BILLY RAY CYRUS - WORDS BY HEART

WORDS BY HEART

BILLY RAY CYRUS

SONGWRITERS: Monty Powell & Reed Nielsen

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: IT WON’T BE THE LAST

LABEL: MERCURY RECORDS

GENRE: COUNTRY

YEAR: 1993

 

       Billy Ray Cyrus(born August 25, 1961) is an American singer and actor. He has released 16 studio albums and 53 singles since 1992, and is known for his hit single "Achy Breaky Heart", which topped the U.S. Hot Country Songs chart and became the first single ever to achieve triple platinum status in Australia. It was also the best-selling single in the same country in 1992. Due to the song's music video, the line dance rose in popularity.

        A multi-platinum selling artist, Cyrus has scored a total of eight top-ten singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. His most successful album to date is his debut Some Gave All, which has been certified 9×multi-platinum in the United States and is the longest time spent by a debut artist at number one on the Billboard 200(17 consecutive weeks) and most consecutive chart-topping weeks in the SoundScan era. It ranked 43 weeks in the top 10, a total topped by only one country album in history, Ropin' the Wind by Garth Brooks. Some Gave All was also the first debut album to enter at number one on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. The album has also sold more than 20 million copies worldwide and is the best-selling debut album of all time for a solo male artist. Some Gave All was also the best-selling album of 1992 in the US with 4,832,000 copies. In his career, he has released 36 charted singles, of which 17 charted in the top 40. In 2019, Cyrus earned his first number-one single on the US Billboard Hot 100 as a featured artist on a remix of Lil Nas X's song "Old Town Road", which spent a record-breaking nineteen consecutive weeks at the top spot (eighteen of them credited to Cyrus). It also spent a record-breaking twenty consecutive weeks (nineteen of them credited to Cyrus) at the top spot on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Billboard Hot Rap Songs. Thanks to the song, Cyrus won his first two Grammy Awards, in the categories Best Pop Duo/Group Performance and Best Music Video.

        From 2001 to 2004, Cyrus starred in the television show Doc. The show was about a country doctor who moved from Montana to New York City. From 2006 to 2011, he co-starred in the Disney Channel series Hannah Montana with his daughter Miley Cyrus. From 2016 to 2017, he starred as Vernon Brownmule on the CMT sitcom Still the King.

           It Won't Be the Last is the second studio album released by country music artist Billy Ray Cyrus. Certified Platinum in just under a year after release by the RIAA, the album has sold over 1 million copies in the US and over 3 million copies worldwide. This album produced four singles for Cyrus on the Hot Country Songs charts: "In the Heart of a Woman", "Somebody New", "Words by Heart" and "Talk Some", which reached number #3, number #9, number #12, and number #63, respectively, on the charts. The first, third and fourth singles, plus two album tracks ("Ain't Your Dog No More" and "When I'm Gone") had accompanying music videos. "Somebody New" was covered in 2008 by Jill King, whose version was released as a single, however, it did not chart.

I was goin' through the closet

Back in my old home

Found my letterman's jacket, so I slipped it on

Deep in the pocket, still folded up tight

Was the letter you wrote to tell me goodbye

The minute I saw it I just had to smile

It smelled like old leather, as smooth as a child

I took a deep breath, then put it away

There was no need to read, I knew just what it would say

 

I know the words by heart, I know every line

From "this ain't easy" to "you'll get along just fine"

I know every comma, every question mark

No, I don't have to look, I know the words by heart

 

Scenes like home movies flash through my head

The homecoming game, that night on my bed

The words that you wrote still cut me in two

How you said you still cared but that we were through

 

I know the words by heart, I know every line

From "this ain't easy" to "you'll get along just fine"

I know every comma, every question mark

No, I don't have to look, I know the words by heart

 

Ain't it funny how a memory

Can play tricks on your mind

I don't remember a thing from my classes

But I can quote you every line

 

I took off my jacket and put it away

With your note in the pocket

Like I found it that day

Poured me a beer, then pictured your face

And drank a silent toast to things that time can't erase

 

I know the words by heart, I know every line

From "this ain't easy" to "you'll get along just fine"

I know every comma, every question mark

No, I don't have to look, I know the words by heart

 

I know the words by heart, I know every line

From "this ain't easy" to "you'll get along just fine"

I know every comma, every question mark

No, I don't have to look, I know the words by heart.