All I Want To Do
Written by Jennifer Nettles, Kristian Bush and Bobby Pinson
I don’t wanna get up, baby let’s turn off the phone
I don’t wanna go to work today or even put my make-up on
I got better things to do than my to-do list anyway
Hide under the covers and waste away the day
Let’s just lay here and be lazy baby, drive me crazy
Chorus:
All I wanna do-oo-oo
All I wanna do-oo-oo
Is love you
I got my whole life to change the world and climb the ladders
Looking at you, looking at me, is the only thing that matters
Come a little closer baby, we can talk without the words
Hang a sign on the door, “please do not disturb”
Let’s just lay here and be lazy baby, drive me crazy
Repeat chorus
Give me a kiss from that Elvis lip
You don’t wanna miss this
Repeat chorus
All I really wanna do is
All I really wanna do is
All I really wanna do is love you, and love you, and love you
Come a little closer baby, we can talk without the words
Hang a sign on the door, “please do not disturb”
When I lay down in the evening
All I really wanna do is
When I wake up, when I wake up in the morning, baby
All I really wanna do is
© 2008 Jennifer Nettles Publishing (ASCAP); EMI Blackwood Music. Inc./Dirkpit Music, admin. By EMI Blackwood Music Inc.; Music Of Stage Three/Bobby’s Song and Salvage, admin. By Stage Three Music Inc. (BMI). All rights reserved. Used by permission. International copyright secured.
It Happens
Written by Jennifer Nettles, Kristian Bush and Bobby Pinson
Missed my alarm clock ringing
Woke up, telephone screaming
Boss man singing his same old song
Rolled in late about an hour
No cup of coffee, no shower
Walk of shame with two different shoes on
Now it’s poor me, why me, oh me, boring
The same old worn out, blah, blah story
There’s no good explanation for it at all
Chorus:
Ain’t no rhyme or reason
No complicated meaning
Ain’t no need to over-think it
Let go, laughing
Life don’t go quite like you planned it
We try so hard to understand it
The irrefutable, indisputable fact is
It happens
My trusty-rusty had a flat
I borrowed my neighbors’ Cadillac
“I’ll be right back,” going down to Wally World
That yellow light turned red too quickly
Knew that truck the moment it hit me
Out steeped my ex and his new girl
(“Sorry ‘bout your neck baby”)
But it’s poor me, why me, oh me, boring
The same old worn out, blah, blah story
There’s no good explanation for it at all
Repeat chorus twice
Yeah, the irrefutable, indisputable, absoluteable, totally beautiful fact is…
Pshhhhh, it happens
© 2008 Jennifer Nettles Publishing (ASCAP); EMI Blackwood Music. Inc./Dirkpit Music, admin. By EMI Blackwood Music Inc.; Music Of Stage Three/Bobby’s Song and Salvage, admin. By Stage Three Music Inc. (BMI). All rights reserved. Used by permission. International copyright secured.
We Run
Written by Jennifer Nettles, Kristian Bush and Scooter Carusoe
Snake oil and roses, pockets of dirt
Hands of a fortune teller’s son
Young love shaking the earth
Like a heart shot out of a gun
Lips like gravity, pull me under
Reckless weather on his breath
Smells like rain, hits like thunder
A storm is coming, I’ve got nothing left
So we run, yeah, yeah, yeah, we run
Come undone like a string on a sweater
That you pull but you know better
But doing what you shouldn’t ‘s half the fun, so we run
Fire and laughter, fence posts flying
Feel the fever in the air
Can’t remember what came before him
And what comes after, I don’t care
Hands are trembling, I swore I wouldn’t
One more look and I’ll give in
A hundred reasons why I shouldn’t
But I lost my heart in wanting him to win
So we run, yeah, yeah, yeah, we run
Come undone like a string on a sweater
That you pull but you know better
But doing what you shouldn’t ‘s half the fun, so we run
Na, na, na, na…
I hear the leather on his voice
It’s a calling not a choice and I can’t keep myself from following the sound
Yeah, you may never know how fast that you can go
Til’ someone lifts your feet up off the ground
So we run, yeah, yeah, yeah, we run
Come undone, yeah, yeah, yeah, undone
So we run, yeah, yeah, yeah, we run
So we run, yeah, yeah, yeah, we run
Na, na, na, na…
© 2008 Jennifer Nettles Publishing (ASCAP); EMI Blackwood Music Inc./Dirkpit Music, admin. By EMI Blackwood Music Inc. (BMI); Gravitron Music, A division of Carnival Music Group (SESAC). All rights reserved. Used by permission. International copyright secured.
