{"id":52,"date":"2013-08-19T19:29:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T19:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samgowdymusic.com\/?page_id=52"},"modified":"2013-08-21T14:32:31","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T14:32:31","slug":"lyrics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/samgowdymusic.com\/?page_id=52","title":{"rendered":"Lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"

CAN’T START SOON ENOUGH<\/strong><\/p>\n

All music and lyrics by Sam Gowdy
\nCopyright 1999 – 2013 Sam Gowdy, Sam Gowdy Music, LLC.\u00a0 All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

LOVE’S DROWNING ME
\n<\/b>I thought I\u2019d never let it happen
\nMy lesson had been learned
\nI was the boy who played with matches
\nAnd the last time I got burned
\nBut now you\u2019re leading me to the water
\nAnd you know that I can\u2019t swim
\nI can feel you pulling me forward
\nAnd I feel myself slipping in
\nI\u2019m on a ship that\u2019s going under
\nHelpless in a raging sea
\nMy heart pounding just like thunder
\nLove\u2019s drowning me
\nStorm clouds building, lightning flashing
\nBlazing in the sky
\nRain is falling, waves are crashing
\nBut something caught my eye
\nSomewhere out on the horizon
\nI see the distant shore
\nBut you\u2019re my only lighthouse shining
\nSo I swim back out for more
\nI\u2019m on a ship that\u2019s going under
\nHelpless in a raging sea
\nMy heart pounding just like thunder
\nLove\u2019s drowning me
\nI\u2019m on a ship that\u2019s going under
\nHelpless in a raging sea
\nMy heart pounding just like thunder
\nLove\u2019s drowning me
\nLove\u2019s drowning me<\/p>\n

TAKE IT FROM ME
\n<\/b>Somebody held you for ransom
\nSomebody locked you away
\nNow that you\u2019ve found your freedom
\nStill you try to escape
\nYou\u2019ve got nobody to help you
\nYou\u2019ve got no need for a man
\nYou never had nobody you trusted
\nNow you don\u2019t think you can
\nBut you\u2019re trying, you\u2019re trying
\nYou ain\u2019t gonna find what you\u2019re looking for
\nIn the places you\u2019ve looked before
\nNobody to give you what you need
\nJust take it from me
\nYeah, take it from me
\nSome people hang on to money
\nSome people hang on with booze
\nSome people hang on to the ones that hurt them
\nThat\u2019s what we call the blues
\nAnd you\u2019re crying, and I\u2019m dying
\nYou ain\u2019t gonna find what you\u2019re looking for
\nIn the places you\u2019ve looked before
\nNobody to give you what you need
\nCome take it from me
\nYeah, take it from me
\nWasting
\nWasting time
\nNo more wasting
\nWasting our precious time
\nYou ain\u2019t gonna find what you\u2019re looking for
\nIn the places you\u2019ve looked before
\nNobody to give you what you need
\nCome take it from me
\nThen maybe you\u2019ll find what you\u2019re looking for
\nA love you never knew before
\nSomebody to give you what you need
\nCome take it from me
\nYeah, take it from me
\nJust take it from me
\nYeah, take it from me<\/p>\n

ANOTHER PRODIGAL
\n<\/b>I said \u2018Father, give me all that I have coming
\nSo that I might take it with me as I leave.\u2019
\nI hit the wide and easy path with both feet running
\nNo need to depend on anyone but me
\nTake Your shackles from my heart and set me free
\nRelease me from Your fold
\nFor every young man needs his independence
\nA chance to make it on his own
\nEvery time I\u2019ve tried to walk alone I\u2019ve fallen
\nEvery hill too steep to climb
\nSomewhere from far away I hear my Master calling
\nFrom His kingdom that I chose to leave behind
\nPut Your shackles on my heart and capture me
\nLead me back into Your fold
\nFor every sinner needs to find forgiveness
\nA chance for redemption to take hold
\nMake me once again a servant to my Father
\nI\u2019ll seek my only source of refuge in His name
\nI will not become a slave to all the others
\nThat surround my heart with guilt and sin and shame
\nWrite Your Word upon my heart, empower me
\nAnd I will bring another fold
\nFor every believer needs to bear witness
\nA chance for Your story to be told
\nWrite Your Word upon my heart, empower me
\nAnd I will bring another fold
\nFor every believer needs to bear witness
\nTo the greatest story ever told<\/p>\n

