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Artist: Kenny Chesney
Album: Just Who I Am: Poets And Pirates
Year: 2007
Genre: Country

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I move on like a sinners prayer
And letting go like a levee breaks
Walk away as if I don’t care
Learn to shoulder my mistakes
Or built to fade like your favorite song
Get reckless when there’s no need
Laugh as your stories ramble on
Break my heart, but it won’t bleed
My only friends are pirates
That’s just who I am
But I’m better as a memory than as your man

Never sure when the truth won’t bend
And pretty good on a lonely night
Or move on the way a storm blows through
And never stay, but then again, I might.
I struggle sometimes to find the words
Always sure until I doubt
Walk a line until it blurs
Build walls too high to climb out
But I’m honest to a fault
That’s just who I am
I’m better as a memory than as your man

I see you leaning, you’re bound to fall
I don’t want to be that mistake
I’m just a dreamer and nothing more
You should know it before it gets too late

Cause goodbyes are like a roulette wheel
You never know where they’re gonna land
First you’re spinning, then you’re standing still
Left holding a losing hand
But one day you’re gonna find someone
And right away you’ll know it’s true
That all of your sinking’s done
It was just a part of the passing through
Right there in that moment you’ll finally understand
That I was better as a memory than as your man
Better as a memory than as your man.

Sometimes they’re in a bottle,
Sometimes a pair of high-heel shoes,
Some come rolled in paper
Some have six strings and only play the blues
Once you’ve met the devil
There ain’t no way he’ll let you be
When I’m not chasing demons,
There’s demons chasing me

Skeletons in closets
Ghosts underneath the bed
They hide out in pictures
And words better left unsaid
They hang around like perfume
And haunt me like an ancient melody
When I’m not chasing demons,
There’s demons chasing me

There’s things that I can’t leave alone
‘Cause they won’t leave me alone
What I want ain’t what I need
Still I reach for the things I crave
Then try to run away
Am I afraid of being free
‘Cause when I’m not chasing demons
There’s demons chasing me

So roll one up and light it
Pick up my old guitar
I’m playing crossroads
Drinking whiskey from a mason jar
Heartache at my front door
Says she needs my company
When I’m not chasing demons
There’s demons chasing me

There’s things that I can’t leave alone
‘Cause they won’t leave me alone
What I want ain’t what I need
Still I reach for the things I crave
Then try to run away
Am I afraid of being free
‘Cause when I’m not chasing demons
There’s demons chasing me

When I’m not chasing demons
There’s demons chasing me

Demons chasing me(repeats).

I’m not afraid of lonely
I’ve gotten good at being that
Ain’t seen nothin’ that could hold me
Say good-bye and don’t look back

Running, always ready
Feel as strong and steady
But you scare me

Took a long walk after midnight
Trying to make sense of it all
Tried to catch a glimpse of my old life
But your face was all i saw

Blue eyes staring through me
Baby, what are you doing to me
You (never felt this before, it’s all brand new to me, never known anyone) scare me
You (i’m doing what i said i would never do, too late to stop it now) scare me

Knowing there’s no turning back
Knowing I don’t want to

Baby you (never felt this before, it’s all brand new to me, never known anyone) scare me
You (I’m doing what I said I would never do, too late to stop it now) scare me
Scare me
Scare me
Baby you scare me
Scare me.

(Featuring Joe Walsh)

I walked in, there sat Slim
Cleaning up his memory with some sapphire gin
Mr. Pain grabbed my arm and pulled me aside
And said kid are you ready for the wild ride

I looked up, there she stood
I say, didn’t look so great, i say you look good
Aww she took her hand ran it up my thigh
And said, cowboy you ready for the wild ride

Come on now junior take a wild ride (wild ride)
See can you make it on the wild ride (wild ride)
Don’t try no shakin’ on the wild ride (wild ride)
Things start breakin’ on the wild ride (wild ride)
Yes it does

Out on the highway, i saw my mind
In tiny little pieces blown from side to side
My heart was shattered along with my pride
Guess you can’t keep ‘em on the wild ride

Come on now junior take a wild ride (wild ride)
See can you make it on the wild ride (wild ride)
Don’t try no shakin’ on the wild ride (wild ride)
Things start breakin’ on the wild ride (wild ride)
Yeah it does

