Gunslinger — 2010

Night falls like a hammer on an avil
Stations fadin' on the radio
I'll keep driving through Texas and New Mexico
Can't believe the time and miles between us
California seems a gAlaxy away
Got half the country to think of what I want to say
Yeah travelin' all that way
From Shreveport to L.A.

Some wish for milk and honey
Some wish for pocket money
Some wish they could have their wasted years back
Some wish for fortune fame
Some wish for what's her name?
Some wish they could get their lives of track
Yeah I wish that I had you, I wish that I had, I wished it all the way from Shreveport to L.A.

Sunrise is comin' up behind me
Windows down and I can smell the heat
Fighting this feeling I sHould have made the stay back east
And I got your picture honey in my rearview mirror now
Tires moanin' on the interstate
I got half the country to think of what I want to say
Travelin' all that way
From shreveport to L.A.

Some with for milk and honey
Some wish for pocket money
Some wish they could have their wasted years back
Some wish for fortune fame
Some wish for what's her name
Some wish they could get their lives on track
Yeah I wish that I had you, I wish that I had you, I’m wishin' all the way From shreveport to L.A.

Yeah, I wish that I had you
I wish that I had you
I wish that I had you
Oh I wish that I had you
I wish that I had you
I'm wishin' all the way from shreveport to L.A.
shreveport to L.A.

Struck by lightning my hearts on fire
Can’t stop burning
Woke me like the wind in the middle of the night
Tossin’ and turning

It came right out of nowhere
Without me ever knowing,
This thing we got is really going somewhere
Suddenly love is in the air
It came right out of nowhere

Lost and lonely were my best friends
They just left me
Love and lucky been chasing me down
Gonna let them catch me

It came right out of nowhere
Without me ever knowing,
This thing we got is really going somewhere
Suddenly love is in the air
It came right out of nowhere

Aint it funny.
The moment I stop looking how you found me
I know its crazy.
But I cant live w/ out your arms around me

You're giving up what you love for what you love
You're giving up what you need for what you need
The sad irony, you think where you want to be
Dont include me. But what if it does?

You could have everything
You could have everything
And you could have love
I’ll give you the air I breath
We can share our dreams
We can have everything
And we can have love
Isn’t that enough for you?

Both of us are reeling from the words we throw like knives
Can we stop the bleeding? Is it too late to try?
Before the land slide takes us and tears us both apart
Don’t let it drown what we know is in our heart

We can have everything
We can have everything
And we could have love
I’ll give you the air i breath
We can share our dreams
We can have everything
And we can have love
Isn’t that enough? For you

I’m here to make it easy,
I’m here to say "You're right"
I’ve come to let you go now
I’ve come to say goodbye
If that’s what you want.
If that’s what you need

You could have everything
You could have everything
And you could have love
I’ll give you the air I breath
We can share our dreams
We can have everything
And we can have love
Isn’t that enough for you?

You're giving up what you love for what you love

They put a new sing up today where everyone could read it
The folks who paid to have it made must think that I need it
It was selling Sunday service. been a long time since I’ve been
Sign said “Are You Man Enough To Walk along w Him?”

Billboards for Jesus. Is that how its gonna be?
Try and sell religion on a sinner just like me
Am I man enough? Am I strong enough?
who the hell are they?
Don’t need your billboards for Jesus
To show me the way

Come next Sunday morning I found myself in church
I walked in a cynic, but at least that sign had worked
My heart was worn and leathered. My attitude was tough
When the preacher man he asked me
“Son, How’d you hear about us?”

Billboards for Jesus that’s how it came to be
Took a sign for me to find my way down on my knees
Am I man enough, am I strong enough?

Lord I hope and pray.
Billboard’s for Jesus show me the way

We’ve got Hurricanes and heartache pains
Brothers in Iraq. A world in need of rescue
And friends who won’t come back
But our doors are like His arms
wide open every day
If you’re hurting come inside my friend
I’ll gladly show the way (I’ll be your)

Billboard for Jesus that’s what I’m gonna be
Gotta tell somebody else just what He’s done for me
Am I strong enough am I man enough?
Lord I hope and pray.
Billboards for Jesus, Show me the way

Winters closing in. This house is getting cold
Living with your memory is like living with a ghost
I’m ready for these lonely nights to end
But I’m just not ready for love again

The tears are fewer and further between
Life’s waiting patiently to test my wings
I think about trying every now and then
But I’m Just not ready for love again

I’m not wishing for the tables to turn
I’m still sifting thru the ashes of the lessons I’ve learned
Forgiveness keeps knockin but it can’t come in
But I’m just not ready for love again

The tears are fewer and further between
Life’s waiting patiently to test my wings
I think about trying every now and then
But I’m Just not ready for love again

Someday but not tonight
I’ll get you off my mind
Then maybe love will find its way back to where it belongs

She was 21 with a rock n roll soul
Cutting her teeth on 70s radio
Waylon, Willie, Graham and Emy & the Rolling Stones

Searching for the beat in the heart of the nation
Founding her sound like a sweet salvation
Somewhere someday soon she’ll be making it home

27 dollars and 17cents, she filled up her tank
aint been back since (she said)

I’m free to do what I wanna
Free yeah I think I’m gonna
Free to do what I was born to do

He was the kid on the grave yard shift
But his whole world changed when she rolled in
Everything she said she said without saying a word
But he heard

Cuz he quit that job at 7:am, been chasing his dreams now
Ever since then.