NEVER AGAIN WITHOUT WOMEN AND HORSES
\n<\/b>Another summer alone here in Houston
\nThe heat hot enough to melt stone
\nWhy did I look in your eyes and tell you goodbye
\nMy country girl back on the farm
\nI guess it\u2019s time to pack it up and move on
\nNever again without women and horses
\nI still feel the ring on my hand
\nNever again without women and horses
\nThe boy wouldn\u2019t stay in the country
\nBut the country sure stays in the man
\nAnother winter alone in Chicago
\nThe wind chills you right to the bone
\nSaddle my pony and ride somewhere warm with blue skies
\nA dream I let slip through my hands
\nI guess it\u2019s time to pack it up once again
\nNever again without women and horses
\nI still feel the reins in my hand
\nNever again without women and horses
\nThe boy wouldn\u2019t stay in the country
\nBut the country sure stays in the man
\nI said the boy wouldn\u2019t stay in the country
\nBut the country sure stays in the man<\/p>\n

LEAVING IS THE NEXT HARDEST THING
\n<\/b>Nothing you can say that would make me say \u2018I love you\u2019
\nNothing you can change that would make me change my mind
\nNowhere you can go that would make me go there with you
\nLeaving\u2019s the next hardest thing to being left behind
\nSo many times I tried to let you walk out easy
\nI couldn\u2019t find the words that weren\u2019t cruel and unkind
\nEither way we choose neither one of us would be happy
\nLeaving\u2019s the next hardest thing to being left behind
\nIt\u2019s hard for me to tell you no when I know how much you love me
\nIt\u2019s easy for a weak man to give in
\nBut that look in your eyes makes the skies just open up above me
\nI fall into your tender arms again
\nLying here awake, staring at the ceiling
\nI should wake you up and try this one more time
\nI touch your face but you just keep on dreaming
\nLeaving\u2019s the next hardest thing to being left behind
\nNothing you can say that would make me say \u2018I love you\u2019
\nNothing you can change that would make me change my mind
\nNowhere you can go that would make me go there with you
\nLeaving\u2019s the next hardest thing to being left behind
\nLeaving\u2019s the next hardest thing to being left behind<\/p>\n

WHEN BLACKBIRDS TAKE TO RED WINGS
\n<\/b>Katie was her daddy\u2019s joy
\nThe only girl of four
\nWe worked down in the textile mill
\nOn the sweatshop floor
\nShe hasn\u2019t made her mark yet
\nBut you know she\u2019s gonna try
\nWhen blackbirds take to red wings
\nWhen blackbirds take to red wings
\nWhen blackbirds take to red wings and fly
\nI asked her to marry me
\nShe smiled and just said \u2018no\u2019
\nShe had too many things to see
\nMany places left to go
\nAnd one day she would run away
\nAnd never even say goodbye
\nWhen blackbirds take to red wings
\nWhen blackbirds take to red wings
\nWhen blackbirds take to red wings and fly
\nAnd I always thought that one day I\u2019d go with her
\nI had it worked out in my mind
\n\u2018Til the morning I saw her machine sitting empty on the line
\nAnd blackbirds take to red wings
\nBlackbirds take to red wings
\nBlackbirds take to red wings and fly
\nBlackbirds take to red wings and fly<\/p>\n

