This Is Country Music

Brad Paisley This Is Country Music Lyrics
1.This Is Country Music

You're not supposed to say the word 'cancer' in a song.
And tellin' folks Jesus is the answer can rub 'em wrong.
It ain't hip to sing about tractors, trucks, little towns, and
mama, yeah that might be true.
But this is country music and we do

Well you like to drink a cold one on the weekend and get a
little loud
Do you wanna say I'm sorry or I love ya but you don't know how?
Do you wish somebody had the nerve to tell that stupid boss of
yours
to shove it next time he yells at you?
Well this is country music and we do

So turn it on, turn it up, and sing a long
This is real; this is your life in a song
Yeah this is country music.

Are you haunted by the echo of your mother on the phone
Cryin as she tells you that your brother is not coming home?
And if there's anyone that still has pride and the memory of
those
that died defending the old red, white, and blue,

This is country music and we do

So turn it on, turn it up, and sing a long
This is real; this is your life in a song
Just like a road that takes you home
Yeah this is right where you belong
This is country music
This is country music
He Stop Lovin Her Today
Hello Dolly
God Bless the USA
Amarillo by Morning
Stand by your Man
Take Me Home
I Walk the Line
Country Boy Can Survive


2.Old Alabama(Featuring Alabama)

She'd rather wear a pair of cut-off jeans than a fancy evening
dress
And with her windows rolled down
And her hair blown all around
She's a hot southern mess

She'll take a beer over white wine
And a campfire over candlelight
And when it comes to love
Oh, her idea of a romantic night

Is listenin' to old Alabama
Drivin' through Tennessee
A little Dixieland Delight at the Right Time of the Night
And she can't keep her hands off of me

And now we're rollin' down an old back road
I got the steering wheel in one hand
We'll find a hideaway where she and I can play
In mother nature's band

Now we're listenin' to old Alabama
Parked somewhere in Tennessee
A little Dixieland Delight and It Feels So Right
And it's love in the first degree

Forget about Sinatra or Coltrane
Or some ol' Righteous Brothers' song
Even Barry White ain't gonna work tonight
If you really wanna turn her on

Play some back home, come on music
That comes from the heart
Play something with lots of feeling
'Cause that's where music has to start

Now we're listenin' to old Alabama
And we're drivin' through Tennessee
A little Dixieland Delight and It Feels So Right
And it's love in the first degree

Yeah you know we're listenin' to old Alabama
(Old Alabama)
Drivin' through Tennessee
(Tennessee)
A little Why Lady Why at the Right Time of the Night
Oh, and she can't keep her hands off of me

Oh, play me some old Alabama
Oh, play me some old Alabama
Won't you play me some old Alabama?
Play me some old Alabama, won't you play?
Yeehaw


3.A Man Don't Have To Die

Well he yelled out from the back row look here preacher man
We all know you're new here but you need to understand
It don't really scare us when you yell and shake your fist
You see we already know that hell exists

Its six months short of thirty years when the boss man lays you
off
No thankin you no pair of shoes no shiny new gold watch
Its payments you cant make on a house that you cant sell
See a man don't have to die to go to hell
No you don't have to die to go to hell

So tell us bout them angels and how they fly around and sing
Tell us how to get there cause we all want to be
Restin in the arms of Jesus no shame or pain or tears
There's hell enough to go around down here

Its a place out by the airport where the girls dance just for
you
And all you feel is drunk and broke and lonely when their
through
Its waking up with nothing but that stale tobacco smell
See a man don't have to die to go to hell
Nah you don't have to die to go to hell

Oooh oooh oooh

Its every other weekend and Wednesday with your kid
And knowin that he'll hate you when he finds out what you did
Cause you'd all still be together if you loved his momma well
There ain't no end to stories we can tell
Yeah a man don't have to die to go to hell