Joey
Written by Jennifer Nettles, Kristian Bush and Bill Anderson
What if I say yes
What if I’d gone out that night
What if you’d turned left
And everything would’ve turned out alright
What if I spoke up
What if I took the keys
What if I had tried a little harder
Instead of always trying to please
Chorus:
Joey, I’m so sorry
Of, can you hear me?
Joey, I’m so sorry
What if I said no
What if we never fell in love
What if we’d gone slow
Or a little bit faster and broken up
Would I know this hurt
Would I feel this pain
Do you know that with all I have left in my very last breath
I will call your name
Repeat chorus
Were you sad, were you scared, did you whisper a prayer to be free
Was it quiet and cold, was it light or too dark to see
And did you reach for me
Repeat chorus twice
© 2008 Jennifer Nettles Publishing (ASCAP); EMI Blackwood Music, Inc./Dirkpit Music, admin. By EMI Blackwood Music Inc.; Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC/Mr. Bubba Music, Inc., admin by Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC (BMI). All rights reserved. Used by permission. International copyright secured.
Love
Written by Jennifer Nettles, Kristian Bush and Tim Owens
Is it the face of a child
Is it the thrill of danger
Is it the kindness we see in the eyes of a stranger
Is it more than faith
Is it more than hope
Is it waiting for us at the end of our rope
Chorus:
I say, it’s love
I say, it’s love
Is it the only one you call home
Is it the Holy Land
Is it standing right here holding your hand
Is it just like the movies
Is it rice and white lace
Is it the feeling I get when I wake to your face
Repeat chorus
Is it the first summer storm
Is it the colors of fall
Is it having so little
And yet having it all
Is it one in a million
Is it a chance to belong
Is it standing right here singing this song
Repeat chorus four times
Is it a veil or a cross
Is it the poet’s gift
Is it the face that has launched over thousands of ships
Is it making you laugh
Is it letting you cry
Is it where we believe that we go when we die
Is it how you were made
Is it your mother’s ghost
Is it the wish that I’m wishing for your life, for your life, for your life the most
© 2008 Jennifer Nettles Publishing (ASCAP); EMI Blackwood Music, Inc./Dirkpit Music, admin. By EMI Blackwood Music Inc. (BMI); Chamaland Music/Songs of Bud Dog Music, admin. By Music of Windswept (ASCAP). All rights reserved. Used by permission. International copyright secured.
Genevieve
Written by Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush
My heart’s grown cold
There’s not much left
My blood won’t turn
And I can see my breath
She walks above, the angel’s rule
Kicks the snow, feels like winter
I’d do anything to just be with her
Genevieve
Well, the world won’t turn
The world won’t turn
The frames won’t break
And the letters won’t burn
The whole thing seems
Like Einstein’s dreams
See the smoke, start to shiver
I’d do anything to just forget her
Chorus:
She’s my Genevieve, she’s my lazy river
She’s my only love, she’s my favorite sinner
Genevieve, woa, oh, Genevieve
Sometimes I see her
A cold chill, a fever
So easy to believe here
Repeat chorus twice
© 2008 Jennifer Nettles Publishing (ASCAP); EMI Blackwood Music, Inc./Dirkpit Music, admin. By EMI Blackwood Music Inc. (BMI). All rights reserved. Used by permission. International copyright secured.
