Bottle Collection Lyrics
Get Up and Dance
Get Up and Dance
Rhythm Guitar & vocals- Jenna Rice
Drums -Ty McCarthy
Bass – Evan Antal
Mandolin – Emile Smith
Lead Guitar – Evan Antal
Backing Vocals – Libby Kirkpatrick
Another day brings another fork in the road
And you just stand there wondering which way to go.
Gone wrong now, too many times to count,
And you can’t help wondering what it’s all about.
Some say there’s a reason, some say that there’s a rhyme,
Others say that we are all just here doing time.
But either way we’re here under the moon tonight,
So we might as well just dance in the moonlight.
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Don’t let anyone stand in your way.
If you’ve got a chord just go ahead and play.
Live your wildest dreams while you have the chance
And when the music plays, get up and dance
People change, and nothing stays the same
And you never know when it could all just slip away.
In the blink of an eye, it could all be gone
And the best that you can do is just try to hold on.
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Christine
Christine
Rhythm Guitar & vocals- Jenna Rice
Bass -Jim Yeager
Backing Vocals – Jim Yeager
These days the torture never seems to end.
I go from drunk to hungover and back to drunk again.
And a long time ago I stopped believing in God,
This life is just a lottery, and I don’t like the odds.
‘Cause if there was any kind of justice at all,
You would still be standing here and I would be gone.
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My darling Christine set your table for two,
It won’t be long my love, and I’ll be back with you.
We’re trapped in this life and I don’t know why,
But we’re too scared to leave ‘cause we’re too scared to die.
But I’m not afraid of dying anymore,
There ain’t a god damn thing in this life that I’m still living for.
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Well I could work all day and maybe try to care,
I could drive all night and try to get somewhere.
But I don’t think that I want to do this anymore,
Just let me have one more drink and I’ll be at your door.
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Small Town Song
Small Town Song
Rhythm Guitar & vocals- Jenna Rice
Drums – Jim Yeager
Bass – Evan Antal
Mandolin – Emile Smith
Backing Vocals – Jenna Rice, Libby Kirkpatrick, Linwood Thompson, Andy Wyatt, David Baldwin
Well I grew up in a small town, just a couple of farms,
No traffic lights or cops, just a town hall and a bar.
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If you tell a secret at sunrise everyone will know by noon
If you ain’t got none to tell they just make one up about you.
Well I heard John stole someone’s car when he got drunk last night,
And Peggy Sue and Mary Lou, they got in a fight.
Paul stayed home from work today, he said he had the flu,
So why did I see him tonight at the bar with Mary Lou?
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I heard last night I slept with Joe, but that just can’t be true,
‘Cause I also heard last night I slept with everyone else too.
But let me set the record straight, I’ll tell you the truth,
All I really did last night was binge watch family feud.
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Our hearts are in the right place, at least that’s what I’d say.
Brains are nowhere to be found, they done gone run away.
Maybe it’s caused by the weather, maybe it’s the food,
Maybe we just are this way and there’s nothing we can do.
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Best Left Broken
Best Left Broken
Rhythm Guitar & vocals- Jenna Rice
Synths – Jim Yeager
Backing Vocals – Jim Yeager
Keyboards – Jim Yeager
Why do I keep coming around
Despite everything, still trying to make you proud?
Maybe I don’t remember right,
A well-lit picture makes the darkest times look bright.
Well maybe someday you will get better
The damage is done, everything is broken
So maybe you’ll get it together
But I can’t be part of together again.
Well I’ve been down this road before.
A year’s gone by but my scars are still open.
They say time can heal anything,
But some things are best left broken.
Someone to Need Me
Someone to Need Me
Rhythm Guitar & vocals- Jenna Rice
Dobro – Ivan Goldstein
Through the window of your eyes I can see your fear,
Will tears wash them clean again until the view is clear?
I wish you wouldn’t draw the blinds,
Like you’ve done for years to keep the word outside.
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But you’re only here ‘cause you have nobody,
And I just need someone to need me.
Imagining your uncried tears washed over by your warmth,
I wish I could undo the damage hard time has worn.
I wish I could fill the hole,
That inside you continues to grow.
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My head against your armored chest I still can feel your heart,
My skin pressed against your skin, feeling every scar.
If only I could take away your pain,
If only I thought you would let me stay.
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Bottle Collection
Bottle Collection
Rhythm Guitar & vocals- Jenna Rice
Fiddle – Marta Bartholomew
Drums – Jim Yeager
Bass – Evan Antal
Backing Vocals – Jim Yeager
Johnny left this morning to fight overseas,
I knew I’d never see him again
Even if someday he made it back to me,
He’d left pieces of his broken heart in Afghanistan
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He’s gone, never coming back again.
Gone; if he makes it back it’s only half of him.
Johnny came back to me today
Wanted so bad to be okay
But every night he’d sit down and drain that bottle
Fill it back up with his sorrows.
Put a cork in it and bottle it away.
Every dime he had he’d use to pay
To add one more bottle to his collection
Every time he swore it would be the last one.
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Johnny tried so hard to get himself on track
Twelve steps forward, but then one step back.
Nothing lasts forever when it’s being torn apart
For Johnny there was no cure for his broken heart.
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Finally came the sad day he could no longer outrun
He left the bank his house and us his bottle collection.
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Love Is Not Enough
Love is not Enough
Rhythm Guitar & vocals- Jenna Rice
Backing vocals – Libby Kirkpatrick
He’d do what it took just to feel his heart pound
The fall felt like flying, until he hit the ground.
And freedom was never as free as he’d thought
But he still pays up cause it’s all that he’s got
OOOhOooh Sometimes love just is not enough.
I know they say all is fair in love and war,
But is it all still fair if he don’t love her anymore?
He’s searching for something that he lost long ago,
Or maybe he just needs someone to hold.
OOOhOooh Sometimes love just is not enough
OOOhOooh Sometimes love just is not enough
He’s tied to the mast with the ship sinking fast.
The man who ran first is coming in last.
And time slips by, but I’ve learned not to cry
‘Cause we’re on separate ships that just passed in the night
OOOhOooh Sometimes love just is not enough
OOOhOooh Sometimes love just is not enough
Sometimes love just is not enough
Little Did I Know
Little Did I Know
Rhythm Guitar & vocals- Jenna Rice
Drums – Ty McCarthy
Bass – Evan Antal
Backing Vocals – Libby Kirkpatrick
Harmonica- Pete Meijer
I was eight ears old
Thought that you were perfect, little did I know
I watched your every move,
Told myself when I grew I’d be just like you
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Well everything that’s given can be taken away.
Everything that goes up can fall down.
I guess that the time has come, there’s nothing left to say.
Guess I shouldn’t wait around.
Just know that every night I cry myself to sleep
Cry myself a broken lullaby.
Anything worth having ain’t so easy to keep
Still I keep on asking why.
I turned fifteen
Everything you told me I happily I believed
I built you up so tall
Trusted you so much that I thought you’d never fall
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I’m eighteen now,
Just ten short years later but it’s all come tumbling down.
Staring Back
Staring Back
Rhythm Guitar & vocals- Jenna Rice
How many people will walk away,
Before you understand why they never stay?
The truth can’t compete with the story that you weave,
‘Cause it might take away the air you need to breathe.
Now you’re trapped in the web that you wove,
Tied up by the lines you wrote long ago.
Can’t you see the damage that you’ve done?
The twenty long years of hit and runs.
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They say that you’re not gonna change
Until you can’t find anyone else to blame.
But someday you’ll drink to the bottom of your glass
And all you’ll see is your reflection staring back.
Some of us cry as we watch it all burn down,
Some of us deny, and some of us leave town.
Everything has changed except for you,
Isn’t there somewhere a whispering of truth?
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I lay awake and listen to the rain
And wonder if somewhere you’re doing the same.
And maybe the day that you wake up and see,
Will also be the day I can finally get to sleep.
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Chapters turn and Bridges Burn Lyrics
Second First Time
The thing I love about you is baby you’re exactly that.
Nothing ever takes too long to loose its shine,
You spend the rest of your life looking for a second first time.
Talk is cheap as hell these days, and I know you wouldn’t make me pay.
My red boots in your mudroom, they don’t look like they’re here to stay.
I spent so many nights trying to make you mine,
Now I’m turning the page and searching for a second first time.
I spent the years trying to build the perfect life.
Got there just to realize its lonely in paradise.
Once you get the taste you can’t stop chasing the high,
Spend the rest of your life searching for a second first time.
Packed by the Door
Not scared to look down because there’s nowhere to fall.
I scratched off a losing ticket, with my last dime,
Thumb in the air on the side of highway nine.
I’ve had good love and let it slip through my hands,
Only to prove to myself that I can.
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If you build me a castle, make it out of sand.
Don’t try to put no ring on my hand.
I can love you better than you’ve been loved before,
But I like to keep my bags packed by the door.
A candle in the window, don’t it look so sweet?
I kind of wish that someone might light one for me.
Every cheap motel room, they all look the same,
A home away from home, I guess you could say.
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People think that you find freedom out on the road,
Running from everything that you know.
But the road ties your hands, keeps you running around,
No if I was free, I think I’d settle down.
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Until the Lights Go Down
That’s alright, it never could have worked.
I’ve got me a family now, a piece of land and a little house,
But I still think of you when I feel down.
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Before you know it, you’ve grown old, beside someone you barely know.
When we were kids it was just fine, but something just got lost with time.
Life will get the best of you and time, she’s only passing through
So take her hand and spin her round, and hold her til the lights go down.
You’re way to young to look this old, but main street ain’t paved in gold,
Living like we did sure took a toll
You say you’re clean and sober now, still drink most nights but that don’t count,
Maybe light one up when you feel down.
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You’re living with a girl these days, you’ve got a car, she’s got a lace,
By now you know not to complain.
In a town the size of this, you just take what you can get,
And hope that you can make a go of it
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Love Letters
What would I have to do to ever make you mine?
I could take you down to Mexico, we’d lay there on the sand,
Watch the sunset from the beach as we walked hand in hand.
You did not seem prepared to hear the answer ‘no’,
When that’s what I said to you, you could not let go.
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You said I’d done you wrong, I walked the line of sin,
What you did was not your fault and I’d pay in the end.
Well I just have one thing to ask, so think it over well..
Will you still write me love letters once I’ve gone to hell?
You said baby love’s a game, do you wanna play?
Only looked at me to blame as I turned away.
Then you wrote me that love song, so I wrote this for you,
Next time that ring feels too tight you know what not to do.
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Phone Call
Like a fool I picked it up, said ‘baby, you alright?’
You were doing fine I guess, half in the bag and quite a mess,
Said you had just called to reminisce.
Some memories are worth taking out once in a while.
Other ones are best buried in the dunes of time.
We had some good times before, but the time came to close the door,
I don’t know why you’re coming back for more.
You used to be an all right guy, but I think you’ve come undone.
Thinking that you’ve seen the light, preaching at everyone.
Easy come and easy go, it’s a lesson that you’ve got to know,
Believe in the colors people show.
A few years ago I was a girl, young and naive.
Looking out at the world, wondering what to believe.
Played the game, did not know how, but I still won it all somehow,
You can’t hold that against me now.
In my Shoes
But there’s a moon on that horizon, and I’ve got nowhere I have to be.
It’s been a long day at the factory, doing so much of nothing.
No one ever stops to ask me, how’s it going? How you been?
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I ain’t to loose, but its enough to keep me in my shoes…
Sometimes I want to light the flame, but other times I think its all the same.
Driving down this darkened main street, that’s all that’s left of my home town
There’s not much left of the lace that raise me, just empty house after empty house
And my mind is just as empty, any my body feels at ease,
But there’s a moon on that horizon, and no one waiting up for me.
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Curse of Me
Counting headlights to keep myself awake.
Rolling through town after town,
Just looking for a place to lay my head down.
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I guess that’s just the curse of being free
Or maybe it’s the curse of me.
At home I long for the road,
With miles flying by I dream of home.
I say I want love that’s true,
But I can’t seem to stay when I’m with you.
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I bought a house and I fell in love
I come home every night no matter what.
I swear to God I like this way,
But he just whispers back ‘you’ll never stay’
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Summer of Me and You
July sun is on the rise as the morning starts to paint the skies,
I tiptoe out the door before you can ask me why.
You know I’d like to stay a while, as I start the car with a smile,
You and I could never be, that’s what keeps us wild.
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But let’s go blow smoke across the water,
Just like we always used to do.
Watch the sun set over a bottle,
Like the summer of me and you.
Everything comes to an end, I still think of you now and then,
Sometimes I smile, sometimes I cry about you my old friend.
I could wish it would all come back, but life it just don’t work like that,
Chapters turn and bridges burn, some things aren’t meant to last.
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Days have just been going by, I haven’t seen you in a while,
And despite what I tell myself, its not like I don’t know why.
I just have half a tank of gas, and another week to make it last,
But I’ll meet you at the lake, you don’t even have to ask.
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City of Lost Angels
The devil never sleeps and the sun never sets.
I’m at an all-night diner, just staring at the wall,
Trying to think about nothing at all.
I’m not in control of the thoughts in my brain,
And it’s not my own blood that’s pounding through my veins.
I guess I’ve just been doing too much thinking lately,
And thinking it ain’t been too kind to me.
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And I thought that I was finally done with trouble,
Thought that I would just walk away.
Oh but the devil never lets you go,
As long as you still have debts to pay.
I was born in the city, and raised up by the road,
And ever since I could walk, been putting mules on my soul.
I’ve spend my whole life just screaming at the sky,
Knowing that there’s no answer but I can’t stop asking why.
I’ve found myself with my back pressed up against the wall,
Nowhere to run, no one to catch me when I fall.
So father please forgive me for the things I’ve had to do,
But if you stood where I stand now, you’d have done it too.
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Around and Around
And the same TV station’s on, for him to rest his eyes.
Someone to tell him who to blame, who to love and who to hate,
It’s easier that way.
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The weeks just go around and around,
And the radio is turned up loud.
Days go but with nothing to show,
He swears that he’s leave, but there’s nowhere to go.
For years he’s lived with a girl, but the spark died long ago,
Now they’re both afraid of dying alone.
Living someone else’s dream is just the way it has to be,
At least that’s how it seems.
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At the end of his long day, he sits in a chair,
Staring at the walls all painted white.
And wonders for the hundredth time if the goldfish in the kitchen minds,
Just swimming in circles all his life.
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