So tell us bout them angels how they fly around and sing

Oooooh oooh ooohohhh


4.Camouflage

Kevin wasn't really all that popular in school
But I remember well when I thought that guy is pretty cool
He pulled into the parking lot and everybody cheered
Because he had gone and painted his Chevy Cavalier Camouflage

Camouflage it disappears when it pulls out of his garage
Camouflage-Camouflage

I asked Penny to the prom and her mom knew how to sew
So she made a matching tux and gown from Duckline Mossy Oak
We took pictures in the backyard before we went to the dance
And the only thing you can see is our faces and our hands

Camouflage Camouflage
Camouflage you seen have seen the way it popped with her corsage
Camouflage Camouflage ain't nothing that doesn't go with
Camouflage

You can blend in in the country
You can stand out in the fashion world
Being invisible to a white tail and irresistible to redneck girl

Camouflage Camouflage
Oh you're my favorite color Camouflage

You can blend in in the country
You can stand out in the fashion world
Being invisible to a white tail and irresistible to redneck girl

Well the stars and bars offends some folks and I guess I see why
Nowadays there's still a way to show your southern pride
The only thing is patriotic as the old red white and blue
Is green and gray and black and brown and tan all over too

Camouflage Camouflage
Designed by mother nature and by god

Camouflage Camouflage
Oh you're my favorite color Camouflage


5.Remind Me(Duet With Carrie Underwood)

We didn't care if people stared
We'd make out in a crowd somewhere
Somebody'd tell us to get a room
It's hard to believe that was me and you
Now we keep saying that we're ok
But I don't want to settle for good not great
I miss the way that it felt back then I wanna feel that way
again

Been so long that you'd forget the way I used to kiss your neck
Remind me, remind me
So on fire so in love. Way back when we couldn't get enough
Remind me, remind me

Remember the airport dropping me off
We were kissing goodbye and we couldn't stop
I felt bad cause you missed your flight
But that meant we had one more night

Do you remember how it used to be
we'd turn out the lights and didn't just sleep
Remind me Remind me
Baby remind me
Oh so on fire so in love
that look in your eyes that I miss so much
Remind me, baby remind me

I wanna feel that way
Yeah I wanna hold you close
Oh If you still love me
Don't just assume I know

Do you remember the way it felt?
You mean back when we couldn't control ourselves
Remind me, remind me
Yeah remind me
All those things that you used to do
That made me fall in love with you
Remind me. Oh Baby Remind Me

Yeah you'd wake up in my old t-shirt
All those mornings I was late for work
Remind me

Oh baby remind me


6.Working On A Tan

She's got the focus
she's got the time
she's got a deeper shade in mind
She's got headphones
She's got spring break Swimsuit and Coppertone 8

She's working on a tan
She's sitting in the sand chilling in a chair, flower in her
hair margarita in her hand
Soaking up the sun getting next to nothing done
there's a term paper due in a week or two only she don't give a
damn
She's working on a tan
working on a tan

All the Kappa Sigma boys been lifting weights hitting that gym
drinking protein shakes
they got a cooler full of beer and it's loaded in the jeep why
do you think they're going to the

Beach

Because she's working on a tan
She's sitting in the sand, chilling in a chair, flower in her
hair margarita in her hand
Soaking up the sun getting next to nothing done
shes attracting a crowd got their tongues hanging out but she
don't give a damn
She's working on a tan
working on a tan

Yeah so many things run thing her mind?.reapply
So this week while you are stuck in your cubicle or your serving
Starbucks or you're still in

School
far from rubbing sunscreen on your skin sorry but I have to rub
it in

She's working on a tan
She's sitting in the sand, chilling in a chair, flower in her
hair margarita in her hand
Soaking up the sun getting next to nothing done
forget her grades forget her GPA she don't give a damn
She's working on a tan
working on a tan


7.Love Her Like She's Leavin'(Featuring Don Henley)

We cut the cake everybody danced and some people drank too much
You looked like the cover of Brides magazine and I looked like
some guy in the tux
I'll never forget when your Uncle Bill pulled up a chair and sat
down
He said son I've been married now 45 years and pointed at you
through the crowd

