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Gretchen Peters

by Gretchen Peters

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Souvenirs 04:47
I set out like Kerouac In my American car Carryin' a dream and a road map Deep in my American heart But where's them mountain majesties Where's those waves of grain Billboards from sea to shining sea Man, it ain't the same I've been searching for the promised land But it's just another neon come-on roadside stand Little tin toys that fall apart That's all they got here I come all this way to find my heart All I get is souvenirs They got Mount Rushmore on a cup Everybody needs one of those For a dollar more they'll fill it up You can drink out of Lincoln's nose They got the hard rock t-shirts They got Elvis too Sooner or later mark my words They're gonna get you Chorus Baby I believed in you I thought you believed in me I thought we had a love that's true Not a close facsimile Now I don't want your dime store ring Turns my finger green I don't want your dimestore love I want the real thing Chorus
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Baby i’ve been thinking About me and you Baby i’ve been dreaming Like we used to do Things ain’t what they used to be I can’t change them anyway But the world would be a better place If I had my way Superman would win the fight Everyone would do what’s right And i would always be your girl In a perfect world Maybe we were crazy Breaking all the rules Maybe we were dreamers Maybe we were fools Maybe it was madness To believe that we could win But boy I would give anything Just to feel that way again chorus Maybe this is all there is Maybe we just pack it in Spread our wings and fly But baby that don’t make it right That don’t get me through the night I still believe in a perfect world chorus
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I Don't Know 04:38
Quit my job and cashed my check Pawned the pearls around my neck And kissed it all goodbye Gassed my car and fixed my flat Told that boy just where it’s at And had a real good cry I got this feelin’ in my bones It’s time for me to leave the comfort zone I don’t know if I’m fallin’ or flyin’ I don’t know if I’m laughin’ or cryin’ I don’t know if I’m hurtin’ or healin’ I don’t know how I’m feelin’ But it sure feels good Waitress pours my coffee black Windshield wiper beats ‘em back And the road goes on and on These are things that i can see These are things that set me free And keep me movin’ on I got this feelin’ in my bones It’s time for me to put some distance on I don’t know if I’m fallin’ or flyin’ I don’t know if I’m laughin’ or cryin’ I don’t know if I’m hurtin’ or healin’ I don’t know how I’m feelin’ But it sure feels good How long have I been asleep Are these my tears upon my cheek Well I just don’t know Is this my hand upon the wheel I always wondered how I’d feel If I just let go I don’t know if I’m fallin’ or flyin’ I don’t know if I’m laughin’ or cryin’ I don’t know if I’m hurtin’ or healin’ I don’t know how I’m feelin’ But it sure feels good
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I had a big black pontiac She burned a little oil but she flew We had it all there in the back Baby i burned for you We were bulletproof We were bathed in the neon glow Underneath the stars of love and Texaco You had a long dark history Some of it was even true Baby you were enough for me And I tried to be enough for you We were bulletproof Nobody ever told us no Didn’t need nothin’ but love and Texaco And every night when the trucks’d go by We’d gas her up, a kiss for luck and we’d let her fly I have a sweet sweet memory Of a boy I used to know And baby it’s still a mystery How I ever could have let him go But we were living proof That life is a long hard road And you can’t run forever on love and Texaco Tag: Just a little cash for cigarettes and gas Love and Texaco
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Baby where are you tonight I’m lookin’ good i feel alright - yeah yeah yeah I ain’t really missin’ you It’s just a kind of deja vu - yeah yeah yeah Me i’m out here in the clutch, i’m hangin’ on to nothin’ much I’m hungry for that human touch, yeah yeah Love is a drug, love is a drug, love is a Oh yeah Love is a drug, love is a drug, love is a... Romeo’s on the internet He’s searching for his Juliet - yeah yeah yeah Got her picture in his head He’s got her poster by his bed - yeah yeah yeah And Juliet she’s looking cute and he just needs a substitute For all of this forbidden fruit, yeah yeah Love is a drug, love is a drug, love is a Oh yeah Love is a drug, love is a drug, love is a... Give us a kiss, give us a hug Give us a fix, love is a drug Up there on the senate floor They’re kickin’ down the bedroom door - yeah yeah yeah CNN is keepin’ score Hey all is fair in love and war - yeah yeah yeah So tell us how it’s come to this we wanna share your carnal bliss Yeah give us all our daily fix yeah yeah Cause love is a drug love is a drug love is a - Oh yeah Love is a drug love is a drug love is a... Love is a drug love is a drug love is a...
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Baby open up that bottle Come and lay down by my side I don't have no special reason Just this ache I feel inside I wanna lose my inhibitions I wanna lose those words we said I wanna drink my fill of you babe And let it go right to my head Tonight I want to hold you I wanna look into your eyes I wanna watch these broken dreams turn into memories Just like water, baby Just like water into wine Don't wanna think about tomorrow Don't wanna count my last regrets I can't hate you anymore babe And I can't love you any less Sometimes I've been ungrateful Sometimes you've been unkind But all the pain and sorrow and all the bitter tears They're just water, baby Just water into wine So baby open up that bottle Come and lay down by my side I can't think of one good reason We should not be satisfied Jesus walked upon the water Healed the sick, the lame, the blind We are miracles of science, we are accidents divine We're just like water, baby Just like water into wine