Already Gone
Written by Jennifer Nettles, Kristian Bush and Bobby Pinson
My mama mapped out the road that she knows
Which hands you shake and which hands you hold
In my hand-me-down Mercury, ready to roll
She knew that I had to go
And hangout, make lots of noise
And layout late with a boy
Make the mistakes that she made ‘cause she knew all along
Chorus:
I was already gone
I was already gone
I was already gone
Life is a runaway train you can’t wait to jump on
They say the first time won’t ever last
But that didn’t stop me, the first time he laughed
All my friends tried to warn me the day that we met
“Girl, don’t you lose your heart yet”
But his dark eyes dared me with danger
And sparks fly like flame to a paper
Fire in his touch burning me up, but still I held on
Repeat chorus
The last time I saw him, we packed up my things
And he smiled like the first time he told me his name
And we cried with each other
We split the blame for the parts that we couldn’t change
Pictures, dishes and socks
It’s our whole life down to one box
There he was waving goodbye on the front porch alone
But I was already gone
I was already gone
I was already gone
I was already gone
I was already gone
Hangout, make lots of noise
And layout late with a boy
Make the mistakes that she made, life is a runaway train
My mama mapped out the road that she knows
Which hands to shake, which hands you hold
In my hand-me-down Mercury
Life is a runaway train you can’t wait to jump on
© 2008 Jennifer Nettles Publishing (ASCAP); EMI Blackwood Music. Inc./Dirkpit Music, admin. By EMI Blackwood Music Inc.; Music Of Stage Three/Bobby’s Song and Salvage, admin. By Stage Three Music Inc. (BMI). All rights reserved. Used by permission. International copyright secured.
Keep You
Written by Jennifer Nettles, Kristian Bush and Bobby Pinson
We said, goodbye, tried a hand at magic
But we couldn’t make us disappear
Not a day goes by I don’t wish I had you
So in a way I’m glad you’re still here
It’s a bittersweet victory
Lovin’ the ghost in front of me
Now I can’t laugh, can’t cry
And I can’t run, can’t hide
What do I gotta do
What do I gotta do to keep you
What do I gotta do to keep you from doing this to me
I wrote a couple of notes one if love, one in anger
They’re lying there drying in the dresser drawer
Lived louder than my voice
Struggled through a stranger
He loved me ‘til I loved you even more
It’s a bittersweet victory
Knowin’ someone else wanted me
Now I can’t laugh, can’t cry
And I can’t run, can’t hide
You get used to the pain
And numb to the sting
‘Til you can’t feel anything
You tried to explain, but I couldn’t hear it
As if your words were my tears
Flowin’ freely, warm and quiet
From the edges of my eyes, in my ears
Then all that disappears
Now I can’t laugh, can’t cry
And I can’t run, can’t hide
Now I can’t laugh, can’t cry
And I can’t run, can’t hide
What do I gotta do
What do I gotta do to keep you
What do I gotta do to keep you from doing this to me
© 2008 Jennifer Nettles Publishing (ASCAP); EMI Blackwood Music. Inc./Dirkpit Music, admin. By EMI Blackwood Music Inc.; Music Of Stage Three/Bobby’s Song and Salvage, admin. By Stage Three Music Inc. (BMI). All rights reserved. Used by permission. International copyright secured.
Take Me As I Am
Written by Jennifer Nettles, Kristian Bush and Jeff Cohen
The radiator says 95
But I ain’t felt a drop of heat all night
Here in this motel, there’s no telling me nothing
I come here five nights a week
To clean the toilets and change these sheets
My name’s Maggie Durant, baby ain’t that something
Chorus:
If you want it
Come and get it
If you want it, come and get it but understand
You take me as I am
I know these corners, I know these streets
The curb-side Prophet there yelling at me
He can save my soul for a drink and a dollar
Yeah, he’s yelling about my tattoos
But we all live with the scars we choose
They might hurt, but they all make us stronger
Repeat chorus
I’m slow to trust but I’m quick to love
I push too hard and I give too much
I ain’t saying I’m perfect, but I promise I’m worth it
Now I’m standing here in front of you
Tell me boy, what you gonna do?
‘Cause my name’s Maggie Durant, I said, ain’t that something
Repeat chorus twice
© 2008 Jennifer Nettles Publishing (ASCAP); EMI Blackwood Music. Inc./Dirkpit Music, admin. By EMI Blackwood Music Inc.; As You Wish Music (BMI). All rights reserved. Used by permission. International copyright secured.
