The Wreckers

New Artist Feature: The Wreckers (Michelle Branch & Jessica Harp)

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Leave The Pieces

Jennifer Hanson & Billy Austin

You're not sure that you love me

But you're not sure enough to let me go

Baby it ain't fair you know

To just keep me hangin' 'round

You say you don't wanna hurt me

Don't want to see my tears

So why are you still standing here

Just watching me drown

And it's alright, yeah I'll be fine

Don't worry 'bout this heart of mine

Just take your love and hit the road

There's nothing you can do or say

You're gonna break my heart anyway

So just leave the pieces when you go

You can drag out the heartache

Baby you can make it quick

Really get it over with

And just let me move on

Don't concern yourself

With this mess you've left for me

I can clean it up you see

Just as long as you're gone

You not making up your mind

Is killing me and wasting time

I need so much more than that

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Way Back Home

Michelle Branch & Jessica Harp

Somewhere in the country

There's a place

Where nobody knows your name

When I'm feeling lonely

There's a train

That helps me run away

I know my mother

She always told me

The road would get cold

I never listened

Always forgettin'

The way back home

Somewhere in the city

There's a face

That makes it hard to stay

He never listened to me

When I'd say

That things would never change

The Good Kind

Michelle Branch & Jessica Harp

Do you want to run away together?

I would say it was your best line ever

Too bad I fell for it

And I walked alone

Waiting for you to come along

Take my tortured heart by the hand

And write me off

Do you know I cry?

Do you know I die?

Do you know I cry?

And it's not the good kind

You forced me to become strong

When I just craved being weak

And you think you know

And I would like to think so

But do you know that when you go

I fall apart

I'm tired of hiding

Behind these lying eyes

I'm tired of this smile

That even I don't recognize

Tennessee

Jessica Harp

I never had all the answers

I never had enough time

But I sure had all the reasons

Why you weren't what I wanted to find

I never laid all my cards out

You just wanted to play

The king he waited on my doorstep

While the joker and me went on our way

Maybe I was much too selfish

But baby you're still on my mind

Now I'm grown and all alone

And wishing I was with you tonight

'cause I can guarantee

Things are sweeter in Tennessee

These days everything is all business

Never in one place for too long

And there's no lack of arms around me

But I still wonder if somewhere I went wrong

And I'd wish on every star in the

Southern sky

For that man and our life

If I did not think that

My, Oh My

Wayne Kirkpatrick, Josh Leo, Jessica Harp & Michelle Branch

This concrete road used to just be dirt

We'd drive out here after work

Every Friday night when I was eighteen

This parking lot used to be a field

I parked here in my Oldsmobile

Long before the Sonic and the Walgreens

Not no more

My, oh my

Look how time flies

Look how the world changes

In the blink of an eye

My, oh my

Look how the years have flown

Turning around before you know it

Up and gone

Oh my, oh my, oh my.

Times have changed and so have I

I once was young and starry-eyed

Now I have these bittersweet memories

Songs were long and gas was cheap

No cell phones and water was free

Daddy paid and I never had to worry

Stand Still, Look Pretty

Michelle Branch & Jessica Harp

I want to paint my face

And pretend that I am someone else

Sometimes I get so fed up

I don't even want to look at myself

But people have problems that are worse than mine

I don't want you to think I'm complaining all the time

And I hate the way you look at me I have to say

I wish I could start over

I am slowly falling apart

I wish you'd take a walk in my shoes for a start

You might think it's easy being me

You just stand still, look pretty

Sometimes I find myself shaking

In the middle of the night

And then it hits me and I can't

Even believe this is my life

But people have problems that are worse than mine

I don't want you to think I'm complaining all the time

And I wish that everyone would go and shut their mouths

I'm not strong enough to deal with it

Cigarettes

Jessica Harp

Got my headlights shining

Down an old dirt road

Smoke my cigarettes

I should quit, I know

The radio's playing

Old country songs

Someone's leaving, someone's cheating

On and on

I think I might like

The quiet nights

Of this empty life

'Cause someday maybe

Somebody will love me like I need

And someday I won't have to prove

'Cause somebody will see

All my worth but until then

I'll do just fine on my own

With my cigarettes

And this old dirt road

See I left another

Good man tonight

I wonder if he'll miss me

Lord knows I tried

But I think that maybe

The thing that I did wrong

Was put up with his bull****

For far too long

I ain't gonna sleep

I ain't gonna dream

About the things that I used to need

I ain't gonna cry

Or go on living lies

I'm just gonna drive

Hard To Love You

Michelle Branch & John Leventhal

Why do they make it hard to love you?

Why can't they even start to try?

'Cause now I feel a bridge is burning

And all the smoke is in my eyes

I realize I never let them know me

I always wanted to be right

Took a mistake to really show me

Exactly what they were like

I've been wrong but I've been changing

I've been wondering what to do

Here I am alone and waiting

For you

Why do I try and make them happy?

Why am I always playing nice?

It isn't easy trying to tell you

Exactly what's on my mind

Lay Me Down

Michelle Branch, Jessica Harp & Greg Wells

You let me in

'Cause after all

It seemed like the right thing to do

I closed my eyes

And let you fall

I wonder what you could possibly know

About breaking down that I don't

It's been awhile

Since I begged for

Anything but now I want more

So lay me down

I'm lonely

You don't understand me

And you'd never even try to

Anyway

One More Girl

Patty Griffin

I took off my iron smile

Because I found it weighed me down

Tomorrow when the world wakes up

I'll be in another town

You don't know what you want

But at this moment it could be me

You move your hand across my knee

Turn me in to some novelty

I guess I'm

One more girl on the stage

Just one more a** that got

Stuffed in some jeans

And it's one more day that you

Don't find true love

Because you don't know

What it means

Did you ever take the time to

Think about who I might be

Where I've been, what I'm thinking

Who I loved, what I've seen

Yeah, yeah

I'm one more car out

On the road that

You might pass on your way home

Someone's sister, someone's wife or

Just some b**** who's probably

Got no life yes I'm

One day we'll be a pile of ashes

For the rest of time it passes

So take your hand off my knee

Do you know what it means to be

Rain

Michelle Branch

You never give up

I can't believe anything you say

And it must be my luck

'Cause no one else gets treated this way

And I wanna know

What goes on in that head of yours?

Yeah, I wanna know

'Cause I don't think I can take much more

Rain

You must be sick or something

I can't take another day

Rain

Is falling down

But will the sun come out again?

I never speak up

I just try and stay out of the way

But I must have messed up

'Cause that's all that I hear you say

And I wanna know

What on earth makes you act like this?

Yeah, I wanna know

'Cause I don't think I can take this s***

Sun come out

Only Crazy People

Michelle Branch & Jessica Harp

Only crazy people

Fall in love with me

They come from all over

To be with me

Bank robbers and killers

Drunks and drug dealers

Only crazy people

Fall in love with me

He came from Carolina

On a west-bound freight train

He didn't have no ticket

But he got here the same

He left a reminder

With nine months to go

That's why I killed his wife

And wrecked up his home

He fled Mississippi

With me at his side

A trunk full of money

And no place to hide

Well he loved his whiskey

And his fists loved my face

So I buried that man

And they won't find a trace

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