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AS SOON AS THE BOTTLE HITS THE FLOOR
by Sullivan Fall
I didn’t come here looking for a fight
I just want to drink away my troubles tonight
And as soon I’m feeling good and tight
I’ll walk out that door
I don’t need a pretty thing at my side
Drinking my drinks then giving me the slide
Even I got a little pride
At least I did before
But one leads to another, then they’re showing you the door
As soon as your bottle hits the floor
You can save your money for a rainy day
Or wait for it to grow until your old and grey
But me, I came here once I got my pay
So come on, honey, pore
Trouble seems to find me everywhere I go
Well, i ain’t ever looking, still it finds me so
When some guy starts to throw a blow
I'm not myself no more
But one leads to another, then they’re showing you the door
As soon as your bottle hits the floor
As soon as the bottle hits the floor
I’ll know not to ask for anymore
But let me be till then, with all my new found friends
Cause I got a little money left to spend
But one leads to another and then they’re showing you the door
As soon as your bottle hits the floor
As soon as the bottle hits the floor
I’ll know not to ask for anymore
But let me be till then, with all my new found friends
Cause I got a little money left to spend
I got a little money left to spend.
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EVERYBODY'S GOT A REASON TO CRY
by Sullivan Fall
Well, Johnny never had too much, grew up poor as could be
Thought the high life was something you lived up in a tree
He saved up and bought a truck to take him somewhere free
But Johnny never got too far in that busted, beat-up truck
It broke down twenty minutes in, it seemed his whole life was stuck
But he just pushed it home and blamed it on bad luck
And said
"Everybody's got somewhere to get to,
Everybody sometimes wonders why,
Everybody has some things to get through,
Everybody's got a reason to cry"
Shelley never thought too much for what she'd like to do
She met a man who had a job, and had a little school
She woke up with her hand in his and a kid in the paddling pool
Now Shelley she just sits and stares as the trees turn green to grey
There's nothing else she wants to do since the kids all moved away
"It's alright enough" is all she ever had to say,
"but then
Everybody's got somewhere to get to,
Everybody sometimes wonders why,
Everybody has some things to get through,
Everybody's got a reason to cry"
It only took forever for a fool such as i
To figure all i've ever seem to tell them is goodbye
Some day soon enough i'm sure i'll finally learn to try
Cause every time i gamble i just lose more than i have
If i wasn't crying all the time i might even have to laugh
At least i should have known by now that there's worse than what's last
Behind
But everybody needs someone to turn to
Everybody needs some place to hide
Though no one knows how much i'll miss you
Everybody's got a reason to cry
And darling you're my reason why.
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CAN’T STAND BY A MAN (WHO CAN’T STAND UP)
by Sullivan Fall
Mama said a woman’s place was there beside her man
But mama wasn’t always right, no mother ever can
Maybe pa was worth it, and my luck’s just not been good
I wonder how my mother ... oh, but I know she never would
Now I know I’ve been no angel, I’m not saying I’m a saint
But this house that we’re living in needs more than just some paint
We can’t live together stuck inside these walls of doubt
So I’m deciding what’s worth keeping and what’s going out
So mama what am I to do when things get hard to handle
When gossip wives and jealousy start stirring up some scandal
Mama, what’s a girl to do when gravity’s too much
Because you can’t stand by a man who can’t stand up
So mama what am I to do when things get hard to handle
When gossip wives and jealousies start stirring up some scandal
Mama what’s a girl to do when gravity’s too much
Because you can’t stand by a man who can’t stand up
No, you can't stand by a man who can't stand up.
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When God Was Making You
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WHEN GOD WAS MAKING YOU
by Sullivan Fall
Every night before i sleep i pray the lord to take
My soul should something happen and i should not awake
But now and then there's something else that i must ask him too
What the devil was he thinking when he was making you?