SARAH’S LEAVING
\n<\/b>She is my Sarah-bear
\nRunning halfway into midnight
\nA rebel without a care
\nWhen will you grow some hair
\nWith your beautiful big blue eyes giving me the stare
\nHow do I tell a shooting star she means the world to me
\nHow do I hold the Southeast wind when it just wants to be free
\nShe\u2019ll be up and gone in just a little while
\nI\u2019ll be here with nothing left but the memory of her smile
\nShe lets the wind blow through her hair
\nRunning halfway into midnight
\nA rebel without a care
\nOn a promise and a prayer
\nWith her beautiful big blue eyes giving me that stare
\nI can\u2019t imagine her being out and on her own
\nShe says she\u2019s brave enough to face the world alone
\nWhat can a father do as I try to hide my tears
\nBut wish her love and health and peace through all her years
\nSince you were a baby bouncing on your daddy\u2019s knee
\nI knew your prince would come to take you away from me
\nNo matter where you make your home in this whole world
\nYou know you\u2019ll always be your daddy\u2019s little girl
\nShe is my Sarah-bear
\nRunning halfway into midnight
\nA rebel without a care
\nSo run on, Sarah-bear
\nKeep running into midnight
\nYou rebel without a care<\/p>\n

ARBITRARY CHOICE
\n<\/b>I saw you across the room
\nI can tell you\u2019re hurting too
\nThis whole evening you\u2019ve been sitting all alone
\nDo you know how much I\u2019d like
\nTo break this string of lonely nights
\nPut your coat on and let me walk you home
\nIt\u2019s an arbitrary choice, just a simple yes or no
\nAnd I\u2019m not of a mind to wait too long
\nLet me hold you in my arms and I\u2019ll rock you to sleep
\nAnd tomorrow morning I\u2019ll be gone
\nI\u2019m not much for run down bars
\nLet me and this guitar
\nSing you a love song, before I tuck you in
\nOr will that voice inside your head
\nWalk you home alone instead
\nForever wondering what we might have been
\nIt\u2019s an arbitrary choice, just a simple yes or no
\nAnd I\u2019m not of a mind to wait too long
\nLet me hold you in my arms and I\u2019ll rock you to sleep
\nAnd tomorrow morning I\u2019ll be gone
\nIt\u2019s an arbitrary choice, just a simple yes or no
\nAnd I\u2019m not of a mind to wait too long
\nLet me hold you in my arms and I\u2019ll rock you to sleep
\nWe\u2019ll let tomorrow morning end this song
\nWe\u2019ll let tomorrow morning end this song<\/p>\n

RIGHT THEN AND THERE<\/b><\/p>\n

She picked up a bluebonnet and stuck it in her hair
\nHe said \u2018You\u2019re not supposed to do that\u2019 but she didn\u2019t seem to care
\nAnd the color of the flowers matched the color of her eyes
\nAnd much to his surprise
\nHe fell in love right then and there
\nWith the pretty little girl, blue flowers in her hair
\nAnd he knew he had found his paradise inside her eyes
\nPart lawbreaker, part heartbreaker
\nShe\u2019s all of the above
\nAnd he fell in love
\nRight then and there
\nHe said \u2018Let\u2019s head back to the car\u2019 and he reached out for her hand
\nThen standing at the altar, he reached for it again
\nAnd the color of her flowers matched the color of her dress
\nAnd we all heard him confess
\nHe fell in love right then and there
\nWith the pretty little girl, white flowers in her hair
\nAnd he knew he had found his paradise inside her eyes
\nPart heartbreaker, part homemaker
\nShe\u2019s all of the above
\nAnd he fell in love
\nRight then and there
\nWell, fifty years gone by, they\u2019re walking that same field
\nHe bends down to pick her flowers, \u2018cause she\u2019s much too old to kneel
\nAnd the color of the flowers match the color of her hair
\nDon\u2019t they make the perfect pair
\nHe fell in love right then and there
\nWith the pretty old woman, blue flowers in her hair
\nAnd he knew he had found his paradise inside her eyes
\nPart homemaker, part caretaker
\nShe\u2019s all of the above
\nAnd he fell in love
\nHe fell in love right then and there
\nWith the pretty little girl, blue flowers in her hair
\nAnd he knew he had found his paradise inside her eyes
\nPart lawbreaker, part heartbreaker
\nPart homemaker, part caretaker
\nShe\u2019s all of the above
\nShe\u2019s all of the above
\nAnd he fell in love
\nRight then and there<\/p>\n

