Brooks & Dunn

Lyrics

• 1. That's What It's All About

  Well, you work an' you slave an' you spend all day in your thankless job.
  Then you jump in your Ford an' you're door-to-door with the home-bound mob.
  Then you pull in the drive and you hit the chair,
  An' the one that you love is waiting there.

  Hey, that's what it's all about.
  Hey, this is the life I couldn't live without.
  No, I couldn't live without.
  It's a moment frozen there in time,
  When the reasons all begin to rhyme;
  Where love's a little bigger an' you finally start figurin' out,
  That's what it's all about.
  (Ooh, ooh.)

  Well, they won't go to bed or do what you said or eat their food:
  An' they cry and they fuss and you can't even cuss 'cause they'll say it too.
  An' you're tired and you're numb an' you're stressed and you're mad,
  An' she smiles and says: "I love you, Dad."

  Hey, that's what it's all about.
  Hey, this is the life I couldn't live without.
  No, I couldn't live without.
  It's a moment frozen there in time,
  When the reasons all begin to rhyme;
  Where love's a little bigger an' you finally start figurin' out,
  That's what it's all about.
  (Ooh, ooh.)

  Instrumental break.

  Hey, that's what it's all about.
  Hey, this is the life I couldn't live without.
  No, I couldn't live without.
  It's a moment frozen there in time,
  When the reasons all begin to rhyme;
  An' the love's a little bigger an' you finally start figurin' out,
  That's what it's all about.

  (Hey, that's what it's all about.)
  Hey!
  (Hey, that's what it's all about.)
  Hey, that's what it's all, all about.
  Oh, the life I couldn't live without.

  Hey, that's what it's all, all about.
  Hey!
  (Ooh, ooh.)

  Hey, that's what it's all, all about.

  Hey, that's what it's all, all about.

• 2. How Long Gone

  I keep thinkin' any minute you'll be comin' home honey
  I aint seen nothin' of you in a month of Sundays
  Tell me how long gone are you gonna be

  All you said was you had to get goin'
  Oh but baby I wouldnt mind knowin' just
  How long gone are you gonna be

  How am I supposed to make any plans
  When I still dont even understand
  If you're ever gonna come back home to me
  How long gone are you gonna be

  Maybe I didnt pay enough attention
  But I do believe you forgot to mention
  Just how long gone are you gonna be

  The phone aint ringin', cause you still aint callin'
  I aint been hearin' your footsteps fallin'
  Tell me how long gone are you gonna be

  How am I supposed to make any plans
  When I still dont even understand
  If you're ever gonna come back home to me
  Tell me please
  How long gone are you gonna be

• 3. Ain't Nothing 'Bout You

  Once I thought that love was something I could never do
  Never knew that I could feel this much
  But this yearning in the deep part of my heart for you
  Is more than a reaction to your touch
  It's a perfect passion and I can't get enough

  The way you look, the way you laugh,
  The way you love with all you have,
  There ain't nothing bout you that don't do something for me
  The way you kiss, The way you cry,
  The way you move when you walk by
  There's ain't nothing bout you (there ain't nothing bout you)
  That don't do something for me

  In my life I've been hammered by some heavy blows
  That never knocked me off my feet
  All you gotta do is smile at me and down I go
  And baby it's no mystery why I surrender
  Girl you got everything

  The way you look, the way you laugh,
  The way you love with all you have,
  There ain't nothing bout you that don't do something for me
  The way you kiss, The way you cry,
  The way you move when you walk by
  There's ain't nothing bout you (there ain't nothing bout you)
  That don't do something for me

  I love your attitude, your rose tattoo, your every thought
  Your smile, you lips and girl the list goes on and on and on

  The way you look, the way you laugh,
  The way you love with all you have,
  There ain't nothing bout you that don't do something for me
  The way you kiss, The way you cry,
  The way you move when you walk by
  There's ain't nothing bout you (there ain't nothing bout you)
  That don't do something for me

  The way you look, the way you laugh,
  The way you love with all you have,
  Your dance, your drive, You make me feel alive

  The way you talk, the way you tease
  Right now I think you see
  There ain't nothing bout you that don't do something for me

• 4. The Long Goodbye

  I know they say if you love somebody
  You should set them free
  But it sure is hard to do
  It sure is hard to do
  I know they say if you don't come back again
  Then it's meant to be (so they say)
  Those words don't pull me through
  Cause I'm still in love with you
  I spend each day here waiting for a miracle
  But it's just you and me goin' through the mill
  climbin' up a hill

