*A place in this world

I don’t know what I want, so don’t ask me
Cause I’m still trying to figure it out
Don’t know what’s down this road, I’m just walking
Trying to see through the rain coming down
Even though I’m not the only one
Who feels the way I do

[Chorus:]

I’m alone, on my own, and that’s all I know
I’ll be strong, I’ll be wrong, oh but life goes on
I’m just a girl, trying to find a place in
This world

Got the radio on, my old blue jeans
And I’m wearing my heart on my sleeve
Feeling lucky today, got the sunshine
Could you tell me what more do I need
And tomorrow’s just a mystery, oh yeah
But that’s ok

[Repeat Chorus]

Maybe I’m just a girl on a mission
But I’m ready to fly

[Repeat Chorus]  

*Should’ve said no

It’s strange to think the songs we used to sing,
The smiles, the flowers, everything,
Is gone.
Yesterday I found out about you,
Even now just looking at you,
Feels wrong.
You say, that you’d take it all back,
Given one chance, it was a moment of weakness,
And you said yes

You should’ve said no,
You should’ve gone home,
You should have thought twice before you let it all go.
You should’ve known that word about what you did with her would get back to me.
And I should’ve been there, in the back of your mind,
Shouldn’t be asking myself why,
You shouldn’t be begging for forgivness at my feet,
You should’ve said no,
Baby and you might still have me.

You can see that I’ve been cryin’,
Baby you know all the right things,
To say.
But do you, honestly,
Expect me, to believe,
We could ever be the same.
You say, that the past is the past,
You need one chance, it was a moment of weakness,
And you said yes.

You should’ve said no,
You should’ve gone home,
You should have thought twice before you let it all go.
You should’ve known that word about what you did with her would get back to me.
And I should’ve been there, in the back of your mind,
Shouldn’t be asking myself why,
You shouldn’t be begging for forgiveness at my feet,
You should’ve said no
Baby and you might still have me..

I can’t resist,
Before you go tell me this,
Was it worth it,
Was she worth this.

No, no, no, no.

You should’ve said no,
You should’ve gone home,
You should have thought twice before you let it all go.
You should’ve known that word about what you did with her would get back to me.
And I should’ve been there, in the back of your mind,
Shouldn’t be asking myself why,
You shouldn’t be begging for forgiveness at my feet,
You should’ve said no,
Baby and you might still have me.. 

*Invisible

She can’t see the way your eyes
Light up when you smile
She’ll never notice how you stop and stare
When ever she walks by

And you can’t see me wanting you
the way you want her
But you are everything to me

And I just want to show you
She don’t even know you
She’s never going to love you
Like I want too
And You just see right through me
If you only knew me
We could be a beautiful miracle
Unbelievable, instead of just invisible

Yeah,

There’s a fire inside of you
That can’t help but shine through.
She’s never gonna see the light
No matter what you do

And all I think about
Is how to make you think of me
And everything that we could be

And I just want to show you
She don’t even know you
She’s never gonna love you
Like i want too
And you just see right through me
If you only knew me
We could be a beautiful miracle
Unbelievable, instead of just invisible.

Like shadows in a faded light
We’re invisible
I just wanna open your eyes
and make you realize
I just want to show you
She don’t even know you
Baby let me love you, let me want you.

You just see right through me
But if you only knew me
We could be a beautiful miracle,
Unbelievable, instead of just invisible.

She can’t see the way your eyes
light up when you smile.

*The Outside

I didn’t know, what I would find, when I went lookin for a reason
I know, I didnt read between the lines, and baby ive got nowhere to go
i tried to take the road less traveled by
but nothin seems to work the first few times am i right

so how could i ever, try to be better
nobody ever, lets me in
and i can still see you, this aint the best view
on the outside looking in
ive been alot of lonely places i’ve
never been on the outside

you saw me there, but never knew
that i would give it all up to be
a part of this, a part of you
and now its all too late so you see
you could have helped if you had wanted to
but no one notices until its too, late to do anything

how could i ever, try to be better
nobody ever, lets me in
and i can still see you, this aint the best view
on the outside looking in
ive been alot of lonely places i’ve
never been on the outside

oh, yeah

how can i ever, try to be better
nobody ever, lets me in
and i can still see you, this aint the best view
on the outside looking in
ive been alot of lonely places i’ve
never been on the outside

oh oh
oh oh oh
oh oh
oh oh

*Tied Together with a smile

Seems the only one who doesn’t see your beauty
Is the face in the mirror looking back at you
You walk around here thinking you’re not pretty
But that’s not true, cause I know you

