I will speak careful formulations of defense, these wary methods Words with no echo, this is an unfair architecture And my fists surrender to my emotion
Well I was born a coal miner's daughter in a cabin on a hill in Butcher Holler We were poor but we had love that's the one thing that daddy made sure
How can something so right be so wrong Why couldn't common sense leave us alone Is it love or is it loss that pulls us on Just what do you have I don'
They rest, they rest, they rest, they rest They rest on the coast and the tide is impending We pull at the motionless and static But the torrent has crowned
You have taken all the love I gave Trample it beneath your dusty feet You left my desires unfulfill And took yourself all love off of the street You
Back through the years I go wonderein' once again back to the seasons of my youth I recall the box of rags that someone gave us how my mama put the rags
Tonight is like to work late and I just can't stay home A few dreams with an old friend somehow don't seem so wrong But a dream or two a friendly kiss
Oh they say that country music's gone to town Hold your flocks and put on the cap and gown What's the country girl to do what's this world a comin' to
Your eyes, your concrete eyes Cross crisscross my path Walking in circular patterns Shoe shine your ammo, polish your metal I need not your wicked weapons
Oh it's crying time again you're gonna leave me I can see that faraway look in your eyes I can tell by the way you hold me darling that it won't be long
Watch it all change and watch it go away. Watch it all never be the same again. Watch it all all be nothing like we thought before. Watch it all. Watch
Oh mama I'm excited I'm almost out of breath When I saw the light that made me run myself to death I was on the mountain side when I looked down below
I just came in here from force of habit I don't intend to spend too much time in here But I heard you headin' for the teardrops and if you play A-11 there
My whole life's saving's a two dollar bill That's why I'm here tonight I've got time to kill And I can tell my story about twenty times With two dollars
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
No, I don't care, we don't care, no one seems to care The mirror of our mouths endlessly yelling May I have attention, attention, attention? This is a
For a long long time now just about every night You found some excuse not to hold me tight No matter what I do you sit and pout Don't let that doorknob