I know why I waited
Know why I've been blue
I've been waiting each day
For someone exactly like you
Why should I spend some money
On a show or two
When nobody sings these love songs
Exactly like you
You make me feel so grand
I wanna give this world to you
You make me understand
These foolish little dreams I'm dreaming
And schemes I'm scheming
Now I know why my mama
She taught me to be true
She knew just around the corner
Was somebody like you
You make me feel so grand
I wanna give this world to you
Baby you make me understand
These foolish little dreams I'm dreaming
And schemes I'm scheming
Now I know why my mama
She taught me to be true
She knew just around the corner
Yes she knew just around the corner
Was somebody like you

I held the door for her
She thanked me with her eyes
And emptied the bin

Shining like a new star
Takes my breath away
All the the things that you are
Hit my heart today
But when you asked me
What I'm thinking
Then turned your head and smiled
I couldn't speak
I couldn't speak
I couldn't speak
I couldn't speak
There's magic in your presence
And love around your soul
A tender way of laughing
Your eyes have made me whole
But when you laid your head on my arm
And gently took my hand
I couldn't speak
I couldn't speak
I couldn't speak
I couldn't speak
Tomorrow is brand new day
And you're still at my side
So find the words inside my heart
And watch as they take flight
Who knows where we're going
Time alone can tell
There's nothing ever planned in life
I realise so well
But when I watched you walk away
There was so much left to say.
But,
I couldn't speak
I couldn't speak
I couldn't speak
I couldn't speak

Thoughts of her drifting
Like a feather on the breeze
All the words designed to hurt that brought me to my knees
Tho she’ll never change
And she’ll always bring me down
I dreamt about her every night
And a way to leave this town

So I’m heading out
It’s over now for sure
Heading out
Found my hat and found the door
I’m heading out
Pulling up my roots
Heading out
Pulling on my boots

Never tried to hurt her
And I never did her wrong
But still she runs me thru most nights in the words of every song
My heart will still be breaking as my final breath escapes
My hands will still be shaking
Waving goodbye to this place

So I’m heading out
It’s over now for sure
Heading out
Found my hat and found the door
I’m heading out
Pulling up my roots
Heading out
Pulling on my boots

Bridge
You never left this fractured heart
It never skipped a beat
But I’ll carry your smile all the while with me

Whistle solo

So I’m heading out
It’s over now for sure
Heading out
Found my hat and found the door
I’m heading out
Pulling up my roots
Heading out
Pulling on my boots

I’ve given and I’ve taken love
A little more than I deserved
I’d like to think I gave a lot
And took less than I was worth
My book of life is peppered with the tears of those I’ve wronged
But still I feel I’ve paid a due or two
For the right to sing some songs

I was blessed with a voice that gleaned a fee
Not so much to break a bank or make a rich man out of me
And yet I’ve always managed
By means,mostly fair
And pulled it off with seeming ease and a certain ‘savoire faire’

But I stand before you
Past adrift
And heart on full display
My voice, my fame, my future wealth
I’d gladly give away
For your heart of love
To hold as mine
Until the choir sang ‘old Lang sine’
And arms of faith and trust and hope
would fasten me like tender rope
A captive of your gaoler’s key
In happy servitude I’d be.

ire In Her Eyes
She lives by the seaside
It’s good for her smile
She swims in the ocean
And walks for a mile.

She’s into her jazz and
Tequila and lime
She talks like a lady
She could ya e been mine

But, she’s got her thing
And I’ve got the other
So we sit and we chat just like
Sister and brother
And deep in her eyes there’s a fire
And I’ve got my stuff
But she’s got a small place
So we, sit and we chat
And I think about about her face
And deep in her eyes, there’s a fire

She’s not big on romance
It just leaves her cold
She’s been hurt too often
Or so I’ve been told.

But she’s witty and pleasant
And when she comes around
The boys all flock round her
To take her to town

And she’s got her life
And I’ve got mine
A few years between us but ‘hey, that’s just time’
And deep in her eyes there’s a fire
I’ve got the road and she’s got the sea
And we’ve traveled our paths but separately
And deep in her eyes there’s a fire

Then one day I noticed
A tear in her eye
She said she was leaving
I didn’t ask why.

I knew something drive her
I thought it was me
Then I saw a small letter
She’s left carefully
It said ‘Darling I love you, and that’s why I’m gone.
It’s taken me over  
And I can’t go on.
You see, you are the fire in my eyes’

I cried for a long time
Once more the fool
It was right there before me
And I know that you say that,
I should have chased her
And begged her to stay
I know the reason
That she went away.
Deep in her eyes there’s a fire
Deep in her eyes there’s a fire.

I reach for you.
In morning’s light.
The ache inside, that tears my heart, I cannot fight.
The day begins.
As all days must.
Each one the same, I lose again and turn to dust

empty arms.

These tears will dry.
The sun will shine.
I’ll make it thru another day and I’ll be fine.
But now and then.
When someone laughs.
I’ll picture us, when you were mine.
In photographs

Empty arms
But oh these empty arms.