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Dear John
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long were the nights when my days once revolved around you counting my footsteps praying the floor won't fall through again and my mother accused me of losing my mind but i swore i was fine you paint me a blue sky then go back and turn it to rain and i lived in your chess game but you changed your rules everyday wonderin' which version of you i might get on the phone tonight well i stopped pickin' up and this song is to let you know why dear john i see it all now that you're gone don't you think i was too young to be messed with the girl in the dress cried the whole way home i shoulda' known well maybe it's me and my blind optimism to blame or maybe it's you and your sick need to give love and take it away and you'll add my name to your long list of traitors who don't understand and i look back in regret how i ignored when they said run as fast as you can dear john i see it all now that you're gone don't you think i was too young to be messed with the girl in the dress cried the whole way home dear john i see it all now it was wrong don't you think nineteen's too young to be played by your dark twisted games when i loved you so i shoulda' known you are an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry never impressed by me acing your tests all the girls that you've run dry have tired lifeless eyes 'cause you burned them out but i took your matches before fire could catch me so don't look now i'm shining like fireworks over your sad empty town yeahyeah oh oh oh oh oh oh dear john i see it all now that you're gone don't you think i was too young to be messed with the girl in the dress cried the whole way home i see it all now that you're gone don't you think i was too young to be messed with the girl in the dress wrote you a song you shoulda' known don't you think i was too young you shoulda' known
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Mean
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you with your words like knives and swords and weapons that you use against me you have knocked me off my feet again got me feeling like i'm nothing you with your voice like nails on a chalkboard calling me out when i'm wounded you picking on the weaker man pre you can take me down with just one single blow but you don't know what you don't know someday i'll be living in a big old city and all you're ever gonna be is mean someday i'll be big enough so you can't hit me and all you're ever gonna be is mean why you gotta be so mean you with your switching sides and your wildfire lies and your humiliation you have pointed out my flaws again as if i don't already see them i walk with my head down trying to block you out 'cause i'll never impress you i just wanna feel okay again pre i bet you got pushed around somebody made you cold but the cycle ends right now 'cause you can't lead me down that road and you don't know what you don't know someday i'll be living in a big old city and all you're ever gonna be is mean someday i'll be big enough so you can't hit me and all you're ever gonna be is mean why you gotta be so mean and i can see you years from now in a bar talking over a football game with that same big loud opinion but nobody's listening washed up and ranting about the same old bitter things drunk and grumbling on about how i can't sing all you are is mean all you are is mean and a liar and pathetic and alone in life
and mean and mean and mean and mean breakdown but someday i'll be living in a big old city
and all you're ever gonna be is mean yeah someday i'll be big enough so you can't hit me and all you're ever gonna be is mean why you gotta be so someday i'll be living in a big old city why you gotta be so and all you're ever gonna be is mean why you gotta be so someday i'll be big enough so you can't hit me why you gotta be so and all you're ever gonna be is mean
why you gotta be so mean
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Mine
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you were in college working parttime waiting tables left a small town and never looked back i was a flight risk with a fear of falling wondering why we bother with love if it never lasts pre i say can you believe it as we're lying on the couch the moment i could see it yes yes i can see it now do you remember we were sitting there by the water you put your arm around me for the first time you made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter you are the best thing that's ever been mine flash forward and we're taking on the world together and there's a drawer of my things at your place you learn my secrets and you figure out why i'm guarded you say we'll never make my parents' mistakes pre but we got bills to pay we got nothing figured out when it was hard to take yes yes this is what i thought about do you remember we were sitting there by the water you put your arm around me for the first time you made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter you are the best thing that's ever been mine do you remember all the city lights on the water you saw me start to believe for the first time you made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter you are the best thing that's ever been mine ohwoah and i remember that fight 0 am as everything was slipping right out of our hands i ran out crying and you followed me out into the street braced myself for the goodbye 'cause that's all i've ever known then you took me by surprise you said i'll never leave you alone you said i remember how we felt sitting by the water and every time i look at you it's like the first time i fell in love with a careless man's careful daughter she is the best thing that's ever been mine hold on make it last hold on never turn back you made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter you are the best thing that's ever been mine do you believe it we're gonna make it now and i can see it yeah yeah i can see it now see it now see it now
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Live Album Discography
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007 live from soho rhapsody originals 008 live from clear channel stripped 008 009 stripped raw real 0 speak now world tour live 00 live from paris