Hold on baby you’re losing it
The water’s high you’re jumping in to it
And letting go and no one knows
That you cry but you don’t tell anyone
That you might not be the golden one
And you’re tied together with a smile but you’re coming undone


Guess its true that love is all you wanted
Cause you’re giving it away like it’s extra change
Hoping it will end up in his pocket
But he leaves you out like a penny in the rain
Oh cause it’s not his price to pay
It’s not his price to pay

Hold on baby you’re losing it
The water’s high you’re jumping in to it
And letting go and no one knows
That you cry but you don’t tell anyone
That you might not be the golden one
And you’re tied together with a smile but you’re coming undone

oh oh oh oh
Hold on baby you’re losing it
The water’s high you’re jumping in to it
And letting go and no one knows
That you cry but you don’t tell anyone
That you might not be the golden one
And you’re tied together with a smile but you’re coming undone


oh oh oh oh
You’re tied together with a smile but you’re coming undone

*I’m Only me when I’m with u

Friday night beneath the stars
In a field behind your yard
You and I are painting pictures in the sky
Sometimes we don’t say a thing
Just listen to the crickets sing
Everything I need is right here by my side

And I know everything about you
I don’t wanna live without you

I’m only up when you’re not down
Don’t wanna fly if you’re still on the ground
It’s like no matter what I do
Well, you drive me crazy half the time
The other half I’m only trying
To let you know that what I feel is true
And I’m only me when I’m with you

Just a small-town boy and girl
Living in the crazy world
Trying to figure out what is and isn’t true
And I don’t try to hide my tears
My secrets or my deepest fears
Through it all nobody gets me like you do

And you know everything about me
You say that you can’t live without me

I’m only up when you’re not down
Don’t wanna fly if you’re still on the ground
It’s like no matter what I do
Well, you drive me crazy half the time
The other half I’m only trying
To let you know that what I feel is true
And I’m only me when I’m with you

When I’m with anybody else
It’s so hard to be myself
And only you can tell

That I’m only up when you’re not down
Don’t wanna fly if you’re still on the ground
It’s like no matter what I do
Well, you drive me crazy half the time
The other half I’m only trying
To let you know that what I feel is true
And I’m only me, who I wanna be
Well, I’m only me when I’m with you,
with you,
uh huh uh, yeah 

*Cold as you

You have a way of coming easily to me
And when you take, you take the very best of me
So I start a fight cause I need to feel something
And you do what you want cause I’m not what you wanted

[Chorus:]

Oh what a shame, what a rainy ending given to a perfect day
Just walk away, no use defending words that you will never say
And now that I’m sitting here thinking it through
I’ve never been anywhere cold as you

You put up walls and paint them all a shade of gray
And I stood there loving you and wished them all away
And you come away with a great little story
Of a mess of a dreamer with the nerve to adore you

[Repeat Chorus]

You never did give a damn thing honey but I cried, cried for you
And I know you wouldn’t have told nobody if I died, died for you
(Died for you)

Oh what a shame, what a rainy ending given to a perfect day
Every smile you fake is so condescending
Counting all the scars you made
And now that I’m sitting here thinking it through
I’ve never been anywhere cold as you

*Picture to Burn

State the obvious, I didn’t get my perfect fantasy
I realize you love yourself more than you could ever love me
So go and tell your friends that I’m obsessive and crazy
That’s fine I’ll tell mine that you’re gay! [album version line]
That’s fine you won’t mind if I say [music video version line]
By the way…

[Chorus:]
I hate that stupid old pickup truck
You never let me drive
You’re a redneck heartbreak
Who’s really bad at lying
So watch me strike a match
On all my wasted time
As far as I’m concerned you’re
Just another picture to burn

There’s no time for tears,
I’m just sitting here planning my revenge
There’s nothing stopping me
From going out with all of your best friends
And if you come around saying sorry to me
My daddy’s gonna show you how sorry you’ll be

