White Lies

The truth hurts, it burns, it stings
It cuts you deep with my true meanings
I act, make mistakes; I don't want you to hear
I hide in white lies until the truth comes clear

Sometimes I just want to break
Just break from me
Just take some time
Listenin' to those old records sing
Just take your words
You know you're only full of lies
Just take the door
I don't need you anymore

Just building my wall
While we're pouring down beers in the parking lot
Remember our old cds
You described one as "hot"
And you bore her birds on your skin
I just don't know why
You had to let her in
And had to let me cry

The truth, it hurts, it burns, it stings
It cuts you deep with your true meanings
I act, make mistakes; I don't want you to hear
I hide in white lies until the truth comes clear

Good Ol' Boy

You ain't never held a handfull of red clay
But you sing about it anyways
A true country boy is hard to find
& your backwoods ways are only in your mind

And I don't need a man with a mouthful of dip
I just need a man without a mouthful of lies
Those damn good ol' boys
Don't buy jeans with holes already in the sides

I just want a real man
One who can hold his own
Take care of me
Gets home before dawn
I just want a real man
Not one underemployed
More than they sing in Nashville
More than just a good ol' boy

You don't know what a woman needs
You just keep your head in the weeds
Singing with a guitar 'bout good times past
Honestly, what do you know about Cash?
Or Waylon? or Jackson? or Strait?
Or anything about this Georgia state?

And I don't need a man with a Skoal ring
I just need a man without a mouthful of shit
Those damn good ol' boys
Don't buy the songs Kenny Chesney sings

I just want a real man
One who can hold his own
Take care of me
Gets home before dawn
I just want a real man
Not one underemployed
More than they sing in Nashville
More than just a good ol' boy

Sing to Me

I wanted to write a song you could sing
Just sing to me
And when I write it just screams "I'm about me"
Just sing to me
So I stopped & went slow, knowing where your voice may go
Just sing to me
You'd play those strings & say just so sad,
Just sing to me

And I
May not know
A damn thing
But I
Just want here you say my name
And maybe
Your voice could bring my world some voice
So baby
Just sing to me
C'mon, just sing to me

You brought my promises to my knees
C'mon, sing for me
You sang the loves of my life
C'mon, sing for me
You took me down to my damn knees
C'mon, sing for me
So baby, just lend me your voice
C'mon, sing for me

And I
May not know
A damn thing
But I
Just want here you say my name
And maybe
Your voice could bring my world some voice
So baby
Just sing to me
C'mon, just sing to me

But I just broke down all my walls
With your microphone
Took it hard against my words
& hoped you'd sing along
And maybe this ain't broken hearts
But I wanna scream your name
Just take your open heart
C'mon, just sing for me

And I
May not know
A damn thing
But I
Just want here you say my name
And maybe
Your voice could bring my world some voice
So baby
Just sing to me
C'mon, just sing to me

I Hope You Know (Best Friend)

Sometimes I miss college
Those old bar floors stucking against
Our ankle boots with zippers
The crowded girls' room
Of the bar your boyfriend tended
Upstairs on New Years' Eve

And sometimes I miss the Sunday morning drive-thru fast food
And sometimes I miss elbows pressed against our bathroom mirrors

You're still here every day, even when you're hours away
I hope you know
I hope you know

Sometimes I think of
The blue old couch our old stoned friends
Would lose themselves in
The busted out railing
On our back porch
We'd let the drunks climb in

And sometimes I miss falling down on downtown benches at 4am
And sometimes I miss the smokey basement of the bar we'd pass out at

You're still here every day, even when you're hours away
I hope you know
I hope you know

The one best friend without shared blood, but family stil the same
You had my back, my booze, my hand, on every drunken night
In that crowd, I had your side, something like a family
I hope you know
I Hope you know
I always miss you
I hope you know
I hope you know
I still miss you <3