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Love Story
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we were both young when i first saw you i close my eyes and the flashback starts i'm standing there on a balcony in summer air see the lights see the party the ball gowns see you make your way through the crowd and say hello little did i know pre that you were romeo you were throwing pebbles and my daddy said stay away from juliet and i was crying on the staircase begging you please don't go and i said romeo take me somewhere we can be alone i'll be waiting all there's left to do is run you'll be the prince and i'll be the princess it's a love story baby just say yes so i sneak out to the garden to see you we keep quiet 'cause we're dead if they knew so close your eyes escape this town for a little while pre 'cause you were romeo i was a scarlet letter and my daddy said stay away from juliet but you were everything to me i was begging you please don't go and i said romeo take me somewhere we can be alone i'll be waiting all there's left to do is run you'll be the prince and i'll be the princess it's a love story baby just say yes romeo save me they're trying to tell me how to feel this love is difficult but it's real don't be afraid we'll make it out of this mess it's a love story baby just say yes oh oh i got tired of waiting wondering if you were ever coming around my faith in you was fading when i met you on the outskirts of town pre and i said romeo save me i've been feeling so alone i keep waiting for you but you never come is this in my head i don't know what to think he knelt to the ground and pulled out a ring and said marry me juliet you'll never have to be alone i love you and that's all i really know i talked to your dad go pick out a white dress it's a love story baby just say 'yes' oh oh oh oh 'cause we were both young when i first saw you
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Haunted
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you and i walk a fragile line i have known it all this time but i never thought i'd live to see it break it's getting dark and it's all too quiet and i can't trust anything now it's coming over you like it's all a big mistake pre ohwhoa holding my breath won't lose you again something's made your eyes go cold come on come on don't leave me like this i thought i had you figured out something's gone terribly wrong you're all i wanted come on come on don't leave me like this i thought i had you figured out can't breathe whenever you're gone can't turn back now i'm haunted stood there and watched you walk away from everything we had but i still mean every word i said to you he will try to take away my pain and he just might make me smile but the whole time i'm wishing it was you instead pre ohwhoa holding my breath whoa won't see you again something keeps me holding onto nothing come on come on don't leave me like this i thought i had you figured out something's gone terribly wrong you are all i wanted come on come on don't leave me like this i thought i had you figured out can't breathe whenever you're gone can't turn back now i'm haunted i know i know i just know you're not gone you can't be gone no come on come on don't leave me like this i thought i had you figured out something's gone terribly wrong won't finish what you started come on come on don't leave me like this i thought i had you figured out can't breathe whenever you're gone i can't go back i'm haunted oh oh oh oh oh woah oh oh you and i walk a fragile line i have known it all this time never ever thought i'd see it break never thought i'd see it
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Ours
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elevator buttons and morning air strangers' silence makes me want to take the stairs if you were here we'd laugh about their vacant stares but right now my time is theirs seems like there's always someone who disapproves they'll judge it like they know about me and you and the verdict comes from those with nothing else to do the jury's out but my choice is you so don't you worry your pretty little mind people throw rocks at things that shine and life makes love look hard the stakes are high the water's rough but this love is ours you never know what people have up their sleeves ghosts from your past gonna jump out at me lurking in the shadows with their lip gloss smiles but i don't care 'cause right now you're mine and you'll say don't you worry your pretty little mind people throw rocks at things that shine and life makes love look hard the stakes are high the water's rough but this love is ours and it's not theirs to speculate if it's wrong and your hands are tough but they are where mine belong and i'll fight their doubt and give you faith with this song for you breakdown 'cause i love the gap between your teeth and i love the riddles that you speak and any snide remarks from my father about your tattoos will be ignored 'cause my heart is yours so don't you worry your pretty little mind people throw rocks at things that shine and life makes love look hard so don't you worry your pretty little mind people throw rocks at things that shine but they can't take what's ours they can't take what's ours the stakes are high the water's rough but this love is ours
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Tim McGraw
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spoken this is the song that got it all started for me it's called 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 bittersweet 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 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 ooh 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 thank you so much
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Christmas Tree Farm
