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You're up to No Good
03:34
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Heard you were a bit of a troublemaker
Bartender knows you well
but the way you look, it’s so hard not to
buy what you got to sell
Dressed to the tens on a Friday night
Painted on cherry red
Would’ve knocked me over sober, baby
Drunk, you ‘bout shot me dead
So If you’re lookin’ to have some fun tonight
honey you found your man
Take my money, I ain’t got much
then take me home and make me beg for your love
If you’re lookin’ to leave by morning light
honey don’t break your plans
Smile my way, go from there
You’re up to no good and I don’t care
Don’t have to talk ‘til the lights come on, yeah
Don’t have to learn your name
Yeah, I know the difference
‘tween a flicker and a flame
Every time you kiss me softly
baby I know it’s true
When the sun comes up that blonde and red
gon’ leave me black and blue
If a goodbye is the price I pay
for one night with you, that’s okay
‘Cause a broken heart ain’t nothin’ new
and no one moves the way you do
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2. |
Some People Drink
03:45
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Yeah, I know the feeling
when life’s not goin’ your way
Feels like the world is against you
It's been a month, since it's been your day
Now there ain't nothin' wrong
with whatever you do to contend
Some look within for an answer
Some go and call up a friend
Some people drink
Lord knows I'm some people
So have one with me
‘cause it’s better than drinkin’ alone
Used to toss and turn at night
I have seen the neon light
When times get tough
and it’s all too much
Some people drink
When I’m lost, I ask for the captain
When I’m sick and tired, the doctor is in
When I’m down, I lift those spirits
and my spirits are lifted again
So if the work doesn’t end
and the landlord don’t bend
and you’re askin’ me what I’d do
Well I’m only one reason from a cocktail
and it sounds like you just gave me two
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3. |
In a Song
03:13
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When the gig’s done
and I’m packed up
I like to sit and unwind for a minute
Find a bar stool
throw back a few
and get to talkin’ with anybody who’ll listen
One night a man sitting next to me
Said “I seen you play, and you ain't half bad
but if I'm speaking honestly
there's one thing I have to ask
Why you always singing
'bout hanging ‘round drinking
Small towns and love gone wrong?”
I said “I sing what I know
Man it ain't just a show
It's my life in a song”
Beers in a backyard
talkin’ fast cars and
catchin’ up on who’s leavin’ who
Yeah, the same crowd
turns up to get loud
That’s who we are and that’s what we do
Saturday night I’m on a stage
playin’ ‘til I got nothin’ left
Swear before I’ve even been paid
someone goes and asks again
Even with the dance hall smoke
the lights down low
and my name spelled wrong on the sign
You’ll know exactly who I am
where I’ve been
one three-minute story at a time
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4. |
The Color in the Gray
05:39
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Kiss me goodbye
Grab your purse from the back of the chair
Leave to go out
with my towel still wet from your hair
This lovin’ and leavin’
is making a fool out of me
I don’t know where we stand
and it’s bringin’ me down to my knees
Oh, when it comes to your love
a little is never enough
Stay
Why don’t you, why don’t you, stay by my side?
Friday nights runnin’ around
tryin’ to find what we already found
Stay
Why don’t you stay by my side?
I want all of you
If you can’t give me that, give me away
It’s getting harder and harder
finding the color in the gray
No missed calls
has me wondering who I am to you
Am I the one?
Or am I just one of a few?
Yeah, I’m losing my mind
I pray I’m not losing you too
Stay, why don’t you, why don’t you stay
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5. |
You Try and Tell Her No
03:02
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When it’s late and she comes over
she got Bordeaux on her breath
And a perfume I remember
Heaven help who could forget
She wraps her arms around me
There’s one thing on her mind
We’ve played this game before
and she wins every single time
It ain’t a good idea
I should just say so
but when she’s lookin’ for a good time
you try and tell her no
Got a dress stuck to her body
like she played out in the rain
Puts her soft hands on the wheel
and starts drivin’ me insane
She leans a little closer
and whispers in my ear
“Do you want to go upstairs
or do you want to stay right here?”
