You can have Charleston My home, my heart Where I was born and raised Where one day they're gonna take my body And lay it in a grave But it's got to be this way It's gonna break my heart to say, goodbye But it'll kill me if I stay The cobblestone streets

You can have Charleston My home, my heart Where I was born and raised Where one day they're gonna take my body And lay it in a grave But it's got to be this way It's gonna break my heart to say, goodbye But it'll kill me if I stay The cobblestone streets

Readin' through my third eye 'cause I got tunnel vision Had to open my mind, then I opened a Benz It's like you gotta sell your soul for them to pay attention Fuck all that playing, now I'm grown, I put my heart in it I had to get down with that chrome

There goes my heart fallin' for you There goes your tantalizin' smile There goes your paralyzin' eyes There goes my act of playin' it cool And there go the words There go the games I wanted to play There you were standin' in the shadows

Well, damn these dreams The first time it felt like fallin' in love Playin' my heart just like a guitar string Chasin' that same old whiskey melody It's hard to look true love in the eye and leave I remember hearin' Hank on the radio I bought a cassette,

Is someone else calling you baby? So break it to me hard If you're over my love girl Lay it on my heart Don't try to save me Baby is someone else calling you baby It's driving me crazy This bein' in the dark Goodbye's ain't ever easy

Well, damn these dreams The first time it felt like fallin' in love Playin' my heart just like a guitar string Chasin' that same old whiskey melody It's hard to look true love in the eye and leave I remember hearin' Hank on the radio I bought a cassette,

This is where the cowboy rides away Setting on the things I wish I'd done I knew the stakes were high right from the start When she dealt the cards I dealt my heart Now I just found a game that I can't play And this is where the cowboy rides away And my

I found love darling, yeah Don't patronize me Something it won't Here in the dark In these final hours I will lay down my heart But you don't No, you don't 'Cause I can't make you love me if you don't

For so long I have felt alone Content to live with unrest Longing faded into countless nights That buried my weary heart But you brought an end To this dead hour And meaning to a calloused life Held in your arms But too far from my heart These thoughts