20 Greatest Hits

You say tomorrow you're going
It's so hard for me to believe
I'm making plans for the heartaches
'cause you're making plans to leave
The tears for me will be falling
Like a tree shedding its leaves
I'm making plans for the tear drops
'cause you're making plans to leave

You're making plans to forget me
I'm making plans to miss you
I'm getting ready ti grieve

I'm making plans to be lonesome
'cause you're making plans to leave
I'm making plans to be lonesome
'cause you're making plans to leave

We're holding on to nothing left to hold onto
I'm so tired of holding on to nothin'
The years have shown no kindness
For the hard times we've been through

We've squeezed the life from every dream
And still go right on bluffin'
With really nothin' left to hold onto

Chorus:

Oh why do we keep holding on with nothing left to hold onto
Lets be honest with each other
That's the least that we can do
I feel guilty when they envy me and you
We're holding on with nothing left to hold onto

We were young and foolishly mistaken
Victoms of a passion much too strong to be denied
With only tears to show for all the years that we've been fakin'
God only knows how long how hard we've tried

Repeat chorus

We're holding on with nothing left to hold onto

It's a lesson too late for the learning
Made of sand, made of sand
In the wink of an eye my soul is turnin'
In your hand, in your hand
Are you going away
With no word of farewell
Will there be not a trace left behind
Oh i could've loved you better
Didn't mean to be unkind
You know that was the last thing on my mind

As we walk along my thoughts are tumblin'
Round and round, round and round
Underneath our feet are someplace rumblin'
Underground, underground

Are you going away
With no word of farewell
Will there be not a trace left behind
Oh i could've loved you better
Didn't mean to be unkind
You know that was the last thing on my mind

I've got reason a plenty for goin
This i know, this i know
The weeds have been steadily growin'
Please don't go, please don't go

Are you going away
With no word of farewell
Will there be not a trace left behind
I could've loved you better
Didn't mean to be unkind
You know that was the last thing on my mind

Are you going away
With no word of farewell
Will there be not a trace left behind
Oh i could've loved you better
Didn't mean to be unkind
You know that was the last thing on my mind
You know that was the last thing on my mind

Her two little feet would come running into
Our bedroom almost every night
Her soft little face would be wet from her tears
And her little heart pounding with fright
She'd hold out her arms, then she'd climb in beside us
In her small voice, we'd hear her remark
"mommie and daddy, can i sleep here with you
'cause jeannie's afraid of the dark"
One day in the summer, we took some flowers
To place on some old family graves
Jeannie said, "mommy, ain't it dark in the ground
Oh, daddy, i'd be so afraid"
Then she looked up at her daddy and me
And said somethin' that broke both our hearts
She said, "when i die, please don't bury me
'cause jeannie's afraid of the dark"

Jeannie was always afraid of the dark
And we never could understand why
'cause we looked after jeannie with the very best of care
Because jeannie was our only child
Perhaps it was death that she was so afraid of
'cause it took her one dark stormy night
I think we always knew that we'd never see jeannie grown
'cause it seemed she was destined to die
But on jeannie's grave, we placed an eternal flame
That glows and never loses its spark
And on the darkest night, there's always a light
'cause jeannie's afraid of the dark

Our jeannie's afraid of the dark