Garth Brooks: Garth Brooks (1989 Cassette Tape)

When loving turns to parting, I'm always first to lean Cause when it comes to heartaches, I'd rather give than to receive I've never cried myself to sleep, just praying I'll get through I've never lost in love, not counting you Not counting you, I've never had a heartache Not counting you, I've never been blue There's no exceptions to the rule, I've never been nobody's fool I've never lost in love, not counting you Begging to be taken back and swearing I'll be true Has never crossed my mind, not counting you Not counting you, I've never had a heartache Not counting you, there's no exceptions to the rule I've never been nobody's fool I've never lost in love, not counting you No exceptions to the rule, I've never been nobody's fool I've never been in love, not counting you She swears there's nothing wrong, but something's missing She's never been much good at telling lies Cause you can hear the sounds of leaving if you listen This may be California, but Oklahoma's in her eyes She's tired of hanging on, got a good thing going She's as good as gone She must be tired of always giving And tired of what she's getting in return I guess Oklahoma's more her style of living Cause I can see her heart is heading Across a bridge I thought she'd burn And I've got a good thing going She's tired of hanging on Cause I've got a good thing going She's as good as gone Sometimes late at night I lie awake and watch her sleeping She's lost in peaceful dreams So I turn out the lights and lay there in the dark And a thought crosses my mind If I never wake up in the morning Would she ever doubt The way I feel about her in my heart If tomorrow never comes Will she know how much I loved her Did I try in every way To show her every day That she's my only one And if my time always were through She must face this world without me Is the love I gave her in the past Gonna be enough to last If tomorrow never comes Cause I've lost loved ones in my life Who never knew how much I loved them Now I live with no regret That my true feelings for them never were revealed So I made a promise to myself To say today how much she means to me And avoid that circumstance Where there's no second chance To tell her how I feel Cause if tomorrow never comes Will she know how much I loved her Did I try in every way To show her every day That she's my only one And she must face this world without me Is the love I gave her in the past Gonna be enough to last If tomorrow never comes So tell that someone that you love Just what you're thinking of If tomorrow never comes Stuck in an airport in Austin All of the flights are delayed And as the rains keep falling The memories keep calling me back To another time and place Back to a rainy day in Oklahoma She was working at this roadside cafe And it was just her and me And it looked like it would be At least till the storms rolled away I played please come to Boston on the jukebox She said hey that's my favorite song The next thing I knew The song was long through And we were still dancing along And with that look in her eyes She pulled from me Then she pulled off that apron she wore And with her hand in mine We turned off the sign And locked the rain outside the door Every time that it rained I can hear her heart calling It rains I can see that dress falling The storm clouds roll off Still the memory remains Every time that it rains One late rainy night So I went back to see her again And through the dance we both stumbled And with the buttons we fumbled So we decided just to call it friends If we ever had a thing now it's over And only the memory remains Of a roadside cafe on a September day I relive every time that it rains Every time that it rains I can hear her heart calling It rains I can see that dress falling The storm clouds roll off Still the memory remains Every time that it rains First time he saw the ground get busted He was ten, it was 1952 His daddy worked hard from sun up to sundown And the going got tough behind them old gray mules The farm grew to be a money maker And the house he lived in grew up room by room The boy worked hard but soon got tired of farming So he slipped away one night beneath a harvest moon His neck was red as Alabama clay But the city's called him away He's got a factory job and runs a big machine He don't miss the farm or the fields of green Now the city's just a prison without fences His job is just a routine he can't stand And at night he dreams of wide open spaces Fresh dirt between his toes and on his hands Then one day a picture came inside a letter Of a young girl with a baby in her arms And the words she wrote would change his life forever So he went to raise his family on the farm His neck is red as Alabama clay Now he's going home this time to stay Where the roots run deep on the family tree And the tractor rolls through the fields of green His neck is red as Alabama clay Now he's going home this time to stay Where the roots run deep on the family tree And the tractor rolls through the fields of green His neck is red as Alabama clay This old highway's getting longer It seems there ain't no end in sight To sleep would be best but I just can't afford to rest I gotta ride in Denver tomorrow night I call the house but no one answers For the last two weeks no one's been home I guess he's through with me To tell the truth I just can't see What's kept the woman holding on this long And the white line's getting longer And the saddle's getting colder And I'm much too young to be this damn old, this damn old The competition's getting younger A tougher bronze, you know I can't recall A worn out tape, a crystal ado Lonely women and bad booze Seem to be the only friends I've left at all And the white line's getting longer This damn old, this damn old, this damn old He told a good story And all us kids listened About his life on the border And the way it was then And we all believed And when he would finish We'd ask the old cowboy to tell him again You could almost hear those prairie winds blowing His saddle beneath his old faded jeans You could taste the dry dust from the trail he was riding As he sat there and he painted those West Texas scenes And the grown-ups would tell us You boys keep your distance That old man's just telling you lies But to all us kids Cowboy Bill was a hero Just as true as his blue Texas sky He told when he rode with the rangers Down on the Pecos And he saved the day Outnumbered by plenty They were almost to cover With thirty banditos headed their way He looked back to see a horse stumble Rescued the captain They rode for a sunset Just the story remains Cowboy Bill was a hero Just as true as his blue Texas sky I still remember the day that it happened We waited and we waited But Bill never showed The folks at the feed store Said they hadn't seen him So he set out and boarded his plane That said Texas Rangers And in old Yeller letters Said Texas is proud So you boys keep your distance That old man dare all say That Cowboy Bill was a hero Just as true as his blue Texas sky Nobody gets off in this town Trains don't even slow down Sweethearts married and gone They met on a bus to San Antonio Greyhound stops and somebody gets on But nobody gets off in this town Nobody gets off in this town Old folks around here wear a crown Now let me see if I can set the scene It's a one dog town and he's old and mean There's one stop light but it's always green Nobody gets off in this town Can't drag Maine because it kicks up dust The cars and their dreams are all starting to rust The high school dances are always a bust Nobody gets off in this town Tear it down Cause in the winter you freeze And in the summer you fry Utility bills the only thing that gets high I'd go for a drink but this county is dry Nobody gets off Nobody gets off in this square road Nobody gets off in this town When all your love's heaven dead When all your friends have flown Who'll be around to want you When all your love's heaven gone Only a fool would do it After the way you've done And how many fools would have you No one This fool keeps wondering why He fell in love at all But you might need this fool to fall After the party's over And you've had your fill of fun If you need a fool to forgive you I'm no one You never know you might lose happiness It wouldn't hurt to keep an extra Fool for living again And you need a place to run If you'll take a fool who loves you I'm no one Looking back All the memory of The dance we shared The stars for a moment All the world was right How could I have known That you'd ever say goodbye And now I'm glad I did The way it all would go Our lives are better left to I could have missed the pain But I'd have had the day Holding you I've held everything For a moment I can't But if I'd only known It goes to say You know I might have changed it all And now It's the pain The dance The pain But I'd have had to miss The dance