Cause I like it 

 I like to wear my hair down a little rumpled ,  I like to wear short shorts and short skirts

I like to wear lots of jewels on my fingers and toes, and even in my nose....you wanna know why?

(ch)  Cause I like it, I like it, no matter what, do what I want, whenever, whatever, whoever, cause I like it, I like it, shake that body cause I like it, makes me feel alive, make me feel real, makes me wanna like it, cause I like it 

I can wear jeans and pearls or a skirt with runners, I don't care what, I like my heels that are high, makes me feel grand, makes me feel tall,  and I like the color black, you wanna know something      (ch) 

Know something else, I like my music loud and my windows down, I don't care if I look a mess I like to sing out loud and sing anywhere, it don't bother me, no  (ch)   (repeat ch)

                                Heard it all before 

Called you last night just to chat awhile,  said you couldn't talk that I caught you at a bad time sure,  sure, should I call you back later?  I knew I never would, here we go again, I heard it all before. I know,  gotta take a long trip , call you when I get back, car broke down and you got no wheels or maybe family emergency, really gotta be there?

Dog got sick, gotta drive him to the vet, no, seriously he was your favorite pet, ya ya ya ya ya (uh NO)

 I ran into you downtown and I asked you for quick drink, you were acting kind of strange and I knew I'd turned another page, ya told me you'd been calling but you couldn't leave a message, come on honey, here we go again, I heard it all before 

Dripping in a towel, call me in a white, money's all spend, can't pay the rent, think I'm kind of tense that you need a little space, hanging with the boys, honestly no one else in mind? (lead) 

Tell it to me straight, why ya make me wait, think a slow release is better than a clean cut?

I'm smarter than before, I saw you standing at the door, with nothing more to say, so get out, get out 

NO NO NO NO No (uh ya)

                                 I wish I wish 

Don't you wish you could tell somebody?  That you could tell it all, that you wouldn't have to carry it around anymore? Don't you wish that somebody could read your mind, or see the signs and know?

Don't you wish that tomorrow was here and yesterday never was, that those who could, would, but they didn't? That little girls would always be ok, that bad people would always stay away, that important people would be there, that they would listen and believe,  and people wouldn't have to cry and fear alone, and hide in corners?

That they would never grow old without ever trusting,? That they would grow up un jaded?

Don't you wish, there was a God who really cared, and didn't always turn his head?

That you could hide there and know he would protect you, and that he would turn the tide and wouldn't stay silent? Don't you wish that you could have told somebody, somewhere along your life and that you wouldn't have to carry this alone

Don't you wish sometimes, don't you wish all the time, don't you wish somehow it never was? I wish I wish, 

That's what I wish.

                             How could you

 I can't see it any other way, I try to feel and understand, and I know it wasn't easy but how could you oh how could you? What kind of love was this, to cut a part of you away?  I'm  sure it wasn't easy I know you ripped yourself inside.

(ch ) How could you have known, in giving up you gave me everything, you gave me a home, a name, a family, in giving away the life you held, you gave me everything when you have nothing to give?

 I know there were times I meant to forget you, to erase you from my mind

how could I look at you as mother when I saw what you left behind 

but then I think how could you forgive yourself, so instead I want to thank you for everything you couldn't give me cause you did what a mother should.  (ch)  

                You gave me everything mother, when you.. had.. nothing... to give

                           I feel a country song coming on 

This can't be it, haven't really done anything and a week is gone, another day, another dollar gone, what I feel, what I really feel is

  (ch) I feel a country song coming on, where a dog runs away and a man leaves his wife

 where the road stretches on forever, and nobody gets anywhere, where the tears never stop    and you never get ahead, where the preacher closes the box  and another soul is gone

                              what I feel what I really feel is,  I feel a country song coming on

 Am I taking things a little too deep, am I looking a little too close, am I reaching way behind me

am I heading where I don't wanna go, but what I really feel is  (ch) 

All of us marching to the same drummer, all of us walking to the same beat, everybody heading in the same way and nothing there to stop, the light is always brighter, the way is never clear

nothing really matters and nothing is held dear, what I really feel is   (ch)  

                                  just another soul.....gone

                                   Legends 

I remember the night of the icy road, how you walked so many miles. How I needed your arms around me,  as I shivered with fear like a child, you took the wheel that I had been holding, and guided your family safely home.

(ch) You are what legends are made of, my knight in bright array, rode in on his white horse, and carried his bride away

 Breakfast in bed, and when you wear red, you couldn't make me feel better, surprise moments we take off on our trips, holding hands on a screaming shore, writing love notes in the sand 

(ch) 

Bridge - A moment from somewhere, all dressed for a ball, hand extended for mine, and the lights they go down low, around the dance floor we go, my white knight and me   (ch)

                                   Never know

 Running everywhere and trying everything

am I really going mad? Friends are saying time to settle

and I see something new, and once again I'm off and running

going for the gold, and have you thought?

 (ch) so freaked out about my freedom, so much fear I'm running out

I even know that I've been changing, and I know without a doubt

 It's this feeling I have, the wind on the water, the breeze through the sails that's pushing me higher, and I know I just know that I'm running through a field and falling from the sky, pushing on the pedal, and dancing till I sweat

I feel like I'm bustin  and then I still run around         (ch) 

It is the freedom I have, the wind on the water, the breeze on the sails and I know I just know.............that I don't know and I don't care 

                                    Never meant to fall in love

 Don't know when it happened, can't imagine when it did, might have been that dimple , when you look at me and grin. Was it the eyebrow that you raise when I won't give in?  I can't control the tremors running through me,. I like the way you cut your hair,  might even be the crazy things that make me more aware, you're so unpredictable. 

I didn't mean to do it, didn't mean to let you close, I couldn't see just when it happened, all I know is that it did. 

 It wasn't just there, it slowly crept on it, it took me over, a little at a time. I didn't see it coming

I didn't have a chance,  you know, I would have kept on running, like I always did.

You took me over, and I couldn't even fight, my heart was unprotected, I didn't even see

 till you wound me round your finger, and boy I'm glad you did.

You can't know how glad I am you did