1.I Threw The Rest Away
I met him in a dive down in new orleans
I recognized his handsome face
It was none of my business, but i had to know
What he was doing in this kind of place
Cause he used to have money, he used to have honeys
He used to be society's prince
But he still wore a grin when i sat beside him
And asked where all that money went
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Some was spent on gambling, alot was spent on women
A little on some good cabernet
Three or four divorces, at least that many horses
Who never left the starting gate
Diamond rings and furs, swampland in new jersey
That week i spent a year in la
I hate to admit it, i threw the rest away
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He said money don't mean nothing in this game of life
It's just a way of keeping score
Show me a man whose got everything
I'll show you one who wants even more
Well so smoke em' when you got em'
When you hit bottom, you gotta have a reason to smile
You can have a little piece of the rock
I'll take a little piece of mind
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He said to me
Diamond rings and furs, swampland in new jersey
That week i spent a year in la
I hate to admit it, i threw the rest away
2.Can't Break It To My Heart
I never felt as helpless, as i do today
My world just fell around me as i watched you drive away
Theres nothing left between us, somehow we've grown apart
Cause i've got through my head, i just can't break it to my
heart
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I can't believe this is me on the hurtin side of pain
Siftin through the ashes still tryin to find a flame
But the flame has turned to embers left glowing in the dark
I've got it through my head, i just can't break it to my heart
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If i could, lord knows i would spin back the hands of time
And piece these scattered memories that are cluttered in my head
Pick up where we left off and make a brand new start
I've got it through my head, i just can't break it to my heart
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3.We Don't Love Here Anymore
Every night when i come home this old house, it's always dark
You don't wait up like you used to
Like you did at the start and i can feel the changes
As i'm walkin through the door, we still live in the same house
But we don't love here anymore
We still share the same old bed
But now our dreams seem worlds apart
We don't touch the way we used and it's breaking my heart
We're turning into strangers, the ties that bind are frayed and
worn
We still live in the same house
But we don't love here anymore
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And i would do anything for what we had before
We still live in the same house
But we don't love here anymore
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4.Crying Ain't Dying
First he said he loved you, he promised you he'd be true
Then he was unfaithful, word got back to you
Tonight when he came calling, you wouldn't let him in
Now your tears are fallin and you swear they'll never end
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But cryin ain't dying, losin' ain't forever
It's kind of like the weather, it changes everyday
You learned yourself a lesson, 'bout loving and lying
But you will live to love again cause crying ain't dying
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Even though he hurt you, he's still the one you want
You're gonna feel this way till the day you don't
You can pull the shades down, grieve what's gone before
But you can't keep tomorrow from walkin' through that door
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You learned yourself a lesson 'bout loving and lying
But you will live to love again crying ain't dying
You will live to love again cause crying ain't dying
5.Alibis
She knows every move that a man could make
She knows every trick in the book
She knows how to give, she knows how to take
Cause so many times she's been taken and fooled
By those.......
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Alibis and lying eyes and all the best lines
Lord knows she's heard 'em all
She's been cheated on and pushed around and left alone
Lord knows what i've put her through
Boy you can bet, if a move can be made
She knows how to make one on you
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She once thought that love wasn't just a game
Her feelin's once came from the heart
One day i gave her a weddin ring
One night i tore all those feelins apart
With my....
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6.My Second Home
There's a honkey tonk on the edge of town
I used to call my second home
It's a place to go just to get away
When i wanted to be alone
Well, early one morning had a fight with my darling
That went from bad to worse
It ended when she said 'your second home, just became your
first'
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Now the jukebox is my alarm clock, i wake up in a corner booth
I don't have a tab, don't need no cab
Cause the dance floor is my living room
Well, i might die of a broken heart
But i'll never die of thirst
Now that my second home has become my first
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Well i don't have to pay no mortgage
I don't have to mow no lawn
Alot of friends come to see me
Some stay until the break of dawn
I can paint the town without leaving the house
I can feel good until it hurts
Now that my home sweet second home
Just became my first
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7.Don't Talk To Me That Way
Lately i've been seeing a certain glow upon your face
But i know i'm not the reason
You wear that different smile these days
Though you haven't said you're leaving
Darlin i've already heard
Don't you know your silence is talking louder than your words
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Don't talk to me that way
Cause it's my heart thats being broken
Goodbye still hurts the same even if it goes unspoken
You're tearing me apart with everything that you don't say
There's so much i haven't heard and thas less than i deserve
Don't talk to me that way
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Why can't you lay it on the line
And say you found somebody new
I can't take the silence as well as i can take the truth
I don't want you here beside me
If that's not where you want to be
But you ain't said a single word and that's not enough for me
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There's so much i haven't heard, that's less than i deserve
Don't talk to me that way
8.It Only Takes One Bar(To Make A Prison)
Last night she wasn't sleepin' when i came slippin in
I knew i had it comin, cause she knew where i'd been
She said 'a part of me walks out that door everytime you leave
So remember this while you're losin me'
It only takes one bar to make a prison
And you've been doin' too much time away from home
She said 'it takes two hearts to hold a love together
But it only takes one fool to be alone'
She said 'i've sat here in the darkness, one too many times
And stealin thoughts of holdin' you has been my only crime'
Right then i realized she'd always been the key
And locked up in her arms is the only time i'm free
It only takes one bar to make a prison
And i was doin' too much time away from home
It takes two hearts to hold a love together
But it only takes one fool to be alone
It only takes one bar to make a prison
And it only takes one fool to be alone
9.Back To Back
It's a crying shame what fools we've been
To fight for no good reason, when neither one of us gives in
I don't love you is what it takes to end it all
But instead we'll go back to bed, back to back to face the wall
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Back to back, we're falling out of love
As giving in gets harder to do, we start giving up
We lay together facing the dark
Each tear that falls is breaking our hearts
Back to back, side by side, we're miles apart
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What a fool i am to lay here and not hold her
In a bed where love once burned, our hearts just grow colder
Well, i love you are the words on my mind
But the stones we threw in anger
Have built a wall we can't climb
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Back to back, side by side, we're miles apart
10.If The Good Die Young
It was sunday morning, i was seven years old
In the backyard playing in a big mudhole
I was all decked out, ready for church
Had my brand new suit all covered in dirt
Mama hit the ceiling she was fit to be tied
Talkin 'bout how shes gonna tan my hide
But daddy was laughing when i changed my clothes
'saying 'mama leave the boy alone'
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Cause if the good die young
If the good die young
Mama's little boy gonna have alot of fun
Cause he's gonna live forever if the good die young
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Ten years later had a hot rod ford
Constable clocked me at a hundred and four
Judge said 'boy you're gonna hurt yourself
You'd a long been dead if you were anybody else'
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Cause if the good die young
If the good die young
Oh there ain't a sentence gonna hold you son
Cause he's gonna live forever if the good die young
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Well i got a good heart, i wouldn't hurt a soul
But i'm gonna keep rocking till they call that roll
Old st.peter he's gonna have to wait
I'm gonna go to heaven but i might be late
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Cause if the good die young
If the good die young
Pedal to the metal, let your motor run
Cause he's gonna live forever if the good die young
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And if the good die young
If the good die young
They got the jams, we'll have some fun
Cause i'm gonna live forever if the good die young
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