Lyrics
1. Sweetest I've Seen
Guys complain about the old ball & chain
Like it's the funniest joke in the world
I don't get where they're coming from
Cause you're still my baby girl
Well I'm not blind, and I don't mind
Seein' who's out there in the world
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You always are the sweetest, brightest
Warmest, smartest, prettiest girl that I've seen
Don't matter if it's Kansas, Vegas
Dallas, Key West, after every place that I've Been, you're still the sweetest I've seen
We went to a wedding,
These young girls are getting
Stuffed into the tiniest dresses
But you start dancin' in those slinky pants
And them girls come in second best
I laugh out loud 'cause while they're out
Trying to outdo the rest
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You always are the sweetest, brightest
Warmest, smartest, prettiest girl that I've seen
Don't matter if it's Kansas, Vegas
Dallas, Key West, after every place that I've Been, you're still the sweetest I've seen
There are beautiful girls all over the world
God Bless 'em, hey hey
I got mine and I ain't lyin
Every time you hear me say- baby, baby
(chorus)
You always are the sweetest, brightest
Warmest, smartest, prettiest girl that I've seen
Well I can go to Kansas, Vegas
Dallas, Key West, after every place that I've Been, you're still the sweetest I've seen
2. Never Once Thought Twice
We like all the same ice cream
You love my eyes and support my dream
Back when we used to dance
You would always make it seem like
I could be the one you would still be with
When we got older like this
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I never once thought twice about you, my love
Knew your love came from up above
I never once thought twice about you my love
You're my love always
Good times they picked us up
Rough times came, and they sure were rough
Looks fade and you wonder if
Your heart will be enough to
Keep me hangin on, make me still care
Praise God you're here & I still stare
(chorus)
I never once thought twice about you, my love
Knew your love came from up above
I never once thought twice about you my love
You're my love always
People say: "How can you be so sure
The bet you made is right?"
I say "Watch this faith endure
I am so sure I bet my life"
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I never once thought twice about you, my love
Knew your love came from up above
I never once thought twice about you my love
You're my love always
I never once thought twice
3. Married & Buried
When you smushed that cake on my face
I didn't know that's what people did (wedding day!)
But then, you were shocked when I dropped the law
And became a musician instead (thanks, right?)
But we struggled to make it with our hearts & our purse
The journey started rough & then it got worse
We always used to say how it was keepin' us down
But we'll be married and buried in this same town
So we packed & we hit the city
And we showed 'em what we could do
Then we hit that certain age
And they said: "Now we'd like someone new."
So we headed here, & the folks took us back
Thought I'd feel ashamed, but as a matter of fact
I've been heard to say: "This is Holy Ground
And we'll be married & buried in this same town"
Eddie Popcun fixes my car
Known him since 1958
The Subaru guy was okay in Nashville
Havin' Eddie, I just feel safe
Well I love where I am, it's the Missus and me
And baby to big boy to young man makes three
Forgive if it ain't hip & I don't say with a frown:
We'll be married & buried- we'll be
Married & buried in this same town
4. The Cup
I should have noticed you were
Needing something more
From how you let your shirts just
Pile up on the floor
I should've lent a hand or given you some space
I don't wanna be the shadow that
Passes 'cross your face
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I wanna be your favorite movie
I wanna be your favorite song
I wanna be the catchy chorus
That makes you wanna sing along
If I should see your saddest moment
I'll be the wind that lifts you up
And when your heart overflows
I wanna be the cup
I should have seen the worry
When you were on the phone
And tickled your foot so you'd
Know you weren't alone
Against a fickle world
Where friends can wound with words
I'll try hard to be the comfort
Your precious heart deserves
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I wanna be your favorite movie
I wanna be your favorite song
I wanna be the catchy chorus
That makes you wanna sing along
If I should see your saddest moment
I'll be the wind that lifts you up
And when your heart overflows
I wanna be the cup, and
Catch all your teardrops
Catch all your laughs
When you need them I'll
Be your unbreakable glass
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I wanna be your favorite movie
I wanna be your favorite song
I wanna be the catchy chorus
That makes you wanna sing along
If I should see your saddest moment
I'll be the wind that lifts you up
And when your heart overflows
I wanna be the cup- I wanna be the cup
I'm gonna be the cup
5. Can't Love Without It
It's like readin' a book, readin' the look that you
Give me when I say I'm sorry
Readin' ahead, fillin' with dread
To find out how it ends
As you're walkin' away, I think to say
A thousand things that make it clear that
I'm your bestest friend
(chorus)
If I don't know what's on your heart
How can I guess? Isn't it
Clear that this is the thing I wanna do best?
