What You Know and What You Feel

She’s always out sowing oats
While I’m trying to put down roots
Should I let go or hold on
When either way I lose

Cause though she doesn’t love me
I keep thinking one day she might
When she’s through doing me wrong
Maybe she’ll do me right

Chorus:
Then she smiles at me
And my frozen heart melts like ice
One day she’s as mean as a snake
The next she’s all sweetness and light
I’m caught between what I wish
And what I know is real
Between what I know and what I feel

I see every tear coming
Before it even leaves my eyes
I start making excuses
Soon as she starts to lie

I’ve always been her old dog
She kicks me and I come right back
I have tried a few new tricks
But they all end the same

Chorus:
Then she smiles at me
And my frozen heart melts like ice
One day she’s as mean as a snake
The next she’s all sweetness and light
I’m caught between what I wish
And what I know is real
Between what I know and what I feel

I used to pretend she’d change
Now I’m afraid I never will
And when I am old and gray
She’ll be hurting me still

Bridge:
When your heart keeps getting broken
There’s only one chance for it to heal
You’ve got to learn the difference
Between what you know and what you feel

Chorus:
Then she smiles at me
And my frozen heart melts like ice
One day she’s as mean as a snake
The next she’s all sweetness and light
I’m caught between what I wish
And what I know is real
Between what I know and what I feel

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Wait on Me (Waitress No. 3)

When we met she was a waitress
Over at the Do Drop Inn
I dropped in and she bummed me out
By talking ’bout her boyfriends
She said here are your french fries
I said forget all those guys
She grinned and said
What guys are you talking about

We walked out on the patio
We were gazing at the stars
When truck full of drunk rednecks
Lost control and smashed my car
They took off in a full run
Which is what I should have done
Cause sometimes things
Don’t turn out the way we expect

Chorus:
All of my friends said She’s sweet on you
She gave me extra french fries
And lots of free beer too
Then she called me a cab
Me and my car were smashed
I said are you working tomorrow
If you are I’m coming back
Cause you’re the finest waitress
That I have ever seen
And I have loved a waitress
Won’t you please wait on me
Waitress number three

I woke up the next afternoon
With a waitress on my brain
The worst hangover on record
And a certain hunger pain
I thumbed back to the diner
To grab a bite and find her
I had visions
Of the meals she would cook for me

Chorus:
All of my friends said She’s sweet on you
She gave me extra french fries
And lots of free beer too
Then she called me a cab
Me and my car were smashed
I said are you working tomorrow
If you are I’m coming back
Cause you’re the finest waitress
That I have ever seen
And I have loved a waitress
Won’t you please wait on me
Waitress number three

The folks at the Do Drop Inn
I thought she’d be glad to see me
But she bummed me out again
She said of all my boyfriends
You are only one of them
Guess she wasn’t
Quite as sweet on me as it seemed

Chorus:
All of my friends said She’s sweet on you
She gave me extra french fries
And lots of free beer too
Then she called me a cab
Me and my car were smashed
I said are you working tomorrow
If you are I’m coming back
Cause you’re the finest waitress
That I have ever seen
And I have loved a waitress
Won’t you please wait on me
Waitress number three

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Virgil and the Beancat

Lying in the window
She looked at him and said
Sometimes I feel like screaming
All these things in my head

He said I think I know you
For we have spent some time
Yours is a word I know well
I could almost make it mine

Chorus:
But I’m scared of what I don’t know
And scared of what I do
I’m bound by these old things
Though I long for something new

She said I have a brother
But it has been a while
And most of the time I feel
Like I’m an only child

He said there is a big place
Out there somewhere
I’ve been there once or twice
But every time I go
I get so scared

Chorus:
Cause I’m scared of what I don’t know
And scared of what I do
I’m bound by these old things
Though I long for something new

And did you know
That when I run
Around at night
I keep the front door
In my line of sight
I would just walk away
But there’s just one word
That I really, really, really
Want to say…

Chorus:
I’m scared of what I don’t know
And scared of what I do
I’m bound by these old things
Though I long for something new

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Two Birds

I saw two birds fly
Out of the corner of my eye
Well there you go
Four more quarters down the drain
With nothing to show

I wish I’d kept one
But that’s easier said than done
Now I’ve lost two
So I’m rolling on the floor
Crying over you

Chorus:
Two can be one too many
But it’s a whole lot better
Than not having any
Feathers fall from the sky
Tears fall from my eyes
While two birds fly

I’d give one away
If only life would work that way
If you could choose
Which one to put in a cage
Which one to let loose

I kept holding on
Until both of my birds were gone
What’s done is done
Why wasn’t I satisfied
When I had just one

Chorus:
Two can be one too many
But it’s a whole lot better
Than not having any
Feathers fall from the sky
Tears fall from my eyes
While two birds fly

Tears fall from my eyes
While two birds fly

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