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spoken it's jingleball theres santa hats everywhere you're never too far away from one and you know i was wondering if maybe you wanted me to sing a song that i wrote my winter nights are taken up by static stress and holiday shopping traffic but i close my eyes and i'm somewhere else just like magic in my heart is a christmas tree farm where the people would come to dance under sparkling lights bundled up in their mittens and coats and the cider would flow and i just wanna be there tonight pre sweet dreams of holly and ribbon mistakes are forgiven and everythin is icy and blue and you would be there too under the mistletoe watchin' the fire glow and tellin' me i love you just bein' in your arms takes me back to that little farm where every wish comes true in my heart is a christmas tree farm there's a light in the barn we run inside out from the cold in the town kids are dreamin' of sleighs and they're warm and they're safe they wake to see a blanket of snow pre sweet dreams of holly and ribbon mistakes are forgiven and everythin is icy and blue and you would be there too under the mistletoe watchin the fire glow and tellin' me i love you just bein in your arms takes me back to that little farm where every wish comes true baby yeah and when i'm feelin' alone you remind me of home oh baby baby merry christmas and when the world isn't fair i pretend that were there baby baby merry christmas to you under the mistletoe to you watching the fire glow and tellin' me i love you oh baby baby merry christmas oh baby baby merry christmas darling oh baby baby merry christmas i love you oh baby baby merry christmas oh baby baby merry christmas i just want you to know oh baby baby merry christmas where every wish comes true i love you
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Last Kiss
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i still remember the look on your face lit through the darkness at 58 the words that you whispered for just us to know you told me you loved me so why did you go away away i do recall now the smell of the rain fresh on the pavement i ran off the plane that july 9th the beat of your heart it jumps through your shirt i can still feel your arms but now i'll go sit on the floor wearing your clothes all that i know is i don't know how to be something you miss i never thought we'd have a last kiss i never imagined we'd end like this your name forever the name on my lips i still remember the swing of your step the life of the party you're showing off again and i roll my eyes and then you pull me in i'm not much for dancing but for you i did because i love your handshake meeting my father i love how you walk with your hands in your pockets how you kissed me when i was in the middle of saying something there's not a day i don't miss those rude interruptions and i'll go sit on the floor wearing your clothes all that i know is i don't know how to be something you miss i never thought we'd have a last kiss i never imagined we'd end like this your name forever the name on my lips ooh so i'll watch your life in pictures like i used to watch you sleep and i feel you forget me like i used to feel you breathe and i keep up with our old friends just to ask them how you are hope it's nice where you are and i hope the sun shines and it's a beautiful day and something reminds you you wish you had stayed you can plan for a change in weather and time but i never planned on you changing your mind and i'll go sit on the floor wearing your clothes all that i know is i don't know how to be something you miss i never thought we'd have a last kiss i never imagined we'd end like this your name forever the name on my lips ooh just like our last kiss forever the name on my lips just like our last
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Should’ve Said No
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you should've said no you should've gone home you should've thought twice 'fore you let it all go you should've know that word 'bout what you did with her get back to me 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 pre and yyu 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've thought twice 'fore you let it all go you should've know that word 'bout what you did with her get back to me get back to me and i should've been there in the back of your mind i 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 you can see that i've been crying baby you know all the right things to say but do you honestly expect me to believe we could ever be the same pre and 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've thought twice 'fore you let it all go you should've know that word 'bout what you did with her get back to me get back to me and i should've been there in the back of your mind i 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 well i can't resist before you go tell me this was it worth it was she worth this no no no no no no you should've said no you should've gone home you should've thought twice 'fore you let it all go you should've know that word 'bout what you did with her get back to me get back to me and i should've been there in the back of your mind i 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 thank you
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Fearless
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there's something 'bout the way the street looks when it's just rained there's a glow off the pavement you walk me to the car and you know i wanna ask you to dance right there in the middle of the parking lot yeah oh yeah we're driving down the road i wonder if you know i'm trying so hard not to get caught up now but you're just so cool run your hands through your hair absentmindedly making me want you and i don't know how it gets better than this you take my hand and drag me head first fearless and i don't know why but with you i'd dance in a storm in my best dress fearless so baby drive slow 'til we run out of road in this one horse town i wanna stay right here in this passenger's seat you put your eyes on me in this moment now capture it remember it 'cause i don't know how it gets better than this you take my hand and drag me head first fearless and i don't know why but with you i'd dance in a storm in my best dress fearless well you stood there with me in the doorway my hands shake i'm not usually this way but you pull me in and i'm a little more brave it's the first kiss it's flawless really something it's fearless oh yeah 'cause i don't know how it gets better than this you take my hand and drag me head first fearless and i don't know why but with you i'd dance in a storm in my best dress fearless 'cause i don't know how it gets better than this you take my hand and drag me head first fearless and i don't know why but with you i'd dance in a storm in my best dress fearless oh oh oh yeah
