Hey now boys, take a look right here

Only one comes round every million years

She's a midnight rider on a shooting star

Makes the whole world ring like a big guitar

Well she flagged me down with a devil's sway

It was somewhere down that lost highway

She's a lifeboat on a raging sea

She's a high note in a harmony

She takes away my pain and sorrow

Loves me like there's no tomorrow

This, I can't resist

In my life I realize

I have never known a sweeter kiss

Honey what I missed

Got a piece of heaven right here on Earth

And believe me I know what it's worth

She's an island on a rainy day

She's a desperado's highway

Hey now boys take a look at right here

Only one comes round every million years

She's a midnight rider on a shooting star

Makes the whole world ring like a big guitar

I've been living my life like a man in chains

Ever since she took her love away

But this is now and that was then

And baby all bad things gotta come to an end

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So tonight I'm going caution into the wind

Getting down to the business of living again

Back in the saddle and I'm holding the reins

Gonna find somebody and lover her

Like there ain't no yesterday

Now, it's dark as a dungeon down where I've been

And there ain't no way I'm going back again

I've got my best foot forward on to greener grass

'Cause there ain't no future living in the past

Chorus

Out of the ashes, alive and free

No longer a slave to a memory

Got the rest of my life out in front of me

Chorus

Go on and cry, but you won't change my mind

Your pain and troubles don't concern me

I gave you my love, but it was not enough

I was just your bridge, and girl you burned me

Chorus:

So don't hand me no hard luck story

Hopin' I'll just fall apart

Remember your the one who left me

With nothin' but this cast iron heart

There was a time when my heart was good and kind

There was no end to what I'd give you

But now I've changed, my world's been rearranged

I've tried but I just can't forgive you

Chorus

A cast iron heart, it can't show no mercy

A cast iron heart, it can't show no pain

So don't come to me for love and sympathy

'Cause there ain't none in this cast iron heart

Chorus

Cast iron heart

The sign says "Do not touch" -you're out of bounds

Your forbidden fruit, don't come around

It says don't make plans 'cause in your hand

Is a promise made to another man

'Cause when you're around my defenses go down

Feelings get stronger, looks get longer

The closer you come, the weaker I get

If it ain't happened now, just ain't happened yet

Chorus:

So please, please, please go

I'm not strong enough to say no

Please, please don't stay

I'm not man enough to walk away

Please, please pass by

I can't resist you even though I try

So please go, I'm not strong enough to say no

The sign says "Slow down - Slippery ice"

You've got dangerous curves, don't think twice

It says, "Not For Sale," you're spoken for

Just take your heart and walk out the door

'Cause when you're around my defenses go down

Feelings get stronger, looks get longer

The closer you come, the weaker I get

If it ain't happened now, just ain't happened yet

Chorus

Don't say I didn't warn you, don't say you didn't know

Don't wait till it's too late and then try to go

The closer you come, the weaker I get

If it ain't happened now, just ain't happened yet

I'm beggin' you

Chorus

She gets her things together

Puts them by the door

She says there's no love here anymore

I'll never be the same when she walks out

But she's almost a memory

Chorus:

Now

Wish I could turn her heart around

I feel so alone and she's not even gone

She's almost a memory now

She hasn't even left but I know she's gone

She never even said where we went wrong

One thing that I know without a doubt

She's almost a memory

Chorus

I feel so alone and she's not even gone

She's almost a memory now

She's almost a memory now

Wish I could turn her heart around

She's almost a memory

High on a hill

The valley below me

The blue sky above me

My dreams was so real

I could not hear

The hum of the highway

Or the drums of the foundry pounding out steel

Chorus:

I didn't need no money

I didn't need no time

I didn't need nothing

But my own piece of mind

And to know that

A voice like a whisper

Is bound to be heard

For just one moment

I'm the king of the world

So close my eyes

I let the power defeat me

Because the real world can't free me

From this dirty old town

Where the four winds blow

I sent my troubles rollin'

And since the world just kept turnin' I let it go round

Chorus

Where the four winds blow

I sent my troubles rollin'

And since the world just kept turnin' I let it go round

Chorus

I'm the king of the world

Standing at the crossroads

Taking a long look at my life

Wondering where I'd be

If she hadn't done me wrong

My heart's walking on a thin line

A new love is coming on strong

There comes a time

When you just gotta move on

She never really understood me

She tried to take me for all I had

She left me with nothing but heartache

A good love gone bad

But you loved me like she never could

It was a bad love, a bad love gone good

A bad moon's coming over my shoulder

A good love in the pale blue night

I'm holding on to you in a brand new light

I never knew what I was missing

Your love took me by surprise

Locked away inside her prison

Till you opened my eyes

But you loved me, like she never could

It was a bad love, bad love gone good

She never really understood me

She tried to take me for all I had

She left me with nothing but heartache

A good love gone bad

But you loved me like she never could

It was a bad love, a bad love gone good

But you loved me like she never could

It was a bad love, a bad love gone good

A bad love gone good

A bad love gone good

I hate to be the jealous kind

But I know I cross over that line sometimes

Don't even wanna let her leave this house

'Cause I know the body underneath the blouse

Chorus:

Who's gonna jump right out of their shoes

Hang out of the window for a better view

Whose head is gonna turn walking down that street

Any man with a heartbeat

She says I'm crazy, paranoid

Two emotions I should try to avoid

Yeah it's all in my head, sure it's all my fault

There's no need to worry 'cause after all

Who's gonna whistle from the 14th floor

Trip over each other just to open her door

Who's gonna love her just as much as me

Any man with a heartbeat

Any man with red blood pumpin' through his veins

Any man who's not sound asleep

Any man who's already not six-foot under

Any man with a heartbeat

Any man with red blood pumpin' through his veins

Any man who's not sound asleep

Any man who's already not six-foot under

Any man with a heartbeat

Chorus

Who's gonna love her just as much as me

Any man with a heartbeat

We've been up all night trying to figure it out

Trying to make it all make sense

We ain't right and we ain't wrong

We're just on both sides of the fence

We can talk, talk, talk all night

But only thing will make it right

Chorus:

A kiss is worth a thousand words

When nothing else will do

To fix a broken heart I've heard

A kiss is worth a thousand words

A kiss is worth a thousand words

Now you've got your side and I've got mine

But we can't make each other see

We've been round and round

Since the sun went down

Somehow we still disagree

So lay those angry words to rest

Let's do what we do best

Chorus

Just close your eyes

Dream about me and you

Just hold me tight

And let the love come through

Chorus

The first thing she done when they set her free

From the women's correctional facility

Was to come here askin' me for a reconciliation

She said she'd changed her ways for good

And all she was, was misunderstood

So I did everything I could for her rehabilitation

Chorus:

Hook, line and sinker, I swallowed all of her lies

Hook, line and sinker, she took me for a ride

Just one look at that innocent face

I didn't think twice, I just snapped up the bait

Hook, line and sinker

I helped her get on her feet again

I got her a job out at the Dixie Inn

I had to swear up and down to them that the girl could be trusted

Two nights later she cleaned them out

She took my old Firebird and headed South

And when the cops came to my house, buddy

Guess who go busted?

Chorus:

When she told me how lonely she had been

I should have seen she was only reelin' me in

Hook, line and sinker

Just one look at that innocent face

I didn't think twice, I just snapped up the bait

Hook, line and sinker

I swallowed all of her lies

Hook, line and sinker

She took me for a ride

Hook, line and sinker

Hook, line and sinker