Chase Rice - The Album, Pt. I Album Lyrics

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American Nights

(Hey)

He was 18 and wasted
Bedroom in the basement
Parents' house, Tucson, Arizona
What do expect from a high school diploma?

Working hours in the shoe store
Selling dimes out the back door
And he puts on his prom crown
Says to his Mama, "I'm the king of this town"

Won't you take me out?
I hear the midnight streets a-calling
You can hold me down
But like a bird I'm just free falling

Here's to these American nights
We're having the time of our lives
Living, dreaming, feeling, never sleeping
Till we see the morning light
On these American nights (Hey)

(Hey)
Neighborhood kid, just back from the desert
Tattoo and a discharge letter
VA in the Saint John
Six times a week he still sleeps with his boots on

She skipped track up to Brooklyn
With a dream and some tanned skin
Graveyard at The Rhino
This is the place where the stars shine, y'know?

Won't you take me out?
I hear the midnight streets a-calling
You can hold me down
But like a bird I'm just free falling

Here's to these American nights
We're having the time of our lives
Living, dreaming, feeling, never sleeping
Till we see the morning light
On these American nights

(These American nights)
(These American nights)

The sky's black in November
And nothing good lasts forever
12-gauge heart in a machine-gun town
Whole life running, ya can't stop now

Here's to these American nights
We're having the time of our lives
Living on a feeling, got a feeling
That it's gonna be alright
On these American nights

(These American nights)
(These American nights)
(These American nights)
(These American nights)
On these American nights

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Everywhere

It's only been two months but it feels like two years
When we were still us and you were still here
Still see your grey old Ford Murano going down the block
Even tho I know it's not
Walking our old spot, its the same old scene
Everyone still there, especially you and me
The dollar bill we sign on the wall still looks brand new
How could you be gone?

Friends say let you go, let you go
Oh, but I can't
Let you go, let you go
Out of my hands
Out of my heart
Out of my head
How do I let you go when

Oh, oh, oh
You are in every single song every single line
Every single word, every single rhyme
In the light, girl you are everywhere
Oh, oh, oh
You are everwhere

Oh, oh, oh
You are in every side street, every sidewalk
Every corner booth of every corner bar
In the dark alley
You are everwhere
Oh, oh, oh
You are everwhere
Oh, oh, oh

Flip on the TV
Nop, can't go there
Our show, our team
Damn I swear
Can't even watch the Red Soxs play
Without seeing you in that hat and your pretty face

Friends say let you go, let you go
Oh but I can't
Let you go, let you go
Out of my hands
Out of my heart
Out of my head
How do I let you go when

Oh, oh, oh
You are in every single song every single line
Every single word, every single rhyme
In the light, girl you are everywhere
Oh, oh, oh
You are everwhere

Oh, oh, oh
You are in every side street, every sidewalk
Every corner booth of every corner bar
In the dark alley
You are everwhere
Oh, oh, oh
You are everwhere
Oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Friends say let you go
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Friends say let you go

Oh, oh, oh, oh
How do I let you go?
How do I let you go?
'Cause you are in every single song, every single line
Every single word, every single rhyme
In the light, girl you are everywhere
Oh, oh, oh
You are everwhere

Oh, oh, oh
You are in every side street, every sidewalk
Every corner booth of every corner bar
In the dark alley
You are everwhere
Oh, oh, oh
You are everwhere
Oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh
You are everwhere
Oh, oh, oh
You are everwhere

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Best Night Ever

Had Marina del Rey playing on the truck speakers
As we drove around that farm that night
Pass the pond, down the trail, into the woods we went deeper
Nothing but country in sight

Then the sky went dark, saw the tobacco barn
Sitting like heaven on a hill
You took off and ran then you smiled at me
All I could think was, "Damn"

You know this is the best night ever
Quarter moon peaking through the pines
Painting lines on your face while I'm thinking
It's the best night ever
I was praying wouldn't end then the clouds rolled in
Started raining and your hair got wet
And you laughed, I was dying
Never seen you so beautiful, darling
Running through rain in the dark, best night ever
Then you pulled me in hard under that pole barn
Oh my God, it was the best night ever
You know it was the best night ever

Never done nothing like that before
We just stayed right there
And listened to the rain hit the tin roof
And damn, it poured

That old orange thrasher talk
Sure have a lot to stay
And it's gonna stay right there 'tween me and her
And that Tennessee rain

You know it was the best night ever
Quarter moon peaking through the pines
Painting lines on your face while I'm thinking
It was the best night ever
I was praying wouldn't end then the clouds rolled in
Started raining and your hair got wet
And you laughed, I was dying
Never seen you so beautiful, darling
Running through rain in the dark, best night ever
Then you pulled me in hard under that pole barn
Oh my God, it was the best night ever

Then the sky went dark, saw the tobacco barn
Sitting like heaven on a hill
You took off and ran then you smiled at me
All I could think was, "Damn"

