Erika Jo Album

(Monty Criswell/Wade Kirby)

I broke most of Momma's dishes:
She banned from the kitchen when I was a kid.
An' I tore Daddy's truck to pieces,
Left it in a heap that no mechanic could fix it.
You don't believe me: I can see you laughin',
But, trust me, I'm an accident here waitin' here to happen.

'Cause I break things: anything I touch,
I just get around an' then I'm bound to tear 'em up.
Yeah, I make things snap an' fall apart.
So if you wanna hold me, boy, you better watch your heart,
Because I break things.

You say I'm nothin' you can't handle:
You're tougher than an anvil: well, baby, we'll see.
An' I'm like a wreckin' ball comin':
You're better off runnin' far away from me.
Don't get me wrong, now, baby, I adore you:
It's only right that I give you fair warning:

'Cause I break things: anything I touch,
I just get around an' then I'm bound to tear 'em up.
Yeah, I make things snap an' fall apart.
So if you wanna hold me, boy, you better watch your heart,
Because I break things.

Rain is wet, the desert is dry:
That's the way it'll always be.
An' fire is hot, it's dark at night:
The sun comes up in the east.

An' I break things: anything I touch,
I just get around an' then I'm bound to tear 'em up.
Yeah, I make things snap an' fall apart.
So if you wanna hold me, boy, you better watch your heart,
Because I break things.

(Aimee Mayo/Marv Green)

Oh,beautiful child,you've got a garden of time waiting for you
There are fields full of wonder for you to uncover out there
I want to be here to watch you change and grow and fly
Your future is as open as the big blue sky and

Who you are is something you gotta find out for yourself
And your life belongs to just you and nobody else
Live your dreams and follow your heart
You'll find out who you are

Oh,sweet angel child,your spirit's as wild as a stallion
Your innocence is like a blanket of fresh white snow
You'll make mistakes,but don't be afraid to take your chance
Just believe in yourself and you'll make your own path

Who you are is something you gotta find out for yourself
And your life belongs to just you and nobody else
Live your dreams and follow your heart
You'll find out who you are

And I wish I could be the angel beside you that guides you (that guides you)
Oh,I wish I could show you the way,but I know I gotta let you go and

Who you are is something you gotta find out for yourself
And your life belongs to just you and nobody else
Live your dreams and follow your heart
You'll find out who you are

Oh, sweet angel child
Beautiful child

(Tony Martin/Tom Shapiro/Mark Nesler)

I used to talk about coincidence
And how true love is only found by chance
Now I look at you and I'm convinced
There are no accidents

I can see that ever time I chose
What I thought to be just some wrong road
Lead me here holding you this close
There are no accidents

One kiss and I knew for certain
Love so absolutely perfect
Can't be anything but meant to be
Just there's no other way to explain you with me

The sun goes down and the moon comes up
The tide rolls in,the stars appear above
And you and I fell so in love
There are no accidents

One kiss and I knew for certain
Love so absolutely perfect
Can't be anything but meant to be
There's no other way to explain you and me

I used to talk about coincidence
And how true love is only found by chance
Now I look at you and I'm convinced
There are no accidents
There are no accidents

(Jim Collins/Shaye Smith)

Sweaty hands,quicksand
Know I should,but I'm scared I can't
It's a big move,everything to lose
What if it's nothing like the way I planned
What if,what if I fall
What if chasing my dreams just chasing my tail
Do I listen to the voice telling me to stay
Or listen to the voice that's screaming out

Go
Just go
Just go with your heart
Go with the flow
There's only on way you're ever gonna know
Go

This town,safe and sound
Already know my way around
Got a few good friends and few good men
That'll buy me flowers and take me out
What if,what if I stay
Do I really want to spend the rest of my days
On a dead end street in a dead in job
I could live like that,but my dreams won't stop

Go
Just go
Just go with your heart
Go with the flow
There's only on way you're ever gonna know
Go

Just forget it
Everybody said it
But I know I'd regret it if I didn't

(Sunny Russ)

Sometimes I feel like my life spills into the ocean
And all I can do is watch it wash away
And sometimes I'm the lighthouse standing on the shore line
Guiding all the sailors through the rain
Yeah,you shattered my heart
Yeah,I should really fall apart,but

I'm strong tonight
I'm the stones that keep the river wide
A straight and steady light that shines
You can't cover me up,you can't keep me down
I'm strong tonight
I can hold mt head up high
Tomorrow tears will take their flight
But I'm strong,I'm strong tonight

Sometimes I feel like I'm the girl out at the party
Who is too afraid to look up from her drink
But right now I'm the dancer moving with the music
So free I don't even have to think
I'm taking it out on the town
Turning it up before I come down,but

I'm strong tonight
I'm the stones that keep the river wide
A straight and steady light that shines
You can't cover me up,you can't keep me down
I'm strong tonight
I can hold mt head up high
Tomorrow tears will take their flight
But I'm strong,I'm strong tonight

I can re-invent myself
Or live inside a living hell
Either way I'll do it well
Without you or anyone else
I'm strong
Yeah,I'm strong

Yeah,I'm strong tonight
I can hold my head up high
Tomorrow tears will take their flight

(Katrina Elam/Blair Daly/Chris Farren)

Woke up today,the alarm clock ringin'
Face to the wall,you were still sleepin'
Rolled out of bed,turned on the light
Brushed my hair with my eyes closed
Stumbled down the stairs,poured myself a cup of coffee
Breakfast with the TV,that's the way it always is these days
We're stuck in our ways
And nothing seems to ever change

