God only knows how I've needed a friend
Who can see through the boldness and pride
Someone strong enough, I can put my faith in
Someone willing to let me inside
So be a man and be my man

I dare you to need me
Like nobody else
Dare you to feel me
Like you've never felt
Dare you to want to want
To wanna be good to me

Baby, you've got your reasons, dangling from kite strings

Six AM came way too early
But Friday means it's over soon
Life gets boring in a hurry
But I got somethin' that gets me goin'
And I'm already gone

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I got it bad
Feel that rumble
Tough and tumble under my feet
I got it bad
Round and round, we've all gone mad
Scream it, I got it bad

I'm addicted to the fast life
I cut my teeth on the concrete dreams

Love is a lot like a garden
you throw you whole heart into
Once I was easily started
The hard thing to do was following through
But i want to with you

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Make a love that'll last forever
I want to with you
Make a life we can live together
Baby I promise you
Every time I laugh
Every time I cry
Every long night i live through
I want to with you

Life is a lot like a battle

Like a cloud full of rain shouldn't hang in the sky
Ice shouldn't burn or a bumble bee fly
If you feel so happy, then why do you cry
Oh, nothin' 'bout love makes sense

Like an ocean liner shouldn't float on the sea
A pearl in an oyster or a circus of fleas
Someone so perfect can't be fallin' for me
Oh, nothin' 'bout love makes sense

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Nothin' 'bout love is less than confusin'

Got an date a week from Friday
With the preacher's son
Everybody says he's crazy
I'll have to see
I finally moved to Jackson
When the summer came
I won't have to pay that boy
To rake my leaves
I'm probably going on and on
It seems I'm doing more of that these days

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I probably wouldn't be this way
I probably wouldn't hurt so bad

Isn't it a gamble, layin' your heart out on the floor
Nothin' short of a miracle
When you find the one you're looking for
It's another kind of trouble
Trying to hang on to who you are
When all you wanna do
Is lose yourself in someone else's arms
Isn't it a wonder that we got this far

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Some people aren't lucky like us
Some people they just give up
When the hard times fall

Jenny's got a job, a cat named Jake
Thirty-one candles on her birthday cake
Next year
Thought by now she'd have a man
Two car-seats in a minivan
But it still ain't here, hey

She's been looking for Mr. Right so long
But all she's found is Mr. Wrong
And that's the pits

She's drawn a line that she won't cross
Her and time are facing off
She says, something's gotta give

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Accept me for who I am
And that I'm only human
And there are more important things
Than what we fight about
We won't always see eye to eye
We say hurtful things sometimes
And it gets hard when you love
someone so much

Everybody's got highs and lows
It's alright, it's the weight of love
Highs and lows
It's alright, it's the weight of love

Remember our first Kiss

Looks like she really did you in
You're a broken hearted lover
Just tryin' to recover
You need to find a place to mend
All your time ain't necessary
But I don't wanna be a temporary thing
So gimme just half a chance

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When this woman loves a man
She'll do anything she can
To keep the fire alive in your soul
And when all the chips are down
I'm still gonna be the one around

A little stretch of river on a big green field
The kind you see from airplanes, baby
That's the deal, that's the deal
A place to plan a future, a place to keep the past
A place to raise some kids
And what's wrong with that, what's wrong with that

Maybe it's the same routine walking on the concrete
Running like a river so deep
Wearin' down my high heels, wearing down my high ideals

Leave me lonely
Just don't keep me hangin' on
These sleepless nights might kill me
But what don't break me will make me
Strong enough to

Get past the past in front of me
I'll have to pass some memories
I'll be alright, get by just fine
Say goodbye and

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Bring on the 'he's long gone'
Done me wrong
Tears I'm gonna cry
When you say goodbye
Baby, I won't be lonely long

I was blinded by the city lights
L.A. livin' up the crazy life
Lookin' back on how far I'd come
Not quite sure what I was runnin' from

A million miles away from the world I knew
Who'd ever thought it'd lead me back to you

You take me to
Front porch swings
Mama singin' "Cheatin' Heart"
Yeah what a rush
Catchin' lightnin' bugs in a mason jar
You take me to
County fairs