True Believers (2013)

Written by Darius Rucker and Josh Kear

Church bells ringing on our wedding day
Climbed in that limo and rode away
Guess you'll always hear some people say
Man, they're never going to make it

We settled in and we settled down
In this quiet little seaside town
You are the rock I built my world around
And life will never break it

Chorus:
We are one heartbeat in the darkness
We are one lasting answered prayer
We are one unbroken promise
And we are two, true believers

It wasn't easy getting here today
Sometimes you stumbled or I lost my way
But every roadblock was a chance to say
Take my hand I'm here beside you

We worked and made it through the toughest parts
Now every day is another chance to start
To look around and see where we are
It's where we were trying to get to

Repeat Chorus

We are one before our God in Heaven
Oh, we are one road when the going gets rough
We are one now and forever
We are one name, one life, one flame

Written by Darius Rucker and Frank Rogers

Had a bottle of wine
And a perfectly fine dinner
Talked about school, work, life
And how cold it was last winter
Laid down in this big old bed
And you turned on the TV
Fell asleep without a goodnight kiss
Or even an "I Love you baby"
Oh baby

Chorus:
How can we go all night
And not even touch one another
How can we say we're still in love
And not be lovers
How did we get here
Where you can be right there
And I can be with you
And miss you

I remember the time
When every time you saw me you had to kiss me
Oh, but lying here tonight, girl
That all just seems like ancient history
Oh, what happened baby

Repeat Chorus

Baby I still need you
Hold and touch you
Please say it's not the end
Oh baby please say we're not just friends

We can go all night
And not even touch one another no
Baby I'm, I'm still in love
So let's be lovers
You know it's not fair
That you can be right there
And I can be with you
Oh, Oh and miss you
Oh baby I, I miss you darling
Oh I do, oh I do, laying right next to you
I miss you girl
Oh yeah, oh baby I miss you

Written by Bob Dylan and Ketch Secor

Heading down south to the land of the pines
I'm thumbing my way into North Carolina
Staring up the road and pray to God I see headlights
I made it down the coast in seventeen hours
Picking me a bouquet of dogwood flowers
And I'm a-hopin' for Raleigh, I can see my baby tonight

Chorus:
So rock me momma like a wagon wheel
Rock me momma any way you feel
Hey momma rock me
Rock me momma like the wind and the rain
Rock me momma like a south bound train
Hey momma rock me

Running from the cold up in New England
I was born to be a fiddler in an old time string band
My baby plays a guitar, I pick a banjo now
Oh, north country winters keep a-getting me down
Lost my money playing poker so I had to leave town
But I ain't turning back to living that old life no more

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Walkin' to the south out of Roanoke
I caught a trucker out of Philly had a nice long toke
But he's a-heading west from the Cumberland gap
To Johnson City, Tennessee
I gotta get a move on before the sun
I hear my baby calling my name and I know that she's the only one
And if I die in Raleigh at least I will die free

So rock me momma like a wagon wheel
Rock me momma any way you feel
Hey momma rock me
Oh, rock me momma like the wind and the rain
Rock me momma like a south bound train
Hey, hey momma rock me

Oh, so rock me momma like a wagon wheel
Rock me momma any way you feel (I wanna feel)
Hey, hey momma rock me (momma rock me, momma rock me)
Rock me momma like the wind and the rain
Rock me momma like a south bound train
(I wanna rock like a south bound train)
Hey momma rock me
Rock me

Written by Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally

Every friend has got a friend in mind
'Cause I've had more than a little time
So it's on your mark, get ready, set
But I know my heart's not ready yet

Chorus:
I can walk into a room without you
And I don't get drunk and talk about you
So I guess I've learned to live without you
I just don't know how to love without you

She don't have to look just like you
No her eyes don't have to be that blue
It's hard to give someone a chance
When you can't get past that second dance

Repeat Chorus

Sometimes the pain is dulled to numb
And I can't believe how far I've come

I can walk into a room without you
(I can breathe without you)
And I, I don't get drunk and talk about you no more, no more
(And I can sleep without you)
So I, I guess I've learned to live without you
(I can be without, I can be without you)
I just don't know how to love without you
(I don't know how, I don't know how)
See, see I, I had to learn to live without you
(I had to learn to live without you)
Oh but I just don't know how to, how to love, how to love without you
(Oh I just don't know, how to love, how to love without you)

