EVERYTHING CHANGED
Mike Aiken, Paul Jefferson
You, you, you walked in my door
The sun shined like it never did before
Nothing, nothing, would ever be the same
That’s when everything changed
I made some bad decisions about women once or twice
They were heavy on pretty but light on nice
They cut me through the middle and run off with both halves
That’s when I found out that love never lasts
Then you, you, you walked in my door
And the sun shined like it never did before
Nothing, I mean nothing would ever be the same
That’s when everything, everything changed
All these years later I’m surprised everyday
Someone sweet as you ain’t thrown me away
I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop
When on my heart I feel a knock, knock, knock
And it’s you, you, you walked in my door
The sun shined like it never did before
Nothing, nothing would ever be the same
That’s when everything, everything changed
All these years later I’m surprised every day
Someone sweet as you ain’t thrown my ass away
I keep on waiting for the other shoe to drop
When on my heart I feel a knock, knock, knock
And it’s you, you, you walked in my door
And the sun shined like it never did before
Nothing, I mean nothing would ever be the same
That’s when everything changed
That’s when everything, I mean everything
That’s when everything changed
That’s when everything changed
That’s when everything changed
NASHVILLE SKYLINE
Mike Aiken, Chris P James
Big Boat Music (SESAC), Blue Meteor Songs (BMI)
Nashville Skyline, I’m starting to roam
The highway keeps calling me
You’re a long way from heaven
But I call you home
My sky is in Tennessee
I’ve worked in the country
I’ve struggled in the towns
My wife says I live here
But I’m hardly around
Hotel ain’t home
But it’s damn near one to me
I close my eyes
She’s what I see
I’ve traveled through the highlands
Flown across the plains
So many lonesome cities
I can’t recall their names
Miles and miles, whoa
They keep pulling me
To the Cumberland River valley
Everytime I see that six – one – five
I know she’s calling me
Next thing I know I’m back on 65
Driving my need to be
So when I see that six – one – five
I know she’s calling me
Here I am back on 65
Driving my need to be
Back to that Nashville skyline
I’m starting to roam
Your highway keeps calling me
You’re a long way from heaven
But I call you home
My sky is in Tennessee
You’re a long way from heaven
But I call you home
My sky is in Tennessee
HANGOVER HELPER
Mike Aiken, Tim Buppert
Big Boat Music, Saddle Blanket / Buffrin Boy Music (SESAC)
Woke up this morning
Everything is hurtin’
Last night is kinda fuzzy
But one thing is for certain
I drank too much
Stayed out to late
Gonna call into work and take a personal day
My boss said, ‘Boy, it sounds like to me,
A hangover helper is all you really need’
It got me to thinkin’
Is that a real thing
So I put it in to Google
And I couldn’t believe
It was plain as the pain in my bloodshot eyes
A rockin’ little remedy in black and white
An hour ago I felt like I had the flu
But thanks to hangover helper, not I’m good as new
Biscuits and gravy with some gravy on the side
Hair of the dog what bit you last night
Simple ingredients will make it more better
For a real good, feel good, hangover helper
Now that ya know just how to get her done
You don’t have to hold back, you can have some fun
Just don’t forget how you’re gonna feel
When you wake up in the morning and thangs are getting real…
Biscuits and gravy
With some gravy on the side
Hair of the dog, what bit you last night
Simple ingredients will make it more better
For a real good, feel good, hangover helper
Real good, feel good, hangover helper
Oh my head is killing me
And that sun is burning my eyes
Got to get you some of that
TWO LANE HIGHWAY
Mike Aiken, Henry Paul
With empty soda bottles tucked up underneath my arm
Walkin down the shoulder of the road from our old farm
To that little country store when coke was just a dime
Long ago in another place in time
Two-lane highway take me up around the bend
Down the back road of the past where the memories never end
A winding ribbon in the distance
Like time with an old friend
In my heart I’m going back again
