A Lot of Things Different lyrics

Your world was so different from mine don't you see

And we couldn't be close though we tried
We both reached for heavens but ours weren't the same

That's what happens when two worlds collide

Your world was made up of things sweet and good

My world could never fit in I wish it could

Two hearts lie in shambles and oh they've cried

That's what happenes when two worlds collide

Too country what's that

Is that like too Republican or too Democrat

Is it too far too the left too far to the right

Too straight down the middle is it too black or too white
Are the biscuits too fluffy is the chicken too fried

Is the gravy too thick are the peas too black-eyed

Is the iced tea too sweet does it have too much tang

Are there too many lemons in Mama's lemon meringue

My mama and daddy were celebrating their anniversary

In all their years together I'd never seen them disagree

I said mama what's your secret daddy tell me the truth
They laid a little wisdom on me that I've carried ever since my youth

If you hold on to love too tight it'll crumble and crack

If you hold on to love too loosely it'll fly away and won't come back

I'd have spent a lot more time out in the pouring rain

without an umbrella covering my head

And I'd have stood up to that bully when he pushed and shoved

And called me names but I was too afraid
And I'd have gone on and seen Elvis that night

He came to town and Mama said I couldn't

And I'd have gone skinny-dipping with Jenny Carson

That time she dared me to and I didn't

He came to town with a lot of dreams swapped BMG for KFC

And four strings on his Gibson and now he's frying chicken

He swore someday the world of country music but he held on to his faded dreams

Would be his'n his jeans and cowboy hat
He drove a beat up Chevy truck he still leans in that microphone

And he didn't have no money says you want some fries with that

It's twelve o'clock again and here I am slowly driving home

To nothing but a big ole empty bed and another night alone

Before I left this evening I turned the lights down low and chilled some wine
I thought tonight would be the night someone would use that pillow next to mine

I went to church and got down on my knees and softly said a prayer

I've been fightin' with these sheets again can't make myself lie still

My pillowcase is soaking wet and yet I feel a chill

It takes all I can do these days to just survive the nights
It gets crazy when a man can't get a woman off his mind

When a man can't shake a memory he runs hot and cold and blind

He hates he then he loves her then he hates her one more time