Travis Tritt Album

(Travis Tritt)

I disappeared one morning
Left without a warning
Some thought I was finally gone for good
But those doubters just got rattled
'Cause I'm back in the saddle
Doing better then a body should

Surprise,surprise I'm back again
Who says I've lost too much to win
That wouldn't be too safe a bet
No you can't count me out yet

My self-esteem diminished
They said that I was finished
Just a washed up piece of history
But some things needed changing
I did some rearranging
My recovery ain't no mystery

Took some time to clear my head
I wasn't lost and I'm not dead
I'm feeling good as good can get
So you can't count me out yet

Been knocked down a time or two
From blows I didn't see
But I'm up off the canvas
You ain't seen the last of me

So if you feel defeated
Put down and mistreated
Got to show the world there's something more
Just get yourself together
No storm you can't weather
And come back stronger then you were before

Look at me that's what I've done
Still raising cane and having fun
I live my life with no regrets
So you can't count me out yet

I'm feeling good as good can get

(Steve Bogard/Rick Giles)

1986 Harley
Blowing smoke and sucking oil
My daddy said,"Buy it and you're crazy boy"
You can't tell me nothin'

It took me a year to fix it up
And one day to lay her down
I got a little hitch in my get-along now
You can't tell me nothin'

Talk is cheap and free advice
Is worth the price you pay
I had to find out for myself the hard way
You can't tell me nothin'

Hometown homecoming sweetheart
Nobody thought I had a prayer
Her mama said,
"Boy,don't you come around here"
You can't tell me nothin'

They say be careful what you wish for
I want to be her man
Two babies and a trailer later here I am
You can't tell me nothin'

Talk is cheap and free advice
Is worth the price you pay
I had to find out for myself the hard way
You can't tell me nothin'

They say drinking will kill you
The same thing for rolling smokes
But that's two of the three things that I like most
You can't tell me nothin'

I know what the good book preaches
But I know how I am
I just hope somebody up there understands

(Travis Tritt)

I know there's times
You've been tormented by the questions in your mind
Will our love last
Or simply fade away as time begins to pass
You're a complicated lady that's for sure
With a need for someone unafraid to make you feel secure
And if you wonder if I'm strong enough to be your man
Yes,I am
Yes,I am

Don't let yourself imagine it's a lie
I'm not the kind to turn and say goodbye
And though you test my soul
And make yourself so hard to hold
I'm gonna make you understand
I'm strong enough to be your man

Do you believe
When I look in your eyes and swear
I'll never leave
What will it take
To make you know that what we have is here to stay
Yes,I know that you've been loved and left before
But I promise you won't ever see me walking out the door
And if you wonder if I'm strong enough to your man
Yes,I am

(Casey Beathard/Teresa Boaz/Carson Chamberlain)

He was raised on a tractor in overalls and boots
Been to college and then law school since leaving his roots
Came home in a Lexus,he left in a Ford
Country ain't country no more

He told his daddy catch up with the times
He said now a days people trade heifers online
Dad ain't selling deals with a handshake like before
Country ain't country no more
No,country ain't country no more

The back forty was sold to make up for hard times
Then sold by the half acre lot overnight
The houses went up and the trees were cut down
And there went the finest deer hunting around
Lord everyone's locking their doors
'Cause country ain't country no more

Now his dad sits in traffic looking 'round at the change
Watching crews turn the county road into four lanes
The old Sunday drive has turned into a chore
Country ain't country no more
Lord,country ain't country no more

The back forty was sold to make up for hard times
Then sold by the half acre lot overnight
The houses went up and the trees were cut down
And there went the finest deer hunting around
Lord everyone's locking their doors
'Cause country ain't country no more

There's no turning back
And you just can't ignore
That country ain't country no more

(Travis Tritt/Dennis Robbins/Bob Dipiero)

She's getting tired of your running around
Out every night trying to paint the town
She's growing weary of your childish games
She's getting fed up with the dang thing
You better listen to me when I talk
That little lady's 'bout to up and walk
And if she leaves you,boy you'll lose your mind
So if you're gonna straighten up,brother now's the time

She's been calling on my telephone
I've got a shoulder she's been crying on
You'd see the ending if you'd only look
Your baby doll's about to close the book
You keep neglecting what you've got at home
The way she looks she won't be lonely long
I know she loves you but she's tired of lies
So if you're gonna straighten up,brother now's the time

A woman has her needs and her desires
She ought to have the lovin' she requires
You can keep her if you only try
But better hurry 'fore she says goodbye

The kind of love that gives a girl a thrill
If you won't give it there are those who will
There's lot's of men who'd love to have a shot
At having something you've already got
You best be careful what you throw away
It just might haunt you till your dying day
What's the matter with you boy,you blond?