I was crawling cross the floor, i was tryin’ to leave
When i felt something tugging what was left of my sleeve
I heard a little voice with a gold plated vibe
Say i bought a ticket for the wild ride

Come on now junior take a wild ride (wild ride)
See can you make it on the wild ride (wild ride)
Don’t try no shakin’ on the wild ride (wild ride)
We just might break it on the wild ride (wild ride)

Come on now junior take a wild ride (wild ride)
See can you make it on the wild ride (wild ride)
Don’t try no shakin’ on the wild ride (wild ride)
We just might break it on the wild ride (wild ride).

She’s thinking about what her kids are doing
Five miles away, it’s almost time for bed
They’re brushing teeth and hearing one more story
And in the mirror she paints her lips bright red
She wishes she could call and say she loves them
But the bossman says no calls go out or in
So she puts on a dress that might feel pretty
If she didnt have to take it off again

She’s dancin for the Groceries
She’s dancin for the rent
She’s dancing for the credit cards
That she’s already spent
In sequence and in laces
She’s dancing for the braces
So her kids can a perfect smile someday
Smiling While she dances
Is the price she has to pay

They tell her in this job there is no future
So get it while you can Cause looks dont last
There money in those pockets for the take in
If u do it right it makes the time go fast
The music loud the drinks are mostly water
What her name is tonight she cant recall
The business men stair at the single mother
Whose smiling while she’s stairing at the wall

She’s dancin for the Groceries
She’s dancin for the rent
She’s dancing for the credit cards
That she’s already spent
In sequence and in laces
She’s dancing for the braces
So her kids can a perfect smile someday
Smiling While she dances
Is the price she has to pay

Someday she’ll have a house out in the country
Someday she’ll see the other side of dawn
And noone will ever know
But it wats she did before
She just heard the dj say your on
The lights come up
And they play her song.

Steel drums still ringing in my head
Well I feel pain, So I’m not dead
From the looks of things, it looks like
It got a little crazy last night

Could I get your name again?
Some situation that we’re in
Woke up by each others side
It got a little crazy last night

Last thing I remember
I told the bartender it’s rum and whatever you have
First one drink, then two then I woke up with you so I know things can’t be all that bad
But it’s still a little hazy, it got a little crazy last night

Are these your shoes that I have on?
Is this your bed, is this your home?
All I know is, it’s not mine
It got a little crazy last night

Last thing I remember
I told the bartender it’s rum and whatever you have
First one drink, then two then I woke up with you so I know things can’t be all that bad
But it’s still a little hazy, it got a little crazy last night

I think I feel a fresh tattoo
What is it of, I wish I knew
It couldn’t get more out of sight
It got a little crazy last night

Last thing I remember
I told the bartender it’s rum and whatever you have
First one drink, then two then I woke up with you so I know things can’t be all that bad
But it’s still a little hazy, suns a shady, think she might have paid me, it got a little crazy last night

Got a little crazy
Got a little crazy.

Everybody thinks I’ve got it all
Nobody really does, do they?
I’ve got more than I deserve, more than I ever dreamed
But there’s always a price you pay
It’s been an amazing road
I’ve been blessed, I know
But at the end of the day I go home alone

I still hope someday I’ll have a wife and kids
Smiling faces running to the door when I walk in
Saying “Daddy’s home, you were gone too long. What’d you bring me? Swing me. Let me show you what I did”
I still dream about that look on a woman’s face
That says I love you through the good, the bad, the sunshine or the rain
Sometimes I wish I had someone to share my life with
Maybe I’ll have a wife and kids
Maybe someday….

Maybe I could have a son
Play football in the backyard
Or take my daughter fishin’, and when she turns 15 teach her how to drive a car
When I grow old and they’ve all left home
I want to lay beside my wife and talk about the old times, remember all the good times.

I still hope someday I’ll have a wife and kids
Smiling faces running to the door when I walk in
Saying “Daddy’s home, you were gone too long. What’d you bring me? Swing me. Let me show you what I did”
I still dream about that look on a woman’s face
That says I love you through the good, the bad, the sunshine or the rain
Sometimes I wish I had someone to share my life with
Maybe I’ll have a wife and kids
Maybe someday….

