Have You Never Been Mellow

(lordan)

Yesterday the rains came down, there was darkness all around
They told me you had gone to find a new life
But you left no word of where you'd gone, i fell right to the ground
And i needed all the help i could get to set me on my feet again

Water under the bridge carried my pain away from me
He was there trying to love and comfort me
Water under the bridge, i'm amazed at the change in me
I'm growing up, getting stronger constantly

I watched the ever-flowing stream as it washed away my dream
I felt like diving in and taking a ride
But the stranger took me by the hand and held me by his side
When i needed all the help i could get to set me on my feet again

Water under the bridge carried my pain away from me
He was there trying to love and comfort me
Water under the bridge, i'm amazed at the change in me
I'm growing up, getting stronger constantly

When i remember how i cried and how i nearly died
All for a man who had gone to find a new life
Now i can laugh, my friend's so fine he never seemed to mind
When i needed all the help i could get to set me on my feet again

Water under the bridge carried my pain away from me
He was there trying to love and comfort me
Water under the bridge, i'm amazed at the change in me
I'm growing up, getting stronger constantly
I'm growing up, getting stronger constantly, yeah

(marvin/farrar)

Bringing it on yourself
Bringing it on yourself
All the promises you made to me
You know can never be

Shouldn't have been so nice
Shouldn't have been so nice
Oh, you should've known my love would grow
Now i just can't let go
Now i just can't let go

It's so easy to say too much
Castles in the sand that wash away
It's so easy to pledge yourself
When you cannot pay
It's so easy to tell yourself
Things'll work out fine
It's so easy to break a heart
Like you're breaking mine

Nobody else to blame
Nobody else to blame
Did you ever stop to count the cost
Of those who've loved and lost?
Living without your love
Living without your love
I'll just have to learn to face the fact
That i can't bring you back
That i can't bring you back

It's so easy to say too much
Castles in the sand that wash away
It's so easy to pledge yourself
When you cannot pay
It's so easy to tell yourself
Things'll work out fine
It's so easy to break a heart
Like you're breaking mine

It's so easy to break a heart
Like you're breaking mine

(denver)

It's by far the hardest thing i've ever done
To be so in love with you and so alone

Follow me where i go
What i do and who i know
Make it part of you to be a part of me
Follow me up and down
All the way and all around
Take my hand and say you'll follow me

It's long been on my mind
You know it's been a long long time
I've tried to find a way that i could make you understand
The way i feel about you
And just how much i need you
To be there when i can talk to you
When there's no one else around

Follow me where i go
What i do and who i know
Make it part of you to be a part of me
Follow me up and down
All the way and all around
Take my hand and say you'll follow me

You see, i'd like to share my life with you
And show you things i've seen
Places that i'm going to
And places where i've been
To have you there beside me, we'll never be alone
And all the time that you're with me
Then we will be at home

Follow me where i go
What i do and who i know
Make it part of you to be a part of me
Follow me up and down
All the way and all around
Take my hand and say you'll follow me

(nichtern)

I never did sing you a love song
I only sang phrases in time
I never did write you a sonnet
I just laid my cards down in rhymes
Up and down the river, so many boats to ride
Yet precious few deliver the goods that we need to survive

I never spoke falsely or crossly
I never put tears in your eyes
And you never shattered my lonely heart
You never deceived me with lies
And yet somehow i seem to recall i stood in my sleep for a while
Dreaming of a river man exchanging my life for a smile

(jans)

If you could see me now
The one who said that she'd rather roam
The one who said she'd rather be alone
If you could only see me now

If i could hold you now
Just for a moment if i could make you mine
Just for a while turn back the hands of time
If i could only hold you now

I've been too long in the wind
Too long in the rain
Taking any comfort that i can
Looking back and a-longing for the freedom of my chains
Lying in your loving arms again

If you could hear me now
Singing somewhere through a lonely night
Dreaming of the arms that held me tight
If you could only hear me now

I've been too long in the wind
Too long in the rain
Taking any comfort that i can
Looking back and a-longing for the freedom of my chains
Lying in your loving arms again
I wanna be lying in your loving arms again

(welch/rostill)

In the corner of the bar there stands a jukebox
With the best of country music, old and new
You can hear your five selections for a quarter
And somebody else's songs when yours are through

I got good kentucky whiskey on the counter
And my friends around to help me ease the pain
'til some button-pushing cowboy plays that love song
And here i am just missing you again

Please, mr., please, don't play b-17
It was our song, it was his song, but it's over
Please, mr., please, if you know what i mean
I don't ever wanna hear that song again

If i had a dime for every time i held you
Though you're far away, you've been so close to me
I could swear i'd be the richest girl in nashville
Maybe even in the state of tennessee

But i guess i'd better get myself together
'cause when you left, you didn't leave too much behind
Just a note that said "i'm sorry" by your picture
And a song that's weighing heavy on my mind

Please, mr., please, don't play b-17
It was our song, it was his song, but it's over
Please, mr., please, if you know what i mean
I don't ever wanna hear that song again