When You Forgive - Just Big Hills

Use this time to step aside And look around with your feeble eyes Use this time to forget me Use these days to lie awake And feel the loss of my embrace But don't use anymore of me And how do you say And how do you say "I forgive you"? And how do you know And how do you know When to choose to? And when to move along? Use your hands to feel the man I gave my plan and off you went To find someone new who is not me Use your favorite photograph To play the recent memory back Are you still as cold as I am? Well it started off a simple black and blue Hidden behind the untrue But now it's surfacing I need to be released From the love that was you From the love that was you Cause I want to say And I want to say "I forgive you" And I want to know And I want to know When to choose to And when to move along And when to move along

Did I not love enough to keep your attention on and on? Am I the stupid one For doing everything that I did for us? I put a pillow under your hair Gave you tender loving my care And I didn't make it a thing, ya mama didn't know that I was there I tried to swallow my pride When you left me lonely outside And I didn't know you would never show, You're so comfortable with white lies Looking like a fool what else could I do After all we've been through it still hurts But I forgive you though my friends tell me not to I forgive you even when it's so hard to When we are good we're great But I couldn't keep on carrying on this way Won't ever be the same But I'd rather know you're better Off than when you left us I put a pillow under your hair Gave you tender loving my care And I didn't make it a thing Ya mama didn't know that I was there I tried to swallow my pride When you left me lonely outside And I didn't know you would never show You're so comfortable with white lies Looking like a fool what else could I do Ater all we've been through it still hurts But I forgive you though my friends tell me not to I forgive you even when it's so hard to Maybe we can get together someday But I want you to know we're okay, we're okay But I want you to know we're okay, we're okay I forgive you though my friends tell me not to I forgive you even when it's so hard to I had to, yeah Maybe we can get together someday But I want you to know we're okay, we're okay But I want you to know we're okay, we're okay

I might as well admit it That I still miss you I know what I said but it's Kind of hard for me And it's hurting me This is bigger than pride And I wanna give it another try I'm still torn in two But love made me make this decision so I'll forgive you But you really hurt me My heart wants to try us again I know you're only human But you almost destroyed me Our love was worth it Still I need a little more time I hope you learned a lesson 'Bout hurting the ones you really love 'Cause I was a soldier for you Would have done anything to prove it to you Maybe we can get on track Rekindle the love bring it back 'Cause there's nobody else for me My heart just wants to say this to you I'll forgive you But you really hurt me My heart wants to try us again I know you're only human But you almost destroyed me Our love was worth it Still I need a little more time I'll forgive you But you really hurt me My heart wants to try us again I know you're only human But you almost destroyed me Our love was worth it Still I need a little more time I got to figure this out We need a new start No more deceitful lies If someone told me we would be apart I would say you're foolish 'Cause God brought you to me I'll forgive you But you really hurt me My heart wants to try us again I know you're only human But you almost destroyed me Our love was worth it Still I need a little more time I'll forgive you But you really hurt me My heart wants to try us again I know you're only human But you almost destroyed me Our love was worth it Still I need a little more time

I forgive you, I forgive me Now when do i start to feel again I forgive you, I forgive me Now when do i start to feel again Cause the lights are on But I'm never home But I'll be back with a brand new attitude Cause I forgive you I forgive you We were just a couple of kids Trying to figure out how to live Doing it our way No shame, no blame Cause the damage is done And I forgive you I forgive you We were busy living the dream Never noticed the glass ceiling falling on us No shame, no blame Cause the damage is done And I forgive you I forgive you, I forgive me Now do I start to feel again If I hate you, what does that do So I breathe in and I count to 10 Cause the lights are on And I'm coming home Yes I am back With a new heart in my hand Cause I forgive you I forgive you We were just a couple of kids Trying to figure out how to live Doing it our way No shame, no blame Cause the damage is done And I forgive you I forgive you We were busy living the dream Never noticed the glass ceiling falling on us No shame, no blame Cause the damage is done And I forgive you I forgive you For every time that I cried Over some stupid thing you did to hurt me That's alright, yeah I forgive you I forgive you We were just a couple of kids Trying to figure out how to live Doing it our way No shame, no blame Cause the damage is done And I forgive you I forgive you We were just a couple of kids Trying to figure out how to live Doing it our way No shame, no blame Cause the damage is done And I forgive you I forgive you We were busy living the dream Never noticed the glass ceiling falling on us No shame, no blame Cause the damage is done And I forgive you

You can see the bear paws, the old man on his back Prickly pears blue moon in the short and native grass There's a bunch of empty beer cans in an old, loose mineral sack Give you some idea of where you're at Buck brush and sage, far as you can see It's the south slopes of the hills and turns to pines and poplar trees Cattle all a-grazing up and down a big coulee Under Charley Russel skies like a blue and purple sea Cypress hills and the big country below Where life is still, and a man can be alone And you can duck underneath all your trials and troubles for a time Like a pronghorn underneath a bottom wire Cypress hills and the big country below Where life is still, and a man can be alone You can duck underneath all your trials and troubles for a time Like a pronghorn underneath a bottom wire You can sweat and cuss and wonder why They say our west has died When the folks around the cypress hills Still drag calves to the fire