When You Were Still Mine

When we were younger
We used to cut a rug
The dancing comes easy
When you are first in love

But we lost the music
Somewhere along the way
That carried us from then
To where we are today

Chorus:
I want to see you dance
For me just one more time
The way you used to dance
When you were still mine

If we could just retrace
All the steps that we missed
We’d still move together
And not apart like this

If you move I’ll follow
It is your turn to lead
I know you doubt my words
Take my hand and you’ll see

Bridge:
In my mind I still see us
Spinning across the floor
Moving in perfect harmony
What did we stop dancing for

Chorus:
I want to see you dance
For me just one more time
The way you used to do
When you were still mine

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Wet and Low

No need to feel sorry for me
Cause I’m doing just fine
I just need one more whiskey shot
Before it’s closing time

This ain’t the world’s first broken heart
I know I’ll be all right
I’ve just been feeling kind of down
Since my baby said goodbye

Chorus:
So why do all of my friends act
Like I’m some poster child
For every broken hearted dude
Whose woman said goodbye
I guess they think I’m so far gone
There’s nowhere left to go
She may have left me high and dry
But now I’m wet and low

I’m not looking for sympathy
That’s just the way I feel
If I can drown her memory
You better believe I will

But it may take a lot of booze
To forget about her
This ain’t the world’s first broken heart
But it might be the worst

Chorus:
That must be why all my friends act
Like I’m some poster child
For every broken hearted dude
Whose woman said goodbye
I guess they know I’m so far gone
There’s nowhere left to go
She may have left me high and dry
But now I’m wet and low

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Watson Lake

There’s no work up in Faro
It’s freezing in White Horse
I’m stuck here in Ross River
Where bad luck runs its course
I still work the lumber camps
But jobs are hard to find
Up here in the north country
I’m falling on hard times

Chorus:
I miss the love that we once shared
Back in Watson Lake
Before the call of the wild
Carried me away
I thought I wanted something more
But that was a mistake
Everything that matters
Is back in Watson Lake

I think about her often
We talk once in a while
She got married years ago
Just had her second child
I asked her if she’s happy
She said she surely is
All the things that she has now
Are all the things I miss

Chorus:
I miss the love that we once shared
Back in Watson Lake
Before the call of the wild
Carried me away
I thought I wanted something more
But that was a mistake
Everything that matters
Is back in Watson Lake

She said it wasn’t my fault
That some things can’t be tamed
She wants me to feel better
But I know I’m to blame
If only things were different
If I had never left
I would be beside her fire
Not cold and by myself

Bridge:
I know I could be a good man now
I know I could settle down
If could sleep in her big brass bed
And not on the cold, cold ground

Chorus:
I miss the love that we once shared
Back in Watson Lake
Before the call of the wild
Carried me away
I thought I wanted something more
But that was a mistake
Everything that matters
Is back in Watson Lake

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Walk Back In

Every time I get my life together
The phone rings and it’s you again
Who knows where you are
Probably in some bar
I only know where you’re not

Chorus:
You’re not here with me
Where you know you oughta be
You’ve walked out again and again
Now you wanna walk back in
You tell me I’m your one and only
Then tell me why I feel so lonely
You walked out on me again
Now you wanna walk back in

I admit I miss you more than sometimes
No one can make me laugh the way you do
But lately it seems
The joke’s been on me
And you don’t see me smilin’, ’cause…

Chorus:
You’re not here with me
Where you know you oughta be
You’ve walked out again and again
Now you wanna walk back in
You tell me I’m your one and only
Then tell me why I feel so lonely
You walked out on me again
Now you wanna walk back in

Bridge:
There must be a echo
On this telephone line
Cause I’ve just heard
For the thousandth time, why

Chorus:
You’re not here with me
Where you know you oughta be
You’ve walked out again and again
Now you wanna walk back in
You tell me I’m your one and only
Then tell me why I feel so lonely
You walked out on me again
Now you wanna walk back in

You walked out on me again
Now you wanna walk back in

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Traces of Me

We’ve been here many times before
A hundred times, a million ways
That end up with you telling me we’re through
But when you walk away
From something you love
Part of it remains with you

Chorus:
I won’t try to change your mind
If you think you have to be free
But sometime when you feel the glow
Of a lingering memory
Like a thousand times before you’ll know
It’s just traces of me

You say that I’m holding you back
And that you’ve been feeling fenced in
We must have crossed that bridge a million times
Well here we go again
I can play my part
I have memorized my lines

Chorus:
I won’t try to change your mind
If you think you have to be free
But sometime when you feel the glow
Of a lingering memory
Like a thousand times before you’ll know
It’s just traces of me

Bridge:
We have a long history
Of you leaving me
But even when you’re gone
I’m never alone
I can always hold on to
Those traces of you

Chorus:
I won’t try to change your mind
If you think you have to be free
But sometime when you feel the glow
Of a lingering memory
Like a thousand times before you’ll know
It’s just traces of me

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Thinking About Leaving

I stopped in for some cold beers
At the Why Not Bar today
Clete said hey man I’m real sorry
I hear your man’s movin’ away

Clete is your best friend
So I reckon it must be so
But it’s more than a little aggravating
To be the last damn one to know

Chorus:
So darlin’ if you’re thinking about leaving
Go ahead, leave me today
You’ve been staring at the door forever
And I won’t stand in your way

You’ve been clipping pictures
From the travel magazines
Are you planning our vacation
Or going somewhere without me

Chorus:
So darlin’ if you’re thinking about leaving
Go ahead, leave me today
You’ve been staring at the door forever
And I won’t stand in your way

Bridge:
I don’t know if it’s something I did
Or something you let me do
But what’s the difference anyway
If you and I are through

So darlin’ if you’re thinking about leaving
Go ahead, leave me today
You’ve been staring at the door forever
And I won’t stand in your way

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Things You Haven’t Said

Your silence is a weapon
Handled with cool precision
It cuts like a knife
And I’m one big incision

Call me a blind man
For I have lost my vision

Chorus:
Even a blind man can see
I’m hanging by a thread
It’s hard not to hear
The things you haven’t said

I don’t have to hear the words
When I can see all the signs
Each one is saying
I’m gonna get left behind

What could I have done
For you to be this unkind

Chorus:
Even a blind man can see
I’m hanging by a thread
It’s hard not to hear
The things you haven’t said

Bridge:
All the things you didn’t say
Are ringing in my ears
They’ll be inside my head
For a hundred years

Chorus:
Even a blind man can see
I’m hanging by a thread
It’s hard not to hear
The things you haven’t said

It’s hard not to hear
The things you haven’t said

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