Chalee Tennison

Chalee Tennison Chalee Tennison Lyrics
1.Someone Else's Turn To Cry

(chalee tennison/jim robinson)

Hello, old friend, haven't seen you for a while
Just how long has it been, i've missed your smile
It's so easy to lose touch
Some days i'd all but given up on you
Now here you are to see me through

Mirror mirror on the wall
Who is the strongest one of all
The broken heart i used to be of
This woman staring back at me
I'm so glad you've come around
With your help i won't back down
It's time to hold our head up high
It's someone else's turn to cry

You and i, we go back a long, long way
Still i'm surprised to see that look upon your face
I don't see the tears this time
There is something different in your eyes
Now i know how i've needed you so

Mirror mirror on the wall
Who is the strongest one of all
The broken heart i used to be of
This woman staring back at me

I'm so glad you've come around
With your help i won't back down
It's time to hold our head up high
It's someone else's turn to cry

I'm so glad you've come around
With your help i won't back down
It's time to hold our head up high
Let's wipe the tears out of our eyes
It's someone else's turn to cry


2.I Let Him Get Away With It

(w.l. burnette/brett beavers)

Every now and then i'd mention her to him
He'd get that look in his eyes
But it was only there a minute
So i let him get away with it

There was one day he called me by her name
It tore me all up inside
He never even knew he did it
So i let him get away with it

I let it go, i closed my eyes
I told myself just this one time
Yes, i refused to see the signs
Oh, but love is blind

I said "i love you," he would say "me too"
But when i looked in his eyes
I wasn't really sure he meant it
So i let him get away with it

He took a part of me the day i watched him leave
So i gave him all of my heart
Lord how i hate to admit it
I let him get away with it

I let it go, i closed my eyes
I told myself just this one time
Yes, i refused to see the signs
Oh, but love is blind

Every now and then i'd mention her to him
He'd get that look in his eyes
But it was only there a minute
So i let him get away with it
Oh, i let him get away with it
I let him get away with it


3.Handful Of Water

(allison mellon/jason sellers/austin cunningham)

I always knew you were a rambler
Betting on you makes me a gambler
But i fell so hard i ignored your past
Tried to tame your heart but you moved too fast

You're like a handful of water, fistful of sand
The tighter i hold on, the more you slip right through my hands
You keep on running
So why do i even bother
Holding on to you is like a handful of water

Like the ocean waves sitting on high tide
Boy you fill me up when you're by my side
Then you roll away
You never could stand still
This lonely beach knows how i feel

You're like a handful of water, fistful of sand
The tighter i hold on, the more you slip right though my hands
You keep on running
So why do i even bother
Holding on to you is like a handful of water

You know i never try to tie you down
I can wait forever hoping you'd come back around

You keep on running
So why do i even bother
Holding on to you is like a handful of water, fistful of sand
The tighter i hold on, the more you slip right through my hands
You keep on running
So why do i even bother
Holding on to you, it's impossible to do
Holding on to you is like a handful of water


4.Just Because She Lives There

(dale dodson/billy lawson)

She wakes the kids up for school, the bacon is on the stove
He yells from their bedroom, honey, where'd you put my clothes
The school bus runs right on time
He forgets to kiss her good-bye, walks out talking on his phone
She cleans up the mess they made, goes upstairs and puts her
makeup on

Just because she lives there don't mean she loves there anymore
If she turns to another, she knows she'll have to answer to the
lord
She wonders where the romance went
Why the man she fell in love with finds her so easy to ignore
Just because she lives there don't mean she loves there anymore

She's there when they get home, the day flew by so fast
She asked about his day, he interrupts, i need to cut the grass
And she's a-wishing as she does the dinner dishes
He'll notice her new dress she's got on
But he's still watching tv, she takes her bath and goes to bed
alone

