I stayed out late

I didn't call

I saw the light go out as I

walked down the hall

Silence begins

Without a where have you been

Chorus:

Love and gravity

Havin' their way with me

Her faith in me

Is in a tailspin

Heart look out below

Hold on 'casue here we go

Free fallin' from her good graces again

Free fallin' from her good graces again

Out on the edge

That's where I fly

I've gotten good at landin'

on her bad side

Words of regret

Haven't bailed me out yet

Chorus

I'm in way deep

Every day of the week

Chorus

Well it used to be

thatyou couldn't tell me anything

Just another young fool who thought he

knew it all

I was runnin' hard and fast

thinkin' I was invincible

'Til I hit the wall

Chorus:

And I need you now

Like I needed you then

To help me get back up on my feet again

Only you and you alone

Can turn my stumbling blocks into

stepping stones

Well you stood by me when everyone else

had written me off

And you stayed with me for reasons I'll

never know

Surrounded by troubled waters I was all

but lost

And you were my bridge across

My bridge across

Chorus

All the times I stumbled down

You lifted me up

To higher ground

Chorus

I recognize the writing

on the plain white envelope

I've wondered where she'd wind up

before she called or wrote

the answer's in a circle

through the word 'Love' on a stamp

Postmarked Birmingham

I'd have bet on California

'cause her sister's in Bel Aire

Or I could Seattle

wither mom and dad up there

She never mentioned Alabama

so I don't understand

Postmarked Birmingham

Chorus:

A tow-page letter written on

Ramada stationary

Date Aprill twenty-two

She asked me not to hate her,

said she's sorry

But leavin's what she felt she had to do

So the day she left she made it

two hundred miles south

Did she settle there, did she mail this note

on her way out of town

What chance is there to find here when the

only clue I have is

Postmarked Birmingham

Chorus

Every day down by the mailbox

standin' on the curb I check

The upper right hand corner

of every piece of mail I get

Hopin' there's that certain circle

Through the word 'Love' on a stamp

Postmarked Birmingham

I'm lying beside you just thinkin' 'bout us

Too tired to go to sleep

I'm too much in love

I know I'm crazy but I can't close my eyes

I'm scared you won't be there

in the morning when I rise

Baby be there

Who do you dream about

Are you alone in your sleep

To who will you reach out, oh let it be me

Now baby you're my obsession,

my addiction, my love

Don't wanna be without you

when I wake up

Chorus:

Will you ber there in the morning

Will you be there when I want you

Will you ber there when I wake up

I need you to be there in the morning

Oh yeah, baby be there

You're so close to me, but I feel so alone

The more I touch you, the more I want

Don't know what to do

about me lovin' you

But I pray to God that you feel it too

No baby, you're my obsession,

my addiction, my love

So, let the candle grow

into a great fire of love

Chorus

I wanna love you forever

Don't want a love that's now or never

Will you be there in the morning

Will you be there when I want you

Will you be there when I wake up

Will you be there in the morning

Will you be there when I want you

Will you be there forever

Will you be there in the morning

Will you be there forever

Sit down here

Beside me

It's been so long since we've been real

No small talk

No smoke screens

It's time we talk about what we don't feel

These are the hardest words

I've ever had to say

Chorus:

It ain't about love anymore

We're just holdin' on to a dream

this is gone

This ain't about us anymore

And it's just about ime we let og

I'll let go when I walk out that door

You'll know

It ain't about love anymore

It's not fair

To hurt you

I know you tried to do your part

A cold wind

Blows through me

It's been a ghost town in my lonely heart

This is the hardest thing

I've ever had to do

Chorus

These are the hardest words

I've ever had to say

Chorus

I was the envy of every man

Who thought I held the world in the palm

of my hand

Nobody ever got the best of me

I knew better I knew I was lost

I wouldn't let on despite the cost

I was only showin' what I wanted them

to see

Chorus:

I was nobody's fool

Somebody who always knew just how to

play the part

No angry eyes, no sad goodbyes

I walked away before the hearaches start

Any fool can run away from love

It takes a wiser man to fall

I'd rather be somebody's fool

than nobody's fool at all

I had the answers to the questions of

Matters of the heart and the ways of love

All that was missing is someone to call my own

Now before it's too late

I want to know what love is

I lived on the take

I want to learn how to give

I'm tired of payin' the price of being alone

Chorus

Any fool can run away from love

It takes a wiser man to fall

I'd erther be somebody's fool

Than nobody's fool at all

I was nobody's fool

Somebody who always knew just how to

play the part

No angry eyes, no sad goodbyes

I walked away before the heartaches start

Nobody's fool

Chorus:

If that was a lie

that was the sweetest lie that I have

ever heard

Every word

If that was a lie

Was it something that you didn't really mean to say

but said it anyway

you can take it back if you want to

but I'm still gonna believe you

Every word

If that was a lie

It was the sweetest lie that I have

ever heard

Tell me now was it my imagination

Or just a whisper on the wind

You know the tricks the heart can play

I swear I thought I heard you say

You loved me, yeah you loved me

Chorus

I felt it in your tender touch

I wanted to believe so much

But was afraid to let you know

I've been waiting for so long to say I didn't

hear you wrong

You loved me, yeah you loved me

If that was a lie

That was the sweetest lie that I have

ever heard

Every word

It that was a lie

Was it something htat you didn't really mean to say

But said it anyway

If that was a lie

All by myself

I was fine

No one else to remind me

Of all my pain inside

You looked at me

And I knew

You would be

The last thing I needed in my life

Chorus:

Oh I need you

Girl I need you

But I know it's gonna hurt

'Cause you love is gonna tear me apart

Oh I need you

Girl I need you

But I know we shouldn't start

'Cause I need you

Like a hole in my heart

Don't smile that smile

Say those words

Knowing I'll wanna touch you

Then it will be too late

Just walk away

Don't look back

Let's just say that we're so much

Better off not temptin' fate

Chorus

I've been in and out of love

And I thought I had enough

but there's nothin' in this world

that I can do 'cause

I need you

Girl I need you

but I know it's gonna hurt

'Cause your love is gonna tear me apart

Oh I need you

Girl I need you

But I know we shouldn't start

'Cause I need you

Like a hole

Like a bullet through my soul

Girl I need you like a hole in my heart

There's an agony hangin' over me

you know, I'm losin' sleep

And I've run out of excuses

For why I let you leave

You said you needed a little time

But it's been too long

I know you need your independence, girl

But I'm not that strong

Well there's got to be a way

That we can make ammends

This was all we ever wanted

Please don't let it end

Chorus:

Hold me harmless

There's nothin' else I can do

I'll always love you baby

Show some kindness

And hold me harmless

I've benn told my love was gentle

Thought I had an easy touch

Until I met you, I never knew

You could love someone too much

Thought we'd last forever

I guess it just goes to show

If love is gonna put down roots

It's gotta have room to grow

My only crime of passion

Was that I pushed too hard

And if love's what I'm accused of

Then I'm guilty as charged

Chorus

Well I learned an honest lesson

Guess I never realized

If I overstepped my limit

Then I apologize

Won't you just hold me

Won't you just hold me

Chorus

Looking down that long road

She relieves me the memories

Wishing he had stayed And he never said goodbye

Lately she's been missing

All the nights he held her

The music slowly takes her heart

To another place in time

Chorus:

And she dances with her shadow

Staring out the window

A silver moon silhouette

Shining in her eyes

In her heart she knows that

He will never come back

She dances with her shadow

Alone once tonight

He was fast and reckless

No way she could hold him

Loved her like no other

Had ever done before

Some nights you can find her

going through the motions

Broken dreams and photographs

All scattered on the floor

Chorus

She dannces with her shadow again tonight

He was born on a summer day

nineteen sixty-one

And with the slap of ahand he had landed

as an only son

Mother and father said what a lovely boy

We'll teach him what we learned

Oh yes just what we learned

We'll dress him up warmly

and we'll send him to school

It'll teach him how to fight and be

nobody's fool

Oh, oh what a lonely boy

Oh what a lonely boy

Oh what a lonely boy

In the summer of sixty-three

His mother brought him a sister

And she told him we must attend to

her needs

She's so much younger that you

Well he ran down the hall and he cried

Oh how could his parents have lied

When they said he was the only son

He thought he was the only one

Oh, oh what a lonely boy

Oh what a lonely boy

Oh what a lonely boy

He left home on a winter day

nineteen seventy-nine

And he hoped to find all the love he had

lost in that earlier time

Well his sister grew up and she married a man

She gave him a son, oh yes a lovely son

They dressed him up warmly

They sent him to school

It taught him how to fight and be

nobody's fool

Oh, oh what a lonely boy