Honky Tonk Years lyrics

I'm looking for that Lonely Street I've got a sad sad tale to tell

I need a place to go and weep where's this place called Lonely Street
A place where there's just loneliness where dim lights bring forgetfulness

Where broken dreams and mem'ries meet where's this place called Lonely Street

Maybe on this Lonely Street there's someone such as I

When I was with you I was happy but you took my happy away

You'll have to go leave me lonely and my lonely just won't go away
I told you I told you I'm rorry my sorry gets bigger each day

With you in my arms I'd be happy but you took my happy away

[ fiddle ]

You must know by now how I need you but you treat my need you so wrong

You took her off my hands when you've stepped in

You changed everything we're not even friends
Don't leave the job half done leave nothing behind

You took her off my hands now please take her off my mind

Please take her photograph my heart's so blue

And take all her memories she now belongs to you

Don't leave the job half done leave nothing behind

Well you tell me that you care but now you're gone you got me cryin'

No use denyin' you done me wrong

If I could look inside your heart then maybe I would know the reason
Why you are leavin' me all alone

Well you know it's not so when you say it's not well you know you lie

I didn't do one wrong thing to you won't you tell me baby

You wouldn't read the letter that I wrote you you told me not to call you on the phone

But there's something that I just got to tell you
So I wrote it in the words of this song

I didn't know God made honky tonk angels I might have known you'd never make a wife

You gave up the only one who ever loved you and went back to the wild side of life

[ steel - fiddle ]

Touch my heart feel the hurt it's destroying me

I've tried but can't seem to shake her memory
Touch my heart feel the hurt the pain and misery

Then tell me again what love can do for me

If you lived in my world awhile you'd soon forget how to smile

In my world there's a million ways to cry

If you had my eyes you could see how someone changed my destiny

Together again my tears have stopped falling

The long lonely nights are now at an end
The key to my heart you hold in your hand

And nothing else matters we're together again

[ strings ]

(Nothing else matters we're together again)

Together again the grey skies're gone

You're back in my arms now where you belong

(It's a thing called sadness)

It's been here since you've been gone it's been hanging round too long
A thing called sadness not much of a friend when you walked out it walked in

In every chair where I sit down it follows me all over town

A thing called sadness not much of a friend when you walked out it walked in

I hear footsteps slowly walking as they gently walk across a lonely floor

And a voice is softly saying darling this will be goodbye forever more
There goes my reason for living there goes the one of my dreams

There goes my only possesion there goes my everything

[ fiddle ]

As my mem'ry turns back the pages I can see the happy years we had before

I know I'm not your first love but there'll just be past memory

For I'm the one that's got you now that's all that matters to me
I know other arms have held you but I'm not jealous of these

For mine are the arms that hold you now and that's all that matters to me

I came alive when you came along you brought life back to me

And I don't care what's in your past you're as far as I can see

I look at your picture too often it helps keep your mem'ry alive

It's not healthy they say to relive yesterday but for me it's the way to survive
I must cling to what's gone if I've to go on I can't face the future I've tried

Perhaps for the rest looking back isn't best but for me it's the way to survive

[ steel ]

Walk me to the door and hold me close just one more time

Kiss me just once more the way you did when you were mine

The longest walk I'll ever take will be across the floor
That's why I'm asking one last favor walk me to the door

I love another won't you let me be these are the words that you said to me

How can I go through life without you like it was before

A bright array of city lights as far as I can see

The great white way shines through the night for lonely guys like me

The cabaretes and honky tonks their flashing signs invite
A broken heart to lose itself in the glow of city lights

Lights that say forget her name in a glass of cherry wine

Lights that offer other girls for empty hearts like mine

(Burning mem'ries burning mem'ries memories of you that I can't lose)

Tonight I'm burning old love letters photographs and memories of you
Hoping somehow I'll feel better and when the smoke is gone I won't want you

Burning mem'ries teardrops fall while I am

Burning mem'ry burning all the memories of you that I can't lose

I'm gettin' tired of roamin' around I'm gettin' tired of paintin' the town

Bright lights and blonde haired women don't thrill me
I'm gettin' tired of being lived up like a Christmas tree

I guess I done everything there is to do you said it would be this way

Believe me baby I'm all through please let me come home to you

Oh look around you look down the barroom the lonely faces that you see

Are you sure that this is where you want to be
These are your friends but are they real friends do they love you the same as me

Are you sure that this is where you want to be

You seem in such a hurry to live this kind of life you caused so many tears and misery

Look around you take a good look and tell me what you see

They say you've found somebody new but that won't stop my loving you

I just can't let you walk away forget the love I had for you
Yes I could find somebody too but I don't want no one but you

How could you leave without regrets am I that easy to forget

Before you leave be sure you find you want his love much more than mine

Cause I'll just say we've never met if I'm that easy to forget

Danny Boy the pipes the pipes are calling

From glen to glen and down the mountain side
The summer's gone and all the leaves falling it's you it's you must go and I must bide

But come ye back when summer's in the meadow

Or when the valleys hushed and white with snow

I'll be here in sunshine or in shadows oh Danny Boy oh Danny Boy I love you so

[ strings ]

Now blue ain't the world for the way that I feel

And the storm's brewing in this heart of mine

This ain't no crazy dream I know that it's real
You're someone else's love now you're not mine

