Two Cities: Lyrics

NASHVILLE

KATY DID

Met her in a sleazy club, much too late one night
She was dancing to a song, underneath a flashing light
Well that’s about all that I remember, seems it’s more like I can’t forget
Cause she took me home, and she took me down
And I ain’t got over it yet

CHORUS
Oh of anyone who loved me
No one ever done it
Like Katy did
Oh of anyone who loved me
No one ever done it
Like Katy did
Not like Katy did
Sure not like Katy did

You think there’s certain places you find a lover
And then there’s certain places you don’t
So I never gave her a second thought
She said “don’t bother”, I said “I won’t”
Well I don’t feel quite so above her now
But she’s gone, so what can I do
Others come-others go
But Katy they don’t do it like you

CHORUS

Not like Katy did
Some old words I keep hearing in my mind
Not like Katy did
After every new love that I find
Not like Katy did
The hottest lovers leave me cold
Sure not like Katy did

CHORUS

JUST WHAT I NEED (with Jonell Mosser)

You came, when I
Was so low I really
Didn’t, think I’d
Last another day
But you, took me,
Out of my depression
And showed me a much better way

Loving you is where I wanna be
The best thing that ever happened to me
Was when she left and made room for you
Oh its plain to see
You’re just what I need

It’s not, that you’re
Just a substitution
Cause no one has ever
Made me feel this good
But if I had
Never hit the bottom
Then I’d never know that you could

CHORUS

(You’re just what I…)
Need to be strong,
What I need to get by
What I need here beside me
‘Til the day that I die

BREAKDOWN CHORUS

Oh it’s plain to see, you’re just what I…    (3)
You’re just what I need

HARD RIDE

Ooh baby you look so good
Just like a model from Hollywood
Picture perfect
With a guarantee
To make a first class fool out of me

My heart’s been takin’
A hard ride
Nobody can see on the inside
There’s only one thing
That I ain’t tried
And that’s being alone
That’s being alone

You’re the same solution
That I’ve used before
The latest, greatest
Gonna give me more
But every savior, I must confess
Has cost me more
And loved me less

CHORUS 2

BRIDGE:   I’m feeling my heart
Grow cold and still
As all of my fears
Overwhelm my will
I think that you could be
The one for me
But do I have the energy?
Is it still inside of me?
‘Cause my heart’s been takin’
A hard ride

CHORUS 3 and Fade

THE STORY OF MY LIFE

I wanna make your morning coffee
Even learn to scramble eggs
And cut my face because you used
My razor on your legs
And tell the cop who wants me to move
I’m just waiting for my wife
I want you to write
The story of my life

I want to get you girlie stuff
Embarrassed at the store
And take you on a date
And wait for you and hold the door
And when the guys say lets go out I’ll say
Let me check it with my wife
I want you to write
The story of my life

I’ve been looking all my life
Always on my own
But in your eyes I’ve found the only
Truth I’ve ever known
Everything I’ve ever wanted
Is right there in your smile
Without you I’m an inch
But with you I’m a mile

I want to hold your hand at night
Walking down the street
And kiss you when I want to
And sweep you off your feet
And when they ask, where’s the couch go?
I’ll say you’ll have to ask my wife
I want you to write
The story of my life

IF I STAYED (with Jonell Mosser)

I know you’re happy, when I’m away
In the illusion that you’re free
I know my love, just how you feel
‘Cause it’s the same way for me
The trust is gone and we can’t talk
Despite the countless times I’ve prayed
Now the pain of leaving
Is less than
If I stayed

There were once, so many good times
They overwhelmed the bad
But somewhere, somehow the balance changed
Into tears over what we had
The smile’s gone, into a frown
And I’ve got nothing left to trade
Now the pain of leaving is less than
If I stayed

Who knows, where love goes
Can you name the time, or the place?
And I would swear
That I don’t care
But then why are these tears
Upon my face?

In the heartache, I see a ghost
Another life too late to save
And so I write this, for the love that once lived
Like putting flowers on a grave
You look like someone I used to know
Who shared a promise we betrayed
Once the pain of leaving
Was less than
If I stayed

TYRANNOSAURUS EX

There’s a beast that stalks the jungle
Born of a demon seed
It wants to kill you slowly
Laughing while you bleed
There’s a beast that roams the jungle
Vengeance is its game
You may have heard of this fearsome beast
It goes by the name
Tyrannosaurus Ex

It will use the children
Anything to ruin your life
It may be your ex husband
It may be your ex wife
It will go to heinous lengths
Like you’ve never seen
And once its favorite color
May have been blue
But baby now its green
Tyrannosaurus Ex

There’s a beast that roams the jungle
I hope you’re not its prey
‘cause whatever your orientation was
It’ll make you go the other way
There’s a beast that stalks the jungle
Vengeance is its game
You may have heard of this fearsome beast
It goes by the name
Tyrannosaurus Ex

