On one hand, I count the reasons I could stay with you
And hold you close to me all night long
So many lover's games I'd love to play with you
On that hand there's no reason why it's wrong
But on the other hand, there's a golden band
To remind me of someone who would not understand
On one hand, I could stay and be your lovin' man
But the reason I must go is on the other hand
In your arms, I feel the passions I thought had died
When I looked into your eyes, I found myself
And when I first kissed your lips, I felt so alive
I've got to hand it to you girl, you're somethin' else
But on the other hand, there's a golden band
To remind me of someone who would not understand
On one hand, I could stay and be your lovin' man
But the reason I must go is on the other hand
Yeah, the reason I must go is on the other hand
Randy Travis - Storms of Life Album Lyrics
Randy Travis - Storms of Life Lyrics
Writer: Don Schlitz, Paul Overstreet
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
The Storms of Life
There's a dirty piece of cardboard
That reads Montgomery Ward
Taped across the window of my old Ford
A six pack on the front seat and a box of chicken wings
I'm dialin' 'cross the radio for a song that I can sing
I'd better change my wandrin' ways
I know I've seen my better days
Always gettin' high when I get low
Well, I left my soul out in the rain
Lord, what a price I've had to pay
Storms of life are washin' me away
An old mail pouch, tobacco sign
Fadin' on the barn
Bringin' back sweet memories of mama's farm
When love was just a country girl that lived on down the road
You know, she almost had me turned around
But that was years ago
I'd better change my wandrin' ways
I know I've seen my better days
Always gettin' high when I get low
Well, I left my soul out in the rain
Lord, what a price I've had to pay
Storms of life are washin' me away
Yeah, the storms of life are washin' me away
That reads Montgomery Ward
Taped across the window of my old Ford
A six pack on the front seat and a box of chicken wings
I'm dialin' 'cross the radio for a song that I can sing
I'd better change my wandrin' ways
I know I've seen my better days
Always gettin' high when I get low
Well, I left my soul out in the rain
Lord, what a price I've had to pay
Storms of life are washin' me away
An old mail pouch, tobacco sign
Fadin' on the barn
Bringin' back sweet memories of mama's farm
When love was just a country girl that lived on down the road
You know, she almost had me turned around
But that was years ago
I'd better change my wandrin' ways
I know I've seen my better days
Always gettin' high when I get low
Well, I left my soul out in the rain
Lord, what a price I've had to pay
Storms of life are washin' me away
Yeah, the storms of life are washin' me away
Writer: Troy Harold Seals, Max Duane Barnes
Copyright: Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group
Copyright: Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group
My Heart Cracked (But It Did Not Break)
You're spreadin' lies all over town
About the way you brushed me off and put me down
Well, I'm here to say, make no mistake
My heart cracked, but it did not break
Well, I can't deny, the hurt was deep
The way you slammed that door and walked right out on me
But I'm telling you, get one thing straight
My heart cracked, but it did not break
Shattered dreams lie everywhere
Broken promises are all we share
Well, I finally took all I could take
My heart cracked, but it did not break
Well, I was blue, but not for long
'Cause this brand new love I got has made me strong
Well, I'm over you and all the ache
My heart cracked, but it did not break
Shattered dreams lie everywhere
Broken promises are all we share
Well, I finally took all I could take
My heart cracked, but it did not break
Yeah, my heart cracked, but it did not break
About the way you brushed me off and put me down
Well, I'm here to say, make no mistake
My heart cracked, but it did not break
Well, I can't deny, the hurt was deep
The way you slammed that door and walked right out on me
But I'm telling you, get one thing straight
My heart cracked, but it did not break
Shattered dreams lie everywhere
Broken promises are all we share
Well, I finally took all I could take
My heart cracked, but it did not break
Well, I was blue, but not for long
'Cause this brand new love I got has made me strong
Well, I'm over you and all the ache
My heart cracked, but it did not break
Shattered dreams lie everywhere
Broken promises are all we share
Well, I finally took all I could take
My heart cracked, but it did not break
Yeah, my heart cracked, but it did not break
Writer: Don Singleton, Phil S. Thomas, Ronny Scaife
Copyright: Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Copyright: Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Diggin up Bones
Verse 1:
Last night I dug your picture out from our old dresser drawer
I set it on the table and I talked to it 'til four
I read some old love letters right up 'til the break of dawn
Yeah I've been sittin' alone diggin' up bones
Verse 2:
Then I went through the jewelery and I found our wedding rings
I put mine on my finger and I gave yours a fling
across this lonely bedroom of our recent broken home
Yeah tonightI'm sittin' alone diggin' up bones
Chorus:
I'm diggin' up bones,i'm diggin' up bones
Exhuming things thats better left alone
I'm resurrecting memories of a love that's dead and gone
Yeah tonight i'm sittin' alone diggin' up bones
Verse 3:
And I went through the closet and I found some things in there
Like that pretty neglige that i bought you to wear
And I recall how good you looked each time you had it on
Yeah tonight I'm sittin' alone diggin' up bones
Chorus.
