Wild Angels

Martina McBride Wild Angels Lyrics
1.Wild Angels

Written:Matraca Berg/Gary Harrison/Harry Stinson

Between the perfect world and the bottom line
Keeping love alive in these troubles times
It's a miracle in itself
And we know too well what that's about
Still we made it through, only God knows how
We must've had a little help
(Must've been)

CHORUS
Wild Angels, Wild Angels
Watching over you and me
Wild Angels, Wild Angels
Baby what else could it be

Well it must've been hard, it must've been tough
Keeping up with crazy fools like us
'Cause it's so easy to fall apart
And we still break each other's heart sometimes
Spend some nights on the jagged side
Somehow we wake up in each other's arms
(Must've been)

(REPEAT CHORUS)

BRIDGE
There are some nights
I watch you while you dream
I swear I hear the sound of beating wings


2.Safe in the Arms of Love

Written:Pam Rose/Mary Ann Kennedy/Pat Bunch

My heart's not ready for the rocking chair
I need somebody who really cares
So tired of livin' solitare
Someday I'm gonna be
Safe in the arms of love

Strip your heart and it starts to snow
Love is a high-wire act I know
Someday I'll find a net below

Someday I'm gonna be
Safe in the arms of love
Safe in the arms of love

CHORUS
I want arms that know how to rock me
Safe in the arms of love
I wanna fall and know that love has caught me
Safe in the arms of love
Safe in the arms of love

I want a heart to be forever mine
Want eyes to see me satisfied
Gonna hang my heartaches out to dry
Some day I'm gonna be safe in the arms of love
Safe in the arms of love


3.Phones Are Ringin' All Over Town

Written:Marc Beeson/Kin Vassy/David Mackechnie

With lipstick on his collar and a trace of cheap perfume
He undresses in the darkness and eases into bed
With her face turned to the other wall she pretends to be asleep
But it doesn't really matter 'cause there's nothin' to be said

He calls from work to tell her he's sorry about last night
If he uses all the right words she'll forgive him once again
But the phone just keeps on ringin' and he knows that
something's wrong
He feels his heart start pounding, and his head begin to spin

CHORUS
Phones are ringin' all over town
North and south and east and west on main street up and down
He's got friends of his callin' friends of hers
But she's nowhere to be found
Phones are ringin' all over town

He calls the hospital, her sister's house and the place that
does her hair
God, if somthin' ever happened he'd surely lose his mind
And he's thinkin' it's just like she's disappeared into thin air
As American flight #204 departed right on time

(REPEAT CHORUS)

Well he knows she'd never leave him
She's just got to be around
Phones are ringin'
Phones are ringin'
Phones are ringin' all over town


4.A Great Disguise

Written:Even Stevens/Hillary Kanter/Greg Barnhill

People talking, think I'm all right
Think I'm doing fine
Goin' through the motions of my life
Go to work now every mornin'
Yeah I play the part
And hide away the contents of my solemn heart

CHORUS
But when the sun goes down
And the moon is high
I can't control the flood of all these tears inside
And if they only knew
They'd be so surprised
I'm just a good pretender in a great disguise

Keep 'em guessin', keep 'em laughin'
Build that wall up high
As long as they don't see the other side
You've really done it
Done a number, a number on my soul
But I'll be damned if I'll ever let you know

CHORUS
But when the sun goes down
And the moon is high
There's no way to hide the truth from me, myself, and I
Yeah, I wear it well
Though it ain't my size
I'm just a good pretender in a great disguise

I'm not one to show emotion
Like some fools I see
I won't wear my heart out on my sleeve
I don't miss you
Not for a moment
I'm gonna be okay

Words of wisdom spoken
By the light of day

CHORUS
But when the sun goes down
And the moon is high
Your memory pulls me under like a strong riptide
I'm still in love with you
It's all smoke and lights
I'm just a good pretender in a great disguise
I'm just a good pretender in a great disguise


5.Swingin' Doors

Written:Chapin Hartford/Bobby Boyd/Jim Foster

You have worn a path
Right up to my heart
You come in for a while but you don't stay
And I've come to realize
That your promises are lies
To buy you time when you want to get away

CHORUS
You must think my heart has swingin' doors
The way that you keep comin' back and forth
I can feel it's getting close to closing time
And I won't be leavin' my heart open anymore

Well, I've heard you're back in town
I suppose you'll come around
When nights are cold and friends are hard to find
You always seem to wait
'Til all the pieces are in place
Then you walk back in and rearrange my life

(REPEAT CHORUS)

BRIDGE
So if you're walking down my street just keep on walking by
I'm hangin' out a sign sayin' this well has run dry


6.All The Things We've Never Done

Written:Craig Bickhardt/Jeff Pennig

They drank their anniversary glass
A silent moment passed
Then they kissed
She knows there's something on his mind
He'll tell her in due time
What it is

CHORUS
He says 'I've never built
Your mansion on a hill
Or warmed you in the Spanish sun
I simply blink my eye
And think as years fly by
Of all the things we've never done'

She smiles and takes his hand in hers
And says 'It just occured
To me now
The thought that brings you such regret
What hasn't happened yet
It makes me proud...'