How can you tell me how much you miss me
When the last time I saw you, you wouldn't even kiss me
That rich guy you've been seein'
Must have put you down
So welcome back baby
To the poor side of town
To him, you were nothing but a play thing
Not much more than an overnight fling
To me you were the greatest thing this boy had ever found
And girl it's hard to find nice things
On the poor side of town
To him you were nothin' but a little plaything
I can't blame you for tryin'
I'm tryin' to make it too
I've got one little hang up baby
I just can't make it without you
So tell me, are you gonna stay now
Will you stand by me girl all the way now
With you by my side
They can't keep us down
Together we can make it baby
From the poor side of town
(So tell me how much you love me)
(Come be near to me and say you need me now)
Oh, with you by my side
This world can't keep us down
Together we can make it baby
From the poor side of town
Do-doo-doo-wah shoo-be-doo-be
Do-doo-doo-wah shoo-be-doo-be
Do-doo-doo-wah shoo-be-doo-be

We all make mistakes from time to time
Everybody’s human and it ain’t no crime
Just pick yourself up, no matter how you feel
Forget about it baby
It ain’t no big deal

When you’re on the top it’s a fantasy
You’ll soon be on the bottom, take it from me
Life is always neutral, and that’s always real
So forget about it baby
It ain’t no big deal

BR:  Pain is an illusion too
It wants to drain the life out of you
But if you stay with it you’ll make it through
And you’ll see, you’re free

Failure and success are the same old storm
You can rise above it if you don't conform
Their opinions are nothing, only facts are real
So forget about it baby
It ain’t no big deal

Repeat Bridge and Verse

THE HEART OF FOREVER (AMY'S SONG)

We all meet stormy weather
And we are all, in this life together
Everyone can come to the dance
Everyone deserves to have a chance
She was a person who fought to the end
A daughter sister mother wife and devoted friend
There wasn’t anything ,  Amy wouldn’t give
She would have wanted you, to have a chance to live

So come all, and so come one
For every battle lost, there’s a war yet to be won
Her spirit lives, so very near
In the heart of forever
She’s still here

In the name of love, the heart breaks
In the name of life, for all our sakes
We share and we care
We fight what’s so unfair
Stealing  heaven from the grasp of hell
Your offered hand
Lifts yourself as well

CHORUS

Love, live, fight, give,  speak , hear
In the tenderness  of  fingertips
That  brush away a tear
In the heart of forever, she’s still here

WRECKREATION

Don’t want to be respected, don’t want to be adored
Just want you to love me baby, I don’t want to be ignored
I just want you to grab me, by the collar good and tight
And tell me I belong to you, forever every day, and every night

I just want to be your wreckreation
Your one endless infatuation
Your latest greatest last temptation
I just want to be your wreckreation

I’ve been made an idol, the big star of the show
And I’ve been made the devil, the lowest of the low
I don’t want to be a symbol, cause that’s a worthless test
I just want to be wrapped inside
Your arms and legs, with my face against your breast

CHORUS

Don’t have to get, all dressed up
I love it when you look, all messed up
I just want to be inside, your private special place
With your mangled tangled hair
Falling in my face

You can take me when you want to, or you can let me go
I can’t make a move on you, until I really know
I want you and I need you, but I must be needed too
Wrap yourself around me baby,
And I’ll wrap it around you

CHORUS

CHASING THE WIND

The heart it demands
It’s answers supplied
But desires, by nature, can’t be satisfied
The women I loved, the money I made
Were not legal tender
For the price that had to be paid

And if I just had that, that, that, that, that and that
Then I’d be secure
I never was right
I was never once right
But I always was sure
I took and took, until I saw
Then ruefully, I grinned
In the end I had nothing at all
In the end
I had nothing
I was just chasing the wind

I searched for myself
In face after face
Finishing first,
But in the wrong race
Forcing myself to chase every desire
Trying to get warm
From a photograph of a fire

CHORUS

Thousands of years of lives started and ended
Thousands of tears in battles so fiercely defended
Unfair despair and pride
All from the hands of fate
Judgment will come
When we total the sum
Of the love we create

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MIDNIGHT PRAYER

Time, trains passing by, in the blink of an eye
I’m left grasping at air
I’d walk a million hard miles, to see one of your smiles
And lay my soul bare

I lay me down at night to pray
In a dream that cannot stay
I see your face so far away
In a midnight prayer

Lost, in a cloud drifting on, in a moment it’s gone
Stlll I’m in the same place
Trains, from the stations they go, mine’s the wrong one I know
Cause I can’t see your face

CHORUS

Reaching for what I have missed
Lips that I have never kissed
I do not care for open doors
Unless this one,
Unless this one is yours

I lay me down at night to pray
Another midnight prayer

ALL ABOUT THE HEART

We’re all immersed in evaluation
Careful and fearful investigation
Sounds a lot like constipation
Can’t anyone just love?
2000 questions on Eharmony
True love as easy, as getting a degree
But the mind can’t know a truth that just the heart can see
And nothing fits just like a glove
Sure as hell not love

I wanna go back to the place I was before
When love was all that mattered
And hope was at calling at the door
I wanna go back, with a brand new start
When life was an adventure
And love was
All about the heart

How much do I have, how much do I make
How long can I eat it and still have the cake
How long ‘til I realize that I’ve become a fake
I hope its not too late
I am powerful until I finally die
I am confident until I ask but why
I am full of it, until I finally just cry
When I realize my state
Is what I used to hate

CHORUS

Something to eat, a roof over my head
A friend who finds me drunk
And throws me into bed
Needs are simple, yet we choose
The slavery of wants
Man proposes, God disposes
And waits for us to see
With such nonchalance