Dirt Road Anthem (Jason Aldean cover)

Yeah, I’m chillin’ on a dirt road,
Laid back swervin’ like I’m George Jones.
Smoke rollin’ out the window,
An’ ice cold beer sittin’ in the console.
Memory lane up in the headlights,
It’s got me reminiscing on them good times.
I’m turning off of real life, drivin’ that’s right,
I’m hittin’ easy street on mud tires.

Back in the day Pott’s farm was the place to go.
Load the truck up, hit the dirt road.
Jump the barbwire, spread the word.
Light the bonfire, then call the girls.
The king in the can and the Marlboro man.
Jack’n’Jim were a few good men.
Where ya learned how to kiss and cuss and fight too.
Better watch out for the boys in blue.
And all this small town he said, she said,
Ain’t it funny how rumors spread.
Like I know something ya’ll don’t know,
Man that talk is gettin’ old.
Ya better mind your business, man, watch your mouth,
Before I have to knock that loud mouth out.
Im tired of talkin, man, ya’ll ain’t listenin’,
Them old dirt roads is what ya’ll missin’.

I’m chillin’ on a dirt road.
Laid back swervin’ like I’m George Jones.
Smoke rollin’ out the window,
An’ ice cold beer sittin’ in the console.
Memory lane up in the headlights,
It’s got me reminiscing on them good times.
I’m turning off of real life, drivin’ that’s right,
I’m hittin’ easy street on mud tires.

I sit back and think about them good ole days.
The way we were raised, and our southern ways,
And we like cornbread, and biscuits,
And if it’s broke round here we fix it.
I can take ya’ll where ya need to go,
Down to my hood, back in them woods.
We do it different ‘round here, that’s right,
But we sure do it good, and we do it all night.
See, if you really wanna know how it feels,
To get off the road with trucks and four wheels,
Jump on in, and man, tell your friends,
We’ll raise some hell where the blacktop ends.

I’m chillin’ on a dirt road.
Laid back swervin’ like I’m George Jones.
Smoke rollin’ out the window,
An’ ice cold beer sittin’ in the console.
Memory lane up in the headlights,
It’s got me reminiscing on them good times.
I’m turning off of real life, driving that’s right,
I’m hittin’ easy street on mud tires.

In The Sun (Joseph Arthur cover)

I picture you in the sun, wondering what went wrong,

And falling down on your knees asking for sympathy,

And being caught in between all you wish for and all you see,

And trying to find anything you can feel that you can believe in.

May God’s love be with you, always.

May God’s love be with you.

I know I would apologize if I could see your eyes.

Cause when you showed me myself, you know, I became someone else.

But I was caught in between all you wish for and all you need.

I picture you fast asleep, a nightmare comes, you can’t keep awake.

May God’s love be with you, always.

May God’s love be with you.

Cause if I find,

If I find my way

How much will I find?

You.

I’ll find you.

I don’t know anymore, what it’s for, I’m not even sure.

If there is anyone who is in the sun, will you help me to understand?

Cause I’ve been caught in between all I wish for and all I need.

Maybe you’re not even sure what it’s for any more than me.

May God’s love be with you, always.

May God’s love be with you, always.

Slow Dance.

This life is a slow dance:
It doesn’t work well when you’re alone and
You feel it inside,
Deep inside every last bone,
That something is missing,
There’s someone you should be kissing.
And holding them close,
holding them closer than yourself.
And feeling their soul.
Knowing that it’s a perfect match
And it was made for you.
You can see it in their eyes.
This life is a slow dance:
It doesn’t work well when you’re alone and
Standing awkwardly
And anxiously to the side.
Take a deep breath,
Compose yourself within your faith and
Just wait patiently
For someone to take your hand.

My love’s an ocean, tossed about by winds

And rains. Forever rolling: up and down,

And to-and-fro. A love not to rescind

Itself in times of need, and so I drown.

I am a lonesome island, caged by mine

Own ocean. Yet, on rare occasion, waves

Will storm my beach and let me feel them shine

And shimmer in the sunlight. They engrave

So many names and memories, it’s hard

To hold my shores together as they leave

Me all too soon. They break me, no regard

For pain, and leave me marred, and so, bereaved

            Of self. But I will still remain to try

            To hold on, strong, for me, myself, and I.

