He was there when I started In Knoxville, Tennessee Openin' for Patty Loveless November of '93 Four friends, Mom, and Uncle Butch And the crowd was really small He'd say, I was a scared kid If this bus could talk Some nights, we'd dance with the devil Some nights, we prayed to the Lord Between bathproom passes and Margherita glasses He was never really bored We were starry eyed dreamers Bouncin' off the wall Oh, the stories he could tell If this bus could talk He's seen pool halls, in Texas Down at the Corndog County Fair Girls, that we made cry Some crowds, that didn't care When Bobby rolled us down in 'Bama He kept rockin', through it all Oh, the stories he could tell If this bus could talk Late night conversations Full of drunk philosophy On politics and religion Football and family The loved ones, that we missed An' the lovers, that we lost Oh, the secrets he could share If this bus could talk He's seen Virginia Beach Caught in a hurricane Heroes, I wish I'd never met But, he ain't namin' names We learned the call of the road At the Grizzly Rose, and we had a ball Oh, the stories he could tell If this bus could talk 20 years of summers An' I hope it never ends Been down so many highways Full of twists, and turns, and bends We caught lightnin' in a bottle Somehow, we survived it all Oh, the stories he could tell If this bus could talk As I leave the stage Still high, from your applause He'd tell you, that I love you If this bus could talk If this bus could talk If this bus could talk If this bus could talk

I watched you hide the pain too many times Much too often you don't say what's in your heart But you don't have to say it's over, I can see it in your eyes 'Cause if tears could talk, you just said goodbye Without a word, you took our picture from the wall And your dresses from the closet down the hall When I tried to talk it over, you just turned away and cried But if tears could talk, you just said goodbye And if mirrors spoke, they'd tell me I'm a fool For never loving you the way I wanted to And if silence says it all, I guess it means our love has died And if tears could talk, you just said goodbye And if mirrors spoke, they'd tell me I'm a fool For never loving you the way I wanted to And if silence says it all, I guess it means our love has died And if tears could talk, you just said goodbye Oh, if tears could talk, you just said goodbye

Could it be your nice silky tone Ohh that makes me want you girl Distant nights spent love on the phone As I touch myself, how I want you more The mood evokes, incense smoke and I'm burning up in temperature ready to explode Come take a toke let's float baby on higher ground Baby come float with me Let me take you to a place on higher, honey Baby come float with me Face to face build a body of fire, honey Could it be your sweet sweet moan While I'm inside your world, your world A sudden glance that you give from across the room Come and take control, yeah Open up my favorite bottle, let the wind blow Create an atmosphere, stay right here Listen to the rain, your handprints on the window pane And its burning me up with the desire ohh When I think about it I don't want to be without it Baby grab a hold feel me in your soul Forever more climb on You belong to me Baby come float with me Let me take you to a place on higher, honey Baby come float with me Face to face build a body of fire, honey Baby come float with me Let me take you to a place on higher, honey Baby come float with me Face to face build a body of fire, honey Baby come float with me Let me take you to a place on higher, honey Baby come float with me Face to face build a body of fire, honey Baby come float with me Let me take you to a place on higher, honey Baby come float with me Face to face build a body of fire, honey

My old lady's on the other side of town with her ex boyfriend Drinking again, drinking again So you choose to lose someone who loves you and a real good friend For a bottle of gin, a bottle of sin You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille Now I'm sitting at the top of the hill Now my heart is broken and I'm all alone and I don't know what to feel Since you been gone, gone away I overheard somebody say they saw you crying in a bar last night With a blackened eye, a blackened eye I know mistakes I made but it's time For another that will treat you right, treat you right You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille Now I'm sitting at the top of the hill Now my heart is broken and I'm all alone and don't know what to feel Since you been gone, gone away You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille Now I'm sitting at the top of the hill Now my heart is broken and I'm all alone and don't know what to feel Since you been gone, gone away Gone away Used to love me now you want to leave me Right when I told you I love you Don't think you ever believe me when I said Used to love me now you want to run away Right when I told you I love you Don't think you ever believe me when I said Ooh, I love you Ooh, I love you I love you You were my baby You were my love, sugar darling I know he didn't love you, the way I did Baby, oh, yeah, oh, I love you Don't you know I cared? Don't you know I love you? And I always want to be there Oh, you know I love you, yeah You know I love you, baby And you know he really didn't care about you I never woulda have hit you baby, no, no Said, I never woulda have hit you, baby Oh, no, haw Oh, no, haw Ooh-ooh-ooh You know I loved you, you know I loved you And I, I really did care about you, baby Oh, you know I loved you You know I loved you, baby How could he hit you, baby? And you still stick around How could he hit you, baby?

Said it's alright Whoa-oh Whoa-oh-oh Yeah, yeah, yeah, ooh We have seen some things in our lives We've had some long and solemn roads That's how I know it's alright to cry Go on and ease the heavy load Pray hard, walk tall, do right Find love, hold on for life Lord, I know that you are there I feel a burnin' in my bones Free us from the lion's den And take us home Everybody needs love in their life (oh, oh, oh, oh) Everybody needs a little sun to shine (everybody needs a little sun in their life) Go on let love come inside your life (whoa-whoa, whoa-whoa) Shine down (shine down) on me, on me (hm) The Shepherd and His angels guard our life Go on, joy comes early morn' The ways of the man will sure subside Pain, walk away 'cause here come love Smiling, faithful, alright (alright, alright, alright) Find love, hold on for life Lord, I know that you are there I feel a burnin' in my bones Free us from this lion's den And take us home Everybody needs love in their life (everybody needs love in their life) Everybody needs a little sun to shine (shine on, shine down on me) Go on let love come inside your life (yeah) Shine down on me, on me (hm) Whoa-ho, whoa-ho, oh-oh, oh Lord, rain down on me, and let your joy ease my pain Take me from this lion's den and let me smile again, yeah Everybody needs love in their life (everybody needs love) Everybody needs a little sun to shine (shine down on me) Go on let love come inside your life (go on) Shine down (shine down) on me (on me), on me (whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh) Everybody needs love in their life (need love) Everybody needs a little sun to shine (everybody) Go on let love come inside your life (yeah, yeah) Shine down on me, on me (on me, yeah)

It will make you hurt somebody It will make you walk the line of love and hate It will make you up and lose it It will make you feel the shame of just too late I'm hiding this sorrow with my head to the pillow (pillow) Can't breathe 'cause the pain's so deep I'm thinking 'bout you in the arms of another (pillow) Got me sweating and I just can't sleep (In this pillow) is where I bury secrets, yeah (Pillow) oh It will make you hurt somebody It will make you walk the line of love and hate It will make you up and lose it It will make you feel the shame of just too late Now you're pregnant with his baby (pillow) Heard you're 'bout to get married God knows it should've been me And I was sleeping with that woman (pillow) And them lies caught up on me He was there when you're trembling (In this pillow) is where I bury secrets, yeah (Pillow) oh, oh-mm It will make you hurt somebody It will make you walk the line of love and hate It will make you up and lose it (lose it, yeah) It will make you feel the shame of just too late (Love will make you hurt somebody) Love will make you wanna do things, yeah (Love will make you hurt somebody) Sometimes I have to settle down and think about (Let's go out and hurt somebody) oh, mmm (Hurt somebody) oh-oh It will make you hurt somebody (oh, yes it will, yeah) It will make you up and lose it (make you lose your mind, yeah) oh Yeah (oh, yes it will, yeah)