Tough Love - Best Of The Ballads (2011)

  • 1

    Angel

    I'm alone, yeah, I don't know if I can face the night
    I'm in tears, and the cryin' that I do is for you
    I want your love, let's break the walls between us
    Don't make it tough, I'll put away my pride
    Enough's enough, I've suffered and I've seen the light

    Baby, You're my Angel, come and save me tonight
    You're my Angel, come and make it alright

    Don't know what I'm gonna do about this feelin' inside
    Yes, it's true, loneliness took me for a ride
    Without your love, I'm nothing but a beggar

    Without your love, a dog without a bone
    What can I do? I'm sleepin' in this bed alone

    Baby, You're my Angel, come and save me tonight
    You're my Angel, come and make it alright
    Come and save me tonight

    You're the reason I live
    You're the reason I die
    You're the reason I give
    When I break down and cry
    Don't need no reason why

    Baby, baby, baby

    You're my Angel, come and save me tonight
    You're my Angel, come and make it alright

    You're my Angel, come and save me tonight
    You're my Angel, come and take me alright
    Come and save me tonight
    Come and save me tonight
    Come and save me tonight
    Come and save me tonight
    Come and save me tonight

  • 2

    Amazing (Orchestral Edit)

    I kept the right ones out
    And let the wrong ones in
    Had an angel of mercy
    To see me through all my sins
    There were times in my life
    When I was goin' insane
    Tryin' to walk through the pain

    And when I lost my grip
    And I hit the floor
    Yeah, I thought I could leave
    But couldn't get out the door
    I was so sick n' tired
    Of livin' a lie
    I was wishing that I would die

    It's amazing
    With the blink of an eye

    You finally see the light
    Oh it's amazing
    When the moment arrives
    You know you'll be alright
    Yeah it's amazing
    And I'm saying a prayer
    For the desperate hearts tonight

    That one last shot's a Permanent Vacation
    And a how high can you fly with broken wings
    Life's a journey - not a destination
    And I just can't tell just what tomorrow brings

    You have to learn to crawl
    Before you learn to walk
    But I just couldn't listen
    To all that righteous talk oh yeah
    I was out on the street
    Just tryin' to survive
    Scratchin' to stay alive

    It's amazing
    With the blink of an eye
    You finally see the light
    Oh it's amazing
    When the moment arrives
    That you know you'll be alright
    Oh it's amazing
    And I'm saying a prayer
    For the desperate hearts tonight

  • 3

    Love In an Elevator (Single Version)

    Workin' like a dog for the boss man
    Workin' for the company I'm bettin' on the dice I'm tossin' I'm gonna have a fantasy

    But where am I gonna look?
    They tell me that love is blind
    I really need a girl like an open book
    To read between the lines

    Love In An Elevator
    Livin' it up when I'm goin' down
    Love In An Elevator
    Lovin' it up till I hit the ground

    Jackie's in the elevator
    Lingerie second floor
    She said 'can I see you later
    And love you just a little more?'

    I kinda hope we get stuck
    Nobody gets out alive
    She said 'I'll show you how to fax
    In the mailroom, honey
    And have you home by five'

    Love In An Elevator
    Livin' it up when I'm goin' down
    Love In An Elevator
    Lovin' it up till I hit the ground

    In the air, in the air, honey one more time
    Now it ain't fair
    Love in an elevator
    Lovin' it up when I'm goin' down

    Love in an elevator
    Goin' down

    Love In An Elevator
    Lovin' it up when I'm goin' down
    Love In An Elevator
    Livin' it up till I hit the ground

    Gonna be a penthouse pauper
    Gonna be a millionare
    I'm gonna be a real fast talker
    And have me a love affair

    Gotta get my timin' right
    It's a test that I gotta pass
    I'll chase you all the way to stairway, honey
    Kiss your sassafrass

    Love In An Elevator
    Lovin' it up when I'm goin' down

    Love In An Elevator
    Livin' it up till I hit the ground

    In the air, in the air, honey one more time
    Now it ain't fair

    In the air, in the air, in the air, in the air

    Love In An Elevator
    Lovin' it up when I'm goin' down

  • 4

    Cryin'

    There was a time
    When I was so brokenhearted
    Love wasn't much of a friend of mine
    The tables have turned - yeah
    'Cause me and them ways have parted
    That kinda love was the killin' kind
    (so listen)

    All I want is someone I can't resist
    I know - all I - need to know
    By the way that I got kissed

    I was Cryin' when I met you
    Now I'm tryin' to forget you
    Your love is sweet misery
    I was Cryin' just to get you
    Now I'm dyin' 'cause I let you
    Do what you do down on me

    Now there's not even breathing room
    Between pleasure and pain
    Yeah you cry when we're makin' love
    Must be one and the same