A bodies beauty fades with time. It’s but

A dream to hold it to the very end.

We try and try as days pass us by, cut

With lines of a denial/old age blend.

Our beauty fades and we are left with what

Is underneath. For some, what’s left is all

Too hideous; this life was lived to strut

Ones vanity. They never thought they’d fall.

However, some will prove magnificent

And beautiful – astonishingly so.

A life that’s lived for others need not hunt

For meaning and for love in times of woe.

         Hold on to matters of the heart, for those

         Are matters that will matter while time slows.

I wake each morning next to you. Before

I stretch and clamor out of bed I take

A moment gazing at your face. How poor

My life had been till you. Before you wake

I gently kiss your cheek and play our tale

Out in my mind. The ups, the downs, the rights,

The wrongs. It takes my breath away. How frail

Is love? Remarkably our love ignites

Our souls. You open up your eyes and smile,

It melts my heart. I fall in love with you

A hundred times a day. And all the while

Our promise is forever to stay true.

            And then I jolt awake, the dream had past.

            But I prefer my dreams, I’m left aghast.

So this is the beginning of a dream?

Excitement! Love! Anticipation! All

These things and more. Our future is agleam.

Our hearts, one beat. We never thought we’d fall

In love again. But here we are. We stand

Together just as lovers do, so close,

No thoughts of letting go, we’re hand in hand.

No need for both of us to be verbose,

We don’t need words to know what we each feel

When we embrace and feel the others heart.

They beat so clearly with the other. Seal

Our fate with one more kiss, our lives now start.

            To never be apart, that is my hope

            For us. Lets run away, just us, elope.

It seems we always say goodbye but where

Are all our sweet hellos? Goodbye would not

Be difficult as this if life were fair.

The more hellos, the more goodbyes begot,

The difference is that all time spent between

The two accumulates and we can be

Submerged in love; its ever calm, serene

Embrace. So then, and only then can we

Emerge victorious and say without

A doubt, that we have faced and conquered love.

I want to prove to you just how devout

My heart can be. But we must rise above.

            So more hellos if you would be so kind.

            ‘Cause there’s no way to get you off my mind.

My happiness: the sacrifice so you

Can walk away and live your life without

Me. I myself am lost, butmy life too

Goes on. Outside? Calm. Inside I just shout

Obscenities. I was a fool. I hate

Myself. I had the world. I let it fall

And shatter. No amount of love or fate

Can piece it back together. So I call

God into question. Where? Where are you now?

‘Cause now my world is in such great despair.

No answer. Yet I now can still avow

My heart still beats for you with no affair.

            My happiness: the sacrifice I make

            To keep you happy for your own hearts sake.

For every minute I spend without you in my life a piece of my heart breaks and falls away. All that is left is a scab where the greatest love I’ve known used to be. But like a child I can’t help but pick at my wound to see what is underneath. Once removed, I find our memories, our hopes and dreams, and a love so deep that it has no end, a love that never left my heart to begin with. If actions speak louder than words, I am screaming at the top of my lungs telling the world of my love for you. A love that pours out of me with everything I do, everything I say…everything I don’t say.

Every day is the same; this hollow feeling never leaves my heart, my soul. Every day I find myself looking at old pictures of you, of us. Every time I see how happy you were, how happy I was, how happy we were, my heart drops from my chest and I collapse in an attempt to catch it before it crashes to the ground. The connection, the love, the passion, the understanding, and all the things we shared – people search their entire lives for these things and never find.

Beyond all this, the thought that kills me most of all is the one of another man taking my place in all the dreams we dreamt together: getting married, starting a family, waking up beside one another every single day and our love enduring forever and ever. To this day, every single time my phone goes off, my first thought is that I hope to God that it is you on the other end. And then, after all my waiting, it finally happened, your voice on the line. I tried to play it cool and sound confident and strong, but I can’t even fool myself. I’m bursting at the seams it seems to tell you that I miss you, that I still love you more than ever, that living without you is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do…but I didn’t, I held my tongue. But in my head the same thought keeps playing on repeat in my mind:

I may not be a part of your life anymore, but you are still the biggest part of mine.