"Come here and let me feel, you don't look well"
with her hand on my head,
"You know a mother can tell"
"Did you take your vitamins today"
yes mom, as she sticks a thermometer in
"Hold it in this way"
" There's a bug going round school,
and you went out, no jacket, like a fool"
I'd mumble, it wasn't cold....
"Keep that in you mouth, like you were told"
She takes it out and holds it to the light
"See 100 point 6...see I was right"
A box of medicine comes down quick
Searching through, calculating what to pick
"This will bring the fever down,
If not I'll call the doctor in town"
Another cabinet, and searching for more
I think she has more medicine than the drug store
One more pill box comes down from above
Why does she look so hard, I got the best
medicine first.......LOVE

I was little, play'n in the dirt
grown folk went to work
when the sun was high and hot
she'd stand close and make a shady spot
....and sing

Aint no shade in heaven
and I'm going to see when I'm there
Aint no shade in heaven
cause His light shines every where

I was grown and in the row
big ole sun moving offly slow
I went pulling that bacca plant
this ole tune we'd often chant

Aint no shade in heaven
and I'm going to see when I'm there
Aint no shade in heaven
cause His light shines every where

I'm old watch'n kids in the dirt
young folks went to work
The sun is high and hot
I stand close to make a shady spot
...and sing

Aint no shade in heaven
and I'm going to see when I'm there
Aint no shade in heaven
cause His light shines every where

If my heart
Were a thousand room hotel
And your love come look ’n
It can go straight to hell

You love only you
And you don’t even like that
You never loved nobody
And nobody loves you back

If my heart
Were big as the blue shy
And your love had wings
It would never ever ever fly

You love only you
And you don’t even like that
You never loved nobody
And nobody loves you back

If my heart
As big as the ocean be
your love would never sail
it’d sink to the bottom of the deep dark sea

You love only you
And you don’t even like that
You never loved nobody
And nobody loves you back

Me me me me
See see see see
I'm I'm I'm I'm
Mine mine mine mine
I I I I
Lie lie lie lie
My my my my
I've I've I've I've
I'd I'd I'd I'd
Lied lied lied lied
You
That's enough of you

I'm the King of wrong
So I'm told
Everyone reminds me
Young and old

They're good odds
50/50, wrong or right
I'll pick wrong every time
Every day and every night

I'd eat a bullet
And end this pain
But I'd get no satisfaction
In you being right again

It's Friday night,
I've got a game
We play the Indians,
My best friend's team

My uniform's on
It's only 4 o'clock
Mom says we leave
5:30 on the dot

Tonight's our first game
I'm fast in my new cleats
My glove's broken-in
'cause I've slept on it for weeks

I'm still a little nervous,
but not about playing
I'm wondering which girls are there
and what I'm going to be saying

I picked up a brush
and 80 bucks worth of paint.
After a few tries, I know
that kind of artist I ain't

So I will paint a picture
in your head
with the words
that I write instead

I'll start with the sky...
use your imagination
blue, blue like
the first day of summer vacation

Next is the grass,
tall and green
The breeze makes it wave
and the sun makes it sheen

Just beyond the grass
are the sand dunes
and just above that
a seagull looms

The air is sweet
with the scent of the ocean
and the coconut
in my suntan lotion

The sun is warm
and bright
I have to squint to see
that little boy's kite

I crest the dune,
and there is the sea
The waves crash and foam
and softly roar at me

I wade in; it is quite cold
Now let's sign this in the sand
where the waves hit the shore
and sea meets the air and the land

Now step back and look
What a wonderful view!
And the canvas can go wherever
because it is in you