Lyrics

Heard your friend singing at the beach

She got a good voice for the harmonies

You think she’ll sit in with me next week?

I got a couple gigs that pay a couple bucks

Endless night by the river

Endless night ‘neath the stars

Endless night round the fire

Would you live with me on Mars?

She could shake and bang on a tambourine

She could fake a smile with both her lips

She said, “I’ll come around, come around then

I’ll help you out Mr. Fingertips"

You know it ain’t all fun and games

I’m looking for true love

Someone to take my name

I’d live with her on Mars – just the two of us

So pack up everything that you think you need

Maybe a case of wine and some kerosene

Bag of bones and two guitars

Would you live with me on Mars?

Oh lovely red haired baby

Your loving brings me back

From way out west of Texas

Train rollin’ down the track

I didn’t know how much I loved you

Til I traveled way out west

There’s no gold in California

Am I coming back? Why, yes

Train roll, train roll, train roll

Train rollin’ down the track

I didn’t know how good you done me

Til I didn’t get done at all

Tried to go down to Mexico

But I got shot climbing up the border wall

I’m jumping on the last red box car

I’m jumping in the bin of coal

I’m getting shoveled in the hopper

Any way I’m gonna go

Lost souls spinning happy

Rusty yellow Tonka truck

Look twice and see an angel

Walking round with each of us

Asking Mama what’s for dinner

Mama saying, “something soon”

Honeysuckle little darlin’

Looking at the moon

Loving you, loving you, loving you, loving me

Hang out your softest blanket

Warm breeze in middle May

Saddle up but hold your horses

It’s too late to leave today

Let me be your big ol’ cowboy

I can fix about anything

Your heart is on the mend now

I wanna hear you sing

Looking in your eyes looking into mine

Loving you, loving me all in good time

Your past means nothing to me

Tomorrow’s all I see

It’s easy saving money

The best things in life are free

Taking hold of what you’re given

Hold on to what I’ve got

Life is a roller coaster

Up and down a lot

Where’d you get that mandolin?

I built it out the ol’ scrap bin

Why’s that thing sound so good?

I built it out the oldest wood I had

And it don’t sound bad

Where’d you get that pocket knife?

I built it out the ol’ scrap bin

I made the handle out of bone

Made the blade out of tin

Made it out of tin

Where’d you get that girl so sweet?

I dug her out the ol’ scrap bin

Why she got such dirty feet

I don’t know where she’s been

But I don’t care

Cause now she’s here

And she happy

And I’m happy

Everybody happy

Where’d you get that rocking chair?

I built it out the ol’ scrap bin

Why’d you put it over there?

Cause that’s where the sun comes in

Early in the mornin’

I see her sittin’ there

In her rocking chair

A hot cup of coffee steaming into

The crisp, cool morning air

She hold it with both hands

She hold it with both hands

She hold it with both

Where’d you get that fat banjo

I built it out the ol’ scrap bin

I take it everywhere I go

I tune it up, I plug it in

Just like Bela Fleck

And Victor Wooten

Answer me this

Answer me this

Answer me this

Answer me this

Where’d you get that ol’ scrap bin?

I get it everywhere I been

I find all kinds of stuff

I throw it in the back of my truck

I take it home and I put it in

Put it in the ol’ scrap bin

In the ol’ scrap bin …

I was lost on an angry sea

You swam out and you rescued me

Only lady on the ship

Don’t tell me no lies

I like the way your bikini fit

If fit is what you callin’ it

You told me you like me too

Don’t tell me no lies

Cause I been lied to before

I been used I been abused

But not no more

I’s afraid of what you’d want from me

I’s afraid of what you’d take from me

All I want is somebody

That don’t tell me no lies

It’s like a vacation back in time

Back when I was yours and you were mine

Before this wicked world destroyed our love

Knocked it out the sky, stepped on it like a bug

Let’s sail away to warmer seas

Find an island with a sandy beach

Let that bikini fall down to your feet

Don’t tell me no lies

Her dress was green, her heels were high

Her dress was green, as green as her eyes

We said our goodbyes, she got on the train

I don’t know her number, I don’t know her name

I don’t know her number, I don’t know her name

A lonely motel waited for me

By the interstate, rumbling by

On a Texas night, covered in rain

I don’t know her number, I don’t know her name

I don’t know her number, I don’t know her name

Every song I ever learned, I learned to win her love

Every word I ever said never said enough

She’s a firefly, she’s a blink of an eye

A shooting star, a passer by

A thief in the night, gotten away

I don’t know her number, I don’t know her name

I don’t know her number, I don’t know her name

She’s a firefly, she’s a tear in my eye

A shooting star, a passer by

A memory, fading away

I don’t know her number, I don’t know her name

I don’t know her number, I don’t know her name

I, I held back last night

When I said you’re nice

what I really mean

Is you’re my dream

And I promise you

If my dream comes true

You will be my Queen

You’re my dream

I’m in love

And there ain’t no way I’m ever wakin’ up

I’m in love

And I’ll never get enough

Of you and your angel eyes

Make me realize

That God must be

You’re my dream

Of you and your smaile last night

Was the brightest light

I have ever seen

You’re my dream

I’m walking out your life because you love your drugs

You love ‘em more the me, you tell me that ain’t true

But girl it seems to be, you say you’re dying now

But you got no regrets cause you ain’t dead yet

Hot mess, how’d I get to messin’ with you?