YOU’RE MY ‘COULD HAVE BEEN’
\n<\/b>Holding your hand in the picture show
\nSo much more than friends
\nWe found love on the very back row
\nI never thought it would end
\nThen you sat me down with tears in your eyes
\nSaid you needed time
\nTime to be free, test your wings and fly
\nIn time I would understand
\nBut time
\nTime don\u2019t mean nothing
\nIt hurts as much now as it did back then
\n\u2018Cause you
\nYou\u2019re my once-in-a-lifetime
\nMy forever love
\nYou\u2019re my could\u2019ve been
\nDon\u2019t the years go by so fast
\nYou still own my heart
\nAnd they said that it wouldn\u2019t last!\u00a0 Huh\u2026
\nNever mind we\u2019re apart
\nThey say that time changes everything
\nAll it needs is time
\nBut that clock stopped not to move again
\nThe minute you said goodbye
\nBut time
\nTime don\u2019t mean nothing
\nIt hurts as much now as it did back then
\n\u2018Cause you
\nYou\u2019re my once-in-a-lifetime
\nMy forever love
\nYou\u2019re my could\u2019ve been
\nTime keeps ticking by
\nYour memory won\u2019t fade away
\nIf I could turn back time one more time
\nThree little words I\u2019d say (I love you)
\nBut time
\nTime don\u2019t mean nothing
\nIt hurts as much now as it did back then
\n\u2018Cause you
\nYou\u2019re my once-in-a-lifetime
\nMy forever love
\nYou\u2019re my could\u2019ve been<\/p>\n

CAN’T START SOON ENOUGH
\n<\/b>When you pulled me out to the dance floor
\nI knew that I\u2019d be yours forevermore
\nMy heart told me you\u2019re the girl that I\u2019d been dreaming of
\nI was charmed and captivated
\nMystified and fascinated
\nI fell wholly, totally, uncontrollably
\nHead over heels in love
\nCan I call you up on Thursday
\nMake dinner plans for Friday
\nHave margaritas with you Saturday
\nWith salt and lime and all that stuff
\nI\u2019ll buy a diamond ring on Monday
\nBook a preacher for next Sunday
\nI want to spend the rest of my life with you
\nAnd we can\u2019t start soon enough
\nMaybe giving me your number
\nWould break the spell that I am under
\nThat magic sparkle in your eyes is like a thousand stars above
\nI am charmed and captivated
\nMystified and fascinated
\nI fell smack exactly, matter of factly
\nHead over heels in love
\nCan I call you up on Thursday
\nMake dinner plans for Friday
\nHave sangria with you Saturday,
\nWith fruit and wine and all that stuff
\nI\u2019ll buy a diamond ring on Monday
\nBook a preacher for next Sunday
\nI want to spend the rest of my life with you
\nAnd we can\u2019t start soon enough
\nCan I call you up on Thursday
\nMake dinner plans for Friday
\nMicheladas with you Saturday,
\nWith beer and lime and all that stuff
\nI\u2019ll buy a diamond ring on Monday
\nBook a preacher for next Sunday
\nI want to spend the rest of my life with you
\nAnd we can\u2019t start soon enough
\nYeah, I want to spend the rest of my life with you
\nAnd we can\u2019t start soon enough<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CAN’T START SOON ENOUGH All music and lyrics by Sam Gowdy Copyright 1999 – 2013 Sam Gowdy, Sam Gowdy Music, LLC.\u00a0 All rights reserved. LOVE’S DROWNING ME I thought I\u2019d never let it happen My lesson had been learned I was the boy who played with matches And the last time I got burned But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/samgowdymusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/samgowdymusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/samgowdymusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samgowdymusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samgowdymusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/samgowdymusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"http:\/\/samgowdymusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/samgowdymusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}