Jack Ingram Album

When I was fifteen, I left home young
Tore up the tracks and then some
Me and my dad didn't see eye to eye
I never took to him, he never took the time
Bullet proof, more than tough
Smarter than he ever was

CHORUS
Well I burned those wheels down the highway
And I learned what I learned the hard way
Do the best you can do, love many, trust few
Work hard for the money in your hands
That's the measure of a man
Yeah the measure of a man

Anger burns, love cools it down
Pretty young woman turned my head around
The world through her eyes looked so different
She lives on faith, she looks for forgiveness
Fool proof, it ain't easy
I need her, she needs me

CHORUS
She stole my heart on this highway
She taught me to love through the hard days
Yeah she's cool when I'm not, she's as steady as a rock
She's as solid as the ring on my hand
That's the measure of a man
Yeah the measure of a man

Last night she handed me a son of my own
It killed me to do it, but I picked up the phone

CHORUS
Hey dad I burned ten years down this highway
And I learned what I learned the hard way
Truth is I need you, we'll cry if we need to
And I'll swallow my pride if you can
That's the measure of a man
Oh yeah, the measure of a man

I've been following your ghost
Running circles 'round this house
Tripping over memories
Trying to figure things out
It's been a few years and I miss you still
Get your picture on the window sill
Been thinking of ways, I got days to fill
I don't think I ever will

CHORUS
Hold on to things you can't explain
Hold on dancing in the rain
Hold on to kisses on the lips
Savor every sweet moment, cause baby this is it
And hold on
Hold on

I've been cleaning up this mess
Found a metal box with some black and white photographs
A little faded but baby you sure do look good in that old dress, oh yes
Didn't we wish we were superstars?
Sign our names in the dust on your family car
We'd be waving to the crowd
You be the diva
And I'll play guitar

CHORUS
Hold on to things you wanna be
Hold on to friends and family
Hold on to burning summer sun
It makes a difference, every one
Hold on
Hold on

Thinking that we'd say the same
But we didn't know that the world would change
Yeah it just keeps on spinning
And we just keep on holding on

CHORUS
Hold on to things can't explain
Hold on to dancing in the rain
Hold on to kisses on the lips
Savor every sweet moment, cause baby this is it
And hold on to things you wanna be
Hold on to friends and family
Hold on to burning summer sun
It makes a difference, every one
Hold on
Hold on
Hold on
Hold on

Honey why you calling me so late
It's kinda hard to talk right now
Honey why you crying is everything okay
I gotta whisper cause I can't be too loud
Well, my girl's in the next room
Sometimes I wish she was you
I guess we never really moved on
It's really good to hear your voice saying my name
It sounds so sweet
Coming from the lips of an angel
Hearing those words it makes me weak
And I,
never wanna say goodbye
But girl you make it hard to be faithful
With the lips of an angel

It's funny that you're calling me tonight
And yes I dreamt of you too
And does he know you're talking to me will it start a fight
No, I don't think she has a clue
Well my girl's in the next room
Sometimes I wish she was you
I guess we never really moved on
It's really good to hear your voice saying my name
It sounds so sweet
Coming from the lips of an angel
Hearing those words it makes me weak
And I,
never wanna say goodbye
But girl you make it hard to be faithful
With the lips of an angel

It's really good to hear your voice saying my name
It sounds so sweet
Coming from the lips of an angel
Hearing those words it makes me weak
And I,
never wanna say goodbye
But girl you make it hard to be faithful
With the lips of an angel
(let it die,I never wanna say goodbye)
But girl you make it hard to be faithful
With the lips of an angel

Honey why you calling me so late

This desert wind is burnin’ my face again
God I’m missin’ you
Been runnin’ blind under a broken sky
With regrets I was sorting through
But lesson learned baby
I’ve made the turn

Wherever you are
No matter how far
Girl I’m gonna find my way to you
Through rivers of rain
Over mountains of pain
Do whatever on earth I’ve gotta do
I’ll follow the dream I’ll follow my heart
Girl I’ve gotta be
Wherever you are

