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PiNkLaDy · Miss Smart

Goodbye Says It All

(Johnny Macrae, Bobby Fischer, Charlie Black)

It's another back-door sneakin' in

Where you been? midnight

Quiet as a mac truck-lotsa luck

Thinkin' up an alibi

But every light in the house is on

Everything is gone

She's left me no chance at redemption

No further exemption

Just a big red "Goodbye" in lipstick on the wall

Goodbye says it all

No long explanation

No reconciliation

No let's talk-it-over number I can call

Goodbye says it all

Goodbye...

She could have thrown a know-down scream-and-shout

Have-it-out tirade

She could have made it real tough bringing up

All the hell that I raised

But no more wasted words on me

No, she kept it short and sweet

She's left me no chance at redemption

No further exemption

Just a big red "Goodbye" in lipstick on the wall

Goodbye says it all

No long explanation

No reconciliation

No let's talk-it-over number I can call

Goodbye says it all

Goodbye...

No more wasted words on me

No, she kept it short and sweet

She's left me no chance at redemption

No further exemption

Just a big red "Goodbye" in lipstick on the wall

Goodbye says it all

No long explanation

No reconciliation

No let's talk-it-over number I can call

Goodbye says it all

Goodbye...

Goodbye...

Goodbye says it all...

PiNkLaDy · Miss Smart

I'm Not Strong Enough To Say No

(Robert John "Mutt" Lange)

The sign says "Do not touch" -you're out of bounds

Your forbidden fruit, don't come around

It says don't make plans 'cause in your hand

Is a promise made to another man

'Cause when you're around my defenses go down

Feelings get stronger, looks get longer

The closer you come, the weaker I get

If it ain't happened now, just ain't happened yet

So please, please, please go

I'm not strong enough to say no

Please, please don't stay

I'm not man enough to walk away

Please, please pass by

I can't resist you even though I try

So please go, I'm not strong enough to say no

The sign says "Slow down - Slippery ice"

You've got dangerous curves, don't think twice

It says, "Not For Sale," you're spoken for

Just take your heart and walk out the door

'Cause when you're around my defenses go down

Feelings get stronger, looks get longer

The closer you come, the weaker I get

If it ain't happened now, just ain't happened yet

So please, please, please go

I'm not strong enough to say no

Please, please don't stay

I'm not man enough to walk away

Please, please pass by

I can't resist you even though I try

So please go, I'm not strong enough to say no

Don't say I didn't warn you, don't say you didn't know

Don't wait till it's too late and then try to go

The closer you come, the weaker I get

If it ain't happened now, just ain't happened yet

I'm beggin' you baby please, please, please go

I'm not strong enough to say no

Please, please don't stay

I'm not man enough to walk away

Please, please pass by

I can't resist you even though I try

So please go, I'm not strong enough to say no...

PiNkLaDy · Miss Smart

Every Once In A While

(Henry Paul, Van Stephenson, Dave Robbins)

When the moon is bright

On a Saturday night

There's a thousand stars in the sky

On a winding road her memory flows

She'll face the fact

She wants to go back

She opens her heart to an old memory

She closes her eyes and she smiles

Just ask her if she ever still thinks about me

She'll say, "Every once in a while,

Every once in a while"

She tries to forget

But she hasn't yet

Not a single day goes by

That feeling again reminds her of when

I held her tight, It felt so right

She opens her heart to an old memory

She closes her eyes and she smiles

Just ask her if she ever still thinks about me

She'll say, "Every once in a while,

Every once in a while"

And every once in a while

She calls my name out loud

And when she thinks about us

She'll face the fact

She want's to go back

She opens her heart to an old memory

She closes her eyes and she smiles

Just ask her if she ever still thinks about me

She'll say, "Every once in a while,

Every once in a while,

Every once in a while,

Every once in a while"

PiNkLaDy · Miss Smart

I Sure Can Smell The Rain

(John Jarrard, Walt Aldridge)

