Up Front and Down Low

Teddy Thompson Up Front and Down Low Lyrics
1.Change Of Heart

Lyricist:Boudleaux Bryant, Felice Bryant

Well, I guess you must have had a change of heart
You don't treat me like you did at the start
Your campaign of love was quite a work of art
Now I guess you must have had a change of heart

Guess, I took too much for granted anyway
But it's just 'cause I'd believe those things you'd say
Not so long ago you swore we'd never part
Now I guess you must have had a change of heart

So goodbye to all those castles in the air
And goodbye to all those plans we used to share
They were fragments of a dream that fell apart
Now they're gone because you had a change of heart
They're all gone because you had a change of heart


2.She Thinks I Still Care

Lyricist:Dickey Lee

Just because I ask a friend about her
Just because I spoke her name somewhere
Just because I rang her number by mistake today
She thinks I still care

Just because I haunt the same old places
Where the memories of her linger everywhere
Just because I'm not the happy guy I used to be
She thinks I still care

But if she's happy thinkin' I still need her
Well let that silly notion bring her cheer
But how could she ever be so foolish
Ah, where would she get such an idea

Just because I ask a friend about her
Just because I spoke her name somewhere
Just because I saw her then went all to pieces
She thinks I still care, she thinks I still care


3.Let's Think About Living

Lyricist:Boudleaux Bryant

One, two, three, four

In every other song that I've heard lately
Some fellow gets shot
And his baby and his best friend both die with him
As likely as not

In half of the other songs some cats cryin'
Well I wish I could die
Lost most of our happy people
I'ma wonderin' why

Let's think about livin', let's think about lovin'
Let's think about the hoopin' and the hoppin'
And the boppin' and the lovey, lovey dovin'

Let's forget about the whinin'
The cryin', the shootin' and the dyin'
The fellow with the switch blade knife
Let's think about livin', let's think about life

We lost ol' Marty Bobbins
Down in El Paso a hile back
And now Miss Patty Page or one of them
Is a wearin' black

And Cathy's Clown has Don and Phil
Where they feel like they could die
If we keep on a losin' our singers like that
I'll be the only one you can buy

Let's think about livin', let's think about lovin'
Let's think about the hoopin' and the hoppin'
And the boppin' and the lovey, lovey dovin'

Let's forget about the whinin'
The cryin', the shootin' and the dyin'
The fellow with the switch blade knife
Let's think about livin', let's think about life

Let's think about livin', let's think about lovin'
Let's think about the hoopin' and the hoppin'
And the boppin' and the lovey, lovey dovin'

Let's forget about the whinin'
The cryin', the shootin' and the dyin'
The fellow with the switch blade knife
Let's think about livin', let's think about life
Let's think about livin', let's think about life


4.Touching Home

Lyricist:Dallas Frazier, A L Owens

Today pain became a real life hurting thing
And the choir of loneliness sang me a song
Now I know just what it means to lose a lifetime dream
'Cause today I can feel it touching home

No longer do I wonder why men have lost their minds
Or wind up in a jungle of flashing neon signs
Now I know just how long a man can last when love is gone
'Cause today I can feel it touching home

No longer do I wonder why men have lost their minds
Or wind up in a jungle of flashing neon signs
Now I know just how long a man can last when love is gone
'Cause today I can feel it touching home
Yes, today I can feel it touching home


5.Walking The Floor Over You

Lyricist:Ernest Tubb

You left me and you went away
You said that you'd be back in just a day
That day's come and gone
And you're still away from home
I'm walking the floor over you

I'm walking the floor over you
I can't sleep a wink that is true
I'm hoping and I'm praying
As my heart breaks right in two
Walking the floor over you

Now darling, you know I love you well
I love you more than I could ever tell
And I thought that you would love me
And you always would be mine
But you went away and left me
With troubles on my mind

Now I'm walking the floor over you
I can't sleep a wink, that is true
I'm hoping and I'm praying
As my heart breaks right in two
Walking the floor over you


6.My Friends Are Gonna Be Strangers

Lyricist:Liz Anderson

All the love you promised would be mine forever
I would have bet my bottom dollar on
Well, it sure turned out to be a short forever
Just once I turned by back and you were gone

From now on, all my friends are gonna be strangers
I'm all through ever trusting anyone
The only thing I could count on now is my fingers
I was a fool believing you, now you are gone

It amazes me not knowing any better
Than to think I had a love that would be true
Well I should be taken out, tarred and feathered
To have let myself be taken in by you

From now on, all my friends are gonna be strangers
I'm all through ever trusting anyone
The only thing I can count on now is my fingers
I was a fool believing you, now you are gone


7.My Heart Echoes

Lyricist:Frankie Bailes, Homer Bailes, John J Bailes, Walter Bailes,
Muriel Deason Wright

My heart echoes now that you're gone dear
My heart echoes with misery
All the times that I wasn't true, dear
My heart echoes it back to me

There's a emptiness tonight, there's a longing in my heart
For your tender loving smile and sweet caress
Oh if you could only see what you're leaving did to me
You would come back dear and fill this loneliness

My heart echoes now that you're gone dear
My heart echoes with misery
All the times that I wasn't true, dear
My heart echoes it back to me