Sometimes I wish I had someone to share my life with
Maybe I’ll have a wife and kids
Someday…
I’ll have a wife and kids
Maybe someday..

She played third base on a softball team
Had a pretty good arm and real nice swing
I was workin part out at Gentry’s farm
I had thing for a girl in a uniform
After the game she was mine, young, wild and free
Yeah old Mr. Gentry was pretty cool
He said son I’d know where I’d be
And what I’d say if it was me

(Chorus)
One of these days
Were guna have to grow up
Have to get real jobs and be adults, someday
Just not today
Have to worry about things out of our control
Like kids, love and money and gettin old, someday
Just not today, just not today

Had a rope swing hangin from a sycamore tree
By a deep wood spot on white sand creek
Used to walk barefoot, down a little dirt path
We’d through out the beach towels and
Lay on our backs
Had four wheel drive trucks parked up in the shade
With those speakers blasted
We never knew how much we really had it made,
Without a care in a world we’d say

(Repeat Chorus)

Have to show some maturity, responsibility
Pay the old fiddler, face reality
Maybe tomorrow the order of wise
Will be, god love us we’ll be

(Repeat Chorus)

Just not today
Just not today.

(Duet with George Strait)

Shift work, hard work, tired bar
Blue-collar shirt and a baseball cap
You knew me

He’s hot, sweat drops, ’round the clock
Door never locks
Noise never stops
Not all day
Work seven to three
Three to eleven
Eleven to seven

Shift work, tough work for the convenience store clerk
Two feet that hurt, going insane
She’s mad at some lad
Drove off and didn’t pay for his gas and he won’t be the last
’round the clock pain
Work seven to three
Three to eleven
Eleven to seven

Talking about a bunch of shift work
A big ol’ pile of shift work
Work seven to three
Three to eleven
Eleven to seven

Well i work, shift work,
Ten years man, i hated that work
I made a break with the money i made
It took me to the beach to have a beer by the edge of the sea
And this ’round a clock place
I drank my money away
We partied
Work seven to three
Three to eleven
Eleven to seven

Talking about a bunch of shift work
A big ol’ pile of shift work
Work seven to three
Three to eleven
Eleven to seven

(instrumental interlude)

Talking about a bunch of shift work
A big ol’ pile of shift work
Work seven to three
Three to eleven
Eleven to seven

Work seven to three
Three to eleven
Eleven to seven.

I turned on the evening news
Saw a old man being interviewed
Turning a hundred and two today
Asked him what’s the secret to life
He looked up from his old pipe
Laughed and said “All I can say is.”

Don’t blink
Just like that you’re six years old and you’re taking naps and you
Wake up and you’re twenty-five and your high school sweetheart becomes your wife
Don’t blink
You just might miss your babies growing like mine did
Turning into moms and dads next thing you know your better half
Of fifty years is there in bed
And you’re praying God takes you instead
Trust me friend a hundred years goes faster than you think
So don’t blink

I was glued to my tv and it looked like he looked at me and said
“Best start putting first things first.”
Cause when your hourglass runs out of sand
You can’t flip over and start again
Take every breathe God gives you for what it’s worth

Don’t Blink
Just like that you’re six years old and you’re taking naps and you
Wake up and you’re twenty-five and your high school sweetheart becomes your wife
Don’t blink
You just might miss your babies growing like mine did
Turning into moms and dads next thing you know your better half
Of fifty years is there in bed
And you’re praying God takes you instead
Trust me friend a hundred years goes faster than you think
So don’t blink

I’ve been tryna slow it down
I’ve been tryna take it in
In this here today gone tomorrow world we’re livin’ in

Don’t blink
Just like that you’re six years old and you’re taking naps and you
Wake up and you’re twenty-five and your high school sweetheart becomes your wife
Don’t blink
You just might miss your babies growing like mine did
Turning into moms and dads next thing you know your better half
Of fifty years is there in bed
And you’re praying God takes you instead
Trust me friend a hundred years goes faster you think
Don’t blink

Naw, don’t blink.