Next Life
© 2004 Travis Allison, BMI
I'm going write you love songs
I'm going to dream of you
I'm going to sing you love songs
Verse 2
Inspired by your glory
I'll write to you in stories
I'm going to wish I'm dreaming
Chorus
Oh, where in time are we together?
Is it the next life in line or is it forever?
Oh, where in space could you be there for me?
Do we exist in place or can we move freely?
Verse 1 again
Chorus 2
Could you be around me, surrounding me
Grounding me to be the best man I can?
Man, I hope this ain't some trick on me
Chorus 3
Enough
© 2004 Travis Allison, BMI
Time going along, ain't waited for no one yet
Heavy like a freight train bearing down on me
Like a bottle gone sour, like a lemon in wine
Leaving me nothing except for you to spend some time
and that's enough
Verse 2
October nights, ain't much prettier than this
Quietly a cypress stretches up to the moon
Crickets calling, stars are dancing fools
Feels like I really may have beaten September's blues
It'd been enough
Chorus To taste, to feel
to laugh with no will
To dance, to dance
to dream, to be real
Bridge
Watered down and slightly off the trail
Life will send you when you lay down for one minute
You flew in as graceful as a swallow on Green Lake
and the pitter-patter rain of September's blues
Verse 3
Time going along, ain't waited for no one yet
Heavy like a freight train bearing down on me
Like a bottle gone sour, like a lemon in wine
Leaving me nothing but this little bit of time
and that's enough
B to A
© 2004 Travis Allison, BMI
It's easy sometimes when you're traveling from A to B
to get lost
and the path to your goal becomes your whole life
and you work for tomorrow and every next day
now you're just trying to get back from B to A
Chorus
You've got to enjoy the course of adventure
the everyday between the lines of tomorrow
every soul you meet, every bite to eat
every love you greet along the way
Verse 2
A merry-go-round of choices back to back
up ahead are myriad bridges to pick from
swimming in a maze
you just can't find the ground through all the haze
Chorus 2
Leave it to the clouds and stars up above us
tonight the moon's ring is shouting out loud
listen to the wind through the trees
when chaos finds some peace
Bridge
We push on 'till we break our backs
I'm out I need to breathe I need to laugh
and I know the work will wait
I'm just trying to get back from B to A
Chorus 3
You've got to enjoy the course of adventure
the everyday between the lines of tomorrow
every soul you meet, every bite to eat
every love you greet along the way
Bridge 2
We push on 'till we break our backs
I'm out, I need to bleed I need to laugh
And I know the work will wait
I'm just trying to get back from B to A
I'm just trying to get myself back home
Sunday's Song
© 2004 Travis Allison, BMI
An ordinary person
wouldn't let a thing like that go
walking out on love
tearing life out of a beaten heart
this always happens to me
Verse 2
A Sunday by the ocean
praying for a sense to knock me out
show me that I was wrong
that you and I can't be strong
'cause right now all I think is that we're perfect
Chorus
You and I have both seen love go by our doorways
I'm parked right outside your house
won't you come on out
let's find out for real
can this dream live out loud
Bridge
Trying to love, trying to find
trying to feel, trying to see but I feel blind
trying to know, trying to act
just trying to be, trying to react to what life is throwing me
See what I know, see if it's real
see if it goes the way I hope
the way you know when something's right trust me once give us a
try
Verse 3
No poet's line could put it any better
than what my heart is reading to me
every beat and all the heat from love is bleeding out of me to you
You Got Me
© 2004 Travis Allison, BMI
I play hands all night long
You stand beside me and fight the numbers
Smiling I found a place to stay
I probably find you most the nights I am away
Chorus
You're my queen of diamonds
You're my canyon view
You're every sunset clear enough to see
And you got me
Verse 2
Across the mountaintops
the tide is edging in
you got your sand and I've got hills to climb
but there're the stars again and we can be together for a while
Chorus 2
Bridge
I'm sitting on top of the world spinning with you
Every night out on the road I thank my stars for coming through
Chorus 3
Meridio Divine
© 2004 Travis Allison, BMI
77 North, out in the cold
this morning fails to be anything but soothing on my skin
God it was worth it
Traveling on, tripped a few
500 miles gone and all I want is to hear your name
Chorus Ruth Meridio Devine Semio Terrio Bell Caroline Josie Ossie
Phyllis Kate Mary Ella Penelope Fan Dan Doodle Opadilla Barazilla
Hanamariah Susie Jane Boatwright Brunson Jr. Sophie for short...