Well I know how much you love me
Swear to God I'll never doubt it
Your tender touch, I need it so much
I can't love without it- can't love without it
You start comin' around, calming down
And ya talk me thru what's buggin' you
But then you start to open your heart
And turn it back on me
You say: "How bout when we talk and you
Get up and walk
Silently down to the basement
If I disagree
(chorus)
If I don't know what's on your heart
How can I guess? Isn't it
Clear that this is the thing I wanna do best?
Well I know how much you love me
Swear to God I'll never doubt it
Your tender touch, I need it so much
I can't love without it- can't love without it"
Sometimes we talk to God
But not each other
I bet He throws His Hands up
And says: "Work it out with one another!"
(chorus)
If I don't know what's on your heart
How can I guess? Isn't it
Clear that this is the thing I wanna do best?
Well I know how much you love me
Swear to God I'll never doubt it
Your tender touch, I need it so much
I can't love without it- can't love without it
6. This is The Moment
That's how I saw you smiling
When you met me in the aisle
That's how I saw them beaming
After waiting all this while
I pictured you there- I stood just like this
Then you say the words and I say the words
And then here comes the kiss
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This is the moment I saw coming
All my life- never knowing
How beautiful it would be, and now I see
That's how I saw you weeping
Tears of joy falling on your clothes
That's how I saw them hoping
Because each one of them knows
My future with you- is your future with me
No worries at all, not if we can fall
In love with what will be
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This is the moment I saw coming
All my life- never knowing
How beautiful it would be, and now I see
I see you standing there with two
Angels at your shoulder
I see this day playing out in our lives
Over and over
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This is the moment I saw coming
All my life- never knowing
How beautiful it would be, and now I see
7. Make a Road
In the shade of the firehouse on James Street
With a styrofoam cup in his hand
The crumbs in his beard twitched as he talked
And he regaled me & Mick with his plan
He said: "We have planted a forest of fear, boys
We are choked by the seeds that we've sowed
We must join the forces for love
Make a road for my people
Make a road for my people- make a road"
I said "Who are these people, what makes them yours?"
And he inched a bit forward & smiled
"They're said to belong to no one
Tho they've been mine & yours all the while
They're forbidden to mingle among us
And so to that thick forest they're showed
So we must swing the axe of truth & of hope
Make a road for my people
Make a road for my people- make a road"
"They've drunk the same water & plowed the same land
They walk like you walk and they stand like I stand
It's said they were made by the very same Hand"
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Mick & I said goodbye and head homeward
And I carried his words in my mind
And how the old man gripped my hand
And affixed me with eyes deep & kind
And he promised me: "If we stay strong, lad
Just labors must reap what they've sowed
If all voices clearly will say:
There's a road for my people
Make a road for my people
Make a road for my people- make a road"
Make a road for my people
Make a road for my people
Make a road for my people- make a road (x 2)
8. Babysitter
Sid- back when I was a kid- was the guy
Who'd come over, keep an eye on me
When Mom & Dad would go out to the Riviera Cinema
He'd watch Wild Wild West with me
We lost touch til I was 30, I looked him up
He was in the city
He wound up different like it always seemed he'd be
And then when he got sick- it really took him quick
As he lay there still what he was to me
Was the babysitter, the babysitter
He took care of me- was sweet as could be
The world's eyes might criticize
But that friend I loved, that babysitter's all I see
Kate is a comic- she was Kathy back when I was
8 or 9 she'd come sit now & then
She was funny then too
Smart, she was cool
We'd use my reel-to-reel in the den
Well she never got married, that was weird
But the very next time I saw her it all clicked in
People have asked looking back thru your past
Bob, did you know who & what she'd been?
She was the babysitter, the babysitter
She took care of me- was kind as could be
The world's eyes might criticize
That friend I loved, that babysitter's all I see
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Gee I hate to hear a hurtful word
Against my babysitter
Gee it hurts to hear a spiteful word
Against my babysitter
Gee I love to hear good things get
Said about my babysitter
Did Jesus ever say a single thing against my babysitter?
Babysitter
Lai- lai-la-lai, lai la-lai
9. You're Better Than This
Sit down right there- get your butt in that chair
I got somethin' to say to you
I'm not your Dad- but I still can be sad
This is what you are coming to
Well I hear you're hangin' round the groovy people
But some people
They can chew you up & spit you out
And prey upon the way you doubt yourself
And turn you into someone else
(chorus)
You're better than this
You're better than anyone thinks you are
You're better than this
You're brighter than any of heaven's stars, you are, You are
In the dictionary by the word "potential"
Is your picture
So why you wanna mess with folks who just think you're
A joke, they make it true
Cause you practically beg 'em to
(chorus)
You're better than this
You're better than anyone thinks you are
You're better than this
You're brighter than any of heaven's stars, you are, You are
I coulda sworn I heard you say that you believed
And you would never quit
If you needed a chance to prove it
This is it
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Well your mind is bright, your heart is true
But I'm so tired of telling you BELIEVE!