And said

Love her like she's leaving
Like it's going to end if you don't
Love her like she's leaving
Oh and I guarantee she won't

He said it's sending her flowers for no reason at all and notes
on the fridge every day
An unexpected gift at an unexpected time, that keep the lawyers
away
It's easy to take forever for granted with tin cans tied to your
car
I know she tells you that she'll always be there but I'm telling
you if you're smart

She could have any man she wants you know it's true
Best way to keep her is to keep her wanting you

Love her like she's leaving
Oh and I guarantee she won't


8.One Of Those Lives

Rush hour traffic always puts me in a bad mood
I got chewed out by the boss today
And now I'm stuck on highway 92
Then you call me on my cell phone
While I'm cussing out a Cadillac
You say remember tom and Janie's little boy
Well, the doctors say the cancers back

Man, its been one of those days
When I been thinking poor me
I got no right to complain I guess
Cause right now all I can see
A little angel in a Yankees cap
It makes me realize
It just been one of those days
But for him its been one of those lives

Everybody under my roof
Is healthy knock on wood
OH but I sure do sweat the small stuff
I don't thank god as much as I should
Tonight I'm thinking about Tommy and Janie
And how about they spent the last four years
All those extended stays in Memphis
All those sleepless nights the prayers the tears

Its been one of those days
When I been thinking poor me
I got no right to complain I guess
Cause right now all I can see
That family moving back into Target house
It makes me realize
Its just been one of those days for me
But for them its been one of those lives

And so, its been one of those days
When I let things get to me
I got no right to complain
Cause when I look around I see
Folks that are fighting for every breath
And it makes me realize
Its just been one of those days for me
But for them its been one of those lives


9.Toothbrush

Love starts with a toothbrush a bic razor and a dixie cup
a little splash of aftershave before you leave for that first
date
Seeing stars in both your eyes after that first kiss goodnight

Forever starts with a suitcase sneaking out the window getaway
to the car parked by the curb gassed up for Gatlinburg
a little chapel and couple of rings
will get you two toothbrushes by the bathroom sink

Everything that's anything starts out as a little think
it just needs sometime to grow
Step by step day by day it all adds up along the way
and the next thing that you know

Life starts with a little house
a corner lot on the edge of town
a weedeater and a picket fence

think its as good as the getting gets
then she wakes up feeling bad and you both wonder whats up with
that

Everything that's anything starts out as a little think
it just needs a little time to grow
Step by step day by day it all adds up along the way
and the next thing that you know

one night around 8 oclock
you scrub him down and then you dry him off
pick him up and put his little feet on the by the bathroom sink
you grab the crest and a dixie cup it all hits you as he opens
up

Love starts with a toothbrush


10.Be The Lake

There ain't nothing I would rather see
Than you drying off on this dock
I've been thinking, it's so good to be me
But girl, on second thought

Wish I could be the beach towel that you laid down on
Or that two-piece that's fitting you so right, it's wrong
Or the sunshine kissing on your skin
Wish I could be the lake that you're swimming in

Well, I'm hiding behind these Ray-Ban shades
Staring at you like I do
I'm right here beside you and it's killing me
'Cause I can't get close enough to you

Wish I could be the beach towel that you laid down on
Or that two-piece that's fitting you so right, it's wrong
Or the sunshine kissing on your skin
Wish I could be the lake that you're swimming in

Or maybe that book you laid on your chest
When you drift off like you do
Or maybe that 25 SPF
You keep rubbing all over you

Wish I could be the beach towel that you laid down on
Or that two-piece that's fitting you so right, it's wrong
Or the sunshine kissing on your skin
Wish I could be the lake that you're swimming in
Wish I could be the lake that you're swimming in


11.Eastwood(Featuring Clint Eastwood)

Hi, what about Western? Yeah
You want Western? This is Western.


