Martina McBride Album

(Angelo Georgia Middleman)

Slow down that's right
Give it all you got
Yeah you got the right stuff
Kick back let go
Trust yourself you know
Yeah what you got is good enough

Hey don't give 'em what they think they want
'Cause they don't have a clue
Yeah if you really wanna give 'em something different
Something to sink their teeth into
Well baby then you just do what you do

All eyes were on Alice
They laughed and made her cry
Yeah she was a little different
But hey you know what
She found a way to fly
You see Alice she got her strength from the inside

Hey don't give 'em what they think they want
'Cause they don't have a clue
Yeah if you really wanna give 'em something different
Something to sink their teeth into
Well baby then you just do what you do

The cost of living just went up today
As soon as you started doing things your way
You'll be shakin' 'em off your coattails from every side
They'll be trying to catch that free ride

Hey don't give 'em what they think they want
'Cause they don't have a clue
Yeah if you really wanna give 'em something different
Something to sink their teeth into
Well baby then you just do what you do
Do what you do

(Matrica Berg/Randy Scruggs)

I sent myself a dozen roses
Right before the office closes
Just to make my girlfriends green with envy
Ever since I lost you
All the crazy things I do
I didn't even know I had it in me...oh but

Hey, it's all right
It's just another Saturday night
Got nobody...got no nothin' to lose
I'm gonna get dressed up and go downtown
Spread a little misery around
Anything's better than feelin' the blues

Found a restaurant on my way
I told 'em it was my birthday
Just to hear the waiters sing off-key
I've sprung a loose wire that's a fact
Got a strange little monkey on my back
But I kinda like the company...and I guess

Hey, it's all right
It's just another Saturday night
Got nobody...got no nothin' to lose
I'm gonna get dressed up and go downtown
Dance the little monkey around
Anything's better than feelin' the blues

Hey, it's alright
It's just another Saturday night
Got nobody...got no nothin' to lose
I'm gonna get dressed up and go down town
Live it up and never live it down
Anything's better than feelin' the blues

(Tammy Hyler/Adrienne Follese/Keith Follese)

Yeah
The sun is shinin' everyday
The clouds never get in the way for you and me
I've known you just a week or two
But baby I'm so into you
Can hardly breathe

And I'm in so totally
Wrapped up emotionally
Attracted so physically
Actin' so recklessly
I need you so desperately
Sure as the sky is blue
Baby I love you
I love you

I never knew that I could feel like this
Can hardly wait till our next kiss
Your so cool
If I'm dreamin' please don't wake me up
'Cause baby I can't get enough
Of what you do

And I'm in so electrically
Charged up kinetically
Actin' erractically
Need you fanatically
You get to me magically
Sure as the sky is blue
Baby I love you

I can't believe that this is real
The way I feel
Baby I'm gone head over heels

And I'm in so totally
Wrapped up emotionally
Attracted so physically
Actin' so recklessly
I need you so desperately
Sure as the sky is blue

And I'm in so electrically
Charged up kinetically
Actin' erractically
Need you fanatically
You get to me magically
Sure as the sky is blue
Baby I love you
Baby I love you
Do you love me too

(James LeBlanc/Don Srygley)

I'm still waiting
Tell me you love me and make me feel it
Convince me that your heart is true
Don't say you need me if you really don't mean it
'Cause boy I ain't nobody's fool yeah

Baby I'm trying to find a place inside your heart
Oh but it's hard to start a fire without a spark
If you wanna be the man that rocks me to my knees
Baby just make me believe

'Cause I'm still waiting
Every night I bring you all my broken pieces
But you just put them on your shelf
Tell me why you put this wall between us
And keep your reasons to yourself ah

Baby I'm trying to find a place inside your heart
Oh but it's hard to start a fire without a spark
If you wanna be the man that rocks me to my knees
Baby just make me believe

You say you feel the same
But my heart's full of doubt
You say you'll find the time
So we can work it out
But I'm still waiting

Baby I'm trying to find a place inside your heart
Oh but it's hard to start a fire without a spark
If you wanna be the man that rocks me to my knees
Baby just make me believe

