Kenny Rogers Album

I was young, so was she.
Life didn't stay a mystery for very long...
We could do no wrong.
Then she called, said she was late.
So we took a little drive upstate antook care of that...
Yeah, just took care of that.

But now I'm longinback at some of my decisions,
Now that it's much too late to change...
How a father could have held his son.
If I could undo what's been done,
But I guess everyone is living,
With water and bridges.

Now my old man, he had it rough,
'Cause like his Daddy, when he drank too much,
He'd get mean, antake it out on me.
So with angry words, I was gone.
I never even tried to go back home, the night he died.


Momma said he apologized.

Now I'm longinback on some of my decisions,
Now that it's much too late to change...
How a father could have held his son.
If I could undo what's been done,
But I guess everyone is living,
With water and bridges.

(Instrumental break)

We could all go crazy from,
Things that only time can dull.
I guess that's why everyone is given,
Water and bridges.
Water and bridges.
Water and bridges.

(Instrumental fade)

There's aluminum cans and cigarettes butts
Lyin' in the sides of the streets
The baseball field in the County Park
Is buried in a blanket of weeds

There's a swastika sprayed from an aerosol can
Displayed on the overpass
Drivin' around it's easy to see
This town's going downhill fast

Somebody should do somethin' about it
How hard could it be?
Somebody should do somethin' about it
Maybe that someone is me

Followed a couple into Ferguson's Grill
The door swung back in my face
Closed my eyes but I felt the stares
When I bowed my head to say, "Grace"

Watched a table of suits stiff the waitress a tip
Like they didn't have a nickel to spare
Walked out into the heat risin' off of main street
But I felt a chill in the air

Somebody should do somethin' about it
How hard could it be?
Somebody should do somethin' about it
Maybe that someone is me

Now I don't expect this world to be Heaven
But it sure could be better
I can sit around complaining or stand around waiting
But I might be waiting forever, forever

Somebody should do somethin' about it
How hard could it be?
Somebody should do somethin' about it
Maybe that someone is me

Someone somewhere tonight
Is taking their first steps
Letting go of the hands that held them
And trusting themselves

And somewhere somewhere tonight
Is hearing their last rites
And prayin' with all their might
That there's something else

So, babe, lie down here beside me
Let's lie real still
And tell me you love me
And you always will

Someone somewhere tonight
Is tasting their first kiss
Whispering softly this wish
For this night to go on

While someone somewhere
Is holdin' on to a bottle
Pourin' one more and hopin' that God will
Get them through till the dawn

So, babe, lie down here beside me
And let's lie real still
And tell me you love me
And you always will

Someone somewhere tonight
Is stuck in a prison
Breathin' but just barely livin'
Behind walls of their own

But someone somewhere tonight
Just found their own wings
Found some beauty and found some meaning
They found some truth, found some truth
In spite of it all

So, babe, lie down here beside me
And let's lie real still
And tell me you love me
And you always will

And you always will

I CANT UNLOVE YOU
Kenny Rogers

Postcards and letters, and pictures made to last forever
To be boxed up and tossed away
Knick-knacks and souvenirs in an afternoon, theyre outta here
Theyll disappear without a trace
But what they mean to me can never be replaced

I cant unthink about you
I cant unfeel your touch
I cant unhear all the words, unsay all the things
That used to mean so much
I wish I can unremember everything my hearts been through
Im finding out its impossible to do
Oh its no use
I cant unlove you

Interstates and old songs, like time they go on and on
I guess I could learn to do the same
I could wake up without you


These two arms not around you
Tell myself it's meant to be this way
No matter how I try, some things I cant change

I cant unthink about you
I cant unfeel your touch
I cant unhear all the words, unsay all the things
That used to mean so much
I wish I can unremember everything my hearts been through
Im finding out its impossible to do
Oh its no use
I cant unlove you

I wish I could unremember everything my hearts been through
Im finding out its impossible to do
Oh its no use
I cant unlove you

(duet with Don Henley)

There's a back road leadin' off the hard-top
Half-a-mile past the slingshot tree
Wanders round through a million mem'ries
It's callin' me, callin' me.

