IF HEAVEN WASN'T SO FAR AWAY

JUSTIN MOORE
SONGWRITERS: DAVIDSON GERALD DALLAS; HATCH ROBERT HENRY & JONES BRETT WILLIAM SEABORN
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: OUTLAWS LIKE ME
LABEL: THE VALORY MUSIC CO.
GENRE: COUNTRY
YEAR: 2011
 
     Justin Cole Moore(born March 30, 1984) is an American country music singer and songwriter, signed to Big Machine Records imprint Valory Music Group. For that label, he has released six studio albums: his self titled debut in 2009, Outlaws Like Me in 2011, Off the Beaten Path in 2013, Kinda Don't Care in 2016, Late Nights and Longnecks in 2019, and Straight Outta the Country in 2021. He has also charted sixteen times on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts, including with the number 1 singles "Small Town USA", "If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away", "Til My Last Day", "Lettin' the Night Roll", "You Look Like I Need a Drink", "Somebody Else Will", "The Ones That Didn't Make It Back Home", and "Why We Drink"; and the top 10 hits "Backwoods" and "Point at You".
          Outlaws Like Me is the second studio album by American country music artist Justin Moore. It was released on June 21, 2011 via The Valory Music Co. The album's first single, "If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away", became Moore's second number one hit on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Its single, "Bait a Hook" reached the top 20 at number 17. The third single, "Til My Last Day", peaked at number one on the Country Airplay chart. Moore co-wrote eleven of the thirteen songs on the album.
Every day I drive to work across Flint River bridge
A hundred yards from the spot where me and grandpa
Fished
There's a piece of his old fruit stand on the side of
Sawmill Road
He'd be there peelin' peaches if it was twenty years ago
 
And what I wouldn't give
To ride around in that old truck with him
If heaven wasn't so far away
I'd pack up the kids and go for the day
Introduce them to their grandpa
Watch 'em laugh at the way he talks
 
I'd find my long lost cousin John
The one we left back in Vietnam
Show him a picture of his daughter now
She's a doctor and he'd be proud
 
Then tell him we'd be back in a couple of days
In the rear view mirror we'd all watch 'em wave
Yeah, and losing them wouldn't be so hard to take
If heaven wasn't so far away
I'd hug all three of those girls we lost from the class of '99
 
And I'd find my bird dog Bo
And take him huntin' one more time
I'd ask Hank why he took those pills back in '53
And Janis to sing the second verse of "Me and Bobby McGee"
Sit on a cloud and visit for a while
It'd do me good just to see them smile
 
If heaven wasn't so far away
I'd pack up the kids and go for the day
Introduce them to their grandpa
Watch 'em laugh at the way he talks
 
I'd find my long lost cousin John
The one we left back in Vietnam
Show him a picture of his daughter now
She's a doctor and he'd be proud
 
Then tell him we'd be back in a couple of days
In the rear view mirror we'd all watch 'em wave
Yeah, and losing them wouldn't be so hard to take
If heaven wasn't so far
If heaven wasn't so far
If heaven wasn't so far away
So far away
So far away.

I'LL REMEMBER HOW YOU LOVED ME

NATHALY HEMBY
SONGWRITER: NATHALY HEMBY
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: PUXICO
LABEL: GETWRUCKE PRODUCTIONS
GENRE: COUNTRY
YEAR: 2017
 
          Natalie Nicole Hemby Wrucke(born March 24, 1977) is an American country music songwriter and singer. She has written songs for Lee Ann Womack, Eli Young Band, Toby Keith, Miranda Lambert, Sunny Sweeney, Little Big Town, Jon Pardi, Kacey Musgraves, and Lady Gaga. In 2019, she joined the quartet The Highwomen alongside Brandi Carlile, Amanda Shires and Maren Morris.
             Puxico is the debut studio album by American singer and songwriter Natalie Hemby, released on January 13, 2017, through her own label, GetWrucke Productions. Hemby started recording the album around the same time she created a documentary about her hometown Puxico in 2010.
          Will Hermes from Rolling Stone stated about the album "It's a nostalgic LP, musically and thematically, about the value of roots – surprising, maybe, from a woman behind songs like Lambert's 'Pink Sunglasses' and 'Getaway Driver', which broaden country's palette. But Hemby's a master craftswoman, and in an era of rule-by-Twitter, songs like 'Grand Restoration' and 'Time Honored Tradition' make a case for traditionalism being its own kind of progressivism."

