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This is one of my latest attempts. This is the first CD I've released with co-written material. Kirby Witt co-wrote 4 of the songs on this CD. You can check him out at www.kirbywitt.com.  This is also the best quality recording I've ever done. I think I've learned a lot about the entire recording process in the years since Broken was released.

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LYRICS

Don't Tell Me You Love Me (Jones/Witt)

Don't tell me you love me and then walk away
Cause if you loved me,  you would stay
I don't know how to carry on
Or live with you gone
So don't tell me you love me
You don't know what it means

I fell in love with you when I first kissed your lips
And since then there's been no one else but you
I've grown accustomed to you like a habit dear
But now you are breaking my heart into
CHORUS
Love means forever and always and forgive and forget
It means saying I'm sorry and not running from what you did
You can search for years until the end of time
But you'll never find a love stronger than mine
CHORUS

LEAD
You're an object of my affection 
But when I look into your eyes 
I see you going in another direction 
And I'm left tangled up in your lies

CHORUS

Daddy's Gone

Mama I'm your youngest one
Your only boy, your only son
Tell me all the good things that I missed
Son your daddy was a man
He stood tall and with firm hand
And he could send me reeling with a kiss
But

Daddy's gone, daddy's gone
Left a mom and five kids at home
Mama's doin all she can
To raise four girls and one little man

My sisters knew my daddy
But I was last, I was late
And my memories don't go back that far
They remember candy pockets
Balding head and silver lockets
But daddy's as far from me as a star
Cause

CHORUS

Mama tell me how to be a man
Teach me how to understand
All the things that a boy should know
Throw a baseball, get a girl
From a boy to a young man's world
You say daddy's watching but I know
That
CHORUS

Don't Play Those Sad Songs

Hey mister DJ I got through this must be luck
I'm just calling you like I'd call a buddy up
Cause I need a little favor to help me make it through the night
I've been listening all night to those love gone songs
About who was doing right and who did wrong
But I'm missing my baby and I'm fighting it with all my might
So

Don't play those sad songs, at least not tonight
Cause my heart is feeling heavy and it just don't seem right
To make me think about love and how it went wrong
So please do me a favor and don't play those sad songs

Well I went to a bar just the other night
The band was real good but they were making me cry
Hearin' all those Hank and Jones songs got me down
So I caught the fiddle player I said hey looka' here
How bout some Devil went to Georgia stead of tears in my beer
Cause I'd rather be smilin' than walkin' round with a frown
So
CHORUS
LEAD BREAK

Play some rock and roll or a swingin' tune
Not a sweet love song about howlin' at the moon
Pick that steel guitar and make me wanna' dance
Don't make it cry and bring up lost romance
And
CHORUS

Say I Love You For The Last Time

This will be the last song for you
The last time you can think I'm alone and feeling blue
Though you're still just as pretty in my eyes
I have to say I love you for the last time

Now your memory won't creep in and keep me up at night
I won't dream of your sweet face when I turn out the light
I won't waste another tear on you cryin
I have to say I love you for the last time

Your beauty and your voice they still will haunt me
And I'll never forget how you made me smile
I've got love I never showed deep inside
But I have to say I love you for the last time

Cause if I keep holding on it'll be the end of me
It's too easy to love you
So I'm gonna let you go and release my misery
I loved you and I thought I showed you

So now you're gone and the first month drove me crazy
I used to stare all night at a picture of you and cry
I put these thoughts into a song I hope you don't mind
I had to say I love you for the last time

The Perfect Girl

I thought she was perfect in every way
She made a fool of me, what can I say
She was the perfect girl for me
But she wanted to be free

She thought I'd let her go
Like my heart wouldn't know 
She thought she'd just walk away
But that's when the perfect girl
Made her first mistake

A man who doesn't love easy loves for life
I thought maybe one day she'd be my wife
She said I'd get over her in time
But I can't get her off my mind
(CHORUS)
I guess she thought I'd just forget
And she'd leave without a trace
But the memory of her sweet smile
No amount of time can ever erase
(CHORUS)
Yeah that's when the perfect girl
Made her first mistake

So I Know (Jones/Witt)

I know you've had some hard times
And I know it hurts you so
To put your trust in both of us
Cause your afraid that I might go
I've seen you stand your ground
When it comes to a fight
Cause when love hit you with a left
You came back with a right

So I know...
You can take the storm alone
Fight the thunder
Wrestle a lightning bolt
But we can fight the storm together
It sure beats being alone
Yes it's so, I know

You were willing to risk it all
When you knew it wasn't right
I've always been here for you
While you were waiting for your shining knight
Just put your fears behind you
Let love be the guiding light
Baby just let go
Ride away with me tonight
(CHORUS)
Cause we're stronger together
Than we could ever be apart
We've got love on our side
And that's where it all starts
(CHORUS)

You Can't Make Me Stop Loving You

Tell me to go away and I will
Make believe I don't exist and I'll think of you still
You can stop all communication and say that we're through
But you can't make me, stop loving you

I saw you driving down the street just the other day
You looked over and I smiled then you turned your head away
It's okay if you don't want to face the cold, hard truth
That you can't make me, stop loving you

You can walk right by me as if I'm just any other man
You can disappear without a trace and I'll understand
You can make me cry 'til my eyes are red and no longer blue
But you can't make me, stop loving you
LEAD BREAK
If you ever wonder what's going on behind my eyes
I'll tell you the truth but I'll tell everyone else a lie
The fact is I can't stop it if I wanted to
And you can't make me, stop loving you
No you can't make me, stop loving you

