I met you on a midaway at a fair last year
And you stood out like a ruby in a black man's ear
You were playing on the horses
You were playing on the guitar strings
You were playing like the devil wearing wings
Wearing wings, you looked so grand, wearing wings
Do you tie them to your shoulders just to sing
Can you fly? I hear you can! Can you fly?
Just like an eagle doin' his hunting from the sky
I followed through a sideshow to another town
And I found you in a trailer on the camping grounds
You were betting on some lover, shootin' out the dice
And I thought I saw you cheating once or twice
Once or twice, I heard ya did, once or twice
Were you wondering was the gamble worth the price
Now you've packed it in, I heard you did, packed it in
Was it hard to fold a hand you knew you could win?
Lately you've been hiding, it was somewhere in the news
And I'm still at these races with my ticket stubs and my blues
The man calls out the numbers...he sometimes mentions mine
But I feel like I've been working overtime
Overtime, I've lost my fire, overtime
And I envy you the valley that you've found
'Cause I'm midway down the midway
Slowin' down

What good is that happy lie
All you wanted from the start was to cry
It looks like another fall
Your good friends they don't seem to help at all
When you're feeling kind of cold and small
Just look up your rainy day man
It does you no good to pretend child
You've made a hole much too big to mend
And it looks like you lose again, my friend
Call on your rainy day man
Now rainy day man he don't like sunshine
He don't chase rainbows
He don't need good times
Grey days rolling
Then you'll see him
Empty feeling
Now you need him
All those noble thoughts they just don't belong
You can't hide the truth with a happy song
And since you knew where you stood all along
Just look up your rainy day man
Now simple pleasures they all evade you
Store-bought treasures none can save you
Look for signs to ease the pain
Ask again
Go on and pray for rain
It looks like another fall
Your good friends they don't seem to help at all
When you're feeling kind of cold and small
Just look up your rainy day man
All I need to do is look up my rainy day man
Now what good is that happy lie
All you wanted from the start was to cry

I am an old woman
Named after my mother
My old man is another
Child that's grown old
If dreams were thunder
And lightnin' was desire
This old house would've burnt down
At a long time ago
Make me an angel
That flies from Montgomery
Make me a poster
Of an old rodeo
Just give me one thing
That I can hold on to
To believe in this livin'
Is just a hard way to go
When I was a young girl
Well, I had me a cowboy
He weren't much to look at
Just a free ramblin' man
But that was a long time
And no matter how I tried
Those years just flow by
Like a broken down dam
Make me an angel
That flies from Montgomery
Make me a poster
Of an old rodeo
Just give me one thing
That I can hold on to
To believe in this livin'
Is just a hard way to go
There's flies in the kitchen
I can hear 'em they're buzzin'
And I ain't done nothin' since I woke up today
How the hell can a person
Go to work in the mornin'
And come home in the evenin'
And have nothin' to say
Make me an angel
That flies from Montgomery
Make me a poster
Of an old rodeo
Just give me one thing
That I can hold on to
To believe in this livin'
Is just a hard way to go
To believe in this livin'
Is just a hard way to go

Did you get enough today
Did you give out any
Had a lots of things to do
Maybe just too many
Any now the world is you
Taken all the dreams you knew
Come to me, I got plenty
Did you feel alone today
With your one and only
I had a lot of things to say
People make you lonely
You wonder what you're living on
You left with all your reasons gone
Count on me, I got plenty
You can count on me, I got plenty
Count on me
Got an invitation now
To come and join the party
Come in your individual,
Not your everybody
And don't worry that you won't you will
You've got an empty cup to fill
Count on me x2
Coz I got plenty
I got plenty to end

I heard a voice come through on my telephone line
Told me that it was your time
I thought that they were fooling
They were fooling me
And then I remember having this dream of mine
When it came down on me
I was told by a friend of mine
That it don't matter if your dreams, they bother you
Your dreams won't happen unless you only want them to
So I asked him for a ride
He said, "Hop on board, girl
I been waitin' here for you"
I thought I had nothin' left to lose
Where'd you say you'd be tonight
Streetlights are all I see
All I wanted on that ride
Was just a little kindness, a little kindness shown my way
I found myself runnin' out of ideas on how to say
It just got to be somethin' more than I could take
But that summer somehow we were havin' fun
Your magic took me by surprise
Where'd you say you'd be tonight
Streetlights are all I see
And now I know the feelin's right
Yes I know the feelin's right
'Cause just last night you came into my dreams
Yes you did, yes you did
I heard a voice come through on my telephone line
Told me that it was your time
I thought that they were fooling
They were fooling me
And then I remember having this dream of mine
When it came down on me
I said it came down on me—Oh
Where'd you say you'd be tonight
Streetlights are all I see
And now I know the feelin's right
'Cause just last night you came into my dreams
I heard a voice come through on my telephone line
Told me that it was your time