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Teardrops On My Guitar
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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 pre 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 that i can't even see anyone when he's with me pre 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 he's the reason for the teardrops on my 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't he tell that i can't breathe and there he goes so perfectly the kind of flawless i wish i could be pre she'd better hold him tight give him all her love look in those beautiful eyes and know she's lucky 'cause he's the reason for the teardrops on my 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 he's the reason for the teardrops on my 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 so i drive home alone as i turn off the light i'll put his picture down and maybe get some sleep tonight he's the reason for the teardrops on my the only one whos 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
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Beautiful Eyes
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your beautiful eyes stare right into mine and sometimes i think of you late at night i don't know why i pre i wanna be somewhere where you are i wanna be where you're here your eyes are looking into mine so baby make me fly my heart has never felt this way before i'm looking through your i'm looking through your eyes i wake up i'm alive in only a little while i'll cry 'cause you're my lullaby so baby come hold me tight 'cause ii pre i wanna be everything you need i wanna be where you're here your eyes are looking into mine so baby make me fly my heart has never felt this way before i'm looking through your i'm looking through your eyes just as long as you're mine i'll be your everything tonight let me love you kiss you oh baby let me miss you let me see your dream about dream about dream about your eyes eyes eyes beautiful eyes
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Love Story
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ahah ahah ahah ahahahah we were both young when i first saw you i close my eyes and the flashback starts i'm standing there on a balcony in summer air see the lights see the party the ball gowns see you make your way through the crowd and say hello little did i know pre that you were romeo you were throwing pebbles and my daddy said stay away from juliet and i was crying on the staircase begging you please don't go and i said romeo take me somewhere we can be alone i'll be waiting all there's left to do is run you'll be the prince and i'll be the princess it's a love story baby just say yes so i sneak out to the garden to see you we keep quiet 'cause we're dead if they knew so close your eyes escape this town for a little while pre 'cause you were romeo i was a scarlet letter and my daddy said stay away from juliet but you were everything to me i was begging you please don't go and i said romeo take me somewhere we can be alone i'll be waiting all there's left to do is run you'll be the prince and i'll be the princess it's a love story baby just say yes romeo save me they're trying to tell me how to feel this love is difficult but it's real don't be afraid we'll make it out of this mess it's a love story baby just say yes oh oh i got tired of waiting wondering if you were ever coming around my faith in you was fading when i met you on the outskirts of town pre and i said romeo save me i've been feeling so alone i keep waiting for you but you never come is this in my head i don't know what to think he knelt to the ground and pulled out a ring and said said said said romeo take me somewhere we can be alone i'll be waiting all there's left to do is run you'll be the prince and i'll be the princess it's a love story baby just say yes romeo save me they're trying to tell me how to feel this love is difficult but it's real don't be afraid we'll make it out of this mess it's a love story baby just say yes
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Untouchable
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untouchable like a distant diamond sky i'm reaching out and i just cant tell you why i'm caught up in you i'm caught up in you pre untouchable burning brighter than the sun and when youre close i feel like coming undone in the middle of the night when i'm in this dream it's like a million little stars spelling out your name you got to come on come on say that we'll be together come on come on little taste of heaven it's half full and i won't wait here all day i know you're saying that you'd be here anyway pre but youre untouchable burning brighter than the sun now that youre close i feel like coming undone in the middle of the night when i'm in this dream its like a million little stars spelling out your name you got to come on come on say that we'll be together come on come on oh in the middle of the night waking from this dream i want to feel you by my side standing next to me you got to come on come on say that we'll be together come on come on little taste of heaven i'm caught up in you oh oh oh pre but youre untouchable burning brighter than the sun now that you're close i feel like coming undone in the middle of the night when i'm in this dream it's like a million little stars spelling out your name you got to come on come on say that we'll be together come on come on oh in the middle of the night when i'm in this dream it's like a million little stars spelling out your name you got to come on come on say that we'll be together come on come on oh in the middle of the night waking from this dream i want to feel you by my side standing next to me you got to come on come on say that we'll be together come on come on little taste of heaven and in the middle of the night when i'm in this dream it's like a million little stars spelling out your name you got to come on come on come on come on come on come on oh oh oh like a million little stars spelling out your name they're spelling out your name oh
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Change