    It's down on me
    Yeah, I got to tell you one thing
    It's been on my mind, girl I gotta say
    We're partners in crime
    You got that certain something
    What you do to me takes my breath away

    Now the word out on the street
    Is the devil's in your kiss
    If our love goes up in flames
    It's a fire I can't resist

    I was Cryin' when I met you
    Now I'm tryin' to forget you
    Your love is sweet misery
    I was Cryin' just to get you
    Now I'm dyin' 'cause I let you
    Do what you do to me

    'Cause what you got inside
    Ain't where your love should stay
    Yeah, our love, sweet love, ain't love
    'Til you give your heart away

    I was Cryin' when I met you
    Now I'm tryin' to forget you
    Your love is sweet misery
    I was Cryin' just to get you
    Now I'm DYYYIIIIINNNN' to let you
    Do what you do, what you do down on me
    Baby, baby, baby

    (musical solo)

    I was Cryin' when I met you
    Now I'm tryin' to forget you
    Your love is sweet misery
    I was Cryin' when I met you
    Now I'm dyin' 'cause I let you
    Do what you do down to, down to, down to

    I was cryin' when I met you
    Now I'm tryin' to forget you
    Your love is sweet misery

  • 5

    What It Takes

    There goes my old girlfriend
    There's another diamond ring
    And a all those late night promises
    I guess they don't mean a thing
    So baby, what's the story
    Did you find another man
    Is it easy to sleep in the bed that we made
    When you don't look back I guess
    The feelings start to fade away
    I used to feel your fire
    But now it's cold inside
    And you're back on the street
    Like you didn't miss a beat, yeah

    Tell me what it takes to let you go
    Tell me how the pain's supposed to go
    Tell me how it is that you can sleep

    In the night, without thinkin' you lost
    Everything that was good in your life
    To the toss of the dice
    Tell me what it takes to let you go

    Yeah,

    Girl, before I met you, I was F.I.N.E - fine
    But your love made me a prisoner
    Yeah, my heart's been doing time
    You spent me up like money
    Then you hung me out to dry
    It was easy to keep all your lies in disguise
    'Cause you had me in deep
    With the devil in your eyes

    (Chorus)

    Guitar!

    Tell me that you're happy that you're on your own
    Yeah, yeah, yeah
    Tell me that it's better when you're all alone
    Tell me that your body doesn't miss my touch
    Tell me that my lovin' didn't mean that much
    Tell me you ain't dying
    When you're cryin' for me

    (Repeat Chorus)

    Tell me who's to blame for thinkin' twice
    'Cause i don't wanna burn in Paradise
    Oh, let it go, let it go...

    I don't wanna burn....

  • 6

    Rag Doll

    (Chorus)
    Rag Doll, livin' in a movie
    Hot tramp, Daddy's little cutie
    So fine, they'll never see ya
    Leavin' by the back door, man
    Hot time, get it while it's easy
    Don't mind, come on up and see me
    Rag Doll, baby won't you do me
    Like you done before

    I'm feelin' like a bad boy
    Mmm, just like a bad boy
    I'm rippin' up a Rag Doll
    Like throwing away an old toy
    Some babe's talkin' real loud
    Talkin' all about the new crowd
    Try and sell me on an old dream

    A new version of the old scene
    Speak easy on the grape vine
    Keep shovelin' the shoe shine
    Old tin lizzy, do it till you're dizzy
    Give it all ya got until you're put out of your misery

    (Chorus)
    Rag Doll, livin' in a movie
    Hot tramp, Daddy's little cutie
    So fine, they'll never see ya
    Leavin' by the back door, man
    Hot time, get it while it's easy
    Don't mind, come on up and see me
    Rag Doll, baby won't you do me
    Like you done before

    Yes, I'm movin', Yes I'm movin'
    get ready for the big time
    Tap dancing on a land mine
    Yes I'm movin', Yes I'm movin'
    Old tin lizzy, do it till you're dizzy
    Give it all ya got until you're put out of your misery

    (Chorus)
    Rag Doll, livin' in a movie
    Hot tramp, Daddy's little cutie
    So fine, they'll never see ya
    Leavin' by the back door, man
    Hot time, get it while it's easy
    Don't mind, come on up and see me
    Rag Doll, baby won't you do me, baby won't you do me, baby won't you do me...
    Like you done before (huh huh)

    Yes, I'm movin', Yes I'm movin'
    Get ready for the big time
    I get crazy on the moonshine
    Yes, I'm movin', I'm really movin'

    Sloe gin fizzy
    Do it till you're dizzy
    Give it all you got until you're put out of your misery

    (Repeat Chorus)
    Rag Doll, livin' in a movie
    Hot tramp, Daddy's little cutie
    So fine, they'll never see ya
    Leavin' by the back door, man
    Hot time, get it while it's easy
    Don't mind, come on up and see me
    Rag Doll, baby won't you do me
    Like you done before

