Lyle Lovett

[fox69]

"Cryin' Shame"

"Cryin' Shame"


You got you some legs baby
That just won't quit
You got a pretty boy
And he looks pretty hip
You got you one on the sly
But you gave him the slip
And that's just a cryin' shame

'Cause you love the boy
With pretty green eyes
And you love the boy
Who says he's so clever and wise
And you love the boy
Who's always telling you lies
And that's just a cryin' shame

Sometimes it never quits raining
Sometimes that phone just won't ring
Sometimes I never miss nothing
And sometimes I miss anything

But you like 'em tall when it's raining
And you like 'em dark when you're feeling no pride
But you never felt anything that you wanted to hide
And that's just a cryin' shame

So he says you look lovely my dear
You say thank you I'm fine
And you spend all his money
And you spend all his time
And you spend the night
Like you were spending a dime
And that's just a cryin' shame

 

[fox69]

"Cute As A Bug"

"Cute As A Bug"


Interstate 610
Highway 45
A sun-drunk redneck
Barely left me alive

That's when I saw her
Singin' and laughin'
Tryin' to pass me
In a Volkswagen

She's as cute as a Bug
Short as a minute
She's a pretty little package with
Everything in it
I've said enough
To praise God above
I'm crazy in love
She's as cute as a Bug

Playin' at the rodeo
Lots of people I don't know
Better ask around I guess
And try to stay behind this mess

Mister, have you seen that car?
Blowing like a hurricane
I hope she hadn't gone too far
I don't even know her name

She's as cute as a Bug
Short as a minute
She's a pretty little package with
Everything in it
I've said enough
To praise God above
I'm crazy in love
She's as cute as a Bug

Heading up north I will
Come through Huntsville
Trinity and Palestine
I'm going back to Tennessee

Lookin' through my windshield
I can still see her
Man, I got a bad case
Of Volkswagen fever

She's as cute as a Bug
Short as a minute
She's a pretty little package with
Everything in it
I've said enough
To praise God above
I'm crazy in love
She's as cute as a Bug

Cute as a Bug
Short as a minute
She's a pretty little package with
Everything in it
I've said enough
To praise God above
I'm crazy in love
She's as cute as a Bug

 

[fox69]

"Don't Cry A Tear"

"Don't Cry A Tear"


Go if you must go
Turn if you must turn away
Don't cry a tear for me

Laugh if you can smile
Run if you're walking away
Don't cry a tear for me

Shout if you can speak
Sing if you mention my name
Don't cry a tear for me

Low in the valley, stand in the wind and the rain
High on the mountain, see the sun shining again

Shout if you can speak
Sing when you mention my name
Don't cry a tear for me

So go if you must go
Turn if you must turn away
Don't cry a tear for me.

 

[fox69]

"Don't Touch My Hat"

"Don't Touch My Hat"


Man you better let go
You can't hold on to
What belongs to me
And don't belong to you

I caught you looking
With your roving eye
So Mister you don't have to act
So surprised

If it's her you want
I don't care about that
You can have my girl
But don't touch my hat

I grew up lonesome
On the open range
And that cold North wind
Can make a man feel strange

My John B. Stetson
Was my only friend
And we've stuck together
Through many a woman

So if it's her you want
I don't care about that
You can have my girl
But don't touch my hat

My mama told me
Son to be polite
Take your hat off
When you walk inside

But the winds of change
They fill the air
And you can't set your hat down
Just anywhere

So if you plead not guilty
I'll be the judge
We don't need no jury
To decide because

I wear a seven
And you're out of order
'Cause I can tell from here
You're a seven and a quarter

But if it's her you want
I don't care about that
You can have my girl
But don't touch my hat

If it's her you want
I don't care about that
You can have my girl
But don't touch my hat

No it never complains
And it never cries
And it looks so good
And it fits just right

But if it's her you want
I don't care about that
You can have my girl
But don't touch my hat

You can have my girl
But don't touch my hat
You can have my girl
But don't touch my hat

 

[fox69]

"Don't You Think I Feel It Too"

"Don't You Think I Feel It Too"


Lately you leave me in a cold state of mind
Your goodbyes are never on time
The blues just keep coming and drying out your eyes
Don't you think I feel it, too?

A slow train, a cold rain, I'm all inside out
The lights just aren't shining on me
To live it again, I'd believe in a lie
Don't you think I feel it, too?

In a world of my own, where the ground is my home
And the lights, they shine only from the sky
Like you, like a fool, I'm lost in the blues
And don't you think I feel it, too?

In a world of my own, where the ground is my home
And the lights, they shine only from the sky
Like you, like a fool, I'm lost in the blues
And don't you think I feel it, too?

Lately you leave me in a cold state of mind
Your goodbyes are never on time
The blues just keep coming and drying out your eyes
And don't you think I feel it, too?
And don't you think I feel it, too?