I probably won't recall graduation day
Or the neighbors up the street in the town where I was raised
The Fox and Jacob houses all dressed up like young cadets, I will forget
 
It'll steal my memory who was president that year
Like bells in a drug store door, somethings just disappear
When I'm sure that I knew exactly how the story went
I will forget
 
Cause when you're details turn to dust
And the words get worn and frayed
And the past is trapped in photographs
'til I'll last days
 
I'll remember how you
I'll remember how you
I'll remember how you loved me
 
Funny how time erases memories over time
But the feeling lingers round in the walls of your mind
Like a secret that I keep in a box under the bed
No I won't forget
 
Cause when the details turn to dust
And the words get worn and frayed
And the past is trapped in photographs
'Til our last days
 
I'll remember how you
I'll remember how you
I'll remember how you loved me
 
I'll remember how you
I'll remember how you
I'll remember how you loved
 
Oh, I'll remember how you
I'll remember how you
I'll remember how you loved me
I'll remember how you loved me.

TEARS AND SOUVENIRS

THE STYLISTICS
SONGWRITER: THE STYLISTIC
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: THANK YOU BABY
LABEL: AVCO RECORDS
GENRE: SOUL
YEAR: 1975
 
          The Stylistics are an American, Philadelphia soul group that achieved their greatest chart success in the 1970s. They formed in 1968, with a lineup of singers Russell Thompkins Jr., Herb Murrell, Airrion Love, James Smith and James Dunn. All of their US hits were ballads characterized by the falsetto of Russell Thompkins Jr. and the production of Thom Bell. During the early 1970s, the group had twelve consecutive R&B top ten hits, including "Stop, Look, Listen", "You Are Everything", "Betcha by Golly, Wow", "I'm Stone in Love with You", "Break Up to Make Up" and "You Make Me Feel Brand New", which earned them 5 gold singles and 3 gold albums.
    The Stylistics were created from two Philadelphia groups, The Percussions and The Monarchs. Russell Thompkins Jr., James Smith and Airrion Love came from the Monarchs, and James Dunn and Herb Murrell came from the Percussions. In 1970, the group recorded "You're a Big Girl Now", a song their road manager Marty Bryant co-wrote with Robert Douglas, a member of their backing band Slim and the Boys, and the single became a regional hit for Sebring Records. Producer Bill Perry spent $400 to record the song in the Virtue Studios in Philadelphia. The larger Avco Records soon signed the Stylistics, and the single eventually climbed to No. 7 on the US Billboard R&B chart in early 1971. 
The day she said goodbye
the day she said goodbye
she left me with tears
tears and souvenirs
tears and souvenirs
tears and souvenir
hello faded valentine
do you remember me
how will I know
your words of yesterday
valentine what's new today
 
hello happy photograph
I still remember you
that funny face
that change my life somehow
photograph where is she now...
 
the day she said goodbye
the day she said goodbye
the day she said goodbye
she left me with tears
tears and souvenir
 
little painted clown
lies that meants so much
we've been out of touch
and you were born of
deck of cards
you knew very well
I've been left alone
playing solitaire...
 
hello silent souvenirs
forgive me if I should cry
but no one knows.
as well as you my friends
this life of mine
came to an end
the day she said goodbye
the day she said goodbye
and left me with tears
tears and souvenirs
tears and souvenirs
 
the day she said goodbye
tears and souvenirs
the day she said goodbye
tears and souvenirs.

