Tracy Lawrence Album

I ain't got her I ain't got a clue of what I did and didn't do
All I know is I'm wearing her number out
No explanation it didn't take long for her to go and tell me she's gone
My mama would be ashamed if she could see me now
Cause I'm back on the bottle crying out loud I need holdin' and I need it now
Someone rock me and then tuck me in
It takes a mama twenty years to make a boy a man
And another woman twenty seconds to have him crawlin' again

He made us first but he let them be in control of the shape we're in
And every woman knows why Adam worshipped Eve
From the day we're born till the day we die we're at the mercy of woman kind
And like a big ol' baby I miss her loving me
I'm back on the bottle...
[ fiddle - guitar ]
It takes a mama twenty years...
Yeah It takes a mama twenty years...
She'll have him crawlin' again

Don't want to read the paper
Or turn on the news
Don't want another helping of the same old blues
Don't want to call nobody
Or answer the phone
What I want is everybody to leave us alone

(chorus)
Let us sit down in the porch swing
Sip a little ice tea
Play with the kids in the yard
Hey it's time to get lazy
Had enough crazy
Life ain't got to be so hard
Oh, life don't have to be so hard

No it don't

Want to stop and smell the roses
I don't want to run
Want to catch up on the talkin that we hadn't done
The only big decision that I want to make
Is do we take this conversation down to the lake

(chorus)
Or do we sit down in the porch swing
Sip a little ice tea
Play with the kids in the yard
Hey it's time to get lazy
Had enough crazy
Life ain't got to be so hard
Oh, life don't have to be so hard

More time with you less time for worry
More slowing down less in a hurry

(chorus)
So we can sit down in the porch swing
Sip a little ice tea
Play with the kids in the yard
Hey its time to get lazy
Had enough crazy
Life ain't got to be so hard
Oh, life don't have to be so hard

No it don't baby

Today my radio played a new love song pretty soon I was singing along
When the chorus came around I knew every word every line was written about you
It's got you all over it like a sweet melody that you can't forget
Reminds me of the love I'm in it's got you all over it
[ fiddle ]
From this ear-to-ear grin on my face to this feeling that makes my heart race
Even in the dreams I dream at night
Well I guess you could say I've got a one-track mind
It's got you all over it...
[ fiddle - steel ]
It's got you all over it...
It's got you all over it...
[ fiddle - steel ]

My heart is spent, my pride bent,
Her love is gone, and who knows where it went,
And everyday, Is one more day,
Little steps that I can barely take,
They say falling out of love's the hardest, thing you'll ever do,
But it's not true,

It may be the fall, that brings you to your knees,
Yeah the losing it all, leaves you weak,
Yeah you’re heart drops, and your world stops,
When you're falling out of love,
Well it's not the fall that's so hard, it's the gettin' back up,

I was OK at first, then it started to hurt,
And the gettin' better, just kept gettin' worse,
But as bad as it's been, I'm not givin' in,
Slowly but surely, I'm finding my feet again,
Every minute's, one more minute,
I just made it through, that's the best I can do,

It may be the fall, that brings you to your knees,
Yeah the losing it all, leaves you weak,
Yeah you’re heart drops, and your world stops,
When you're falling out of love,
Well it's not the fall that's so hard, it's the gettin' back up,

Yeah your heart drops,
And your world stops,
When you're falling out of love,
Well it's not the fall that's so hard,

It's the gettin' back up.

Graffiti on the overpass skidmarks on the road
Things I grew up doing I never did outgrow
In the middle of those running years she walked into my life
She couldn't get the devil outta me Lord knows she tried
She was right as rain she was good as gold but I wouldn't change
And now she's gone and I'm just not not the same
But it's hard to be an outlaw outrun or outdraw
The laws of life that you once could ignore
It's a desperate desperado who can't see through his sorrow
What he was running from or running for
Oh it's hard to be an outlaw when you're not wanted anymore
[ guitar ]
There was nowhere left to turn to but back to my old self
Living like there's no tomorrow now meant somethin' else
The trails I used to live to blaze are winding up dead ends
With a voice inside my head reminding me what could have been
I was wild as the wind as cold as they come thinking I was cool
Now looking back I'm looking at a fool
But it's hard to be an outlaw...
[ guitar ]
It's a desperate desperado...

A crowded room a sudden glance more than just coincidence
Meant to be you and me
To see the look that's in your eyes makes the tears well up in mine
Destiny now I can see
Some things are just meant to be
Just like sunsets moonlight stars that shoot across the sky at night
All that I am faithfully
I give everything cause some things are just meant to be

More than chance or circumstance
I never thought two hearts could dance so pefrectly
Just like you and me
And even when we're old and gray I'll love you more than I do today
Eternity can't you see
Some things are just meant to be...
[ steel ]
Oh some things are just meant to be...

