1. Stand
2. What Hurts the Most
3. Backwards
4. I Feel Bad
5. My Wish
6. Pieces
7. Yes I Do
8. To Make Her Love Me
9. Words I Couldn't Say
10. Me and My Gang
11. Cool Thing
12. Ellsworth
13. He Ain't the Leavin' Kind
Rascal Flatts - Me and My Gang
LYRICS
STAND
Danny Orton and Blair Daly
You feel like a candle in a hurricane
Just like a picture with a
Broken frame
Alone and helpless,
Like you've lost your fight
But you'll be alright, you'll be alright
CHORUS
'Cause when push comes to shove
You taste what you're made of
You might bend 'til you break
'cause it's all you can take
On your knees you look up
Decide you've had enough
You get mad, you get strong
Wipe your hands, shake it off
Then you stand, then you stand
Life's like a novel with the end
Ripped out
The edge of a canyon with only
One way down
Take what you're given before
It's gone
And start holdin' on, keep holdin' on
REPEAT CHORUS
Every time you get up
And get back in the race
One more small piece of you
Starts to fall into place yeah
Yeah, then you stand, yeah
Yeah, baby
Woo hoo, whoo hoo, whoo hoo
Then you stand, yeah, yeah
FADE
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What Hurts The Most
Jeffrey Steele and Steve Robson
I can take the rain
On the roof of this empty house
That don't bother me
I can take a few tears now and then
And I just let 'em out
I'm not afraid to cry every once
In a while
Even though goin' on with you
Gone still upsets me
There are days every now and again
I pretend I'm okay
But that's not what gets me
CHORUS
What hurts the most
Was being so close
And havin' so much to say
And watchin' you walk away
And never knowin'
What could've been
And not seein' that lovin' you
Is what I was tryin' to do
It's hard to deal with the pain
Of losin' you everywhere I go
But I'm doin' it
It's hard to force that smile
When I see our old friends and
I'm alone
Still harder getting' up, getting'
Dressed, livin' with this regret
But I know if I could do it over
I would trade, give away
All the words that I saved in my heart
That I left unspoken
REPEAT CHORUS TWICE
Not seein' that lovin' you
That's what I was trying to do
Oooo, Oooo, Oooo
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BACKWARDS
Marcel and Tony Mullins
I was sittin' on a bar stool
In a barbeque joint in Tennessee
When this ole boy walked in
And he sat right down next to me
I could tell he'd been through
Some hard times
There were tear stains on his
Old shirt and he said-
"Ya wanna know what ya get when you
Play a country song backwards?"
CHORUS
Ya get your house back
Ya get your dog back
Ya get your best friend jack back
Ya get your track back -
Ya get your hair back
Ya get your first and second
Wives back
Your front porch swing, your
Pretty little thing
Your bling, bling, bling
And a diamond ring
You get your farm and the barn
And the boat and the harley
First night in jail with Charlie
It sounds a little crazy,
A little scattered and absurd
But that's what you get when you
Play a country song backwards
Well, I never heard it said quite
Like that
It hit me in the face
'Cause that's where I'm at
I almost fell flat on the floor
He said
"Wait a minute, that's not all,
There's even more"
CHORUS:
Ya get your mind back,
Your nerves back
Your first heart attack back
You get your pride back,
Get your life back
You get your first real love back
You get your big screen TV
A DVD and a washing machine
You get the pond and the lawn
The bail and the mower
You get to go back where you
Don't know her
It sounds a little crazy,
A little scattered and absurd
But that's what you get when you
Play a country song backwards
We sat there and shot the bull
About how it would be
If we could turn it all around
And change this C-R-A-P
REPEAT CHORUSES
FADE
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I FEEL BAD
Neil Thrasher, Wendell Mobley and Jason Sellers
I should be out in that driveway
Stoppin' you
Tears should be rollin' down
My cheek
And I don't know why
I'm not fallin' apart like I usually do
And how the thought of losin' you's
Not killin' me
CHORUS
I feel bad
That I can stand here strong,
Cold as stone
Seems so wrong, I can't explain it
Maybe it's just I've cried so much
I'm tried and I'm numb, baby I hate it
I feel bad
That I don't feel bad
I could let myself be angry over
Wasted time
And sad about just throwin' love away
Yeah, I almost wish my heart
Was breaking
But I can't lie
All I want to do is turn the page
REPEAT CHORUS
Bitter, alone
I just feel it's time it's time to
Move on
I just gotta move on and on and on
On and on yeah
Maybe it's just I've cried so much
I'm tired and I'm numb,
Oh baby, I hate it
I feel bad
That I don't feel bad
No, I don't feel bad
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MY WISH
Steve Robson and Jeffrey Steele
I hope the days come easy
And the moments pass slow
And each road leads you
Where you want to go
And if you're faced with the choice
And you have to choose
I hope you choose the one
That means the most to you
And if one door opens to another
Door closed
I hope you keep on walkin' 'til you
Find the window
If it's cold outside, show the
World the warmth of your smile