    Rag Doll, livin' in a movie
    Hot tramp, Daddy's little cutie
    So fine, they'll never see ya
    Leavin' by the back door, man
    Hot time, get it while it's easy
    Don't mind, come on up and see me
    Rag Doll, baby won't you do me
    Like you done before

  • 7

    Crazy

    Come 'ere baby

    You know you drive me up the wall
    The way you make good for all the nasty tricks you pull
    Seems like we're makin' up more than we're makin' love
    And it always seems you've got someone on your mind
    Other than me
    Girl, you gotta change your crazy ways - you hear me

    Say you're leavin' on the seven thirty train
    And that you're heading out to Hollywood
    Girl, you've been givin' me that line so many times
    It kinda gets that feelin' bad looks good, yeah

    That kinda lovin' turns a man to a slave
    That kinda lovin' sends a man right to his grave

    (Chorus)
    I go crazy, crazy, baby, I go crazy
    You turn it on - then you're gone

    Yeah you drive me crazy, crazy
    Crazy for you baby
    What can I do, honey
    I feel like the color blue

    You're packin' up your stuff
    and talkin' like it's tough
    and tryin' to tell me
    That it's time to go, yeah!
    But I know you ain't wearin' nothin' underneath that
    overcoat and that it's all a show, yeah!

    That kinda lovin' makes me wanna pull down the shade,
    yeah
    That kinda lovin' yeah, now I'm never never never never gonna be the same

    (Chorus)

    I'm losing my mind
    Girl, 'cause I'm goin' crazy

    (guitar solo)

    I need your love, honey, yeah
    I need your love...

    Crazy, crazy, crazy for you baby
    You turn it on - then you're gone
    Yeah you drive me
    Crazy, crazy, crazy for you baby
    I'm losin' my mind,
    Girl cause I'm going crazy
    Crazy, crazy, crazy for you baby
    You turn it on - then you're gone
    Yeah you drive me...

  • 8

    Deuces Are Wild

    Ah, I love to look into your big brown eyes
    They talk to me and seem to hypnotize
    They say the things nobody dares to say
    And I'm not about to let you fly away

    My lover with no jet lag
    We're staying up all night in my sleeping bag
    You got a heart beat rhythm from the subterrain
    I really love you little girl
    I don't need to explain

    (Chorus)
    I love you 'cause your Deuces Are Wild, girl
    Like a double shot of lovin' so fine
    I been lovin' you since you was a child, girl
    'Cause you and me is two of a kind

    Ah, like deja vu I feel like I've been here
    Or somewhere else but you've been always near

    It's you that's in my dreams I'm begging for
    But I woke up when someone slammed the door

    So hard I fell outta bed
    Screamin' mama's little baby loves shortnin' bread
    And the moral of the story
    I can testify
    I get stoned on you girl
    That's the best reason why

    (Repeat Chorus)

  • 9

    Livin' On the Edge

    There's something wrong with the world today
    I don't know what it is
    Something's wrong with our eyes

    We're seeing things in a different way
    And God knows it ain't his
    It shore ain't no surprise
    Yup!

    We're livin' on the edge
    Livin' on the edge
    Livin' on the edge
    Livin' on the edge

    There's something wrong with the world today
    The lightbulb's gettin' dimmed
    There's meltdown in the sky

    If you can judge a wise man
    By the color of his skin

    Then mister, you're a better man than I

    We're Livin' on the edge
    You can't help yourself from fallin'
    Livin' on the edge
    You can't help yourself at all
    Livin' on the edge
    You can't stop yourself from fallin'
    Livin' on the edge

    Tell me what you think about our situation
    Complication, aggravation
    Is getting to you

    If chicken little tells you that the sky is fallin'
    Even if it wasn't would you still come crawling
    Back again, I bet you would my friend
    Again & again & again & again & again

    Tell me what you think about our situation
    Complication, aggravation
    Is getting to you

    If chicken little tells you that the sky is fallin'
    Even if it was would you still come crawling
    Back again, I bet you would my friend
    Again & again & again & again &

    Something right with the world today
    And everybody knows it's wrong
    But we can tell 'em no
    Or we could let it go
    But I would rather be a hanging on

    Livin' on the edge
    You can't help yourself from fallin'
    Livin' on the edge
    You can't help yourself at all
    Livin' on the edge
    You can't stop yourself from fallin'
    Livin' on the edge
    Livin' on the edge
    Livin' on the edge
    Livin' on the edge

    Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

    Livin' on the edge
    You can't help yourself from fallin'
    Livin' on the edge
    You can't help yourself at all
    Livin' on the edge
    You can't stop yourself from fallin'
    Livin' on the edge

    Livin' on the edge
    You can't help yourself, you can't help yourself
    Livin' on the edge
    You can't help yourself at all
    Livin' on the edge
    You can't help yourself, you can't help yourself
    Livin' on the edge
    You can't help yourself
    You can't help yourself
    Livin' on the edge
    You can't help yourself from falling

    Livin' on the yeah, yeah, yeah...