But the sun is shining,seems like perfect timing
To take a drive with the music loud
Laugh and sing 'til the road runs out
But the sun is shining,and there's no denying
That you and I could give it one more try
But it sure feels like a good day for goodbye

We swore if we tried we could make it to the weekend
By Saturday night when we started sinking
Who's gonna bail us out this time when the water gets too high
And not enough talk,not enough action
We could fill our days with yet another distraction
But my hands are getting numb these days from barely hangin' on

But the sun is shining,seems like perfect timing
To take a drive with the music loud
Laugh and sing 'til the road runs out
But the sun is shining,and there's no denying
That you and I could give it one more try
But it sure feels like a good day for goodbye

To pack my bags,collect my things,take back what's mine
Cut these strings ,baby,don't you really maybe think it's time

But the sun is shining,seems like perfect timing
To take a drive with the music loud
Laugh and sing 'til the road runs out
But the sun is shining,and there's no denying
That you and I could give it one more try
But it sure feels like a good day for goodbye

But it sure feels like a good day,I'd hate to waste a good day

(Steve Mandile/Janet Turner/Chad Turner)

Fingers crossed and a four leaf clover
Too much for me to think things over
Thoughts of losing you just linger on and on and on

I'm sitting here with my luck unchanging
Knowing I'm the one you're blaming
Words that keep repeating say you're gone,you're gone,you're gone
But I pray that they are wrong

I wish I may,I wish I might have
Loved you a little bit more in spite of
Who I was and how much I loved that girl I used to be
Star light,star brightly shine on
How we've been too far apart for too long
If dreams of you ever do come true,then dreams are all we need
So,I'm wishing I could wish you back to me

I got no rhyme,I got no reason
I live my life somewhere between them
I'm everything that you don't need and more and more and more

If there fairytale has ended
If I'm not the girl you once defended
Where's that knight with good intentions,cause you swore,you swore
You'd never loved like that before

I wish I may,I wish I might have
Loved you a little bit more in spite of
Who I was and how much I loved that girl I used to be
Star light,star brightly shine on
How we've been too far apart for too long
If dreams of you ever do come true,then dreams are all we need
So,I'm wishing I could wish you back to me

If every night sky hands us
Another million chances

I wish I may,I wish I might have
Loved you a little bit more in spite of
Who I was and how much I loved that girl I used to be
Star light,star brightly shine on
How we've been too far apart for too long
If dreams of you ever do come true,then dreams are all we need
So,I'm wishing I could wish you back to me

Yeah,wish you back to me
Fingers crossed and four leaf clover

(Rachel Proctor/Shane Teeters/Kerry Kurt Phillips)

A little book store on a side street
I thought sure that I'd be safe
But there you were
There with her
Buying books on some romantic place
What you see in her is such a mystery to me

I hid behind my coffee cup and prayed that you would leave
And I thought that I would die
When I saw her kissing you
They say love is blind
I wish I were too

It's a small town
Word gets around
I wish you knew what everybody knows
And I keep hoping some day you'll open
Up your eyes and let her go

She don't love you,you're just her flavor of the week
She plays with hearts
But she don't play for keeps
It hurts me to watch her make a fool of you
They say love is blind
I wish I were too

Every time I see an old Dodge truck
Or an old photograph of us
And every time I drive down by the lake
I fall into yesterday

I wish somehow that I could have you back in my life
And at the same time I just wish that you would stay out of my sight
'Cause I can see it's over
Oh but I can't face the truth
They say love is blind
I wish I were too

(Dave Berg/Marty Dodson)

Well,it's raining out
The windshield wipes,they don't work so well and
It's hard to see what's in front of me

Well,the pain is sharp and
It grows deeper as he day goes dark
But what I find can't be worse then what I left behind

I don't even know where I'm going
I don't even care,I'm just going there
Where I wind up,it don't matter
I decided any place is better
Then some place where love keeps going wrong
I feel you with me still,but I'll keep going 'til you're gone

With you around
I felt lonelier than I do now
So here I am wondering where I am

I don't even know where I'm going
I don't even care,I'm just going there
Where I wind up,it don't matter
I decided any place is better
Then some place where love keeps going wrong
I feel you with me still,but I'll keep going 'til you're gone

Oh,oh,you're gone,oh
Where I wind up,it don't matter
I decided any place is better
Then some place where love keeps going wrong
Yeah,some place I know I don't belong
I feel you with me still,but I'll keep going 'til you're gone
Gone

(Katrina Elam/Bonnie Baker)

We're not strong enough to bend
We're not strong enough to say we can forgive
We're not brave enough to fall
Oh,and we're not big enough to risk it all

But love is
Love is
It's always will been
It always will be
We may not be perfect
But love is

We can't resist another fling
We're not able to live above the bling

But love is
Love is
It's always will been
It always will be
We may not be perfect
But love is

We may not be ready anywhere close to a start
But wherever we are

Love is
It's always been
It's always will be
I may not be perfect
But love is

(Jessi Colter)

I'm not Lisa,my name is Julie
Lisa left you years ago
My eyes are not blue,but mine won't leave you
'Til the sunlight has touched your face

She was your morning light
Her smile told of no night
Your love for her grew
With each rising sun

And then one winter day
His hand led hers away
She left you have drowning in your tears
Here where you've stayed for years
Crying,Lisa,Lisa

I'm not Lisa,my name is Julie
Lisa left you years ago
My eyes are not blue,but mine won't leave you
'Til the sunlight has touched your face