How does one decide
That the methods he's using,
They just don't jive
To truly believe and keep trying
Over and over again
Living in hopes,
That someday you'll be in with the winners
When will one change his mind
And jump the fence
For the dial a sign
Its a sad thing, its a bad thing
But so necessary
Living in hopes,
That someday you'll be in with the winners
Now what, what, (i dont know, can you tell me what)
What is success?
Is it do your own thing?
Or to join the rest
And if you truly believe it,
And try over and over again
Living in hopes
That someday you'll be in with the winners
Oooh, tell me what it is
Sweet success
Oooh, tell me what it is
Sweet success

Once upon a time, a long long time ago
Wherever you would lead me, I would surely follow
Boy, you put me through some pain and misery
And now you're standing at my doorstep
Telling me how much you need me
Ain't nobody home
Ain't nobody home
How many times I begged for you to come home
But you laughed at me and said to let you alone
Through my falling tears I saw you walk away
And now you're beg me to forgive you
But this time, baby, it's your turn to pay
Ain't nobody home
Ain't nobody home
Boy, I used to love you
I placed no one else above you
I gave you everything that I owned
But baby, you can't come back here
'Cause there ain't nobody home
Ain't nobody home
Once upon a time, when you went on your way
How I hoped and prayed, that you'd come back some day
But time has made some changes and turned me upside down
And now you're beg me to forgive you
But this time, baby, you can turn right around
'Cause there ain't nobody home
Ain't nobody home
Ain't nobody home
Ain't nobody home
Ain't nobody home
Ain't nobody home

You say you're all alone
With visions all your own
The things you feel nobody feels the same
But you know me
You know what I've been through
And everything that touches me
And everything that touches me
Everything that touches me
Touches you
Friends along the road
May lighten up your load
By sayin' what they think you really want to hear
But I'll only tell you
What I feel is true
And everything that touches me
Everything that touches me
And everything that touches me
Touches you
Share, 'cause I can't take you there
Unless I know a part of what you're thinking
Care, 'cause it's only fair
Darlin' can't you feel my heart is breaking
My heart is breaking
Everything that touches me
Everything that touches me
Everything that touches me
Touches you

By Joe Thomas & Howard Biggs
This is Eric Clapton's version
I've got you on my mind, I'm feeling kind of sad and low,
I've got you on my mind, feeling kind of sad and low.
I'm wondering where you are, wondering why yoiu had to go.
Tears begin to fall every time I hearr your name.
Tears begin to fall every time I hear your name.
And since you went away, nothing seems to be the same.
No matter how I try,
My heart just don't see why
I can't forget you.
If ever it shoud be
You want to come back to me,
You know I'd let you.
First First I'm wondering where you are, wondering why you had to go.
I'm wondering where you are, wondering why you had to go.

You got to be ready
You got to be ready, yeah
This woman don't like no nonsense
I like lovin' every day
And I don't like to find no evidence, no
To prove you're giving my love away
What more can I say
Except you got to be ready for love
If you wanna be mine (ready baby)
You got to be ready for love
If you wanna be mine
You got to be ready
You got to be ready
This woman don't do no hand pickin'
And I don't think one look is a felony
And I don't appreciate no rubber neckin', no
'Bout a man, when he's with me
Out in the street
Except you got to be ready for love
If you wanna be mine (be ready baby)
I said you got to be ready for love
If you wanna be mine
You got to be ready
You got to be ready
Ready for love
Ready for love
Got to be ready for love
You got to be ready
You got to be ready
You got to be ready
You got to be ready, yeah
You got to be ready for love
If you wanna be mine
You got to be ready for love
If you wanna be mine (be ready baby)
Can't be a cold lover
Just like my old lover
If you wanna be mine
You got to get ready
You got to stay ready
If you wanna be mine (be ready baby)