Used to race my car down back roads
Drink til every drop was gone
Yeah I thought I was invincible
She went and proved me wrong
I swear this is the last time
that we dance in my bed
but deep inside I know
that all she has to say is when
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6. |
Get Your Feet Wet
03:50
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We are visitors but for a moment
Before you know it we’re gone
It’s hard to agree with the notion
We’re just here to pass through and pass on
When we look back on our time here
At the footprints we left in the sand
What ships will have sailed right past us
as we watched from afar
Held in the arms of the land
Strive for something more (Oooo na na na)
If it can’t be reached from shore (Oooo na na na na)
Get your feet wet
Let the water wash your skin
Go and splash around
A little further out
Get your feet wet
Life ain’t always sink or swim
Take a chance on somethin’
When you love it, jump on in
Try just a little bit, try just a little
Opportunities aren’t everlasting
Like the tide they will come and they’ll go
Sometimes we only get one shot
If we stand to the side
Bone dry we’ll never know
Welcome in the waves (Oooo na na na)
When good things float your way (Oooo na na na na)
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7. |
Living 100 Proof
04:01
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Another ship sunk to the bottom
Left me washed up on this shore
Got my elbows on the bar top
And my off the floor
I was hopin’ to find somethin’
That was stronger than the hurt
but this drink don’t ease my mind
‘cause I know I can’t change hers
I’ve been staring down a barrel of whiskey
trying to kill a memory
‘cause she don’t forgive me but
It’s pretty clear that
ain’t nothin’ here gon’
remedy a good love gone bad
I’m living 100 proof of that
I started at the bottom
‘cause that’s where I’ve been for days
Climbed that mirrored wall of bottles
Nothin’ took my pain away
When I ordered up the good stuff
Thought she’d finally met her match
but that top shelf just reminds me
of the kind of love we had
Bartenders got her eyes
The jukebox sings our song
She might’ve said goodbye
Oh but she ain’t gone
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8. |
When We Danced Slow
03:37
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We were out on the hard wood
when the band changed the pace
I brought you in close
covered in lights from the stage
Up ‘til then it was a simple
unofficial kind of thing
But you felt like home
when you wrapped your arms around me
Everyone else in the room slowly faded away
It was just you and I there, swaying in time
to the music I swear, I could've held you all night
Ain’t it true what they say – sometimes you just know
I fell fast when we danced slow
My mind started racing
imagining all we could be
From dating to diamonds
and everything in between
In an instant I knew
I'd love you for the rest of my life
Dancing together
forever as husband and wife
When the song ended you held me tighter
said “Baby don't leave
No never stop dancing with me”
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9. |
Down This Road
04:31
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Damn the man who tore you apart
Who broke a breakable heart
and left you to love looking back
Town this size, you can’t help but choke
On an old memory’s smoke
Long after it’s all burned to ash
If you’re tired of being lonely
Wonderin’ why you even try
Thinkin’ nothin’ lasts forever
No I can’t change the past
but I can change your mind
Show you love is more than
Those tears he left behind
Give us a chance
to see how far this feeling can go
No you ain’t never been down this road
Trust me I know how it feels
to spend your nights spinnin’ your wheels
Fight for someone who won’t fight for you
I’m not him, this ain’t the same
When you’re ready to forget his name
Come take a ride with somebody new
Shadows stretch from the headlights
to the edge of the hillside
where they meet with the night sky
Baby its alright, baby its alright
Standing high over the town
where we loved and lost and found
Only stars up above us
No one can touch us, no nothing can hurt you now
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10. |
Too Late to Care
03:29
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Had a friend say you were comin’ back to town
and you were hopin’ we could talk sometime
Well that broken hearted train has left the station
and it’s ‘bout a hundred miles on down the line
I’m finally ok
And there ain’t no point in talkin’
when there’s nothing left to say
Don’t go callin’ my number
roll in like the thunder
You won’t find me there
Don’t ask to come over
tryin’ to fix what’s been broken
It’s too late to care
Used to spend my nights
pickin’ fights with a bottle
That whiskey’s finally leavin’ me alone
Met a girl
She holds me like she needs me
No I don’t plan on ever lettin’ go
So when you wonder how I’ve been
Just know the man I was
is different than the man I am
I hope you’re doin’ well
but if you ain’t I hope
that you run to someone else
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11. |
Sometimes It Does
03:22
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Seen a good thing grow, just to get up and go
Was lovin’ down dead end streets
Yeah, my heart’s been blind, broken so many times
I’m surprised the damn thing still beats
Oh, but life has a way
of working out for the best, its true
If I never lost them
I would’ve never met you
I’m done worryin’ ‘bout heartache, baby
losin’ hope and long goodbyes
I wanna make you my every day, giving you
all I have for all my life
Everybody’s got a taillight story
Yeah, that’s the thing about love
Sometimes it don’t last
but sometimes it does
I remember that day, the sun and the lake
The beginning of so much more
‘Tell me everything’ calls, pictures on walls
two keys and our first front door
Still my favorite night
was with our family and friends
I got down on one knee
and I said
Sometimes things don’t change
We will still be us
when our golden days
turn to silver ones
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Jay Matthes Milwaukee, Wisconsin
"Go ahead and add this to music you should've heard yesterday. There is no doubt that Milwaukee crowds have had a talent on their hands on the verge of something great." - Midwestern Gentleman
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