12.New Favorite Memory

You're fumbling around in the bedroom,
Trying to put on your shoes,
Hair still down, dress half on,
Looking like you're about to blow a fuse.

I know what's about to happen,
I can read you like a book,
You're about to shoot that cute little,
'Yeah, we're late' look...

And there it is,
Baby, don't move,
I want to soak this in,
I've got a new favorite memory of you.

Driving through town, running red lights
You take my hand in the car,
Finally make it to the restaurant,
And our friends are two drinks in at the bar.

I know what's about to happen,
Yeah, folks don't change that dial,
She's about to light the room up with a laugh and a smile...

And there it is,
Baby, don't move,
I want to soak this in,
I've got a new favorite memory of you.

Yeah, I'm gonna fall farther,
Baby, I know,
Wait for it and wait for it,
Here... I... go...


You're fumbling around in the bedroom,
Trying to take off your shoes,
Hair back down, dress half off,
You look at me...

And there it is,
Baby, don't move,
I want to soak this in,
I've got a new favorite memory of you.

Here we go again,
I've got a new favorite memory of you.


13.Don't Drink The Water(Featuring Blake Shelton)

Empty house, Empty Rooms, Empty bottle of Petron
I need to go out but not around here
there ain't nowhere we haven't gone
there's this travel agent that I know who says Cozumel is real
nice
and so he got me a deal on a flight and a room and a little bit
of free advice

don't drink the water
I told him that's ok
I ain't going down
to Mexico to drink the water anyway

blake aint you been there yeah
(Blake) I've been there a time or two
They got some sweet Senoritas
that are more than glad to meet you
but I'm tellin you boy that whatever you do

don't drink the water
ok ok
I ain't going down
to Mexico to drink the water anyway

Corona or Tecate or my old friend Jose
I ain't going down
to Mexico to drink the water anyway

on this trip anything I sip better have a kick and a burn
strong enough to get you off my mind
little by little and a little grub of worm

don't drink the water
that's what they say
I ain't going down
to Mexico to drink the water anyway

no one i know goes to Mexico
to drink the water anyway


14.I Do Now

I never knew how people wound up in a bar
In the middle of the day
Broken souls or broken lives
From the choices that they made
I didn't know how much I had to lose
When I threw it all away

But I do now, I do now
Oh, I'd give anything
If I could just go back in time somehow
I wouldn't break your heart,
I wouldn't break those vows
If I could lift that veil and look you in the eye
And say I do now

Standing before God and all our friends
In that little church
Barely listening to a thing that preacher said
Just repeating every word
I didn't have a clue what it all meant
But girl, for what it's worth

I do now, I do now
Oh, I'd give anything
If I could just go back in time somehow
I wouldn't break your heart,
I wouldn't break those vows
If I could lift that veil and look you in the eye
And say I do now

I wouldn't break your heart,
I wouldn't break those vows
If I could lift that veil and look you in the eye
And say I do now


15.Life's Railway To Heaven(Featuring Marty Stuart, Sheryl Crow And
Carl Jackson)

Life is like a mountain railway
With an engineer that's brave
We must make the run successful
From the cradle to the grave
Watch for curves and hills and valleys
Never falter never fail
And keep your hands upon the throttle
And your eye upon the rail

Blessed Savior, Thou wilt guide us
Till we reach that blissful shore
Where the angels wait to join us
In God's praise forevermore

As you roll across the trestle
Spanning Jordan's swelling tide
You behold the Union Depot
Into which your train will glide
There you'll meet the Superintendent
God, the Father, God, the Son
With a hearty joyous greeting
Weary pilgrim, welcome home

Blessed Savior, Thou wilt guide us
Till we reach that blissful shore
Where the angels wait to join us
In God's praise forevermore

Blessed Savior, Thou wilt guide us
Till we reach that blissful shore
Where the angels wait to join us
In God's praise forevermore
Where the angels wait to join us
In God's praise forevermore

So turn it on, turn it up
And sing along