  This is the long goodbye
  Somebody tell me why
  Two lovers in love can't make it
  Just what kind of love keeps breaking a heart
  No matter how hard I try
  I always make you cry
  Come on, baby, it's over let's face it
  All that's happening here is a long goodbye

  Sometimes I ask my heart did we really
  Give our love a chance (just one more chance)
  But I know without a doubt
  We turned it inside out
  And if we walked away
  It would make more sense
  But it tears me up inside
  Just to think we could still try
  How long must we keep running on a carousel
  Goin' round and round and never getting anywhere
  On a wing and prayer

  This is the long goodbye
  Somebody tell me why
  Two lovers in love can't make it
  Just what kind of love keeps breaking a heart
  No matter how hard I try
  I always make you cry
  Come on, baby, it's over let's face it
  All that's happening here is a long goodbye

  Long goodbye
  Long goodbye

• 5. My Heart Is Lost To You

  Maybe it was the moonlight
  The scent of you on the breeze
  Maybe it was your shadow that fell over me
  Such a beautiful stranger
  Eyes darker than coal
  Your first look crossed the desert
  Into my soul

  Mi corazon perdido en ti
  My heart is lost to you
  You have captured my love completely
  My heart is lost to you
  Oh my heart is lost to you

  Maybe it was the music
  The way it moved with your hair
  Or the heat of the moment
  That hung in the air
  But when I saw you there dancing
  Mesmerized by the gaze
  There was some kind of magic
  That led me away

  Mi corazon perdido en ti
  My heart is lost to you
  You have captured my love completely
  My heart is lost to you
  Oh my heart is lost to you

  Mi corazon perdido en ti
  My heart is lost to you
  You have captured my love completely
  My heart is lost to you
  Oh my heart is lost to you

• 6. I Can't Get Over You

  I forget where I'm goin' in my own house
  I got myself in this, I'll get myself out
  I talk out loud, at the top of my voice I sing
  Whoa keep the faith, see what tomorrow brings

  I can't get over you
  Try as I may oh it no use
  My heart just cant leave you alone
  My mind wont believe you're gone
  I can't get over you

  I got a front row seat here to a fool's masquerade
  And that fool in the mirror keeps sayin' I'm doin' ok
  I stare at that door that you walked out
  It hits me hard and leaves no doubt

  I can't get over you
  Try as I may oh it no use
  My heart just cant leave you alone
  My mind wont believe you're gone
  I can't get over you

  I can't get over you
  Try as I may oh it no use
  My heart just cant leave you alone
  My mind wont believe you're gone
  I can't get over you

• 7. Red Dirt Road

  I was raised off of Route Three,
  Out where the blacktop ends.
  We'd walk to Church on Sunday mornings,
  Race barefoot back to Johnson's fence.
  That's where I first saw Mary,
  On that roadside pickin' blackberries.
  That summer I turned a corner in my soul,
  Down that red dirt road.

  It's where I drank my first beer.
  It's where I found Jesus.
  Where I wrecked my first car:
  I tore it all to pieces.
  I learned the path to Heaven,
  Is full of sinners an' believers.
  Learned that happiness on earth,
  Ain't just for high achievers.
  I've learned; I come to know,
  There's life at both ends,
  Of that red dirt road.

  Her Daddy didn't like me much,
  In my shackled up GTO.
  Oh, I'd sneak out in the middle of the night,
  Throw rocks at her bedroom window.
  We'd turn out the headlights,
  Drive by the moonlight.
  Talk about what the future might hold,
  Down that red dirt road.

  It's where I drank my first beer.
  It's where I found Jesus.
  Where I wrecked my first car:
  I tore it all to pieces.
  I learned the path to Heaven,
  Is full of sinners an' believers.
  Learned that happiness on earth,
  Ain't just for high achievers.
  I've learned; I come to know,
  There's life at both ends,
  Of that red dirt road.

  I went out into the world,
  An' I came back in.
  I lost Mary:
  Oh, I got her back again.
  An' drivin' home tonight,
  Feels like I've found a long-lost friend.

  It's where I drank my first beer.
  It's where I found Jesus.
  Where I wrecked my first car:
  I tore it all to pieces.
  I learned the path to Heaven,
  Is full of sinners an' believers.
  Learned that happiness on earth,
  Ain't just for high achievers.
  I've learned; I come to know,
  There's life at both ends,
  Of that red dirt road.

