Just like the sun over the mountaintop You know I'll always come again You know I love to spend my morningtime Like sunlight dancing on your skin I've never gon...

Well, I'll give you love that's above and beyond the call of love And I'll never ever make you cry Yes, I'll give you love that's above and beyond the call of...

We don't want to say goodbye we don't want to feel that empty But it's time to face the dawn head on When there's something in the wind when the days go getting...

There were trains And we out-run 'em There were songs And we out-sung 'em There were brighter days never ending There was time And we were burnin' There were rh...

Cover Of Love Michael Damian Susie sits all alone She waits by the telephone Joey's out having fun Waits to call when she's not at home She gets scared and then...

THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES WRITER RODNEY CROWELL When I was young and restless I wasted so much time Halfway stoned and halfway out of my mind Well I don't fee...

WRITER RODNEY CROWELL She's got a big heart and her own mind a deep love it's the strong kind She's got them long legs and that soft skin she's got a big heart...

Oh, darlin', you say that I blew your life away But I can tell you, you're gonna get it back someday I've got a brand new rag, it ain't the same old rag I've go...

Come on baby let me take you by the hand Come on sugar let me take you by the hand You're for me let me be all your own candy candy your candy man Well come on ...

I don't like humus, I hate long lines Nosy neighbors and the nation blind Chirpy news anchors alter my mood I'm offended by buss words like awesome men do I lo...

I don't want to wind up bitter lost inside a silent rage Or become like Rilke's panther out here locked up in a cage The old man I've been talkin' to has cotton...

The sun is coming up and I'm just going down Everywhere I look the world keeps turning round Though I said I never would be satisfied Baby I lied, I couldn't le...

Well, we can sit right down And we can cry, cry, cry Or we can pack it up And go get high, high, high You know you're crazy, baby That's all I want from you W...

We ran into trouble scamming for oil The whole Middle East is coming to a boil It's the Muslims and Kurds, Bedouin herds Palestinians and Arabs and Jews in the ...

I could shed my skin and in the blink of an eye I could fly fly fly Tie my dreams up in a sack and lay my head down on the track and die die die My life's been ...

Well, tonight I'm gonna meet her At the Hungry House Cafe And I'm gonna give her all the lovin' I can She's gonna jump and holler 'Cause I saved up two dollars...

She's a rounder I can tell you that She can sing 'em all night too She'll raise hell about the sleep she lost Even cowgirls get the blues Especially cowgirls t...

Cool as a rule you don't learn in no school You can't brown nose the teacher from a dunce hat stool It's the hum and the rhythm of the birds and the bees The mo...

WRITER RODNEY CROWELL I've tried to make the most out of a hopeless situation But turning something wrong into something right But everything I do brings out t...

You looked for trouble and you found it son Straight down the barrel of a lawman's gun You'd try to run but you don't think you can You make one move and you're...

The sun is coming up and I'm just going down Everywhere I look the world keeps turning 'round Though I said I never would be satisfied Baby I lied I couldn't le...

I don't fall in love so easy I don' even know how it feels I don't fall in love so easy I don't even know if it's real Too strong don't mean it's for long too d...

You and me must be something to see A-fussing at each other until dawn We made a mess out of our happiness Girl, I guess we've been together for too long His a...

Rodney Crowell; I'm back on board that '49 Ford in 1956 Long before the sun came up way out in the sticks The headlight showed a two rut roadway Back up in the ...

Turnin' tricks on Sunset, twenty bucks a pop Some out of town old business man or an undercover cop I'm living with that virus flowing way down in my viens I wi...

I'd love to hear you laughing Love so see you smile Dance that little dance you danced When you were just a child The way the world came at you Left you bitter...

If today weren't just like any day perhaps I'd try To shed this worn out skin so thick and learn to fly But I came home to face your ice and steel If looks coul...

To make the world a better place like dreamers often will We left our bed of roses to push that rock up hill The way we went about our task proved destined for ...

A man stumbles home from a lost weekend-it's not for me to judge Woman gets stoned on valium and gin-it's not for me to judge It's not for me to judge the rhyme...

Fancy meeting you here, tonight It's such a small world, New York ain't my town I don't come around, but once in a while This is such a surprise to see you Gir...

JEWEL OF THE SOUTH WRITER RODNEY CROWELL One fine morning when the wild geese fly I'm taking my chances on the sunny side I'm headed down south where the grass...

WRITERS RODNEY CROWELL, KEITH SYKES I'm not in some corner tonight wasting my time I'm not at the end of the bar out of my mind I've been down on my luck for su...

I'm tired of running I'm tired of hiding I'm sick of keeping this thing inside I'm gonna let it all go on the ladder of love I'm going up ain't coming down I'm ...

(Rodney Crowell) Lord, Mary took to running with a travelin' man Left her momma crying with her head in her hands Such a sad case, so broken hearted She say m...

Lord, Mary took to runnin' with a travelin' man Left her momma crying with her head in her hands Such a sad case, so broken hearted She say, "Momma, I got to g...

We try so hard to make it all work out Sometimes sittin' on the top of the world Sometimes very deep in doubt And if the only thing that tomorrow brings Is the ...

