Way down south by New Mexico Where it's cold at night There's a girl I know that's still there Out there somewhere I don't know if she's dyed her hair She went off to school but her mother said to be careful You'll get lost out there I don't want to feel like I'm on my own Standing six feet tall Feeling six years old When they call your name I won't even know If you're there In New Mexico As she walked from the bedroom I Couldn't seem to hide that I loved her Mysterious ways Mysterious ways That she was born without a name Where the tiles broke And her daddy's so far from home now So far from home I don't want to feel like I'm on my own Standing six feet tall Feeling six years old When they call your name I won't even know If you're there Out there somewhere In New Mexico

My father taught me home is where the hurt is So I built a fortress Where I lived alone He said ships were never meant to have a harbor So I've worn this armor I've fought and flown I was raised a soldier Put my weapons down to hold you Is a kiss an act of war? I just tried to keep you warm Even though I couldn't stay No, you never looked away Now I can't look away Would you meet me in the middle? Could we both stop keeping score? There's a battle I must fight alone It's you I'm fighting for If I call off the battalion Break my walls down stone by stone Tear down my defenses I can build your heart a home And if I did Would you come home? Together we could quiet all the noises Drown out the voices Play our own song Boys becoming men under the desert sky But something dark inside Said it was wrong I was raised a soldier Put my weapons down to hold you Is a kiss an act of war? I just tried to keep you warm Even though I couldn't stay No, you never looked away Now I won't look away Would you meet me in the middle? Could we both stop keeping score? There's a battle I must fight alone It's you I'm fighting for If I call off the battalion Break my walls down stone by stone Tear down my defenses I can build your heart a home And if I did Would you come home? I still find my father's shrapnel Buried beneath my skin But I've begun to heal in all the places Your hands have been Would you meet me in the middle? Could we both stop keeping score? There's a battle I must fight alone It's you I'm fighting for If I call off the battalion Break my walls down stone by stone Tear down my defenses I can build your heart a home And if I did Would you come home? Wish I found the words when we were 17 You were the best of me You are the best of me

(Don Van Tress) She's the promise of pearl in a pool of heartache She's the perfect little truth wrapped in little white lies Like the wind she will turn She can state the case now and then Ignore the truth When it ain't on her side When her eyes claim that she's a lady You better treat her as such But comfort the little girl when her world gets too rough If she If she's the woman that you live for Make her feel how much you need her If she's the woman you love In the moment that your lives touched There was something in the stars That made you feel you'd probably die Just for a good morning in her arms 'Cause you knew you'd seen an angel And you were sure she'd fly away But she chose you when she landed And gave her heart away So she's your mystery trip into each new tomorrow She's the first to laugh and she's the worst to cry She's like the tide 'neath your ship But all the fall and rise is just a call to dance And she's always in time And her love is like a river in a poem Penned in wine That takes you floating forever rhyme after rhyme If she If she's the woman that you live for Make her feel how much you need her If she's the woman you love

(Stan Munsey Jr./Jim Sandefur) You say it must be a miracle Your heart even beats at all After all that you've been through You fell for too many promises, every line And it was you that always took the fall I know you're hurtin but don't be sad I'm here to tell you that you've just had A string of bad love But don't give up One good heart could change your luck You've been tangled up and tied down long enough Baby let me break the string of bad love I've done some time on that trail of tears And I swore I'd never love again so I know what you're going through I fell in love with a heartbreaker every time The road took another bend I got over it, so will you Have a little hope, you've just been through A string of bad love So don't give up One good heart could change your luck You've been tangled up and tied down long enough Baby let me break the string of bad love If you want to give it another go Together we could take a shot At making a love that won't unwind Maybe we could tie a know, in that A string of bad love But don't give up One good heart could change your luck You've been tangled up and tied down long enough Baby let me break the string of bad love One good heart could change your luck You've been tangled up and tied down long enough Baby let me break the string of bad love Baby we can break the string of bad love

One two three, step two three Whenever they're waltzing He still counts out loud She's tried to teach him But the rhythm doesn't reach him So they bounce through the crowd But oh, won't you look at them smiling Not worried that they're out of time He steps on her toes, she giggles and goes on 'Cause love is forgiving and kind Their hearts are dancing To the love song that's played from the moment they met Their hearts are dancing In time with a tune love won't ever forget Their gold anniversary He toasted the family And said, "time flies when it's fun And here's to my sweet wife Who's made ours a great life And I'm the luckiest one" And though there was no music playing He reached out and she took his hand He counted to three, and as they waltzed he could see There's still magic in those golden bands Their hearts are dancing To the love song that's played from the moment they met Their hearts are dancing In time with a tune love won't ever forget In time with a tune love won't ever forget Their hearts are dancing To the love song that's played from the moment they met Their hearts are dancing In time with a tune love won't ever forget

(John Wayne Wiggins) Ginger worked in a cafe Small town in Tennessee The cook Joe was a little slow But he kept the floor mopped and the kitchen clean Two young people in an old fashioned town They got together when the cafe closed And the Tennessee moon came out They drove down to the river He looked her dead in the eyes He could feel her trembling hands They made love by the river And they held o tight To those memory making nights It happened in the winter After the cafe closed Ginger had a change of heart She'd fallen out of love with Joe Tired of the cafe Life didn't seem right She was getting out of that no where town That night They drove down to the river He looked her dead in the eyes He could feel her trembling hands They made love by the river And they held o tight To those memory making nights Joe went crazy when she told him good-bye Now he sits in a small room and thinks About that night They drove down to the river He looked her dead in the eyes He could feel her trembling hands They made love by the river And they held o tight To those memory making nights

(Jon Venzer/Don Henry) Lookin' at this town through older eyes It's grown much too fat to recognize There's a freeway up and the park's torn down There's not a soul that I know around Has anybody seen Amy In her tan bare feet on the summertime street Can her kiss still turn the winter warm Or is she just a figment of What I recall of yesterday's love Has anybody seen Amy anymore I can't see the stars through the neon lights But there's still a crowd where the boys hang out at night The songs I hear from those teenage cars Still got the beat but they've lost the heart Has anybody seen Amy In her tan bare feet on the summertime street Can her kiss still turn the winter warm Or is she just a figment of What I recall of yesterday's love Has anybody seen Amy anymore You can feel your age when you face the fact You can always go home But you can never go back Has anybody seen Amy In her tan bare feet on the summertime street Can her kiss still turn the winter warm Or is she just a figment of What I recall of yesterday's love Has anybody seen Amy anymore

(Jimmy Alan Stewart/Chuck Cannon) He's in a bar, and she's in the bedroom crying He thinks he'll drown all the hurt that he's feeling inside A river of tears is washing away her every reason for trying And the distance between them is silence, anger and pride They don't talk to each other They're no longer lovers They won't even say the three words that could keep love from dying She needs a shoulder, he needs to hold her But he's in a bar, and she's in the bedroom crying He tells the bartender his problems and thanks him for listening Then he orders more whiskey to have something warm he can hold She picks up the phone, and calls up a friend, And says she wishes she knew what was missing Both of them ask the wrong people why their love's growing cold They don't talk to each other They're no longer lovers They won't even say the three words That could keep love from dying She needs a shoulder, he needs to hold her But he's in a bar, and she's in the bedroom crying He's in a bar, and she's in the bedroom crying