STARING EACH OTHER DOWN
(Chips Moman – Bobby Emmons)
82 Songs Of PolyGram, BMI / Tree Publishing
You’re hangin’ on his arm she’s holdin’ mine a fool must have said love was blind
We’re shouting I love you’s with people all around and they don’t hear one sound
Let her eyes do the talkin’ and her eyes do the walkin’
And her eyes do the slipping around staring each other down
And we’re both on to how long a slow song would be for us now
This timebomb we’re holding is so near exploding right down
So let her eyes do the talkin’ and eyes do the walkin’
Her eyes do the slipping around staring each other down
Staring each other down
my valentine drawing rings around me
hanging by a thread but we’re loosing loosing
the sparks were flying the type that we need
bringing a fire that is burning me burning me
(i know) nobody said that it’ll be easy
(my heart) that we could find a way make a way
but you don’t you don’t …….. me
how am i suppose to feel that things wil ever change
ever change…
it’s such a dirty mess so perfect that it’s best
but it’s my love my blood my bloody valentine
sometimes i wanna leave but then i watch you next to me
my blood my love my bloody valentine
maybe i should but i can’t just walk away
you tried to convince me once agian that i should stay
through all the brokeness but my bleeding heart must confess
i love my love my bloody valentine
love my love my
i still love my (bloody valentine)
i opened doors but you closed them on me
i’m comprimising won’t you show the same look the change
you show this ring for some shorty but that ain’t me
what’s her name? how did she getcha number?
don’t try to be playing me
(cuz i’ll know) before you ever say anything
(but i hope) you wouldn’t lie to me don’t lie to me
you know that we’ve been here before
don’t patronize don’t leave me lying
just change your ways make it right
it’s such a dirty mess so perfect that it’s best
but it’s my love my blood my bloody valentine
sometimes i wanna leave but then i watch you next to me
my blood my love my bloody valentine
maybe i should but i can’t just walk away
you tried to convince me once agian that i should stay
through all the brokeness but my bleeding heart must confess
i love my love my bloody valentine
love my love my
i still love my (bloody valentine)
Speak to me pretty ah speak to me nice
Quote me those wonderful phrases once or twice
Speak to me softly speak to me sweet
Make like a fabulous poet each time we meet
Words are like rainbows bright as the stars
Ah they’re always with you ah where ever you are
They’ll follow speak to me softly as you do my heart will happily follow you
Speak to me pretty speak to me sweet oh oh words can knock me off my feet
Speak to me speak to me speak to me
[ sax ]
I say that words are like rainbows…
Lightnin’ flashed, thunder roared
And all the future that I counted on
In a moment it had come and gone
By the time I could turn around
You were gone and I was all alone
Sort of like the comet beyond the star
You brought me so close to heaven
I was so high off of the ground
So close to heaven
And I think I may never come down
Nature laughed, I discovered you
Someone I could tell my troubles to
Guess I learned some thing I never knew
You brought me so close to heaven
I was so high off of the ground
So close, so close
And I think I may never come down
So close to heaven
So high off of the ground
So close to heaven…
Some people see wrong in everything
In books that we read, in the songs that we sing
Some people just look for the dark side of life
They thrive on suspicion, sorrow and strife
Some people will see some wrong in our love
But we only answer to God up above
And we have our conscious to live with each day
So why should we care what some people say
Some people see wrong in everything
In books we read, in songs that we sing
Some people just look for the dark side of life
They thrive on suspicion, sorrow and strife
Some people will see wrong in our love
But we only answer to God up above
And we have our conscious to live with each day
So why should we care what some people say
Some of these days you’re gonna miss me honey
Some of these days you’re gonna be so lonely
You’ll miss my hugging miss my kissing too
You’ll be so sorry when I’m away from you
Now you’re gonna be lonely just for me only
Cause you know honey that you had your way
And when you leave me you know it’s gonna grieve me
You’re gonna miss your little honey some of these days
(Now you’ll be lonely) yes you’ll be lonely (just for me only) just for me only
(Cause you know honey) yes you know honey (you had your way) yes you had your way
Cause when you leave me oh you know it’s gonna grieve me
You’re gonna miss your little honey some of these days
(You’re gonna miss) you’re gonna miss your little honey some of these days
(Some of these days)
There’s a place for us
Somewhere a place for us
Peace and quiet and open air
Wait for us somewhere
There’s a time for us
Someday, a time for us
Time together with time to spare
Time to learn
Time to care
Someday
Somewhere
We’ll find a new way of living
We’ll find a new way of giving
Somewhere
There’s a place for us
Much time and a place for us
Hold my hand and we’re halfway there
Hold my hand and I’ll take you there
Someday
Somehow
Somewhere
I’m just a penny that fell from a hole in ya pocket
And clattered to the gutter at your feet
I’m like a puppet on a broken string who lies completely helpless in a heap
Just a hopeful heart standing in line hoping you might need me sometime
If ya ya do you might call my name
But from now on I guess I’ll always be that somethin’ you saved
For a rainy day that never came
Cause you’ve got sunshine and fields of clover
But I feel so useless now that it’s over
You never said you’d leave me or that you didn’t love me
And I guess you’re gonna keep me on a string
But from now on I guess I’ll always be that somethin’ you saved
For a rainy day that never came
Something wrong with me, can’t get you out of my mind
I see your face in everything I do
It feels like I’ve known you for a long long time
I only want to make it with you
Something in your eyes that just wont let me forget you
Something in you face that keeps me hanging around you
Something’s got a hold of me the day that I met you
There’s something wrong with me
Something’s wrong with me
Yesterday I saw you on the street with someone
I said it doesn’t matter to me
Behind this smile, I’m wearing all the tears of a clown
Cause loving you is where I want to be
Something in your eyes that just wont let me forget you
Something in you face that keeps me hanging around you
Something’s got a hold of me the day that I met you
Something wrong with me
Something’s wrong with me
There’s Something wrong with me
There’s Something wrong with me
There’s Something wrong
Something in your eyes that just wont let me forget you
Something in you face that keeps me hanging around you
Something’s got a hold of me the day that I met you
Something wrong with me
Oh I wish I had someone to love me
Someone to call me their own
How I wish I had someone to live with
‘Cause I’m tired of livin’ alone
Please meet me tonight in the moonlight
Please meet me tonight alone
For I have a sad story to tell you
It’s a story that’s never been told
Oh, if I had wings like an angel
Through the heavenly sky high I would fly
I’d fly to the arms of my darlin’
And there I’d be willing to die
