.

So everyone deserves a chance
To live and learn
From mistakes
That we make and hearts
That break and bridges burn
Starting now
From this moment on
Nothing's gonna go wrong
Love is here to stay.

Saw an old friend last night I hadn't seen in a couple of years
Stopped in Galatoire's had a couple of beers
Talked about the price of oysters, the coach at LSU
Then like I knew it would the conversation turned to you

He had to go and I looked at my watch, it was 1:45
I headed down canal, the quarter was coming alive
A man on the corner told me that Jesus was coming soon