If This Track Could Talk - Randy Newman

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

It's pushed cattle on a palomino Somewhere west of San Antone It's laid on the church floor as I talk to the good Lord Cussed out him for callin' grandpa home And it hit the dirt, one night in Fort Worth When I thought I was bulletproof And it got stomped by a bull named "Mile High" Yeah, but I scored 82 It might just be a dusty resistor If this hat could talk, it'd tell me to hold on and hang around If this hat could talk, it'd say it's 'bout time we settle down Don't ya think we've done enough ridin' away? Maybe we should take the saddle off the Chevy and stay If this hat could talk, it'd tell me to hang it at your place The first time I met ya, I'll never forget ya Snatched it off and put it on the wrong way Hands like a pistol, said, "Boy, take a picture 'Cause I feel like John Wayne" You pull down the brim and I knew right then If this hat could talk, it'd tell me to hold on and hang around If this hat could talk, it'd say it's 'bout time we settle down Don't you think we've done enough ridin' away? Maybe we should take the saddle off the Chevy and stay If this hat could talk, it'd tell me to hang it at your place Wish I could sit and have a drink with it Man, the stories it could tell From the day I got it shaped and fitted To the day it found its nail If this hat could talk If this hat could talk, it'd tell me to hold on and hang around If this hat could talk, it'd say it's 'bout time we settle down Don't you think we've done enough ridin' away? Maybe we should take the saddle off the Chevy and stay If this hat could talk, it'd tell me to hang it at your place If this hat 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

You gave a warning But you never give the Signals that I'm wanting You know that I crave all your attention It's danger mmm I don't know if this is it, is this it to you? When you say you do, you don't Leaving me no clue If yes is no and no is yes Tell me what you want How am I meant to know What's going on? You, yeah You never give the feelings that I want You, yeah You never give the feelings that I want You never give the feelings that I want You, yeah You never give the feelings that I want Knife's edge Living on both sides I don't know what's best I need you to tell me Don't know what's next Be honest, mmm Oh, yeah I don't know if this is it, is this it to you? When you say you do, you don't Leaving me no clue If yes is no and no is yes Tell me what you want How am I meant to know what's going on? You, yeah You never give the feelings that I want You, yeah You never give the feelings that I want You never give the feelings that I want You, yeah You never give the feelings that I want I don't know if this is it, is this it to you? When you say you do, you don't Leaving me no clue If yes is no and no is yes Tell me what you want How am I meant to know what's going on? You, yeah You never give the feelings that I want You, yeah You never give the feelings that I want You never give the feelings that I want (You, yeah) You never give the feelings that I want

I saw you on Sunday, Monday Hanging with your man again You came back on a Tuesday With that cold a' look ashamed Oh I could love you better Better than you once knew If you're cheating, cheat on yeah 'Cause cheating's just a thing you do It's just a thing you do I saw you on Friday, Saturday Tearing up another heart You came home a' crying Why you take it all so hard? You know I love you better Better than you once knew If you're cheating, cheat on, yeah But I would never cheat on you Yeah, I could love you, better Better than you once knew But if you're cheating, cheat on, yeah 'Cause cheating's just the thing you do It's just a thing you do Ohhh I've been told you baby You done some things so bad to me ahh I know You are the one who's creeping You are the one who's cheating But if you're heart is beating Bring it on, bring it to me. You are the one who's creeping You are the one who's cheating But if you're heart is beating Bring it on, bring it to me. I could love you, better Better than you once knew If you're cheating, cheat on But I would never cheat on you, no. I could love you, better Better than you once knew If you're cheating, cheat on 'Cause cheating's just a thing you do.

My tribute It's all for you, it's all for you For what you have shown me It's all for you, it's all for you For what you have made me It's all for you, it's all for you For what you have shown me It's all for you, it's all for you For what you have made me Here's my tribute 15, I had known to be So confused, broken easily Now I could not be off the memory but you're next to me 18, you made me see You lit the lights I've been dampening Now I could not be off the memory but you're next to me My passion was abused, my words were never used But now I hope that you can see That it's all for you, it's all for you For what you have shown me and what you do It's all for you, it's all for you For what you have made me, look how I grew Here's my tribute 23, now I'm taken in This vicious whirl I was captured in Now I could not be off the memory but you're next to me My passion was abused, my words were never used But now I hope that you can see That it's all for you, it's all for you For what you have shown me and what you do It's all for you, it's all for you For what you have made me, look how I grew It's all for you, it's all for you For what you have shown me and what you do It's all for you, it's all for you For what you have made me, look how I grew Here's my tribute It's my tribute! My tribute! Oh no! This life I've been brought Life I've been leading It's my life, it's my tribute This life I've been brought Life I've been leading It's my life, it's my tribute And it's all for you, it's all for you For what you have shown me and what you do It's all for you, it's all for you For what you have shown me and what you do It's all for you, it's all for you For what you have made me, look how I grew It's all for you, it's all for you For what you have shown me and what you do It's all for you, it's all for you For what you have made me, look how I grew Here's my tribute