She hasn't done a thing

That really has to mean she's going anywhere

I haven't seen it showing in her eyes

But I swear it must be there

I don't know why I feel it so strong

But I feel it just the same

I can't see a single storm cloud in the sky

But I sure can smell the rain

She'd still say "I love you" if I ask

But she never volunteers

Somehow what she never says

Means more than all other words I hear

Still she should win an Oscar

If she's lying when she says that nothings changed

I can't see a single storm cloud in the sky

But I sure can smell the rain

Every day I brace myself

To hear the words I'm scared she's gonna say

And every night I thank the Lord

Somehow I dodged a bullet one more day

Sometimes there are things a man just knows

That he really can't explain

I can't see a single storm cloud in the sky

But I sure can smell the rain

I can't see a single storm cloud in the sky

But I sure can smell the rain...

PiNkLaDy · Miss Smart

Big Guitar

(Henry Paul, Henry Gross)

Hey now boys, take a look right here

Only one comes round every million years

She's a midnight rider on a shooting star

Makes the whole world ring like a big guitar

Well she flagged me down with a devil's sway

It was somewhere down that lost highway

She's a lifeboat on a raging sea

She's a high note in the harmony

She takes away my pain and sorrow

Loves me like there's no tomorrow

This, I can't resist

In my life I realize

I have never known a sweeter kiss

Honey what I missed

Got a piece of heaven right here on Earth

And believe me I know what it's worth

She's an island dream on a rainy day

She's a desperado's highway

Hey now boys take a look at right here

Only one comes 'round every million years

She's a midnight rider on a shooting star

Makes the whole world ring... big guitar...

PiNkLaDy · Miss Smart

Almost A Memory Now

(Dale Oliver, Dave Robbins, Van Stephenson)

She gets her things together

Puts them by the door

She says there's no love here anymore

I'll never be the same when she walks out

But she's almost a memory

Now

Wish I could turn her heart around

I feel so alone and she's not even gone

She's almost a memory now

She hasn't even left but I know she's gone

She never even said where we went wrong

One thing that I know without a doubt

She's almost a memory

Now

Wish I could turn her heart around

I feel so alone and she's not even gone

She's almost a memory now

I feel so alone and she's not even gone

She's almost a memory now

She's almost a memory now

Wish I could turn her heart around

She's almost, she's almost

She's almost a memory now...

PiNkLaDy · Miss Smart

There You Have It

(Steve Bogard, Rick Giles)

You’re the kind of woman, I've been dreaming of.

But I never thought I could ever say it

good enough

to win your love

You probably think I'm foolish

you'll probably tell me so

I'll open up my heart then you're probably

going to tell me no

but here I go

I want to give you all I've got inside

I want to love you for the rest of my life

There I've done it, there I've said it

There you have it, I don't regret it

I'd give you my love in a minute

If you want it, come and get it

There I've done it, there I've said it

There you have it.

This is confidential, I never told a soul

Every time I see you, feel my heart

begin to loose control

And all I know

Is I'm feeling something I've never felt

I want to be with you and nobody else

There I've done it, there I've said it

There you have it, I don't regret it

I'd give you my love in a minute

If you want it, come and get it

There I've done it, there I've said it

There you have it.

There I've done it, there I've said it

There you have it, I don't regret it

I'd give you my love in a minute

If you want it, come and get it

There I've done it, there I've said it

There you have it.

Oh yeh yeh yeh

There I've done it, there I've said it

There you have it...

PiNkLaDy · Miss Smart

Always Have, Always Will

(Dave Robbins)

I used to think that love was just for dreamers

That fate and destiny played no part

But finding you has made me a believer

That we were meant to be right from the start

Before the sun and moon stars

We put there in the sky

Before the mountains stood tall

Above this world so high

I loved you then, I love you now

And I'll love you until

Always have, always will

Before the light broke through the dark

You were the candle in my heart

Before the dawn of time

I was yours and you were mine

Before the sun and moon stars

We put there in the sky

Before the mountains stood tall

Above this world so high

I loved you then, I love you now

And I'll love you until

Always have, always will

Always have, always will...