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Eddie’s first wife was a vision The bride on the wedding cake Thought he was the luckiest man alive That was his first mistake He’d found him the perfect woman That’s what he thought he had Found him a girl just like the girl Who married dear old dad Where have you gone Betty Crocker? Come back Brigitte Bardot Eddie was in for a shocker How was he supposed to know About the secret life Of Eddie’s first wife Eddie came home one evening She met him at the door with a drink Said i got something to tell you baby But you better sit down i think She said I found me somebody Someone who rocks my world I’m in love and i don’t care who knows it And she’s a good old fashioned girl Where have you gone Betty Crocker? Come back Brigitte Bardot Eddie was in for a shocker How was he supposed to know About the secret life Of Eddie’s first wife She might look like the Venus de Milo She might be the marryin’ kind But you can’t judge a book by the cover You got to read between the lines Where have you gone Betty Crocker? Come back Brigitte Bardot Eddie was in for a shocker How was he supposed to know About the secret life Of Eddie’s first wife
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Picasso's in the kitchen stirring up a stew He pours himself a bowl and then he fixes me one too And we sit out on the terrace and the birds fly through the trees And he captures them on canvas and I capture them in dreams And we pass a lazy afternoon, as happy as can be With the brushes and the turpentine, just Picasso and me He picked me up in Paris; I was scrounging in the streets He shared his cream for coffee, and I curled up at his feet And ever since that moment I've been his confidante He says that it's uncanny how I know just what he wants But we both like our freedom, and quiet company In the end we're not so different, Picasso and me Sometimes he gets angry when they say he's just a fraud And he curses at the canvas, and he shakes his fist at God Who are these rogues - who are these fools? Who made this game - who made these rules? The critics criticize him and the women come and go They'll never understand him; they don't know what I know They're just too damned demanding, they just won't let him be And I'm glad to see them go, and then it's back to him and me And the lazy summer afternoons, the sunlight through the trees And the brushes and the turpentine and Picasso and me
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Billy had a yearning and an ache inside So he got himself a Harley and he learned to ride Purred just like a baby low and sweet and true And he aimed it at the place where the blacktop turns to blue Penny was a waitress down in Tupelo They said that she was trouble - I don't really know But something in her spirit touched something in his soul And he took her to his heart and he never let her go She said if I had an ounce of courage I would leave this town Life'll get you nowhere til they put you in the ground But the lilies of the field they neither reap nor sow I wanna buy me a Winnebago and a map of Mexico Go rollin’ down the highway where life's secrets are revealed Dancin’ in the wind like the lilies of the field Penny had a secret growin’ deep inside And she'd never known a man to love another's child Somewhere west of Tucson she just ran out of time So she made a quick decision and she made him walk the line She said if you had an ounce of courage, you would take a stand Don't nobody argue with a pistol in your hand Oh the lilies of the field they neither reap nor sow I wanna buy me a Winnebago and a map of Mexico Go rollin down the highway where life's secrets are revealed Dancin’ in the wind like the lilies of the field Billy pleaded guilty ninety-nine to life Penny disappeared into the desert night Then she took his pistol out on hwy 2 And she aimed it at the place where the blacktop turns to blue She said if you had an ounce of courage, you would leave this town Life'll get you nowhere til they put you in the ground Oh the lilies of the field they neither reap nor sow I wanna buy me a Winnebago and a map of Mexico Go rollin’ down the highway where life's secrets are revealed Dancin’ in the wind like the lilies of the field
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True north is hard to find These long long nights play tricks upon the mind I tried my best but I’m lost I guess What I thought was freedom was just aimlessness Now I’m waiting for Amelia To come in from the west Waiting for Amelia And the light is fadin’ fast C’mon Amelia You have got this battle won You know that only angels fly into the sun I have never learned to wait I yearn for skies my heart can’t navigate It’s been so long since I held someone And all my dreams of freedom they don’t keep me warm Chorus Maybe the night was dark And the sky was a starry dome Maybe she lost her way Or maybe she just didn’t wanna come home Chorus
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Revival 04:46
I went walking one night on tupelo street All the way to the county line Heard a sidewalk sermon and a blind man preach And written on a cardboard sign Revival, revival This lamb has gone astray Revival, revival Gonna wash your sins away Now I have done everything that I know to do But you left a hole that I just can’t fill And if God can forgive me baby why can’t you But I guess you never will Revival, revival This lamb has gone astray Revival, revival Gonna wash your sins away Baby you were my weakness and my saving grace My salvation and my sin And I would give anything just to see your face Just to see your face again Revival, revival This lamb has gone astray Revival, revival Gonna wash your sins away

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released February 13, 2001

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Gretchen Peters Nashville, Tennessee

For two decades, Gretchen Peters has been one of Nashville's most beloved and respected artists. A 2014 inductee into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Peters has accumulated accolades as both songwriter and artist. Her latest album, The Night You Wrote That Song: The Songs of Mickey Newbury (May 2020), is a loving tribute to another Hall of Fame songwriter. ... more

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