I'm resurrecting memories of love that's dead and gone
Yeah tonight I'm sittin' alone diggin' up bones
Chorus (til end).
Last night I dug your picture out from our old dresser drawer
I set it on the table and I talked to it 'til four
I read some old love letters right up 'til the break of dawn
Yeah I've been sittin' alone diggin' up bones
Verse 2:
Then I went through the jewelery and I found our wedding rings
I put mine on my finger and I gave yours a fling
across this lonely bedroom of our recent broken home
Yeah tonightI'm sittin' alone diggin' up bones
Chorus:
I'm diggin' up bones,i'm diggin' up bones
Exhuming things thats better left alone
I'm resurrecting memories of a love that's dead and gone
Yeah tonight i'm sittin' alone diggin' up bones
Verse 3:
And I went through the closet and I found some things in there
Like that pretty neglige that i bought you to wear
And I recall how good you looked each time you had it on
Yeah tonight I'm sittin' alone diggin' up bones
Chorus.
I'm resurrecting memories of love that's dead and gone
Yeah tonight I'm sittin' alone diggin' up bones
Chorus (til end).
Writer: Al Gore, Nat Stuckey, Paul Overstreet
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
No Place Like Home
No Place Like Home: Randy Travis.
Written by Paul Overstreet.
(Screen Gems-EMI Music/Scarlet Moon Music.)
From "Storms of Life", 1986, Warner Brothers
and "Forever and Ever, The Best of Randy Travis",
1994, WEA.
Well there's my easy chair, just sittin' there,
I've spent a lot of time,
Thinkin' of this perfect love,
I know is yours and mine.
And oh, I know how I love that old picture on the wall,
Of you and me and the kids.
My most favourite times in life,
I've spent right here where we live.
There's no place like home.
There's no place like home.
It just hit me as I was leavin',
There's no place like home.
From the bedroom, I smell perfume;
My favourite kind you wore.
And it brings back mem'ries of all those nights,
Behind our bedroom door.
And the saddest thing, I think, I've ever seen,
Was my closet all cleaned out.
It's sad to think that one must leave,
'Cos we can't work things out.
There's no place like home.
There's no place like home.
It just hit me as I was leavin',
There's no place like home.
So, baby, say that I can stay,
For just a day or so.
Then maybe I can change your mind,
And I won't have to go.
Just look into these baby blues,
And tell me it's ok.
I love that smile, it drives me wild,
No, love won't die today.
There's no place like home.
There's no place like home.
Written by Paul Overstreet.
(Screen Gems-EMI Music/Scarlet Moon Music.)
From "Storms of Life", 1986, Warner Brothers
and "Forever and Ever, The Best of Randy Travis",
1994, WEA.
Well there's my easy chair, just sittin' there,
I've spent a lot of time,
Thinkin' of this perfect love,
I know is yours and mine.
And oh, I know how I love that old picture on the wall,
Of you and me and the kids.
My most favourite times in life,
I've spent right here where we live.
There's no place like home.
There's no place like home.
It just hit me as I was leavin',
There's no place like home.
From the bedroom, I smell perfume;
My favourite kind you wore.
And it brings back mem'ries of all those nights,
Behind our bedroom door.
And the saddest thing, I think, I've ever seen,
Was my closet all cleaned out.
It's sad to think that one must leave,
'Cos we can't work things out.
There's no place like home.
There's no place like home.
It just hit me as I was leavin',
There's no place like home.
So, baby, say that I can stay,
For just a day or so.
Then maybe I can change your mind,
And I won't have to go.
Just look into these baby blues,
And tell me it's ok.
I love that smile, it drives me wild,
No, love won't die today.
There's no place like home.
There's no place like home.
