Lyrics
Where are you calling from?
I can hardly hear you.
Your voice is soft and weary
And so far away.
Missed you all night long insanely.
Wish I had more sleep, but mainly
I wish I was
Where you’re calling from.
Where are you calling from?
I can almost see your face
Looking thru a foggy windshield
Driving in the rain.
Checking in some dive motel room
You should find a better place, still
I wish I was
Where you’re calling from.
Making up just half a bed each morning,
Looking at a TV show alone,
I keep trying to tell myself
To keep my mind on something else
But every time I hear the telephone,
I wonder
Where are you calling from?
If only I could touch your sleeve
I’d pull you close and make you promise
Not to leave again.
Guess it’s time to say goodnight now
But as I reach to turn the light out
I wish I was
Where you’re calling from.
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I know that I am not that much to look at
I know that I am not the brightest guy you’ve known
And I only make a little bitty paycheck
And half of that gets drunk on my way back home
But take a good hard look at the situation
Could you walk away even if you wanted to
Can you really see yourself
With anyone else?
Face it baby
I’m about the best you’re gonna do.
I know you dreamed when you were back in junior high
That one day you would would meet your charming prince
But then one night you found me underneath your barstool
And you’ve been settling for me ever since.
But take a good hard look at the situation
It’s a simple truth, it’s one and one is two
Can you really see yourself
With anyone else?
Face it baby
I’m about the best you’re gonna do.
I know sometimes you wonder why you’re with me still
I think I know the reason that you stay
Cause in the morning, when I’m blurry
And your breath is stale and your chin is furry
I still love you more than yesterday.
So take a good hard look at the situation
Could you walk away even if you wanted to
Can you really see yourself
With anyone else?
Face it baby
I know I’m not exactly a dream come true
But I’m about the best you’re gonna do.
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The house was never warm enough right after her husband died
She would walk around in her coat all day thru the emptiness inside
Just a couple months ago he was standing right over there
But he had blown away like the cottonwood and she didn’t know to where.
He had always been the one to handle their affairs
But now that was all up to her if she could just get down the stairs
So she was putting papers into piles all across the basement floor
When she noticed some old cardboard box she didn’t remember from before
Full of cocktail napkins and paper scraps, and it did not take her long
To realize that there inside were his unfinished songs.
He had always wanted to be a songwriter, but it was a distant dream
Oh he would play for her if he finished one, but they were few and far between.
Looking now at this box so full, had she been that out of touch
To know that he was writing with no idea how much?
But she remembered now he once told her how their position would be strong
If he could only get fifty cent for each unfinished song.
In a verse about a lonesome walk, she heard footsteps out on the deck
In a line about his trembling breath, she could feel it down her neck
She could hear his voice and touch his skin and she was almost sure
When she read the words “Forever Love” he forever was with her
Oh his mind could go from place to place and he could leave his songs undone
Never would become a star but he had been her morning sun
And they say that it’s a good idea to finish what you start
But there was something in those unfinished songs that got into her heart
He had left her on a winter night but it would not be so wrong
To say that he come back to her in those unfinished songs.
Life goes on and so does she, it’s a little struggle every day
But the world is little struggles and she’s okay, okay
She remembers him thru her photobooks and his letters in the drawer
And his suit still in the closet and his shoes there on the floor
But it goes beyond remembering, it’s like he isn’t even gone
Every time she opens up that box of his unfinished songs.
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I see you walking when your friends are starting to run
They’re halfway ‘cross the yard, and you’ve barely begun
But you keep going with a smile on your face
And I like knowing you’re not stuck in one place
Because you try a little harder when you get behind
Try a little harder most all of the time
But sure as God made sunshine
It’s gonna happen sometimes
That trying just isn’t good enough
Just remember
You don’t have to try to win our love
I hear you talking and sometimes the words are unclear
But I love the way you talk, so direct and sincere
All the pages I looked at in school
I learned a lot more looking at you
The way you try a little harder when you get behind
Try a little harder most all of the time
But sure as God made sunshine
It’s gonna happen sometimes
That trying just isn’t good enough
Just remember
You don’t have to try to win our love
To win our love
You don’t have to try
To win our love
You don’t have to try
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Couple weeks ago I took a trip to the little town where I was raised
The corn was high as the miles slipped by on a clear September day
When I got in, the sun was low, the stores all closed downtown
I looked for someone I might know, but no one was around.
Drove that truck til I ended up on the street where our family lived
The house looked almost miniature but the trees had got so big
I was watching some kids and the game they were playing as I sat while the engine ran
I was just about to pull away when I heard a screen door slam
And I thought I saw me, running thru the yard
Trying to catch up with friends for one last at bat
Before coming in from the dark
I never can explain it right
Just something in the air that night
But there out in the fading light
I thought I saw me.
Now my memories have a hold on me and I guess they always will
There's a picture so real, sometimes it feels like the past might be happening still
Like if I walked outside and climbed on up into that rusty old truck of mine
And drove just right in the Midwest night, I could almost drive back into time.
I thought I saw me, running thru the yard
Trying to catch up with friends for one last at bat
Before coming in from the dark
I never can explain it right
Just something in the air that night
But there out in the fading light
I thought I saw me, running thru the yard
Trying to catch up with friends for one last at bat
Before coming in from the dark
I never can explain it right
Just something in the air that night
But there out in the fading light
I thought I saw me.
