Montgomery Gentry Album

(J. Steele/C. Wallin)

There's a story that my daddy tells religiously
Like clockwork every time he sees an opening
In a conversation about the way things used to be
Well I'd just roll my eyes and make a bee-line for the door
But I'd always wind up starry-eyed, cross-legged on the floor
Hanging on to every word
Man, the things I heard

It was harder times and longer days
Five miles to school, uphill both ways
We were cane switch raised, and dirt floor poor
'Course that was back before the war
Yeah, your uncle and I made quite a pair
Flying F-15's through hostile air
He went down but they missed me by a hair
He'd always stop right there and say...

That's something to be proud of
That's a life you can hang your hat on
That's a chin held high as the tears fall down
A gut sucked in, a chest stuck out
Like a small town flag a-flyin'
Or a newborn baby cryin'
In the arms of the woman that you love
That's something to be proud of

So I'm graduatin' college, that was mama's dream
But I was on my way to anywhere else when I turned 18
Cuz when you gotta fast car you think you've got everything
I learned quick those GTO's don't run on faith
I ended up broken down in some town north of L.A.
Working maximum hours for minimum wage
Well, I fell in love, next thing I know
The babies came, the car got slow
I sure do miss that old hot rod
But you sure save gas in them foreign jobs
Dad, I wonder if I ever let you down
If you're ashamed how I turned out
Well, he lowered his voice, then he raised his brow
Said, lemme tell ya right now

That's something to be proud of
That's a life you can hang your hat on
You don't need to make a million
Just be thankful to be workin'
If you're doing what you're able
And putting food there on the table
And providing for the family that you love
That's something to be proud of

And if all you ever really do is the best you can
Well, you did it man

That's something to be proud of
That's a life you can hang your hat on
That's a chin held high as the tears fall down
A gut sucked in, a chest stuck out
Like a small town flag a-flyin'
Or a newborn baby cryin'
In the arms of the woman that you love
That's something to be proud of
That's something to be proud of
Yeah, that's something to be proud of
That's something to be proud of

(C. Beathard/E. Hill)

Put me on a mountain, way back in the back woods
Put me on a lake with pickin on the line
Put me 'round a campfire cookin' something I just cleaned
You do your thing, I'll do mine

I ain't tradin' in my family's safety
Just to save a little gas
And I'll pray to God any place, any time
And you can bet I'll pick up the phone if Uncle Sam calls me up
You do your thing, I'll do mine

Hey, I'll worry about me
You just worry about you
And I'll believe what I believe
And you believe what you believe too

I ain't gonna spare the rod
Cuz that ain't what my daddy did
And I sure know the difference between wrong and right
You know, to me it's all just common sense
A broken rule, a consequence
You do your thing, I'll do mine

Hey, I'll worry about me
You just worry about you
And I'll believe what I believe
And you believe what you believe too

I'm gonna keep on working hard
Make my money the old-fashioned way
I don't wanna piece of someone else's pie
If I don't get my fill on life I ain't gonna blame no one but me
You do your thing, I'll do mine

You ain't gonna be my judge
Cuz my judge will judge us all one day

(Rivers Rutherford/Tom Shapiro/Bob DiPiero)

My old man's backhand used to land,
Hard on the side of my head.
I just learned to stay out of his way.
There's been streetfights, blue lights,
Long nights with the world sittin' on my chest:
It just showed me how much I could take.
Hard times, bad luck.
Sometimes, life sucks.

That's all right, I'm ok.
It ain't nothin' but another day.
But only God knows where I'd be,
If you ever stopped lovin' me.

The bank man, the boss man, the lawman,
All tryin' to get their hands on me.
And I ain't even done a danged thing wrong.
I've been waylaid, freight-trained, short-changed,
By bigger an' badder men.
An' all I got to say is: "Bring it on."
Hard rain, rough road,
So my life goes.

That's all right, I'm ok.
It ain't nothin' but another day.
But only God knows where I'd be,
If you ever stopped lovin' me.

I need you,
Gotta have you,
In my life, on my side,
Every day I'm alive,
Every might when I'm greedy an' needing,
You!

Instrumental break.

That's all right, I'm ok.
It ain't nothin' but another day.
But only God knows where I'd be,
If you ever stopped lovin' me.

It ain't nothin' but another day.
But only God knows where I'd be,
If you ever stopped lovin' me.

Baby, never stop lovin' me.