Writer: PAUL OVERSTREET
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
1982
Verse 1
Operator, please connect me with 1982
I need to make apologies for what I didn't do
I sure do need to tell her that I've thought the whole thing through
And now it's clear that she is what I should have held on to
Chorus
They say eyesights's twenty-twenty
But I'm nearly goin' blind
From starin' at her photograph and wishing she was mine
It's that same ole lost love story
It's sad but it's true
There was a time when she was mine in 1982
Verse 2
Postman can you sell me a special kind of stamp
One to send a letter from this crazy lonely man
Back into the wasted years of my living past
I need to tell her now I know how long my love will last
(Chorus)
Losin' my mind, goin' back in time to 1982
Operator, please connect me with 1982
I need to make apologies for what I didn't do
I sure do need to tell her that I've thought the whole thing through
And now it's clear that she is what I should have held on to
Chorus
They say eyesights's twenty-twenty
But I'm nearly goin' blind
From starin' at her photograph and wishing she was mine
It's that same ole lost love story
It's sad but it's true
There was a time when she was mine in 1982
Verse 2
Postman can you sell me a special kind of stamp
One to send a letter from this crazy lonely man
Back into the wasted years of my living past
I need to tell her now I know how long my love will last
(Chorus)
Losin' my mind, goin' back in time to 1982
Writer: LOUIS SCHOORL, BERTIE BLACKMAN, MARK ASHLEY RICHARDSON
Copyright: Lyrics © Peermusic Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group, WORDS & MUSIC A DIV OF BIG DEAL MUSIC LLC
Copyright: Lyrics © Peermusic Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group, WORDS & MUSIC A DIV OF BIG DEAL MUSIC LLC
Send My Body
Well, the judge he found me guilty of wrong doing
And he sentenced me to hang in mid July
He looked down at me and said, "Your life's a ruined
"If I were you, I'd break right down a cry"
Well, nobody seems to care that I ain't guilty
Lord, I never did the things they said I've done
But I guess they're gonna have to hang somebody
And it's looking like I'm gonna be the one
So send my body home on a freight train
And don't worry none that I don't go first class
Send my body home on a fright train
So everyone can see me when I pass
And don't worry none about no fancy funeral
'Cause it don't matter how they lay me down
Just see they bury me out by mama's apple tree
And send my body back to my home town
Well, my mama was a damn hard working woman
And she tried to raise us kids without a fault
Last thing she said, she was on her dying bed was
"Son, don't get in trouble with the law"
Whenever my time comes to meet my maker
I'm gonna try to do my very best
I'm gonna try to stand and take it like a man
When they ask if I have one request
Well, I'll just say, "Send my body home on a freight train
And don't worry none that I don't go first class
Send my body home on a fright train
So everyone can see me when I pass"
"And don't worry none about no fancy funeral
'Cause it don't matter how they lay me down
Just see they bury me out by mama's apple tree
And send my body back to my home town"
Yeah, just see they bury me out by mama's apple tree
And send my body back to my home town
And he sentenced me to hang in mid July
He looked down at me and said, "Your life's a ruined
"If I were you, I'd break right down a cry"
Well, nobody seems to care that I ain't guilty
Lord, I never did the things they said I've done
But I guess they're gonna have to hang somebody
And it's looking like I'm gonna be the one
So send my body home on a freight train
And don't worry none that I don't go first class
Send my body home on a fright train
So everyone can see me when I pass
And don't worry none about no fancy funeral
'Cause it don't matter how they lay me down
Just see they bury me out by mama's apple tree
And send my body back to my home town
Well, my mama was a damn hard working woman
And she tried to raise us kids without a fault
Last thing she said, she was on her dying bed was
"Son, don't get in trouble with the law"
Whenever my time comes to meet my maker
I'm gonna try to do my very best
I'm gonna try to stand and take it like a man
When they ask if I have one request
Well, I'll just say, "Send my body home on a freight train
And don't worry none that I don't go first class
Send my body home on a fright train
So everyone can see me when I pass"
"And don't worry none about no fancy funeral
'Cause it don't matter how they lay me down
Just see they bury me out by mama's apple tree
And send my body back to my home town"
Yeah, just see they bury me out by mama's apple tree
And send my body back to my home town
Writer: Randy Travis
Copyright: Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Copyright: Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Messin With My Mind
I said one thing I'd never do was care or hang around for too long anywhere I
Could always move ahead with nothing left behind then you started messin with
My mind This town was just another place to play have some fun then be on my
Way you were just another way for me pass some time then you started messin
With my mind
[Chorus]
I can't believe how much my mind has changed or the way my
Life's been rearranged I swore one thing I'd never do was be to stay inclined
Then you started messin with my mind The first in line for party time was me
Always the last to leave or try to be I never thought I'd want to change I suited
Me just fine then you started messin with my mind CHORUS
Could always move ahead with nothing left behind then you started messin with