PiNkLaDy · Miss Smart

Like There Ain't No Yesterday

(Walt Aldridge, Mark Narmore)

I've been living my life like a man in chains

Ever since she took her love away

But this is now and that was then

And baby all bad things gotta come to an end

So tonight I'm going caution into the wind

Getting down to the business of living again

Back in the saddle and I'm holding the reins

Gonna find somebody and love her

Like there ain't no yesterday

Now, it's dark as a dungeon down where I've been

And there ain't no way I'm going back again

I've got my best foot forward on to greener grass

'Cause there ain't no future living in the past

So tonight I'm going caution into the wind

Getting down to the business of living again

Back in the saddle and I'm holding the reins

Gonna find somebody and love her

Like there ain't no yesterday

Out of the ashes, alive and free

No longer a slave to a memory

Got the rest of my life right out in front of me

So tonight I'm going caution into the wind

Getting down to the business of living again

Back in the saddle and I'm holding the reins

Gonna find somebody and love her

Like there ain't no yesterday

Tonight I'm going caution into the wind

Getting down to the business of living again

Back in the saddle and I'm holding the reins

Gonna find somebody and love her

Like there ain't no yesterday...

PiNkLaDy · Miss Smart

Postmarked Birmingham

(Don Sampson, Phil Vassar)

I recognize the writing

on the plain white envelope

I've wondered where she'd wind up

before she called or wrote

the answer's in a circle

with the word 'Love' on a stamp

Postmarked Birmingham

I'd have bet on California

'cause her sister's in Bel Aire

Or I could see Seattle

With her mom and dad up there

She never mentioned Alabama

so I don't understand

Postmarked Birmingham

A two-page letter written on

Ramada stationary

Date April twenty-two

She asked me not to hate her,

said she's sorry

But leavin's what she felt she had to do

So the day she left she made it

two hundred miles south

Did she settle there, did she mail this note

on her way out of town

What chance is there to find her when the

only clue I have is

Postmarked Birmingham

A two-page letter written on

Ramada stationary

Date April twenty-two

She asked me not to hate her,

said she's sorry

But leavin's what she felt she had to do

Every day down by the mailbox

standin' on the curb I check

The upper right hand corner

of every piece of mail I get

Hopin' there's that certain circle

With the word 'Love' on a stamp

Postmarked Birmingham

Postmarked Birmingham...

PiNkLaDy · Miss Smart

Down In Flames

(Michael Clark, Jeff Stevens)

No one dreams in this ol' town no more

They don't look down that winding road

Wonderin' where it goes

But when I hold you, I can see

All the places it could lead

They we're crazy, I don't care

We could make it anywhere

Let's ride the wind

Down this old road tonight

Let's pack our dreams

And leave the rest behind

They say love this hot

Can be a dangerous thing

Come on darlin'…

Let's go down in flames

I don't know or care where this road leads

Just as long as at the end

It's you and me

We can feel our hearts, beggin' us to go

If we don't leave now, we'll never know

And if our love should crash and burn

We'll take that chance for all it's worth

Let's ride the wind

Down this old road tonight

Let's pack our dreams

And leave the rest behind

They say love this hot

Can be a dangerous thing

Come on darlin'…

Let's go down in flames

So take my hand, you know we're right

Don't look back, just hold on tight

Let's ride the wind

Down this old road tonight

Let's pack our dreams

And leave the rest behind

They say love this hot

Can be a dangerous thing

Come on darlin'…

Let's go down in flames

Come on darlin'... Let's go down in flames...

PiNkLaDy · Miss Smart

It Takes A Woman

(Rob Crosby, Kitty Murrah, Roger Murrah, Phillip White)

It takes a dreamer
To get this far from my hometown
A real believer
To look up when things are down
It takes a fool to let a good life fall apart
But, when a man knows something's missing in his heart
It takes a woman

It takes forever
To get beyond the bitter years
And if I ever
If I ever get that far from here
I can look back, and say that I survived
But for a man to really make it in this life
It takes a woman

You can gain the world or lose your soul
But if you don't have someone to hold
You can't feel the victory for defeat
Climb higher than you've ever gone
When you reach the top, you're still alone
Flying high don't make a man complete
It takes a woman

Any fool can let a good life fall apart
But foolish pride can't fill an empty heart
It takes a woman...