All I’m Asking Bill Brimer copyright 2018 If what I want is what I got Then all I’m asking ain’t a lot A working truck with cold AC A decent price on gasoline A boss that honors what he says A roof at night over my head Honest pay for honest work And bills get paid if I get hurt Income tax that don’t take much Some set aside that I don’t touch A modest home with a porch in front A box of wine and two clean cups All I’m asking ain’t too much A few days off so we can go To the livestock show and rodeo Or a baseball game to take my son And The Rangers win The Series once The house cools down at night in spring And we sleep in peace as cicadas sing A few years when we’re not at war To believe in what we’re fighting for A president who’s not a clown Someone should clean up that town A country song that ain’t just pop A steady rain to grow the crops All I’m asking ain’t a lot I hope I’m not too out of touch To say we need a little love All I’m asking ain’t too much

Will we see a ghost tonight Or a alien landing site Or just the glow of the oil field lights On the desert highway at night The spirits play with your mind Whatever you think you see you'll find Oh I know where we can go tonight Oh I know you wont believe your eyes We'll go out to highway ninety Where you can see the Marfa lights And wait for God to draw on the West Texas sky Are the ancient Apache haunting A sacred burial site Forever wandering the countryside Or the torches of Spanish explorers We see through a hole in time Or the glow of the gold they left behind Oh i know where we can go tonight Oh i know you wont believe your eyes We'll go out to highway ninety Where you can see the Marfa lights And wait for God to draw on the West Texas sky Roll down the window darling and breathe in the night Take in the sight my darling of the West Texas sky

I would have chased my demons into the darkest waters I would have lorded over flies and cruelly ruled I would have wandered in the desert without ever tasting rain If you didn’t love me and I didn’t love you I would have lived a thousand lies for love of lying I would have covered up my scars with new tattoos I would have swirled about in whispers and drowned in shallow rivers If you didn’t love me and I didn’t love you You can't go wrong with love It covers up what covers us I would have cursed the thought of grace and run from caring I would have covered up the pain with eighty proof I would have reached the deepest prison to feel like I was free if you didn't love me And I didn't love you You can't go wrong with love Love covers up what covers us What covers us love covers up You can't go wrong with love It covers up what covers us

That place in Colorado where you and I used to go It hasn’t change much you know Our old room is still the same as the last time we stayed Only now I’m here alone With nothing better to do than sip on Jameson Listening to Emmylou sing “Boulder to Birmingham” Like she was speaking for you seeking my face again I keep loving and losing you listening to Emmylou Back home in Alabama I heard her on the radio In her voice I listen close And I hear what I think is us going back to the way it was Only I’m still here alone With nothing better to do than sip on Jameson Listening to Emmylou singing “Together Again” Saying the key to my heart you hold in your hand I keep loving and losing you listening to Emmylou I can hear you in between all the chords and melodies On Pieces In The Sky I can’t get through “Sleepless Nights” With nothing better to do than sip on Jameson Listening to Emmylou sing “Boulder to Birmingham” Like she was speaking for you seeking my face again I keep loving and losing you listening to Emmylou With nothing better to do than sip on Jameson Listening to Emmylou singing “Together Again” Saying the key to my heart you hold in your hand I keep loving and losing you listening to Emmylou

Blood Brothers My brother’s done it now some deal he had went wrong he's just out on parole for selling dope I should have known that it wouldn't take him long I could barely understand what he was saying on the phone in all the years I've known him never heard him so afraid I'm on my way just hang on Until the sun’s gone down On the wrong side of town I couldn't believe there was so much blood and we couldn't get it all cleaned up we rolled the body in a rug and quickly stuffed it in the trunk with the money and the drugs now there’s no turning back soaked that shotgun shack in gas a spark from the stove burned up the past as we drove down the dark road in back The sun’s gone down On the wrong side of town Ain't no way out We're blood brothers now We were digging through the night until the light broke through the trees I don't know why I was thinking that the sun might bring us some sort of relief but the days have all turned grey a fog perpetuates the grief we don't speak about these things but in his eyes I see the strain of the secret that we keep The sun’s gone down On the wrong side of town Ain't no way out We're blood brothers now The sun’s gone down On our side of town And it ain’t coming out We're blood brothers now

Time Traveling The only light we see from the stars at night is the light that's had time to reach us And it was on the way long before the day the darkness came between us So why don't you and me and the evening breeze Lets go time traveling Why don't you and me go star gazing and turn this back to what it used to be Can you hear our song playing on the radio as it echoes across the meadow And we danced along I left my headlights on we were ten miles tall in the shadows So why don't you and me and the song we sing let's go time traveling Why don't you and me go star gazing and turn this back to what it used to be If we could travel back to when our time was gone We could turn around where we went wrong And if the stars don't take us we'll turn up our song And time traveling won't take any time at all So why don't you and me free these memories and let's go time traveling Why don't you and me go star gazing and turn this back to what it used to be \

Are you alive in New York City? Can you even be alone?
 I know you said it was lonely in your Brooklyn brownstone
 Come on back to Oklahoma where you know you’re always home 
 I want to get lost in love 
 You know that song we wrote last summer, we’ve got to figure out a key 
 So you can hammer out a melody and I can add a harmony 
 Cause every song I’ve heard you sing has always meant the world to me 
 How you ignore all the things that people say you ought to be 
 I want to get lost in love 
 I know a life in New York City is what you’ve always dreamed of 
 But come on home to Oklahoma where you know you’re always loved 
 Catch a red eye to Tulsa and I’ll drive from Broken Bow 
 We’ll ignore all the warnings, we’ll surrender all control 
 Like a lifetime of searching in a garden maze of stone 
 In the heat of the moment, in the heart of a song 
 In the heat of the moment, we’ll get lost in love 
 We’ll be long gone by morning we’ll be on the way back home 
 We’ll ignore all the warnings we’ll surrender all control 
 Like a lifetime of searching in a garden maze of stone 
 In the heat of the moment, in the heart of a song 
 In the heat of the moment, we’ll get lost in love