10-38 - Charles Wesley Godwin

Money's been a wise buck this year Now there's things in life that you've always feared There ain't a use to pouting around Singing 'woe is me' until you're six feet down Always following the same old tracks Time to break off and cut a new path Don't put down these words I say It takes blood and sweat to find a new way You're coming on strong I know your night's been long But I can see you coming around the bend And kicking until the end Like Prefontaine from an outside lane Proving them wrong Coming on strong Every miss is a payment made To a debt of dues that we all must pay Your empty coffers aren't a sign That you haven't saved for a whole lifetime And you can go out swingin' to a cold dark grave They can never say that you didn't live brave Born to nothing but pain and strain Leave with grit fixed to your name You're coming on strong I know your night's been long But I can see you coming around the bend And kicking until the end Like Prefontaine from an outside lane Proving them wrong Coming on strong You're coming on strong I know your night's been long But I can see you coming around the bend Oh and kicking until the end Like Prefontaine from an outside lane Proving them wrong Coming on strong Proving them wrong Coming on strong

I never would've guessed it in a hundred years or more I'd meet a lowland angel, the likes I'd never seen before She grew up where the sun does run hot across the sky Sweetened her up nice like some strawberry wine I crowned her in my mind, oh, my Strawberry Queen I ain't cut out for royalty, never saw myself a king No blue blood in these veins, just a mountain boy with dreams But I got caught up in her love like a storm down in the Gulf The high winds wreck my docks, the water rusts my locks My wave breaks on the rocks for my Strawberry Queen I ain't the first to pledge my service to the crown I know her subjects in the past have let her down Treasonous fools never come around this town Or I'd throw my fist and give 'em hell and stand my ground For my Strawberry Queen For my Strawberry Queen I met her at a dance hall early one spring Felt like Adam next to Eve staring at a fruit of God So I wrapped a bow around my heart And placed it in a box of cherry wood I asked her if she could take that box and do it good She smiled and said she would, oh, my Strawberry Queen I ain't the first to pledge my service to the crown I know her subjects in the past have let her down Treasonous fools never come around this town Or I'd throw my fist and give 'em hell and stand my ground For my Strawberry Queen For my Strawberry Queen

Go put on that blue dress The one you know I love the best Don't mind me, I'll stay down here So I can watch you stridin' down the steps I missed you more than you know It seems like we're always fightin' time Thoughts of you on nights like these Give me hope while across state lines Let's warm up these hardwood floors And tonight I'll see you spin around Take my hand, honey, let's just dance And pretend there ain't nobody else in town And tonight there ain't nobody else around And tonight there ain't nobody else in town Four feet move down the line Synchronized in perfect time And for once my blues have past I can feel them fading behind In your eyes they look in mine Reading what lies behind It's just love, honey, don't you mind Everything will be just fine Let's warm up these hardwood floors And tonight I'll see you spin around Take my hand, honey, let's just dance And pretend there ain't nobody else in town And tonight there ain't nobody else around And tonight there ain't nobody else in town, no The moments he has a little life He lives and breathes like a soul Here and now it breathes in us Livin' on 'til we're old Until we're old Let's warm up these hardwood floors And tonight I'll see you spin around Take my hand, honey, let's just dance And pretend there ain't nobody else in town And tonight there ain't nobody else around And tonight there ain't nobody else in town Let's warm up these hardwood floors And tonight I'll see you spin around Take my hand, honey, let's just dance And pretend there ain't nobody else in town And tonight there ain't nobody else around And tonight there ain't nobody else in town, oh

I was walking down the road 'bout a week ago Underneath the bridge where long trucks roll The bright red letters caught my eyes Reading "Jesse do you miss me like I miss you tonight?" Well Jesse don't hear you and neither do I When you're cryin' at the heavens with wool-covered eyes You made that bed now you can sleep tight Well Jesse don't hear you and neither do I You walk this earth full of regret You couldda killed that curse if you just confess Swore you'd love Jesse until you's dead But only so much that you wrote it in red Well Jesse don't hear you and neither do I When you're cryin' at the heavens with wool-covered eyes You made that bed now you can sleep tight Well Jesse don't hear you and neither do I If you could go back you make your stand But now Jesse's got a girl with a ring on her hand Well Jesse don't hear you and neither do I When you're cryin' at the heavens with wool-covered eyes You made that bed now you can sleep tight Well Jesse don't hear you and neither do I Well Jesse don't hear you and neither do I When you're cryin' at the heavens with wool-covered eyes You made that bed now you can sleep tight Oh Jesse don't hear you and neither do I I was walking down the road 'bout a week ago Underneath the bridge where long trucks roll

There's a tide turning in this temporary town Winds of change cut east blowing dust up off the ground I'm all burnt out on heartland skies And dreams of swinging on our porch ganderin' ridge lines There's a mighty mountain of bills on the floor If it builds up any higher they'll be bursting through the door Tear down these walls let me shiver in the wind I'll take it as a sign well-timed and consider it God-sent I could take your hand and leap across the border Give a little gas and ride off towards higher ground Make a piecе of heaven near somе old forgotten town And let the world pass by 'til there's no turning around Let the world pass by 'til there's no turning around I can picture it now a white house in a clearing Humming a bluebird song til the days we're hard of hearing Ancient blue ridges just like big old fences Shelter from the world keeping senseless at a distance I could take your hand and leap across the border Give a little gas and ride off towards higher ground Make a piece of heaven near some old forgotten town And let the world pass by 'til there's no turning around Let the world pass by 'till there's no turning around I could take your hand and leap across the border Give a little gas and ride off towards higher ground Make a piece of heaven near some old forgotten town And let the world pass by 'til there's no turning around Let the world pass by 'til there's no turning around Let the world pass by 'til there's no turning around