Mariya (feat. Charles Chaz Wesley Simmons) - Family Circle

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

There ain't much war when its 4:34 With the man you were before that bar door No one loves enough to give you a ride And your car's sittin' right outside Oh, Jamie Keep your tires between the ditches and your eyes peeled on the road There's two more minutes before you're back home Don't 103 feel so free? you always loved the revelry Oh, Jamie The flashin' red and blue in a cracked rear view He remembers a smile he once owned But he ain't gonna stop for any cop From here to damn near Wichita County Well, I'll go tonight boys, I don't mean no harm I just miss my lovin' lady and layin' in her arms I'll go tonight boys, I don't mean no harm I just miss my lovin' lady and layin' in her arms 'Cause there's a tombstone hidden in a place he don't visit Where the love of his life was laid to rest He'll make it there by dusk that is where they'll draw their guns Oh, Jamie 'Cause this life ain't worth livin' If the love that you've been given is taken before you are Now Jamie is dancin' and spinnin' 'round his baby in the stars I'll go tonight boys, I don't mean no harm I just miss my lovin' lady and layin' in her arms I'll go tonight boys, I don't mean no harm I just miss my lovin' lady and layin' in her arms When it's late and it's cold on that old hidden road You can hear laughter all in the trees Don't 103 feel so free? you don't miss the revelry Do you Jamie?

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