Two Lane Highway

Born seven of eleven in thirty-five

Giles county just north the Tennessee line

To a kindhearted woman and hardworking man

Raising up eleven on the back of the L and N

With his older brothers off to war

Jimmy let his heartache out’ on that guitar

Songs his mama sang to them

Kinda made it feel like they’re home again

Homeward bound, homeward bound

Under colored lights and midway rides

Jim met Renee chapel hill county fair

To kitty wells and Charlie pride

They fell in love right then and right there

Blessed with kids, and all life gives

They shared the bounty a good love provides

Like the sun rise up, the night fall down

Carry on child, carry on…

Jimmy lived his life a Christian man

Walked the path holding Jesus’ hand

A love so fine

He’d often sing it out of what the lord had built

A little cabin waiting for him in the hills

Just walk to the light,

Be a light on inside

Jimmy coming home, jimmy coming home

When hard times fell dreams got broke

Hangin’ on just a little hope

Jimmy had a faith that had your back

Wasn’t just words in white and black

He listened your troubles, shared your pain

Didn’t wear his Jesus hangin’ on a chain

Now his day has come, the end of the road

One last page, this story is told

Life was good in those Tennessee hills

Sunday suppers, sittin’ around the still

Down the river swimming all day

Making flowers into daisy chains

One thing child you can take to the end

I’ll be your angel again and again, and again

Yeah, I’ll be your angel

Jimmy lived his life a Christian man

Walked the path holding Jesus’ hand

A love so fine

He’d often sing it out of what the lord had built

A little cabin waiting for him in the hills

Just walk to the light

Be a light on inside…. Ohhh, good lord

Jimmy comin’ home

Jimmy comin’ home

Looking back, on lessons that I’ve learned

I took some chances yeah a few wrong turns

Burned some bridges up in smoke and then they’re gone

Can’t look back no i, can’t right the wrongs

Was down the delta in the town of New Orleans

Where I met maria, prettiest girl I’ve ever seen

I told ma cher Maria “my love is always yours”

But love like this river carves its own course

Well, I can’t help but wonder, if I’m part of a plan

If I believe in a power above

That holds my fate in his hands…

So, like this river I roll, let the wild things grow

If I could change some things, you know I would

Life gets hard sometimes but the sun will always rise

With each day, it’s more, understood

Just let the hard times roll with the good

I’ve burned the sage, tasted fruit from the crop

I’ve looked inside myself, we’ve had long talks

I’ve asked the questions what does this all mean

Why is the sky blue and, your eyes so green?

Why do the stars come out every night

And disappear behind a curtain of light

As this rain beats down on the street

Breaking like glass needles around my feet

Well, I can’t help but wonder, wonder what’s in store

If I believe there’s a power above

The tales of gospel lore

So, like this river I roll, let the wild things grow

If I could change some things, you know I would

Life gets hard sometimes but the sun will always rise

With each day, it’s more, understood

Just let the hard times roll with the good

Daylight breaking out, saguaros point us down

This great divide

Been driving east to west but we, never seem to get

Any closer to the sky

Drawn by this broken line got us, losing track of time

Our fate to the wind

Like water to the sea, life carries you and me

Until we’re rain again, until we’re rain again

Nightfall waiting, horizon painted, sky is on fire

Desert siren song a, lone coyote call, sunset in your eyes

Let this two lane highway take us down to the sea

Your love and waves crashing over me

Underneath this starlight it’s all perfectly clear

We’re right where I should be

When we’re right here

Some things just meant to be

Like how love even found us at all

Just what brought you to me,

Twist of fate, luck of the draw

Fading in and out, a low watt station down

South of the border

Songs of love in vain, heartache, joy and pain

All love’s glory

Heat waves rising up, apparitions made of dust

You wonder what is real

Can’t quite recall them all, our words each as they’d fall

But we remember how we’d feel

Let this two lane highway take us down every road

Follow our love, let our story unfold

Silhouettes and shadows under endless skies

We’ll be baptized in the morning when we reach the waterline

Some things just come to be

Like how love even found us at all

Just what brought you to me,

Twist of fate luck of the draw

Destiny, how love even found us at all

I took up your letters, I had saved away

And I lit em’ on fire

Watched the words slowly curl off the pages

Watched them rise, rise into the sky

Sifting through the ashes that hold

All the lies I bought you sold

And the heart you broke

Let this fire rise

One more time

I’ll just keep movin’

Everything keeps movin’ on

I’ll keep on livin’

Livin’ till my livin’s done

Keep on dreaming,

Keep on believing that dreams, come true

You gonna find you somebody, some day

That’s gonna be just like you

Gonna be just like you,

Met an old man was fishin’

Not much, the end of his line

Didn’t take long to learn his life had gone

Not so different from mine

We traded tales of the one got away

Broke the line, to live another day

Everything in time they say….

Then a tug on the line, everything in time

We just keep on movin’

Everything keeps movin’ on

We keep on livin’

Livin’ till the livin’ is done

Keep on dreaming,

Keep on believing that dreams, come true

That you find you somebody, some day

Gonna be just like you

Make my dreams come true

Get what’s comin’ to you

Someone just like you…syncopated

Just keep on movin’ everything keeps moving on

Just keep on livin’, livin’ till my livin’s done

Keep on dreaming you’ll find someone just like you

Just like you

Make my dreams come true

Someone just like you…syncopated

Getting dark early winters setting in

Looking out the window you’re crossing my mind again

You used to come around here bout’ now every night

Kick off your shoes and hold me, and take me inside

Yeah we talked without speaking we loved without fear

Things still out of place as though you’ve always been here

Good love come along I guess we never know when

Just count yourself lucky your heart can be broken again

Even the night feels lonely

When the moon is gone

With no one or nothing

For darkness to fall upon

No dogs barking

No telephone don’t ring

I even miss the couple next door

Who can’t agree on a thing

With no one or nothing to hold

Even the darkness feels alone (you gone)

I trace my hands where you’d lay by my side

So unforgettable your shape in my mind

Maybe I’ve been drinking just a little too much

Or maybe just one more will be just enough

Precious things I’ve found we tend not to throw

Leaves me to wonder just where, and why did you go?