But more than anything,
More than anything
CHORUS
My wish for you
Is that life becomes all that
You want it to
Your dreams stay big, your
Worries stay small
You never need to carry more
Than you can hold
And while you're out there getting'
Where you're getting' to
I hope you know somebody loves you
And wants the same things too
Yeah, this is my wish
I hope you never look back but
You never forget
All the ones who love you
And the place you left
I hope you always forgive
And you never regret
And you help somebody every
Chance you get
Oh, you find God's grace in
Every mistake
And always give more than you take
But more than anything,
Yeah more than anything
REPEAT CHORUS TWICE
This is my wish
I hope you know somebody loves you
May all your dreams stay big
FADE
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PIECES
Jay Demarcus, Gary LeVox, Joe Don Rooney and Monty Powell
From the moment that we met
My world was turned around,
Upside down
To some degree I still regret
My memory
For keeping you around
Girl, I thought that you were mine
But my broken heart's been
Shattered
One too many times
CHORUS
And I don't wanna see you anymore
I'm just not that strong
I love it when you're here
But I'm better when you're gone
I'm certain that I've given
And oh how you can take
There's no use in you lookin;
There's nothin' left for you to break
Baby, please release me
Let my heart rest in pieces, in pieces
Someone let you down again
So you turn to me,
Your convenient friend
Oh, but I know what you're doin'
And what you hope to find
I've see it a thousand times
All the fire we had before
Are now just better ashes
Left scattered on the floor
REPEAT CHORUS TWICE
We both know that you don't need me
Let my heart rest in pieces, in pieces
Let it rest
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YES I DO
Jimmy Yeary and Wally Wilson
Ooo, Ooo, Ooo, Ooo
Do I cry in the night
Do I long to hold you tight
Do I wake wanting you
Yes I do
Do I recall every day
How you took my breath away
Do I remember loving you
Yes I do
CHORUS
Yes I do dream of all we had together
Guess it's true we lost it all forever
Do I pray anyway
Yes I do
I don't live in the past
Wanting love that wouldn't last
And I don't ache like I used to
Yes I do
REPEAT CHORUS TWICE
Yes I do
Do I play
Yes I do dream of all we had together
Yes I do and yes I do
FADE
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TO MAKE HER LOVE ME
Jay DeMarcus, Neil Thrasher and Wendell Mobley
You waved your hand and it was
Done
Said let it be and there it was
A mountain so high
It broke through the sky
A canyon so deep
It'd bring a man to his knees
CHORUS
I've seen what you can do
I've seen you make miracles
And hopeless dreams come true
You made the heaves and the stars
Everything come on, how hard
Could it be
To make her love me
I said some things I shouldn't have
Tried everything to win her back
I'm human, I missed up
Is she gone, are we done
Forgiveness, another chance
That's all I want, it's in your hands
REPEAT CHORUS TWICE
To make her love me yeah, yeah
To make her love me Ooo, Ooo, Ooo
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WORDS I COULDN'T SAY
Tammi Kidd, Steve Robson and Gregory Becker
In a book in a box in the closet
In a line in a song I once heard
In a moment on a front porch
Late on June
In a breath inside a whisper
Beneath the moon
There it was at the tip of my fingers
There it was on the tip of my tongue
There you were and I had never
Been that far
There it was the whole world
Wrapped inside my arms
And I let it all slip away
CHORUS
What do I do now that you're gone
No back up plan, no second chance
And no one else to blame
All I can hear in a silence
That remains
Are the words I couldn't say
There's a rain that'll
Never stop falling
There's a wall that I've tried to
Take down
What I should've said
Just wouldn't pass my lips
So I held back and now we've
Come to this
And it's too late now
REPEAT CHORUS
Are the words I couldn't say
I should have found a way
To tell you how I felt
Now the only one I'm tellin' is myself
REPEAT CHOURS
What do I do, what do I say
And no one else to blame
All I can hear in the silence that
Remains are the words I couldn't say
FADE
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ME AND MY GANG
Jeffrey Steele, Tony Mullins and Jon Stone
Way on down to southern Alabama
With the guitars jammin'
That's where we're headed
Straight up to Butte, Montana
Singin' "Lord, I was born a
Ramblin' man"
California to Oregon,
Even New York City
Got one or two hillbillies
Ready to hit the road
CHORUS
It's a brother and a sister
Kind of thang
Raise up your hands
If you all wanna hang
With me and my gang
We live to ride, we ride to live
Me and my gang, jump on that train
Grab hold of them reigns
We're gonna rock this thang,
Cock this thang
Me and my gang, yeah, me and
My gang
We got hippies, gypsies, freaks
And geeks
High class women in Daisy Duke denim
Bangin' on gongs and singing
Our songs
Dude named Elrock jammin'
On an iPod
Beer and bonfires
Wide open throttle
Coors in a bottle
It's all for one and one for all, ya'll
REPEAT CHORUS
Yeah- woo!