My mind This town was just another place to play have some fun then be on my
Way you were just another way for me pass some time then you started messin
With my mind
[Chorus]
I can't believe how much my mind has changed or the way my
Life's been rearranged I swore one thing I'd never do was be to stay inclined
Then you started messin with my mind The first in line for party time was me
Always the last to leave or try to be I never thought I'd want to change I suited
Me just fine then you started messin with my mind CHORUS
Writer: ALLEN, WILLIAMS
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Peermusic Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Peermusic Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group
Reasons I Cheat
A working day to long when everything goes wrong
And a boss who don't know I'm alive
I once had a notion I'd get that promotion, but now I barley survive
A wife to demanding with no understanding
Of why I stay dead on my feet
A dimly lit tavern a willing young woman
Are some of the reasons I cheat
The hair that I'm losing and a women who's choosing
To lay sound asleep by my side
The bills they are mounting thats when I start counting
On someone to help sooth my pride
A lady that knows me affection she shows me and a smile so easy and sweet
The dreams that I've buried the load that I've carried
Are some of the reasons I cheat
My children keep on growing me age keeps on showing
Like all of my old friends I meet
So I'm getting older my life's growing colder
Just some of the reasons I cheat
Yes I'm getting older my life's growing colder
Just some of the reasons I cheat
And a boss who don't know I'm alive
I once had a notion I'd get that promotion, but now I barley survive
A wife to demanding with no understanding
Of why I stay dead on my feet
A dimly lit tavern a willing young woman
Are some of the reasons I cheat
The hair that I'm losing and a women who's choosing
To lay sound asleep by my side
The bills they are mounting thats when I start counting
On someone to help sooth my pride
A lady that knows me affection she shows me and a smile so easy and sweet
The dreams that I've buried the load that I've carried
Are some of the reasons I cheat
My children keep on growing me age keeps on showing
Like all of my old friends I meet
So I'm getting older my life's growing colder
Just some of the reasons I cheat
Yes I'm getting older my life's growing colder
Just some of the reasons I cheat
Writer: TRAVIS
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Therell Always Be a Honky Tonk Somewhere
There may no be a Superbowl in 2083
Cars and trains and video games will all be history
The world just keeps on changing, things come and then they go
Nothing lasts forever except one thing I know
There'll always be a honky tonk
With a jukebox in the corner
And someone crying in their beer
And one old hanger-oner
And a lady looking lonely
From a losing love affair
Yeah there'll always be a honky tonk somewhere
Yeah there'll always be a honky tonk somewhere
There may be factories on the moon and farming out in space
It seems there's nothing here on earth
That something won't replace
But as long as there's a broken heart there'll be a place to go
Where good ole boys meet good ole girls
And the wine and music flow
Cars and trains and video games will all be history
The world just keeps on changing, things come and then they go
Nothing lasts forever except one thing I know
There'll always be a honky tonk
With a jukebox in the corner
And someone crying in their beer
And one old hanger-oner
And a lady looking lonely
From a losing love affair
Yeah there'll always be a honky tonk somewhere
Yeah there'll always be a honky tonk somewhere
There may be factories on the moon and farming out in space
It seems there's nothing here on earth
That something won't replace
But as long as there's a broken heart there'll be a place to go
Where good ole boys meet good ole girls
And the wine and music flow
Writer: JOHNNY MAC RAE, STEVE CLARK
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Storms of Life is the debut studio album by American country music artist Randy Travis. It was released on June 2, 1986 by Warner Records. Certified 3× Multi-Platinum by the RIAA for American shipments of three million copies. it features the singles "On the Other Hand" (previously recorded by Keith Whitley on his 1985 album L.A. to Miami), "1982", "Diggin' up Bones" and "No Place Like Home". Although "On the Other Hand" charted at number 67 on the Hot Country Songs chart upon its initial release, the song reached number one on the same chart once it was re-released, following "1982" which peaked at number six. "Diggin' up Bones" also reached number one, while "No Place Like Home" peaked at number two.
"There'll Always Be a Honky Tonk Somewhere" was later recorded by Daron Norwood for his second album Ready, Willing and Able.
The 35th anniversary edition of the album was released on 24 September 2021. The anniversary edition includes remastered versions of the original ten tracks, as well as three previously unreleased songs ("Ain't No Use", "The Wall" and "Carryin' Fire"), labelled "From the Vault".
Performed By:
Randy Travis"There'll Always Be a Honky Tonk Somewhere" was later recorded by Daron Norwood for his second album Ready, Willing and Able.
The 35th anniversary edition of the album was released on 24 September 2021. The anniversary edition includes remastered versions of the original ten tracks, as well as three previously unreleased songs ("Ain't No Use", "The Wall" and "Carryin' Fire"), labelled "From the Vault".
Genre(s): Neotraditional country
Producer(s): Kyle Lehning, Keith Stegall
Released: June 2nd, 1986
Year: 1986