So many miles to where we said goodbye
To the street of shattered dreams
I’m prayin’ hard you didn’t start a life
With someone who’s not me
And if you’re just gone
Girl I’ll be movin’ on

(Chorus)

Let the sunrise find me searchin’
Let the west wind carry my plea
Give this changed man one more last chance
Open your arms to me

Wherever you are
Through rivers of rain
Over mountains of pain
Do whatever on earth I’ve gotta do
I’ll follow the dream I’ll follow my heart
Girl I’ve gotta be
Wherever you are
Wherever you are
Wherever you are

Dang the sun; dang this day
An' I'm just tryin' to stay outta your danged ol' way
To heck with this; to heck with us
An' shoot if I'll ever look back on where I've been
Shoot if I'll ever give away my heart again

Love you, love this town;
Love this mother-lovin' truck that keeps breakin' lovin' down
There's only one four-letter word that'll do:
Love you

Love your cat; love this house
Well, I can't believe myself that I'm lovin' gettin' out
Love talkin'; love fightin';
Thought of never seein' your lovin' face
There's some words that some words just have to replace

Love you; love this town;
Yeah, I'm sick an' lovin' tired of all your lovin' around
There's only one four-letter word that'll do:
Love you

Love you; love this town;
Yeah, I'm sick an' lovin' tired of all your lovin' around
There's only one four-letter word that'll do:
Love you

Love you; love this town;
Love this mother-lovin' truck that keeps breakin' lovin' down
There's only one four-letter word that'll do:
Love you
Love you
Love you
Love you, honey

Everybody's lookin for someone to blame
Everywhere I go it's the same
I got a hole in my heart that I cannot name
And I just can't keep fromtrying to

The other day you shoulda heard my girl
I came home laughin' as the flags unfurled
She said you better find a way to love in this world
I said baby you know I'm just dyin to

CHORUS
I need something to make me feel better
Something simple even enough for me
I need something to make me feel better
Something as easy as 1,2,3
Something as easy as 1,2,3

Everything I wanted is so overrated
I almost had it all and I'm still frustrated
Why's it got to be so damn complicated
Sometimes I just can't take it

REPEAT CHORUS
I walk outside and I stare at the sky
Inside a second a star shoots by
And I think to myself man what a lucky guy
One blink and I would have missed it

CHORUS
I needed something to make me feel better
Something simple enough for me
I needed something to make me feel better
I needed something as easy as 1,2,3
I need something to make me feel better
Something simple enough for me
I need something to make me feel better
Something as easy as 1,2,3
Something as easy as 1,2,3

Ava Adell
I already can tell
You are the one
For me

It hasnt been long
I'm already long gone
In the eyes
Of my Ava Adell

I know that I
I aint the first guy
to take one look at a beautiful girl
And declare

That my search is through
I say this to you
I love you Ava Adell

Stare out at the horizon
Start the car and call the road your friend
Tell the girls and the Lord above
You'll think fondly and call back now and then

Head out of the city
Go find what they brought you down here for
Take that shiny penny
That daddy gave you from the day that you were born and

CHORUS
Make a wish that dreams come true
Go on sail the ocean blue
Ride a highway like the wind
Drink the good times down like sin
Go on, take that car
And drive so far
It looks like you're comin' home again

Stare up at the moonlight
And threaten every star it won't be long
You tell'em this is the very last night
I look to you to make sense of it all

Then head into the city
Electric lights that shine from dusk till dawn
Take that rusty penny
Throw it in the air and then move along and

CHORUS
Make a wish that dreams come true
Go on sail the ocean blue
Ride a highway like the wind
Drink the good times down like sin
Go on, take that car
And drive so far
It looks like you're comin' home again

You can't go back but you can't come back 'round
Let the world know as you roll through town