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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 oh oh so we've been outnumbered raided and now cornered it's hard to fight when the fight aint fair we're getting stronger now finding 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 'cause 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 oh oh 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'll sing hallelujah we sang hallelujah hallelujah
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Political Instagram Post
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i'm writing this post about the upcoming midterm elections on november 6th in which i'll be voting in the state of tennessee in the past i've been reluctant to publicly voice my political opinions but due to several events in my life and in the world in the past two years i feel very differently about that now i always have and always will cast my vote based on which candidate will protect and fight for the human rights i believe we all deserve in this country i believe in the fight for lgbtq rights and that any form of discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender is wrong i believe that the systemic racism we still see in this country towards people of color is terrifying sickening and prevalent i cannot vote for someone who will not be willing to fight for dignity for all americans no matter their skin color gender or who they love running for senate in the state of tennessee is a woman named marsha blackburn as much as i have in the past and would like to continue voting for women in office i cannot support marsha blackburn her voting record in congress appalls and terrifies me she voted against equal pay for women she voted against the reauthorization of the violence against women act which attempts to protect women from domestic violence stalking and date rape she believes businesses have a right to refuse service to gay couples she also believes they should not have the right to marry these are not my tennessee values i will be voting for phil bredesen for senate and jim cooper for house of representatives please please educate yourself on the candidates running in your state and vote based on who most closely represents your values for a lot of us we may never find a candidate or party with whom we agree 00 on every issue but we have to vote anyway so many intelligent thoughtful selfpossessed people have turned 8 in the past two years and now have the right and privilege to make their vote count but first you need to register which is quick and easy to do october 9th is the last day to register to vote in the state of tn go to voteorg and you can find all the info happy voting
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Teardrops on My Guitar
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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 pre 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 fnny that i can't even see anyone when he's with me pre 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 he's the reasons for the teardrops on my 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't he tell that i can't breathe and there he goes so perfectly the kind of flawless i wish i could be pre she'd better hold him tight give him all her love look in those beautiful eyes and know she's lucky 'cause he's the reason for the teardrops on my 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 so i drive home alone as i turn out the light i'll put his picture down and maybe get some sleep tonight 'cause he's the reason for the teardrops on my the only one whos 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 thank you
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Picture To Burn
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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 you won't mind if i say by the way 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 '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 an all my wasted time as far as i'm concerned you're just another picture to burn 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 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 burn burn burn baby burn you're just another picture to burn baby burn
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Rare Peer
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i'm curled up in my mother's bed staring intently at my laptop i'm watching a video of a familiarlooking man wearing a black tuxedo the video seems to be of a televised award show the tape is grainy but the man steps up to the mic and his words are clear now i'm gonna deal you a queen from the winning hand her voice is full like solid gold with some platinum blended in sometimes you'll hear silver when she twists and twirls her notes but gold is brenda's metal in this song i wish i'd wrote ladies and gentlemen brenda lee the camera then focuses on a woman in her late thirties the music starts and she's looking down at a framed picture she's at ease she is theatrical and she is beautiful in a sparkling gown that matches the twinkle in her eye lights camera action she starts to sing that's when you hear the gold and you watch her as she holds the crowd in the palm of her hand the performance ends and the crowd goes wild the lovely lady graciously takes a bow she smiles out into the vast darkness taking it all in with grace and composure the video ends and i reflect back on what i just saw it was a timeless performance but here are the facts the year is 98 the song is someone loves you honey the man in the tuxedo is johnny cash and the woman in the beautiful dress with the honeylike voice is none other than brenda lee brenda lee who was born in 944 near atlanta and used her prodigious singing talent to support her family after the tragic death of her father brenda lee the little girl who took over the music world with charttopping hits when she was still a child brenda lee the woman who ushered in a new style of rock roll and was one of the early musical artists to find her fame through television brenda lee the artist who later went back to her country roots proving that she could create classics and break down barriers no matter what genre or category her music fell under brenda lee the singer who mastered the sound of heartbreak so flawlessly that she made audiences not only identify with her but believe her i watch the look on her face as she ends her song and first hears that applause there's a reason she's been able to move people to their feet for almost sixty years brenda lee is grace brenda lee is class and composure and when she hears the roar of a crowd brenda lee smiles like she's five years old and receiving her first standing ovation brenda lee is someone i will always look up to because of the way she shines as johnny cash said in 98 it's almost like she's golden
