I wanna know who invented the wheel
Tell me who discovered steel
It was the wheel and the steel that caused his pain
That made the car that took her away
I wanna know who invented the wheel
I wanna know who found the rock
Tell me who made the blacktop
It was the rock and the blacktop that caused his pain
That made the road that took her away
I wanna know who invented the wheel
Somebody give me a name
I just need someone to blame
For all of this heartache and pain i've been feelin since she let me go
I wanna know who invented the time
Out in the spook when she was mine
It was all that time i didn't take
It was the rock and the blacktop that made the highway
For the wheel and the steel and the car
And it took her away
Somebody give me a name
I just need someone to blame
For all of this heartache and pain i've been feelin since she let me go
I wanna know
I wanna know
Just how far does the universe go?
Does it ever end? You say you wanna know
Just how high can you count
Before the numbers all run out?
Who built the pyramids? Do aliens exist?
Where does God come from?
One more phenomenon
If you know how strong my love is
And your heart and mine can comprehend
Just how long I'm gonna feel like this
Then you'll know what infinity is then you'll know
They say time, goes on and on
Even after we're long gone
And there's a black hole up in space
That pulls so strong, light can't escape
Who built the pyramids? Do aliens exist?
Where does God come from?
One more phenomenon
If you know how strong my love is
And your heart and mine can comprehend
Just how long I'm gonna feel like this
Then you'll know what infinity is then you'll know
They'll find the answers to all those mysteries
But they won't understand what's between you and me
Who built the pyramids? Do aliens exist?
Where does God come from?
One more phenomenon
If you know how strong my love is
And your heart and mine can comprehend
Just how long I'm gonna feel like this
Then you'll know what infinity is then you'll know
(Then you'll know)
He said hi my name is Timmy and I'm pushin 5 years old
I can count to this many
Then I'll have to use my toes
Sure am glad to meet ya
Let me show ya stuff
That only big boys know
Nickels might be bigger
But dimes are worth the most
Santa's always in the mall
But he lives at the North Pole
Kid stick with me and you'll go far
Cause I'll show you the ropes
Cause in all these years I've learned many things
How to walk, How to talk, and make believe
So follow me
Notebook paper makes a any stealth fighter F-4
As you get of age you'll take my radio flyer
And there's indians in the woods
Just off the porch out back
And if they attack
I'll help you fight em
With sticks for guns
Me and you
Until we've won
Cause that's what brothers do
Mama said that you're the reason
He belly got so big
And I didn't believer her
Until she let me feel ya kick
And I don't know how it happened
I'm just glad
That I have someone to play with
Cause in all these years I've learned many things
How to walk, How to talk, and make believe
So follow me
Notebook paper makes a any stealth fighter F-4
As you get of age you'll take my radio flyer
And there's indians in the woods
Just off the porch out back
And if they attack
I'll help you fight em
With sticks for guns
Me and you
Until we've won
Cause that's what brothers do
We'll play cops and robbers and secret agent men
And save the world from hostile aliens
With sticks for guns
Me and you
Until we've won
Cause that's what brothers do
That's what brothers do
They say men and women are worlds apart
With neither one willing to travel that far
But I?ve never bought into psychological stuff
And never claimed to be a bonafied genius
But if men are from Mars and women are from Venus
I?m goin' to Venus
Well, strap me in, ship me out, beam me up Scotty
Take me to the land of those heavenly bodies
Stay here if you want to but just between us
If men are from Mars and women are from Venus
I?m goin' to Venus
Women want a man who ain't afraid to commit
And take 'em out to dinner that?s candle lit
So I?m givin' in to the battle of the sexes
And callin' up ahead to make reservations
'Cause if men are from Mars and women are from Venus
I?m goin' to Venus
If you come by the house and I?m not in
You can call me long, long, long distance
Got better things to do than sit around and talk
'Cause I?m blastin' off of this big red rock
Well, strap me in, ship me out, beam me up Scotty
Take me to the land of those heavenly bodies
Stay here if you want to but just between us
If men are from Mars and women are from Venus
The tallest mountain that you've never seen,
If you stood on the peak, then you would be standing waist deep, in the middle of the sea.
The deepest hole that you can think of, ain't below it's above,
Ten billion miles up, in some galaxy, yet to be seen.
But im right here, with a feeling so strong it can fly.
Chorus:
Higher than high,
Lower than low,
Wider than wide,
That's how far my love goes.
If you were to die,
Into the obis,
You would need wings cause it's a long way up,
To the depths of my love.
