Slowdown
Frank Myers (Horipro) BMI, Tommie Lee James (Still Working/ Tommie Lee James) BMI, Richie McDonald (Sony/Earlybird) BMI
We say hello we say good-bye
You go your way and I go mine
Were off to work were running late
Traffics worse than yesterday
Were always in a hurry you and I
And we watch what really matters pass us by
Lets slow down lets catch our breath
Heaven knows our hearts could use a little rest
Sometimes our world spins so fast
Just hanging on takes everything we have
And we forget what life’s about
So lets slow down lets slow down
There was a time remember when
Life was sweet and simple then
If we could find that place once more
We’d find the peace were looking for
The more we get the more we want its true
Baby all I really need is more of you
Lets slow down lets catch our breath
Heaven knows our hearts could use a little rest
Sometimes our world spins so fast
Just hanging on takes everything we have
And we forget what life’s about
So lets slow down lets slow down
Were always in a hurry you and I
We’ve watched what really matters pass us by
Too many times
Growing Old Together
Tommy Lee James - Still Working Music- BMI, Richie McDonald - Loremoma Music - BMI
See those lines on your face
You see wrinkles I see grace
More beauty than you know
No you don’t have to dispair
About those strands of grey in your hair
They compliment the wisdom in your soul
Every year that passes by I only love you more
Every day brings us closer still
Every night I close my eyes and pray we have forever
Cause I love the way were growing old together
When I look down this road of life
I see you there by my side
Just like its always been
Still so many paths to take
Still so many memories left to make
The kind we’ve made time and time again
Every year that passes by I only love you more
Every day brings us closer still every night I close my eyes and pray we have forever
Cause I love the way were growing old together
Guntersville Gazette
Ron Harbin; Harbinism.com Music (SESAC), Richie McDonald; Purple Cape Music c/o ole (BMI) Philip Douglas; Curb/Monk/Gremlin Corner (ASCAP)
Wasn’t more than half a mile between the city limit signs
Population cut in half, the day they shut down the mine
Only thing that hasn’t changed, is the way the gossip spreads
Cindy Lou’s nails & hairdo’s and the Guntersville Gazette
When I got home from college, first paper I picked up
Found the girl I thought was waitin’, had waited long enough
Right beside her smilin’ face, under brides to be
Said Saturday Miss Amanda Chase would be Mrs. William McGee
Never know from page to page whether you will laugh or cry
One page a baby’s born, on the next an old friend died
Get advice from Gabby’s corner, all that for just a quarter
I was raised, there’s three things, you never questioned what they said
Grandpa, the gospel, and the Guntersville Gazette
Two lonely concrete islands sticking above the ground
Underneath heartbreakin’ headlines, humpy’s gas & tires burned down
Sally Johnson made the honor roll, the tigers finally beat the jets
Read all about it in the Guntersville Gazette
Wise old men, a church house, a hand-cranked printin’ press
Granpa, the gospel, and the Guntersville Gazette
How Do I Just Stop Loving You
Tommy Lee James(Still Working Music)BMI
Richie McDonald (Loremoma music)BMI
I said good-bye that doesn’t mean I let you go
I swear I’ve tried but your memory won’t leave me alone
How do I move on when i keep looking back
How do I find someone when I just want what we had
Do I lie to myself say its all for the best
Say I don’t really need you and I won’t miss your tenderness
After all the nights I held you after all that we’ve been through
Tell me how do I just stop loving you
We had it all how did it ever come to this
Your eyes your smile there’s so many things I’m gonna miss
Girl your loves not something I can just forget about
But I’ll go crazy soon if I don’t find a way somehow
Do I lie to myself say its all for the best
Say I don’t really need you and I won’t miss your tenderness
After all the nights I held you after all that we’ve been through
Tell me how do I just stop loving you
When I don’t know where to start
When your still here in my heart
Where you’re supposed to be
Loves The Greatest Thing ( I’ll Do )
Billy Kersh (Kidbilly Music) ASCAP
Richie McDonald (Sony/ Earlybird) BMI
Deadlines and commitments five o’clock on friday
All I’m thinking bout is everything i have to do
Phone rings and voice says don’t for get you promised
The shows at six daddy I’m counting on you
My works not done and the traffics bad
This day is really getting to me
I barely make it as I rush inside curtain goes up
And then I see
A pirouette across the stage a daughters smile
My troubles fade
I look at her and see the truth
Loves the greatest thing I’ll do
Strawberries in season that’s a good enough reason
To take the afternoon and pick ourselves a basket or two
An hour down the highway there’s a perfect place
Bet there’d be nobody out there but me and you
Red berries on your sweet lips
I love the way you’re looking at me
Like a couple of kids we tumble down
Side by side in this field of green
And the sunlight streaks across your face
You still take my breath away
I look at you and see the truth
Loves the greatest thing I’ll do
It’s really just the simple things
When all is said what my life means
When each and every day is through
Loves the greatest thing I’ll do
Loves the greatest thing I’ll do
Footprints On The Moon
Richie McDonald (Loremoma Music) BMI
Tommy Lee James( Still Working For The Man Music) BMI
Dare to dream
Dare to think you could be anything
Dare to always give your very best
Dare to be different from all the rest
Seize the day
Dare to climb the mountains in your way
Make the most every chance you take
Look to the heavens and take a leap of faith
Fly
Higher than you ever have before
Spread your wings and soar
Just fly
And as long you set your mind to it
There’s nothing you can’t do
Don’t believe the skies the limit