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Should’ve Said No
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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 pre 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've thought twice 'fore you let it all go you should've known that word 'bout what you did with herd get back to me get back to me and i should've been there in the back of your mind i 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 you can see that i've been crying baby you know all the right things to say but do you honestly expect me to believe we could ever be the same pre 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've thought twice 'fore you let it all go you should've known that word 'bout what you did with herd get back to me get back to me and i should've been there in the back of your mind i 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've thought twice 'fore you let it all go you should've known that word 'bout what you did with herd get back to me get back to me and i should've been there in the back of your mind i 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
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Teardrops on my Guitar
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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 pre 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 so damn funny that i can't even see anyone when he's with me pre 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 he's the reason for the teardrops on my 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't he tell that i can't breathe and there he goes so perfectly the kind of flawless i wish i could be pre she'd better hold him tight give him all her love look in those beautiful eyes and know she's lucky 'cause he's the reason for the teardrops on my 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 so i drive home alone as i turn off the light i'll put his picture down and maybe get some sleep tonight he's the reason for the teardrops on my the only one whos 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
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Evermore
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to put it plainly we just couldnt stop writing songs to try and put it more poetically it feels like we were standing on the edge of the folklorian woods and had a choice to turn and go back or to travel further into the forest of this music we chose to wander deeper in ive never done this before in the past ive always treated albums as oneoff eras and moved onto planning the next one after an album was released there was something different with folklore in making it i felt less like i was departing and more like i was returning i loved the escapism i found in these imaginarynot imaginary tales i loved the ways you welcomed the dreamscapes and tragedies and epic tales of love lost and found into your lives so i just kept writing them
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Welcome Back Grunwald
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turn wycd on you're on your grunwald back from the amazon ah huh huh he's here with doctor don i heard they dropped him off in the amazon ah huh huh he caught an anaconda ate some piranhas that's kinda disgusting but whatever makes you happy and i heard some naked boy showed him around yeah grunwald's back in town
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Tolerate it
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zwrotka siedzę i patrzę jak czytasz z głową pochyloną budzę się i patrzę jakl oddychasz z zamkniętymi oczyma siedzę i oglądam ciebie zauważam wszystko co robisz i czego nie robisz jesteś tyle starszy i mądrzejszy i ja refren czekam przy drzwiach jak małe dziecko używam najlepsze farby na twój portret nakrywam stół wykwintnymi pierdołami i patrzę jak ty to jedynie znosisz jeśli to wszystko dzieje się w mojej głowie to powiedz mi teraz powiedz mi że mylę się jakoś wiem że moja miłość powinna być celebrowana a ty ją jedynie znosisz zwrotka witam cię jak zwycięzcę powracającego z pola walki pobłażliwie traktuję twoje niedyskrecje siedzę i słucham poleruję talеrze aż lśnią i błyszczą jesteś tylе starszy i mądrzejszy i ja refren czekam przy drzwiach jak małe dziecko używam najlepsze farby na twój portret nakrywam stół wykwintnymi pierdołami i patrzę jak ty to jedynie znosisz jeśli to wszystko dzieje się w mojej głowie to powiedz mi teraz powiedz mi że mylę się jakoś wiem że moja miłość powinna być celebrowana a ty ją jedynie znosisz kiedy cię nie było budowałeś inne światy gdzie byłam ja gdzie ten facet który rzucałby koce na mój drut kolczasty zrobiłam z ciebie moją świątynię mój mural moje niebo a teraz błagam o przypisy w historii twojego życia rysując serca w notce o autorze zawsze zabierałam ci za dużo miejsca i czasu zakładasz że u mnie wszystko gra ale co byś zrobił gdybym refren wyzwoliła sie i zostawiła cię w ruinach wzięła ten sztylet we mnie i go wyjęła zyskać twój ciężar a potem go stracić uwierz mi jestem w stanie to zrobić jeśli to wszystko dzieje się w mojej głowie to powiedz mi teraz powiedz mi że mylę się jakoś wiem że moja miłość powinna być celebrowana a ty ją jedynie znosisz siedzę i oglądam cię
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Find you
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trying just like they say just taking the step love is a piece of cake or so i thought everyone whisper life is just a twister make it full of riddles step it like a paddle just to find u but but i somewhere someplace sometime i will play the song walking down the road just to find u but but someone told me let it be hold your key make your way to the sea u r free coz baby i'm done finding u
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