Still around

Sweetheart Last night I dreamed of you You loved me like you used to do Morning come and I woke up and found I still carry you around I still carry you around Everywhere I travel now No matter how I try to put you down I still carry you around I still just can't believe you're gone Your memory haunts me from now on I walk the streets of this old lonely town I still carry you around I still carry you around Everywhere I travel now No matter how I try to put you down I still carry you around You're with me everywhere I go In my heart and in my soul Down every road No matter where I'm bound I still carry you around I still carry you around Everywhere I travel now No matter how I try to put you down I still carry you around

While he's still around I'm gonna take him out to fish So we can catch up on them stories That we ain't got to yet And while he's still around I'm gonna make a couple of notes About how he's loved my mama Since all those years ago 'Cause you never know when the phone is gonna ring Saying heaven handed out some angel wings And all those things that you were gonna do Are just tear drops raining on a church pew So I'm gonna try to say it before I gotta pray it Hoping that he's looking down And tell him that I love him While he's still around While he's still around We're gonna fix up that old car So one day when it's all mine He'll be there every time it starts And while he's still around Yeah, I want to meet the one Watch him try and hold them tears back When I see him holding my son 'Cause you never know when the phone is gonna ring Saying heaven handed out some angel wings And all those things that you were gonna do Are just tear drops raining on a church pew So I'm gonna try to say it before I gotta pray it Hoping that he's looking down And tell him that I love him While he's still around I'm gonna try and catch a game with him Take a road trip, get on out of state with him Thank every memory I can make with him Live it up before it's too late with him You never know when the phone is gonna ring Saying heaven handed out some angel wings And all those things that you were gonna do Are just tear drops raining on a church pew So I'm gonna try to say it before I gotta pray it Hoping that he's looking down And tell him that I love him While he's still around

I know I'm not a perfect husband although I'd like to be But payday nights and those painted women they do strange things to me But then when the party's over and the good is all she sees Though I let her down she still comes around just to love what's left of me Six days out of seven I work hard at doing right But believe me you could set your watch on any Friday night But then I'm lucky she understands and the fool that lives in me Though I let her down she still comes around to love what's left of me The way I'm living it's a wonder she can take it But that woman she's got a heart of gold it's justing me to break it I know I don't deserve her but I'm thankful as can be And though I let her down she still comes around just to love what's left of me And though I let her down she still comes around just to love what's left of me

Turn on my VCR, same one I've had for years James Brown on the T.a.m.i. show, same tape I've had for years I sit in my old car, same one I've had for years Old battery's running down, it ran for years and years Turn on the radio, the static hurts my ears Tell me where would I go, I ain't been out in years Turn on the stereo, it's played for years and years An Otis Redding song, it's all I own When the world is running down You make the best of what's still around When the world is running down You make the best of what's still around Plug in my M.C.I. to exercise my brain Make records on my own, can't go out in the rain Pick up the telephone, I've listened here for years No one to talk to me, I've listened here for years When the world is running down You make the best of what's still around When the world is running down You make the best of what's still around When I feel lonely here, don't waste my time with tears I run 'Deep Throat' again, it ran for years and years Don't like the food I eat, the cans are running out Same food for years and years, I hate the food I eat When the world is running down You make the best of what's still around When the world is running down You make the best of what's still around When the world is running down You make the best of what's still around When the world is running down You make the best of what's still around Turn on my V.C.R., same one I've had for years James Brown on the T. A. M. I. show, same tape I've had for years I sit in my old car, same one I've had for years