I’m free to do what I wanna
Free yeah I think I’m gonna
Free to do what I was born to do
We’re free to do what we wanna
Free yeah I think we oughta
Be free to do what we were born to do
How about you?

Bet its been about 1/2 dozen years
1/4 million miles and I’m still out here
no matter where I go I know im never alone

Cuz I was turning the dials n the heart of the nation
When I heard her voice like a sweet salvation
A sound like Emy Lou playing w the Rolling Stones

Shes singing

Everywhere cross the heart of this nation
We’re all dreaming a dream worth chasing
(What a) sweet salvation to call this life our own

40 days. 40 fights.
40 showdowns in 40 nights.
Town 2 town, in high demand
Can’t slow down, I’m a wanted man

I’m a gunslinger honey,
Hunting you down
Tell all your other boys
The man is back in town
Gunslinger honey and I
Fire at will, taking aim on you
I shoot to thrill. Gonna show you
How the west was won.
Lock stock barrel and a smokin’ gun!

Jessie James got nothin’ on me
Billy the Kid better let me be
They think they’re good
They think they’re fast
I think they’re funny
I’ll shoot ‘em last

You’re stealing me heart like a love outlaw
You’re the hottest little pistol that I ever saw
You got the moves, they’re legendary
STICK EM UP! I’ll be your huckleberry

Waiting on your front steps in your flowered dress
When I found you girl, you were a beautiful mess
We fell in love and I loved you like no other
Now I’m missing you like it was last summer

In Summertown there’s ice cream pecan pies
In Summertown no one makes you cry
The songs we sing on the old 12 string
Feel so right like the music of a throw back sound
In Summertown.

You want Morocco, maybe Marrakech
But all can give girl is give you my best
When you speak to me thru lyric your heart pours out in rhyme
Saying, take me back, back to a better time

In Summertown the skies are always blue
In Summertown no one yells at you
Your dreams come true and you don’t have to choose
Between where you’re going and the love that we both found
In Summertown.

I heard you’re on your way to California
Where the seasons never change and love won’t fade away
Sunshine abounds in Summertown

In Summertown broken records spin again
In Summertown broken lovers mend
The church bells ring, the hummingbird still sings
In Summertown
And we’re both still dancing to the music of a throw back sound

In the fire station hall on the wall there’s a photograph
I remember my daddy explain the name on the frame
through his tears disguised as laughs
He said you never would have known by looking at him
He could have made it out of something that bad
They filled this hall with heroes
But that one is my dad

He’s no ordinary man so lets all give him a hand
Everything he did for us he did for love
He was my best friend, I’m so proud of him
That one is my Dad

On the national mall there’s a wall amidst all the monuments
Name after name you could read ‘em for days
It would still be time well spent.
About halfway on panel 13 A to show you I’d be glad.
They filled The Wall with heroes
But that one is my dad

He’s no ordinary man so lets all give him a hand
Everything he did for us he did for love
I didn’t know him long
But his name I’ll carry on
That one was my Dad

He’s the kind of man we needed more of
Instead now there are less
Our fathers are the sons of our nation’s very best

The day’s finally come, I started raising my own son
those days go by so fast
I found myself at a share and tell standing in a Fifth grade class
The proudest moment of my life, the best I ever had
He said ”I brought in my hero”
That one is my dad.

He’s no ordinary man so lets give him a hand
Everything he’s done for us he’s done for love
He is my best friend, I wanna be just like him
Just like my dad.
That one was my Dad

On the wall down the hall there still hangs a photograph.

You’re standing there that look in your eyes
You’re looking for good ways to tell me goodbye
Something ‘bout people, how they never know
Them loving somebody and then letting them go
You’re looking for reasons and there ain’t no need
You can blame it on me

Blame it on me. I was the one
I had no right to turn it all wrong
Held you too close I couldn’t let go
Cant loose your cool these days I know
So I’ll go on home and you can feel free
To blame it on me

I am too rough. I work too hard
I got no cool friends. I drive an old car
I’m not the picture of anyone’s dreams
and full of blue bonnets, boots an ole jeans
You’re looking for reasons but there aint no need
You can blame it on me

Blame it on me. I was the one
Acting like real life was some ole love song
Held you too close I couldn’t let go
Cant loose your cool these days I know
So I’ll go on home and you can feel free
To blame it on me

When you start looking for ways out of love then
I’ve been making mistakes by the dozen
So if you wanna leave, you can blame it on me

held you too close couldn’t let go
cant loose your cool baby these days I know
so I’ll go on home and you can feel free
to blame it on me

blame it on me

From the cradle to the cross roads
From the crossroads to the grave
Choices we are given
And choices we have made

I have so many questions
And I’ve tried the best I can
I may never know the reasons
But I know that there’s a plan

It’s in Gods Hands Now
He’s got all the answers
But He ain’t saying how
It’s in Gods hands now

When my endless summer ended
In a sad September song
I looked up to heaven
For the strength to carry on

To everything’s a season
And it time it too shall pass
Pain is but a moment
But His Love always lasts

It’s in Gods Hands Now
He’s got all the answers
But He ain’t saying how
It’s in Gods hands now

I’m standing at the crossroads
I know what I’ve got to do
Put the past behind me
And give my heart to You

It’s in Gods Hands Now
He’s got all the answers
But He ain’t saying how
It’s in Gods hands now
If I can find the strength to let it go
I know I will be found
Its in Gods Hands now