I been dogged and I been driven ever since I left my mother's home My poor father died and left me, my poor mother done the best that she could I'm a drunken-hearted man, my life seems so misery I'm a poor drunken-hearted man, my life seems so misery And

There's no one else I trust I know the risk in love, yeah You got me so wrapped up Something about this feeling so familiar It's like I'm looking at myself in the mirror You put the pieces of my heart back together You got me thinking 'bout forever and

Yeah but baby you're the one I need to stay Got a few bad habits babe Before you cause my little heart to break And my drinking baby I can cut down on it too I got to cut you lose now baby Cut down on my smoking babe Cut down on my smoking babe yeah

You show the lights that stop me turn to stone You shine it when I'm alone I had a way then losing it all on my own I had a heart then but the queen has been overthrown And I'm not sleeping now, the dark is too hard to beat And I'm not keeping now the

Trade yourself in for the perfect one No one needs to know that you feel you've been ruined Trade yourself in for diamond eyes Watch the stars collide as you're lifted from your burden I don't think they know, that's my heart exposed From the fearing of

La la la la la la, la la la la la la How I wish that you were mine You're the only girl my heart beats for My cherie amour, lovely as a summer day My cherie amour, distant as the milky way My cherie amour, pretty little one that I adore In a cafe or

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

Seal my heart and break my pride I've nowhere to stand and now nowhere to hide Align my heart, my body, my mind To face what I've done and do my time The young man stands on the edge of his porch The days were short and the father was gone There was no

All the world is sad and lonely now Everywhere I roam (roam, roam, roam) Keep on telling you my darlin' (darlin') How my heart is going sad (so sad) So sad and lonely Because I'm so far (so far) So far from my folks back home, yeah Do you know way down

And if you know who you are, And if my heart's had wings, I'd be the bird that sings, I'd fly where love isn't shy And everyone is willing to try. And if we had the time, And time's so hard to find, I can't believe what you say, Start sending those