- Save Yourself
Cheley Tackett, Lisa Carver, Steff Mahan
©2008 Tackdaddy Music (ASCAP); Stage Three &
Carver Tunes (ASCAP); Lounge Hound Music (ASCAP)
Tangled feet cotton sheets to hell with sleep I'm dyin' to wake you up
Me ‘n you, you ‘n me baby we can't get close enough
Just takes my lips on your skin
You start to smile, I breathe you in
Oh stay in my eyes
You're killin' me good
Baby you've ruined me for anyone else
Whisper me slow, kiss me too deep
It's too late for me
Save yourself
Get up slow it's hard to go we both know that world's right outside
Coffee strong, shower's on, c'mon baby the water's fine
You draw some hearts on the glass,
Reach for a towel, I pull you back
Oh stay in my eyes
You're killin' me good
Baby you've ruined me for anyone else
Whisper me slow, kiss me too deep
It's too late for me
Save yourself
I'm done, I'm gone, I'm history
Look what your love's gone and done to me
Oh stay in my eyes
You're killin' me good
Baby you've ruined me for anyone else
Whisper me slow, kiss me too deep
It's too late for me, too late for me, it’s too late for me
Save yourself
Trainwreck
Cheley Tackett
©2010 Tackdaddy Music (ASCAP)
Billie’s larger than life a walkin’ circus fantastic
A charismatic dramatic that trips the world on its head
Just when you think she’s found some sense of reason
You get dead stopped in your tracks you ain’t seen nothin’ yet
Billie she’s been one with the couch since this mornin’
Just can’t seem to get it together today
She’s tried alcohol been prescribed medication
But no one remembers her not bein’ this way
Oh you never know who you’ll get
The beautiful, fun-loving, daredevil girl
Or the magnificent mess
The trainwreck
Na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na
Billie shaved off her hair last New Year as the ball dropped
And the people who love her we’ve all stopped asking why
If she’s lookin’ to wear her silver locket she’s lost it
Like everything else in her life
Oh you never know who you’ll get
The beautiful, beautiful girl
Or the magnificent mess
The trainwreck
The trainwreck
Na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na
Good for Me
Cheley Tackett
©2004 Tackdaddy Music (ASCAP)
Never would have struck this match
Never would have started back
This cigarette’d be my last
If I knew what was good for me
Never would have bought this drink
Never would have gone beyond the brink
I have told ‘em to pour the damn thing down the sink
If I knew what was good for me
But I, I learn things the hard way
Time and time again
Never would have said hello
Never would have danced so slow
I have settled my tab and headed home
If I knew what was good for me
But I, Iearn things the hard way
Time and time and time and time and time and time again
No, I never would have said that first hello
Never would have gave my heart and soul
And Lord knows I’d learn to let you go
If I knew what was good for me
Lord knows I’d learn to let you go
If I knew what was good for me
- Teach Me to Forgive
James C. Tract, Cheley Tackett
©2009 Tract Music (ASCAP),Tackdaddy Music (ASCAP)
I don’t want to live like this
A victim of this pain
All because you used me
To play your selfish game
I just can’t go on
Hiding from the truth
You still have the power
And I don’t know what to do
I’m tired so tired of being sad
I want my life back
God, if you’re listening
Teach me to forgive
I’m down on my knees
‘Cause this ain’t no way to live
God, if you’re listening
Teach me to forgive
It’s hard to have faith
But I’m ready to believe
Release me from my fears
Set me free
I’m tired so tired of being sad
I want my life back
God, if you’re listening
Teach me to forgive
I’m down on my knees
‘Cause this ain’t no way to live
God, if you’re listening
Teach me to forgive
Amen
Up Here
Cheley Tackett, Lisa Christian
©2003 Tackdaddy Music (ASCAP),
Mother Superior Music (ASCAP)
I know who shot Kennedy
Stonehenge ain’t no mystery to me
And the Mona Lisa herself
Told me why she smiled
You won’t believe all the things that I see
As I walk on the stars, sleep in the clouds
I hear you at night, when you cry out loud
Here, there’s no pain, there’s no fear
But I can see my house from up here
I saw our Amy’s class play
Hard to believe she’s already eight
And you wished I could be there
But how would you know that I was
‘Cause I left this world so suddenly
With so many people depending on me
I only wish that there’d been more time for goodbye
I couldn’t speak but I tried
Now I walk on the stars, sleep in the clouds
I hear you at night, when you cry out loud
Here, there’s no pain, there’s no fear
But I can see my house from up here
If a streetlamp burns out as you pass underneath
Or you swear someone’s there so you turn round to see
Or the radio’s on and they keep playin’ our song
And you fall back through time’s open door
That’s me tryin’ to touch you once more
Now I walk on the stars, sleep in the clouds
Move on with your life, go make me proud
Here, I’m away but I’m always near
‘Cause I can see my house…from up here
Play The One I Like
Cheley Tackett, Nicole Witt, Rick Tiger
©2004 Tackdaddy Music (ASCAP),Tonham
Music (ASCAP), EMI April Music (ASCAP)
Hey Mr. DJ it's me again
Looks like it's gonna be another sleepless night
You must be tired of the same ol' request
But could you please play the one I like
Where the guy gets the girl
And they take on the world
With nothing but their hopes and their dreams
And by the second verse
For better or worse
She promises that she'll never leave
Just for that moment it'll make me feel alright
Could you play the one I like
No I'm not crazy there's no going back
Even if I hear that song a million times
But it tells the story of a life that we had
Could you please play the one I like
Hey Mr. DJ it's me again
Looks like it's gonna be another sleepless night
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