All Roads
Love is like a blackbird sleeping on my chest
Wake me up when I’ve had enough, put me to the test
See those black wings stretching out to shadow me
Nothing I can do will stay the sting
My heart rolling to the rhythm of the rail
My tears falling to the bottom of her well
As I awaken from my own private hell
My heart is shaken from its cold prison cell
Where all roads lead back, back to you
Love is like an anchor weighing down the soul
Pull it up and there’s no telling where a heart will go
So don’t leave my love drifting on the sea of time
Time has never been a friend of mine
My heart rolling to the rhythm of the rail
My tears falling to the bottom of her well
As I awaken from my own private hell
My heart shaken from its cold prison cell
Where all roads lead back, back to you
All roads, lead back to you, all roads, lead back to you
And I , I, I , just can’t be free of you
I, I, I, just can’t be free of you
My heart rolling to the rhythm of the rail
My tears falling to the bottom of her well
As I awaken from my own private hell
My heart is shaken from its cold prison cell
Where all roads lead back, back to you
All roads lead back to you, all roads lead back to you
And I, I, I, just can’t be free of you
C 2011 J. French/Gracie Lake Music, BMI
1996
Alright, Okay
As if my hair and cowboy hat were not enough
Her Daddy saw that Kerry sticker on my truck
And he said “That’s one sad looking Cracker Barrel cowboy hat.”
“But worse that that I see you are a democrat.”
But that’s alright, okay
I ain’t trying to impress him anyway, alright, okay
Yeah, that’s alright, okay
Ain’t falling for his daughter anyway, alright, okay
Her brother was the captain of the football team
I was the bad boy out with their homecoming queen
He caught me on the old Winn Dixie parking lot
All I remember is my blood mixed with my snot
But that’s alright, okay
I can take a hint, I’ll stay away, alright, okay
Yeah, that’s alright, okay
Ain’t falling for his sister anyway, alright, okay
A fourteen month old and another on the way
Her Daddy tells folks now he thinks I am okay
My Harley parked out front beside her mini-van
If we can make it I think anybody can
And that’s alright, okay
Still falling for her everyday, alright, okay
Yeah, that’s alright, okay
I wouldn’t have it any other way, alright, okay
Yeah, yeah, yeah, alright, okay
One more time now, I said, alright, okay
C 2011 J. French/Gracie Lake Music, BMI
2006
Broken Stones
Dead of night, cold hard rain
Beating down my window pane
Every demon that I thought I tamed
Echoes now to call my name
There’s a time, coming soon
Another night, a quarter moon
Shave the Oak and slowly carve the Runes
And the past will be renewed
A different man inside of me
Now and then I seem to be
But every time I try to plant that seed
A cold wind blows it out to sea
And late one night I had a dream
No one else was there but you and me
And we waltzed off into our eternity
This is how I wish that it could be
But I built a wall of broken stones
A fortress for this heart I own
Search around in all these scattered bones
You will find my lonely soul
C 2011 J.French/Gracie Lake Music, BMI
2006
Coyote Soul
When the moon was bright I held you in my arms
There I promised you I’ll never do you harm
So you leaned back and you offered me your throat
Could not help myself I held the red red rose
Got a coyote soul, Coyote soul
Got a coyote soul, Coyote soul
So I held you down and made sweet love to you
Something that you always wanted me to do
Hold on tightly as the passion rises high
Higher than that big red moon up in the sky
Got a coyote soul, Coyote soul
Got a coyote soul, Coyote soul
When the moon was bright and two became as one
There I promised you that I would never run
Though I feel a full moon pulling me away
Wind is howling and those dark clouds race
Got a coyote soul, Coyote soul
Got a coyote soul, Coyote soul
C 2011 J.French/Gracie Lake Music, BMI
1995
Crazy About You
Why can’t you be crazy about me
Like I’m crazy bout you, you’ve got my world in your hands
Cause I know that you really love me
Why can’t you be falling for me
Please help me understand
Cause I’m crazy about you
The sun sets and rises around you
I’m crazy about you, I’m crazy about you
There’s no one else out there like you
I’m crazy about you
So why can’t you be crazy about me too
I’ve scattered your pictures around me
Sending you roses or daisies, I won’t let you forget
Cause there is a road I must travel
You say you need someone to hold
Well, I can’t blame you for that
Still I’m crazy about you
The sun sets and rises around you
I’m crazy about you, I’m crazy about you
There’s no one else out there like you
I’m crazy about you
So why can’t you be crazy about me too
I’m crazy about you
The sun sets and rises around you
I’m crazy about you, I’m crazy about you
Nothing’s the same here without you
I’m crazy about, crazy about you
So why can’t you be crazy about me too
C 2011 J.French/Gracie Lake Music, BMI
1997
Ghost of a Memory
This old bar feels so lonely
On an August afternoon
One bartender, one TV
Broken horizontal hold
But she used to come here long ago
She’s just a ghost
Ghost of a memory
She’s just a ghost from way back when
She’s just a ghost of the lost love I loved most
A ghost come haunting me again
Push an old song on that jukebox
Whispered words upon my lips