Be the man God made you to be!
(chorus)
You're better than this
You're better than anyone thinks you are
You're better than this
You're brighter than any of heaven's stars, you are, You are-
Show 'em who you are!
10. A-D-O-P-TION
I was born- Mother Ann had me
Was no different in the 50's
Two hearts on love's sea got tossed
She got pregnant, he got lost
How she cried- and prayed for answers
Who in the world would help her?
Then she got the strangest notion
It seems she chose to spell "abortion"
A-D-O-P-TION- A-D-O-P-TION
Yeah she was my only friend
But now look, Lord- look at all of them
A-D-O-P-TION- A-D-O-P
Mary Beth- told her mother
When she could no longer cover
Up what she and Dave had done
Mom said: "You're not the only one
I had you, so I know the worry
'What's this thing inside my body?'
What happens to your body, that's yours to say
But this one has different DNA
A-D-O-P-TION- A-D-O-P-TION
Girl you are her only friend
Think ahead now- think of all of them
Who will love him or her- Give encouraging words
So do you have the nerve- To decide who deserves
A-D-O-P-TION- A-D-O-P-TION
Yeah she was my only friend
11. Never Crossed My Heart
Such talking- kids crying
When Fr. Fenlon starts up Mass
I look left at you, you're beaming
Meaning: "This too shall pass!"
Father says to "Lift Up Your
Hearts" and boy mine goes flyin' high
Thinking of all these Christmases
We've been here side by side
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And the thought that we would be apart
Has never crossed my heart
And the thought that we would be apart
Has never crossed my heart
Then slowly- through snow we
Head for our Wegman's grocery run
By 5 we're hoping SU basketball team has won
8:45- we see Ty
Pennington heal somebody's world
I start to cry like always
Cause I'm watchin' it with my girl
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And the thought that we would be apart
Has never crossed my heart
And the thought that we would be apart
Has never crossed my heart
5:30- wake early
And I look over at my bride
So pretty, like she's 30
From her sweet left side
Get dressed & head downstairs
Life gets me in its crosshairs
It scares me not as long as there's
This woman in my life
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And the thought that we would be apart
Has never crossed my heart
And the thought that we would be apart
Has never crossed my heart
12. How the Light Gets In
You refuse to wear my swimmin' trunks
Cause the style is miles behind
I'm just glad you're swimmin'
All that healin' sure takes time
The night you lay there bleedin'
I thought hope was at an end
There's a crack in my world
Maybe that's how the light gets in
Maybe that's how the light gets in
That's great you made another appointment
Counseling clears your head
Ya told him if not for Chiko
You know you'd be dead
And I fight with the cabernet & say:
"You're not my best friend"
There's a crack in my world
Maybe that's how the light gets in
Maybe the threat of losin' hope
Is what's throwin' me a rope
Maybe the things that are cavin' in
Are what made me hope again
I hear your voice from out by the pool
Sounds like your grin has reappeared
Since '91 I wonder
Do the laughs outweigh the tears
While Satan's countin' ballots
My loving wife walks in
There's a crack in her world
Some days I'm not much of a friend
But if we share this world
Maybe that's how the light gets in
That's how the light gets in
13. Love Isn't Through With Me Yet
Love- has the naggin' nasties
Love is a mangy pet
Life's a wicked case of disasties
But love isn't through with me yet
Justice hangs on the precipice
Falls to an untimely death
Just when I'm this disgusted
Love isn't through with me yet
I think about it & I cry my eyes out
Fly into rage & give as good as I get
Scream til I'm raw & when I'm spent I find out
Ya get down to it- love isn't through w/ me yet
I hate when folks are disrespected
Hate to see 'em drown in debt
Just when hope has been ejected
Love isn't thru with me yet
Hurt is handed out like sandwiches
"You mangy mutts should make a meal on that!"
Just as I yell what a horrible hand this is
Love isn't through with me yet
Forgive us Lord for our enraged religion
Rescue us Lord from what our sins beget
Just when I focus on the dire division
You speak to it, love isn't through with me yet
Hurts ta- love it's work ta- love
Got ta- love Need ta- love
Help me- love, make me- love
Have me- love Let me- love
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Just when I nearly blew it
Love isn't through with me yet
I think about it & I cry my eyes out
Fly into rage & give as good as I get
Scream til I'm raw & when I'm spent I find out
Ya get down to it- love isn't through w/ me yet
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