Just because she lives there don't mean she loves there anymore
If she turns to another, she knows she'll have to answer to the
lord
She wonders where the romance went
Why the man she fell in love with finds her so easy to ignore
Just because she lives there don't mean she loves there anymore

She wonders where the romance went
Why the man she fell in love with finds her so easy to ignore
Just because she lives there don't mean she loves there anymore
Just because she lives there don't mean she loves there anymore


5.Leave It At That

(sunny russ/stephony smith/cathy majeski)

This conversation is going nowhere fast
Like a train on a dead-end track
There is nowhere left to go

Well, i don't really want to drag this out
If you're going to say it, say it now
No need to take it slow

We both know it's over
I don't need a shoulder
Oh, baby, let's just

Say good-bye and leave it at that
Instead of saying things we can't take back
The more we talk, the harder it gets to really let go
You couldn't fix it even if you tried
So go on and let me cry
You said you're leaving, leave it at that

Don't even try to let me down easy
It's pretty clear that you don't need me
Like you did before

What's so hard about the word good-bye
When i already see it in your eyes
So what are you waiting for

Only time can mend this
Why don't we just end it
Oh, baby, let's just

Say good-bye and leave it at that
Instead of saying things we can't take back
The more we talk, the harder it gets to really let go
You couldn't fix it even if you tried
So go on and let me cry
You said you're leaving, leave it at that

Let's just say good-bye and leave it at that
Instead of saying things we can't take back
The more we talk, the harder it gets to really let go
You couldn't fix it even if you tried
So go on and let me cry
You said you're leaving
You said you're leaving
Leave it at that


6.A Stolen Car

(sam hogin/phil barnhart/bill labounty)

A herd of wild horses, a stampede of cows
The sheriff's department with a pack of bloodhounds
Ain't ever gonna move me away from your side
I'm off and running
I'll be here forever now
I've made up my mind

I'd rather drive across texas in a stolen car
With the rangers on my tail and no head start
I'd rather draw my last breath with a bullet in my heart
Than ever drive away from you
I'll never drive away from you

Take the wichita river, jumping in space
Throw in a tornado and a couple of earthquakes
They just ain't strong enough to pull us apart
You told me that you love me
Nothing's ever gonna drag me out of your arms

I'd rather drive across texas in a stolen car
With the rangers on my tail and no head start
I'd rather draw my last breath with a bullet in my heart
Than ever drive away from you
I'll never drive away from you

I'd rather drive across texas in a stolen car
With the rangers on my tail and no head start
I'd rather draw my last breath with a bullet in my heart
Than ever drive away from you

I'd rather drive across texas in a stolen car
With the rangers on my tail and no head start
I'd rather draw my last breath with a bullet in my heart
Than ever drive away from you

No, i'll never drive away

I'd rather draw my last breath with a bullet in my heart
Than ever drive away from you


7.I Can Feel You Drifting

(bat mcgrath/billy kirsch)

You took me out so far that i can't swim to shore
I've been holding on but you're not anymore
Our love would always lead us home
Constant as the northern star
Here's a storm we won't get through cause it's not in your heart

I can feel you drifting slowly out of reach
Out there in the distance, there's something else you need
If i could be what's missing, that's all i'd want to be
I can feel you drifting

In the silence that's become the company we keep
I've realized how far we are from what we used to be
Part of you has gone somewhere i can't seem to touch
I could stay and take what's left, but baby, that's not us

I can feel you drifting slowly out of reach
Out there in the distance, there's something else you need
If i could be what's missing, that's all i'd want to be
I can feel you drifting

If i could be what's missing, that's all i'd want to be
I can feel you drifting
You're out of reach


8.It Ain't So Easy

(marv green/john bettis)

Oh, yeah
Baby, i heard you when you said good-bye
That's the kind of thing you don't have to say twice
Now i hear that you ain't so happy being free
I guess it ain't so easy to forget about me