'Cause Heaven had no sweetness when god was making you
Just a lot of meanness and sour apples too
Was bitterness in season and guilt on the menu
i guess Heaven had no sweetness when god was making you
Mornings never have the time that's needed
To get over all the night that came before
I learned over on the bed for some sugar
When i woke up i was lying on the floor
'Cause Heaven had no sweetness when god was making you
Just a lot of meanness and sour apples too
Was bitterness in season and guilt on the menu
i guess Heaven had no sweetness when god was making you
I pray to god each and every morning
And i pray to god each and every night
But this disaster came without a warning
So i'm praying god will show me the light
Nothing seems to get the old heart moving
Like the threat of an impending misery
So i hurry home from what i'm doing
So i don't find myself history
'Cause Heaven had no sweetness when god was making you
Just a lot of meanness and sour apples too
Was bitterness in season and guilt on the menu
i guess Heaven had no sweetness when god was making you
And every day i find myself more grateful
The air is just a little bit more sweet
Now that we two sit at different tables
And you don't get to tell me what to eat
But Heaven had no sweetness when god was making you
Just a lot of meanness and sour apples too
Was bitterness in season and guilt on the menu
Heaven had no sweetness when god was making you
I guess heaven had no sweetness when god was making you.
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Two Too Many
03:41
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TWO TOO MANY
by Sullivan Fall
I think she calls to prove i'm still not over her
Like these memories she left aren't proof enough
I'm afraid to sleep in case i dream of her
So these nights since she's been gone have been pretty rough
I didn't think it'd be so hard forgetting
After all we weren't together all that long
Maybe it's the ending i'm regretting
but she knew that i would soon be movin' on
Now i've had two too many to be thinkin'
There's no reason not to drink the whole night through
Well, at least i'm sure of how much i've been drinkin'
I've had two too many, what's one more gonna do
Sometimes a man is left with one solution
When everything that's left just isn't right
He tries to drink away all his confusion
And that's the state you found me in tonight
Well, now and then my heart will get the best of me
And i'll start to thinkin' why she let me go
But once i regain all of my faculties
It always comes to how i told her so
Now i've had two too many to be thinkin'
There's no reason not to drink the whole night through
Well, at least i'm sure of how much i've been drinkin'
I've had two too many, what's one more gonna do.
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DANCE ALL NIGHT IN HEAVEN
by Sullivan Fall
Darlin' you can dance all night in heaven
Just promise to save the first dance for me
Hello there little darlin', i hope you can hear my voice
And i hope you know i'd be there with you, if i only had the choice
Your life has not been easy, all your burdens they are not fair
I know that you've been wonderin', and yes, i hear every single prayer
As a husband i was useless, always angry and unkind
As a father i was careless, busy drinking myself slowly blind
I hope that you can forgive me, though i don't know why you should
But if i could take back that night my dear,
Just know how fast i would
Now all that i remember from that dark and fateful night
just ten years ago
Were the flashing lights and broken branches, then how suddenly it seemed so cold
Well it's true, i had been drinking when the rain started coming down
I looked over at your scared face but i couldn't turn that car around
As the moonlight started dimming, all i could hear was your sad cry
Saying "daddy, please don't leave me", then i couldn't even say goodbye
While i haven't been there to wipe away your tears but i've watched how beautifully you have grown
Though it's true that you cannot walk, you stand taller than anyone else i've ever known
Darlin' you can dance all night in heaven
In heaven that's the place where you'll be free
Darlin' you can dance all night in heaven
Just promise that you'll save the first dance for me
Promise you'll save the first dance for me.
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I EARNED THIS TROPHY WIFE
by Sullivan Fall
When we walk around this town we get our share of looks
From the jealous and the justified, the righteous and the crooks
But we don’t care if people stare, 'cause we’re doing just fine
Yes sir, peep her, you can bet that I sure
Earned this trophy wife of mine
Well I did my time on a factory line and I worked a while in coal
I’ve built bridges and brought down farms and taken highway tolls
But from there to here it’s very clear I much prefer this life
Of kissing, hugging and Sunday morning lovin’
With this my trophy wife
Now who’s to say there’s nothing else to keep us to each other
Than looks and lucre, well I never took her
So tell that to you’re nosy mother
Some times were hard and left us scarred but that was long ago
Now it’s champagne breakfasts and first-run movie shows
If it all ends tomorrow well I sure had fun today
I’ll be happy as long as she looks at me
And promises to stay
Well they can talk or take a walk, it don’t matter much you see
When we’re out dancing, drinking, and romancing,
My trophy wife and me
And we’ll be as long as I can afford to keep such company.