The sun is dribbling down my neck
Deliberate traces
They're all for the lonely one
Don't need any walls to cling to
Don't need any songs to sing to
All I need is to hear your name
Chorus
Initial my heart if it takes seven years
I'll smile through all the pain
Chorus
Gamblin' Man
© 2004 Travis Allison, BMI
Jonah is looking down on his luck
A smile as soft as his touch
Rolling songs off of his tongue
In '82 he had it all thought through
The money's out there for the making, baby
I'll send a letter when I get there, darlin'
Pre-Chorus 1
Songs swimming up in his head
Kissed the dice and rolled to Nashville
"Last time around I swear, if'n these songs don't get to no
one nowhere
I'm gonna walk away forever"
Chorus 1
But he's a gambling man, through thick and thin
Your luck run out, but luck will run again
Pouring his songs into a world that's full of dreams
Save a dollar, spare your song
But, nobody taught him right from wrong
Everybody knows to play it safe
Verse 2
Back when he was twenty-four
He had a lot more hope to live for
Same empty pockets, but a little bit more room
He'd ante up for the shows and contests
Pray for luck may this one be blessed
Looking at the table he did his best
Pre-chorus 2
Free booze in the bars at night
One more song till they cut on the lights
Every night he sees the lights go on and the people go out the door
"Last time around I swear, if'n these songs don't get to no
one in there
I'm gonna walk away forever"
Chorus 2
But he's a gambling man through thick and thin
Your luck run out, but luck may run again
Pouring his songs into a world that's full of dreams
Thank God, we got a right to be loud
With any thought we can dream up or spit out
Everybody's free to play the bluff
Verse 3
Cause the songs are sweet and they make him feel
Like a friend they help keep it real
Just when everything gets out of control
Chorus 3
But he's a gambling man, through thick and thin
Your luck run out, but luck can run again
Pouring his songs into a world that's full of dreams
Save a dollar, spare your song
But, nobody taught him right from wrong
Everybody knows to play it safe
Becky & Howard
Becky can't complain about Howard
he fixes cars she tends flowers
they dance a slow waltz across the floors of life
keeping time and moving on
Chorus 1
And times change and people move on
friends fade into daydreams now and then they're gone
they bounce around from town to town
they do what they want to when
Verse 2 No "Woman, get off my back!"
no "Howard, why don't you do that!"
Wednesday's Tennessee poker, Saturday's pot luck
living cheap 'till Lady Luck run up
Chorus 2
And times change and people move on
friends fade into daydreams now and then they're gone
they bounce around like a pinball town to town
they do what they want to when
Bridge
Well a day came when Howard fell ill
Becky settled in to smooth the edges of the chill
there is a way where there's a will
their life the better pill and so...
Verse 3
Spingtime in Carolina, life is good
moving into a home on the river
dancing round the room by the candlelight
Becky can't complain about life
Chorus 3
And times change and people move on
friends fade into daydreams now and then they're gone
they bounce around like a from town to town
they do what they want to when
One More Shot
© 2004 Travis Allison, Bridging Music, BMI
I guess I felt like the bottom was about to fall
I never meant to take it out on you or take a side at all
Different shifts we've been working overtime
I just want to say "I'm sorry" and I can't explain why
Chorus
We work so hard we're taking steps faster together
And then the pace kicks in another notch we're looking past forever
Let's slow down, let's take stock
It's what we have it's not what we have not
Give me one more shot
Verse 2
We've been digging deeper into every day
And dreams that we're chasing down still seem so far away
Both of use doing the best we can
Maybe the best thing is enjoy instead of plan
Chorus 2
We work so hard we're taking steps faster together
And then the pace kicks in another notch we're driving past forever
Let's slow down, let's take stock
It's what we have it's not what we have not
Give me one more shot
Bridge
In another lifetime maybe I was stronger still
Maybe I could have offered you a better life downhill
Now I see I just need to be with you upon my journey
Gonna put my phone down, shut my screen off, what's my hurry?
