COWBOYS AND ANGELS
When your heart's in someone else's hands
Monkey see and monkey do, their wish is your command
You're not to blame, everyone's the same
All you do is love and love is all you do
I should know by now the way I fought for you
You're not to blame, everyone's the same
I know you think that you're safe, mister
Harmless deception that keeps love at bay
It's the ones who resist that we most want to kiss
Wouldn't you say?
Cowboys and angels, they all have the time for you
Why should I imagine that I'd be a find for you?
Why should I imagine that I'd have something to say?
But that scar on your face, that beautiful face of yours
In your heart there's a trace of someone before
When your heart's in someone else's plans
Things you say and things you do that they don't understand
It's such a shame, always ends the same
You can call it love, but I don't think it's true
You should know by now I'm not the boy for you
You're not to blame, always ends the same
I know you think that you're safe, sister
Harmless affection that keeps things this way
It's the ones who persist for the sake of a kiss
Who will pay
Cowboys and angels, they all take a shine to you
Why should I imagine that I was designed for you?
Why should I believe that you would stay?
But that scar on your face, that beautiful face of yours
Don't you think that I'd know they've hurt you, before
Take this man to your bed
Maybe his hands will help you forget
Please be stronger than your past
The future may still give you a chance
WAITING FOR THAT DAY
So every day I see you in some other face
They crack a smile, talk a while, try to take your place
My memory serves me far too well
I just sit here on this mountain
Thinking to myself: "you're a fool boy"
Why don't you go down
Find somebody, find somebody else
My memory serves me far too well
It's not as though we just broke up
It's not as though it was yesterday
But something I just can't explain
Something in me needs this pain
I know I'll never see your face again
C'mon now, I've got to be strong now
Now everybody's talking about this new decade
Like you say the magic numbers
Then just say goodbye to the stupid mistakes you made
My memory serves me far too well
Don't you know that the years will come and go
Some of us will change their lives
Some of us still have nothing to show
Nothing baby, but memories
And if these wounds they are self inflicted
I don't really know how my poor heart could have protected me
But if I have to carry this pain, if you will not share the blame
I deserve to see your face again
C'mon now, you don't have to be so strong now
Come back
Come back to me darling, I will make it worth your while
Come on back to your baby, I miss your kiss, I miss your smile
Seems to me the peace I search to find
Ain't gonna be mine until you say you will
Don't you keep me waiting for that day
I know you hear these words that I say
You can't always get what you want
HEAL THE PAIN
Let me tell you a secret, put it in your heart and then keep it
Something that I want you to know
Do something for me, listen to my simple story
And maybe we'll have something to show
You tell me you're cold on the inside
How can the outside world be a place that your heart can embrace
Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy
How can I help you, please let me try to
I can heal the pain that you're feeling inside
Whenever you want me you know that I will be
Waiting for the day that you say you'll be mine
He must have really hurt you
To make you say the things that you do
He must have really hurt you
To make those pretty eyes look so blue
He must have known that he could
That you'd never leave him
Now you can't see my love is good
And that I'm not him
How can I help you? Please let me try to
I can heal the pain, won't you let me inside
Whenever you want me you know that I will be
Waiting for the day that you say you'll be mine
Won't you let me in? Let this love begin
Won't you show me your heart now
I'll be good to you, I can make this thing true
Show me that heart right now
Who needs a lover that can't be a friend
Something tells me I'm the one you've been looking for
If you ever should see him again
Won't you tell him you've found someone who gives you more
Someone who will protect you, love and respect you
All those things that he never could bring to you
Like I do, or rather, I would
Won't you show me your heart like you should
How can I help you, please let me try to
I can heal the pain that you're feeling inside
Whenever you want me, you know that I will be
Waiting for the day that you say you'll be mine
Won't you let me in, let this love begin
Won't you show me your heart now
I'll be good to you, I can make this thing true
And get to your heart somehow
MOTHER'S PRIDE
Oh she knows, she takes his hand
And prays the child will understand
At the door, they watch the men go by
In the clothes that daddy wore, mother's pride
Baby boy, his father's eyes
He's a soldier waiting for a war, time will come
He'll hold a gun, his father's son
And as he grows he hears the band
Takes the step from boy to man
And at the shore she waves her son goodbye
Like the man she did before
Mothers pride
Just a boy, his country's eyes
He's a soldier waving at the shore
And in her heart the time has come to lose a son
And all the husbands, all the sons, all the lovers gone
They make no difference, no difference in the end
Still hear the woman say "your daddy died a hero"
In the name of God and man
Mothers pride
Crazy boy, his lifeless eyes
He's a soldier now forevermore
He'll hold a gun till kingdom come
WAITING (REPRISE)
There ain't no point in moving on
'Til you've got somewhere to go
And the road that I have walked upon
Well it filled my pockets and emptied out my soul
All those insecurities that have held me down for so long
I can't say I've found a cure for these
But at least I know them, so they're not so strong
You look for your dreams in heaven
But what the hell are you supposed to do
When they come true?
There's one year of my life in these songs
And some of them are about you
Now I know there's no way I can right those wrongs
Believe me, I would not lie, you've hurt my pride
And I guess there's a road without you
But you once said there's a way back for every man
So here I am
Don't people change? Here I am
Is it too late to try again?
IT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER