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Zach Bryan - DeAnn Album Lyrics



Zach Bryan - DeAnn Lyrics






Flying or Crying

We could find a porch to hold us
Where we could all scream "Childers"
Drink the shit that kills us
Until we all remember
Who it was when we were younger
Before the world took our pride
And we were walking in straight lines
Tryna find who's good to drive

And I've had so many evenings
The way I've felt I can't recall
Was I jumping from the rafters
When my buddies broke my fall?
By the end of the night
We'd be flying or crying
Talking 'bout the times
We've spent living towards dying

So don't stop running boy
But don't be naive
'Cause this world will burn and break you
Worse than hearts like ours believe
Don't stop dancing girl
'Til it feels right
'Cause we'll be flying or crying
By the end of the night

You always snuck up in my front seat
With some reasons of your own
Tryna get a plainsman
Drunk and all alone
But don't you go falling for
And don't you go believing
A boy with calloused hands
With a mind set on leaving

All the moments that we've been through
All the memories we've made
I don't think God'd be willing
To come down here and save
Some heathens from the flatlands
Who only bitch and moan
But if I'm going down
Least I'm not going down alone

So don't stop running boy
But don't be naive
'Cause this world will break and burn you
Worse than hearts like ours believe
Don't stop dancing girl
'Til it feels right
'Cause we'll be flying or crying
By the end of the night
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Writer: Zachary Lane Bryan
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.






Hope Again

Softness in your voice
It reminds me of back home
Sing you all the songs
That I wrote when I was alone
And now I go out drinking
With all my shameless friends
I've been having trouble
Just finding hope again

I love it when you're laughing
Sprawled out on a picnic chair
Restless in my mind dies out
When you're right here
Finally made it over
That damn four year drought
I'll thank you and you alone
For draggin' my ass out

Well, the love that you got
Is the love that I need
It's in the air of these hills
And the blood that I bleed
And the love that you gave
For the awful shape I'm in
Led me through the day
So I can find my hope again

And I hope we make it out
Of all these younger years alive
Sittin' under sundowns
In about ten years time
And I'm just there grinnin'
Over the shit that I've been through
Saying I've made it over
'Cause the hope I've found in you

Well, the love that you got
Is the love that I need
It's in the air of these hills
And the blood that I bleed
And the love that you gave
For the awful shape I'm in
Led me through the day
So I can find my hope again

Well, the love that you got
Is the love that I need
It's in the air of these hills
And the blood that I bleed
And the love that you gave
For the awful shape I'm in
Led me through the day
So I could find my hope again
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Writer: Zachary Lane Bryan
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.






God Speed

(One, go)

Well, I wanna send a post card
From the edge of a place I've never been
And I wanna make love hard
Under the stars in the back of a beat up ol' K-10
And I wanna love a girl who
Doesn't worry about the pictures when we kiss
And wake up one day and not be so hit and miss
Lay in bed all day and call that shit pure bliss

I'm movin' at God speed
Only God and my mama know what I need
And I feel the hardwood floors on my knees
As I beg you just to take it easy on me

I'm movin' at God speed

Well, I wanna see the road melt
Into the mountains away as I drive
And make it out of this damn town alive
And not let the dreams I shoulder die

'Cause I'm movin' at God speed
Only God and my mama know what I need
And I feel the hardwood floors on my knees
As I beg you just to take it easy on me

Well, I wanna die an old man
Messed up stories of me and all my old friends
And laugh about how we all thought it won't end
How we all wind up where we begin

Movin' at God speed
Where only God and our mamas know what we need
And we feel the hardwood floors on our knees
As we beg the world to bring us to our feet

'Cause I'm movin' at God speed
Only God and my mama know what I need
And I feel the hardwood floors on my knees
As I beg you just to take it easy on me

I'm movin' at God speed
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Writer: Zachary Lane Bryan
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.






Don't Give Up on Me

I like the way your face looks
When you're smiling like a vandal
Waking up warm with you in a room
That's too cold for us to handle
And in this shack I'm living in
You don't mind sleeping in
Eating food leftover from last night
There's plenty of boys that want you, babe
But for me you will crawl and scratch, and fight

So we'll go out on Saturday
And ride the bronco through the bay
Sit and drink cerveza by the shore
You'll tell me you love me, girl
Even if I'm wrecked, lonely, and poor

So don't give up on me
You don't care where I'm buying
You're in

Girls today will drink all day
To fall in love with any boy they see
You're a sight of utmost beauty
Utmost strength and utmost loyalty
So I'll sit here and drink all night
And talk about the Lord's delight in you

If my mama could just see you laugh
I know that she could see the shine in you
She'd say thanks for taking care
Of her baby boy 'cause she can't be here
And hug you 'til your little lungs turn blue

No, I won't give up on you
No, I won't give up on you
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Writer: Zachary Lane Bryan
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.






Doing Fine

Lord, let me tell you about a place where we all used to go
Turn down towards Goose Island, keep your eyelids on the road
'Cause there's boys in the hills and they're getting lost tonight
And the girls in their cars are all gettin' high

And I use to hang around a rowdy crowd out in the Rogers
Siren sounds ain't nothing boys as long as you can dodger
And I had no idea this damn road got so curvy
You said brother this roads straight
You're just drunk and it's gettin' early

So won't you count 'em up now, count 'em up?
All the people that I've let down
Won't you round 'em up now, round 'em up?
All the liars in this town
'Cause I'm coming home and I'm toeing the line
I just hope those boys I used to know
Are all doing fine, doing fine

And I remember those old trains they made noises like a steam boat
And we would throw our rocks at them like some assholes with some high hopes
Can't get back those aimless nights that we all claim is ours
I guess we'll never die up there with all those ever shining stars

So won't you count 'em up now, count 'em up?
All the people that I've let down
Won't you round 'em up now, round 'em up?
All the liars in this town
'Cause I'm coming home and I'm toeing the line
I just hope those boys I used to know
Are all doing fine, doing fine

Lord, let me tell you about a place where we all used to go
Turn down towards Goose Island
Keep your eyelids on the road
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Writer: Zachary Lane Bryan
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.






Letting Someone Go

You can't lie to yourself
After loving something true
And I've never loved a soul
Quite the way that I loved you
You told me you despise
Everything that I've become
How we always turn into
Everything we're running from

I miss the way you followed
When you jaywalked in the street
How you always talked more trash
Than any boy bad mouthing me
And the way that the oak creaked
When you snuck up from my bed
The way that missing someone
Will have you seeing steady red

Take it slow as you leave me
Don't you go home this evening
With someone that you're acting like is me
And I will try my hardest, darling
Wait on a star that's falling
And I will wait so patiently
One thing I have quickly come to know
Nothing kills you slower than lettin' someone go

So take it slow as you leave me
Don't you go home this evening
With someone you're acting like is me
And I will try my hardest, darling
Wait on a star that's falling
And I will wait so desperately
One thing I have quickly come to know
Nothing kills you slower than lettin' someone go

You can't lie to yourself
After loving something true
And I've never loved a soul
Quite the way that I loved you
And you told me you despise
Everything that I've become
How we always turn into
All the things we're running from

Take it slow as you leave me
Don't you go home this evening
With someone that you're acting like is me
And I will try my hardest, darling
Wait on a star that's falling
And I will wait so desperately
One thing I have quickly come to know
Nothing kills you slower than lettin' someone go
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Writer: Zachary Lane Bryan
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.






Shivers Down Spines

I was smiling like a boy that just stole shit
When you told me you'd hold it
My late mama's ring
And I'd sneak away at the end of each day
To write sonnets for you I could sing
It was cold in October
When you rolled yourself over
To pull on my shoulder to say
It took a mighty long time and too much wasted wine
To find a man who looks at me this way

But I'd fight any roughneck, I'd stop any river
If it meant that I could just lie here forever
In the grips of a woman
Sends shivers down spines
Makes you recall your forgotten good times

When you wake in the morning
To the sound of me snoring
My ragged face by your side
I pray that you know
All my dreams and my hopes
Have you holding me the day that I die
And I know I'm nothing but I am not bluffing
When I say you're meant for the sky
'Cause beauty that holy and a heart so kind
Deserves a place it can fly

But I'd fight any roughneck I'd stop any river
If it meant that I could just lie here forever
In the grips of a woman
Sends shivers down spines
It makes you recall your forgotten good times

Yeah, I'd fight any roughneck I'd stop any river
If it meant that I could just lie here forever
In the grips of a woman
Sends shivers down spines
It makes you recall your forgotten good times

I was smiling like a boy that just stole shit
When you told me you'd hold it
My late mama's ring
And I'd sneak away at the end of each day
To write sonnets for you I could sing
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Writer: Zachary Lane Bryan
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.






Snow

If you guys know it

I heard you like to go out late at night
Dance around the amber of the southern lights
Knew you were home by a creak in the floor
Foot silhouette under a bedroom door

Driving me home at 7AM
Hand in mine, like a heaven sent hymn
Moving and shaking like the ramblers do
After getting through the days
I never thought I'd get through

'Cause you bring heaven down to me
Coursing through my blood as I breathe
I bet the Angels are jealous of a girl I know
She takes my stain and makes me
(White as snow)
White as snow

Thank you guys so much

I hear Jesus makes sin white as linen
Like the sheets that we're in
And your teeth when you're grinnin'
Take it away and you give it to God
Like the night you dumped out all the liquor I bought

There's a way the grass smells on a summer night
When it's freshly cut, the moisture's right
It's nights like these in the August heat
I think the devil's just another boy I can beat

'Cause you bring heaven down to me
Coursing through my blood as I breathe
I bet the Angels are jealous of a girl I know
She takes my stain and makes me
(White as snow)
White as snow

I heard you like to go out late at night
Dance around the amber of the southern lights
Knew you were home by a creak in the floor
Foot silhouette under a bedroom door

I got one more chorus left for you guys
If you guys wanna sing snow in the snow with me
Let's do it eh?

'Cause you bring heaven (down to me)
(Coursing through my blood as I breathe)
I bet the (Angels are jealous of a girl I know)
(She takes my stain and makes me)
(White as snow), hey
White as snow

Thank you guys
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Writer: Zachary Lane Bryan
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.






Man Thats Never Known You

I miss the time you loved me when you actually did
When I was just a wild haired messed up kid
You told me that I smell like Pabst and spirits
You'd give anything at all to be anywhere near it
You grow so fond of things meant to be free
What if letting go is what's killing me
Never felt this beat down before
Soon as I'm back up I'm coming back for more

And I hope you find, whatever it is you need
Leave it behind, the wreckage of you and me
And I pray you go back to Oklahoma
So I can head back home and be the man that's never known ya

Well, I'd have move the mountains roped every damn star
To have the slightest idea who you actually are
One more moment of you laying right here
I wrote you songs that you'll never hear
Started out feeling like a damn rebirth
'Til the laughing stops and you lose your worth
You question it all when you lie in your bed
'Cause you can't take back any love you give

And I hope you find, whatever it is you need
Leave it behind, the wreckage of you and me
And I pray you go back to Oklahoma
So I can head back home and be the man that's never known ya

Well, I hope you find, whatever it is you need
Leave it behind, the wreckage of you and me
And I pray you go back to Oklahoma
So I can head back home and be the man that's never known ya
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Writer: Zachary Lane Bryan
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.






Moon in Oklahoma

Well, the curves down your back
Remind me of those railroad tracks
That we jump and not look back
In our youth
And the brown in your eyes
Reminds me of those morning skies
Where the sun would try to hide
Behind the roof
The way those rivers flow in July
Keeps the lakes from going dry
It reminds me of what you do to my
Angry heart

'Cause you look like Oklahoma
And I'll keep you like I stole ya
I'll thank God when I hold ya
'Cause it feels right
You're the moon in Oklahoma
And I'm the night
You're the moon in Oklahoma
And I'm the night

When you say the words you say
It reminds me of the days
We'd go dancin' downtown
Chemicals in our brains
When you move the way you move
It reminds me of the grain
The twists and turns
And plays among the plains

'Cause you look like Oklahoma
And I'll keep you like I stole ya
And I'll thank God when I hold ya
'Cause it feels right
You're the moon in Oklahoma
And I'm the night
You're the moon in Oklahoma
And I'm the night

Well, you look like Oklahoma
And I'll keep you like I stole ya
And I'll thank God when I hold ya
'Cause it feels right
You're the moon in Oklahoma
And I'm the night
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Writer: Zachary Lane Bryan
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.






Condemned

I'm condemned, I'm condemned
Oh, my heart is on the mend
Nobody gives a damn about me
You can tell me that you love me
'Til your little lungs turn blue
But I'm always alone when I fall asleep

And the girls that walk downtown are like some stars that fell to Earth
They like the veins in my arms, the story in my hurt
The boys, they always tell me that my words get 'em by
They can tell how much I mean it by the bloodshot in my eye

So don't try to make it my fault
If you plan on leaving don't come at all
Lord knows no glory in the fall
If no one's around at the end of it all

I'm condemned, I'm condemned
Oh, my heart is on the mend
Lookin' for somebody who can save me
I'm condemned, I'm condemned
Just like all my worthless friends
Waitin' on the wind to set us free

Well, the debt that I've been after, all the booze and all the laughter
I guess that's just what makes us who we are
And the people that we lose and the battles that we choose
Have you pining for something too damn far

So don't try to make it my fault
If you plan on leavin', don't come at all
Lord knows no glory in the fall
If no one's around at the end of it all

I'm condemned, I'm condemned
Oh, my heart is on the mend
Nobody gives a damn about me
You can tell me that you love me
'Til your little lungs turn blue
But I'm always alone when I fall asleep

So don't try to make it my fault
If you plan on leavin', don't come at all
Lord knows no glory in the fall
If no one's around at the end of it all

I'm condemned, I'm condemned
Oh, my heart is on the mend
Nobody gives a damn about me
You can tell me that you love me
'Til your little lungs turn blue
But I'm always alone when I fall

(At the end of it all)

(Play that)
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Writer: Zachary Lane Bryan
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.






Sweet DeAnn

(Four, three, two)

I need calling you right about now
Tell you stories of a pretty fine gal
Remind you of the things that your boy's into
How he looks and he acts and he talks like you

This world's not meant for showin' mercy
I got pictures of us that hurt me
'Cause I'm squeezin' you and you're smilin' through
That flash up on the wall

Sweet DeAnn I miss you so
And your words go where I go
For reasons I don't know
But I'll sing 'em loud and slow
So you can hear me from the Heavens
And you can draw my thunder down
I miss havin' you around
But in my heart you're always found

And you always sat there with me
And you cried every time I played Keen
You said your boy would be seen
By the masses someday

But I don't want the stage
I don't want the girls
I want back the days
You were breathin' in this world

Then I think about the moments
It's a shame you'll have to miss
My wife and I's first kiss
And your baby raisin' kids

Sweet DeAnn I miss you so
And you go wherever I go
For reasons I don't know
But I'll sing 'em loud and slow
So you can hear me from the Heavens
And you can call my thunder down
I miss havin' you around
But in my heart you're always found

Sweet DeAnn I miss you so
And your words go where I go
For reasons I don't know
But I'll sing it loud and slow
So you can hear me from the Heavens
And you can call my thunder down
I miss havin' you around
But in my heart you're always found
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Writer: Zachary Lane Bryan
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.






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The album was recorded at an Airbnb in Jacksonville, Florida, where Bryan was stationed at the time in the US Navy. It was produced by Leo Alba, and included contributions from Bryan's friends. Mattresses were put around the walls "to improve the sound". A 2023 assessment by Stereogum's Rachel Brodsky described it as "bare-bones as it gets, with Bryan recording in AirBnBs with just himself and a guitar".
-Wikipedia-
Performed By: Zach Bryan
Genre(s): Country
Producer(s): Leo Alba
Released: August 24th, 2019
Year: 2019

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