Real Live Woman (Japan Bonus Track) [MCA] lyrics

(Harlan Howard - Matraca Berg)

Can't believe the way I let you use me
Can't believe all the wasted time
For a while baby, you confused me
When you said I was your sunshine.

But I'm just someone to call
When you need a place to fall
Baby come back when it ain't rainin'
Come back when your skies are blue
Come back when it ain't rainin' on you
It ain't rainin' on you.

(Mary Chapin Carpenter - Kim Richey)

Did you ever want something
So bad that you could taste it?
Did you ever want something
You knew you couldn't have? Well, I did.

Did you ever know what it feels like
To get lost in a lover's kiss?
Did you ever even want to go there
Well, I did I did.

I took my chances laid my heart open wide
I felt the rush I lost my head.
I learned to laugh, oh, but then

(Matraca Berg - Al Anderson)

Woke up this mornin', just another day
Got myself out of bed in the usual way
Threw back the curtains and the sun was shinin'
Well, it seems these days I got such good timin'.

Since I let you go
Well, what do you know.

Guess I fooled everybody
Said I'd love you till the day that I die
Even if you didn't love me
Sorry baby I guess I lied

(Gary Nicholson - Al Anderson - Kimmie Rhodes)

So many times love went south
Down into the valley of the shadow of doubt
My faith was failing, my hope was gone
I wandered in the wilderness all alone.

You came to me
Like a revelation
In your arms
I found salvation.

Oh, one love took me to the mountain top
Showed me a world I'd never seen
One love took me down to the riverside

I don't buy the lines in magazines, that tell me what I've gotta be
I don't base my life on the movie screen
I don't fit the mold society has planned

I don't need to be nineteen years old,
Or starve myself for some weight I'm told
Will turn men's heads, been down that road
And I thank God I finally know..just who I am

I ain't a movie star,
They never see the view from where they are

Sad Eyes

Every day here you come walkin'
I hold my tongue, I don't do much talkin'
You say you're happy and you're doin' fine
Well go on baby, I got plenty of time, 'cause
Sad eyes never lie
Sad eyes never lie

For a while I've been watching you steady
Ain't gonna move 'till you're good and ready
You show up and then you shy away
But I know pretty soon you'll be
walkin' this way, 'cause

(Tia Sillers - Mark Selby)

If you see dark skies in my green eyes
It's just that I can't find no cover
These ghosts that haunt me
They get me when they want me
And some days are better than others.

I didn't sleep last night
I guess that's the price you pay
For a soul that's troubled
And curse or blessing I'm here confessing
Some days are better than others.

I have these moments of weakness

(Paul Craft - Cadillac Holmes)

Sittin' here thinkin'
'Bout you and me
It's a cryin' shame
'cause it's plain to see.

You make me love you so bad
You make me love you so bad
You make me love you so bad
Too bad you're no good.

You smile like an angel
Lie like a rug
You wouldn't change if you could
'Cause it's in your blood.

You make me love you so bad
You make me love you so bad

(Linda Ronstadt/Andrew Gold)

Well, I drove past your house last night
And I looked in your window
Lately I ain't been feelin' right
And I don't know the cure, no
Still I can't keep from wonderin'
If I still figure in your life.

Could you take me back and try me again
Could you try me again.

I drove around in this lonesome town
Felt just like a beginner
Friends I saw, they just brought me down

(Matraca Berg - Ronnie Samoset)

I see you waiting in the shadows
Wonder where I've been
Dusty old piano, it's you and me
Again my old friend.

I'll just have to change a few lines
Now that we're alone
All that happiness those silly rhymes
They just don't seem at home now that he's gone

So make it sad, so sad
Like ''Faded Love'' or ''Born To Lose''
'Cause it's sad when

You use to sooth me
You use to swear with
Heart crossed conviction
That you'd be there
Where are you now?

Well I'm good, one of a kind
But I would rather be two
And I still speak my mind
But I miss talking with you
And I could hem and haw
But I'll just cut right through
I don't need nothing, baby
Nothing but you

Well I lit a candle
It's burning still
Most every night on
My window sill

(Thomas R. Snow - David Batteau)

Struck by the moon rising too soon
I feel a pain deep inside me
Cold northern wind, a fist in my chin
Making me wild for you baby.

What can I do to get back to you
I'm feeling desperate and lonely
The city's a river of cold misery
Making me wild for you baby.

I'm down on my knees
Hear me cry for you baby
Cold misery I would die for you baby