• 8. Husbands And Wives

  Two broken hearts lonely looking houses
  Where nobody lives
  Two people each having so much pride inside
  Neither side forgives

  The angry words spoken in haste
  Such a waste of two lives
  It's my belief pride is the chief cause in the decline
  Of the number of husbands and wives

  A woman and a man
  A man and a woman
  Some can and some cant and some cant

  Two broken hearts lonely looking houses
  Where nobody lives
  Two people each having so much pride inside
  Neither side forgives

  The angry words spoken in haste
  Such a waste of two lives
  It's my belief pride is the chief cause in the decline
  Of the number of husbands and wives

  It's my belief pride is the chief cause in the decline
  Of the number of husbands and wives

• 9. That's What She Gets For Loving Me

  She said what she wants is a man to be faithful
  A true heart somebody willin’ and able
  To stay by her side through thick and thin
  A tender touch every now and then

  She’s not hung up on fairy tales
  Or some dream at the bottom of a wishin’ well
  Fancy cars or diamond rings
  What she wants most are the little things

  That’s what she gets
  That’s what she gets
  That’s what she gets for loving me

  At times I lay awake at night
  Stare at her laying by my side
  Knowin’ there in her heart as she sleeps
  She can forever count on me

  That’s what she gets
  That’s what she gets
  That’s what she gets for loving me

  Whatever turns her on
  I’m here to do it
  Till the day they write my name in stone
  I’ll live to prove it

  That’s what she gets
  That’s what she gets
  That’s what she gets for loving me

  That’s what she gets
  That’s what she gets
  That’s what she gets for loving me

• 10. You Can't Take The Honky Tonk Out Of The Gir

  Connie came back from her second cousin’s wedding
  First time she’d been home in a year or two
  Just in time for the rehearsal dinner
  That crazy Connie wasn’t wearing any shoes

  She lives in L.A. she flies to New York City
  That woman’s been around the world
  You can take that girl out of the honky tonk
  But you can’t take the honky tonk, take the honky tonk, out of the girl
  Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

  Well the dinner broke up at about 11:30
  And the boys went off to do what boys will do
  Connie said come here girls we need to huddle up
  Around something that’s a hundred proof

  She lives in L.A. she flies to New York City
  That woman’s been around the world
  You can take that girl out of the honky tonk
  But you can’t take the honky tonk, take the honky tonk, out of the girl
  Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

  It’s nine a.m. in front of the church
  People are going nuts just looking for the groom
  Somebody says, Hey by the way where’s Connie
  She’s run off with that boy in Cancun

  She lives in L.A. she flies to New York City
  That woman’s been around the world
  You can take that girl out of the honky tonk
  But you can’t take the honky tonk, take the honky tonk, out of the girl
  Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

• 11. It's Getting Better All The Time

  I don't stop breathing every time the phone rings
  My heart don't race when someones at my door
  I've almost given up thinkin' your ever gonna call
  I don't believe in magic anymore.

  I just don't lie awake at night
  Asking God to get you off my mind
  It's getting better all the time
  It's getting better all the time.

  Yeah, I got to work on time again this morning
  This old job is all that I got left
  And no one even noticed I'd been crying
  At least I don't have whisky on my breath.

  Yeah, I think I'm gonna make it
  'Cause God won't make a mountain I can't climb
  It's getting better all the time
  It's getting better all the time.

  God, I hope your happy
  Girl, I wish you well
  I just might get over you
  You can't ever tell.

  I always thought that I'd do something crazy
  If ever saw you out with someone else
  But when the moment came last night
  I couldn't say a word, I stood there in the dark all by myself.

  Yeah, I could of said a million things
  All I did was keep it locked inside
  It's getting better all the time
  It's getting better all the time.

  It's getting better all the time...

• 12. 12. Only In America

  Sun coming up over New York City
  School bus driver in a traffic jam
  Starin' at the faces in her rearview mirror
  Looking at the promise of the Promised Land
  One kid dreams of fame and fortune
  One kid helps pay the rent
  One could end up going to prison
  One just might be president

  Only in America
  Dreaming in red, white and blue
  Only in America
  Where we dream as big as we want to
  We all get a chance
  Everybody gets to dance
  Only in America

  Sun going down on an La. freeway
  Newlyweds in the back of a limousine
  A welder's son and a banker's daughter
  All they want is everything
  She came out here to be an actress
  He was the singer in a band
  They just might go back to Oklahoma
  And talk about the stars they could have been

  Only in America
  Where we dream in red, white and blue
  Only in America
  Where we dream as big as we want to
  We all get a chance
  Everybody gets to dance
  Only in America

  Yeah only in America
  Where we dream in red, white and blue
  Yeah we dream as big as we want to

• 13. A Man This Lonely

  A man this lonely
  A man this blue
  A man whose world's been torn in two
  Needs somebody
  With a heart that's true
  A man this lonely needs a woman like you