The Woman's Touch

No Q-Tips on the floor no makeup on the shelf
This place sure looks a lot different now 
Since she left me by myself
I'm just killing time
Thinking of the one I love so much
And I never thought I'd say it
But I miss the woman's touch

Seems I was always picking her clothes up
Or stepping on some jewelry thing
But right now I'd be so happy 
To cut my foot on one of her rings
I miss waiting by the bathroom
While she'd did her makeup, hair and such
And I'd do it all over again
Cause I miss the woman's touch

Now beer cans line the table 
That used to hold candles she would light
And I still reach out to hold her
In the bed most every night
Seems I lost the best thing I ever had
I guess that's just my luck
Now I miss the woman's touch
LEAD BREAK
Now her perfume doesn't linger in the hallway
And I'll never forget the look she gave
When she heard me say
That it drove me crazy
That she talked on the phone so much
But now I'm wishing she would call me
Cause I miss the woman's touch
I miss the woman's touch

Thinking Myself To Death

A mind is a terrible thing to waste they say
So I keep my brain busy
Thinking of you every day
And after four or five rounds with Jim and Jack
Your memory starts to fade and then I fade to black
Well it may hurt me the way I'm drinking
But I'm thinking myself to death

I should let you go I know that's best for me
But it's hard to forget a love like yours so sweet
So I flush and fill with alcohol
While I stare at your picture on the wall
Well it may hurt me the way I'm drinking
But I'm thinking myself to death
(Lead Break)
Well it's not a good life I know that's true
But I'd rather be drinking than dreaming of you
So I pull out a bottle and fill a glass
Cause if your memory comes around I'll chase it away fast
And it may hurt me the way I'm drinking
But I'm thinking myself to death

If it wasn't for you I'd think of other things
Maybe find someone else and maybe even give her a ring
But the hold you've got is mighty grip
So I twist off the top and take a big sip
And it may hurt me the way I'm drinking
But I'm thinking myself to death
Yeah it may hurt me the way I'm drinking
But I'm thinking myself to death

Two Step Across Texas (Jones/Witt)

Dim the lights
Pretend we're on a dance floor
Just like the night we first met
I'd never seen someone so beautiful
Tonight let's live that memory again

Let's two step our way across Texas
As I hold you in my arms
Carrying our memories close to our hearts
And we'll two step across Texas tonight

As we dance I recall how I met you
You looked at me as if I caught your eye
Even though you were dancing with another
I had to cut in for the rest of my life
CHORUS
LEAD BREAK
You're still just as lovely as ever
And your eyes have never lost their shine
Always forever we'll be dancing together
Knowing that our hearts keep the time
CHORUS
Always forever we'll be dancing together
Knowing our hearts keep the time

You're Playing Hard To Forget

Just when I think it's over
And my heart will finally mend
I turn around a corner
And I see your face again
Then I'm flooded with memories
Of a love lost long ago
Your smiling face reminds me
My heart may never let you go

You're playing hard to forget
I can't escape your memory
You're gone but it hasn't left
Yet will I ever be set free
One day I may find
You're clear of my mind
But it aint happened yet
You keep me thinking bout you
You're playing hard to forget

Everything that reminds me
Of our love I've put away
I burned the old love letters
That take me back to yesterday
I can shake off the memories
Of anything I've known but you
There's no way to get around them
And there's nothing I can do
CHORUS
When you left I thought it ended
And I'd just move along
But I keep on thinking about you
It's like you were never gone
CHORUS

Al-chohol

My best friend he aint too tall
Why he hardly bothers anyone at all
Except for me
He makes me drive crazy all around town
Makes me pick fights when I feel low down
But he's all I need

Yeah that's my pal that's my friend Al
Al-chohol

He picks me up when I'm feeling blue
Right by my side since I lost you
Yeah he's a friend
Sometimes he trips me up 
When I'm going down stairs
It's a small price to pay 
For washing away my cares
When I'm on a bend
CHORUS
For just 15 dollars I can buy me a friend
He'll stick by me til the bitter end
And he doesn't lie
I pour him over ice cubes from the tray
I just let go and he guides the way
And I don't even try
CHORUS

What Lonely Is (Jones/Witt)

I've played that game of love
And I thought I played it well
I admit I've got a lot to learn 
But these lessons hurt like hell
I never saw your leaving coming
When I stumbled and I fell 
And I've never felt like this before
I'm learning my lesson well 

So this is how bad it feels
And this is what lonely is
I never thought that letting you go
Would be as hard as this
So this is what it's like to say goodbye
And this is how it feels to cry, cry, cry
So this is how bad it feels
And this is what lonely is

So you turn and walk away 
But do you have to walk so fast
I tell myself I'll get over you 
And this feeling just can't last
I thought that you would always be here
And I'd never have to ask
I try to forget you everyday
But your memory won't pass
CHORUS
LEAD BREAK
I never saw your leaving coming
When I stumbled and I fell 
And I've never felt like this before
I'm learning my lesson well 
CHORUS

New Orleans

Standing by the river 
Watch a million gallons float on by
Just like the last time I was here
Minus these tears in my eyes
I think I'll head on over to Decatur
And get myself a beer
Who the hell am I talking to anyway
When I know that you're not here

Don't take your heart to New Orleans
Cause it's sure bound to break

Might head down Royal Street
Look at a bunch of stuff
I can't afford to buy
Or maybe go down to Bourbon
And lose myself in the night
Find a little distraction
In the girls on the balconies
But I know I'd rather
Just have you here with me
CHORUS
I amble down to Jackson Square
As the last of the lights go down
I think about how many folks
Lost their heart in this here town
It's too early for coffee
It's too late for beer
Dammit girl
I wish you were here
CHORUS TWICE

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