Every friend has got a friend in mind
'Cause I've had more than a little time

Written by Darius Rucker, Ashley Gorley and Luke Laird

Seventeen, the only way I had a car
Is after I dropped my Momma off where she needed to go
It had four bald tires
With the ceiling falling and the windows stuck
But the only thing I cared about was the radio
We turned it on, turned it up to 10
And everybody would jump on in

Chorus:
Ridin' down the highway
Who wants to be the DJ
I'll find a spot on the side of the road
You find something on the radio
A real, real good song
We'll know it when it comes on
We had no money and no place to go
All we needed was a radio

Grabbed my girl
We looked for somewhere to watch the stars
A perfect place to put it park and take it slow
She sang along
To even the ones that she barely knew
Still sounded good, a little louder too
But we didn't care
I looked at her, she looked at me
I'll never forget that melody

Repeat Chorus

Hey ya'll be quiet, that's my favorite song
Hey man, turn it up loud
Come on, come on, come on

Repeat Chorus

Written by Darius Rucker, Mark Nesler and Brian Phillip White

Spring break, tan skin
Lord I can't remember when
I fell, so fast
Knowing it could never last

Chorus:
I got lost in the rhythm of the waves of the ocean
Lost in the sunset too
I got lost in your eyes and the time
Don't you know it
Baby, I got lost in you

Five days, four night
A smile I will remember
For the rest of my life
How sweet was your kiss
I still taste it on my lips

Repeat Chorus

Packed car, your tears
I said girl I hate to leave you here
I'll be back, I lied
It's been all these years
I still hear your goodbye

Repeat Chorus

I got lost in the rhythm of the waves of the ocean
Lost in the sunset too, yeah
I got lost in your eyes and the time
Don't you know it
Baby I got lost in you, yeah
Baby I got lost in you
Oh baby, I got lost in you

Written by Darius Rucker and Josh Kear

Take the key off the chain
Leave it stuck in the door
Don't even try to explain
What you're leaving me for
Cause you won't cry
And you won't call
And you won't even miss me at all

But I will
(In the middle of the night, in the middle of the day)
Yeah I will
(Every second you're gone, once you go away)
I will love you still

Take those pictures of us
Pull 'em down off the shelf
Go wherever you want
Go, try to be somebody else
'Cause you won't stay
And you won't fight
And you won't wonder
Where I'm sleeping tonight

But I will
(In the middle of the night, in the middle of the day)
Yeah, I will
(Every second you're gone, once you go away)
You know I will love you still

I hope you never spend forever
Wondering if he ever
Wondering if he ever
Wondering if you ever loved me at all

I will
(In the middle of the night, in the middle of the day)
Oh, I will
(Every second you're gone, once you go away)
You know I will love you still
Oh I know, I know that I will love you still
I will love you still

Written by Darius Rucker, Monty Criswell and Frank Rogers

I wanna feel that ocean breeze that's got me wrapped around it's fingers
I wanna hear a southern drawl and every word that lingers
I need a Sunday morning song by a just got baptized singer
I been away too long, somebody take me home

I need a glass of sweet sun tea brewed out in the backyard
I wanna see a kudzu vine sneaking up on a junk car
I need to sit on my old back porch 'til the world lets go of my arm
I been away too long, oh somebody take me home

Lord have mercy on a poor boy's soul
Crank it up and make these big wheels roll
Can you get me there by the morning light
And make everything alright
'Cause I been away too long
Oh somebody take me home

I love this job, I do
But my soul is wearing thin
Oh I gotta get lost in where I'm from
And find myself again
Oh I been away too long
Somebody take me home

I wanna waste a day with my little man throwing me that old football
Spend sometime with Daddy's girls catching up on what's going on
Then remind the woman I love just how much I miss her when I'm gone

Oh Lord have mercy on a poor boy's soul
Crank it up and make these big wheels roll
Can you get me there by morning light
Oh lord have mercy on my soul
Crank it up and make these big wheels roll
I wanna be there by morning light
It'll make everything alright
Cause I've been away too long
Oh, I've been away too long
I been away too long
Somebody please, somebody take me home
Oh home, home, home