There is a place you can't see,
Strong enough to be weak,
Where you'll always be, wherever you are,
And now deep in my heart.
Cause I'm right here, and the feeling's so strong it can fly.
Chorus repeated twice:
Higher than high,
Lower than low,
Wider than wide,
That's how far my love goes.
If you were to die,
Into the obis,
You would need wings cause it's a long way up,
To the depths of my love.
Oh, Higher than high,
Lower than low,
Wider than wide,
That's how far my love goes.
If you were to die,
Into the obis,
You would need wings cause it's a long way up,
To the depths of my love.
Well they finally put that red light up in the heart of town
Took the stop sign down
It was shot up anyhow
One night I ran right through it in my Chevrolet
Both police cars came
But I got away
It was a boom town back in '62
Til the coal ran out and a dry came through
When they damned the river where we all used to fish
Population 405 and i'm 840409
And there's a city limit sign layin in the ditch
Run blown over it
Deep in metropolis
Well I found myself in a big high rise with a concrete yard
It ain't safe after dark
Guess this ol' boy drove too far
Met a girl, fell in love, got married
And she's doin may
Say's we're gonna need more space
I say I know just the place
Where we can walk down to the country store
And we won't even have to lock our doors
And you can still get air and water there for free
She says that sounds good to me
It was a boom town back in '62
Til the coal ran out and a dry came through
When they damned the river where we all used to fish
Population 404 and when we pull in it'll be 3 more
And there's a city limit sign layin in the ditch
That I need to fix
Back in metropolis
Almost in metropolis
Comin up on metropolis
He had a stroke in'95
They thought it best that he reside in a nursing home
His family vowed they'd never leave him
Last time they came to see him was three years ago
He spent his whole life providin'
Now he was down to relyin' on medicare
The nurses took a likin' to him
They'd get his wheelchair out and push him on sunny days
He couldn't walk, he couldn't speak
Seemed so far outta reach
But in his mind, as far as they knew, he could be
Fly fishin'
Workin' on that Firebird engine
Runnin' 99 proof moonshine cross the county line
3,2,1 And ignition off on some space shuttle mission
Playin' QB for the Cowboys
Getting high on the crowd noise and the bright lights
'Cause deep inside things were rockin' in the mind
Of John J Blanchard
One afternoon in June
A nurse saw his finger move she bout had a heart attack
She went screamin' down the hall
"Hey it's a miracle ya'll, I think he's comin' back"
The doctors all rushed in, said
"Do you know what year this is?"
"How many fingers am I holdin', and where've you been?"
And he said
Fly fishin'
Workin' on that Firebird engine
Running 99 proof moonshine cross that county line
3,2,1 And ignition off on some space shuttle mission
An playin' QB for the Cowboys
Getting high on the crown noise and the bright lights
Yeah, this time things were rockin' in the mind
Of John J Blanchard
He had a stroke in '95
I'm gonna raise the Titanic
Sail across the Atlantic
And this time it ain't gonna sink
I'm gonna sit here in this chair
With this beer and declare
It's that last one that I'll ever drink
Buy a pair of dinosaur skin boots
Take a walk 'cross the moon
That's what I'm gonna do
I can do that with no sweat
You can bet it's a sure bet
I'm telling the God's honest truth
But I can't undo what I did
Or unsay what I said
Or unbreak what I broke in you
'Cause there's just a few things
Impossible to do
I'm gonna do some soul searching
Put my mind a-working
On fixing the hurting I've done
Drop down into first gear
Jump clean into next year
By then you'll be back or still gone
Ride in on a rainbow
Land outside your window
Yeah, that's what I'm gonna do
I can do that with no sweat
You can bet it's a sure bet
I'm telling the God's honest truth
But I can't undo what I did
Or unsay what I said
Or unbreak what I broke in you
'Cause there's just a few things
Impossible to do
I can't undo what I did
Or unsay what I said
Or unbreak what I broke in you
'Cause there's just a few things
Impossible to do
You know, me and the good Lord are old friends, that's a fact
Some nights I'll get down on my knees and ask if he'll bring you back
And he'll look down at me and say
"Now Anthony, there's a few things
Just a few things that's impossible to do
Now one of these days I'm gonna be coming back but she never will
You understand son?", I say, "Yeah Lord"
Some things are impossible to do
Crank it
Where she grew up there ain't no roads
Out in the sticks where the ginseng grows
She's float down the river to get to school
Then her daddy come get her on an old pack mule
She ran back and forth shed to shack
Checkin' on the moonshine brewin' out back
If you don't get the picture by now
Then wait a minute
