Brock Davis

I Choose Love

I never thought this is where we’d end up
Two strangers passing on the courthouse steps 
Those papers in the briefcase tell a story of our lives 
But it’s not how I’ll remember us

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And the choices we make 
Make us what we are today 
Every step that we take 
Takes us farther away
We can give in to hate
But it’s a steep price to pay 
So I choose love

And the sign on the lawn says it’s sold and it’s gone
As I round the bend, it disappears from my rear view
And I don’t know where this heartache goes, or what comes next 
And I confess, I’m just as scared as you

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So I choose love 
I choose love

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Can’t Get Close Enough to You

Muggy summer night. Ceiling fan spinning
No relief from the heat
Wind in the trees says thunderstorm a-coming 
I brush your skin – electricity!

As I reach for you, I want you more than ever 
Wanna make you come undone
Moving in the darkness, nothing in between us 
As we merge into one

Feel the pull - there’s no holding back 
Opposites attract

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I can’t get close enough
Close enough to you
I can’t get close enough to you 
I can’t let go, my love
You know I can’t let go
I can’t get close enough to you 
Close enough to you...

Moving faster, faster, almost ‘bout to shatter 
Both our bodies soaked in sweat
We’re ninety miles an hour as we take that curve 
Crash together in a wreck

Feel the pull - there’s no holding back 
Opposites attract

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Close enough to you 
Close enough to you 
Close enough to you

I Get It Now

I was shooting hoops with my boy last night in the driveway 
When I caught myself saying what you’d always say 
Coaching the team down at the high school gym
And I thought, I sound just like you did

Coach, your lesson was waiting there 
Till I could finally hear

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I was young, I was dumb, and I knew everything

Though you tried, I had my mistakes to make
Like rain on the windshield, those words washed away
If I’d listened then lord knows what heartache I coulda saved 
I didn’t get it then
Oh but how 
I get it now

I had a chip on my shoulder almost all the time
But you saw the good in me no one else could find
You said, if you run with those Johnson boys, there’ll be hell to pay 
Then we crashed that car and I was lucky to walk away

You were there for me that night 
Now I see you changed my life

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This life is a mystery - we see pieces of the plan
Hope I’ll always be learnin’ and sayin’ when I look back 
I didn’t get it then
Oh but how
I get it now

Oh I get it now 
Yeah I get it now

All Free

Tell me, brother
Will you hear my confession? 
I’ve been guilty
Of being blind and acceptin’ 
That the way things are
Is the way that things should be 
But there must be change 
Gonna start with me

Young men gunned down 
Cause of their color 
People ground down
Till they can’t get up again

And they call this
The land of the free
And you watch it all
Go up in flames on your TV 
Is that all you’re gonna do?

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If we’re not all free
Then we’re not free at all 
If we’re not all free
Then we’re not free at all

Tell me people
Where’s the justice in these prisons? 
All men are equal
Should be more than wishful thinkin’

And they call this
The land of the free
And you watch it all
Go up in flames on your TV 
Is that all you’re gonna do?

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No, we’re not free at all

A Song Waiting to be Sung

You’re an empty canvas ready for the paint
A breath away from what is and what ain’t
And we wait, through the longest night for you to come 
Take the stage, and turn up the lights, the first act’s begun 
A perfect creation
You’re a song that’s waiting to be sung

The cry of life is a holy cry of pain
Beauty born from a deep and endless ache
We never leave our searching for the place where we came from 
I finally see the reason for everything I’ve done
A wondrous undertaking
You’re a song that’s waiting to be sung

The dawn is breaking, I’m the world’s most lucky man
I’ve heard the secret and now I understand
I watch you breathe, your quiet dreaming of happy days to come 
I wanna be a better man than I’ve become
A lesson in the making
You’re a song that’s waiting to be sung

These old hands have played a song or two
I look at yours and wonder what they’ll do
My simple dream is lying in my arms – a tiny son
The bigger scheme enfolds us in the mystery that has come 
A circle culminating
You’re a song that’s waiting to be sung

Your One and Only Life

You look so young when you’re asleep
But my little girl’s grown up on me
I wanna save you from everything that could go wrong 
But I know you’ll make your own mistakes
Like I did at your age
And that’s okay - that’s what will make you strong

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It’s a wide world waiting and it’s all yours
I hope you’ll always find what you’re looking for 
You think you’ll have forever but time flies by 
What will you do with your one and only life?

Will you still find joy in the simple things? 
Like rainbows in the summer rain
Find that spark that fills your heart with song? 
And will there be a boy for you
Who thinks that you hung the moon?
Cause that’s how you will know that he’s the one

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Oooh whatever path you choose 
Oooh there’s nothing you can’t do

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You’ll think you’ll have forever but time flies by 
What will you do with your one and only life? 
With your one and only life

We Will Rise

Have you ever felt
The world’s turned upside down? 
Yesterday is lost
And you’re losing ground

One step forward, two steps back 
All we can do is the best we can

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It’s the darkest hour of the darkest night 
But we are stronger than we realize 
Don’t count us out, we will survive
We might be down, but we will rise

Sure, we could wish
On a shooting star 
Yeah, things will change 
But this is where we are

Look for the good stuff, it’s always there 
A midnight dream, an answered prayer

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Bullets and Blood

I met my love at college in my junior year
But when I brought him home it was worse than I feared 
“You ain’t no son of mine”, my Daddy made it clear
And that was that
Never going back

Caught in a parking lot, late one August night
Four good ole boys with baseball bats, didn’t think our love was right 
If it wasn’t for the cop car cruising by
We’d have been alone
With more than broken bones

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Bullets and blood 
Can’t stop this love 
Bullets and blood 
Are not enough
To stop this love

They did their best to run us out of town
Gave us a welcome that was worthy of the South
Three bullet holes through the kitchen door remind me how 
We have to hide
Or pay the price

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Then one cold winter, he woke up and couldn’t breathe 
Raced him to emergency for some surgery
Wouldn’t let me visit him in his time of need
They told me
You’re not family

We got married when the laws began to change 
Couldn’t do it here, had to travel out of state
After twenty years, I could finally take his hand and say 
Please be mine
For all time

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Second Time Around

I lie awake and watch you sleep 
Worry lines not so deep
That freckled girl you used to be

So many years we lived our separate lives 
Could not forget you if I tried
But an angel brought you back to me

I used to have such grand romantic plans, but holding hands means more now 
I’ve learned to love the little things, the second time around

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This time we won’t care who was right or who was wrong 
This time when I’m in your arms, it feels like I belong 
We’re both older now, a little wisdom found
Love is sweeter the second time around

I used to dream of how it might’ve gone 
If we hadn’t been so young
With all those lessons left to learn

This second chance is like a precious jewel 
It’s our small miracle
We’ve seen how love can return

I used to be afraid to give myself away, always held back somehow 
Gonna love you with my whole heart the second time around

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Then our timing wasn’t right so I’m gonna take right now 
Love is sweeter the second time around