In the dark In the dark, it's just you and I There's not a sound and there's not one sigh Just the beat of my poor heart Now, in the dark I get such a thrill Well, well, when he places his fingertips upon my lips And he begs me, "Please be still In the

Islands in the stream That is what we are No one in between How can we be wrong Sail away with me To another world Baby when I met you there was peace unknown I set out to get you with a fine tooth comb I was soft inside

I don't care! I don't care! It's been an awful long time since I been home, But you won't catch me goin' back down there alone. Things they said when I was young are quite enough to get me hung. They came and took my dad away to serve some time, But it

But I was there when there was nobody home Please believe me when I say I dunno Gone for good, in fact, but what does it mean? Within a year they always sold and bought Yes, he wore a cowboy hat Each bone broken in his back All the money and all the gold

She's not cryin' anymore There's a smile upon her face A new love takes my place She used to cry when I'd come home late She couldn't buy the lies I told All she wanted was to be needed Someone that she could call her own The love I know I took for

Everything is wrong It rains when you're here and it rains when you're gone 'Cause I was there when you said forever and always And then you feel so low you cant feel nothing at all Did you forget everything? Once upon a time, I believe it was a Tuesday

I've got money now There is no prize When I was a young buck I tried to be liked by I tried so hard to be funny and nice I tried so hard to be sugar and spice

Born on the bayou Born on the bayou. Chasin' down a hoodoo there. Now when I was just a little boy standin' to my Daddy's knee My Poppa said son don't let the man get you do what he done to me 'Cause he'll get you 'cause he'll get you now now. I can

For every crack, scratch and scar on this guitar She's the place I go When there's nowhere left to run to She's the one I hold When there's no one to hold on to She's been with me late at night When I was drowning in the dark She heard my every word When

I was here, I lived, I loved, I was here I did, I've done, everything that I wanted And it was more than I thought it would be I want to leave my footprints on the sand of time Know there was something that, something that I left behind When I leave this