Tyrone, Georgia

My momma & daddy brought me here when I was only 10
I got the biggest room, Momma re-painted my canopy bed
And with gold moon and stars, I was goin' far, didn't know how this would end
In Tyrone, Georgia, I was only ten.

My momma & daddy bought me my first car
It was white and bright, my get-away, gotta go far
And with only a CD player, it was going to the county fair, no matter, didn't seem to care
In Tyrone, Georgia, at the county fair

When you're young, you don't seem to know how short time can be
A few years can seem like an eternity
I didn't know, didn't seem to care, what fate had in store for me
But this small town was the world to me

My momma & daddy drove me to graduation day
It was hot as any May afternoon, and I prayed
That this was the best thing that could ever happen, hoped everyone could notice me
In Tyrone, Georgia, on my graduation day

My momma & daddy drove me to off to Athens
Dropped me off with a bank card, and plenty of rations
And five years later, in red and black, and white cap & gown
I walked the line, under the Arches, in Athens

When you're young, you don't seem to know how short time can be
A few years can seem like an eternity
I didn't know, didn't seem to care, what fate had in store for me
But this small town was the world to me

My momma & daddy called me back home
Told me to drive as fast as I can, told me it was important
I watched my daddy's dark hair fall like the star I always thought I could be
In Tyrone, Georgia, I was praying to be happy

Cancer ain't got no timeline, no space of time
No gauge of how things should be
In Tyrone, Georgia, real life came for me

When you're young, you don't seem to know how short time can be
A few years can seem like an eternity
I didn't know, didn't seem to care, what fate had in store for me
But this small town was the world to me

Yes sir, yes ma'am, this small town is the world to me
Bring me back, to the world for me.

Prince Charming

I'm lying in my bed tonight
First night without you in two weeks
Looking at old photos, year-old
Reading notes I used to write

And I was praying for you before I knew you
And I loved you before I knew your name
Funny how you meet one person and everything can change
I know you're my prince charming

When I was a baby I watched Cinderella
On repeat, and maybe I was brainwashed
Spend college going through them all looking for you
And here you are, God, I wish you were all I knew

And I was prayiing for you before I knew you
And I loved you before I knew your name
Funny how you meet one person and everything can change
I know you're my prince charming

And Taylor Swift, Romeo & Juliet, they ain't got nothin' on us
And when we met, in a random moment, we found real love
I spend every day up to you waiting for fate to find you
And you found me, yes, my prince charming

And I was praying for you before I knew you
And I loved you before I knew your name
Funny how you meet one person and everything can change
I know you're my prince charming

Pillows

I dreamt about you last night
No idea why, I guess you just popped into my head
And all once agan, I hated you
I hid from you, I didn't even want to see your face

I still don't know why we happened
Or what happened, or what I did wrong
In my dream, you still looked the same
Blue-eyed, sitting on your bedroom floor

And in that loft, over your parents' living room
Is where I first felt your hand on my skin
Not in the kind of soft way you usually did
But instead pushing hard into it

And I still don't know what I did wrong
But be too good for you
And I still don't kjnow why I deserved it
But take care of you

And when I woke up this morning I tried to wash you out again
In my boyfriend's bed, I suffocated you in his pillows
But all the same, I don't know if you ever changed
And the bruises still haven't healed

And I remember your truck, orange and white, in my folks' driveway
Or your borrowed car, from your grandpa, doing burnouts away from me
Slamming my parents' door that last night we truly loved
As you drove, you drove so recklessly

And again, I still don't know what I did wrong
What did I do to deserve this, to deserve you?
You changed your mind, about a hundred times
And I'm moving on still

But that one dream brought you back
That one dream reminded me of how everything reminds me of you
Suffocated you in my boyfriend's pillows
Moving on from you

Still is hard to move on from you.

