Set This Circus Down

(with back up by faith hill)
(bruce robison)

Here we are
What is left of a husband and a wife with four good kids
Who have a way of gettin on with their lives
And i'm not old but i'm getting a whole lot older every day
It's too late to keep from goin' crazy
I've got to get away

The reasons that i can't stay don't have a thing to do with being in love
An i understand that lovin a man shouldn't have to be this rough
And you ain't the only one who feels like this world left you far behind
I don't know why you gotta be angry all the time

Our boys are strong now the spittin image of you when you were young
I hope someday they can see past what you have become
And i remember every time i said i'd never leave
But what i can't live with is memories of the way you used to be

The reasons that i can't stay don't have a thing to do with being in love
And i understand that lovin a man shouldn't have to be this rough
And you ain't the only one who feels like this world left you far behind
I don't know why you gotta be angry all the time

Twenty years have came and went since i walked out of your door
I never quite made it back to the one i was before
And god it hurts me to think of you
For the light in your eyes was gone
An sometimes i don't know why this old world can't leave well enough alone

The reasons that i can't stay don't have a thing to do with being in love
And i understand that lovin a man shouldn't have to be this rough
You ain't the only one who feels like this world left you far behind
I don't know why you gotta be angry all the time
I don't know why you gotta be angry all the time
I don't know why you gotta be angry all the time

(holly lamar, annie roboff)

How i ever lived and breathed before you loved me, i don't recall
If i walked around at all, it was in bits and pieces
Of a jagged heart
You kissed me and every piece went back in place, every pain got erased
You held me up to the light

No one ever left me out in the rain
Cold words still remain unspoken
And i never got lost, spent years in the dark
You're here, now my heart's unbroken
When i see your smile fill my soul again
I'm unbroken

If i doubted the power of love, baby now i understand
I thank god for every day i wake up to the soft touch
Of your magic hands
In this world sometimes the only thing that's real is the way you make me feel
Babe, the changes day and night
I swear it's life

No one ever left me out in the rain
Cold words still remain unspoken
And i never got lost, spent years in the dark
You're here, now my heart's unbroken
When i see your smile fill my soul again
I'm unbroken

I still see the night, i fell into your eyes
And when we made love it felt like the first time

No one ever left me out in the rain
Cold words still remain unspoken
And i never got lost, spent years in the dark
You're here, now my heart's unbroken
When i see your smile fill my soul again
I'm unbroken

When i see your smile fill my soul again
I'm unbroken
I'm unbroken, oh yeah
I'm unbroken

No one ever left me out in the rain
Cold words still remain unspoken
And i never got lost, spent years in the dark
You're here, now my heart's unbroken
When i see your smile fill my soul again
I'm unbroken

(troy verges, brett james)

When i was nineteen i threw my stuff in the car
I headed up to the rockies, got a job at this bar
Selling beer to the locals, just barely getting by
On the tips from the rich kids, there on daddy's dime
But when i saw her walk in one night
I knew that i'd be all right in

Telluride, the snow falling down
I was waking up in that sleepy little town
In her eyes my world came so alive
I never will forget the moment she arrived
In telluride

We spent that whole winter tangled up by a fire
Casting shadows on the cabin wall, drowning in desire
Confessing all our secrets and laughing out loud
So high up on that mountain, i thought we'd never come down
It was a dream we were living in
And i was the happiest i'd ever been in

Telluride, the snow falling down
Waking up with her in that sleepy little town
In her eyes, my world came so alive
I never will forget all those sleepless nights
In telluride

Telluride, whoa-oh-oh

It ended just like a movie scene
And i had to play the part
Of the lover who stood there and watched her leave
And me with the frozen heart

In telluride, the snow falling down
Standing there alone in that sleepy little town
In her eyes, my world came so alive
I never will forget the day she said goodbye

In telluride, the snow falling down
Waking up with her in that sleepy little town
In her eyes, my world came so alive
I never will forget all those sleepless nights
In telluride

(mark collie)

