I'm at a payphone trying to call home All of my change I spent on you Where have the times gone, baby it's all wrong Where are the plans we made for two If Happy Ever Afters did exist I would still be holding you like this All those fairy tales are full

Well reckon that ought to get it But I still got so terribly far to go Working and working Breaking rocks out here on the chain gang Hold it steady right there while I hit it Hold it right there while I hit it Workin' and workin' Breaking rocks and

Are still alive and well today Don't need to find a new way to say We don't go out of style A good woman's made to love not just to hold Monday through Friday sure takes awhile We all get sideways and go that extra mile The common ways we work and play

I'm gonna hold my head up high before I'm dead in the dirt (I'm still standing here) I want a reason, I want an answer, I want a reason someday I want a reason, I want an answer, I want a reason What is the message What are the chances that I'll be

No no they can't take that away from me No they can't take that away from me We may never never meet again On the bumpy road to love Still I'll always, always keep the memory of The way you hold your knife The way we danced till three The way you wear

But you're still waiting on the moment breath is bated I wish I could hold you, I can't take it Tell you all my secrets I'm too faded Praying that tomorrow I'll be braver Maybe I can tell you, maybe we can do this Kisses on my forehead we can fall into

How I still hang around here And there's nothing to hold me And be on his way Isn't it hard sometimes Isn't it lonely? A couple of young girls went Sailing down A1A Into the arms of Florida Sailing down a highway

Please, please take my hand Please take my soul to rest So we can always be around Hold my head on stable ground Watch as the earth falls all around The last baron, the last baron I was standing staring at the world and I still can't see it I guess

And you keep talking but we both know it's not true. And no matter what we both had to go through, I just can't, I can't hold on. I still know (I still know) That you're wrong (you're wrong). And when you asked if I believed, and I told you, But I can't

I don't want you back If you don't want to give me your heart Until I know it's real But I'm still gonna love forever And I don't want to let you back Until I know All along I knew that you were Holding your feelings back from me And why ma said I'd do