You say I'm the kinda girl who makes you finally settle down Put a down payment on a little white house Mama's gonna love me, front row every Sunday kinda Christian No cussin' Tell me I'm the reason that you cleaned up your act Wouldn't have a future if I knew your past Biggest regret is that you wish you would've met me sooner But if you knew her I was a train wreck, hot mess Too many cigarettes Bangin' with some drug store lipstick I was a weeknight drinker Karaoke singer Top of every preacher's prayer list The way I used to be I can guarantee Two weeks in, you would've left me Looking at the old me Anything but holy Glad you didn't know me Before you met me I would've chewed you up and I would've spit you out One night mistake that you tell your friends about Time was on my side We've have ended before we even started Back when I was a train wreck, hot mess Too many cigarettes Bangin' with some drug store lipstick I was a weeknight drinker Karaoke singer Top of every preacher's prayer list The way I used to be I can guarantee Two weeks in, you would've left me Looking at the old me Anything but holy Glad you didn't know me Before you met me Didn't know no better Wasn't thinking 'bout forever Didn't know myself Before you met me I was a train wreck, hot mess Too many cigarettes Bangin' with some drug store lipstick I was a weeknight drinker Karaoke singer Top of every preacher's prayer list The way I used to be I can guarantee Two weeks in, you would've left me Looking at the old me Anything but holy Glad you didn't know me Before you met me Before you met me

You crush me like paper, and then you go light me on fire You live life above me, and I just can't get any higher I wandered about, doing something I can't quite remember And there you were Who am I? Who are you? Where did you come from? And how can I get there too? What are we doing? Do I even care? Who was I before? Before I met you? You break all my bones, and I bend like a tree in the wind You rewrote my ending, now I don't know where to begin I wandered about, doing something I can't quite remember And there you were Who am I? Who are you? Where did you come from? And how can I get there too? What are we doing? Do I even care? Who was I before? Before I met you? I never knew me before I met you Who am I? Who are you? Where did you come from? And how can I get there too? What are we doing? Do I even care? Who was I before? Before I met you? Before I met you

I thought I had seen pretty girls in my time but that was before I met you I never saw one that I wanted for mine but that was before I met you I thought I was swinging the world by the tail I thought I could never be blue I thought I'd been kissed and I thought I'd been loved but that was before I met you I wanted to ramble and always be free but that was before I met you I said that no woman could ever hold me but that was before I met you I thought I was swinging... [ Steel ] They tell me I must reap just what I have sown but darling I hope it's not true For once I made plans about living alone but that was before I met you I thought I was swinging... But that was before I met you

Hold me before I'm gone forever Underneath the setting sun I wish we could make that trip together But that old train is boarding one by one My dear we have travelled far together Climbed the mountain, swum the sea Still there are so many places calling us Won't you see the rest for me? And hold me before I'm gone forever 'Cause it's all that we can do I wish could make that trip together But I'll go on ahead and wait for you It's true that my candle's burning lower But I'm content to hold your hand The mystery of the dark, it never bothered me Your love is all I need to understand Hold me before I'm gone forever 'Cause it's all that we can do I wish we could make that trip together But I'll go on ahead and wait for you I wish we could make that trip together But I'll be waiting somewhere, dear, for you

She's waiting on, She's waiting on that storm to come. Into her heart, into her heart she's waiting. She told me I must hold onto the mo-oment. And when the moments over I'll be all alone. (La le la, la le la, la le la, la le la) Then I'll be all alone. (La le la, la le la, la le la, la le la) Then I'll be all alone. (La le la, la le la, la le la, la le la) Then I'll be all alone And like a bird, yes like a bird, she'll fly away. She never said, she never said she'd stay here. She's waiting on, She's waiting on that ship to come. I cannot fight, I cannot fight the ocean, all alone (La le la, la le la, la le la, la le la) Then I'll be all alone. (La le la, la le la, la le la, la le la) Then I'll be all alone. Now kiss me on, now kiss me on my broken wings. Don't leave me here, don't leave me in the water. She's waiting on, She's waiting on that storm to come. And when the rain comes down I will be washed away. I hope, I hope we meet again. I want, I want to hold you again. I hope, I hope we meet again. I'll know, I'll know until the end. I'll be all aloooone. (La le la, la le la, la le la, la le la) Then I'll be all alone. (La le la, la le la, la le la, la le la) Then I'll be all alone. (La le la, la le la, la le la, la le la) Then I'll be all alone.