Down a two-lane highway
Grinding gears in our old pick up truck is how I learned to drive
Weavin up and down that country road but somehow I survived
Takin out the neighbors mailbox and plowin through the corn
Standin on the gas and layin on the horn
Two-lane highway take me up around the bend
Down the back roads of my past where the memories never end
A winding ribbon in the distance
Like time with an old friend
In my heart I’m going back again
Down a two-lane highway
Sometimes that road can take you to a place so far away
You find that where you once belonged is gone like yesterday
Dreams are all that’s left of a place you once called home
That lost highway comes to call when you feel all alone
Two-lane highway take me up around the bend
Down the back road of the past where the memories never end
A winding ribbon in the distance
Like time with an old friend
In my heart I’m going back again
In my heart I’m going back again
Down a two-lane highway
A two-lane highway
Down a two-lane highway
A two-lane highway
TRAVELIN’ BONE
Mike Aiken
I was born with a travelin’ bone
Don’t ya know I just got to roam
I was born with a travelin’ bone
Where I lay my head yes it is my home
Got my boat well that’s for me
Wind and waves and the deep blue sea
Got my boat well that’s for me
Travelin’ slow and feelin’ mighty free
I got all I need when she’s laying next to me, I’m home
Rollin’ through the tumble weeds or rockin on that deep blue sea, I’m home
Yea yea a travelin’ bone
Don’t ya know I got a mountain girl
likes to travel all around this world
Said don’t ya know, yeah I got a girl
Well she likes to travel all around this world
There’s a road and it’s waitin’ for me
There’s some place I just got to see
There’s a road and it’s waitin’ for me
Well there’s some place that I just got to be
I was born with a travelin’ bone
Don’t ya know I just got to roam
I was born with a travelin’ bone
Where I lay my head yes it is my home
REAL MEAN DOG
Robbin Thompson, Gregg Wetzel
Our Lad’s Music (BMI), Out There Music (ASCAP)
She left me a real mean dog
Out on a chain
I guess he ain’t particular
Hates everyone the same
He hates me cuz she’s gone
And hates me cuz I’m near
She left me a real mean dog
Just the two of us are livin’ here
She left me a real mean dog
And just the two of us are livin’ here
She left me an old pickup truck
Falling apart
She left me with an attitude
And a worrying heart
She’s gone for good
That much is clear
She left me a real mean dog
Just the two of us are livin’ here
She left me a real mean dog
And just the two of us are livin’ here
I tried to hide the way I feel
But it don’t feel no good
I look out back at that old dog
I wished he understood
Some lonely men get dangerous
But all I feel is fear
She left me a real mean dog
Just the two of us are livin’ here
She left me a real mean dog
And just the two of us are livin’ here
She left me a real mean dog
Out by the shed
I guess we both think alike
He wishes I was dead
He hates me cuz she’s gone
And hates me cuz I’m near
She left me a real mean dog
Just the two of us are livin’ here
She left me a real mean dog
And just the two of us are livin’ here
She left me a real mean dog
And just the two of us are livin’ here
I don’t even know his name
HARD WORKIN’ WORKING GIRL
Mike Aiken, Paul Jefferson
Big Boat Music, Cropcircle Music (SESAC)
Blue collar, no hi-tech here
Sweat of the brow, low-class beer
I see her on the street, rain or shine
Early in the morning, til well past closing time
She’s just trying to get by, get by in this world
She’s a hard working working girl
She waves to me as I drive by
She knows that I’m not one of her guys
But who am I to judge, I can’t throw a stone
Maybe like me she’s got someone counting on her at home
She’s just trying to get by, get by in this world
She’s a hard working working girl
Today I saw her out again
Our eyes met as she was climbing in
Into an unknown car with a faceless man
She knew that I knew what he don’t understand
She’s just trying to get by, get by in this world
She’s a hard working working girl
She’s just trying to get by, get by in this world
She’s a hard working working girl
She’s a hard working working girl
A LITTLE LAZY IN YOUR LIFE