[Chorus]

And if you’re missing me,
You’d better keep it to yourself
‘cause coming back around here
Would be bad for your health…

‘cause I hate that stupid old pickup truck
You never let me drive
You’re a redneck heartbreak
Who’s really bad at lying
So watch me strike a match
On all my wasted time
In case you haven’t heard,
I really really hate that…

[Chorus]

Burn, burn, burn, baby, burn
You’re just another picture to burn
Baby, burn…

*Our Song

I was riding shotgun
with my hair undone
in the front seat of his car
He’s got a one-hand feel
on the steering wheel
The other on my heart
I look around, turn the radio down
He says, “Baby is something wrong?”
I say, “Nothing,
I was just thinking
how we don’t have a song”
And he says…

[Chorus:]
Our song is the slamming screen doors,
Sneakin’ out late, tapping on your window
When we’re on the phone and you talk real slow
‘cause it’s late and your mama don’t know
Our song is the way you laugh
The first date “Man, I didn’t kiss her, and I should have”
And when I got home … before I said amen
Asking God if he could play it again

I was walking up the front porch steps after everything that day
Had gone all wrong
and been trampled on
And lost and thrown away
Got to the hallway,
well on my way
to my lovin’ bed
I almost didn’t notice
all the roses
And the note that said…

[Chorus]

I’ve heard every album, listened to the radio
Waited for something to come along
That was as good as our song…

[Chorus:]
‘Cause our song is the slamming screen door,
Sneakin’ out late, tapping on his window
When we’re on the phone and he talks real slow
‘cause it’s late and his mama don’t know
Our song is the way he laughs
The first date “Man, I didn’t kiss him, and I should have.”
And when I got home … before I said amen
Asking God if he could play it again

I was riding shotgun with my hair undone
In the front seat of his car
I grabbed a pen and an old napkin
And I wrote down our song

*Mary’s song

She said, I was seven and you were nine
I looked at you like the stars that shined
In the sky, the pretty lights
And our daddies used to joke about the two of us
Growing up and falling in love and our mamas smiled
And rolled their eyes and said oh my my my

Take me back to the house in the backyard tree
Said you’d beat me up, you were bigger than me
You never did, you never did
Take me back when our world was one block wide
I dared you to kiss me and ran when you tried
Just two kids, you and I…
Oh my my my my

Well, I was sixteen when suddenly
I wasn’t that little girl you used to see
But your eyes still shined like pretty lights
And our daddies used to joke about the two of us
They never believed we’d really fall in love
And our mamas smiled and rolled their eyes
And said oh my my my…

Take me back to the creek beds we turned up
Two A.M. riding in your truck and all I need is you next to me
Take me back to the time we had our very first fight
The slamming of doors instead of kissing goodnight
You stayed outside till the morning light
Oh my my my my

A few years had gone and come around
We were sitting at our favorite spot in town
And you looked at me, got down on one knee

Take me back to the time when we walked down the aisle
Our whole town came and our mamas cried
You said I do and I did too
Take me home where we met so many years before
We’ll rock our babies on that very front porch
After all this time, you and I

I’ll be eighty-seven; you’ll be eighty-nine
I’ll still look at you like the stars that shine
In the sky, oh my my my…

*Teardrops on my guitar

Drew looks at me, I fake a smile so he won’t see
That I want and I’m needing everything that we should be
I’ll bet she’s beautiful, that girl he talks about
And she’s got everything that I have to live without

Drew talks to me, I laugh ‘cause it’s just so funny [radio version]
Drew talks to me, I laugh ‘cause it’s so damn funny [CD version]
And I can’t even see anyone when he’s with me
He says he’s so in love, he’s finally got it right,
I wonder if he knows he’s all I think about at night

[Chorus:]
He’s the reason for the teardrops on my guitar
The only thing that keeps me wishing on a wishing star
He’s the song in the car I keep singing, don’t know why I do

Drew walks by me, can he tell that I can’t breathe?
And there he goes, so perfectly,
The kind of flawless I wish I could be
She better hold him tight, give him all her love
Look in those beautiful eyes and know she’s lucky ‘cause

[Chorus]

So I drive home alone, as I turn out the light
I’ll put his picture down and maybe
Get some sleep tonight

He’s the reason for the teardrops on my guitar
The only one who’s got enough of me to break my heart
He’s the song in the car I keep singing, don’t know why I do
He’s the time taken up, but there’s never enough
And he’s all that I need to fall into.

