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Verse: G Em Chorus: G Bm Am D I will pretend she is your friend fantasy’s ideal for me I will pretend she is your friend reality is killing me didn’t i say if you live this way I will never approve? didn’t I say if you live this way god will take heaven from you? didn't I say if you live this way you’re turning your back on the truth? thank god for unconditional love or how else how could I make myself love a sinner like you? didn’t you think about what I thought did you not think about my belief? didn’t you try to get by on a diet of guilt and grief? didn’t you know the way you chose to grow? now i can’t say I’m proud of how you grew thank god for unconditional love or how else could I make myself love a daughter like you?
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lately i’ve been thinking bout your skin sweet and soft and brown just like cinnamon daily daydream for night to come and stay i wanna feel your body take my breath away i’m painting pictures of you in my head dame i hang those pictures of you in my bed frame the moon looks so good on you, i’ll never see it the same the only thing you’d wear better is my last name i love to hear you say your m’s and o’s i love the way i feel you in my toes your loving’s like a well, bottomless and deep always touching even when we sleep i must have done something right in my last life to get to lay by your side
i’ve got a girl with a smile the size of texas
it’s big and it’s bright and it spreads from ear to ear i’ve got a girl with a smile the size of texas how i wish that girl was with me here but the road rolls out and the highway winds all we got for now is this telephone line i’ll keep taking her calls if she keeps taking mine i love this girl, i do confess she’s the reason i’m believing in happiness no matter where i am she’s gonna be my return address i’ve got a girl as warm as california i lay out in her love and i get a tan i’ve got a girl as warm as california how i wish that girl was where i am your chest, my head is pressed the place i go to rest (feel the rhythm of you) i can’t tell you how much i love the sound of you living heart beats through an hourglass don’t breathe too hard, don’t breathe too fast we can make each heart beat last take a second, take you in memorize your rhythm we can make each heart beat last heart beats through an hourglass don’t breathe too hard too fast heart beats through an hourglass your breath, a quiet song enters, exists your lungs (feel the rhythm of you) i can’t tell you how much i love the sound of you living Section 1: C Dm Em Dm C Section 2: F C Dm Em G her face is burned in my brain, in my brain what makes it worse is i just learned her name we broke some bread i passed her plate thought in my head, your old friends are great then i skipped town and you slipped down and she was just enough of everything i'm not no thoughts of me with blond hair in your hands so carelessly you gave way to circumstance you're on your knees and I'm on the floor i'd grab my keys if i wanted to find the door are we strong enough i hope we are to erase her face in my place before it scars
*co-written with Veronica May
the first thing that i notice is the sunshine on her face which leads me to her freckles looking like they're playing chase her strong jawline, her lips to her eyes which leads me to her midnight hair blowing through the sky oh my, oh my, i feel sorry for the light cause if her face is in the picture, nothing else catches my sight oh my, oh my i could spend the whole day smiling at this silly photograph and the lengths she'll leap to for a little laugh the frames can't tame her spirit's range, which explains why i feel that her beauty can be captured but not caught dead standing still oh my, oh my, this love is black and white we know what to expect cause we've got the right effect oh my, oh my pressing flowers inside books, making melodies and hooks reading pointless stories in bed frisbee, jeopardy, laughing so damn hard you pee these are the photographs flipping through my head oh my, oh my, strolling the lane made up of time P-I-C-T-U-R-Easily the best memory oh my *co-written with Veronica May
Verse: root G F#m F Em Chorus: C D Em // (even if forever... F pass through E to G) Bridge: same as verse i daydream of the day when you say dear, i'm sorry cause i remember more than you could know nightmares turn to tangible truths and i remember that no one feels safe around you i never wanted to say the word never (never) but sometimes something's got to change somehow (ooh) it hurts me but i have to say forever (it's better) even if forever is for now i daydream of the day when i can say mom, i'm pregnant cause i remember fondly you're fond of children but dreams turn into nightmares when i remember no child will you love more than (your child is a piece of) God forgiveness, come find me soon protection do the same traveling through the brain and heart but it arrives in the same vein *2nd/3rd verses co-written with Veronica May (1st verse and choruses cover Gospel song of the same name - Lindsay's grandparents Ollie & Bethel can be heard in recording)
a land removed from sickness pain and sorrow no death, no theft, no aching, no more greed no sad goodbyes but only glad reunions oh this is just what heaven means to me what will it be, when we get over yonder and join the throng upon the glassy sea to greet our loved ones and sing with them forever oh this is just what heaven means to me a people that have minds of understanding and eyes that follow suit in what they see they follow all the passages on love oh this is just what heaven means to me a swaying eucalyptus on the hillside where lovebirds sit and sing their melody surrounded by the people who we love most oh this is just what heaven means to me if this will ever get better it will surely get worse who says what, when, where, who calls who first is hope even worth holding or do i wipe it off my hands the situation paces restless in the places that it stands i watch with aching despair from my own bird's eye how can i bring you air without losing my sky you threw up your borders i just drew a line will it trace back to you or erase over time i fly like a phoenix, i hover over your mule as it thrashes its hooves in a sorrow-full pool i know only to rise now so i can't dive back down and besides, if i tried we both surely would drown i didn't dig a grave or burn a bridge, i broke a cycle the life you gave i yearned to live, the alternative was suicidal it was never what i wanted - to be a self-inflicted orphan now i lay awake haunted by a cursed, reversed abortion you were a red light that stopped me right in my tracks
when i was flying through the crossroads no yellow in between, quick change from red to green you made me move, you made me go you taught me to switch gears and now the road is clear, we let go of the brakes i'll drive with you my dear, and we'll collect souvenirs love is all it takes i picture you and me, two little girls at sea digging our heels in shifting sands baby don't cry those tears, there's enough salt out here we hold our breath, we're holding hands i'm learning how to tell when the next wave will swell anticipate the breaks i'm willing to dive through, long as i can pop up with you love is all it takes i ain't going anywhere, you can quote me girl, i said it if something tries to break us, just trust that i won't let it i don't need a judge to tell me that i'm wedded to you you never have to worry, you never gotta sweat it i told if you picked me you never would regret it i loved you when i met you, i'll love you til the credits roll through love, love, love is all it takes |
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