CHORUS
'You never walked away
When I needed you to stay
Or made me feel I'm not the one
There've been no broken vows
And there reason we're here now
Is all the things we've never done'

'We've never grown apart
You never broke my heart
With secrets that you've kept me from
We've never been untrue
And I'm still here with you
Through all the things we've never done'


7.Two More Bottles of Wine

Lyrics:Delbert Mcclinton
Music:Delbert Mcclinton

We came out west together with a common desire
The fever we had might-a set the west coast on fire
Two months later got a troublin' mind
'Cause my baby moved out and left me behind
But it's all right 'cause it's midnight and I got two more
bottles of wine

Well, the way he left sure turned my head around
Seemed like over night he just up and put me down
Ain't gonna let it bother me today
'Cause I've been workin' and I'm too tired anyway
But it's all right 'cause it's midnight and I got two more
bottles of wine

Well, I'm sixteen hundred miles from the people I know
I've been doin' what I can but opportunity sure comes slow
Thought I'd be a big star by today
But I've been sleepin' in a warehouse in West L.A.
But it's all right 'cause it's midnight and I got two more
bottles of wine
Yes, it's all right 'cause it's midnight and I got two more
bottles of wine


8.Cry on the Shoulder of the Road

Lyrics:Matraca Berg/Tim Krekel
Music:Matraca Berg/Tim Krekel

I'm rolling out of Bakersfield
My own private hell on wheels
But this time I'm gone for good
And I've never gone this far before
Beyond the slamming of the back screen door
But you never loved me like you should

CHORUS
And there ain't no telling what I'll find
But I might as well move down the line
There's no comfort here in your zip code
I'd rather break down on the highway
With no one to share my load
And cry on the shoulder of the road

It makes me feel a little low
Steel guitar on the radio
And it's kinda scary the way these truckers fly
So this is how leaving feels
Drinking coffee and making deals with the One above
To get me through the night

(REPEAT CHORUS)
'Cause there ain't no telling what I'll find...


9.You've Been Driving All the Time

Lyrics:Pat Bunch/Harry Stinson
Music:Pat Bunch/Harry Stinson

Well, I was born full speed ahead
I was racin' time my mama said
I really covered some ground 'til you slowed me down
And took my life where angels fear to tread

CHORUS
Everywhere I go your hands are on the wheel
When everybody thinks they're mine
It takes a real man to take a backseat to a woman
But honey you've been drivin' all the time

Your love's so unconditional
You never push and you never pull
And your love is so blind
You walk a step behind
You start me every day and let me roll

(REPEAT CHORUS)

And with each new day that passes by
And every dream I dare to try
You lift me gently up
So tenderly with love
And give me even stronger wings to fly


10.Born to Give My Love to You

Written:Pat Bunch/Pam Rose/Mary Ann Kennedy

I don't know what brought us here
Something in the stars said you and me
I don't know where this feeling comes from
Surely it was meant to be
For I have known you even in my dreams
My eyes are open, my heart can see

CHORUS
As sure as stars light the midnight sky
As sure as children wonder why
As sure as newborn babies cry
I was born to give my love to you
Born to give my love to you

Heaven must be holding on
To all the love I'm feeling now
Here we are this is the moment
I believe it's our turn somehow
Hearts together, hands across the night
One forever, finally in sight

(REPEAT CHORUS)

I was born to give my love to you
(I was born to give my love to you)
I was born to give my love to you
I was born to give my love to you


11.Beyond the Blue

Written:David Kent/Ashe Underwood

The sky's been grey every day since I lost you
But I know the sun is shinin' somewhere... beyond the blue
My eyes were red when you said that we were through
But now I can see better days for me... just beyond the blue

BRIDGE
Beyond the blue... on the other side of lonely
And it's only a matter of time... until I'm
Lookin' back and feelin' like I'm over you
When these tears are gone and I'm beyond the blue

BRIDGE
Beyond the blue... on the other side of lonely
And it's only a matter of time... until I'm
On my feet and I meet somebody new
And I fall in love again beyone the blue
When these tears are gone and I'm beyond the blue