All I Can Be

Wayne perry/gerald smith

Well listen dear i think it's clear
We need to sit and talk
Seems you've got this notion i've been having second thoughts
Well i must confess in a way i guess that silly notion's true
'cause every second you're not here i think of you

Every second, every minute, every hour of every day
Every second there's a thought of you that comes my way
So if you ask that i've had second thoughts i'd have to say
Every second, every minute, every hour of every day.

Now i propose we drink a toast and turn the lights down low
Put our favoritie music on and hold each other close
Don't worry dear you'll always be here in my heart to stay
Every second, every minute, every hour of every day

Every second, every minute, love you more and more each day

Harlan howard

All i can be is a sweet memory
That drifts through your mind time from time
I can never be more than a knock on your door
Just a shadow that's gone with the sunshine
For you know i'm not free
And i never can be
And your bound to get restless in time
All i can be is a sweet memory
That drifts through your mind

Tonight i'll share the silence
While lying here with you
Sands of time have trickled down
Just a precious few
You're young and so beautiful
And i'm glad that i'm here
But the ending is painfully clear

All i can be is a sweet memory
Of someone you had to leave behind
Who loves you and needs you
Never could give you
A ring for your finger so fine
So tonight we'll just borrow each other
Tomorrow we'll find we've run out of time
All i can be is a sweet memory
That drifts through your mind

For you know i'm not free
And i never can be
And your bound to get restless in time
All i can be is a sweet memory
That drifts through your mind

All i can be is a sweet memory
That drifts through your mind

Skip ewing, max t. barnes

I read a note my grandma wrote back in nineteen twenty-three.
Grandpa kept it in his coat, and he showed it once to me. he said,
"boy, you might not understand, but a long, long time ago,
Grandma's daddy didn't like me none, but i loved your grandma so."

We had this crazy plan to meet and run away together.
Get married in the first town we came to, and live forever.
But nailed to the tree where we were supposed to meet, instead
Of her, i found this letter, and this is what it said:

If you get there before i do, don't give up on me.
I'll meet you when my chores are through;
I don't know how long i'll be.
But i'm not gonna let you down, darling wait and see.
And between now and then, till i see you again,
I'll be loving you. love, me.

I read those words just hours before my grandma passed away,
In the doorway of a church where me and grandpa stopped to pray.
I know i'd never seen him cry in all my fifteen years;
But as he said these words to her, his eyes filled up with tears.

If you get there before i do, don't give up on me.
I'll meet you when my chores are through;
I don't know how long i'll be.
But i'm not gonna let you down, darling wait and see.
And between now and then, till i see you again,
I'll be loving you. love, me.
Between now and then, till i see you again,
I'll be loving you. love, me.

Chris walters/lonnie wilson

When i think about you leaving and being here alone
It's not the love we knew that hurts me
But the love we could have known
I'm not sorry that i held you
I just wish that i still could
Oh it's not that it was so bad
It just could've been so good

I don't regret one moment that we had together
What's killing me is knowing we could have had forever
I just wish we loved each other the way i know we could
Oh it's not that it was so bad
It just could've been so good

I don't want to lose the memories of all the nights we shared
And i never found a new love that ever could compare
I just wish we hadn't left things standing where they stood
Girl it's not that it was so bad
It just could've been so good

Chorus

Oh it's not that it was so bad
It just could've been so good

Frank j. meyers/bernie nelson

I got money in my pocket and a guitar in my hand
These lonely nights without you are more than i can stand
I work like a puppet
But it's time to cut the strings
Well i hit the ground running
And i won't be looking back
I'll be like a locomotive headed down a one way track
It won't take too long just you wait and see
As long as it will lead me back to you
Any old stretch of blacktop will do

North, south, east or west
Been everywhere it seems
Uptown rooms and honky tonks don't feel like home to me
I'll be stepping out the rhythm while i'm singing a new song
And it's knowing where i'm going that will keep me moving on

Turn my collar to the wind and put my thumb up in the air
Flag a diesal down or catch a bus from anywhere
Colorado, california, or even kalamazoo
As long as it will lead me back to you
Any old stretch of blacktop will do

Well i hit the ground running
And i won't be looking back
I'll be like a locomotive headed down a one way track
It won't take too long just you wait and see
As long as it will lead me back to you
Any old stretch of blacktop will do
Alright