A Long Way Home

(dwight yoakam)

She said, baby things change. i said, but i feel the same.
She said, well let me explain, baby, how things can change

I said, but that doesn't show how a love that could grow
Would become so estranged. she said, well baby, things change

Chorus:
She said, na, na, na, na, na, now, now
Now, now, now
Baby, don't try to figure this out
Or ask questions 'bout why
Forever's a promise
No love can survive
And trust with hearts
Just don't apply
She said,
'cause baby, things change

Chorus:
She said, na, na, na, na, na, now, now, baby, don't try
To figure this out, or ask questions 'bout why
Forever's a promise no love can survive
And trust with hearts just don't apply
She said, 'cause baby, things change

Na, na, na, na, na, now, now, so baby, i quite tryin'
To figure things out about all your heart's lyin'
Forever's a promise we couldn't survive
Hey, i may be slow, but i ain't blind

She said, i still love you so. i said, i don't care to know
She said, you once cried my name. i said, well baby, things change
And let's don't go placing no blame, 'cause you know things can change

Na, na, na, na, na, na. na, na, na, na, na, na
She said, you once cried my name. i said, well baby, things change

Na, na, na, na, na, na. na, na, na, na, na, na
Let's don't go placing no blame, 'cause you know things can change

Na, na, na, na, na, na. na, na, na, na, na, na

(dwight yoakam)

That's okay. it's alright
No really, everything is cool
This is just the way i look
When i'm feeling like a fool

Teardrops falling jealous
Drowning in them's just as well as
Drifting on this lonely sea of pain
Could have used another
Night or so to be recovered
Believe the lies i told myself
But just as long as you know

That's okay. it's alright
No really, everything is cool
This is just the way i look
When i'm feeling like a fool

Voice about us softly mumbling
Words that trip my heart is stumbling
To the ground and crawls there knees
I'll embrace small shards of silence
To avoid a loss this violent
And survive love's darkest fears
Just as long as you know

That's okay. it's alright
No really, everything is cool
This is just yhe way i look
When i'm feeling like a fool
When i'm feeling like a fool

(dwight yoakam)

I'm just the same fool, the old fool
The one fool, that you won't fool no more

'least not the way that you fooled
The last fool you fooled before

So let the next fool, the new fool
Be a fool, that you will fool for sure

Just know that this fool, won't be fooled
Like all those other fools no more

Go find some real fool, no near fool
The kind of fool, that knows what fools are for

That'll give your foolin' heart, those foolish thrills
It won't stand a chance to ignore

They'll be a fine fool, a flat blind fool
A sort of fool, with not a clue about what's in store

Doing every fool-filled thing you need him to
For however long it is that fools endure

You might be finding a little lately
That i've been a greatly changing man

You don't seem worried, so i'm encouraged
This won't discourage all you other plans

I'm just the same fool, the old fool
The one fool, that you won't fool no more

'least not the way that you fooled the last fool you fooled before
No, not the way that you fooled all those other fools no more

(dwight yoakam)

Hey girl, hey girl, you warned me to go
But girl, but girl, little did i know
All the things you told me
About what lay in store
Would only make me want you more

Chorus:
No not a word had one chance to save me
From your love. that wicked love
There's not a prayer left for me escaping
From your love. yeah, that wicked love

Hey girl, hey girl, i begged and hollered please
But girl, but girl, even from my knees

All the things you told me
About what lay in store
Only made me want you more

Chorus:
No pain can stop, or rid me what i'm needing
From your love. that wicked love

'cause what i crave all night, and end each day still seeking
Is your love. yeah, that wicked love

Hey girl, hey girl, i tried to understand
But girl, but girl, there ain't no way i can

'cause all the things you told me
About what lay in store
Only made me want you more

Yeah, all the things you told me
About what lay in store
Yeah, they only make me want you more

(dwight yoakam)

I think that i will just take a memory
A small one that i know real well, then go

What i'll take is all the happy thoughts i can recall
But i know there won't be much that i can bear to touch

Chorus:
So i'll just take what my mind can stand
'cause there's not a lot that you can hold
In trembling hands

Just these last few hopeful things that we left lay
Then quickly leave before any more
Get in my way

Chorus:
So i'll just take what my mind can stand
'cause there's not a lot that you can hold
In trembling hands

(dwight yoakam)

Please don't start me cryin'
'cause i'll go on for days
If don't take a lot
But once this starts, it stays

Talking used to help
Here lately though,
That just brings it on

Chorus:
I'll be fine in time
But right now, i'm just trying to forget you
And clearly i have yet to succeed

I think i'll just leave now
Before this hurts too much
Avoiding sights from places
My eyes can't bear to touch

I didn't plan to see you
And then i saw him first

Chorus:
I'll be fine in time
But right now, i'm just trying to forget you
And clearly i have yet to succeed

(dwight yoakam)

Hey girl, hey girl, you warned me to go
But girl, but girl, little did i know
All the things you told me about what lay in store
Would only make me want you more

Chorus:
No not a word had one chance to save me
From your love. that wicked love

There's not a prayer left for me escaping
From your love. yeah, that wicked love

Hey girl, hey girl, i begged and hollered please
But girl, but girl, even from my knees

All the things you told me about what lay in store
Only made me want you more

Chorus:
No pain can stop, or rid me what i'm needing
From your love. that wicked love

'cause what i crave all night, and end each day still seeking
Is your love. yeah, that wicked love

Hey girl, hey girl, i tried to understand
But girl, but girl, there ain't no way i can

'cause all the things you told me about what lay in store
Only made me want you more

Yeah, all the things you told me about what lay in store
Yeah, they only make me want you more