(Jami Grooms/Brad Crisler/Marty Dodson)

The heavens opened up the bottoms falling out
I must be soaking wet it’s pouring down

Everybody staring at me like I’m crazy as they run for cover
I guess the worlds still turning round but here I stand

How can you hurt so bad
That you can’t taste the pain
How can you be so numb
Your eyes won’t cry
Your heart gives up
My lips are moving
I’m screaming out your name
There’s no sound
I can’t feel the rain

Part of me just wants so bad to start to feel
Most of me is scared to death someday I will

It’s hard to figure out what’s true
When you know the truth just can’t be real
I guess the worlds still turning round but here I stand

(Jami Grooms/John Edwards)

John Cougar in the cassette
We were lighting up our cigarettes
Now and then skipping school
Acting tough and defining cool

Firebird on a gravel road
T tops off that’s how we roll
Meet your friends at the barn
Party down on the farm

We let the good times roll
That’s how we did it
Made it up as we’d go
That’s how we lived it
Rocking out to hurt so good
Making out on the hood
Wasting time because we could
That’s how we did it

Pickup trucks pulled in the yard
Country girls and southern stars
Tap the keg do a stand
Party hard was the plan

Break up a fight make some love
It was just another night to us
Drink too much then pass out
Wake up drunk on the couch

(Jami Grooms/Randy Montana/Alex Dooley)

I wake up in a cold, cold sweat
Drowning and I can’t catch my breath
Reaching out but empties all I feel
Shadows dancing on the wall
Hearing footsteps down the hall
Wondering if any of this is real
The wind still blows with the windows closed
And then your perfume fills the room

I try to tell myself it’s all in my head
While your memories sleeping in our bed
I hear voices and they scream your name
It’s getting to the point I’m going insane
I can’t break free
I can’t believe
It controls me
Cause I know it’s only lonely

Try and go on with the day to day
Just forget this mess I made of myself
But I can’t turn it off
Kills me when I reminisce
Thinking back to our first kiss
I can’t let go of everything I lost
And when I get home you’ll still be gone
But your perfume fills the room

(Jami Grooms/Mark Narmore)

Made a call to yesterday
Something tugging at my heart
A demon back in seventh grade
Me and Jesus fought him hard
Blacked his eye & bloodied his nose
He cried all the way home
I finally got him on the line after all this time

He said
I don’t need your apology
But I appreciate your sympathy
I’m ok I been fine no it aint crossed my mind in an eternity
We all do things were not proud of
But I believe we can rise above
He said your kind words though they’re nice to be heard
I’m already free
I said no this ones for me

How you been, your looking good
Yeah it’s been awhile
Since summer love a riverbank
Its good to see your smile
I was foolish I was young
But we did what had to be done
And I hope you can forgive me somehow
So I can put this behind me now
She said
I don’t need your apology
But I appreciate your sympathy
I’m ok I been fine no it aint crossed my mind in an eternity
We all do things were not proud of
But I believe we can rise above
He said your kind words though they’re nice to be heard
I’m already free
I said no this ones for me

Up here on this stage tonight with my guitar
Bearing my soul and pouring out my heart
I hope you know I usually write my songs for you

Please don’t take this as vanity
But this song is my therapy
I’m ok I’ll be fine
I just needed these lines and this melody
We all do things that were not proud of
But I believe we can rise above
And that place in my heart
That once was so dark has been set free
And I know this one for me

(Jami Grooms/Kevin Denney/Alex Dooley)

There’s still country
On both sides of that city limit sign
You can see that cross
From every corner of the county line
Down town main street
Where the sinners and god meet

There’s two lanes coming in
There’s two lanes going out
The church right off the square
Where are faith revolves around
If you blink you’ll drive right thru
If you don’t you’ll see a few
Hard working honest as the day is long people
That don’t put nothing
Higher than a steeple

They rebuilt the bank
And the courthouse when that tornado hit
If the devil was aiming
For that pulpit I’ll tell you man he missed
Down town main street
Where the sinners and god meet and

There’s a bunch of dots like us all over your Rand McNally map
You cant loose yourself if you know where you’re at

There’s still country
On both sides of that city limit sign

(Jami Grooms/Garrett Parris)

Well you finally got that break
You’ve been waiting for
Yeah you finally got that boot in the door
All those years of being broke
All the tears and broken hearts
Now your finding out that’s just the easy part
Well now you got your wishes so what you gonna do
Sitting in the driver’s seat and every eye’s on you

You better drive it like you stole it
Hit the hole like it’s fourth and goal
You better take it like you own it
Hit the stage and then steal the show
This is your moment
You better grab hold it
And drive it like you stole it

Go head and take a moment
To enjoy the view
Long enough to catch a breath or two
But you didn’t come this far
Just to say you did
No you didn’t come this far to quit
All our time is borrowed and life it is a gift
This body’s just a rental before you leave it in the ditch

Like it’s a high-speed chase
Blue lights in your mirror
No time to waste
You better get it in gear

(Jami Grooms/Shaun Ames)

He said what the hell is going on
As he opened up the bedroom door
She closed that suitcase on the bed
And said I cant do this anymore
You’re not the only man in my life
I must confess
My love for him is stronger than
That whiskey that’s always on your breath

She said I’m leaving you for him
Even though
He reminds me of you
And I can’t sit here and pretend
That you’ll ever be
The man that I once knew
His anger turned to tears
And he just stood there stunned
As she walked to the babies bed
Picked up their son and said
I’m leaving you for him