I'm gonna drive on out to the river tonight
Find a quiet spot, turn on my parking lights
I'm gonna drink some beers, try to catch a buzz
Turn my radio up and forget about us

I'm gonna lay me down on the hood of this car
Make another wish upon a falling star
I'm gonna think again about the way it was
I'm gonna close my eyes and forget about us

I know it won't be easy but i've got a plan
To just let my memory let go of your hand
I'm gonna miss your touch
But i know i must forget about us

And when the morning sun burns across my face
I'll put my shirt back on, get up and walk away
I'm gonna climb my frame onto a greyhound bus
Take a little blue pill and forget about us

I know it won't be easy but i've got a plan
To just let my memory let go of your hand
I'm gonna miss your touch
But i know i must forget about us

(spoken):
By the time i get to phoenix, i won't know your name
Those soft green eyes, your warm skin
And the way you say "good morning"
I'll be alright

(steve bogard, jeff stevens)

My body burns like there's a desert deep in me
A thirsty soul so unsatisfied
But there you are like a river to the sea
The one chance i have to change my life

(a)darling, take me away from (e) here
Make it seem like we're a million miles away
Another time, another place
(a)make me a different (e) man
Move me farther than i've ever been before
Show me that there's something more

Sometimes i feel like i'm trapped inside myself
Spinning wheels up and down, round and round
Going nowhere just like everybody else
With no touch, no sight, no sound

(a)but you could take me away from (e) here
Make it seem like we're a million miles away
Another time, another place
(a)make me a different (e) man
Move me farther than i've ever been before
Show me that there's something more

Give me hopes and dreams to fill my head
Push my heart so i can fly again

Take me away from here
Make it seem like we're a million miles away
Another time, another place
Make me a different man
Move me farther than i've ever been before
Show me that there's something more

Take me away from here
Take me away from here
Take me away from here

(bill luther, josh kear)

Sometimes this road, it just keeps winding
Round and round and back again
But you've always kept me smiling
Over every hill, round every bend
Baby you're the one smiling with me when the sun comes up
I got the wheel, you got the map and that's enough

And we go rolling down this highway
Chasing all our crazy dreams
I've gone your way and you've gone my way
And everywhere in between
One of these days we'll find a piece of ground
Just outside of some sleepy little town
And set this circus down

Sometimes i lie awake just thinking
Of all the horizons we have seen
And as another day is sinking
I thank god you're here with me
'cause baby you're the one laughing with me when the sun goes down
Living on faith and holding on tight to the love we found

And we go rolling down this highway
Chasing all our crazy dreams
I've gone your way and you've gone my way
And everywhere in between
One of these days we'll find a piece of ground
Just outside of some sleepy little town
And set this circus down

And set this circus down

Maybe one of these days, gonna set this circus down
Set this circus down

(steve seskin, tom douglas)

I pulled into the shopping center
And saw a little boy wrapped around the legs of his mother
Like ice cream melting they embraced
Years of bad decisions runnin' down her face
All mornin' i'd been thinkin' my life's so hard
And they wore everything they own, livin' in a car
I wanted to tell him it would be ok
But i got just got in my suburban and i drove away

But i don't know why they say grown men don't cry
I don't know why they say grown men don't cry

Keep having this dream about my old man
I'm 10 years old, and he's holding my hand
We're talkin' on the front porch watchin' the sun go down
But it was just a dream he was a slave to his job and he couldn't be around
So many things i wanna say to him
But i just placed a rose on his grave, and i talk to the wind

But i don't know why they say grown men don't cry
I don't know why they say grown men don't cry, don't cry

I'm sittin' here with my kids and my wife
And everything that i hold dear in my life
We say grace and thank the lord
Got so much to be thankful for
Then it's up the stairs and off to bed and my little girl says
"i haven't had my story yet."

And everything weighin' on my mind disappears just like that
When she lifts her head off her pillow and says,
"i love you dad"

I don't know why they say grown men don't cry
I don't know why they say grown men don't cry
And i don't know why they say grown men don't cry
I don't know why they say grown men don't cry, don't cry