Georgia

Good morning Saturday Gameday
Waking up from red & black dreams
Put on my dress I bought on Broad last week
Been waiting days for it to be seen

Got a Georgia G on my cheek
And a cold cooler beer in my hand
Its raining gold and red leaves
Singing songs by Brantley Gilbert band

And it's "Go Dawgs!" and a "Hell yeah,"
And a, "Great to be Georgia Bulldog,"
And I got a camo hat and some red heels
And then you'll be between the hedges and in the stands
Post-game, it's Firehouse
It's 9Es bar and dancing on the stage
Ain't nothing changed in my college town
Just another Georgia game
Yeah, just another Georgia game

We saved up from the tip jar
The past two weeks for the Auburn game
Been buying all black like I'm Johnny Cash
Gonna live up that Stafford fame

And my roommate bought a new cooler
And my best friend came up from my hometown
And my sister's here to sleep on my couch
And we won't ever live this weekend down

And it's "Go Dawgs!" and a "Hell yeah,"
And a, "Great to be Georgia Bulldog,"
And I got a camo hat and some red heels
And then you'll be between the hedges and in the stands
Post-game, it's Firehouse
It's 9Es bar and dancing on the stage
Ain't nothing changed in my college town
Just another Georgia game
Yeah, just another Georgia game

There isn't anything better than those arches
Than knowing I could stand beneath them anytime
There is nowhere better than between those hedges
Than knowing we could win between them every game

And it's "Go Dawgs!" and a "Hell yeah,"
And a, "Great to be Georgia Bulldog,"
And I got a camo hat and some red heels
And then you'll be between the hedges and in the stands
Post-game, it's Firehouse
It's 9Es bar and dancing on the stage
Ain't nothing changed in my college town
Just another Georgia game
Yeah, just another Georgia game

The Break

Staring at a blank sheet of notebook paper
Salt and peppered, given in by time
Hope I didn't forget how to give my all to this
But I need to break it, I need to find

My happy ending, sometime
Back in this hometown
I don't know what I expect to find
These memories are painful to see
But the break feels so good sometimes

I spent 6 years in a country town
Away from my family, to find a life of my own
Expected dreams to just run my way
But in all that time, all I could have found was,

My happy ending, sometime
Back in this hometown
I don't know what I expect to find
These memories are painful to face
But the break feels so good sometimes

And when I wake up in the city lights
His face is nowhere to be found
Working 60 hours a week
Can break you down
But it won't break this down

Our own happy ending, sometime
Back in our hometown
I don't know what we expect to find
These memories are painful to face
But the break feels so good sometimes

We all need our happy ending sometime
Back in our hometown
I don't know what we expect, what we expect to find
These memories are so painful to face
But the break feels so good sometimes

Yes we all need our break
It feels so good sometimes.

Bless Our Hearts

Just like the nights that are too busy
I want to be you're GPS, take you to the backroads when you need me
Take you home underneath those Southern stars
That you forgot about

And when the cold drinks become ice
I'm that summer breeze blowing through, the smell of pine trees and moonlight
Bring you back to back tailgates in red mud
Field parties gone too loud

Something in you says these city lights have gone too bright
Something speaks in your voice of broken old taillights
Just fall into a old creek crying your name
In a country haze

And I haven't broken nothing you own yet
So let your heart just remember all the things you strove to forget
And I let you hold my hand on that dark winter night
Baby, we'll be alright
Yeah we'll be alright
The country blesses our hearts tonight

Don't you remember your first fall night kiss
Back in the woods of Southside, in that leave-less mist?
And a sweet girl with brown camo eyes
Calling your name tonight?

Once before I let some fool hold onto what we called love
I held him in an amber silence, in a full moon hug
But as the lights dimmed I saw too clear
Whiskey is all that I feared

So in these twisting old roads home, didn't you love me?
Didn't I hold all you've ever known?
And in this goodnight embrace we found what's right
In a Georgian night

And I haven't broken nothing you own yet
So let your heart just remember all the things you strove to forget
And I let you hold my hand on that dark winter night
Baby, we'll be alright
Yeah we'll be alright
The country blesses our hearts tonight

And I haven't broken nothing you own yet
So let your heart just remember all the things you strove to forget
And I let you hold my hand on that dark winter night
Baby, we'll be alright
Yeah we'll be alright
The country blesses our hearts tonight

Feel This Way

There's something in your eyes
That's taking me away
I'm trying so hard to fight the urge
To say what I want to say
Like how I have a crush
On the one who doesn't see
How I'd like to settle down
With a nice boy with whom I can't breathe

And it isn't fair the way you make me smile
Because everyone can see
I feel like the high school girl I once was
Writing sappy poetry