Though we said that we were through
I'll be waiting here for you
As I have, dear, ever since we've been apart
I know dear that I was wrong, I can't go on
For you're always in the echo of my heart

My heart echoes now that you're gone dear
My heart echoes with misery
All the times that I wasn't true, dear
My heart echoes it back to me


8.The Worst Is Yet To Come

Lyricist:Elizabeth Anderson, Liz Anderson

Such a little time has passed since you went away
Where are all these little heartaches coming from?
I can hardly stand the pain of missing you today
And I know the worst is yet to come

If there was something I could find
To drive these tears from me
Then I'd go right out, get me one
I've already cried enough to fill the deep blue sea
And I know the worst is yet to come

There'll be all those sleepless nights
When I just lay and cry
And the hours will seem to have no end
They'll be days when it won't matter if I live or die
Wishing I could have you back again

If there was something I could find
To drive these tears from me
Then I'd go right out, get me one
I've already cried enough to fill the deep blue sea
And I know the worst is yet to come


9.Down Low

Lyricist:Teddy Thompson

Love, I've been thinkin' of you
And the things I used to do
And the trouble I make

Love, you'd be better off dead
With a bullet in your head
Than to come back to me

Keep it on the down low
Don't tell everybody you know
I loved you more than I showed

But I'm only a man
And my pride makes demands
That only ever lead me to sorrow

So burn all the letters I sent
For every word that I meant
There were two that were lies

And forget every nice thing I said
There were thoughts in my head
That would make you cry

Keep it on the down low
Don't tell everybody you know
I loved you more than I showed

But I'm only a man
And my pride makes demands
That only ever lead me to sorrow

I was makin' you sad
I have a heart but it is bad

Keep it on the down low
Don't tell everybody you know
I loved you more than I showed

But I'm only a man
And my pride makes demands
That only ever lead me to sorrow

So go, good luck try to grow
Break the habits I show
While you still got time

And find someone who cares
For you and himself
While you still got time


10.I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone

Lyricist:Stanley Kesler, William Taylor

You're right, I'm left, she's gone
You're right, I'm left all alone
Well, you tried to tell me so
But how was I to know
That she was not the one for me?

You told me all along
You're right, our love was so wrong
But now I changed my mind
'Cause she broke the ties that bind
And I know that she never cared for me

Well, I thought I knew just that what she'd do
Yeah, I guess I'm not so smart
You tried to tell me all along
She'd only break my heart

Well, I'm left, you're right, she's gone
Yeah, you're right, I'm left all alone
Well, she's gone I know not where
But now I just don't care
For now I've fallen for you, yeah

If you'll forgive, forgive me now
I'll make it up somehow
So happy we will be
In a home for just us three
Now soon forget her, now I know

Well, I thought I knew just what she'd do
Yeah, I guess I'm not so smart
You tried to tell me all along
She'd only break my heart

Well, I'm left, you're right, she's gone
You're right, I'm left all alone
Well, she's gone, I know not where
But now I just don't care
For now I have fallen for you

Yeah, she's gone, I know not where
Oh but now I just don't care
For now I have fallen for you

You're right, I'm left, she's gone
You're right, I'm left


11.My Blue Tears

Fly you away from my window little blue bird
Fly as far as you can away from here
And let not your song fall upon my ear
Go spread your blue wings and I'll shed my blue tears

For the one that I have loved, she has left me and gone
And now I'm in no mood for to hear your sad long
Bring not your light into my dark room little sunshine
Waste not your warmth on the coldness in here

Oh trouble me not and go ye elsewhere?
Go light your blue sky and I'll shed my blue tears

For the only one that I have ever loved has gone away
And now I'm in no mood for your sunshine today

For the only one that I have ever loved has gone away
And now I'm in no mood for your sunshine today

Go spread your blue wings; Go light your blue sky
And I'll shed my blue tears


12.You Finally Said Something Good (When You Said Goodbye)

You finally said something good when you said goodbye
So don't wait around to see if i'm gonna cry
Instead of tears streaming down my face
You'll find a great big smile in place
You finally said something good when you said goodbye

I don't wanna rush you baby but i'll help you pack
I've been waitin' for you to make a move like that
Don't waste your time on goodbyes dear
You've already said what i want to hear
You finally said something good when you said goodbye

If it'll help you move faster i'll call you a cab
Don't worry about the far i'll pay the tab
You've been talkin' and talkin' all these years
And you've finally said what i want to hear
You finally said something good when you said goodbye

You finally said something good when you said goodbye
So don't wait around to see if i'm gonna cry
Instead of tears streaming down my face
You'll find a great big smile in place
You finally said something good when you said goodbye

Yeah you finally said something good when you said goodbye


13.Don't Ask Me to Be Friends

After all we've been
To one another
How can we become
Like sister and brother

Darling, I beg of you
If our love must end
Ask me to forget you
But don't ask me to be friends

After being the one
That you took pride in
I just couldn't be
The friend you confide in

If it's goodbye for us
We'll never meet again
Ask me to forget you
But don't ask me to be friends

Wanting you so badly
Needing you like this
How can I just look at
The lips that I used to kiss

If there's someone else
Don't let me see him
Cause I'll spend my life
Wishing I could be him

Darling, I beg of you
If our love must end
Ask me to forget you
But don't ask me to be friends