Mike Aiken, Tim Buppert
Big Boat Music, Saddle Blanket / Buffrin Boy Music (SESAC)
We all know the guy that’s climbing up the ladder
No matter what it takes
And then one day he wakes up and wonders
What he lost along the way
Then his neighbor, the procrastinator
His world turns at a slightly slower pace
He says he’ll do it when he gets to it
With a great big smile on his face
You gotta have a little lazy in your life
Just lay back and let it all roll by
If I could offer up some friendly advice
You can’t do it all no matter how hard you try
So here’s the deal, spinning your wheels
Ain’t gonna get you any place
According to my sources, it was the tortoise, not the hare
Who wins the race
Because he had a little lazy in his life
he laid back and let it all roll by
if I could offer up some friendly advice
you can’t do it all no matter how hard you try
Now I suppose we could add a little prose
Perhaps repeat the chorus once or twice
But as I recall the essence of this song
is how to get a little lazy in your life
We all need a little lazy in our lives
Lay back and let it all roll by
If I could offer up some friendly advice
You can’t do it all no matter how hard you try
You gotta have a little lazy in your life
Lay back and let it all roll by
If I could offer up some friendly advice…
DEAD MAN RUNS BEFORE HE WALKS
Mark Collie, Shawn Camp
Daniel Island Music / How Ya Doin’ Music / Leipers Fork Music, Songs of Universal / Shawn Camp Music (BMI)
Digging a hole was easy enough
With a fork and a spoon and a dixie cup
Night by night and spoon by spoon
The tunnel was ready so we made our move
Now we drew straws and I went first
Clawing and a scratching in the mud and the dirt
Yea I’d love to have seen that old warden’s face
When he found me gone without a trace
I can hear the sirens squawking
And I know they’re on my trail
I can hear the bloodhounds balling
A dead man runs before he walks lawd lawd lawd
A dead man runs before he walks
Now I won’t be bound by chains of steel
This time they’ll have to shoot to kill
No I can’t go back inside them walls
You know a dead man runs before he walks
I can hear the sirens squawking
And I know they’re on my trail
I can hear the bloodhounds balling
A dead man runs before he walks – lawd lawd lawd
A dead man runs before he walks – lawd lawd lawd
You know a dead man runs before he walks – lawd lawd lawd
You know a dead man runs before he walks
PENELOPE
Christopher Hynes
Chris Hynes (SOCAN)
Penelope works in the market
Down in the coconut trees
She’s saving up all of her money
To go to America across the sea
She once had an uncle
He lived in Detroit town
They got all of his postcards
But his body has never been found
To this day
To this day
She got a job as a domestic
Workin’ for the minimum wage
All her friends back home in Jamaica
They say, ‘you really got it made in the shade.’
But they don’t see her sweat and grind
And bended on her knees
She wishes she was back in Jamaica
Beneath the coconut trees
Everyday
Everyday
Everyday
Everyday
Everyday
Everyday
Everyday
Everyday
Penelope’s back in the market
She found what it was all about
Oh no, she doesn’t regret it
She’s just glad that she got out
But others aren’t so lucky
They’re there til the day they die
Trapped in steel and the concrete
No beach, no moon, no sky
Everyday
Everyday
Everyday
Everyday
CHESAPEAKE
Mike Aiken, Amy Aiken
Southbound clouds north wind blowing
Keeps me away from where I’m going
Pine trees swaying in the breeze
Pelicans still flying with grace and ease
Boats seeking shelter in the lee
Cold front is here on the Chesapeake
Cookout tonight at the breezeway café
This one’s for schooners, saving the bay
Light a fire stack some wood
With friends and music it feels so good
Can’t sail north that’s fine with me
Can’t beat October on the Chesapeake
Early morning out on the bay
Sunshine starts to make its way
Waterman he works at his trade
Steaming out as darkness fades
Out on the water some of what you see
It’s part of life on the Chesapeake
Northbound clouds south wind blowing
Sending me where I’m going
Catch the breeze get underway
Osprey calls you to another day
Life moves slowly you’re out of reach
Swing to the tide of the Chesapeake