Written by Darius Rucker and Frank Rogers

November '43
On a boat comin' 'cross the sea
He left a boy, came back a man
She started running when she saw his face
It'd been 655 days
Since she held his hand
He got down on one knee
and pulled out that ring
That he bought in Aberdeen
And when it hit that New York sky

Chorus: It shined just like a spotlight
A star up in the night sky
The kind of thing that takes your breath away
Her eyes sparkled like that diamond
With love beaming from 'em
The kind of light that's never gonna fade
It's gonna shine

For the next 55 years
Through the laughter and the tears
My grandma always wore that band
Through atom bombs and a baby boom
Dr. King and a man on the moon
No it never left her hand
On the day she passed away
Mama put it on a chain
Now and then on special days
Mom would hang it on her neck

Chorus:
And it would shine just like a spotlight
A star up in the night sky
The kind of thing that takes your breath away
Her eyes sparkled like that diamond
With love beaming from 'em
The kind of light that's never gonna fade
It's gonna shine, shine, shine
Shine, shine, shine
Shine, shine, shine
Oh

Mama said one of these days
I'd know why she gave me that ring
Sittin' here I know she was right
Oh, it's not the biggest stone you've ever seen
But girl I can promise you one thing
The rest of your life

It's gonna shine just like a spotlight
A star up in the night sky
The kind of thing that takes your breath away
Your eyes sparkle like that diamond
With love beaming from 'em
The kind of light that's never, never, never gonna fade
It's gonna shine, shine, shine
Shine, shine, shine
Shine, shine, shine
Like a beacon calling me home
It's gonna shine
Oh yeah, shine, shine, shine
Oh

Written by Darius Rucker, Rhett Akins and Dallas Davidson

You've got the keys girl, I'm just a rider
Gas it up and get us outta here
Put the pedal down, I wanna fly girl
Crank it up and catch another gear
Let's go to Vegas, hit California
Or Carolina where the southern breeze blows

Chorus:
You can take me to the moon and back
I can kick my boots off, relax in your Cadillac
Baby take me anywhere you wanna go
Just don't take me down Heartbreak Road no
Don't take me down Heartbreak Road

Baby you had me, first time I saw you
I said where you're going, take me there
Oh girl I'm in now for the long haul
You can pick the place, I don't care

Repeat Chorus

We can drive all night, we don't need no plans,
Remember that you've got my heart in your hands
Let's go to Vegas, hit California
Or Carolina where the southern breeze blows

You can take me to the moon and back
I can kick off my boots and relax in your Cadillac
You can take me anywhere you wanna go
Just don't take me down Heartbreak Road, no

You can take me to the moon and back
I can kick my boots off,
Just lay back in your daddy's Cadillac babe
You can take me anywhere you wanna go
Just don't take me down Heartbreak Road no
Just don't take me down Heartbreak Road

No, no, no, no no

Written by Darius Rucker, David Lee Murphy and Phil O’Donnell

Carolina moon, lazy ol' river
Time keeps floatin' on by
Moss hanging from an oak tree
Baby it's just you and me
Sure makes one beautiful sight
We got postcard views
Curled up in this rocking chair
Feel like I ought tip my hat
To the man upstairs for

Chorus:
Leavin' the light on
Leavin' the light on
Burning the whole night through Leavin' the light on Leavin' the light on
So I can look at you

Your pretty brown eyes
Your legs that go forever
Still can't believe you're mine
Come on baby lets take a walk
Follow the path down to that old dock
And bring along that bottle of wine

That old moon's so bright
Just hangin' up there
Feel like I oughta count my blessings
And thank the man upstairs for

Repeat Chorus

It's getting kinda late girl
Lets go back to the house
I wanna watch you from my pillow
Til morning rolls around so I'm

Leavin' the light on
Leavin' the light on
Burning the whole night through
I'm leavin' the light on
I'm leavin' the light on

So I can, So I can see you
Oh I wanna look at you so I'm
I'm leavin' the light on
Leavin' the light on

Oh it's burnin', oh it's burnin' through
Oh, it's burnin' through yeah
I'm leavin' the light on
I'm leavin' the light on
So I can look at you

