Chasing the Sun

Wouldn't be who I am if I wasn't who I was
If I wasn't who I was when I lost your love
You threw me away like and old love note
Like an old love note that I never shoulda wrote
But I did and I felt like a fool
Felt like a fool for fallin' for you
Like a diamond ring down a rusty drain
Down a rusty drain just washed away

Yeah yeah yeah so long
Good for me I'm better off gone
Yeah yeah I'm alight
There for a while thought I was a goner
What didn't kill me made me stronger

Your promises they fell apart
They fell apart like a broke down car
Turn the key but it just won't start
Haven't thought about you and I ain't gonna start
Not today and never again
Ain't goin' back to where I've been

Yeah yeah yeah so long
Good for me I'm better off gone
Yeah yeah I'm alight
There for a while thought I was a goner
What didn't kill me made me stronger

These days are gone like an old love song
Yeah dead and gone like an old love song
Ain't countin' back, the record's scratched
The record's scratched and it's too damn bad

Yeah yeah yeah so long
Good for me I'm better off gone
Yeah yeah I'm alight
There for a while thought I was a goner
What didn't kill me made me stronger

Tell my heart, to stop beating
Tell my mind not to think
Throw a stone
In the ocean
And tell that stone not to sink

Tell the world to stop turning around
Tell the sky not to be so blue
Tell the rain to stop falling down like tears
But don't tell me to stop loving you
Don't tell me to stop loving you

Tell the past to be forgotten
Tell my life not to exist
Tell a promise made to be spoken
And my lips not to have been kissed

Tell the world to stop turning around
Tell the sky not to be so blue
Tell the rain to stop falling down like tears
But don't tell me to stop loving you
Don't tell me to stop loving you

I can't do it
I can't stop
It's something that love has seen
Only the broken hearted know
The way I feel

Tell the world to stop turning around
Tell the sky not to be so blue
Tell the rain to stop falling down like tears
But don't tell me to stop loving you
Don't tell me to stop loving you

Blue skies, tall palm trees
Flipping through pages of magazines
Workin' at the counter at Wallgreens
Dreamin', waiting
Pinching the pennies on minimum wage
Saving what you can counting down the days
Daddy says don't go
Momma says it's the only way she'll ever know so

Come early Sunday morning
She's gonna say goodbye
Drive past the water tower
80 miles an hour over county lines
Red bull and a blue Camaro
Black top to golden sand
What lies ahead down that road
Ain't no doubt it's a big ol' world
But you're never gonna know
Until you fly girl

Cornfields, dairy farms
Home sweet home ain't goin' nowhere
She's gotta find out if there's life out there
Brother says good luck
Grandma says I sure am gonna miss ya hon but

Come early Sunday morning
She's gonna say goodbye
Drive past the water tower
80 miles an hour over county lines
Red bull and a blue Camaro
Black top to golden sand
What lies ahead down that road
Ain't no doubt it's a big ol' world
You can stay on the ground or fly girl

She knows things might not go her way
But she will not take the coulda shoulda
Woulda's to the grave

Come early Sunday morning
She's gonna say goodbye
Drive past the water tower
80 miles an hour over county lines
Red bull and a blue Camaro
Black top to golden sand
What lies ahead down that road
Ain't no doubt it's a big ol' world
But you're never gonna know
Until you fly girl

Ain't no doubt it's a big ol' world
You can stay on the ground or fly girl

She packed a yellow bag made by Samsonite
She only packed enough for an overnight
She caught the morning bus
To catch the early train
That runs just twice a day, up to Abilene
She wasn't showing yet, she kept her secret hid
She didn't tell the boy, she couldn't live with it
It was so hard for her, to make the choice
She fought a hundred miles, with her inner voice

And the water runs deep
In the river of doubt
And it offers no easy way out

Her best friend told the boy, what she was gonna do
The words hit him so hard, it broke his heart in two
And when he heard the news, he made his tires scream
He swore he'd drive all night, to get to Abilene

And the water runs deep
In the river of doubt
And it offers no easy way out

Only the river heard him call her name
As the angels called his
On that bridge in the rain

It's hard to find a job when you're just seventeen
And when the whole town knows you've been to Abilene
But losing him taught her, the value of a life
She wipes away the tears, and holds their baby tight

The weather man said there was a pretty good chance
Of a big one coming that night
Everybody in town was locking it down
Closing shutters and finding flash lights
Oh but Daddy's intuition is sharper then a knife
Said the rain don't come til the robin takes flight
And he smiled like he always does
We stayed out until the sun came up

And we counted our blessings one by one
And the wind and the thunder never did come
We just sat there talking, laughing like fools
Nobody watching but the man in the moon
And the whole world slept that perfect night
I learned a little 'bout living and a lot about life
Out there in the backyard
Just me and him and 538 stars

Some shimmered and shined like big diamond rings
Some sank into the milky way
He old me about the one who led the three kings
To the stable on Christmas Day
He always made it easy for me to understand
Said we're all a part of a much bigger plan
And he smiled like he always does
We stayed out until the sun came up

And we counted our blessings one by one
And the wind and the thunder never did come
We just sat there talking, laughing like fools
Nobody watching but the man in the moon
And the whole world slept that perfect night
I learned a little 'bout living and a lot about life
Out there in the backyard
Just me and him and 538 stars

We watched the world
Just the two of us
Like it always is
Like it always was

And we counted our blessings one by one
And the wind and the thunder never did come
We just sat there talking, laughing like fools
Nobody watching but the man in the moon
And the whole world slept that perfect night
I learned a little 'bout living and a lot about life
Out there in the backyard
Just me and him and 538 stars
Just me and Dad and 538 Stars

We've been here before
I know it's getting late
But we can't walk away
We walk around this room
So angry and upset
There ain't no giving in

Tell me what you feel
Just get it over with
Why can't we let it go
Cause baby we can win

So lets take the words that we said
And lay them all out on this bed
It's all right, it's all right
Baby we can't go to sleep like this
Can't say goodnight without a kiss
It's not right, it's not right
Cause I don't wanna go to bed angry tonight

We don't wanna fight
But still we say the words
That cut so deep it hurts
We take out different sides
But both of us are wrong
Can't break through the wait

Can't we talk it out?
Let's get it over with
Why are we holding back?
Cause we can't love like this

So let's take the words that we said
And lay them all out on this bed
It's all right, it's all right
Baby we can't go to sleep like this
Can't say goodnight without a kiss
It's not right, it's not right
Cause I don't wanna go to bed angry tonight