Na, na, na. na, na, na, na, na , na ,na, na
Na, na, na, na, na, na
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
REPEAT CHORUS
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Yeah with me and my gang
Jump on that train Whoa!
Grab hold of them reigns, baby!
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COOL THING
Joe Don Rooney, Neil Thrasher and Wendell Mobley
We were wrapped up in a blanket
Red wine buzz kickin' in
A little Sarasota moonlight
Driftwood fire burnin'
She was on break from Ohio State
And I was down there sellin'
Parasail rides
Just another summer day
Till I strapped her in and
Watched her fly
CHORUS
Talk about a sunset
All I could see were purples
And reds
And her silhouette wavin' goodbye
She didn't come there lookin' for love
And the cool thing was
Neither did I and neither did I
She dipped down in the water
As I slowed down holdin' that line
Wet t-shirt on a two piece
We ditched that boat and
Hung outside
And we walked ankle deep in ocean
You know that place where
Footprints disappear
Just like that evenin' she drove away
It'll be burned in my mind for a
Million years
REPEAT CHORUS TWICE
Woo, woo, woo
Fade
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ELLSWORTH
Neil Thrasher, Wendell Mobley and Michael Dulaney
Grandma burned the biscuits
Nearly took the house down with it
Now she's in assisted livin'
We all knew that day would come
We knew she was too gone to drive
The day she parked on I-65
Found her on the shoulder cryin'
She didn't know where she was
It's like her mind just quit
Oh, but bring up grandpa
It's like someone flipped a switch
CHORUS
A front porch light and blue Desoto
Couple of straws in a Coca-Cola
You could see it all goin' down
A handsome boy in army green
A tear on his face, down on a knew
Shaky voice, a diamond ring
She'll put you in that town
Tomorrow she won't remember
What she did today
But just ask her about Ellsworth
Kansas 1948
She takes out his medals
A cigar box of letters
Sits and scatters pictures
Black and whites of days gone by
We started losin' her when
She lost him
But to hear her carry on
You'd swear she's seventeen again
CHORUS
Football games and leaves
Are cracklin'
Walking her home in his letter jacket
You could see it all goin' down
A perfect night on a front porch
Glider
Sayin' goodnight for the next
Three hours
Her tired eyes grow wide and bright
When she talks about that town
Tomorrow she won't remember
What she did today
But just as her about Ellsworth,
Kansas 1948
While the world is fading
All around her
Sharin' a sundae at the counter
He's goin' on and on about her
Bet she's right there right now
Tomorrow she won't remember
What she did today
But just ask her about Ellsworth,
Kansas 1948
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HE AIN'T THE LEAVIN' KIND
Neil Thrasher and Michael Dulaney
They tried their best to drag him out
Of a courthouse down in
Montgomery
And now they wanna kick him out of
School
And take him off our money
They can take those words off of
Paper and stone
But he ain't gone, no
CHORUS
He ain't the leavin' kind
He'd never walk away
Even from those who don't believe
And wanna leave him behind
He ain't the leavin' kind
She stayed mad at him for a lot of years
For takin' her husband
Started losin' her faith
And thinkin' that her life meant nothin'
But when she looks at those kids she
Raised all by herself
She knows she had some help, yeah
She knows
REPEAT CHORUS
No matter what you do
No matter where you go
He always right there with you
Even from those who don't believe
And wanna leave him behind
He ain't the leavin' kind
No, no
He ain't the leavin' kind
He ain't the leavin' kind
Woo, woo
He ain't the leavin' kind
FADE
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