Our carved initials on this bar top
Underneath my fingertips
God, I hate to start my night like this
When She’s just a ghost
Ghost of a memory
She’s just a ghost from way back when
She’s just a ghost of the lost love I loved most
A ghost come haunting me again
She’s just a ghost of the lost love I loved most
A ghost, come haunting me again and again
She’s just a ghost come haunting me
Again….again
C 2011 J. French/Gracie Lake Music, BMI
1993
In This House
In this house, so full of memories of you
In this house, still smells so sweet of your perfume
It still lingers all about, don’t leave me lonely, in this house
In this house, the roof still leaks when rain comes down
In this house, the rain’s not what I care about
Cause I need you, don’t walk out, don’t leave me lonely
In this house
Don’t leave me lonely in this house, don’t leave me lonely in this house
Listen to my heart, don’t make a sound
Don’t say you’re leaving, this house full of memories
Don’t leave me lonely in this house
Please think about the love and happiness we knew
In this house, I still see pictures of we two as I carried
You into this house
Don’t say you’re leaving, this house full of memories
Don’t leave me lonely in this house
Don’t leave me lonely in this house
Don’t leave me lonely in this house….lonely….lonely
C 2011 J.French/Gracie Lake Music, BMI
1993
Lady Love
Lady love touched my heart
Left my world falling apart
She took my hand, I was following
Showered me with splendid things
And this I know everywhere I go
I keep on searching for my lady love
And if some day I find her some way
I know my days will be just fine
Be just fine
Lady love took my soul
Left me standing there with nothing to show
She held me close then set me free
And I’ll be drifting till she comes back to me
I hide my tears, my face in my hands
I cry out loud “Lord tell me where do I stand?”
So I make a wish to the stars above
Where can I find my lady love
Lady Love
Lady Love took my heart
Left my world falling apart
C 2011 J.French/Gracie Lake Music, BMI
1984
One Horse Town
We were just friends when we made love
Started a landslide I barely rose above
Just happened one night when the rains came down
Something to do in this sleepy little one horse town
By candlelight she dried her hair
Must have been some kind of magic in the air
She was soaked right through, and so was I
And she could tell what I was thinking
When she looked into my eyes
Just one night of magic’s all we knew
Just one night to last my life through
I was all of eighteen, she was twenty-one
She finished her year at college and ran off with someone
And now me I’m just a number on a union card
Chasing down a dollar and mister that’s getting kinda hard
But I think about her sometime
When the rain comes down
Something to do
Yeah, it’s just something to do
In this sleepy little one horse town
C 2011 J.French/Gracie Lake Music, BMI
1994
Raging Heart
When I was young, yeah just a lad
The simple joys of life I had
But time rolls on, this we know
Passing though and to the soul
And this river of love I thought I knew
Became a raging heart
Raging for you……raging heart, raging heart
A river is like a one way street
Carries life silently
Swirling fast and then moving slow
Taking in, letting go
And this river of love is always new
Like my raging heart
Raging for you……raging heart, raging heart, raging heart
Don’t worry bout the past
Your time moves by too fast
They’re just patterns on the bottom
Of your drinking glass
And this raging heart, it rages on
In every word and every song
But I don’t mind because I know
This raging heart has found a home
And like the rain runs true to sea
This raging heart
Is yours to keep……raging heart, raging heart
C 2011 J.French/Gracie Lake Music, BMI
1998
Say Goodnight
Drink all night and I sleep all day
I’m not the man that my Daddy raised
I get so tired of this daily fight
One more drink, say goodnight
Store by store this old town dies and burns
It’s just not much of a going concern
One day they took away the last traffic light
So lock the doors boys, say goodnight
Everything they say dies in time
Well this old town died so slow, no one cried
One year they forgot to put up the Christmas lights
Guess that’s the year Christmas died
Jimmy Robbins was a boy I knew
We both played ball in high school
His name is down at the town square, etched in stone
Lost in Vietnam long ago
Everything they say dies in time
Well this old town died so slow, no one cried
One year they forgot to put out the Christmas lights
Roll up the sidewalks boys, turn around the signs
Lock all the doors and then we’ll turn out the lights one last time
And say goodnight
Yea, say goodnight
C 2011 J.French/ Gracie Lake Music, BMI
2006
Look At Me Now
Little dancer, dance in the sand
When the morning is blue
There’s a wind and a wave on the way
She feels it too
With a wink and her crooked smile
I feel the fire
And this girl she fills all my nights with
With a million desires
And I want her, look at me
Yes I need her, look at me
And I want her, look at me
Look at me now, yea look at me now
Well I made a stand, just to be what I am
Till the end of my days
She came along and now I’ll be damned if
If I haven’t changed
And I want her, look at me
Yes I need her, look at me
And I want her, look at me
Look at me now, yea look at me now
C 2011 J.French/Gracie Lake Music, BMI
1994