FELL IN LOVE WITH A BOY

JOSS STONE
SONGWRITER: JOHN ANTHONY WHITE
COUNTRY: U. K.
ALBUM: THE SOUL SESSIONS
LABEL: S-CURVE
GENRE: SOUL
YEAR: 2003
 
       Joscelyn Eve Stoker (born 11 April 1987), known professionally as Joss Stone, is an English singer, songwriter and actress. She rose to fame in late 2003 with her multi-platinum debut album, The Soul Sessions, which made the 2004 Mercury Prize shortlist. Her second album, the similarly multi-platinum Mind Body & Soul(2004), topped the UK Albums Chart and spawned the top-ten single "You Had Me", Stone's most successful single on the UK Singles Chart to date. Both the album and single received one nomination at the 2005 Grammy Awards, while Stone herself was nominated for Best New Artist, and in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2004, was ranked fifth as a predicted breakthrough act of 2004. She became the youngest British female singer to top the UK Albums Chart. Stone's third album, Introducing Joss Stone, released in March 2007, achieved gold record status by the Recording Industry Association of America(RIAA) and yielded the second-ever highest debut for a British female solo artist on the Billboard 200, and became Stone's first top five album in the US.
          She released her fourth album, Colour Me Free!, in 2009, which reached the top 10 on Billboard. Stone released her fifth album, LP1, in 2011, which reached the top 10 on Billboard. Throughout her career, Stone has sold 15 million records worldwide, establishing herself as one of the best-selling soul artists of the 2000s, and the best-selling British artists of her time. Her first three albums have sold over 2,722,000 copies in the US, while her first two albums have sold over 2 million copies in the UK.
Stone has earned several awards including two Brit Awards and one Grammy Award out of five nominations. She made her film acting debut in 2006 with the fantasy adventure film Eragon, and made her television debut portraying Anne of Cleves in the Showtime series The Tudors in 2009. Stone was the youngest woman on the 2006 Sunday Times Rich List—an annual list of the UK's wealthiest people—with £6 million. In 2012, her net worth was estimated to be £10 million, making her the fifth richest British musician under 30. The Soul Sessions Vol. 2(2012) is her fourth consecutive album to reach the top 10 on the Billboard 200, with Australian producer Cam Noble.
        The Soul Sessions is the debut studio album by English singer and songwriter Joss Stone, released on 16 September 2003 by S-Curve Records. The album consists of cover versions of soul songs from the 1960s and 1970s, in addition to a cover of the White Stripes' 2001 song "Fell in Love with a Girl". In 2004, The Soul Sessions was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize and was nominated for a MOBO Award for Best Album. 
I fell in love with a boy
Fell in love once and almost completely
He's in love with the world,
But sometimes these feelings can be so misleading
He turns and he says, "Are you alright?"
Oh I must be fine 'cause my hearts still beating,
Come and kiss me by the riverside
Sarah said its cool she don't consider it cheating,
Red hair with a curl
Mellow roll for the flavor and the eyes for peeping
Can't keep away from the boy
The two sides of my brain need to have a meeting
Can't think of anything to do my left brain knows that all love is fleeting
He's just looking for something new
Yeah I said it once before but it bears repeating
(aaaaa, aaaaa, aaaaa, aaaaaaa)
Can't think of anything to do
My left brain knows that all love is fleeting
He's just looking for something new well
I said it once before but it bears repeating
Fell in love with a boy I fell in love once and almost completely
He's in love with the world
But sometimes these feelings can be so misleading
He turns and asks are you alright?
Oh I must be fine because my hearts still beating
Come and kiss me by the riverside
Sarah said it's fine she don't consider it cheating now
(aaaaaaaaa, aaaaaaaaa, aaaaaaa, aaaaa)
Can't think of anything to do
My left brain knows that all love is fleeting
He's just looking for something new
Well I've said once before but it bears repeating now.