Randy Travis Album

This song is originally played in the key of E
Don't you cry don't you moan
Hang your head down all night long
That ole feeling sure ain't nothing new
It's in your walk, it's in your talk
There's only one way to shake it off,
You got to get to it before it gets to you
So Put a quarter in that jukebox, let it drop
Put another one in, play it again, don't let it stop
There's only one thing I've found
That'll turn it all around
The blues can't do no business
On a honky tonk side of town
You gotta slip, you gotta slide
There're gonna try to nail your hide

Yeah, they'll put a hurting on you, given half a chance
So get mean and get slick
You gotta pull out every trick
Cause everybody knows the blues don't like to dance

Well, you can walk that walk
And talk that talk, and boogie till you shake it off
No the blues can't do no business
The blues can't do no business
The blues can't do no business
On the honky tonk side of town

Must be doin' something wrong baby I don't know
But the gold fish are floating at the top of the bowl
And the dog he won't eat he just lays around
All night long he makes a lonesome sound

I know I had it coming and its all my fault
But baby come back
Before you kill us all

The way the plants are dyin' you'd swear its fall
Looks just like autumn up and down the hall
And I talk to 'em baby like you s'posed to do
But they're tired of hearing how I'm missin' you

And I know you told me not to call
But baby come back
Before you kill us all

Well its a desperate situation
I got a strong will to survive
But if this place is any indication

Well its an eerie feeling in the still of the night
Knowin' that the cats down to three more lives
You've turned as all into nervous wrecks
We just sit around and wanderin' who's goin' to be next

And I know I had it coming and its all my fault
But baby come back
Before you kill us all

Baby come back
before you kill us all

Baby come back
Baby come back
Before you kill us all
fade out........baby come back

Hope you didn’t burn too many bridges
On your way back to haunt my heart
‘Cause it’s safe behind these stones and ridges
You know how us healin’ victims are
I take comfort where I find it
In the neon and the crowds
I guess someone like me designed it
This place where old flames aren’t allowed

There’s a border you can’t cross
There’s a wall that you can’t climb
The space is drawn too wide
Between your world and mine
You’ve already broke my heart
(And) I won’t let you break my mind
As far as your memory goes
That’s where I draw the line

I’ll bet this isn’t how you planned it
I’ve picked myself up off the ground
These legs are shakin’, but they’re standin’

There’s a border you can’t cross
There’s a wall that you can’t climb
The space is drawn too wide
Between your world and mine
You’ve already broke my heart
(And) I won’t let you break my mind
As far as your memory goes
That’s where I draw the line


That’s where I draw the line

I heard a freight train out across the way
I heard a woman sing Amazing Grace
I heard a night bird call to its mate
When I heard you whisper my name
I heard freedom break its chain
I heard a heart beat where once on sound remained
I heard angels rise and praise
When I heard you whisper my name

I heard music bring a heart of stone to tears
I heard peace ring like an anthem through the years
And I heard hatred fall from grace
When I heard you whisper my name

Beating softly against the waves
Fell a sound of an early morning rain
And though the lighting and thunder came
I still heard you whisper my name

I heard music bring a heart of stone to tears
I heard peace ring like an anthem through the years
And I heard hatred fall from grace
When I heard you whisper my name

And I heard angels rise and praise
When I heard you whisper my name

[No lyrics]

Baby our love is our love is like a runaway train
Baby it won't stop, won't stop, won't slow down for anything
Baby it's big, so strong, love is a powerful thing
Baby our love is our love is like a runaway train
Baby our love reminds me, reminds me of a runaway train

Baby our love is our love is like a hurricane
Baby it won't stop, won't stop, won't slow down for anything
Baby it's big, so strong, love is a powerful thing
Baby our love is our love is like a hurricane
Baby our love reminds me, reminds me of a hurricane

Our love is red hot, non-stop all the way to the top
Now that I been in the middle of this thing
Ain't no way I'm ever gonna go back
Seen everything, I been everywhere, I didn't leave nothin' that I want back
there
Come on, baby lets move this thing a little farther down the track

Baby our love is our love is like a jet airplane
Flying so high above all the pouring rain
Baby it's big, so strong, love is a powerful thing
Baby our love is our love is like a jet airplane
Baby our love reminds me reminds me of a jet airplane

