Girls like me aren?t hard to find We grow like roses on the vine We wear our hearts on our sleeves You probably know a girl like me. We live alone and
GOIN? HOME (Mind the Gap) - Mary Chapin Carpenter This morning I work up with the feelin? that I?d been away too long All this blacktop
I?m standing at a traffic light somewhere in West LA Waiting for the sign to change then I?ll be on my way The noise, the heat, the crush of cars just
I'm going out tonight to find myself a friend I need a welcome smile and the grasp of an open hand Gonna sit for hours in a small dark place, catch up
Grow old along with me The best is yet to be When our time has come We will be as one God bless our love God bless our love Grow old along with me Two
Last Sunday we got in the car and we drove To the town you were raised in, your boyhood home The trees were just turning, up on the ridge And this
She makes his coffee, she makes his bed She does the laundry, she keeps him fed When she was twenty-one she wore her mother's lace She said forever with
Every night she sleeps alone And by her bed she puts the phone And every morning after that She takes the phone and puts it back He's got a wife back
Tell me the truth Don't ask me to lie These are the things we say You don't need proof and I'm not going to try But I think we have lost our way You
We were born during the boom times, played house down in the bomb shelter Suffered through the wonder years, and silence at the dinner hour But once
Got my work clothes on for love, sweat and dirt. All this Holy dust upon my face an' shirt. Headin' uptown now, just as the shifts are changin', To
I grew up in a house like this, we knew the groan of every stair All the walls seemed to listen in, all the years seemed to take up air When you dreamed
I've waited longer for lesser things But here I am Who really knows what tomorrow brings But here I am Just in case you were wondering Just in case you
Heros and heroines are scarcer than they've ever been So much more to lose than win the distance never greater Way back when you made history by flying
Well that's a real nice jacket son It looks like it cost you too And that car you're driving Hey does that belong to you Well you don't look familiar
I'm a town in Carolina, I'm a detour on a ride For a phone call and a soda, I'm a blur from the driver's side I'm the last gas for an hour, if you're
Well I woke up this morning, stumbled out of my rack I opened up the paper to the page in the back It only took a minute for my finger to find My daily
Late one night when the wind was still Daddy brought the baby to the window sill To see a bit of heaven shoot across the sky The one and only time Daddy