Real Good Woman - Al Holliday

No, I'll never understand The criminal mind It's a nice soundtrack For a late night Narrative not so critical My own thoughts are difficult I'm so tired And there's nobody else to call And I'll never understand Why you put up that wall A woman so gifted and intelligent You don't like the way I'm telling it From a distance And I could feel your power When we were singing lines together Real life woman Never my intention To create a legend Talking 'bout a real life woman Every misadventure Is a kind of redemption You're not dressing for a man In your elegant gown Still an incurable romantic Under the lights Like a bird in flight Every single night You bring everyone together Real life woman Never my intention To create a legend Talking 'bout a real life woman Every misadventure Is a kind of redemption Someone hiding, put that image in your mind In the shape of a real life Leave him locked inside Keep him out of sight Never take a chance A love to waste them all Giant creatures wait On the beaches of the Nile It must be good for someone, yeah

I don't buy the lines in magazines That tell me what I've gotta be I don't base my life on a movie screen I don't fit the mold society has planned I don't need to be 19 years old Or starve myself for some weight I'm told Or turn men's heads down that road And I thank God I finally know just who I am I ain't a movie star may never see the view from where they are And this old town may be as far as I'm goin' And what he'll hold tonight in his hands He swears there's so much better than Anything that this old world can show him I'm a real live woman In love with this man I see lyin' here next to me Lost in the way that he's holdin' This real live woman In the arms of a man where I'll fall asleep Knowin' there's nothin' on earth he loves more than This real live woman I work 9-5 and I can't relate To millionaires who somehow fate Has smiled upon and fortune made their Common lives a better place to be And I no longer justify Reasons for the way that I behave I offer no apologies For the things that I believe and say And I like it that way 'Cause I'm a real live woman In love with this man I see lyin' here next to me Lost in the way that he's holdin' This real live woman In the arms of a man where I'll fall asleep Knowin' there's nothin' on earth he loves more than This real live woman

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey Midnight, I'm wound up tight Slowly comin' down in the daytime I've been lyin' low from work Hangin' over from the hurt from you, babe But I'm gon' suffer through the strain 'Til I get a better thing with you, darlin' Me and you So hard to see, so far ahead Well I, I can't seem to drag myself out of bed I gotta find me a, a good man A good man, a real, good man You better stop and think about what you're sayin' I was seriously dedicated in this game you playin' You made ten thousand promises you couldn't keep I forgave you when you lied, pleaded and weeped I put up with your disrespect and neglect And what an experience I'll never forget 'Til now, oh, everything I did was wrong (sorry, baby) Today we're free, but we live alone Gotta find a good woman Good woman, good woman, yeah, yeah, yeah Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey It was twelve o'clock in the midnight hour I heard the door slam, and then the shower When I got up, you were already gone I slipped and fell in the water when you left on Gotta find a good woman Gonna find a good man I gotta find a good woman Oh, I'ma find a good man I gotta find a good woman I'ma find a good man I gotta find a good woman Oh baby, I'ma find a good man Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

Well, you say what you want And you never go back And this song is a song Even buried in the black Well, I cover my mouth And I straighten my back Well, I cover my mouth And I straighten my back I'm a good woman I'm a good woman Be kind I'm a good woman Erased in the light I feel like a fool 'Cause a game isn't fun If I never know the rules And you're measuring out But you're coming off cruel And you say what you say And you send me away Now you only like... I'm a good woman I'm a good woman Surrender is sweet Forgiveness divine But who will build statues of me When I leave you all behind? But I'm carrying weight But I know it's not mine With half a heart it's hard to stop But I feel as though I'm a good woman I'm a good woman I'm a good, good woman (come on) I'm a good woman I'm a good woman I'm a good woman I'm a good, good woman I'm a good woman

An outlaw walking through the valley of men Glared with a sunken eye of death Moved his head from side to side and said Come on you gutless slugs, fight like a man State your name and business and let's see what you got Another body for the hangman's count Show me the bar and show me the cards Hold on to your guns, yeah Filled up with bug juice, the moon shine in his hand Hot headed with a temperament The speediest deadliest man with a gun A bloody gambler but a gentleman dog A frontier vagabond who charms all the dames Hello ladies, how's your day today? Let me introduce you to myself Doc Holliday Oh, ah, the outlaw man's roar Oh, ah, the outlaw man A friendly man but without a friend Fort Griffin, Texas here I am Supported Wyatt Earp to the very end Cemented brotherhood, don't get in his way You cannot shake his boots, you cannot scar his fate Down under you will hear him grin Great the man the outlaw himself Doc Holliday Oh, ah, the outlaw man's roar Oh, ah, the outlaw man Filled up with bug juice, the moon shine in his hand Hot headed with a temperament The speediest deadliest man with a gun A bloody gambler but a gentleman dog A frontier vagabond who charms all the dames Hello ladies, how's your day today? Let me introduce you to myself Doc Holliday Oh, ah, the outlaw man's roar Oh, ah, the outlaw man