Run On

I broke your keychain
While you're pickin' on guitar strings
On the one possession
That possesses my dreams
Just like an old mountain song
You bring me back in waves
Lord knows we won't move on
Just forward in this Georgia state

Who won the game?
Who broke whose heart?
These small town ties
Just fray apart

So run with me
Make this world our own
Burn those high school love letters
Let's run on
So run with me
Make our own life our home
Burn the teenage mixtape
Let's run on

She broke your heart
And I don't give a damn
It's just an ex
On a map burnin' in the sand
Your arms bend around me
So I can't help but fall again
Play me sad indie songs
I'll write words to them

Who won the game?
Who broke whose heart?
These small town ties
Just fray apart

So run with me
Make this world our own
Burn those high school love letters
Let's run on
So run with me
Make our own life our home
Burn the teenage mixtape
Let's run on

These small town ties
Just fray apart
These small town ties
Just fray apart

Sing

Keep pushing it out
Keep forcing the words
Just trying to make myself sing
Just pushing it out
Just forcing the verbs
The adjectives to make me bring
This life to noise
This world to song
Anything to make me breathe
Keep pushing it out
Keep forcing the words
To make me sing

He strums a guitar
He plays me a song
He made the words up
In an old notebook
I stole his pen
Wrote myself for him
Tried to make a sound
But it doesn't speak

So when does this moment become something permanant?
How do I make your eyes, your face, something they can understand?

Keep pushing it out
Keep forcing the words
Just trying to make myself sing
Just pushing it out
Just forcing the verbs
The adjectives to make me bring
This life to noise
This world to song
Anything to make me breathe
Keep pushing it out
Keep forcing the words
To make me sing

I broke his keychain
But he keeps playing
He stops to ask me
"Is this too sad?"
His mom drinks her wine
Taps her foot to the time
Loves the way his voice
Bends those strings

And I'm the lucky one who gets to love him 'til I die
Write a sad song for me, make this moment a crime

Keep pushing it out
Keep forcing the words
Just trying to make myself sing
Just pushing it out
Just forcing the verbs
The adjectives to make me bring
This life to noise
This world to song
Anything to make me breathe
Keep pushing it out
Keep forcing the words
To make me sing

Ribbon as a Ring

You tied a ribbon on my finger
Made me all yours
The red satin wrapped around me
Lets me know where I belong
I might be a mess some days
In a hoodie just too big
But you love me anyways
With a ribbon as a ring

I hid under your covers and they fall like rain on me
You're blowing air like tents and I just can't see
My life by anyone else's side, yes, you're all mine & I'll be
Your only girl, I'll tell the world, this fits perfectly

You tied a ribbon on my finger
Made me all yours
The red satin wrapped around me
Lets me know where I belong
I might be a mess some days
In a hoodie just too big
But you love me anyways
With a ribbon as a ring

Move Me Again

I suppose I might write too fast
Take a second, jot some words
Let the ink take the past
Sometimes time moves too slow
Then I wake up and it's November
Where'd those college times go?

Can't memories just shut their mouths
Can't broken lines just mend again
Tell me where you are in your mind
Just one more time
Be my best friend
He'll move me on again

I suppose sometimes we break hearts
But he's moved on and I will too
In this car that just won't start
Felt summer move under my feet
Just like sands of time, passing through
Parked hiding on your street

Can't the present be loved for what it is
Can't our broken hearts just mend again
Tell me where you are in your mind
Just one more time
Be my best friend
And we'll move me again

And dark whiskey flows under autumn moons
And cold glasses shake our hands
Just hold me tight, here comes this adult life

Can't the present just be loved for what it is
Can't our broken hearts just mend again
Tell me where you are in my mind
Just one more time
Be my best friend
And you'll move me again

Abandon

In this darkness
Of our farthest moment
I can't breathe
Past these broken hearts
Try to heal me
Try to hold me if you can
Say you need me
Say this doesn't have to end

And when you have no hope in you
You're losing faith in us
And when you say we're almost through
I'm giving up on love
And when your promises all break
You better find a way
This sinking ship, can it be saved?
You're abandoning me