I'm drawing hearts on paper notebooks
And I'm lighting up when they say your name
I'm singing bad love songs in my car when I'm all alone
Because no one can know I feel this way
And I'm daydreaming about your face
Your voice, your eyes, wondering how you'd taste
And I'm trying hard not to look for you when you're standing in the same room
Because no one can know I feel this way

I know what you say
You think about me
About how I talk too much
Or about how I'm at all the parties
But I can tell
Veiled in all your remarks
There's that shining in your eyes
Of a tiny little spark

And it isn't fair the way you make me smile
Because everyone can see
I feel like the high school girl I once was
Writing sappy poetry

I'm drawing hearts on paper notebooks
And I'm lighting up when they say your name
I'm singing bad love songs in my car when I'm all alone
Because no one can know I feel this way
And I'm daydreaming about your face
Your voice, your eyes, wondering how you'd taste
And I'm trying hard not to look for you when you're standing in the same room
Because no one can know I feel this way

I hate your jokes
And the messes that you make
I hate it when you're right
And the girls you take on dates
But for all that I can't stand
I can't stand how I feel about you
Would you just stop making me
Feel this silly way over you?

And it isn't fair the way you make me smile
Because everyone can see
I feel like the high school girl I once was
Writing sappy poetry

I'm drawing hearts on paper notebooks
And I'm lighting up when they say your name
I'm singing bad love songs in my car when I'm all alone
Because no one can know I feel this way
And I'm daydreaming about your face
Your voice, your eyes, wondering how you'd taste
And I'm trying hard not to look for you when you're standing in the same room
Because no one can know I feel this way
No, no one can know I feel this way

Right Thing

Don't know how to break the news
There wasn't much of a conclusion to wanting you
And I heard that you're moving on too
I guess my hazel eyes weren't enough for you

And you weren't to be much more than a rebound
Let you steal my heart, back in our hometown
I remember a cold night by the lake
Where we spoke of a distant dream lying on the planks

I hate to seem like I came on too strong but in truth
You came onto me, like I smiled back at you
And you're running after something you ain't sure what to call
Turned different shades like the leaves that fall

Just forget it, it's not me, it's always you
I can only tell you only what was the truth
You asked if you were wasting your time
I wasn't wasting yours; were you wasting mine?
My Daddy always says the right thing is the hardest thing to do

We were once just some kids smiling through
I held bottles in my hands like I held onto you
The taste of bittersweet on my lips
Just like the night of our first kiss

Saw your best friend, in the bar we met
Said you didn't know how to hold onto what you get
But you had your chance with the girl you chased
Like the wind that pushed back the hair from my face

I hate to seem like I came on too strong but in truth
You came onto me, like I smiled back at you
And you're running after something you ain't sure what to call
Turned different shades like the leaves that fall

Just forget it, it's not me, it's always you
I can only tell you only what was the truth
You asked if you were wasting your time
I wasn't wasting yours; were you wasting mine?
My Daddy always says the right thing is the hardest thing to do

Just forget it, it's not me, it's always you
I can only tell you what was once the truth
You asked if you were wasting your time
I wasn't wasting yours, were you wasting mine?
I guess I just was too hard to do
I guess the right thing was just too hard to hold onto

Love I Just Can't Find

I guess I'm not one to write love songs
But our story just can't go down
As some little thing I tell my friends about
Or the late night calls when you're out of town

Sometimes it's hard to fight the need
To hear your voice at three a.m.
When the tears are pouring like the beers I drank
To get me through the days I just can't

Sometimes you'll apologize for it
Say it's not me, but it's all you and work
I guess I need to realize time is calling
For us to somehow heal all this hurt

And when you're lonely I'll drive the hundred miles
To your house on down south on the state line
And when I'm lonely I'll call a hundred times
To tell you you're the love I just can't find

You kiss some girl in a bar tonight
Who's had one too few & reminds you
Of the girl you met in front of an old bar
In a classic city singing of Georgia true

I'll find someone to hold me through the inbetween
Of your last weekend here back home
When you told me you loved me in a parkling lot
Laced in grass and cobblestone

And when you're lonely I'll drive the hundred miles
To your house on down south on the state line
And when I'm lonely I'll call a hundred times
To tell you you're the love I just can't find