Verse 3
I've got to slow it down, I've got to think it through
Watching you sleep I know what I have to do
Just enjoy every moment, every kiss
I'm not going to let you slip away and maybe miss this
Chorus 3
Walk On
© 2004 Travis Allison, Bridging Music, BMI
A little bit of thunder
a little bit of rain is coming down
why won't you come back around
Don't know what you are thinking of
can't you see there is no more blinded love
than you have found in me
Chorus
Everyday I rise from my bed
and see the past in my head
where'd you go chasing all that love
somewhere, somewhere else I guess
Verse 2
Standing poised in your cut-off shorts
hands on the hips of your sleeveless shirt
your hair pulled half-way up
Laughing on the swing porch again
say how good it feels to be friends
that's just about when I woke
Chorus
Now I wonder where in the world
you could be
I could you see you with a family
or are you traveling with your boots on baby
baby likes to travel with her boots on
so walk on
Just a Kiss
I woke up early and my head was spinning
My God, we must have turned it on
A broken glass lies beside me
The bed's still empty and you're still gone
Chorus
I lost everything when I strayed from your arms
It was just a kiss, a minor stumble
It's like a page out of your magazines
The words are blurry
I can't make out the ending
But somehow I know you won't be
Coming home to me
Strange how our home never seemed so big
While all my world never seemed so small
It's all those little things like drinking cheap coffee
And listening to Waylon while we painted the hall
Chorus
I can't remember that night in South Boston
It burns me up inside
Just know that I'm sorry, baby, and that you have my heart
It's along for the ride
The sun is shining through the man on my pillow
This used to be my favorite time of year
Now I'm a shadow that goes by unnoticed
Consumed by the memory of you in tears
Chorus
Welcome In
© 2004 Lisa Allison and Travis Allison, BMI
With a hand on the door
You beckon for more
With a heart split in two
I breathe in and walk through
No time to ask why
But then I've always been shy
You toss me a grin and say welcome in
Chorus
Life is big, we all know the moral of the story
But can you show me where to begin?
Welcome in to this train is bound for glory
But I don't know if I can begin
Cause I feel a little blurry
Verse 2
A life out of sorts
Bouncing balls with no courts
All the space to be free
To me to just be
Looking for strings
You can't take pleasure in things
The words ring too true
But if only you knew
Chorus 2
The Same Things
© 2004 Travis Allison, BMI
He's gonna need some luck but he doesn't think he does
he thinks it's all just a matter of time
he doesn't know despair, he hasn't met his share
but he sure will I'd bet my dime
I always like to see a good dream
in the eyes of another human being
that seems to cut through the bullshit
and all the material things of our time help redefine
what a mess we can be when we are full of it
Chorus 1
We all want the same things
but if we can't agree will we get there at all?
and we all sometimes fit in the same shoes
no matter how strong sometimes we fall
Verse 2
He never needed much, now he needs someone to touch
some things we have are easy to abuse
I try to take a little more time
these days can peel your rind
just when you bet high you draw a deuce
So he steers his ship to sea, just when you think he's free
pirate lightning rods pin him to the bone
guess nature's shrewd as man
sometimes when it hits the fan
it's the only true thing that you have ever known
Chorus 2
Bridge
And the hardest part of this
is the silence that keeps screaming aloud
fire on the horizon
do we have to blow up to speak out?
Verse 1 again
Chorus 3
Early Morning Nights
The blinds are halfway open
I battle with the glare
Much too dead to move my head
The contest wasn't fair
The fan is buzzing, stuck on high
It's worse than my alarm
I seldom hate the light of day
But today it brings no charm
Chorus
Those early morning nights
They're leaving me so pale
While others drink their coffee
Preparing for the sale
I lie awake in bed, half inside a dream
Half knowing when I wake up
It'll be the same routine
Those early morning nights will kill us all...
We really had a good time
Our children will be proud
Daddy used to party, Momma used to love it loud
As of now we take it all in and wish we had more time
To be so young and pink of lung and ever in our prime
Chorus
Bridge Those early morning nights, they will kill us all
Hang us out to dry while we re-live it all
It's easy to be faithful to the ones you love
But seldom ride the stars up above
The music pulls me out when the world is closing in
Willie's going places and we're on the road again
The throb subsides a little, but I'm frozen halfway down
That old familiar feeling starts coming back around
Chorus
Shores of Time
© 2004 Travis Allison, BMI
In my mind I see illusions of my past
People, places, things and all the thoughts I thought would last
What you come back for and what you seem to pass
It almost always goes too fast
In my sight I see what's out there left to come
People, places, things and all the thoughts I should've sung
When I get there I'll have only just begun
There's always too much to be done
In the present I am feeling mighty fine
Singing all the thoughts and writing all the unsung rhyme
Now I'm here alone and deep inside my mind
Drifting by the shores of time
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