CHORUS
Make a wish that dreams come true
Go on sail the ocean blue
Ride a highway like the wind
Drink the good times down like sin
Go on, take that car
And drive so far
It looks like you're comin' home again

Yeah take that car
And drive so far
It looks like you're comin' home again

They still listen to high school football
On the radio in West Texas
The lights still shine bright
Every Friday Night
And you can drive 90 miles an hour
Down the highway straight through Sisco
The cops are at the ball game, its gettin' tight


And the sky gets wider and wider
You disappear like the day
Into the Great Divide you fade away

Its another world all together
In the middle of God's country
Smells like money, smells like shit, yea it smells like hell
But when the cattle's all together
And the pump-jacks all are movin'
And the cotton's all in bloom
And it smells like nothin' else

And the sky gets wider and wider
Just like a brand new day
Out in the Great Divide you fade away

Its the land of my people
Dreamers come out here to find a bigger piece of sky
Its all the winners and all the losers
Real good people, just like you and I

Yea but nothin's really changed much
As you drive down I-20
Mexicans still work out in the field
And everybody's dirty
Man, their all just a bunch of gamblers
And some got rich, but their gamblers still

ANd the sky gets wider and wider
Today's gunna be your day
Out in the Great Divide you face away

Its the land of my people
Dreamers come out here to find a bigger piece of sky
Its all the winners and all the losers
Real good people, just like you and I

They still listen to high school football
On the radio in west Texas
Lights still shine bright every Friday night

I look around and all I see is people trying to find a reason
This world can hand out such a beatin'
and they don't wanna hurt anymore
When we were young it all seemed to be easy
Everything within reach, one broken
heart and we're retreatin'
Cause we don't wanna hurt anymore

Chorus:
Don't want to
Don't want to
Don't want to hurt anymore

You look at me and you say you feel
sorry, you never understood
and you never knew the things I wanted
I just don't wanna hurt anymore

I keep trying to explain myself and
Figure, why bother what's the use
I finally realized that all that matters is
I don't wanna hurt anymore

REPEAT CHORUS

I look around and all I see is people
trying to find a reason
This world hands out such a beatin'
And they don't wanna hurt anymore

REPEAT CHORUS THREE TIMES

She slammed the screen door
Kicked up the dust pullin' out of here
Probably headed for Baton Rouge
Her taillights just disappeared
I tried everything within my power to get her to stay
Guess all I can do right now is get on my knees and pray

CHORUS
Maybe she'll get lonely
Maybe she'll turn that wheel around
Maybe she'll miss me
Before she hits the edge of town
Cause I love her I need her
I can't live without her
Yeah the only hope that I've got left is
Maybe she'll get lonely

Right now she's angry
As mad as I've ever seen
And if she makes it a hundred miles
That means she's breakin' free
I think time is of the essence I keep ringin' her phone
It ain't lookin too good right now before she's too far gone

REPEAT CHORUS

Yeah I love her I need her
I miss her I want her
I can't live without her

Maybe she'll get lonely
Maybe she'll get lonely
The only hope that I've got left is
Maybe she'll get lonely
Maybe she'll get lonely

I always believed and followed
Trusted in things, relied on faith
Faith let me down in hollow
Now I have found another way

CHORUS
All I can do is what you want me to do
But I don't
All I can say is what you want me to say
But I won't
All I can prove to you is I got nothing left to prove to you
Truth is that anything for you is all I can do

Everything is an empty promise
All that you say lies to me
Silver and gold, shiny polish
It ain't worth anything if it ain't what you need

CHORUS
All I can do is what you want me to do
But I don't
All I can say is what you want me to say
But I won't
All I can prove to you is I got nothing left to prove to you
But at the end of every day, blinded by the truth
Anything for you is all I can do

It's all I can do
It's all I can do
It's all I can do

All I can prove to you is I got nothing left to prove to you
But at the end of every day, blinded by the truth
Anything for you is all I can do

It's all I can do
It's all I can do
It's all I can do