Dwight Yoakam - Second Hand Heart Album Lyrics

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In Another World

In another time and place
There awaits a sweet embrace
Where stains on hearts just fade away
Replaced with hopes lost from today
Bound by love that never strays
In another world
We'll be okay

That doubt and sadness in your eyes
Will disappear with tears once cried
Then broken dreams that went so wrong
In empty space where life moved on
With every hurt that ached so long
In another world
They'll all be gone

Your tortured heart's
Soft anguished pleas
Rescued by love
Shall be set free
With every hurt that ached so long
In another world
They'll all be gone

Then every hurt that ached so long
In another world
They'll all be gone

Your tortured heart's
Soft anguished pleas
Rescued by love
Shall be set free
With every hurt that ached so long
In another world
They'll all be gone

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She

She won't show you
What's really real
She won't show you
The way she feels

She won't show
Where her heart goes
She'll just let you
Wonder, guess, and suppose

She won't show you
At any time
She won't show you
What's on her mind

She won't show
Every place her heart goes
She'll just let you
Wonder, guess, and suppose

She won't show
All the dreams her heart holds
She'll just let you
Wonder, guess and suppose

She may give a look
But you'll never see
The truth in her eyes
She shows to me

She won't show you
The slightest sign
She won't show you
Might as well be blind

She won't show
All the dreams her heart holds
She'll just let you
Wonder, guess and suppose

And she won't show you
What's really real

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Dreams Of Clay

I'd been building hopes so long
Honey, I must have lost sight of what went wrong
'Cause in sorrow's blinding light today
Baby, it looks like my dreams were made of clay

Years of yearning spent for you
Honey, I know now were the cravings of a fool
I guess your wants just slipped away
And baby, it looks like my dreams were made of clay

[BRIDGE:]
I knew love could toss you down
An' leave you there to crawl around
But never thought that was a fall we'd make

Getting up was nothing new
The kind of thing hearts learn to do
But knowing how doesn't mean it's easy to take

So I'll forget about
Plans we had for me and you
And dwell on thoughts lonely lives pursue
Praying memories don't stay
'Cause baby, it looks like our dreams were made of clay

So I'll forget about
Plans we had for me and you
And dwell on thoughts lonely lives pursue
Praying memories don't stay
'Cause baby, it looks like our dreams were made of clay

Yeah baby, it looks like our dreams were made of clay

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Second Hand Heart

She said when I trusted love I dreamed in color too
But memories turn black and white, at least mine do...
She said my brother, you know, he used to have this friend...
But this is now and that was then

It's better off just not to start
Than to have to watch us fall apart
All because of my second hand heart

I said if you could count up memories but only keep the best
You may not see how good they were without the rest
She said look I tried a lot
But I guess love it don't like me
Oh and by the way, all those tries?
Sure didn't come for free

So it's better off just not to start
Than to have to watch us fall apart
All because of my second hand heart

Second hand hearts
Second hand hearts
Second hand hearts
Second hand hearts
Are not just for parts

So I'll take away your sad luck baby
And you'll change mine
When hurt starts talkin' we'll say hey, ya know, we ain't got time
Then pick up all those small hopes back off the ground
'Cause after years of tears it's hard to say what's up or down

So if you will, I'll try to start
And take the chance that we might fall apart
To try and save our second hand hearts
She said when I trusted love I dreamed in color too...

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Off Your Mind

If you see me
You don't have to say hello
The way you never said goodbye
So long ago
If you wonder
How I am just fine
Alone right where you left me
Off your mind

When I heard the news
About your life
I never doubted you
Became his wife
But I can safely tell you
I'm okay
Right here where I've stayed
Out of your way
Sometimes I wonder
How I do
This without you
Then sometimes I wonder
If you wonder too
Could that be true

If you wonder
How I am just fine
Alone right where you left me
Off your mind

If you have dreams
About someone like me
Just take those pills of yours
And try to get some sleep
You'll never have to hear
My voice no more
It stopped making sound
When you walked out the door

If you see me
You don't have to say hello
The way you never said goodbye
So long ago
If you wonder
How I am just fine
Alone right where you left me
Off your mind

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Believe

If I could I'd take us back
To where we were
When we didn't need to be

Anyplace but deep inside
The moment love first came to life and see
There's a way lost hope can lead
To help find that memory
Baby if you just believe

A yearning heart can
Teach us how
Regret is hope
We haven't learned to see
Even in the total dark
I know we can find a spot with dreams
The first step back up off the ground
Is letting go of what held us down
And then just to believe...

Words they just get in my way
When really all I'm tryin' to say is
Believe

If I could I'd take us back
To when our hearts were both boldly free
But words they just get in my way
When really all I'm tryin' to say is

Believe
Believe...
Believe...
Believe...
Believe...

Yeah words can just get in the way
When all I ever meant to say is
Believe!

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Man Of Constant Sorrow

I am a man of constant sorrow
I've seen trouble all my days
And I bid farewell to old Kentucky
The place where I was born and raised
The place where he was born and raised

For six long years I've been in trouble
No pleasures here on earth I found
For in this world I'm bound to ramble
I have no friends to help me now
He has no friends to help him now

So it's fare thee well my old true lover
I never expect to see you again
For I'm bound to ride that northern railroad
Perhaps I'll die upon this train
Perhaps he'll die upon this train

You can bury me in some dark holler
For many years where I may lay
Then you may learn to love another
While I am sleeping in my grave
While he is sleeping in his grave

Maybe your friends think that I'm just a stranger
My face you never will see no more
But there is one promise that is given
I'll meet you on God's golden shore
He'll meet you on God's golden shore

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Liar

You say that you will
When I know that you won't
You say that you do
Baby when I know you don't
Really love me
You never loved me at all
Honey you never tried
If you did you would have had to crawl

You say that I did
Baby when you know I don't
You said that I will
When you knew that I won't
Ever love you
No I would not even try
Look if you say it again
I'll swear that's just one big lie

Oh you say that you do
But we both know you don't
You still say that you will
When it's so for sure you won't
Ever love me
No you never even try
From the first day we met
And you said it, that was a lie

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The Big Time

I ain't never seen the big time
Honey that's okay with me
I ain't never seen the big time
Honey that's okay with me

Just a sittin' on this front porch
All the big time I'll ever need

I'll buy you a ticket to the big time
Might need a loan but that ain't nothin' new
Buy you a ticket to the big time
Might need a loan but that ain't nothin' new

They say I can't afford the big time?
Baby I'll just write an IOU

There ain't no one in the big time
That hangs out the laundry like you do
There ain't no one in the big time
That hangs out the laundry like you do

I'm a-having myself a big time
Just watching you rub and scrub the whole day through

I ain't never seen the big time
Honey that's okay with me
I ain't never seen the big time
Honey that's okay with me

Just a-sittin' on this front porch
All the big time I'll ever need
Just a-sittin' on this front porch
All the big time I'll ever need

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V's Of Birds

I see blue skies and sunshine up ahead
V's of birds flying south for the winter
Ricks of wood line the side of the road
Fire for the place to be warm

Listen, listen
I hear 'em teaching
And it's something I want to learn
Even fallen angels need shelter from the harm
When the winter winds have turned so cold
Tell me, tell me
Did you see it
Was it shining in the sky
Giving answers
Within the wisdom
Leaving space between the truth and lies

I see blue skies and sunshine up ahead
V's of birds flying south for the winter
Ricks of wood line the side of the road
Fire for the place to be warm