Written by Darius Rucker, Rodney Clawson and Bob DiPieror

Girl look at you right there with that wind in your hair
Like a dream in the sunset light
I couldn't love you anymore, I couldn't love you any less
I guess I'm doing something right
But girl you gotta promise me
That if you ever have to leave

Chorus:
Baby lie to me 'cause I couldn't stand the truth
And I couldn't bear the thought of losin' you
Baby lie to me, tell me everything's all right
And when I'm sound asleep, you can fade into the night
Girl, instead of sayin' goodbye
Just lie to me

Last night when I saw you in a dream, you were packing' your things
And baby it all seemed so real
You came to tell me you were gone, my life had ended like a song
Felt as bad as I could feel
So if there ever comes a day
That you wanna walk away

Repeat Chorus

Baby just lie to me 'cause I could not stand the truth
And I couldn't beat the thought of losin' you
Baby lie to me, tell me everything is cool
'Cause knowing you were leavin' girl, that would be so cruel
Girl instead of saying' goodbye
Just smile and look me right in the eye
Yeah girl instead of watching' me cry
Just lie to me oh yeah
Baby lie to me

Written by Hank Williams, Sr.

Your cheatin' heart
Will make you weep
You'll cry and cry
And try to sleep
But sleep won't come
The whole night through
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you

When tears come down
Like falling rain
You'll toss around
And call my name
You'll walk the floor
The way I do
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you

Your cheatin' heart
Will pine some day
And crave the love
You threw away
The time will come
When you'll be blue
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you

When tears come down
Like falling rain
You'll toss around
And call my name
You'll walk the floor
The way I do
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you

Written by Darius Rucker, Monty Criswell and Frank Rogers

I've been known to drink a beer or two
And I can handle whiskey ninety proof
I'm just fine with a glass of wine, champagne to cabernet
But I crossed the line when I crossed the border and hang out with those aid

Chorus:
Cause with one tequila, it's bring on the salt and lime
With two tequilas the whole bar's a friend of mine
But with three tequilas my legs don't work no more
Yeah it's one tequila, two tequila, three tequila floor

I might end up in a Tijuana jail
Or in a Vegas chapel lifting up a veil
Cannonball into a neighbor's pool without a stitch of clothes
But by the end of the night I'll be tongue tied tryin to offer some espanol

Cause with one tequila, please pass me the salt and lime
With two tequilas the whole bar's a friend of mine
But with three tequilas my legs don't work no more
Yeah it's one tequila, two tequila, three tequila floor

I'll be glad to pour for all you senioritas.
But I'd rather taste a salty kiss than have a sip of your margarita.

Cause with one tequila, please pass me the salt and lime
With two tequilas the whole world's a friend of mine
But with three tequilas my legs won't work no more
Yeah it's one tequila, two tequila, three tequila floor
It's four tequila, five tequila, then six tequila door

Somebody take me home.
Dude you know I can't drink tequila, call me a cab.

Written by Darius Rucker, Mark Bryan, Bob Dylan, Dean Felber and Jim Sonefeld

You and me
We come from different worlds
You like to laugh at me
When I look at other girls
Sometimes you're crazy
And you wonder why
I'm such a baby
'Cause the dolphins make me cry

Well, there's nothing I can do
I've been looking for a girl like you

You look at me, you got nothing left to say
I'm gonna pout at you until I get my way
I won't dance, you won't sing
I just wanna love you, but you wanna wear my ring

Well, there's nothing I can do
I only wanna be with you
You can call me your fool
I only wanna be with you

Put on a little Dylan
Sitting on a fence
I say, "That line is great."
You ask me what it meant by
"Said I shot a man named Gray
Took his wife to Italy
She inherited a million bucks
And when she died it came to me
I can't help it if I'm lucky"
I only wanna be with you
Ain't Bobby so cool?
I only wanna be with you

Yeah, I'm tangled up in blue
I only wanna be with you
You can call me your fool
Only wanna be with you

Sometimes I wonder if it will ever end
You get so mad at me when I go out with my friends
Sometimes you're crazy
And you wonder why
I'm such a baby, yeah
The dolphins make me cry

Well, there's nothing I can do
Only wanna be with you
You can call me your fool
I only wanna be with you

Yeah, I'm tangled up in blue
I only wanna be with you [4x]