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COMMON GROUND LYRICS

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          1.  The World To Me (T.Poppe)

2.     My Best Friend (K.Obermier)

3.     Follow Your Dreams (K.Obermier)

4.     It Is The Love (K.Obermier)

5.     If The Law Don’t Get Me (T.Poppe)

6.     Back On The Bottom (T.Poppe)

7.     Work For What You Need (T.Poppe)

8.     Until The End Of Time (T.Poppe)

 

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1.   The World To Me (T.Poppe)

Saturday night on your front porch swing

A dozen roses and a diamond ring

I was wonderin’ what you might be doin’ for the rest of your life

Down on one knee with your hand in mine

Ain’t it love that makes a diamond shine

Well, I know it’s not much, but it means the world to me

 

A farmer’s son in a great big world

I fell in love with a small-town girl

I thank God each night ‘cause you made my dreams come true

And as I hold her hand in mine

And make a promise for the rest of my life

Tonight she’ll know what means the world to me

 

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The world to me is to stay together with you wrapped up in my arms

Hold you tight as we lie together on a blanket underneath the stars

Everything I’ve ever wanted

All I’ll ever need

It don’t seem like much, but it means the world to me

 

Saturday night on our front porch swing

For twenty years now she’s worn my ring

Her eyes still shine like the girl of yesterday

Not a moment that I’ll ever regret

‘Cause I never want you to forget

After all this time you still mean the world to me

/Copyright 2000 T.Poppe(ASCAP)  

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2.   My Best Friend (K.Obermier)

She was a girl I always wanted, I always needed so many years ago

Blonde hair, blue eyes so pretty, she lights up this town and city

With her smile so sweet, and if I could see you again this is what I’d say

 

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You were my best friend the day that I left town

And the days that I come around so many times in this life

And if I could do it all over again, I’d never leave you my friend

 

Now the years have passed, I’ve seen that girl once or twice

I’ve seen her with some other guy, I don’t know who it is

Didn’t write or call ‘cause I didn’t know how she felt about us

Wondering if we were still friends-  Some things I just won’t ever know

But if I could see you this is what I’d say

 

If only I could hold you one more time, I’d never let you go

Until you know that you were mine

            /Copyright 2001 K.Obermier(ASCAP)

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3.   Follow Your Dreams (K.Obermier)

When I was a young boy my mom and daddy said

“Boy, you follow your dream for they still lie ahead”

And as I sit here thinking of those words they’ve given me

I just had to smile at them for now I’m living my dreams

 

Chorus-

And I live my dreams beyond the sunset

And I live my life now for me and you

I’ll live my life to the fullest that I know it can be

And especially thanks to the words you’ve given me

Boy, follow your dreams

 

Now I sit on my front porch and look out to the sky

And when I think of her, a tear falls from my eye

And then I start to wonder why this dream was given to me

Then I hear a voice saying some things are just meant to be

 

And now I sit here singing of this song of hopes and dreams

Especially thanks to those words you’ve given me

Boy, follow your dreams

            /Copyright 2001 K.Obermier(ASCAP)

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4.   It Is The Love (K.Obermier)

Every time I look into your eyes, I think about what we could have

But then I realize I know I could have you the way I want it to be

So I know you will go on with or without me

 

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It’s not the love that you have given me

It is the way that I want it to be

‘Cause he made it clear in the beginning someday there’ll be an end

And the love will bring us back together again

 

Well, I met this girl two years ago, she was standing in the doorway

Of a country music show, blond hair so pretty and her eyes captured me

So I knew right then we were meant for eternity

 

Standing in front of the church how beautiful it is to me

Two little girls by her side and now I know they’re all for me

            /Copyright 2001 K.Obermier (ASCAP)

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5.   If The Law Don’t Get Me (T.Poppe)

Got a southern-fried beauty, lives a mile out of town

But her daddy don’t like me, so we gotta sneak around

Knockin’ on her window in the middle of the night

When up came the shades and on came the lights

I hit the ground a runnin’ when he met me at the door

With a double-barrel shotgun standin’ six foot four

He said the law’s on the way, they’re gonna take you in to town

If I catch you here again, I’m gonna stick you in the ground

 

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Well, if the law don’t get me, if the law don’t get me

I should’ve learned my lesson, but I probably never will

‘Cause if the law don’t get me, then her daddy sure will

 

One twenty down the highway, thought I lost ‘em for a while,

But her daddy and the sheriff, getting’ closer by the mile

His red lights are flashin’, but he’s running out of time

‘Cause his badge is no good if I cross the state line

My engine’s overheating so I gotta shut her down

They threw the cuffs on my wrists and took me into town

The judge said daddy done made your bail

He’s awaitin’ outside and he’s mad as hell

 

Her daddy wants to kill me, but I love her still

She’s a costin’ me a fortune in these lawyer bills

Well, the law might get me, but her daddy never will

            /Copyright 2000 T.Poppe(ASCAP)

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6.   Back On The Bottom (T.Poppe)

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Called your house, let it ring for hours, walked all night in the rain

A lovesick fool with a dozen roses standing at your door again

I’ve walked through the fire and back for you, now I’m standin’ in the pourin’ rain

You had me sitting at the top of the world, now I’m back on the bottom again

 

Eight o’clock on Friday I showed up, just like you told me to

With your favorite color roses and a bottle of wine, picked out just for you

At a half past ten, I walked home again, I guess I must’ve slipped your mind

Left a note on your door and the flowers on the porch

And walked home in the rain that night

 

Knockin’ on your window in the middle of night, just about to go insane

Your lights turned down, ain’t no one around, so I guess I’ll have to try again

            /Copyright 2000 T.Poppe(ASCAP)

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7.   Work For What You Need (T.Poppe)

My daddy’s hands were calloused, ‘cause he worked hard everyday

The overtime’s what kept us fed, but he never once did complain

‘Cause the good Lord loves a workin’ man, but nothin’ in life comes free

So you pray for the things you want, but work for what you need

 

His blue-collar hands earned a living on a Detroit assembly line

The work was hard, the pay was fair, and he earned every dime

He said the things that don’t come easy are what mean the most to me

So you pray for the things you want, but work for what you need

 

Well, thank God for the families all across this land

Who make an honest living and work with willing hands

They gave dad a gold watch when he went to work today

For 37 years an honest man earned an honest wage

 

Some folks take the easy road, but I’d have to disagree

You gotta pray for the things you want, but work for what you need

            /Copyright 2000 T.Poppe(ASCAP)

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8.   Until The End Of Time (T.Poppe)

Tonight you’re here beside me as I lie awake in bed

My thoughts turn back through the years to the things I left unsaid

So tonight as you lay sleeping, I stayed up all night long

And wrote down all the things you mean to me in this song

 

Chorus-

Without you here beside me, God knows where I’d be

‘Cause darling, more than life itself is what you mean to me

For you I’d fall on bending knees, for you lay down my life

Yours alone ‘til my last breath, until the end of time

 

And as she sleeps I hold her close and all the world seems right

And I thank God for the angel that’s lying by my side

So if tomorrow comes to find me a million miles away

My heart and thoughts go with you each night and every day

It’s just my way to say the things I sometimes keep inside

But words alone could never say the way I feel tonight

            /Copyright 2000 T.Poppe(ASCAP)

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