Baby I'm trying to find a place inside your heart
Oh but it's hard to start a fire without a spark
If you wanna be the man that rocks me to my knees
Baby just make me believe
Baby just make me believe

(Tom Douglas/Buzz Cason)

I was standing in the grocery store line
The one they marked express
When this woman came through with about 25 things
And I said don't you know that more is less
She said this world is movin' so fast
I just get more behind with every day
And every mornin' when I make my coffee
I can't believe my life's turned out this way
All I could say was

Love's the only house big enough for all the pain in the world
Love's the only house big enough for all the pain

He was walkin' by the other day and I said
Hey baby...how you been
Yeah I got me a little girl now and she's 4 years old
And she's got her daddy's little grin
And you only wanted what you can't have
And baby you can't have me now
I gave me heart to another
Yeah I'm a mother and he's a father and we're a family and we got each other
And I found out the hard way that

Love's the only house big enough for all the pain in the world
Love's the only house big enough for all the pain

You drive three miles from all this prosperity
Down across the river and you see a ghetto there
And we got children walking around with guns
And they got knives and drugs and pain to spare
And here I am in my clean white shirt
With a little money in my pocket and a nice warm home
And we got teenagers walkin' around in a culture of darkness
Livin' together alone...all I can

Love's the only house big enough for all the pain in the world
Love's the only house big enough for all the pain

And I can't explain it and I can't understand
But I'll come down and get my hands dirty and together we'll make a stand
Somewhere 'cross the parking lot some bands playin' out of tune
City streets are gonna burn if we don't do something soon
And se?orita can't quit cryin baby's due now any day
Don Juan left got sick of trying
No one there to show him the way
She came down to the grocery store and she said I
I wanna buy a little carton of milk but I don't have any money
I said hey I'll cover you honey 'cause the pain's gotta go somewhere
Yeah the pain's gotta go someplace
So come on down to my house
Don't you know that

Love's the only house big enough for all the pain in the world
Love's the only house big enough for all the pain
Don't you know that
Love's the only house big enough for all the pain in the world

(Mark Sanders/Bob DiPiero/Ed Hill)

There you are in the early light of day
There you are in the quiet words I pray
I've been blessed by the simple happiness
Of the perfect love we've made

Every time I turn around 
When I'm lost and when I'm found
Like an angel standing guard
There you are
Every time I take a breath
And when I forget to breathe
You're watching over me
There you are
When I'm looking for the light
In the middle of the night
Searching for the brightest star
There you are

There you are in standing in a crowded room
There you are the earth and I'm the moon
My desire is to stand by the fire
That burns inside of you

Every time I turn around
When I'm lost and when I'm found
Like an angel standing guard
There you are
Every time I take a breath
And when I forget to breathe
You're watching over me
There you are
When I'm looking for the light
In the middle of the night
Searching for the brightest star
There you are

When I'm looking for the light
In the middle of the night
Searching for the brightest star
There you are
There you are

(Billy Crain/Tammy Hyler/Kim Tribble)

Red sun sittin' on the road behind her
A hundred miles out of her hometown
Drops a quarter in a beat up pay phone
Listens to it rattle on down
Voices cold as the phone she's holding
The connects way too clear
He's yellin' where's my dinner
She's too far gone to care She says listen here

There's a time to stand and the time is now or never
A time to fly, a time to let go forever
A time to grow, and a time to discover
Life is precious, every second
You've wasted mine and it's my time

She puts a few more miles between them
He pours a distance of his own
Starts talking to the bottle
It's all that left now she's gone
He rages on till the National Anthem
Comes on his TV
Then he looks straight at the bottle
And says you did this to me
And then he screams

There's a time to stand and the time is now or never
A time to fly, a time to let go forever
A time to grow, and a time to discover
Life is precious, every second
You've wasted mine and it's my time

It's my time, it's my time, it's my time
And the time is what you make it
It's my time, it's my time, it's my time
And time is what you're taking

There's a time to stand and the time is now or never
A time to fly, a time to let go forever
A time to grow, and a time to discover
Life is precious, every second

(Tia Sellers/Mark Sanders)