You know I love you, but I can’t help you baby

Hot mess, how’d I get to messin’ with you?

When you work outside in the summer heat

Diggin’ potatoes up out the good, black dirt

Then you go in the house and take a shower then

And you come steppin’ out like you cleaned your sin

Hot mess, how’d I get to messin’ with you?

You know I need you, but I can’t believe you

Hot mess, how’d I get to messin’ with you?

Looking down the road

I can’t jump the brick wall that I see

Looking down the road

Still trying to find a place for you and me

I’m gonna fix the truck, I’m gonna go out west

I’m gonna see the things that I wanna see

And I’ll be by myself but I won’t be alone

I’ll have the good Lord guiding me

Hot mess, how’d I get to messin’ with you?

You know I love you, but I can’t help you baby

Hot mess, how’d I get to messin’ with you?

You home?

You get my call?

Got that red dress on?

That pale white shawl?

You were right

And I was wrong

I know you knew

You knew it all along

CHORUS

Don’t tell me now

That you’d a gave it up for me

Don’t tell me now

That you’d’ve thrown it all away

It’s late

And yes, I’m drunk

That good red wine

The one you said

And I’m alone

On the phone

And I’m sitting straight up

In the bed

CHORUS

You home?

I guess you ain’t

Are you hearing my voice?

You ain’t no saint

When I was right

And you were wrong

Girl, I forgave you

And we carried on

CHORUS

I had a dream that I was ten again

And it was funny cause I knew what I know now, then

And in this dream I went runnin wild

Cause it felt so good to be a child

I held my mama’s hand, I was ten again

I went to school, I had it licked

Reading, writing, arithmetic

I had a pen in my pencil box

I thought my teacher was kinda hot

I made imaginary friends, I was ten again

And I swore I wouldn’t make the same mistakes that I made first time

Eleven to twenty nine, Lord, I was gonna get it right

I found myself blessed with the best of any opportunity

Who’da thought that I could ever be ten again

I woke up, six a.m.

Feeling rough enough to know enough that I ain’t ten

And my boy, he said, “Daddy, please

Won’t you take me fishing down at Turkey Creek?”

So I set off with him like I was ten again

And I swore I wouldn’t make the same mistakes that I made first time

Eleven to twenty nine, Lord, I was gonna get it right

I found myself blessed with the best of any opportunities

Who’da thought that I could ever be ten again

I don’t know what I’d do if I didn’t have you

I’d never love again, never love again

I don’t know what I’d be if you didn’t love me

I’d never love again, never love again

Like in the springtime, when the moon is shakin’

Flowers waking, birds are singing

I’m just saying

How lonely I would be if you didn’t love me

I’d never love again, never love again

No, no one else would do if I couldn’t have you

I’d never love again, never love again

Like in the winter, when it’s cold outside

Fire dancing in your eyes

Sweet romancing

I don’t know what I’d do if I didn’t have you

I’d never love again, never love again

I don’t know what I’d be if you didn’t love me

I’d never love again

Like in the summer, at the silver beach

Blanket laying, sandy feet

I’m just saying

How lonely I’d be if you didn’t love me

I’d never love again

No one else would do if I didn’t have you

I’d never love again

Like in the fall, naked trees

Autumn breeze

Holding you

Holding me … 

If I didn’t have you … no one else would do …

I always knew

It’s always you

Dancing’ in my mind

Mama, let me love you, sweet and kind

A gentle touch

A little taste

Of huckleberry wine

Mama, let me love you, sweet and kind

Let us walk this empty world together

Fill it with the love the Lord gave us

Laughing in the warm and sunny weather

Honest tears of grace when life is tough

Love don’t age

Turn the page

Me again you’ll find

Mama, let me love you, sweet and kind

Soon we’re gonna slip into tomorrow

Let us keep the fire lit tonight

To fend away the darkness and the sorrow

’Til we bring our love into the light

I always knew

It’s always you

Now and for all time

Mama, let me love you

Body, soul and mind

Mama, let me love you, sweet and kind

Mama, let me love you, sweet and kind

Everything is movin’

But time stands still when I’m with you

And we’re alone

Some kind of magic

Fills my heart and soul

When we’re alone

Sittin’ on the front porch swing

Singin’ harmonies

Life is a miracle

When you’re here with me

Some kind of magic

Stars stand still above our home

When we’re alone

Plantin’ seeds and pullin’ weeds

Slow clouds floatin’ by

Flowers, trees, birds and bees

All ‘round you and I

Everything is movin’

But time stands still when I’m with you

And we’re alone

When we’re alone