There's a white house with fading shutters
The old front door that never needed a key
An' I hear my Momma in the hush of the evenin'
Callin' me, yeah, she's callin' me.

An' no matter where I'm goin'
It reminds me of where I'm from
Just as long as I can hear it
I know I'm not too far gone.

There's a first kiss under the willow
Love so honest, it was hard to believe
An' even when my heart is breakin'
It's callin' me, callin' me.

Yes, it's callin' me
(Ooh, yeah, yeah.)
Callin' me, callin' me.

An' no matter where I'm goin'
It reminds me of where I'm from
Just as long as I can hear it
I know I'm not too far gone.

There's a tiny country chapel
Filled with voices singin' harmony
An' when my soul is lost in the silence
Oh, it's callin'; yes, it's callin' me.

Yes it's callin' me.
(Callin' me.)
Callin'
Oh, it's callin'
Yes, it's callin' me...

I can chop wood from dusk till dawn
I can swing a hammer till the daylight's gone
I can build a barn, I can make a home with these two hands
But if I didn't have all your love, I'd be half a man

I can fly a plane up in the big blue sky
Blaze a trail through the woods in my four-wheel drive
With a team of horses or an old John Deere, I can plough this land
But if I didn't have all your love, I'd be half a man

I can hang the stars, I can rope the moon
Walk across Texas in these cowboy boots
I can run a train till it runs out of track
With the weight of the world laid across my back
My life still wouldn't be worth a damn
If I didn't have all your love, I'd be half a man

I can build a fire with nothin' but a stick
If I put my mind to it, there ain't much I can't fix
I can read an' count, I can figure things out if you give me a chance
But if I didn't have all your love, I'd be half a man

I can hang the stars, I can rope the moon
Walk across Texas in these cowboy boots
I can run a train till it runs out of track
With the weight of the world laid across my back
An' my life still wouldn't be worth a damn
If I didn't have all your love, I'd be half a man

Whoa, I can hang the stars, I can rope the moon
Walk across Texas in these cowboy boots
I can run a train till it runs out of track
With the weight of the world laid across my back
But my life still wouldn't be worth a damn
If I didn't have all your love, I'd be half a man
If I didn't have all your love, I'd be half a man
Ah ha, whoa, yeah, hmm, hmm, hmm

You took me out so far that I can't swim to shore
I've been holding on but you're not anymore
Our love would always lead us home, constant as the Northern Star
Here's a storm we won't get through 'cause it's not in your heart

I can feel you drifting slowly out of reach
Out there in the distance there's something else you need
If I could be what's missing that's all I'd want to be
I can feel you drifting

In the silence that's become the company we keep
I've realized how far we are from what we used to be
A part of you has gone somewhere, I can't seem to touch
I could stay and take what's left, but baby, that's not us

I can feel you drifting slowly out of reach
Out there in the distance there's something else you need
If I could be what's missing that's all I'd want to be
I can feel you drifting

If I could be what's missing that's all I'd want to be
I can feel you drifting, I can feel you drifting, you're out of reach

Oh, the last ten years, it's been quite trip
Over thirty-six-hundred spins around without a cosmic slip
But within the realm of our atmosphere
We're 'bout as out of whack as we've ever been in a million years
We watched the Y2K scare in a panic
An' we watched as time proved Nostrodamus wrong
An' we watched as Mother Nature shook the planet
An' cellular replaced the telephone
We lost Charlie Brown, Ray Charles an' Johnny Cash
We even lost Superman, mhm.

