The Way That I Am lyrics

Chorus:
Ashes
He's nothing but ashes
No feelings have lasted
No love remains
Ashes
That's all that our past is
He's nothing but ashes
From a cold old flame

I saw your face when
He waltzed in here
But those old embers
Haven't burned for years
The light that's shining
In my eyes
Is for the one that
I'm with tonight

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No, I don't blame you
For having some doubts
But when he left me

The alarm went off but I wasn't asleep
after tossing and turning all night what a relief
to go to work, get up and go to work
so I get onto the highway and head into town
there's one part of my life
I didn't let you tear down
yeah and that's my work-right now I'm going to work

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Yeah when the whistle blows I'll be there
life goes on even when it's not fair

the way you treat me baby
cheat and tell me lies
I guess I shouldn't care at all
but still I sympathize
cuz you got heart trouble
coming on
yeah you got heart trouble coming on
well you think you don't need me baby
but you're gonna miss me when I'm gone

you say that love can't touch you
you feel no pain at all
you think that you're above it baby
but I believe you'll fall

Well, she seemed alright by dawn's early light
Though she looked a little worried and weak
She tried to pretend he wasn't drinkin' again
But Daddy left the proof on her cheek
And I was only eight years old that summer
And I always seemed to be in the way
So I took myself down to the fair in town
On Independence Day

Well, word gets around in a small, small town

Don't tell me no stories
I don't wanna hear no lies
No reasons no excuses
None of your alibies.
Phone rings, I pick it up, nobody's on the line
I know she's waitin' for you
She's just bidin' her time
You'd have me believe it's just a night out with your friends
I know your going back to see her again

Chorus:
You're stealing love
Living on life #9
Breaking my heart
Living on borrowed time

Don't need no copy of Vogue magazine
Don't need to dress like no beauty queen
High heels or sneakers he don't give a dang
My baby loves me just the way that I am
My baby loves me just the way that I am

He never tells me I'm not good enough
Just gives me unconditional love
He loves me tender and he loves me mad
He loves me silly and he loves me sad

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It's been awhile, since she's heard him say
"See you tonight", his usual way
There's always some place, he's gotta go
Somewhere he needs to be

It's not the same, now when they touch
She figures he's just working too much
Some how that makes it all ok
And gets her through another day

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She's heard the talk, all over town
She don't want to believe he's running around

Two strangers passing on the sidewalk
Barely brush each other's hand
He says, I'm sorry.
She says, Dont worry.
And that is how it all began.

A few short days and nights together,
And it's like they were meant to be.
Lying there with her
He softly whispers,
Just think what we were so recently.

Strangers
Strangers
World's greatest lovers
Last week we were strangers.

I know she must have cut you deep
she's gone but you won't let her leave
I know your heart has not healed yet
but sometimes I think you forget

Chorus

that wasn't me
that wasn't me
I'm not the one
who made love bring you to your knees
you can't love if you can't trust
her memory's hurt you long enough
let your heart see
that wasn't me

I can no longer pay the price

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Where I used to have a heart
feels like a mile wide ditch
I got a hole inside
the doctor just can't stitch
gone without a trace
you left a hollow space
there's not a stone to mark
where I used to have a heart

there were times when I would hold you
and feel the pounding in my chest
now I'm just as empty
as a canyon way out west
that's how deep I loved you
babe, I love you still

Artist : Martina Mcbride
Song : Independence Day
Album :
Submitted by : Janae
Corrected by : Monica
Rated : 10.0 (10 votes)

Well she seemed alright by dawn's early light
Though she looked a lil worried and weak
She tried to pretend he wasn't drinking again
But Daddy left the proof on her cheek
And I was only eight years old that summer
And I always seemed to be in the way

The time has come to let you go
My tears will run and they'll keep me afloat
I set you adrift like a burning boat
The time has come to let you go

The time has come to turn you loose
It took my heart this long to face the truth
If I lost you I can lose these blues
The time has come to turn you loose

We had our moment in the sun
But that time has come and now that time is gone

There's a photo in an album he don't notice anymore
That's me, that's me
There's a stack of cards and letters buried deep inside a drawer
That's me, that's me
And the shirt that I once slept in hanging loose behind the door
Tossed aside so carelessly
That's me, oh that's me

There's a picture in my wallet and one less faded in my mind
That's him, that's him

I'm so blue lonely for you
What makes you treat me the way that you do
I've been true only to you
Just call me your true blue fool

Every day you're away lasts forever
Oh what price my heart pays just to stay together

I'm so blue lonely for you
What makes you treat me the way that you do
I've been true only to you
Just call me your true blue fool

I tried to hold our love together
But you let us fall apart
Now your leaving me for someone else
Taking what's left of my heart
But this time the pain don't feel that same
I'm not aching like I should
'Cause loving you has hurt so bad
That losing you feels good

I know you'll come back running to me
When the thrill is dead and gone
And you realize the love you need

I never believed in the straight and narrow
Always took the rocky road
Spread my wings like a wayward sparrow
Where the wind blew I would go
Thought no one could ever tame me
And no chains could tie me down
But your love put my feet back on the ground

I wanna walk that line
True lovers do
Your hand in mine
Now I belong to you
I wanna join our hearts
With the ties that bind

He sits all alone in his easy chair
Staring back on his lost yesterdays
Long before he encountered the bottle
And the demons that drove her away

In his hand he is holding her photograph
Her image all tear-stained and worn
Tonight he's embracing reality
And he curses the day he was born

And the darkness still echoes her warning
You can't have two loves in your life

I can't sleep for dreaming about you
When you're gone there's nothing I can do
But lie awake alone and dream the whole night through
I can't sleep for dreaming about you

I close my weary eyes
And see your face
I hold my pillow tight
And dream of your embrace
I know I could use the rest
But my lonely heart cries out for your caress

I can't sleep for dreaming about you

How can you just stand there
And act like nothing's wrong
You haven't even kissed me
Or held me for so long
There's no lipstick on your collar
There's no perfume on your clothes
There's no number on a matchbook
But a woman always knows

A woman knows without asking
A woman knows what's left unsaid
A woman knows when a man's been sleeping
In someone else's bed

In waters calm I sailed from shore
To see what I might see
And having never sailed before
I drifted aimlessly
A warm breeze rocked my boat until
In slumber I fell sound
But woke to find the light grown dim
And dark clouds gathering 'round

In haste I worked at turning back
But now the wind blew wrong
And when the night came cold and black
My strength was almost gone

When you are old and tired and gray
Wear you overcoat on sunny days
When your brave tales have all been told
I'll ask for them when you are old

When you are old and full of sleep
And death no longer makes you weep
When your body aches with cold
I'll warm your heart when you are old

You'll still be the same to me
A comfort and a mystery
And I will be old too see