(David Lee Murphy/Kim Tribble)

I've been living on truck stop coffee
Cigarettes and vitamin C
It's a wonder that the devil ain't caught me
I guess he's tired of playing hide and seek
Been driving like I been struck by lighting
I think about you and I start to speed
I might as well be playing with matches
In a trailer load of gasoline

If it's the last thing I do
If it takes me from Tubilo to Timbuktu
If it's the last thing I do
I'm gonna dodge every road block, speed trap, county cop
To get my hands on you
If it's the last thing I do

A box of chicken and a day old biscuit
Ain't nothing left but a few old bones
I outta stop but I'm gonna risk it
Caffeine got me chewing styrofoam
Girl, I'm calling outta Kansas City
From a fillin-station telephone
Just had to tell ya what I've been thinkin'
First thing I wanna do when I get home

If it's the last thing I do
If it takes me from Tubilo to Timbuktu
If it's the last thing I do
I'm gonna dodge every road block, speed trap, county cop
To get my hands on you
If it's the last thing I do

Been driving like I been struck by lighting
I think about you and I start to speed
I might as well be playing with matches
In a trailer load of gasoline

If it's the last thing I do
If it takes me from Tubilo to Timbuktu
If it's the last thing I do
I'm gonna dodge every road block, speed trap, county cop
To get my hands on you
If it's the last thing I do
If it's the last thing I do

(J. Steele/C. Wiseman)

I met her down in Tampa Bay
Spring break '88
She came in to hear my band play
And man we were on that night
Twin guitars and 20-minute jams
"Tush", "Cocaine", and "Sweet Home Alabam"
I knew I had her in the palm of my hand
When I stepped in the spotlight
Hot-n-heavy in that little alley
On a fifteen minute break
We shared a cigarette, long kiss
Then she stood there by the stage
All night by the stage
What can I say?
She loved me

But after five long years of trying to be a star
I sold my acts and I quit them bars
Got a real job fixing trucks and cars
Had a couple new mouths to feed
And eventually that monthly wage
And the finer points of the suburban age
All became bars on a cage
And man it was killing me
I started cussin' and getting mad at nothin'
And blaming her for ruining my life
Started sinking, cheating, and a-drinking
But she stood there by my side
Right there by my side
With tears in her eyes

And she loved me
She loved me
Heaven knows the reasons why
I'll never know the reasons why
She loved me

She finally left three years ago
Married a man out in New Mexico
Calls to say the boys are really growing
God, I miss them kids
As for me I'm twelve steps down the line
I found a church that I like just fine
Even got a gig playing these songs of mine
They all just reminisce

Hot-n-heavy in that little alley
On a fifteen minute break
We shared a cigarette, long kiss
Then she stood there by the stage
All night by the stage
Man, those were the days
When she loved me

Yeah she loved me
Heaven knows the reasons why
I'll never know the reasons why
She loved me
Yeah she loved me
Heaven knows the reasons why
I'll never know the reasons why

(Bob Dipiero/Jeffrey Steele)

This ain't no temporary, typical, tearful good-bye, uh uh uh
This ain't no breakin' up and wakin' up and makin' up one more time, uh uh uh
This is gone (gone) gone (gone) gone (gone) gone

Gone like a freight-train, gone like yesterday
Gone like a soldier in the civil war, bang bang
Gone like a '59 Cadillac
Like all the good things that ain't never coming back
She's gone (gone) gone (gone) gone (gone) gone, she's gone

This ain't no give it time, I'm hurtin' but maybe we can work it out, uh uh uh
Won't be no champagne, red rose, romance, second chance, uh uh uh
This is gone (gone) gone (gone) gone (gone) gone

Gone like a freight-train, gone like yesterday
Gone like a soldier in the civil war, bang bang
Gone like a '59 Cadillac
Like all the good things that ain't never coming back
She's gone (gone) gone (gone) gone (gone) gone
She's gone

She's gone (gone) gone (gone) gone (gone) gone, she's gone

Gone like a freight-train, gone like yesterday
Gone like a soldier in the civil war, bang bang
Gone like a '59 Cadillac
Like all the good things that ain't never coming back
She's gone (gone) she's gone (gone) she's gone (gone) she's gone
She's gone

Gone like a freight-train, gone like yesterday
Gone like a soldier in the civil war, bang bang
Gone like a '59 Cadillac
Like all the good things
Well, she's gone

Long gone, done me wrong
Never comin' back, my baby's gone
Lonely at home, sittin' all alone
She's packed her bags and now she's gone
Never comin' back, she's gone

(J. Steele/C. Wallin)

I didn't know you weren't supposed to drink the water
I never knew it was so hard to get through south of that border
If I had any idea it took that many pesos to make a dollar
I'd have moved down there
Yeah, I'd probably been a millionare
Rosa at the bayou told me Sinco de Mayo is their fourth of July
And you don't sneak up on a jabanero pepper and just take a bite
Rosa says the sunsets on some of them beaches that'll make you cry
I said, is that right?
Cuz up until tonight

All I knew about Mexico
Was him with my baby on the back of that Harley
Passin' every car as fast as they could go
And all I know about pretty a white sand
Is she's probably on it now sharing a little beach towel
With her "left me for another" man
Or working on a tan I bet
While I'm here trying to forget
All I know about Mexico

And I've heard some pretty scary stuff about them jails down in Tijuana
And it ain't nothin' like the US if you get busted
And I hear he's all hauked up on that marijuana
I can't help but worrying about her being down there when he leaves her
And you know he's gonna leave her
Any day now, yeah, the cops will come around
Wanna know what I've known

