We?re wastin? all our time and energy it seems To mend our broken hearts as if they were machines There ain't a tool around that could make us tight
I told you when we first met I don't want nothin' serious And you said, "I understand" No commitment that's for sure I always need that open door 'Cause
I'm far from perfect baby I know it's true But I guess nobody has to tell you I don't always listen and I talk too much I think I'm in tune when I'm out
Every Saturday night I watched Roy Rogers on TV Back when everything was black and white And easy to see But now everything has changed Except my memory
It?s a small crowd here again tonight I?m playing these old songs I write Nobody?s listening But a rich guy in the corner booth And I think I?d like
Yes I 've been with someone new She's a good woman too But she can't compare to you Chorus: The more time that I spend with her The more I see what it
My name ain?t up in lights But I?m a hero in this bar And I play four big shows a night With just me and my guitar I don?t make a lot of money And I
Well I headed to Atlanta for the weekend Just to step out of my boring little life I was going to my best friend's brothers' wedding Thought I'd eat and
It's Tuesday night, it's twenty to eight I'm picking up my baby and I'm already late There's a blond hair beauty in the liquor store line She asked me
Gotham heard the news today Batman up and moved away He said he couldn't bare to stay In a lonely cave no more The Daily Planet pitted Lois Lane Had
Why you wearing that dress With your hair all down Are you meeting some friends Mind if I come Will you be home late Again tonight That nothing you?re
Beyond the cost of diesel fuel And the tearing down of my old high school I still think about her The nation's rising deficit My fatal crave for cigarettes
You say you're alone when you're with me and I don't care about the way you feel inside You say the weight's all on your shoulders Baby you say I never
You?re Daddy?s little girl Born with a silver spoon I could tell somebody told you You hung the moon You look so good I had to look the other way You
I?m sittin? in car in southern California Just like I do every day thinkin? ?bout my life And waiting for the light to change Told her I was leavin?
I live in this castle all alone I must have built these walls with a heart of stone Whoa, can?t you see Whoa, what you?re doing to me? I?m standin? on
She left Arizona, like her father had before She took a bus 'cause she hated planes She prayed the trip would ease her pain And lead to open doors She
I knew I shouldn't love her, we were only seventeen But I've always been a sucker For long blond hair and eyes so green But I had to leave her, leave