Well, the last ten years, look at the hills we've climbed
The best golfer's black, the best rapper's white an' it's about damn time
But we best beware, there's a brand new fight, you see
An' I hate to say we might be our own worst enemy
We watched Oklahoma sifting through the damage
An' we watched a US President get caught
We watched shareholders watch their savings vanish
We all cried when we watched those towers fall
We lost Minnie Pearl, Ron Reagan and Sam I Am
We even lost Superman, mhm.

Expensive gas an' free downloads
The dot-com boom, an' reality shows
What's gonna happen next is anybody's guess
Satellite radio and hybrid cars
Hand-held computers an' a trip to Mars
It's all become a part of who we are
In the last ten years.

In the last ten years
We lost George Harrison, John Paul and June Carter-Cash
Hell, we even lost Superman
Gonna miss you. Chris...

The night will start to fall, you'll lie awake
Recalling every tender thing she said
You'll think about her laugh, her touch, her smile
Becomes a photograph you can't forget, not just yet

You're gonna know that night
When you reach out and she's not there
And there's more pain than your heart can bear
Love's just a river till you've crossed it

Suddenly everything in your life feels wrong
You're alive but the reason's gone
You'll know love when you've lost it

You'll know the taste of tears, you know you will
For years 'cause there's a truth you can't get past
Some bridges will not burn but some corners must
Be turned, so you can love again at last and not look back

Still until that that night
When you reach out and she's not there
And there's more pain than your heart can bear
Love's just a river till you've crossed it

Suddenly everything in your life feels wrong
You're alive but the reason's gone
You'll know love when you've lost it

It's so easy to recognize
You'll know love when you've lost it

I just sat down to watch the game
When I heard the doorbell ring
An' I wondered who in the world it could be
Through the peephole, all that I saw there
Was a crooked cap on curly hair
An' some kid squintin' back at me

I said, "If you're sellin' somethin'
Well, I ain't buyin' nothin'
But I appreciate you stoppin' by"
Said, "I ain't askin' for a dime just a minute of your time
An' your name here on the dotted line
Could you sign my petition?"

Had a spiral notebook in his hand
Handed me a chewed up pen
An' I ask you, "What am I signin' up for?"
I scrolled down that wrinkled page
Saw a couple of neighbor's names
I kept readin' and I sat down on the porch

It was a letter to the President
With a list that numbered one to ten

It said, "Make a law where daddys don't work late
Keep Uncle Joe an' those soldiers safe
Give those kids on TV all they want to eat
Put a stop to bullies on the bus
No crime, no waits, no hate, no drugs
Give a jacket and a job to people on the street"

I said, "Son, sounds like a world I'd like to live in"
And I signed his petition

He thanked me for my time
I headed back inside, grabbed my beer
An' got back to the game
Thought by now that boy, he's three doors down
Here I am just sittin' round
Waitin' on the world to change

Must've blocked the whole game out
All that I could think about was

Make a law where daddys don't work late
Keep Uncle Joe an' those soldiers safe
Give those kids on TV all they want to eat
Put a stop to bullies on the bus
No crime, no waits, no hate, no drugs
Give a blanket and a job to people on the street"

An' I thought, "Man, ain't that a place I'd like to live in"
And I thank God for that boy that's out there fixin'
The world with his petition

If there's a way of makin' time stand still for good
I haven't found it yet
If I could love you for eternity, I would
But I regret

I've only got one life, I've only got one life
An' one lifetime's just not long enough to live
I've only got one heart, I've only got one heart
And I wish, I had a hundred more to give
Girl, there's so little time and so much I want to do
But I've only got one life to love someone like you

Can't take my eyes off you, I'm afraid of what I'll miss
It goes by so fast
So I'll treat each moment that I've been blessed with you
Like it's the last

I've only got one life, I've only got one life
An' one lifetime's just not long enough to live
I've only got one heart, I've only got one heart
And I wish, I had a hundred more to give
Girl, there's so little time and so much I want to do
But I've only got one life to love someone like you
And I've only got one life and I give it all to you