I've been around the world, it's true Searchin' for someone exactly like you And finally found a love that's true I finally found a love that's true You heard story, you heard just what I said The one that I love she might as well be dead Finally found a

Broken heads in hospital beds Saving ends and pulling your friends While you're chasing the first line We made it tRhough He's black and blue and facedown She's rushing in your bed You take draws to sort your head facedown Then he said I lost my head Can

And we danced Out there on that empty hardwood floor The chairs up and the lights turned way down low The music played, we held each other close The bar was empty I was sweeping up the floor That's when she walked in I said, I'm sorry but we're closed

You are beautiful, you are beautiful, More than you could realize Stand for them all You don't even have to try, My mother told me, She said andy, My sisters, my daughters and wives, Girls, you will learn are not a shining light

Eighteen years had come and gone For mama they flew by But for me they drug on and on We were loading up that Chevy Both tryin' not to cry Mama kept on talking Putting off goodbye Then she took my hand and said "Baby, don't forget

And I'm backwater blues done call me to pack my things And go and I'm backwater blues done call me to pack my things Said when it rains five days and skies turn dark as night I woke up this mornin', can't even get out of my door When it thunders and

"Call me, never let me go" and I said "I told you so" There's no chance, no I will never ever change Cause I'm still in love with yesterday I told her "let's take it slow", she heard "forever" instead I said that "this is a start" and she heard the same

I wanna do right and it doesn't matter We got all the shine we need to find I said, "Baby, I'm okay," she said, "Why you gotta act so strange?" What the fuck do y'all niggas really want? I went with realness instead But all the real niggas I know either

Cry me a river I cried a river over you Come on and cry me a river I've cried a river over you You drove me Nearly drove me out of my head Why you never shed a tear I remember every word you said

And all she wants in life is fortune and fame So she keeps on moving, moving right along Even though she knows deep down inside Said, she's born to be wild and she can't be tamed She knows something was wrong She knows something is wrong Well, they no