INTRO: D

This house was built by the hand of a man

Somewhere in the dark tonight 2 are beatin’ fast
Lyin’ still in the arms of love, waves of passion pass
They love each other with all their [D/F#]might but can’t help but be afraid
Gotta got stand in the house of man to tell ‘em that it’s okay

CHORUS:
This house was built by man, I saw him mix the mortar
This house was built by man, I saw him tyin’ steel
This house was built by man outta concrete and water
This house was built by the hand of a man

Somewhere in the dark tonight a new heart’s beatin’ fast
Lyin’ still in the arms of love, tiny fingers grasp
That sweet little has heard not a word about original sin
As fast as you can to the house of man so Peter can let him on in

CHORUS

SOLO

Somewhere in the dark tonight an old heart’s fadin’ fast
These damned things they were meant to love they weren’t meant to last
But now I’m dyin’ but I spent my life tryin’ to do the best I can
I’d only be fine if I spent enough time sittin’ in the house of man

CHORUS

This house was built by the hand of a man

Bruce Robison Desperately written by Bruce Robison
Monte Warden

Floyd Domino piano
Gene Elders fiddle
Amy Tiven fiddle
John Ludwick bass
Mark Patterson drums
Rich Brotherton guitar/mandolin
Lloyd Maines steel guitar
Kelly Willis background vocals

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Every night it’s the same
I hear you callin my name
Your lyin next to me
I give in to your charms
You disappear in my arms
I realize it’s just a dream
But desperatly I long to feel your touch
But you left me all alone in love
Shake the sleep from my head
And try to crawl out of bed
Today is just another day
I make the coffee for one
I turn the radio on
Pretend that everything’s okay
But desperatly I long to feel your touch
But you left me all alone in love
I know there’s no reason to smile
It’s gonna take me a while
But I still love you desperatly

SOLO

But desperatly I long to feel your touch
But you left me all alone in love
And now I watch the sun going down
There ain’t nobody around
I feel a night in the breeze
I keep on telling myself
I don’t need nobody else
And I can do as I please
But desperatly I long to feel your touch
But you left me all alone in love
But desperatly I long to feel your touch
But you left me alone in love
Every night it’s the same
I hear you calling my name
I still love you desperatly
I still love you I still want you
I still love you desperatly

>From Bruce Robison “Wrapped”
Sony Music Lucky Dog 1998
Tiltawhirl Music(BMI)/Warner Tamerlane Publishing Corp(BMI)

Floyd Domino piano
John Ludwick bass
Ron Pangborne drums
Rich Brotherton guitar
Lloyd Maines steel guitar

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It’s gonna be easy
Telling myself you won’t be gone long
Cause I can believe my own lies
It’s gonna be easy
Making believe it wasn’t all a disguised
But it’s gonna be hard trying
To tell myself you didn’t love me
I remember you told me
Living alone is just like living a lie
And I’m gonna gonna leave you just to prove it
It’s gonna be easy
Making believe it wasn’t all a disguise
But it’s gonna be hard trying
To tell myself you didn’t love me
Just like Humpty Dumpty sitting up on the wall
Having the logic but not the where all to fall ‘?
It’s gonna be easy
Telling myelf you won’t be gone long
But it’s gonna be hard trying to tell myself
You didn’t love me

SOLO

Just like Humpty Dumpty sitting up on the wall
Having the logic but not the where all to fall ‘?
It’s gonna be easy
Telling myelf you won’t be gone long
But it’s gonna be hard trying to tell myself
You didn’t love me
But it’s gonna be hard trying to tell myself
You didn’t love me

>From Bruce Robison “Bruce Robison”
Vireo Records 1995
Walden/Lenwood(ASCAP)

Also on In the Key of A
Doug Sahm “Doug Sahm And Band”
Atlantic Records 1973

Bruce Robison Anymore Good Loving written by Jack Ingram
Bruce Robison

Bruce Robison vocals/guitar
Chip Dolan accordion
Marty Muse lab steel guitar
Brad Fordham bass
Lisa Pankratz drums
Kelly Willis background vocals

I come home this morning
The woman says to me
There’s got to be somewhere I’d rather be
She left me staring at the old front door
Left me so broken I couldn’ walk the floor
I get a little bit of hugging
Get a whole lot of pain
Get a little bit of sunshine
Get a whole lot of rain
Got a whole lot of heartache
With just a little good time
Anymore good lovin drive me out of my mind

SOLO

If I was any kind of man
I’d go downtown
Find me a liittle sweet thing
She wouldn’t run me around
But any other woman that I ever knew
Well you he give them an inch you know what she’ll do
I get a little bit of hugging
Get a whole lot of pain
Get a little bit of sunshine
Get a whole lot of rain
Got a whole lot of heartache
With just a little good time
Anymore good lovin drive me out of my mind
I get a little bit of hugging
Get a whole lot of pain
Get a minute of sunshine
Get an hour of rain
Got a whole lot of heartache
With just a little good time
Anymore good lovin drive me out of my mind

From Bruce Robison “Long Way Home From Anywhere” July 1999
Sony Lucky Dog Records 1999

Floyd Domino piano
Gene Elders fiddle
John Ludwick bass
Ron Pangborne drums
Rich Brotherton acoustic guitar

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How can you ask me
How have I been
I think you should know well
The shape that I’m in
You tell me you wondered
If I was ok
That’s a damn fool thing to say
The water is rising
The water is wide
And your always standing
On the other side
Then comes the moment
I wake in the dawn
With hours to lie here alone
You seem so surprised
That I’m feeling this way
How am I so lonely today
If you ever loved me
The way I loved you
You would be lonely too

SOLO

So here’s to the lovers
For old times sake
Who don’t hold each other
To the promise they break
And smile through the window
And wave on the street
Cause that’s all you want now from me
Should I say something
To put you at ease
Or should I get down on my knees
But if you ever loved me
The way I love you
You would be lonely too
But if you ever loved me
The way I love you
You would be lonely too

Bruce Robison “Bruce Robison”
Vireo Records 1995
Bruce Robison Music Publishing(BMI)

Bruce Robison Drivin’ All Night Long written by Bruce Robison

Brad Fordham bass
Larry Mars bass
Dan Dugmore steel guitar
Pat Buchanan guitar
David Grissom guitar
Rich Brotherton acoustic guitar
Glover Gill piano
Mike Lawler organ

The full moon’s glowin out so bright
It’s light out on the highway
I can’t hear the engine
For the wheels out on the road
The wind is blowin freezin
But it keeps my eyes wide open
3AM driving’s for them hauls a heavy load
But I got to tell her that I’m sorry
And I got to tell her I was wrong
And I got to show her I still love her
But I’ve been driving all night long
A hundred miles from nowhere
There are houses on the highway
Empty in the dark
A place that someone once called home
But maybe they put sheets on chairs
And tables like the movies
But I know that in real life
They’re as empty as my soul
But I got to tell her that I’m sorry
And I got to tell her I was wrong
And I got to show her I still love her
But I’ve been driving all night long
But if I fell
I’d turn my wheel
Into that semi comin
But I know well
That there’s a man in there
Just trying to get home
And waitin up and worrying
Is the one who loves him dearly
But I ain’t thinkin clearly
I’ve been drivin all night long

SOLO

People think I’m lazy
And I’m scared to just stop running
And people think I’m crzay
And I don’t know that she’s gone
But I know that I got two hundred miles
To make ‘fore morning
But I don’t think too much
Cause I’ve been driving all night long

From Bruce Robison “Long Way Home From Anywhere”
Lucky Dog Records 1999
Tiltawhirl Music(BMI)

Bruce Robison Anyone But Me written by Bruce Robison
Marty Siedel

What was I thinking what I was drinkin
How did I end up here
It hit me this morning it came without warning
It’s been awhile since I tasted a tear
When Wounds to the heart are your own damn fault
You’ll never feel it cut so deep
But I know that somewhere tonight
You could love anyone but me
Loving a memory relievin the past
Seemed like such a waste of time
I can’t even start to get you out of my heart
If I could just get you outta my mind
The lonely grew stronger all day long
Followed me to work and home
A constant reminder of how you tried/cried
And now you’re gone
If you could just hold me I’d tell you I’m sorry
It’d be like it [C/B]used to be
But I know that somewhere tonight
You could love anyone but me

>From Bruce Robison “Country Sunshine”
Boars Nest Records 20001
Tiltawhirl Music

Kenny Malone drums
Dan Dugmore steel guitar/guitar
Dennis Crouch bass
Eamon McLaughlin fiddle
Peter Wasner piano

INTRO: Am G Am G

Yes I do come here often, but I don’t call it alone
I’ve got a house up on Third, but I wouldn’t call it a home
These days I have secrets, but I don’t call ‘em dreams
Yes I work every mornin, but I don’t call that a life
Yes I once was married, but I wouldn’t call me a wife
No I don’t mind small talk if it says what it means

CHORUS:
N/C Am G
So don’t call it love, it ain’t the same
I ain’t no kid, this ain’t no game
I’d say the words if the words were enough
You can hold me [Am-G-C]tonight, but don’t call it love

INTRO

Yes I’ve had some heartaches, I’ve had good times
Though I wouldn’t call it hard luck, the choices were mine
Thank God there’s some music, did I interupt your scene
Do I believe in Heaven, yeah but I don’t mean the stars
I think it’s all around us, maybe not in this bar
I’m out on the ocean and the truth is my last line

CHORUS:
N/C Am G
But don’t call it love, it ain’t the same
I ain’t no kid, this ain’t no game
I’d say the words if the words were enough
You can hold me [Am-G-C]tonight, but don’t call it love

INTRO

Oh I’d say the words if the words were enough
You can hold me [Am-G-C]tonight, but don’t call it love
No don’t call it love
No don’t call it love

You see, when I met Mary Campbell, that’s what her name was then
It was a party in the woods with the fire in a garbage can
And everyone stood and watched the embers risin’ in the sky
I was askin’ ‘bout the little girl with the big brown eyes
But no one knew the first thing about Mary

CHORUS:
But I ain’t worried about it none, I know it’ll all be okay
She’s gonna come on back to me someday
‘Cause he don’t know the first thing about Mary
She could never love a man that way

You see, one thing about Mary is that she don’t ever lie
But she can tell if you are just by lookin’ in your eyes
And she’ll say that she forgives you and you’ll try to make amends
But once her trust is gone she can’t really give it back again
That’s what you learn when you’ve known Mary long as I have

CHORUS

BRIDGE:
Pray that they don’t dust your life for the little fingerprints
I can’t recall my life before her and there ain’t been nothin’ since
And they can raise great buildings full of stuff I’ll never learn
But I understand the reason for the fire and how it burns

You see, one thing about Mary not a lot of people know
Is she can’t stay in small towns if she thinks she needs to grow
And you may think it’s just a phase and she’ll soon give in
And she won’t ever leave you boy, you better think again
‘Cause you can’t throw a rope around my Mary

CHORUS

No he don’t know the first thing about Mary
She could never love a man that way

John Ludwick bass
Mark Patterson drums
Rich Brotherton guitar

http://brucerobison.com/

Practiced some lines in the mirror
But I couldn’t settle on one
I could be James Dean another shot at that scene
Stead of standing there looking dumb
And I hung on to wasted memories
Didn’t want to face the pain
Recalling some of the things I done that
Neither one of us could change
You could cry yourself to sleep in the morning
And I’ll come home drunk at night
You could give me a final warning and then
Man we’ll have a hell of a fight
You could say that we tried everything we could
As I’m reaching for my hat
But you just can’t get in your car and leave
Honey how can it [G/A]end like that

SOLO

Now I know that it’s all over
And I know it won’t be back
Didn’t even cry or say goodbye
Don’t I mean any more than that
You could cry yourself to sleep in the morning
And I’ll come home drunk at night
You could give me a final warning and then
Man we’ll have a hell of a fight
You could say that you tried everything you could
As I’m reaching for my hat
But you just can’t get in your car and leave
Honey how can it [G/A]end like that
But you just can’t get in your car and leave
Honey how can it [G/A]end like that

>From Bruce Robison “Wrapped”
Lucky Dog Records 1998
Bruce Robison Music(BMI)/Tiltawhirl Music(BMI)
Warner Tamerlane Publishing Company