When you're the last one to know What everybody knows Shame falls down When you're the last one to see What everybody sees Shame falls down like rain falls dow...

WRITERS RODNEY CROWELL, WILL JENNINGS, HANK DeVITO You know I love you baby you know I need you too The life I lead is all I need to make my dreams come true It...

Now baby pull the covers back over my head I don't want to get up out of this bed I don't want to drag it on off to work That big boss man is really a jerk We'...

WRITER RODNEY CROWELL Loving you makes me strong makes me want to live forever Gives me the strength to carry on through the rain and wind and weather Loving yo...

Yes, I had a woman love me I gave her what there was there of me, And it was good as it could be Then I heard a wild world callin' I saw a lone star fallin' I c...

(Rodney Crowell, Will Jennings) Yes I had a woman love me gave her what there was there of me It was good as it could be Then I heard a wild world calling, I s...

And tell me what you're feelin' now That everybody's left and gone Anybody break your heart? Anybody done you wrong? Hey, I know what you need to hear Way down ...

WRITERS RODNEY CROWELL, JOHN LEVENTHAL Once in a while when the wind lies sleeping Deep in the night there's a silent light That glows in my heart just barely ...

(Rodney Crowell, Will Jennings) When all our tears have reached the sea A part of you will live in me Way down inside my heart Days keep coming without fail A ...

My self importance is a god forsaken bore I aim for heaven but I wake up on the floor I'd take up with rattlesnakes to get my point across I'd argue with a park...

The New York City winter comes in cold gray sheets of steel The numbness in his hands and feet is all that he can feel Alcohol and sterno turns a doorway to a b...

(Rodney Crowell) « © '95 Sony Music » I've been up all night and the night before my teeth are dirty my eyes are sore There was good time had by all accounts ...

TILL YOU'VE BEEN BESIDE A MAN YOU DON'T KNOWWHAT HE WANTS YOU DON'T KNOW IF HE CRIES AT NIGHT YOU DON'T KNOW IF HE DON'T WHEN NOTHIN' COMES EASY OLD NIGHTMARES ...

(Rodney Crowell, Guy Clark) Well the bus pulled away In a roaring black cloud While I stood in the road And honey I hollered right out loud Hey darlin' I love...

Well the bus pulled away In a roaring black cloud Well I stood in the road And Honey I hollered right out loud Hey darling I love ya Hey bus driver woe! But yo...

The last time I saw Jesse The moon was a-hangin' low And she was standin' on the front porch With her hair tied in a bow The sweetest sound I've ever heard It'...

Down in Louisiana, bayous by and by Pirogue pole or your natural soul Keeps you tied to a tree high tide Beer joint lights come on And then the crowd starts rol...

The hour is early The whole world is quiet A beautiful morning's about to ignite I'm ready for danger I'm ready for fire I'm ready for something to lift me up h...

There's a storm of a love a brewin' now I'm losin' you And nothin' that I do can make you stay When you love me too my skies were always blue But now the storm ...

I've got an old blue shirt and it suits me just fine I like the way it feels so I wear it all the time I've got an old guitar that won't ever stay in tune But I...

Rain came down in endless sheets of thunder Lightning bolts split pine trees down to the roots In the shadow of the Astrodome With a hurricane coming on strong ...

WRITER RODNEY CROWELL We moved into a house in Tennessee From the California desert where we did not wanna be Where the grass was high and the rivers green the ...

Dayton Texas rodeo Possum Potez stole the show Way back in 1968 the night he rode ol' Pearly Gates It was a spinning bucking ton of death and everybody held the...

I'm tired of running I'm tired of hiding I'm sick of keeping this thing inside I'm gonna let it all go on the ladder of love I'm going up ain't coming down I'm ...

Man In Me There's a man in me He's cold and he's hard He's got an eye for deception He's always on guard He's swimming in concrete Drowning in fear And he keeps...

The rock of my soul went to church on Sunday The rock of my soul went to work on Monday Clean across the levy by the railroad tracks The other side of Houston i...

WRITERS RODNEY CROWELL, GUY CLARK I drove all the way from Storyville on a midnight Memphis run From Bourbon Street to Beale Street straight up Highway 61 I wa...

You lay there fighting for each breath While angels hovered 'round your bed With open arms like God's own smile They led you to the light What a battle you hav...

I use to think that love was something meant to tie me down All I ever wanted was a guitar and another town Ten years disappear so fast when you're strung out o...

When the winds of change hit hard and knock you off your guard And you find out there's a serpent in the grass Though forked tongues might speak if truth is wha...

It's time to go inward take a look at myself Time to make the most of the time that I've got left Prison bars imagined are no less solid steel Time to go inwar...

I beg your pardon momma what did you say My mind was drifting on a Martinque day It's not that I'm not interested you see Augusta Georgia is just no place to be...

I'll give you the best I can give you, baby That's all I can give We'll live it the best we can live it, baby As long as we live What kind of love never turns ...

Know me if you must But don't try to make my life easy I don't wanna be somebody That I can't better be I don't wanna stand in the back When I can't sit down i...