Crazy arms that reach to hold somebody new

For my yearning heart keeps saying you're not mine

My troubled mind knows soon to another you'll be wed

And that's why I'm lonely all the time

If I don't act myself when I'm around you and I bring up the things you used to say
Well I just haven't learned to forget like you do but it's only love it'll go away

And if I call at night while you're still sleeping just to talk to you about yesterday

Then before I hang up I start to weeping well it's only love it'll go away

It's only love it'll go away at least that's what you say

I couldn't sleep last night just walked the floor don't know how I stand this anymore

Lonely are the times since I lost you recieved your invitation to the blues
I don't know why you caused me such pain

I just hope I'll never go through this much again

Thanks for sending something I can't use recieved your invitation to the blues

[ steel ]

If you're ever lonely darling think of all that I've been through

Long and lonesome nights sweetheart I've waited on you
Say in your mind you have it coming and you know you have to pay

Maybe baby you will learn and change someday

Why oh why did you try to deceive me

You've made me blue sweetheart both night and day

Say in your mind you have it coming and you know you have to pay

I saw the one I loved and lost last night again

I smiled and said hello like we were still old friends
Don't pitty me it never matter anyhow but oh if she could see me now

If she could see me now when the night life's gone

I'd sat I really looked without my party face on

The way I just give up sit down and cry out loud but oh if she could see me now

[ fiddle - steel ]

Just one more dance just one more chance so I can talk to you

Don't live too fast forget the past and I will try to prove
I would do anything you ask me to

Don't run around don't turn me down let me talk to you

Don't go too far with that crowd at the bar

That's not the way to win please fall in love again

Give me your heart so I can start to build our life anew

I know our love is over you've made it plain to see

But just for the record did you ever love me
I hope that you'll be happy I'm gonna try to be

But just for the record did you ever love me

Or was I just fillin' in while you waited for love to come by

Or did you once love me if you did why oh why did it die

This is the last time I'll call you from this moment on you're free

Heartache number 1 was when you...left me,

I never knew that I could hurt this way,

And heartache number 2,

Was when you...come back again,
You came back and never meant to stay.

Chorus

Now I've got heartaches by the number,

Troubles by the score,

Every day you love me less,

Each day I love you more,

Yes, I've got heartaches by the number,

A love that I can't win,

You're back in town again spreadin' talk around

That I'm still in love with you though you let me down
I hate to admit it but I guess the talk is true

Or else you couldn't make my heart ache the way you do

I've got a new heartache about an old sweetheart that left me for somebody new

I've got a new heartache about an old sweetheart and that's why I'm feeling so blue

[ fiddle ]

I wonder what the power is that you hold over me

I never get to love you long just your memory

And I make a vow each time you leave that this will draw the line
Then you come back and just like now I'm falling one more time

One more time my lips may kiss you one more time my arms will hold you

But it won't belong until you're gone with a mem'ry left behind

I got loaded last night on a bottle of gin and I had a fight with my best girl friend

But when I'm drinkin' I am nobody's friend

Please baby wait for me until they let me out again
I know the same thing has happened before

And everytime it does I hate it more and more

But when I'm drinkin' I am nobody's friend

Please baby wait for me until they let me out again

The same two lips that once told me they love me

Are the same same two lips that now tell me goodbye

And the same two hands that once held mine so tightly
Are the same two hands that now push me aside

The same two eyes that looked at me so fondly

Are the same two eyes that look at someone else

And the same two lips I taught to say they love me

Now teach I love you to somebody else

When I saw you with your new love today it hurt me in an old familiar way

And I know there is nothing I can do but how long this'll be here waiting just for you
With the same two arms still missing you and the same old heart still bein' true

And the same two lips they still belong to you and the same old me keeps loving you

[ fiddle - steel ]

You know that you're doing lots of things that ain't right

You're out with a different party almost every night

And you're making me look like a crazy fool
So why do I have these doubts about leaving you

Because my heart tells me stay but my pride tells me go

But how can I leave you when I love you so

Which way should I turn I'd sure like to know

I must say that I don't care hold up head up in the air

Even tell my friends I'm glad that you don't call
But when the day is through my heartaches start anew

And that's when I miss you most of all

And my arms keep reaching for you my eyes keep searching for you

My lips keep calling for you and my shoes keep walking back to you

[ fiddle ]

(Make the world go away) and get it off of my shoulder

(Say the things you used to say) and make the world go away

I'm sorry if I hurt you I'll make it up day by day

Just tell me you still love me and make the world go away

(Make the world go away...

Do you remember when you loved me before the world took me astray

If you do then forgive me and make the world go away

When your alone at night with the world locked outside

Have a talk to your heart about me

If you told that it's right that we stay apart
Then let me come in and talk to your heart

[ steel ]

Loving you changed my life in just one day

I'm waiting to hear what your heart will say

If your told that it's right that we stay apart

Then let me come in and talk to your heart

[ fiddle ]

This old smoke filled bar is something I'm not used to

But I gave up my home to see you satisfied

And I just called to let you know where I'm livin'
It's not much but I feel welcome here inside

I've got swinging doors a jukebox and a barstool

And my new home has a flashing neon sign

Stop by and see me anytime you want to

Cause I'm always here at home till closing time

(The soft rain was teardrops for the angels all cried)

Soft rain was falling when you said goodbye
Thunders and lightnings filled my heart inside

The love born in heaven had suddenly died

And the soft rain was teardrops for the angels all cried

If love can be perfect ours must have been

But perfection is always destroyed by man

The rain whispered softly a true love just died