Twenty dollars out of mama's purse bought us a tank of gas
And some Redman tobacco when we was just teenage kids
Yeah me and my old buddy Leroy we'd go driving around
If there was trouble to be found man we dang sure did
Cuttin' doughnuts in the fields till Old Man Smith would call the cops
He'd come running out with a shotgun cause we was running down his crops
And I reckon he's still wondering who that was that was us

Some of these local boys moved on but we never changed a bit
I don't guess we had enough sense least that's what some folks said
Yeah we finally turned old enough to buy our own beer
Don't remember much about that year lucky we ain't dead
Cause somebody said they saw some boys with a truck looked just like mine
Tryin' to pull down that old water tank sits out on the county line
And people wonder why it leans the way it does that was us

Seems like small towns never change but things get tough when times get hard
And they said when he got sick that Old Man Smith would've lost that farm
He was gettin' way behind on all his bills
Till someone came and brought his crops in from the fields
Yeah folks round here still don't know who that was that was us

Cuttin' doughnuts on the fields till Old Man Smith would call the cops
He'd come runnin' out with a shotgun cause we was runnin' down his crops
Somebody said they saw some boys with a truck looked just like mine
Tryin' to pull down that old water tank sits out on the county line
That was us yeah that was us

You can't see a freight train coming with your back against the track
You can only take the wrong road so long before you can't come back
I was heartbroke and lonely forgot what love was all about
But then just when I hit bottom she reached down and pulled me out
Led me to the promised land ny rock of ages whe I felt too weak to stand
I was blind and could not see she rescued me
Lord that woman was my Saviour she loved the devil out of me
[ guitar ]
I was once a believer till life got the best of me
Just a ship without an anchor adrift and lost at sea
Like the wind she came and filled my sails and put me back on course
She was the lighthouse in the harbor that brought me back to shore
Led me to the promised land...
[ fiddle ]
I was blind and could not see...
I said that woman was my Saviour she loved the devil out of me

I felt the tug of the ties that bind as I crossed that city limit sign
Drivin' past that old school reminds me of what I had with her
A lotta roads underneath these wheels a lotta wounds that time has healed
But time ain't changed the way I feel or the way things were
I've let go of chasin' those long ago dreams
Turned the pages on some old memories
I've gotten over a lot of what I've been through
And I've let go of thinking I could never go back
Broke the chains of ghosts from my past
When it comes to her one thing holds true
There's a whole lot of lettin' go that's left to do

I drove out to her family farm but the live oak trees and fields were gone
Rows of houses with manicured lawns sat staring back at me
Just like the fire from a childhood flame
Guess we're all just victims of the winds of change
The way things are they're never the same as the way things ought to be
I've let go of chasin'...
[ guitar - steel ]
And I've let go of thinkin'...
[ steel ]

On the day mama died she called daddy to her side
And said I'll be going soon
I know it's gonna hurt you both but promise me before I go
You'll do what I ask of you
In a big red Folger's can hid behind the pots and pans
You'll find some money that I've saved
In the back of my dresser drawer I put away a little more
For a rainy day
Go to town and buy that new guitar cause he's been workin' awful hard
To get his own to write his songs
What a memory oh what a memory
Even in her final moments mama thought of me what a memory

She was only thirty-five I was fifteen asking why the Lord took her away
He must have known we needed her she was an angel here on earth
I still miss her everyday
With all her friends and half the town and her family gathered round
I bet she never felt so loved
When everybody's heads were bowed I did my best to make her proud as I stood up
And I sang Rock Of Ages cleft for me as I played it on that new six-string
I couldn't help but cry as we said goodbye
What a memory...
[ steel ]
Even in her final moments mama thought of me what a memory
What a memory

I shook off the blame and said some things when I should've bit my tongue
My foolish pride made the knot we tied come undone
I've got more regrets than blades of grass that cover up this dirt
On this big old ball we all call God's Green Earth
Oh your memory has colored me lonely tonight
My eyes are red from the tears I have cried
I'm heartbroke and blue sittin' on a world of hurt
Down here on God's Green Earth
[ fiddle ]
It's a fact if you don't come back can't live without your love
I'll do anything for another drink from that cup
Without you girl it's true I got a powerful thirst
That can't be drowned by all the water found on God's Green Earth
Oh your memory has colored me...
[ steel - guitar ]
Oh your memory has colored me...
I'm heartbroke and blue sittin' on a world of hurt
Down here on God's Green Earth
[ fiddle + banjo ]

We argued over whether I could buy that Chevy
That Silverado sittin' in the drive
She would always give in when we'd fight about religion
Even though Lord knows that she was right
From politics to picture shows and music on the radio
What we could and could not afford
Well I may have won those battles but I still lost the war
Every time we'd disagree and it got down to her and me
It was always me who got his way
Now sittin' here I'm looking back the only thing I see
Is that the time for looking back's a bit too late
And I'm thinking as she's walking out the door
I may have won those battles but I still lost the war

So many times she'd ask me just to meet her halfway
But in my mind there was no compromise
And it kills me to remember all the times when she'd surrender
Never showing me a single tear she cried
And as I watch her walking out I'm left here to figure out
What it was that I was fightin' for
I may have won those battles but I still lost the war
Every time we'd disagree...
[ guitar ]
Now sittin' here I'm looking back...
I may have won those battles but I just lost the war