Drew looks at me, I fake a smile so he won’t see.

*Change

And it’s a sad picture, the final blow hits you
Somebody else gets what you wanted again and
You know it’s all the same, another time and place
Repeating history and you’re getting sick of it
But I believe in whatever you do
And I’ll do anything to see it through

Because these things will change
Can you feel it now?
These walls that they put up to hold us back will fall down
This revolution, the time will come
For us to finally win
And we’ll sing hallelujah, we’ll sing hallelujah

So we’ve been outnumbered
Raided and now cornered
It’s hard to fight when the fight ain’t fair
We’re getting stronger now
Find things they never found
They might be bigger
But we’re faster and never scared
You can walk away, say we don’t need this
But there’s something in your eyes
Says we can beat this

Because these things will change
Can you feel it now?
These walls that they put up to hold us back will fall down
This revolution, the time will come
For us to finally win
And we’ll sing hallelujah, well sing hallelujah

Tonight we stand, get off our knees
Fight for what we’ve worked for all these years
And the battle was long, it’s the fight of our lives
But we’ll stand up champions tonight

It was the night things changed
Can you see it now?
These walls that they put up to hold us back fell down
It’s a revolution, throw your hands up
Cause we never gave in
And we sang hallelujah, we sang hallelujah
Hallelujah

*Tim Mcgraw

He said the way my blue eyes shined
Put those Georgia stars to shame that night
I said: “That’s a lie.”
Just a boy in a Chevy truck
That had a tendency of gettin’ stuck
On backroads at night
And I was right there beside him all summer long
And then the time we woke up to find that summer gone

But when you think Tim McGraw
I hope you think my favorite song
The one we danced to all night long
The moon like a spotlight on the lake
When you think happiness
I hope you think that little black dress
Think of my head on your chest
And my old faded blue jeans
When you think Tim McGraw
I hope you think of me

September saw a month of tears
And thankin’ God that you weren’t here
To see me like that
But in a box beneath my bed
Is a letter that you never read
From three summers back
It’s hard not to find it all a little bitter sweet
And lookin’ back on all of that, it’s nice to believe

When you think Tim McGraw
I hope you think my favorite song
The one we danced to all night long
The moon like a spotlight on the lake
When you think happiness
I hope you think that little black dress
Think of my head on your chest
And my old faded blue jeans
When you think Tim McGraw
I hope you think of me

And I’m back for the first time since then
I’m standin’ on your street
And there’s a letter left on your doorstep
And the first thing that you’ll read is:

When you think Tim McGraw
I hope you think my favorite song
Someday you’ll turn your radio on
I hope it takes you back to that place
When you think happiness
I hope you think that little black dress
Think of my head on your chest
And my old faded blue jeans
When you think Tim McGraw
I hope you think of me

Oh, think of me
Mmmm

He said the way my blue eyes shine
Put those Georgia stars to shame that night
I said: “That’s a lie”

*Stay Beautiful

Cory’s eyes are like a jungle
He smiles, it’s like the radio
He whispers songs into my window
In words nobody knows
There’s pretty girls on every corner
That watch him as he’s walking home
Saying, does he know
Will you ever know

[Chorus:]
You’re beautiful
Every little piece love, don’t you know
You’re really gonna be someone, ask anyone
When you find everything you looked for
I hope your life leads you back to my door
Oh but if it don’t, stay beautiful

Cory finds another way to be
The highlight of my day
I’m taking pictures in my mind
So I can save them for a rainy day
It’s hard to make conversation
When he’s taking my breath away
I should say, hey by the way

[Chorus]

If you and I are a story
That never gets told
If what you are is a daydream
I’ll never get to hold, at least you’ll know

You’re beautiful every little piece love,
and don’t you know your really gonna be someone ask anyone.
and when you find everything you looked for,
I hope your life leads you back to my front door.
oh but if it don’t will you stay
beautiful beautiful beautiful
beautiful beautiful beautiful
la la la
Oh, oh oh oh,
oh but if it don’t,
stay beautiful
stay beautiful
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