She got a Bible, she's born again
She got a shotgun, she ain't afraid of sin
She got rebel rousin' rowdy friends singin'
Oh, oh, oh
She got a Trans Am with a trailer hitch
She got horses, cows and Dixie Chicks
Goes honky tonkin' just for kicks
If that ain't country, I don't know what is
She plants fifty acres with seed and a hoe
Come Fall you get lost in the tall corn rows
Don't need no phone where she come from
She just holler down the mountain and the boys all run fast
You might see her truck rollin' out of the woods
With a 12 point buck laid across the hoods
If you don't get the picture by now
Then wait a minute
She got a Bible, she's born again
She got a shotgun, she ain't afraid of sin
She got rebel rousin' rowdy friends singin'
Oh, oh, oh
She got a Trans Am with a trailer hitch
She got horses, cows and Dixie Chicks
Goes honky tonkin' just for kicks
If that ain't country, I don't know what is
If you don't get the picture by now
Then wait a minute
She got a Bible, she's born again
She got a shotgun, she ain't afraid of sin
She got rebel rousin' rowdy friends singin'
Oh, oh, oh
She got a Trans Am with a trailer hitch
She got horses, cows and Dixie Chicks
Goes honky tonkin' just for kicks
If that ain't country, I don't know what is
I don't know what is
I don't know what
Was it hard for her
To just call it quits
Or easier than i'd like to admit
With no second glances and my second chances all spent
Did she have a choice when she up and packed
Why'd she raise her voice
Say i'm not coming back
How on earth could i deserve a leavin like that
I know a little somethin about everything
Ol' Einstein ain't got nothin on me
I just might hold the answers to mankinds creation
But ask me why she's gone
And I'd say that's sure one
Hell of a question
Did i drink, did i smoke, did i gamble too much
Did spend too much time underneath that old truck
Did my runnin round run her down til she'd had enough
Was it one big mistake or just part of gods plan
Did little old me push her over the edge
Or did she leave because she believed
I didn't give a damn
I know a little somethin about everything
Ol' Einstein ain't got nothin on me
I just might hold the answers to mankinds creation
But ask me why she's gone
I'd say that's sure one
Hell of a question
Will I break, will I make it through the night
Will her memory drive me out of my mind
I know a little somethin about everything
Ol' Einstein ain't got nothin on me
I just might hold the answers to mankinds creation
But ask me can I hang on
I'd say that's sure one
In this life theres just a few things
That your heart can always count on
So when I say I'll never leave you
It means I'll always love you babe from now on
And if a gun horn should take me early
You dont have to worry, it wont be long
I'll come back on heavens horses
Crash those gates
And Lord I'll ride
They'll say I'll burn for crossing over
But Hell cant hold back a love like mine
Last night I dreamt my heart stopped beating
Tried my best to hold on to you
But angels dragged me away screaming:
"Let me go, my life aint through"
Thru streets of gold I met my maker
Said: "please forgive what Im 'bout to do"
Im going back on heaves horses
Crash those gates
And Lord I'll ride
They'll say I'll burn for crossing over
But Hell cant hold back a love like mine
I'll come back on heavens horses
Crash those gates
And Lord I'll ride
They'll say I'll burn for crossing over
But Hell cant hold back a love like mine
I can chop wood from dusk till dawn
I can swing a hammer till the daylight's gone
I can build a barn, I can make a home with these two hands
But if I didn't have all your love I'd be half a man
I can fly planes up in the big blue sky
Blaze a trail though the woods in my four wheel drive
With a team of horses or an old John Deere, I can plow this land
But if I didn't have all your love I'd be half a man
I can hang the stars, I can rope the moon
Walk across Texas in these cowboy boots
I can run a train when it runs outta track
With the weight of the world laid across my back
But my life still wouldn't be worth a damn
If I didn't have all your love I'd be half a man
I could build a fire, usin' nothin' but a stick
If I put my mind to it, there ain't much I can't fix
I can read and count, I can figure things out if you give me a chance
But if I didn't have all your love I'd be half a man
I can hang the stars, I can rope the moon
Walk across Texas in these cowboy boots
I can run a train when it runs outta track
With the weight of the world laid across my back
But my life still wouldn't be worth a damn
If I didn't have all your love I'd be half a man
Now, I can hang the stars, I can rope the moon
Walk across Texas in these cowboy boots
I can run a train when it runs outta track
With the weight of the world laid across my back
But my life still wouldn't be worth a damn
If I didn't have all your love I'd be half a man