All I know about Mexico
Was him with my baby on the back of that Harley
Passin' every car as fast as they could go
And all I know about a pretty white sand
Is she's probably on it now sharing a little beach towel
With her "left me for another" man
Oh she's working on her tan I bet
While I'm here trying to forget
All I know about Mexico

All I knew about Mexico
Was him with my baby on the back of that Harley
Passin' every car just as fast as they could go
And all I know about a pretty white sand
Is she's probably on it now sharing her little beach towel
With her "left me for another" man
Oh she's working on her tan I bet
While I'm here trying to forget
All I know about Mexico

(D. Grissom/C. Stapleton)

I got drunk so sue me
I made up my mind to not give a damn
I tried to forget the way that you do me
Yeah, I got drunk cuz I'm your man

It's not like I found someone else I could hold
To make up for not holding you
It's not like I went out and painted the town
It's not like I was untrue

I got drunk so sue me
I made up my mind to not give a damn
I tried to forget the way that you do me
Yeah, I got drunk cuz I'm your man

What gives you the right to stay out all night
Crawl in and lay down the law
We both know that you weren't alone
That's the reason that you didn't call

So I got drunk, sue me
I made up my mind to not give a damn
I tried to forget the way that you do me
Yeah, I got drunk cuz I'm your man
Yeah, I got drunk
Well, I still am

(B. Campbell/M. Hendrix)

Lazy summer sundown
Front porch of this old house
Lighting bugs in a mason jar
There's a four-lane coming through
They break ground at the end of June
The county's taking half my yard
It don't matter too much anyway
In the scheme of things I still get more than I should

It's all good, it's alright
Lord it's always a good day
When you're glad to be alive
Everything I need ain't too hard to find
So I don't waste my time complaining
Cuz I don't see how I could
It's all good

Another bill in the box today
New boat's gonna have to wait
Our pick-up truck just broke down
Grass needs mowing
I hear the plant's closing
But it won't be the end of this town
Folks 'round here see things in a different way
And that'll never change
There's one thing that's understood

It's all good, it's alright
Lord it's always a good day
When you're glad to be alive
Everything I need ain't too hard to find
So I don't waste my time complaining
Cuz I don't see how I could
It's all good

It's all good, it's alright
Lord it's always a good day
When you're glad to be alive
Everything I need ain't too hard to find
So I don't waste my time complaining
Cuz I don't see how I could
It's all good
It's all good
I don't waste my time complaining

(R. Rutherford/G. Teren/J. L. Thurston)

I ain't got it all that bad
There's tougher lives I might've had
Sometimes I live hand to mouth
But there are those that go without
Might be things I wish I had
But when I look at where I'm at
I ain't got it all that bad

In my time I've tried it all
Free love, drugs and alchohol
Got loaded up to kiss the sky
Just about kissed the world good-bye
There were those who never made it back
Me, I got lucky, found a landing pad
Hey, I ain't got it all that bad

I've got the sunshine and a few good friends I've found
A roof to give me shelter when the rain comes down
I've got tomorrow and the promise that it brings
A few chances still worth taking and a dream that still has wings

These days I don't ask for much
Just the grace of God and my woman's touch
Strength each day to face a fight
And a place in someone's prayers at night
Life enough to love and laugh
If I end up with half of that
I ain't got it all that bad
I ain't got it all that bad

(M. Dulaney/Troy Gentry/J. Sellers)

It's me again with this whiskey on my breath again
And I'm ashamed about the shape I'm in
And how bad I feel
Damn these tears
Damn this habit that I've had for years
I'm trying hard to make it disappear
I swear I will

So don't lose faith in me
I know I can win this battle, wait and see
Thanks to you I've got a reason to believe
I can be a stronger man
I know you need me to be a better dad
Baby, I need you to help me make it through
So I'm here talking to you
My angel

I watch you sleep
My life changes with every breath you breathe
And I want you to think the world of me
I wanna make you proud
No, it's not too late
To make a man out of this mess I've made
To put that bottle down and walk away
I will somehow

So don't lose faith in me
I know I can win this battle, wait and see
Thanks to you I've got a reason to believe
I can be a stronger man
I know you need me to be a better dad
Baby, I need you to help me make it through
So I'm here talking to you

(K. Lovelace/R. Rutherford)

I've treated this ol body like a stolen car,
Just some old disposable machine,
Pedal to the metal and a trail of broken hearts,
Yea I'd fill it up with almost anything,
My motto was live fast and go out strong,
But I never thought that I'd live this long

Once I had a woman and she treated me real good,
The kinda love I never will replace,
One day I thought I ain't seen the world the way I should,
So one night I got up and stepped away,
I knew there'd be some lonely's comin on,
But I never thought that I'd live this long

There have been many times I really should have died,
But somehow I survived on my mistakes,
They say it makes me stronger, but why does it take longer,
Gettin up these days

Yea I'm old enough to have a few regrets,
I'm still young enough to have my dreams,
Maybe that's the reason that my life ain't over yet,
All the places and faces I ain't seen,
I probably won't have time to see them all,