When there are footsteps on the moon
Love
You can really never love enough
Stay close to your family and your friends
Cause that’s what really matters
In the end
Fly
Higher than you ever have before
Spread your wings and soar
Just fly
Hey God
Tommy Lee James (Still Working Music) BMI
Richie McDonald (Loremoma) BMI
Hey God I don’t believe I ever thanked you
For the time my brother got sick wasn’t sure he’d make it
Then he finally pulled through
Hey God I wanna thank you for my family
There healthy and there beautiful we were gonna stop at two
Now there was number three
You have your ways you have your plan
Sometimes mysterious and hard to understand
But I’m humbled by your grace
And everything you do
Hey god hey God I just want to thank you
Hey God, take good care of my nephew
He was only nineteen say he didn’t feel a thing
He was only twenty-one fighting for our freedom
Now he’s there with you
Hey God, you know what its like to loose
Someone who you truly love
When you gave your son to us
You must have cried then too
You have your ways you have your plan
Sometimes mysterious and hard to understand
But I’m humbled by your grace
And everything that you do
Hey God, hey God, I just want to thank you
Sometimes I forget to stop and bow my head
And remember that I have been blessed
This House
Frank Myers(Frank Myers Music)BMI
Don Pfrimmer(Cosmic Mule)ASCAP
Richie Mcdonald(Loremoma Music)BMI
The moving van was right on time about a quarter after nine
Started taking things out one by one
All the pictures off the wall only echoes fill the halls
Barren windows where the curtains hung
It’s hard to say good bye and hard to leave behind
All the things we can’t put in a box
All the love that filled this house will still be here when we move out
It’s in the rafters and the floors from every room through every door
All the walls have memories if they could talk like they can see
They’d be whispering about all the love that filled this house
Its where we laughed its where we cried
Spent the best years of our lives
Cause everyday we watched our children grow
Birthday parties baseball games
Smiling faces Christmas day
Making backyard angels in the snow
Its gonna break our hearts to drive off in that car
There’s so much here we could never take
All the love that filled this house will still be here when we move out
It’s in the rafters and the floors from every room through every door
All the walls have memories if they could talk like they can see
They’d be whispering about all the love that filled this house
My only wish is the family moving in loves here like we did
Before Its Too Late
Richie McDonald(Loremoma)BMI
Hello Dad, its been a while forty years to be exact
How time flies
Heard your not feeling well at all
I apologize it took so long to call
I’d love to tell you about my wife and three kids
No I don’t blame you for anything you and mom did
I guess the biggest mistake we could ever make
Is never saying I’m sorry before its too late
What’s that you say yeah I’ve been blessed
I owe it all to gods good grace I confess
When you were young you say you wrote songs to
I’ll bet in so many ways I’m a lot like you
I’d love to tell you about my wife and three kids
No I don’t blame you for anything you and mom did
I guess the biggest mistake we could ever make
Is never saying I’m sorry before its too late
I don’t know how we did it
Squeezed forty years into thirty minutes
But I’m so glad we tried
Wish you could meet my wife and three kids
Yes I forgive you for anything you ever did
I guess the biggest mistake we could both make
Is never saying I’m sorry
Dad I’m saying I’m sorry before it’s too late
Somewhere Down This Road
T.L. James/G.House/R. McDonald: Stil Working Music/Tommy Lee James Music (BMI), Casa De House (ASCAP); Loremoma Music c/o ole (BMI)
Thankful
Frank Myers (Frank Myers Music/ Sixteenstars) BMI
Gary Baker (Zomba) ASCAP
Richie McDonald (Sony/ Earlybird) BMI
The sun peaks through the window as I open up my eyes
I feel you softly breathing lying closely by my side
I hear the sound of little voices from the bedroom down the hall
I may not have a lot of things but to me I have it all
I’m so thankful for all the blessings in my life
Three little angels and a loving wife
And in all my wildest dreams I can’t imagine anything
More beautiful so wonderful I’m thankful
I know I’m not special just an ordinary man
I know I’m not deserving so it’s hard to understand
Why all these simple treasures have been laid here at my feet
So before I close my eyes at night I get down on my knees
I’m so thankful for all the blessings in my life
Three little angels and a loving wife
And in all my wildest dreams I can’t imagine anything
More beautiful so wonderful I’m thankful
Its not about the money or possesions I finally figured out
It’s the things that you can’t buy or sale that life is all about
I can live without possesions and the money might well run out
But it’s the things that you can’t buy or sale that life is all about
But I can’t imagine life without the things that life’s about
I’ll Be Waiting
Tommy Lee James (Still Working)BMI
Richie McDonald(Loremoma) BMI
She said I’m going to miss but we’ll make it through
He said I’m only doing what I have to do
She held on to him until security
He said I’d better go the planes about to leave
And as he walked away he could hear her say
I’ll be waiting for you til you come home again
I’ll be waiting until the miles between us end
Every night I’m gonna be right hear baby
On my knees praying and waiting for you
He called the other night to say it won’t be long
She said every days forever when you’re gone
He said I never thought that I could love you more
Now I know I do and that’s worth waiting for
They were both in tears
And she said I’ll be here
I’ll be waiting for you til you come home again
I’ll be waiting until the miles between us end
Every night I’m gonna be right hear baby
On my knees praying and waiting for
Until I can feel you in my arms
Until all this emptiness is gone
