Your smile is all of the affection I need to feel good about
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Old Valentine's
I've got a closet full of old letters and of shadows
That dance around the room when I stop to reminisce
And if you reach out for a hand, they creep into corners
Just like friends in your life become strangers to the world
And I can't help but wonder, about my 18 th summer
When being a kid was just my fault
And the long summer days, spent with a girl my age
The things we did and where she's gone
And the cold winter that came, following our mistakes
The things we did and the directions that we've gone
I wonder where you've gone, and where we've been
Since we gave up childhood in exchange for memories
And it burned its way into my mind
Just like dancing days and old valentine's
Ghosts reveal themselves out on the street
In the faint resemblance of faces I see
Just as the ocean washes over footprints in the sand
Time's paving over pathways that lead into the past
And I can't help but wonder, about my 18 th summer
When being a kid was just my fault
And the long summer days, spent with a girl my age
The things we did and where she's gone
And the cold winter that came, following our mistakes
The things we did and the directions that we've gone
I wonder where we've gone, and where she's been
Since we gave up childhood in exchange for memories
And it burned its way into my mind
Just like dancing days and old valentine's
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Song For the Road
Pastures speeding by the window on the passenger side
and in the rearview things seen and done
Two years strong and ridin' high since you left the farm and chores behind
and set out to pave a new road to the world
It's good to have you home
You set out on your own
With memories of only where you've been,
who you've known
and where you still live
back home
The road will break you and make you hard, and you'll see things you hate to love
and other things you wish you never saw
Caus' everyone's got something to hide, some keep it on the run,
some keep it down inside
But sooner or later it leads back to the farm
It's good to have you home
You set out on your own
With memories of only where you've been,
who you've known
and where you still live
back home
Women cry and women smile, be good to ‘em all don't leave ‘em high and dry
or a trail of bastard children will follow you home
People knod and people smile, they'll try to take from you all that you're worth
but only those who listen can sing along
It's good to have you home
You set out on your own
With memories of only where you've been,
who you've known
and where you still live
back home
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Just Turn Blue
It all seems perfect, that's usually how it starts
a person meets perceptions in your mind
And you feel you've known them, for such a long, long time
until time reveals the things you never wanna know
Then comes that uneasy feeling
The one you get staring at the ceiling
Lying in your bed alone and wondering how long you'll be left here waiting
Caus' I waited for you
But I'm not gonna hold my breath because you know I'll just turn blue
No one is to blame, it's really no one's fault
It's just the way we work things up in our minds
So accept someone for who they really are
Instead of waiting for someone who will never be there
There you are standing on the street side
Watching all the people as they file by
Wondering when to say hello, and wondering how long you'll be left there waiting
Caus' I waited for you
But I'm not gonna hold my breath because you know I'll just turn blue
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Ringing in Your Ear
I hear a peacefulness in the sound of your breathing
As I'm shivering off another winters evening
And the whisper of the night can be hypnotic
Because as the world sleeps, Mother Nature watches over us
You hear the ticking of the clock
We drift away to a place where there's no evil
Cradled by the sound of wind against our window
And Mother Nature keeps an eye out for us
In case that we decide to walk in her dark forest
You hear the beating of her heart
Each heartbeat rings out like a chime
The ring's loud enough to wake you up
There's no easier thing to do then drift away with you inside a happy dream
The ring's loud enough to wake you up
There's no easier thing to do then drift away with you on a melody
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Looking After You
Let me whisper in your ear
and tell you all my secrets
Like when you run away
I don't know what I'll do
So I'll just keep looking after you
In a few seconds you were here
and I had a lifetime to prepare
I thought that I was strong
but you brought me to my knees
When you opened your eyes and you started to blink
Caus' I can't breathe, but I can smile
and I can laugh and I can cry
and I'll always be looking after you
And when you grow, you will go
and all I give, is what I know
But your free to take with you success and flaws
and all you've learned
So let me whisper in your ear
and tell you all my secrets
Like when you run away
I don't know what I'll do
So I'll just keep looking after you
Caus' I can't breathe, but I can smile
and I can laugh and I can cry
and I'll always be looking after you
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Kate's Song
There's a ray of light that's shining through my window
I reach to crack the blinds just to get a better look
and I can feel the warm embrace hit my face and wake me up
It melts away the dark and fills the room with hope
Now I'm pushing up the window just to let the breeze blow in
and I can hear faint sounds of music carried on the wind
It's a tune that sounds familiar, but also sounds brand new,
like a person you just met, but you've always thought you knew
I can hear it in the air and breathe it into my lungs
and everybody knows this song
Caus' it's a song that can turn black & white into a rainbow
and it's a song that carries on
Now I make my way downstairs, out the door and to the street
and I can feel the grace of sunshine like music at my feet
It's a tune that sounds familiar, but also sounds brand new
like a person you just met, but you've always thought you knew
I can hear it in the air and breathe it into my lungs
and everybody knows this song
Caus' it's a song that can turn black & white into a rainbow
and it's a song that carries on
I can hear it in the air and breathe it into my lungs
and everybody knows this song
Caus' it's a song that can turn black & white into a rainbow
and lead you to a pot of gold
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Brighten Up Your Life
Looking forward to brightening up your life
I can sing a song to you from my heart
and you can sing along with me, it's an easy melody
and it's a simple song to sing
Like la, la dah, la dah, la dah
La, la dah, la dah, la dah
You can brighten up the day with a song
Nothing warms the heart like a smile
And you can write in your diary, that today's a happy day
and you can sing along with me
Like la, la dah, la dah, la dah
La, la dah, la dah, la dah
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Carry You With Me
Wind on the highway is carrying me home
The rate that I'm going, I'll be there before dawn
Caus' I've been west two thousand miles, and east two thousand more
and I carry you with me, everywhere I go
I've been through the motor city
where people live in cars
I've been on out to the edge of this world
where Columbus would have fallen off
I've been through the mountain range, seen the winter, spring and fall
and I carry you with me, everywhere I go
And everywhere I go I seem to find myself, half way home
Everywhere I go I'm running out of gas and all alone
and I carry you with me, everywhere I go
I'm almost there now, just a few more miles to go
The sun's about to rise up into a great pink divide
Caus' I've been up and down this road and now it's time to turn off
and I carry you with me, everywhere I go
And everywhere I go I seem to find myself, half way home
Everywhere I go I'm running out of gas and all alone
and I carry you with me, everywhere I go
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