  • 10

    Blind Man

    I took a course in Hallelujah
    I went to night school for the blues
    I took some stuff they said would cool ya
    Haha, But nothing seemed to light my fuse

    But that's all in the past
    Like a check that's in the mail
    She was a tall whiskey glass
    I was an old hound dog
    That just loved to chase his tail

    Until I met a Blind Man
    Who taught me how to see
    Yeah, A Blind Man
    Who could change night into day
    And if-a I can
    I'm gonna make you come with me
    Yeah, Because a-here comes the sun

    And we'll be chasing all the clouds away

    I've had some lovers like a joyride
    Some things are never what they seem
    My heaven's turned into a landslide
    Thank God I woke up from that dream

    I met a Blind Man
    Who taught me how to see
    Yeah, A Blind Man
    Who could change night into day
    And if-a I can
    I'm gonna make you come with me
    Yeah, BECAUSE-a here comes the sun
    And we'll be chasing all the clouds the way
    the way that some bees chase honey
    And drink all the flowers dry
    We'll be saving us a little money
    And if that doesn't do it, yeah
    I don't know the reason why

    Don't make no sense in lightin' candles
    There's too much moonlight in our eyes

    I met a Blind Man
    Who taught me how to see
    Yeah, Blind Man
    Who could change night into day
    And if-a I can
    I'm gonna make you come with me
    Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Yeah, Because here comes the sun
    Ain't no surprise
    Ain't no doubt about it
    Gonna open up our eyes

  • 11

    Janie's Got a Gun (Single Version)

    Dum, dum, dum, honey what have you done?
    Dum, dum, dum it's the sound of my gun.
    Dum, dum, dum, honey what have you done?
    Dum, dum, dum it's the sound

    Janie's got a gun
    Janie's got a gun
    Her whole world's come undone
    From lookin' straight at the sun
    What did her daddy do?
    What did he put you through?
    They said when Janie was arrested
    they found him underneath a train
    But man, he had it comin' Now that Janie's got a gun
    she ain't never gonna be the same.

    Janie's got a gun
    Janie's got a gun
    Her dog day's just begun
    Now everybody is on the run
    Tell me now it's untrue.
    What did her daddy do?
    He jacked a little bitty baby
    The man has got to be insane
    They say the spell that he was under the lightning and the
    thunder knew that someone had to stop the rain

    Run away, run away from the pain yeah, yeah yeah yeah
    Run away run away from the pain yeah yeah
    yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
    Run away, run away, run, run away

    Janie's got a gun
    Janie's got a gun
    Her dog day's just begun
    Now everybody is on the run
    What did her daddy do?
    It's Janie's last I.O.U.
    She had to take him down easy and put a bullet in his brain
    She said 'cause nobody believes me. The man was such a sleeze.
    He ain't never gonna be the same.

    Run away, run away from the pain yeah, yeah
    yeah yeah yeah
    Run away run away from the pain yeah yeah
    yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
    Run away, run away, run, run away

    Janie's got a gun
    Janie's got a gun
    Janie's got a gun
    Everybody is on the run

    Janie's got a gun
    Her dog day's just begun
    Now everybody is on the run
    Because Janie's got a gun
    Janie's got a gun
    Her dog day's just begun
    Now everybody is on the run
    Janie's got a gun

  • 12

    Dream On

    Every time I look in the mirror
    All these lines on my face getting clearer
    The past is gone
    It went by, like dusk to dawn
    Isn't that the way
    Everybody's got their dues in life to pay

    Yeah, I know nobody knows
    where it comes and where it goes
    I know it's everybody's sin
    You got to lose to know how to win

    Half my life's
    in books' written pages
    Lived and learned from fools and
    from sages
    You know it's true
    All the things come back to you

    Sing with me, sing for the year
    Sing for the laughter, sing for the tear
    Sing with me just for today
    Maybe tomorrow, the good lord will take you away

    Yeah, sing with me, sing for the year
    sing for the laughter, sing for the tear
    sing with me, just for today
    Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away

    Dream On Dream On Dream On
    Dream until your dream comes true
    Dream On Dream On Dream On
    Dream until your dream comes through
    Dream On Dream On Dream On
    Dream On Dream On
    Dream On Dream On, AHHHHHHH

    Sing with me, sing for the year
    sing for the laughter, sing for the tear
    sing with me just for today
    Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away
    Sing with me, sing for the year
    sing for the laughter, sing for the tear
    Sing with me just for today
    Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away...