Now you got what you want you’re where you wanted to be

With nothin’ to lose and no one to need, once again

Even the night feels lonely

When the moon is gone

With no one or nothing

For darkness to fall upon

Dogs won’t bark (no dogs barking)

The telephone won’t ring (no telephone ring)

I even miss the couple next door

Who can’t agree on a thing

With no one or nothing to hold

Even the darkness feels alone (you gone)

So unforgettable

Getting dark early winters setting in

Looking out the window you’re crossing my mind again I

Trace my hands where you’d lay by my side

So unforgettable that place in my mind

Good love come along I guess we never know when

Just count yourself lucky your heart can be broken again

She wakes up early, she comes to play

Changes outfits ten times a day

She’s a fashionista, she’s an a lister

She’s out in the kitchen now, cooking up a mess

Wearing our breakfast on her wedding dress

She’d like for you to know, she won the British baking show

Yeah, Ruby Rae

Just as the sun starts to rise

And you see the brown in that little girl’s eyes

With just one look, you come undone

Wherever you walk you know, you know that girl gonna run

Chasing after the sun

She’s made for summer and days at the beach

Threading her toes through the sand and the sea

Until the last rays of sun fade, on another perfect day

Follow her trail, wet suit and sand

Pull back the curtain barbies showering again

Where it’s kindly explained

‘she’s getting ready mom, it’s her wedding day’

Ahh, Ruby Rae

She likes to sing, she likes to dance

Dress up in all the things, her mama has

But she don’t like, she don’t like to go to bed nah

She don’t want for her day to end

Just as the sun starts to rise

And you see the brown in that little girl’s eyes

With just one look, you come undone

Wherever you walk you know, you know that girl gonna run

Chasing after the sun

Just close your eyes it won’t be long

Just close your eyes, one more song

A goodnight kiss sweet dreams til’ then

One more day, heaven sent

Just as the sun starts to rise

And you see the brown in that little girl’s eyes

With just one look, you come undone

Ruby Rae…she’s like the rising sun

Ruuuuuby Rae

Ruuuuuby Rae

Instrumental

Quiet boy, speaks with his eyes

Open window, climb inside

Soft smile, tells me everything is fine

Breaks my heart every time

Your sweet silence has so much to say

There’s too much talking, anyway

From a mother’s love, you came to me

Six thousand miles, from the thin country

You’re a promise I will always keep

You’ll always be my sweet quiet boy to me

Quiet boy, like a warm summer wind

Wrapping around me, then blowing back in again

Unspoken love, I know is always there

No needless words, left hanging in the air

Your sweet silence has so much to say

There’s too much talking, anyway

From a mother’s love, you came to me

Six thousand miles, from the thin country

You’re a promise I will always keep

You’ll always be my, my sweet quiet boy to me

Yeah you’ll always be my, sweet quiet boy to me

I laughed at your jokes, never told you no lies

Brought you coffee in bed, to show you my love

Had your mean old mama, over every 4th of July

Gave you all that I had, just wasn’t enough…somehow

You’re somebody else’s, baby now

I held back your hair when you’d drink too much

Drove you Portland Maine, to catch your daddy’s last breath

You said some unkind things, but I was never, quick to judge

Gave you all that I had, just wasn’t enough…somehow

You’re somebody else’s, baby now

I’ve said so long, to loneliness

Haven’t stole by your house, for quite some time

You told me to figure it out, and I did, I guess

You’re somebody else’s, baby now

We slept with your dogs, that smell is still with me today

Your roommate from college, stayed a little too long

It’s taken a while, for all of those good times, to fade

Gave you all that I had, just wasn’t enough…somehow

You’re somebody else’s, baby now

You’re somebody else’s, baby, thank god you’re

You’re somebody else’s, baby now

Thank god

You never really know, and she don’t say

Nothing in her smile that gives her away

She got ways make it feel like love

But you never really know what she’s thinking of

She’ll lay in your arms, and never say a thing

Look into your eyes, it’s never quite what you think

She got a way, she keeps to herself

She was young and lovely as a springtime flower

Turning in the sun to while away the hours

Then she got broke in a summertime storm

It all washed away everything she’d known

Now first sign she feels a little more

She draws the line, been down that road before

Comes a time, you need shelter from a storm

And it looks like rain, it looks like rain

Now she’ll, find somebody

She don’t really need to know

Make her feel good for a while

One more dose, to make her way back home

She’s been wandering for miles and miles

She got a way she keeps to herself

She got a world with no one else-you never really know

Now she counts the days, she wakes alone

Another love come, and another love gone

Starting to feel that aching again

Win or lose, play one more hand

She just can’t believe she’s someone that someone would need

She’s still that child from a mama gone wild who would up and leave

She got a way she keeps to herself

She got a world with nobody else

Now she’s looking for someone

She don’t really need to know

Make her feel good for a while

One more dose, to find her way home

She’s been wandering for miles and miles

She got a way she keeps to herself

She got a world with no one else-you never really know

She got a way she keeps to herself

She got a world with nobody else