 

[fox69]

"Dress Of Laces"
(originally by Nanci Griffith)

"Dress Of Laces"
(originally by Nanci Griffith)



And she has a dress of laces
It's worn in many places
The shoulder hangs upon her by a thread
And she has a need for sharin'
For someone warm and carin'
And no one sees a heart that's underfed

[Chorus:]
Young girl in love
Young girl in tears
She hasn't seen the man she loves in years

And her mother is a waitress
At the harbour bar, good graces
Where the seamen come a fishin' with their lines
And it was one of them that caught her
And left her with a daughter
Who lives with hate and loving him in mind

[Chorus]

So the young girl goes to the water
And she calls out for her father
But she ain't seen the old man in some time
Yes, and he was always boastin'
Just a drinkin' and a toastin'
And one day he left his family far behind

[Chorus]

So the mother comes home a drinkin'
With a sailor who's a thinkin' out loud
That he might stay with them awhile
So she loads her mother's pistol
And she shoots him as he whistles
A song about a sailor's life in style

Young girl in love
Young girl in tears
She kills the only man she's loved in years
And with him dies her hopes, her dreams, her fears

And she has a dress of laces
It's worn in many places
The shoulder hangs upon her by a thread
And she has a need for sharin'
For someone warm and carin'
And no one sees a heart that's underfed
And no one sees a heart that's underfed

 

[fox69]

"Empty Blue Shoes"

"Empty Blue Shoes"


Empty blue shoes
And empty brown bottles
It's the VW blues
Bare feet to the floor

You just might die
When you make colorado
And the plaines lie behind you
Sweet Texas behind you

And your mother won't hold
You forever
And forever won't hold you for long
And that girl with the face of
An angel
She's the girl with the face that's
Long gone

Now those empty blue shoes
They sit by the highway
And those VW blues
They saw 'em pulling away

You know she kissed me goodbye
The last time I saw her
But what she intended
She never would say

And you lover won't hold you
Forever
And forever won't hold you for long
And that girl with the face of
An angel
She's the girl with the face that's
Long gone

 

[fox69]

"Family Reserve"

"Family Reserve"


When I saw the ambulance
Screaming down Main Street
I didn't give it a thought
But it was my Uncle Eugene
He died on October the second 1981

And my Uncle Wilbert
They all called him Skinner
They said for his younger ways
He'd get drunk in the morning
And show me the rolls of fifties and hundreds
He kept in the glove box of his old gray Impala

And we're all gonna be here forever
So Mama don't you make such a stir
Now put down that camera
And come on and join up
The last of the family reserve

Now my second cousin
His name was Callaway
He died when he'd barely turned two
It was peanut butter and jelly that did it
The help she didn't know what to do
She just stood there and watched him turn blue

And we're all gonna be here forever
So Mama don't you make such a stir
Just put down that camera
And come on and join up
The last of the family reserve

And my friend Brian Temple
He thought he could make it
So from the third story he jumped
He missed the swimming pool
Only by inches
And everyone said he was drunk

Now there was great Uncle Julius
And Aunt Annie Mueller
And Mary and Granddaddy Paul
And there was Hanna and Ella
And Alvin and Alec
He owned his own funeral hall

And there are more I remember
And more I could mention
Than words I could write in a song
But I feel them watching
And I see them laughing
And I hear them singing along

We're all gonna be here forever
So Mama don't you make such a stir
Just put down that camera
And come on and join up
The last of the family reserve

 

[fox69]

"Farther Down The Line"

"Farther Down The Line"


Let's have a hand for that young cowboy
And wish him better luck next time
And hope we see him up in Fargo
Or somewhere farther down the line
This time he sure drew a bad one
One that nobody could ride
But by the way he pulled his hat on
You knew he'd be there for the fight

And it's the classic contradiction
The unavoidable affliction
Well it don't take much to predict son
The way it always goes
One day she'll say she loves you
And the next she'll be tired of you
And push'll always come to shove you
On that midnight rodeo

He almost made it to the buzzer
Somehow he gave up in the end
He put one hand around the other
And let that pickup man on in
And it was his last chance to ride it
And now he'll have to move along
But he knows back in his mind that
He won't be away for long

And it's the classic contradiction
It's the unavoidable affliction
It don't take much to predict son
The way it always goes
Because one day she'll say she loves you
And the next she'll be tired of you
And push'll always come to shove you
On that midnight rodeo

So let's have a hand for that young cowboy
And wish him better luck next time
And hope we see him up in Fargo
Or somewhere farther down the line

 

[fox69]

"Fat Babies"

"Fat Babies"


I said I don't like hippies
And I don't like cornbread
And I don't like much
I said I don't hippies
And I don't like cornbread
And I don't like much
But that's okay

Fat babies have no pride
Fat babies have no pride
Fat babies have no pride
And that's okay
Who needs pride

I like you
'Cause you like me
And you don't like much
I like you
'Cause you like me
And you don't like much
And that's okay

'Cause fat babies have no pride
Fat babies have no pride
Fat babies have no pride
And that's okay
Who needs pride

Fat babies make me sick
Fat babies make me ill
All that fat baby drooling
And that fat baby smell

I said I don't like hippies
And I don't like cornbread
And I don't like much
But I like you
'Cause you like me
And you don't like much
And that's okay

'Cause fat babies have no pride
Fat babies have no pride
Fat babies have no pride
And that's okay
Who needs pride anyway