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My shoulder gives me trouble
And it’s getting way too hard
To throw a ball in earnest
To my dog across the yard
And my knees don’t seem to like it
If I ever start to run
I used to do a mile or two
And a couple more for fun
But I can still love you
I still can hold you tight
Still reach for you and find you
When I wake up in the night
I know I’m getting old
Not the man that you once knew
But I’m alive
And I can still love you
Had a job out at the nursery
Back when you and I were young
There were days I’d plant near a hundred trees
In the blazing summer sun
Then I’d come back home and sing to you
Just some song I’d heard that day
But now I cough too much and my voice will crack
You still listen anyway
And I can still love you
I still can hold you tight
Still reach for you and find you
When I wake up in the night
I know I’m getting old
Not the man that you once knew
But I’m alive
And I can still love you
I can’t move as fast or lift as much
Or work the way I could
But it’s nothing that I miss that much
This life with you is good.
I can still love you
I still can hold you tight
Still reach for you and find you
When I wake up in the night
I know I’m getting old
Not the man that you once knew
But I’m alive
And I can still love you
Yeh I’m alive
And I can still love you
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The sun is shining on his plastic chair
A rolled up Cuban on his lip
Worn out eyes look through the salty air
Out to another cargo ship
And to the south, the pastel condos rise
As if to form a solid wall
My gosh it seems like just a month or two ago
That there was nothing there at all.
He hears another wave a-crashing
And the irony is plain
Up and down the coast it’s changing
Changing but still
That old ocean looks the same
Made his money selling big machines
First came down here in sixty-two
Every year the same old friends would reconvene
He smiles to think of all the stuff they’d do
But nowadays there’s only Stuart left
And Stuart’s moving kind of slow
He might stop over with a six pack for a gift
And reminisce on the patio
Just then another wave goes crashing
And the irony is plain
Up and down the coast it’s changing
Changing but still
That old ocean looks the same
He remembers how
This was a paradise
Back when Alicia was alive
The people with him now
They treat him very nice
They do his laundry
And take him out for drives
And in the car he tends to contemplate
Florida before there were these walls
Seems like now it's every mile, another guarded gate
With lighted palms and waterfalls
And there is grumbling in the supermart
Heads are shaking side to side
Everybody wants to keep things just the way they were
On the day they arrived
He hears another wave a-crashing
And the irony is plain
Up and down the coast it’s changing
Changing but still
That old ocean …
Up and down the coast it’s changing
Changing but still
That old ocean looks the same.
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His eyes are full of hunger, he is blistered by the heat
Walking slow on a Tanzanian plain
And there are babies back home with nothing left to eat
Somebody’s calling your name
Somebody’s calling out your name tonight
Somebody’s calling out your name
Somebody’s cry
Is reaching cross the sky
Somebody’s calling your name
And there are refugees and misfits and dreamers in the world
Just trying to find a way to ease their pain
Looking all around for a little piece of ground
Somebody’s calling your name
Somebody’s calling out your name tonight
Somebody’s calling out your name
Somebody’s cry
Is reaching cross the sky
Somebody’s calling your name
Christmas day is over and she sits down on the bed
And she wonders why nobody came
She holds the tiny present she had wrapped in green and red
Somebody’s calling your name.
Somebody’s calling out your name tonight
Somebody’s calling out your name
Somebody’s cry
Is reaching cross the sky
Somebody’s calling your name
Oh I am fearful of the day when it all might go away
And no longer can I hold you at my side
Will I ever have a rest in the rest of forever
Looking for you in a universe so wide?
So if you notice something while you’re traveling thru the stars
Like a song in your head you can’t explain
With words about old memories and a cedar top guitar
It will be me calling out your name
Somebody’s calling out your name tonight
Somebody’s calling out your name
Somebody’s cry
Is reaching cross the sky
Somebody’s calling your name
Somebody’s calling your name
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If this is us
Hands in our pockets, nothing left to say.
Don't know how it ended up this way,
Chilly as the fog, and lonely as a teardrop in the dust.
I guess the time has come to turn and walk away
If this is us
If this is you
I remember how you laughed before.
I could hold you for a lifetime more.
But something isn't right and I don't know what to do.
I guess the time has come to turn and walk away
If this is you
If this is me, baby down all day and up all night
Asking could we have found a way to make it right.
Could we make it right?
If this is love
In a dream I'm standing in the sea,
I see you swimming back to me.
You would rise up to my arms if dreaming was enough.
I guess the time has come, the time has come
If this is love
If this is me
If this is you
If this is us.
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When Joseph got the news that day, it startled him
But thru it all he never left her side
And though the baby wasn't really part of him
He cried his love all Christmas night
And Mary watched them there together
At first it took her by surprise
When she turned around to see a little bit
Of Jesus there in Joseph's eyes
Now in this whole wide world I don't know who could guess
Just how bad the pressure might have been
Living every day with all your humanness
Bringing up a boy who had no sin
And Mary watched them grow together
It always took her by surprise
Every time she turned to see a little bit
Of Jesus there in Joseph's eyes.
God and Jesus walking thru eternity
Talking as a father and a son
I like to think that now and then they stop to see
If Joseph wants to walk along
And Mary sees them all together
Somewhere on a road beyond the skies
And everywhere she turns she sees a little bit
Of Jesus there in Joseph's eyes.
