Featuring: Alison Krauss Billy Dean
Songwriter: Erik Hickenlooper Jim Funk
Producer: Kenny Rogers
He works hard to give her all he thinks she wants
A three car garage, her own credit cards
He pulls in late to wake her up with a kiss good night
If he could only read her mind, she'd say
[Chorus]
Buy me a rose, call me from work
Open a door for me, what would it hurt
Show me you love me by the look in your eyes
These are the little things I need the most in my life
Now the days have grown to years of feeling all alone
And she can't help but wonder what she's doing wrong
Cause lately she'd try anything to turn his head
Would it make a difference if she said:
[Chorus]
And the more that he lives the less that he tries
To show her the love that he holds inside
And the more that she gives the more that he sees
This is a story of you and me
So I bought you a rose on the way home from work
To open the door to a heart that I hurt
And I hope you notice this look in my eyes
Cause I'm gonna make things right
For the rest of your life
I'm gonna hold you tonight
Do all those little things
For the rest of your life
A three car garage, her own credit cards
He pulls in late to wake her up with a kiss good night
If he could only read her mind, she'd say
[Chorus]
Buy me a rose, call me from work
Open a door for me, what would it hurt
Show me you love me by the look in your eyes
These are the little things I need the most in my life
Now the days have grown to years of feeling all alone
And she can't help but wonder what she's doing wrong
Cause lately she'd try anything to turn his head
Would it make a difference if she said:
[Chorus]
And the more that he lives the less that he tries
To show her the love that he holds inside
And the more that she gives the more that he sees
This is a story of you and me
So I bought you a rose on the way home from work
To open the door to a heart that I hurt
And I hope you notice this look in my eyes
Cause I'm gonna make things right
For the rest of your life
I'm gonna hold you tonight
Do all those little things
For the rest of your life
The First 50 Years
- The Gambler
- Harder Cards
- If I Knew Then What I Know Now
- She Believes In Me
- Make No Mistake, She’s Mine
- Real Love
- Crazy
- You Decorated My Life
- All I Ever Need Is You
- Scarlet Fever
- The Vows Go Unbroken (Always True to You)
- Owe Them More Than That
- Calling Me
- Love Will Turn You Around
- The Greatest
- Twenty Years Ago
- Morning Desire
- Goodbye
- Tell Me That You Love Me
- Love the World Away
- Islands in the Stream
- Buy Me A Rose
- Coward of the County
- Lady
- Lucille
- A Love Song
- Everytime Two Fools Collide
- ’Til I Can Make It On My Own
- I Prefer the Moonlight
- Don’t Fall in Love With a Dreamer
- We’ve Got Tonight
- I Don’t Need You
- Through the Years
- San Francisco Mabel Joy
- Sweet Music Man
- The Factory
- What About Me
- Ol’ Red
- She Rides Wild Horses (1999)
- Totally Country (Volume 1) (2002)
- The First 50 Years (2009)
- The Gambler
- Islands in the Stream
- Coward of the County
- Lady
- Through the Years
- Lucille
- Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
- She Believes In Me
- Daytime Friends
- We’ve Got Tonight
- You Decorated My Life
- Children, Go Where I Send Thee
- You and I
- Ruby Don’t Take Your Love To Town
- Goodbye
- The Greatest
- What a Wonderful Beginning
- They Just Don’t Make ’em Like You Anymore
- Kentucky Homemade Christmas
- Homeland
- To Me
- Puttin’ In Overtime at Home
- I Don’t Need You
- I Remember You