(Troy Seals/Travis Tritt/Dennis Robbins)

I turn on the radio and I begin to dial
I do believe without a doubt the whole world's in denial
They're all singing I love you and what a perfect life
I've been around enough to know,to know that isn't right

Doesn't anyone hurt anymore
Have the teardrops stopped
No one's walking the floor
And the blues don't ever come around
And knock on the door
No angry words are spoken
No hearts broken
Doesn't anyone hurt anymore

I'm not a lonely man locked away in a room
Crying for some lost love and cursing out the moon
But I know there's people out there that love has put to shame
Sometimes a song is all they have to help them through the pain

Doesn't anyone hurt anymore
Have the teardrops stopped
No one's walking the floor
And the blues don't ever come around
And knock on the door
No angry words are spoken
No hearts broken

(Travis Tritt/Walt Aldridge/Casey Beathard)

I know I'm far from perfect,too set in my ways for my own good
And there's other things about me you think you'd like to change if you just
could
I could let you shape me,mold me like a potter's piece of clay
But you really wouldn't want me that way

It's a crazy world we live in and it keeps on getting tougher all the time
You say you wish I wouldn't let life's troubles weigh so heavy on my mind
When things are wrong I guess that I could smile pretending everything's okay
But you really wouldn't want me that way

I'm just the man I've always been,I don't know how to be nobody else
And a man can only change so much till he becomes a shadow of himself
I never could be happy if I were just your puppet on a string,yes I could change
But you really wouldn't want me that way

Now don't misunderstand me,I want to be a man that makes you proud
I ain't ashamed to show how much I love you every way that I know how
I can make concessions but don't ask me to bend until I break
'Cause you really wouldn't want me that way

Don't ask me tomorrow to become someone I wasn't yesterday

(Travis Tritt/Dean Dillon)

Said some things,didn't mean
In my anger
Went too far,she walked out
I don't blame her
And I felt so ashamed
'Cause I'd hurt my best friend
Couldn't take back the pain
And I don't ever want her to feel that way again

I wish I could go back
And erase it
Can't make words disappear
Have to face it
That she don't look at me
Like she did before then
And what I made her feel
I don't ever want her to feel that way again

When she looks at me there's nothing that I want to see
But love in her eyes
Never want to see that "How could you do this to me" pain
She can't hide

There's no doubt she knows how
Much I love her
I believe she still needs
The way we were
I just hope that she knows
That I didn't intend
To leave her feeling cold

(Travis Tritt/Gary Nicholson)

I've been working and slaving,no time for misbehaving
'Till I'm just about to lose my mind
And I'm starting now to wonder if I'll make it out from underneath
The pressures of the daily grind
I've had it bottled up for so long I'm gonna have to pop the top
The trouble is when I get started I ain't ever gonna want to stop

So as bad as I hate to
It's time to get crazy
It's time to take some tension off
When I get wound this tight
And the fact I'm gonna hurt myself
Ain't reason enough not to
So as bad as I hate to
I'll pay that price tomorrow
'Cause it's time to get crazy tonight

Well at home my little lady's got a toddler and a baby
And a million things she'll never get done
And I know the homemaking is just a backbreaking
As sweating in the midday sun
She's been lifting lots of loads of laundry,dancing with a mop and a
broom
When she finally gets a chance to party
You better give the little girl some room

So as bad as I hate to
It's time to get crazy
It's time to take some tension off
When I get wound this tight
And the fact I'm gonna hurt myself
Ain't reason enough not to
I'll pay that price tomorrow

(Travis Tritt/Walt Aldridge/James LeBlanc)

I've watched an acorn turn into an oak tree
And I've felt the passion of a whippoorwill's call
And I've seen a flower bloom in the desert
But a woman so true loving me like you do
Now I've seen it all

I've seen the faces they chiseled in mountains
Marveled in wonder at stars when they fall
And I've watched the sunset slip into the ocean
But a woman so true loving me like you do
Now I've seen it all

I feel so unworthy of all that you give me
I could die happy just knowing I am your man
I'm so undeserving,I just stand here in awe
That a woman so true loves me like you do
Now I've seen it all

I feel so unworthy of all that you give me
I could die happy just knowing I am your man
'Cause you find perfection where others see flaws
And a woman so true loving me like you do

(Vernon Rust)

It's the way that you sneak a Kleenex to me
When a sad song song gets in my eye
You say it's alright,you got no appetite
When it's down to the last piece of pie
It's the way that you never remember
The things I would rather forget
How you grin and shrug your shoulders
When it's time to start over again

God must be a woman
You're probably a lot like her
Your grace is so amazing
An angel here on earth
You're so much like your maker
She sent you down to lay a crown on me
God must be a woman
Only mamas have a love that runs so deep
Watching out for drunks and babies and fools
And castaways like me

Some heavenly rain must soak in your brain
And come out as the sweet things you say
You stitch me back up when life plays too rough
Give my hand a little squeeze when we pray
And the I love you's that you told me
They would probably stretch to the moon
You multiply what matters
And divide the pain bt two

God must be a woman
You're probably a lot like her
Your grace is so amazing
An angel here on earth
You're so much like your maker
She sent you down to lay a crown on me
God must be a woman
Only mamas have a love that runs so deep
Watching out for drunks and babies and fools

(Travis Tritt/Marty Stuart)

Time is moving fast to the point of no return
I'm reaching for tomorrow leaving bridges that I've burned
Here I stand alone with my back against the wall
Tortured by your memory and the feelings I recall

I can't seem to get over you
No matter where I go
No matter what I do
The wall of denial
Has broken in two
And I can't seem to get over you

Everywhere I turn I see shadows on the wall
A silhouette of sorrow of a man who had it all
Your kiss forever haunts me like a ghost out of the past
It's peaceful for a moment but it never seems to last

I can't seem to get over you
No matter where I go
Np matter what I do
The wall of denial
Has broken in two
And I can't seem to get over you

I'm getting tired of living with these questions in my mind
Is it hopeful to imagine or just a waste of time
For now I go on dreaming,that's what's keeping me alive
But dreams won't last forever,tell me how will I survive

I can't seem to get over you
No matter where I go
No matter what I do
The wall of denial
Has broken in two