It's cold tonight
Winters moving in
We're broken hands to shake
Books piled in the den
A fire running wild
Change this course of fate
A sad old country song
Whining out of this old tape

And when you have no hope in you
You're losing faith in us
And when you say we're almost through
I'm giving up on love
And when your promises all break
You better find a way
This sinking ship, can it be saved?
You're abandoning me

Please don't leave me

The right thing's always the hardest
Find yourself a way
You need to move on
Move on!
Make a stand for you & me

I fell asleep
On your shoulder last night
I guess I don't need you
But I want you to make it alright

And when you have no hope in you
You're losing faith in us
And when you say we're almost through
I'm giving up on love
And when your promises all break
You better find a way
This sinking ship, can it be saved?
You're abandoning me

Lead You Home

I've got your ring
And a moonlit glow
I've got the steering wheel
And miles to go
All these curves
You know, I can't take them slow
But we've got nowhere to go

You've got my hand
And a heart on your sleeve
You change the radio
Like you changed everythin' in me
Every fingertip
You know, it's all that I need
When I don't know who to be

So in this fall faded night
Tell me we'll be alright
Tell me I'm the red & yellow leaves
In all these autumn trees
So in this fog and this wind
Tell me we'll never end
Tell me I'm the moon on road
That leads you back home
Tell me I'll lead you home

These Georgia woods
Have pines for days
We could get lost in the dark
We could make our own maze
In Southern aisles
We could try to find our way
But I'd rather just stay

And in this fall faded night
Tell me we'll be alright
Tell me I'm the red & yellow leaves
In all these autumn trees
So in this fog and this wind
Tell me we'll never end
Tell me I'm the moon on road
That leads you back home
Tell me I'll lead you home

Remember

I remember
The way things used to be
But my dark nights by street lights
Are so long gone

He remembers
The freckles in my eyes
To touch my face, sweep my hair
The sound of my laugh

This can't be some soon to be photos lost in a box
This can't be a overdrawn overexposed lust in life
This is just so much more
And I won't let your memories drown us out
Baby, I won't let them drown you out

I remember
College fall afternoons
The crunch of leaves under boots & trees
Every bit of red

But he remembers
The words to my words
My favorite song about how you did me wrong
And the night we met

This can't be some soon to be photos lost in a box
This can't be a overdrawn overexposed lust in life
This is just so much more
And I won't let your memories drown us out
Baby, I won't let them drown you out

Something about that bar night in my small town
Set me straight, set me stuck on you
I won't get lost in the boxes in my closet
I won't get lost without you

And I won't let their memories drown us out
Baby, I won't let them drown you out

Everything's Alright

The sun is hitting through my blinds
Sifting through piles of white crumpled laundry
Your t-shirts are mixed in mine
And sometimes I swear you're too quick to forget

That job, it pulls you
But I can't stop remembering the night we met
You forget all we do
We've been fighting for this exact moment

And when I hear you say
"Nothings going right,"
I want to run away
Just tell me baby, everything'll be alright

We've made it through my ex-boyfriends and broken hearts
That one fight that almost tore us apart
And the time your pride took you away from me
We've made it through empty bank accounts
And big bills, and every bad rumor we've had to kill
But I know
All this effort just makes me see
Everything's alright when you're next to me

I remember two years ago & before you
When I woke up to every bad day
This is nothing to pain that I once knew
Your eyes now make it all okay

So when you're yelling, so damn frustrated
Can't you see the good in every day?
Our Sunday drives? Our love-filled life?
Tell me you're not runnin' away

I hate to hear you say
"Nothings going right,"
Look out to our whole lives
Just tell me baby, everything'll be alright

We've made it through your ex-girlfriends and broken trust
That one week that almost broke us
And the time my fears almost made me run
We've made it through false friends
And long work weeks, and every cut we've had to mend
But I know
All this effort just makes me see
Everything's alright when you're next to me