  Two arms this empty
  Need someone to hold
  A man this lost needs somewhere to go
  When the nights go on forever
  And the days do too
  A man this lonely needs a woman like you

  I'd lost hope
  I was so far down
  Here you come turning all that around
  I'd come to think
  Of love as a lie
  All that's on my mind now
  Is you by my side

  A man this lonely
  A man this blue
  A man whose world's been torn in two
  Needs somebody
  With a heart that's true
  A man this lonely needs a woman like you
  A man this lonely needs a woman like you

• 14. Independent Trucker

  Well my daddy was a world class trucker, took my momma on a four day trip
  And she swears to me that I was conceived at a big rig dealership
  The story goes on the day I was born,
  he hit the road and he never looked back
  Well my daddy went and named me a big mistake,
  but my momma always called me Mack

  And I'm a haulin', chug-a-luggin through the rain and snow
  Yeah I'm a haulin', I put the hammer down and let it roll
  My babies callin, sayin' baby when ya gonna come home
  Well I'm an independent trucker... a mother lovin',
  overloaded owner operator just a tearin' up a two lane road

  I got the chrome girls on my mudflaps
  I keep a cup o' coffee on the dashboard
  Got a custom airbrush desert scene and my name painted on the door
  Got a cross of jesus all along the grille, lights up like a christmas tree
  Any highway, any time of day, thats where I wanna be

  Well I'm a haulin', only 700 miles to go
  Yeah I'm a haulin', I put the hammer down and let it roll
  My babies callin', sayin' baby when ya gonna come home
  Well I'm an independent trucker... a mother lovin,
  overloaded owner operator just a tearin' up a two lane road

  Well I'm a haulin', only 700 miles to go
  Yeah I'm a haulin', put the hammer down and let it roll
  My babies callin', sayin baby when ya gonna come home
  Well I'm an independent trucker... a mother lovin,
  overloaded owner operator just a tearin' up a two lane road

  Yeah I'm an independent trucker... a mother lovin,
  overloaded owner operator just a tearin' up a two lane road

• 15. I'll Never Forgive My Heart

  Hello heartache who let you in
  I swore the last time never again
  Back together just you and me
  Where's you old friend Mr. Misery

  I went and did it I dropped my guard
  I fell in and I fell hard
  Now she's sayin' she's found someone new
  How could I have been such a fool

  Oh close the door turn out the lights draw the curtain
  I'll get over her in time it's gonna take some hurtin'
  I tell myself I told you so as I fall apart
  I can't blame love
  But I'll never forgive my heart

  Oh close the door turn out the lights draw the curtain
  I'll get over her in time it's gonna take some hurtin'
  I tell myself I told you so as I fall apart
  I can't blame love
  But I'll never forgive my heart

  I can't blame love
  But I'll never forgive my heart

• 16. If You See Him/If You See Her

  If you see him
  Tell him I wish him well
  How am I doing?
  Well, sometimes is hard to tell
  I still miss him more than ever
  But please dont say a word
  If you see him
  If you see him

  If you see her
  Tell her I'm doing fine
  And if you want to
  Say that I think of her from time to time
  Ask her if she ever wonders
  Where we both went wrong
  If you see her
  If you see her

  I still want her
  I still need him so
  I dont know why we let each other go

  If you see her
  Tell her the lights still on for her
  Nothing's changed
  Deep down the fire still burns for him

  And even if it takes forever say I'll still be here
  If you see him
  If you see her
  If you see him
  If you see her

• 17. South Of Santa Fe

  Where the rain dont fall and the grass dont grow
  The older part of New Mexico
  I drifted into town one day
  And stumbled in on a lost cafe
  Shades were pulled and the door was locked
  Something made me knock

  Time stood still when she opened the door
  I didnt know where I was anymore
  And we were lost in each other's eyes
  Where loneliness meets paradise
  Something in my heart broke free
  Blowing wind as the tumbleweed

  Somewhere north of heaven
  Where eagles fear to fly
  Where the sun burns hot as the devil's gate
  The desert meets the sky
  Tattooed on my memory is the image of an angels face
  North of heaven, south of Santa Fe

  Bad news tends to travel fast
  I was running from my past
  I left her when ther morning broke
  Truth is I never let her go
  I'm still running free
  But in my heart I'll always be

  Somewhere north of heaven
  Where eagles fear to fly
  Where the sun burns hot as the devil's gate
  The desert meets the sky
  Tattooed on my memory is the image of an angels face
  North of heaven, south of Santa Fe
  North of heaven, south of Santa Fe