I still write you letters sometimes like I did
The year that broke the two of us apart
You sat in sand while I'll played this dumb college girl
I sent you boxes and sent us back to the start

Your pictures are in a box hidden in my closet
I pull them our sometimes to remember who we were
We make promises that someday we'll come back to that
Just know that my home is where ever you are

And when you're lonely I'll drive the hundred miles
To your house on down south on the state line
And when I'm lonely I'll call a hundred times
To tell you you're the love I just can't find
You'll always be that love I just can't find

It's Not Me

Standing in your street like a bunch of teenagers
Counting stars in an early Autumn sky
Guess when your mom says it's time to grow up
We shouldn't ask why

That old girlfriend is still haunting in your head
It ain't fair because we both know I'm sweet
Wearing my old blue jeans holding onto our hand
I'm all you could ever need

I know they say nice guys finish last
Maybe they should ask the girls next door how it feels
To be second place because your face smiles just too much
And youu don't have a mean streak
I know they say it's best to play hard to get
Maybe it's bad I'm only good with Football games
It's the kind of thing the boys all say they're looking for
But somehow it's not me

You say you miss the Tennessee nights
The old friends, the way it used to be
I fake a smile, all the while, I'm loving this place
A small pond and pine trees

This September chill makes me wish you'd keep me warm
But you're busy wondering what she's doing now
I'm trying to be coy so you can pay attention to me
But I don't know how

I know they say nice guys finish last
Maybe they should ask the girls next door how it feels
To be second place because your face smiles just too much
And youu don't have a mean streak
I know they say it's best to play hard to get
Maybe it's bad I'm only good with Football games
It's the kind of thing the boys all say they're looking for
But somehow it's not me

And we both know who you call late at night
When she breaks your heart on the phone
And we both know who you'll ask to stay
So you don't have to sleep alone
And we both know you need me here, you need me in your life
Don't you damn know why?

I know they say nice guys finish last
Maybe they should ask the girls next door how it feels
To be second place because your face smiles just too much
And youu don't have a mean streak
I know they say it's best to play hard to get
Maybe it's bad I'm only good with Football games
It's the kind of thing the boys all say they're looking for
But somehow it's not me
Why can't it be me?
Oh, why can't it just be me?

Never Again

You said never again
Would I ever sleep alone
Would I ever cry or be sad
Would I ever hold another man's hand

I said never again
Would I love another man
Would I daydream about another boy
Would I ever lie to you

And never again can only mean so many things
I guess never again can't always come true
I know never again was just some words to you
No, never again will I love you

You said never again
Would you lose your temper, loud
Would you raise your hand to me
Would you drink til you can't see

I said never again
Would I forgive you just one last time
Would I let you be mine
Would I be the outlet that you find

And never again can only mean so many things
I guess never again can't always come true
I know never again was just some words to you
No, never again, would I love you

I will never again be the bearer of your burder
No, never again will I feel your hands
Never again will you ever again find a woman like me
No, never again
No, never again

And never again can only mean so many things
And never again is all I think when I think you
I know never again was just some words to you
No, never again would I love you
No, never again would I love you

You said never again would I sleep alone
I said never again would I forgive you

Southern Night

I slid open my bedroom window
To climb on my roof & write a song
About the boy who hit me like an ocean
Made nothing like this feel wrong

I could have just sat at home & played the game
When I'm the one thing you'll never touch
But when you promised it'd all be okay
I kind of felt that pushing rush

And I don't let the boys come near
Enough to see the freckles in my eyes
But you did something to that girl
In one slow Southern night

If I broke down all my mountains
Just to let you hold onto me
Would you send me down crashing
Without ever catching me?

And if the notion suddently struck me
To tell you all my hidden truths
Would you run with the wild horses
Or would you let me be sweet for you?

And I don't let the boys come near
Enough to see the freckles in my eyes
But you did something to that girl
In one slow Southern night

And I'm writing sweet songs
To stars hanging above my porch
They haven't heard those kind of words
You could take me downtown
Beneath those falling leaves
And I might fall for you

And I don't let the boys come near
Enough to see the freckles in my eyes
But you did something to that girl
In one slow Southern night
Yes, you could have this girl
On one slow Southern night