It ain't so easy, is it, baby, on the other side
It's about to drive you crazy lying awake at night
The bed's too big, the night's too long
You think too much and i'm too gone
No matter where you turn or what you do
My memory's looking back at you
It ain't so easy, is it, baby
It ain't so easy, is it, baby
It ain't so easy to forget about me

Got your own apartment, a sports car too,
Everything in your world is all shiny and new
That dream you're living ain't all you thought it would be
I guess it ain't so easy to forget about me

It ain't so easy, is it, baby, on the other side
It's about to drive you crazy lying awake at night
The bed's too big, the night's too long
You think too much and i'm too gone
No matter where you turn or what you do
My memory's looking back at you
It ain't so easy, is it, baby
It ain't so easy, is it, baby
It ain't so easy to forget about me

The bed's too big, the night's too long
You think too much and i'm too gone
No matter where you turn or what you do
My memory's looking back at you
It ain't so easy, is it, baby
It ain't so easy, is it, baby
It ain't so easy to forget about me

It ain't so easy
It ain't so easy
It's about to drive you crazy
It ain't so easy, is it, baby


9.There's A War In Me

(gayl carlberg/jill wilkin/deborah berwyn)

Another night in separate rooms
We quietly nurse our wounds
I tell myself i'd be better off on my own
I say girl, just walk away
There is nothing left to say
But then i stop and think of spending my life all alone

There's a war in me
The battle lines are drawn
I'm torn between letting go and hanging on
What's right, what's wrong
It's so hard to tell
There's a war in me
And war is hell

When life peeks through the curtain cracks
I look beyond the smoke and ash
I start remembering the laughter more than the tears
I say girl, you can't give up
Deep down you're still in love
But then i stop and think our love has been dying for years

There's a war in me
The battle lines are drawn
I'm torn between letting go and hanging on
What's right, what's wrong
It's so hard to tell
There's a war in me
And war is hell

I finally made up my mind
I pray in time i find peace
But right now in my heart as i leave

There's a war in me
The battle lines are drawn
I'm torn between letting go and hanging on
What's right, what's wrong
It's so hard to tell
There's a war in me
And war is hell

There's a war in me
And war is hell


10.Sometime

(robin lee bruce/ed bruce)

Sometime i thought i'd found the one love of my lifetime
Funny how your heart can fool ya sometime
Nighttime, the memories start to crawl around the nighttime
Trying to steal what little is left of my mind
They don't scare me like they used to
I never hardly ever even think about him sometime

Sometime i almost convince myself that he's not on my mind
Then again i think i hear him in the drive
Lost time, i was on occasion, days i just can't find
Picking up the phone and no one is on the line
I surprise myself i'm doing this well
I never hardly ever think about him sometime

Someone else might think i'm over him and doing fine
Someone else won't miss him quite like i do all the time
I surprise myself i'm doing this well
I never hardly ever think about him sometime

Someone else might think i'm over him and doing fine
Someone else won't miss him quite like i do all the time
I surprise myself i'm doing this well
I never hardly ever even think about him sometime

I surprise myself i'm doing this well
I never hardly ever even think about him sometime


11.I'd Rather Miss You

(bat mcgrath/michael jones/anthony little)

Don't tell me that it's over because i know my heart won't hear
It thinks we'll be together like we've been for all these years
I know this may sound foolish, but you've got to realize

I'd rather be a fool than to say good-bye
I'd rather take my chances that i'll get one more try
I'd rather live a lie than to face the truth
Before i'd love somebody new, i'd rather miss you

I can't imagine life without you
I close my eyes and see your face
You say i'll find another, but who could ever take your place
So i'll keep on believing my love will change your mind

I'd rather be a fool than to say good-bye
I'd rather take my chances that i'll get one more try
I'd rather live a lie than to face the truth
Before i love somebody new, i'd rather miss you

I'd rather be a fool than to say good-bye
I'd rather take my chances that i'll get one more try
I'd rather live a lie than to face the truth
Before i love somebody new, i'd rather miss you