When the world is on your shoulders
Just too much to bear
Boy my love can make you stronger
I ain't goin' nowhere
When you're followin' all the rules
But life just will not play fair
Come to me and we'll roll with the punches
I ain't goin' nowhere

By your side by your side day and night
I will be always
There's a place in my heart in my heart
Just for you always
I ain't goin' nowhere
I ain't goin' nowhere

I can't guarantee that your dreams
Won't fade into thin air
But as sure as I'm livin' breathin'
I ain't goin' nowhere

By your side by your side day and night
I will be always
There's a place in my heart in my heart
Just for you always
I ain't goin' nowhere
I ain't goin' nowhere

But straight to you
No one else will do
My love will shine right through your rain
I will lift you up I will lift you up

I ain't goin' nowhere
I ain't goin' nowhere
I ain't goin' nowhere

(Gordon Kennedy/Wayne Kirkpatrick/Billy Mann)

What do you dream about
Look at the stars, honey
All you gotta do is pick one out
And it's there for you
I'll be the one who makes
Your every dream come true

Close your eyes and baby
Make a wish and baby
I'll give you anything and everything
The sky's the limit and my heart is in it
I'll give you anything and everything
Anything and everything

Where do you want to go
Look at the world, baby
All you gotta do is just say so
And I'll take you there
Oh yeah, you know that
Love can take you anywhere

Close your eyes and baby
Make a wish and baby
I'll give you anything and everything
The sky's the limit and my heart is in it
I'll give you anything and everything
Anything and everything

I could spoil you
Make it easy
Make you happy if you let me
Won't you let me

I'll be the one who makes
Your every dream come true

Close your eyes and baby
Make a wish and baby
I'll give you anything and everything
The sky's the limit and my heart is in it
I'll give you anything and everything
(I'll give you) anything and everything
(I'll give you) anything and everything

(Hillary Lindsey/Austin Cunningham)

My right hand holds matches
My left holds my past
I hope the wind catches
And burns it down fast
I'm gonna step into the fire
With my failures and my shame
And wave goodbye to yesterday
As I dance among the flames

So don't try to save me now
Let the walls of my world all burn down
Just stand back and wait 'til the smoke finally passes
And I will rise
From the ashes
From the ashes
From the ashes

For all that I'm losing much more will I gain
The hard part is choosing
To change what needs changed
My step will be much lighter
With these demons off my chest
I'm born a better spirit
And lay the old to rest

So don't try to save me now
Let the walls of my world all burn down
Just stand back and wait 'til the smoke finally passes
And I will rise
From the ashes
From the ashes
From the ashes

And I'll walk away stronger
I will be flyin'
Higher and truer
Than I've flown before

My right hand holds matches
My left holds my past
I hope the wind catches

Occured to me the other day
You've been gone now a couple years
Well, I guess it takes a while
for someone to really dissappear

And I remember where I was
when the word cam about you
It was a day just like today
The sky was bright and wide and blue

(chorus)
And I wonder where you are
And does the pain end when you die
And I wonder if there was
some better way to say goodbye

Today my heart is big and sore
It's tryin' to push right through my skin
Won't see you anymore
I guess that's finally sinkin in
Cause you can't make somebody see
with the simple words you say
All the beauty from within
sometimes they just look away

(repeat chorus)

(Gretchen Peters)

There's a silence on the front lines
You can cut it with a knife
You can stay and take your chances
Or you can run to save your life
And one side is retreating
And the other's runnin' scared
And the drums of war are beating
Ever through it's undeclared

And both sides say they're winning
And both sides know they're losing
And neither one knows what they're fighting for
And in the quiet little places
You can see the little faces
Huddled right outside the bedroom door
Praying for an end to this uncivil war

Papa needs a new job
So he's swallowing his pride
Oh but it don't go down easy
And it eats him up inside
And mama, she don't notice
Little sister's ragged dress
Lately she don't notice
Much of anything I guess

They're just fightin' off the hunger
Tryin' to keep from goin' under
But the wolves just keep on gatherin' 'round the door
There's no place to run for cover
So they're turning on each other
'Cause there really ain't no winners anymore
Just victims in this uncivil war

There's a silence on the front lines
You can cut it with a knife
You can stay and take your chances