What I’d Give
Written by Jennifer Nettles, Kristian Bush and Clayton Mitchell
What I’d give to bring you flowers
What I’d give to get you alone
What I’d give to bring a smile across your face
What I’d give to take you home
What I’d give to make you coffee
Find out how you like your eggs
Wrapped around you in the morning
A tangled lace of arms and legs
Chorus:
What I’d give to let you love me
Find out everything that brings you joy
Wake up to your face above me
I’d be that girl and you could be that boy
Find out what that felling is
Oh, what I’d give
What I’d give to take you dancing
What I’d give to make you mine
If you’ve got questions, I got answers
And my answer’s “yes” to you every time
What I’d give for just one minute
What I’d give to count all the ways
If your heart was dark with nothin’ in it
I’d give you mine and take your place
Repeat chorus
Oooh, what I’d give
© 2008 Jennifer Nettles Publishing (ASCAP); EMI Blackwood Music. Inc./Dirkpit Music, admin. By EMI Blackwood Music Inc.; (BMI); Clayton Mitchell Music (ASCAP). All rights reserved. Used by permission. International copyright secured.
Steve Earle
Written by Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush
One more
Well, I heard Steve Earle had lots of wives
About as many as cats have lives
Met’em on his records and we’re good friends
He writes a song for everyone
They fall in love and before it’s done
He writes an even better one when it ends
Well, I don’t have to take your name
And you won’t have to take the blame
Chorus:
Steve Earle, Steve Earle, please write a song for me
I promise, I won’t take a dime when it comes my time to leave
The others wanted your whole heart
But I just want your sleeve
Steve Earle, Steve Earle, please write a song for me
Well, I heard he loves each one the same
As much as Ireland loves the rain
Steve, it rains at my house everyday
He met’em all in every port
‘Cause fallin’ in love is a pilgrim’s sport
And as long as I can be the pirate, I’m ok
You moved to the city, baby you had to go
But I love apples and I could learn to love the snow
Repeat chorus
I could walk around in your favorite shoes
Come on, just one line, what do you got to lose
And I don’t bruise
Steve Earle, Steve Earle, please write a song for me
I promise, I won’t take a dime when it comes my time to leave
The others wanted your whole heart
But I just want your sleeve
And a shirt that goes with it ‘cause it smells like you and you know I like to sleep in that
And a vacation house at the beach
And a really small wedding, only about 300 people
Ddi I tell you I have kids, you’re gonna love ‘em
They’re gonna need to go to college
Do you like reggae, I love reggae
On Tuesday nights I like to go to trivia so that’s your night to go out with the boys and then you can… is this thing on?
Steve Earle, Steve Earle, please write a song for me
I do
© 2008 Jennifer Nettles Publishing (ASCAP); EMI Blackwood Music. Inc./Dirkpit Music, admin. By EMI Blackwood Music Inc. (BMI) All rights reserved. Used by permission. International copyright secured.
Very Last Country Song
Written by Jennifer Nettles, Kristian Bush and Tim Owens
Today is my birthday and all that I want
Is to dig through this big box of pictures
In my kitchen ‘til the daylight’s gone
This one here’s my mama
With the long, brown hair
I’m 40 years older today than she was in that picture there
Chorus:
But if life stayed the way it was
And lovers never fell out of love
If memories didn’t last so long
If nobody did nobody wrong
If we knew what we had before it was gone
If every road led back home
This would be
The very last country song
These are all my babies
Lord knows how we survived
The first one was hard and the last wasn’t planned
What a big surprise
That’s him with his daddy’s eyes
I loved the man in this one
It’s faded but I don’t care
There are nights when I wake up and know he’s beside me I swear
Sometimes I still feel him there
Repeat chorus
If we knew what we had before it was gone
If every road led back home
This would be the very last country song
© 2008 Jennifer Nettles Publishing (ASCAP); EMI Blackwood Music. Inc./Dirkpit Music, admin. By EMI Blackwood Music Inc. (BMI); Chamaland Music/Songs of Bud Dog Music, admin. By Music of Windswept (ASCAP). All rights reserved. Used by permission. International copyright secured.
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