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STILL BEING BURNED BY MY OLD FLAME
by Sullivan Fall
Taking up my space in the same old forsaken place
Drinking everything they had to try
So tired of my life without a woman or a wife
Each bottle getting closer to goodbye
Well then she walked right in, with those brown eyes and freckled skin
Looking like an angel who'd pawned her wings
She said she'd understand if i would only be her man
I held her and i promised everything
We kept each other warm through all those winters
Free from starting fires and laying blame
But when they ask all i can say is i still miss her
'Cause i'm still being burned by my old flame
Oh, I'm still being burned by my old flame
She looks at me like she don't know my name
Once upon a time it would have all seemed fine
But love has left to light some other home
I'm sitting here again with all my other burned out friends
That only have to offer one more round
But it will get me through for another day or two
Till i find some other woman to burn me down
And keep each other warm through all those winters
Free from starting fires and laying blame
But when she asks all i can say is i still miss her
Oh, i'm still being burned by my old flame
And the flames from her will never die away.
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DON'T GO OUT WEST TO TEXAS
by Sullivan Fall
There was nothing left to happen there but to watch the grass grow long
Just another dusty wasted town
Where every song was all sung out and all the buildings boarded up
The recent past was the only thing around
If one more year left me behind i knew it'd be my last
But something hit me hard that leaving day
Packed a case and my guitar and a sandwich too
And as i left i could hear my mama say
"Son, don't you go out west to texas
Even though i know you can't stay here
It doesn't matter what you've done or what you'll do
Texas doesn't settle for your tears"
Some trucker left me in this place where sunday never comes
And everything you say are fighting words
Found a girl looking sorry in the corner of the room
And When i looked into those eyes of hers
Looking beautiful and sad like her life had come unmade
Standing by some cowboy dressed to bruise
When he slapped her face as the Lyle Lovett played
Well there was nothing i could do
I walked right into the corner and after that i can't recall
Words were said and fists were thrown and then his head went through the wall
Now i rot my life away in some old, cold dirty cell
The only thing that Texas offered me
Gave me to some lawyer, barely breathing sure
But at least the accommodations are free
All i've got are the guilt and the shame, the tragic weight of the one to blame
It keeps me up all night and day
Should've listened to you mama long ago,
As it is i'm five years too late
Wishing i had never gone to Texas, as the doctors come to strap me in
He smiles as he says "you don't mess with Texas,
Save the excuses of your sin
'Cause here in Texas the good guys always win."
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The Line
03:35
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THE LINE
by Sullivan Fall
Things have not been easy since she took her love away
And I don’t always remember how I get from day to day
I go in search of solace when she won’t pick up her phone
And I don’t want to be alone
Every night is harder getting where I want to be
Somewhere between belligerent and not far from carefree
I thought I knew my limits, when not to take one more drop
But I didn’t know enough to stop
So I’m sorry for this state I’m in, I ain’t got no excuse
I’m begging for your pity please and if that is no use
My last defense is there’s no difference
Between sympathy and wine
So please don’t make me take the line
Please don’t make me take the line
A habit’s not a habit until you got to have it
You don’t know you’ve hit the bottom till you land
But when I saw the lights flashing in the night
I finally knew I’d gotten out of hand
Sorry for the state I’m in, I ain’t got no excuse
I’m begging for your pity please and if that is no use
My last defense is there’s no difference
Between sympathy and wine
So please don’t make me take the line
Please don’t make me take the line
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WHERE WOULD WE BE WITHOUT HIM
by Sullivan Fall
When i was a boy i would swing at every pitch
And when i threw a fastball they could count out every stitch
My Dad he tried to tell me many times in many ways
"A man needs to know what games he plays"
Yes, he was a good man though i guess not good enough
To ever get ahead, did he just not have the stuff
He would go out drinking, carried home by his friend Jim
saying "where would we be without him"
Yes sir, I believe in Jesus and a good lord up above
I ain't afraid of dying and i ain't afraid of love
Got a good wife here beside me
She stands by through thick and thin
But where would we be without him
The president was talking on t.v. the other day
Said "with diligence and duty things will be okay"
but it almost feels like lying when i kiss my kids good night
and tell them things will be all right
Now my brother he is missing, buried somewhere in the sand
Fighting for his country in a foreign land
The dumb one says we're winning, but to me our hope is dim
But where would we be without him
Yes sir, i believe in Jesus and a good lord up above
The hawk must take the darkness for the morning of the dove
We must walk through the fire to burn away our sins
Or where would we be without him
They finally found my brother with a bullet in his heart
And the glove my father gave me has fallen all apart
I hope my wife and children as these days are growing grim
But where would we be without him
Where would we be without him?
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Sullivan Fall Calgary, Alberta
Sullivan Fall makes awkward rocking pop. His tenth and most recent album is entitled ADMIT THE ABSENCE FITS.
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