You know this is the best night ever
Quarter moon peaking through the pines
Painting lines on your face while I'm thinking
It's the best night ever
I was praying wouldn't end then the clouds rolled in
Started raining and your hair got wet
And you laughed, I was dying
Never seen you so beautiful, darling
Running through rain in the dark, best night ever
Then you pulled me in hard under that pole barn
Oh my God, it was the best night ever
You know it was the best night ever

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Messy

It's the sheets wrinkled up at the foot of the bed
It's your hair in a knot on the top of your head
It's the crawling in the back seat
Knocking over everything
'Cause we couldn't wait to get home
Baby, loving you, it ain't always pretty
But as long as you let me
I'll take the messy, oh

It's the mascara running away from those homey eyes
And you don't know why you cry, but I'm still gonna hold you tight
It's the cabernet spilling
All of those feeling
We've been bottling up
Baby, loving you, it ain't always pretty
But as long as you let me

I'm gonna love you best that I can
Even when you can't stand me
Even when you can't even stand yourself
I'm telling you I ain't going nowhere
I swear, don't care, I'm here
Ain't anywhere else I'd rather be
And as long as you let me
I'll take the messy, oh

It's the way that I need to learn to hold my tongue
And you give it right back but we never give up
It's the taking a breather, but nobody's leaving
You'd better believe it, baby, I mean it

I'm gonna love you best that I can
Even when you can't stand me
Even when you can't even stand yourself
I'm telling you I ain't going nowhere
I swear, don't care, I'm here
Ain't anywhere else I'd rather be
And as long as you let me
I'll take the heavy, unsteady
It don't scare me, baby, I'm ready for messy
Oh

I'm gonna love you best that I can
Even when you can't stand me
Even when you can't even stand yourself
I'm telling you I ain't going nowhere
I swear, don't care, I'm here
Ain't anywhere else I'd rather be
And as long as you let me
I'll take the messy, oh

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In The Car

Two kids, one old Corolla
A mixtape you made for me
Blackjack and a Coca Cola
Parked way back 'neath the trees

You were singin' Yellow Ledbetter
And you knew every damn line
I was thinkin', it doesn't get better
Than leaned-back seats under pine

In the car that night
Saturday in July
We had the radio down
And you were teein' 'em up
In the car that night
Two beautiful eyes
You weren't even tryin'
I was fallin' in love
And the headlights
Met the sunrise
It was so right, oh
In the car that night
We were on fire
Couldn't get higher
I was yours, you were mine
In the car that night
In the car that night
Oh, in the car that night

Tank top tan on your shoulder
It felt warm there on my lips
Your Levi's on the floorboard
And a "come and love me" kiss

In the car that night
Saturday in July
We had the radio down
And you were teein' 'em up
In the car that night
Two beautiful eyes
You weren't even tryin'
I was fallin' in love
And the headlights
Met the sunrise
It was so right, oh
In the car that night
We were on fire
Couldn't get higher
I was yours, you were mine
In the car that night
In the car that night

You were singin' Yellow Ledbetter
And you knew every damn line
I was thinkin', it doesn't get better
Than leaned-back seats under pine

In the car that night
Saturday in July
We had the radio down
And you were teein' 'em up
In the car that night
Two beautiful eyes
You weren't even tryin'
I was fallin' in love
And the headlights
Met the sunrise
It was so right, oh
In the car that night
We were on fire
Couldn't get higher
I was yours, you were mine
In the car that night
In the car that night
Oh, in the car that night
In the car that night
Oh, in the car that night

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Forever To Go

I can still see that dress you were wearin'
With those yellow wildflowers
I can still smell that vanilla in your hair, when
I was spinnin' you around
We just met and I knew then
But I couldn't say it out loud
So we just swayed while the music played
Kinda like we're doin' right now

Another year down
And, baby, somehow
Our song never gets old
The honeymoon phase
And butterflies fade
But I'll never let you go
We were just kids
Stealin' a kiss
And it feels like forever ago
But I love you more than yesterday
And we still got forever to go

(Forever to go, still got forever to go
Forever to go, still got forever to go)

I remember that moon hangin' over the water
At Fort Lauderdale beach
Corona lime and Tortuga lights
In our lawn chair seats
Bandana in your hair and your hand in the pocket
Of my worn-out jeans
That summer night did somethin' right
It's still hard to believe

Another year down
And, baby, somehow
Our song never gets old
The honeymoon phase
And butterflies fade
But I'll never let you go
We were just kids
Stealin' a kiss
And it feels like forever ago
But I love you more than yesterday
And we still got forever to go

Forever to go, still got forever to go
Forever to go, still got forever to go
Another sunrise, another slow kiss
Another memory of you and me, I won't forget

Another year down
And, baby, somehow
Our song never gets old
The honeymoon phase
And butterflies fade
But I'll never let you go
We were just kids
Stealin' a kiss
And it feels like forever ago
But I love you more than yesterday
And we still got forever to go
Yeah, I love you more than yesterday
We still got... forever to go