When the shadows spread around you and just can’t see the light
When darkness comes to cloud your longest day, I will hold you tight

If your questions don’t get answered, if you’re just not satisfied
Just take my hand I’ll set your mind at ease, I will hold you tight

Well I don’t know why it happens, but it’s been a long, long time
And if it feels like tomorrow isn’t coming
I will be right by your side

When the storm clouds are gathering, if you’ve lost the will to fight
Just reach for me and I will stand beside you, I will hold you tight

Well I don’t know why it happens, but it’s been a long, long time
And if it feels like tomorrow isn’t coming
I will be right by your side

By Your Side

Didn't build it just watch it burn
Can't fulfill it so watch and learn
Won't loose what you never earned 
It just fades away

Didn't write it just to call it lies
Can't deny what’s behind your eyes
Won't live if it never dies
It just fades away

Can't hide what no one wants to find
Can't rely on what can never thrive
No by my side ‘til you come back

Wouldn't say it if it wasn't so
So don't play it, nowhere left to go
If you stray it just goes to show
What you gave away

Can't hide what no one wants to find
Can't rely on what can never thrive
No by my side ‘til you come back home
Won’t you come back home?

Fade Away

When I pick you up, we'll head on down
Cross the tracks to the wrong part of town...

Don't Tell Me What Not To Do

Riding the subway, reading Texas monthly
I was listening to Waylon and Will
If I close my eyes to long and hear another song
I might just wake up high in the hills

Gotta get on back to Texas 
Buy a truck and sell the Lexus
New York City fading in my view
Feeling this dang good fells better than it should
And it’s everything I want to show to you

Darlin’ pack you things, ditch the dress and don some jeans 
We’ll go two-steppin’ in Luckenbach tonight
Rollin’ down the highway, things are looking our way
Soaking up that Hill Country twilight

Gotta get on back to Texas
Ready for whatevers next there’s 
Nothing that the two of us can’t do
Living this dang good feels better than it should
And it’s everything I want to share with you 

I was riding the subway
I was reading Texas Monthly
I was listening to Waylon and feeling alive
I closed my eyes to long and I head that magic song
And woke up on Highway 35

Well we got ourselves to Texas
Pull off at this next exit
Just a couple miles on down the road
We’ll find a place to hang our hat
Look over yonder, matter of fact
There’s a sign on that house that says “sold”
Baby, welcome to your brand new Texas home

Texas

You think we're fighting but I think it's just talk
I'm standing right beside you but you're about to walk 
out that door
Just like you've done a thousand times before
It's a miracle of kinds, the kind the we've survived all long

You think you're weak but I know that you're strong
People think you're meek but they couldn't be more wrong about you
And all the kinds of shit you put me through
As satirical a mind, as I'm about to find is one so strong

You take to distance but still you seem too near
Days alone without you nothing left to fear
Been done before
Soon there'll be a cracking of the door
Not too far behind, apology's entwined with all the wrong

You say you're staying but I think it's a load
Some harmless game you're playing til the rubber hits the road one last time
Leaving me with phrases left to rhyme
It's pen and paper lined leading me to grind out this song

The all together blind
Hits you from behind
Goodbye Song
A goodbye song, your goodbye song, the goodbye song…

The Gunslingers