These Lies I Tell

Since you've been gone

I've been pretending to be strong

I've been pretending to be strong 

Since you've been gone

Trying to play it cool

No one knows I'm a fool

I'm the coolest fool you'll ever see

Because these lies I tell

I tell them so well

No one knows I'm lying but me 

My lying smile

Says I'm happy on my own

With no one here to raise hell

And carry on

My lying smile 

Says I'm happy you're gone

And if I really miss you

No one could ever know

When I want to kiss you

There's no way to let it show

Because I've learned to play it cool

No one knows I'm a fool

Hey, I'm the coolest fool you'll ever see

And these lies I tell

I tell them so well

No one knows I'm lying but me

I've learned to play it cool

No one knows I'm a fool

Hey, I'm the coolest fool you'll ever see

And these lies I tell

I tell them so well

No one knows I'm lying but me

Paved In Sin

I dreamed there is a road out there

That leads somewhere

I ain't never been

But every hill I've been up and down

Every corner I've turned around 

Traveling a highway paved in sin

Like every goodbye story

With every doe eyed girl

As with every morning dreamer 

In the whole wide world

Laying with devils

That haunt me still today

And I keep praying the good lord

Will wash my stains away

When I'm alone

The struggles seem so vain

And these sins still remain 

Alone and unconquered 

As the evening sun hides her gold

Like a long haired young girl

Out there somewhere 

With a storm raging in her soul

I don't know where I'm going

Anymore, I ain't really sure where all I've been

I've been riding a highway

Paved in sin

The days are getting shorter now

The nights seem shorter too

I've been trying different things 

But nothing feels like it's new

Running out of a gas

But I can see the end

The crossroads down by the river

Just before the bend

A complicated life 

set so easy to the tune of a highway 

Paved in sin

The Song

His blue eyes were wild

As his steady hand

Everyone could see

He was a troubled man

A heartbroken renegade

Out on some prairie trail

He chose a heartbreaking story 

Over some old fairytale

Sitting quiet in a corner

Holding his whiskey drink

He didn't say much

But everyone could hear him think

And it's not that he's bad

It's just that he did not belong

He was never the singer

He was always the song

He never was the singer

He just lived like a song

Her eyes were burning

Scorched behind her fair skin

As she took measure of a life she didn't really choose, but it's the one she was living in

Looking at a picture book

Maybe, forty years from now

And she drinks it over

How she made it through somehow

She will always know

Her greatest mistake

The biggest thing she lost

Was on the long shot chance

That she did not take

And she still thinks about a renegade boy

On some hard prairie trail

And the safe life she chose 

Over some damned old fairytale

She tried to stay true

And she tried to stay strong

She was always the singer

But she could've been the song

She was only the singer

She should've been the song

Thirty years of dust and gravel

On some hot old southern ground

And they look back at how lost they really were

And how easy it would've been to get found

And he loves her still today

A lifetime ago and that many miles away

As he stares down one last prairie trail

He gets lost in make believe

With a smile and a tear 

He just disappears into some old fairytale

He closed his eyes one last time

Knowing she could do no wrong

He was just the writer

She was the song

He was just the writer

And she was his sad sad song