Our love is red hot, non-stop all the way to the top
Now that I been in the middle of this thing
Ain't no way I'm ever gonna go back
Seen everything, I been everywhere, I didn't leave nothin' that I want back
there
Come on, baby lets move this thing a little farther down the track

Lady our love is our love is like a runaway train
Lady it won't stop, won't stop, won't slow down for anything
Baby it's big, so strong, love is a powerful thing
Baby our love is our love is like a runaway train
Baby our love reminds me, reminds me of a runaway train

Baby our love reminds me, reminds me of a runaway train

Lately I get the feeling there's something you're holding in
How can you be so quiet as close as we've been
Do you think your silence is saying there ain't nothing wrong with you
This is me you're not talking to

This is me
The one who knows you inside out
The one you've leaned on 'til now
Don't you know I'm still here for you
So what do you think you're doing
Who do you thnk you're fooling
This is me you're not talking to

You can run to me no matter what you're running from
If it's something I'm doing
I'll get it undone
Just don't let me be a stranger to what you're going through
This is me you're not talking to

This is me
The one who knows you inside out
The one you've leaned on 'til now
Don't you know I'm still here for you
So what do you think you're doing
Who do you thnk you're fooling
This is me you're not talking to

Hey, this is me, you're not talking to.

On the top shelf in the closet,
In the workshop where he spent his extra time
Was a dust wooden box that I had never noticed till that time
And we set on the table and carefully, we opened up the top
And stared into the memory
Daddy kept inside the box

There was a letter from mamma, when she went out to Reno
To help her sister out in 62
And a flower from Hawaii, when they went on vacation
It was the first time that my Daddy ever flew

And the pocket knife I gave to him on Fathers day
Years ago, I thought it had been lost
We all thought his heart was made from solid rock
But that was long before we found the box

I guess we always knew it_but "I love you" was hard for him to say
Some men show it easy and some just never seem to find the way
But that night I began to see the softer side of some I had lost
I saw the love he kept inside the first time we opened up the box
There was a picture that was taken,when he and Mom were dating
Standing by his 1944, and the faded leather Bible, he got when he was baptised
I guess no one understood him like the Lord

And the poem that he had written, about his wife and children
The tender words he spoke were quite a shock

We all thought his heart was made of solid rock
But that was long before we found the box
Yes that was long before we found the box

I never been too good at doing right
Done mostly wrong most all my life
I never found a place to settle down
Baby I do believe I found it now

I'm gonna walk that line - gonna tote that barge
Gonna lift that bale - gonna work real hard
Doin' anything that you want me to
Baby I'm gonna walk that line for you

Ooooo Im gonna walk that line for you
Ooooo I'm gonna walk that line for you
Do anything that you want me to
Ooooo I'm gonna walk that line for you

Well straight and narrow if ever was my past
Everlasting love never seem to last
I used to be a Tomcat out on the prowl
But baby I'm just your puppy dog now

I'm gonna walk that line - gonna tote that barge
Gonna lift that bale - gonna work real hard
Doin' anything that you want me to
Baby I'm gonna walk that line for you

Oscar was an angel and he used to walk the streets
Shoutin' out some prophecy to everyone he'd meet
He was a local fixture; like a cop out on a beat
Folks said he'd been shell-shocked long ago
And more than that, no one seemed to know

Oscar was a walker, at least four miles
twice a day
The entire length of main street he'd be
shoutin' all the way
And i had no idea, where he'd heard the
things he'd say
But he was not your normal voice of doom
It was a happy song, sung slightly out of tune

Chorus:

And he'd say, "everyone will die and go to
heaven
and we will all be angels some day
What you are in this world don't count for
'Cause we are only children, we're just lost
along the way
But we will all be angels some day"

Well I worked at the Rialto; I sold tickets
at the door
And Oscar he'd come by most ev'ryday 'bout
half past four
And he'd pay to see some movie that he'd seen
ten times before
But mostly we'd just let him in for free
And he'd watch five minutes, then he'd come
and talk to me

Repeat Chorus

Well it's going on ten years now since i left
my home town
And i went home last summer; for a week i
hung around
I looked out for Oscar; he was nowhere to be
found
Someone said they finally had to commit him
And he died, before they had time to forget
him

Now i'm not about to argue, Oscar's train
had jumped the tracks
But i'll bet my last dollar on a plain and
simple fact
Oscar never said a word about me behind my
back
And the way the I was raised to understand
Well, that bone, makes him the better man

Repeat Chorus:

Ya, we will all be angels someday