There’s two bottles in the fridge
I left them there, right where you can see them
One is yours and one is his
But they’re the reason why I’m leaving
I can’t sit around wait
For you to decide
Which one you would give up on
To have the other in your life

He cussed the whisky pouring it out
Swearing never again
He threw that bottle on the ground
And said I’m leaving you for him

(Jami Grooms/Randy Montana/Alex Dooley)

This old bar scene it aint my thing
I’d rather be rolled up on the picking on an old gut string
I might get criticized
I might get a little red eyed
Will get along a whole lot better
Once you realize

Ill quit when Willie does
Go ahead and fire one up
Get a little puff puff pass
Hey buddy stay off my grass
You can either get down
You can get out
Or you can shut the hell up
Ill quit when Willie does

75 years strong
Old hippies and country songs
That’s why they made a statue of him made of stone
Weather he’s wrong or right
I bet he’s on stage tonight
Doing what he loves and so am I

(Jami Grooms/Alex Dooley)

Pick up the pieces
Scatter the ashes
Things I couldn’t do yesterday
Trying to remember
Every conversation
But all I hear is what I didn’t say

Maybe tomorrow
I can wake up from this pain
Maybe tomorrow
I can catch my breath again
Maybe tomorrow
Won’t be like yesterday
Cause I cant take to many tomorrows like today

I’ve given up on getting thru the night
I just let the darkness have its way
I know the sun won’t bring you back
But it can’t hurt worse to pray

The blood that runs thru my veins is crying
And I hate this feeling
If I could stop this emotion for a moment
I could start the healing

(Jami Grooms/Eric Erdman)

You can tell your self
It aint your fault
When you don’t hit the mark
They’re always something
In your way
You don’t know how right you are

You are the difference between your dreams and your reality
Aint nobody stopping you from what you want to do except you
You are the difference between
What you are and what you want to be

I’ve heard you say
If you had the chance
But it’s just not in the cards
That’s just one more excuse
You use
To keep you where you are

You are the difference between your dreams and your reality
Aint nobody stopping you from what you want to do except you
You are the difference between
What you are and what you want to be

From where I stand it couldn’t be any clearer
How come you can’t see it on that side of the mirror?
Where you are

(Jami Grooms/Tony Ramey)

She keeps up a routine, to keep from pulling out her hair
A little milk for her morning coffee from the fridge
Any other day he’d come running down the stairs
When the picture on the carton wasn’t his
She’s does a whole lot more praying lately
Asking folks if they’ve seen her baby
Cause she knows how it is
When it’s some one else’s kid

When it hits that close to home
If it’s some one that you know
God forbid one of your own
You see it in the papers
And every time you turn the TV on
It’s never quite as real until
It hits this close to home

He didn’t have a single friend and no one seamed to care
When it might have made a difference in his life
They all poked a little fun at the clothes he used to wear
To cover up the pain he felt inside
Right now the details are to distorted
But the local news has just reported
He came to school this morning
With a loaded forty five

When it hits that close to home
If it’s some one that you know
God forbid one of your own
You see it in the papers
And every time you turn the TV on
It’s never quite as real until
It hits this close to home

I guess we always tell ourselves
It always happens somewhere else
At least that’s what I thought the day those towers fell

(Jami Grooms/Randy Montana)

You act so nonchalant
But I know what you want
You know you want to abuse me
You act so insecure
But deep down I know you’re sure
You can’t refuse me
So tear it apart

It’s right here waiting
It’s not complicated
Just like a stolen car
Go head and take it
It’s yours for the breaking
It’s only my heart

Don’t act like you don’t love me
You say you just don’t trust me
I think that you’re just scared
Love is a battlefield
Face first thru the windshield
Baby I’m prepared
To live with the scars

Chorus

On your lips
I taste the words
They want to be spoken
Its only skin
Its only bones
Their made to be broken

(Jami Grooms/Shaun Ames)

When you say you love me it feels like your just going thru the motions
There’s no passion in your eyes, behind your kiss there’s no emotion
We hardly talk at all
Seams we never touch
Baby I need to know

Weather you love me, or you hate me
Even if you want to walk away from me baby
I want to hear what you got to say
Weather you’re staying or if you’re going
Get it out in the open
Pour your heart out either way
If you’re still in love
Make me believe it
Say it like you mean it

I don’t know if you’ve reached the place where you’ve stopped caring
But at some point somewhere along the way we both stopped sharing
How we really feel
How long has it been
Baby do you even know

I’m holding on I’m reaching out
Cause I want to know without a doubt

(Jami Grooms/Shaun Ames/Brandon Tidwell)

My daddy worked this farm his daddy worked it to
I thought I lost it all back in the drought of 92
The sun came and turned my land
Damn near into desert sand
I found myself a brand new plan

Talking about my cash crop
It’s all homegrown cashing in on the seeds I’ve sown
Just trying to give the people what they want
Talking about my cash crop
Rolling it in making a living off of supply and demand
Guess you could say my future going up in smoke

A buddy of mine hooked me up with the tools to get me started
I hadn’t had a crop this green in all my years of farming
Money never smelt so sweet out drying in the barn
See I found a way to keep the farm

I never finished school but I got a higher education
My daddy would still be proud
Despite my occupation