Released: April 16, 1979
Songwriter: Steve Gibb
Producer: Larry Butler
[Verse 1]
While she lays sleeping, I stay out late at night and play my songs
And sometimes all the nights can be so long
And it's good when I finally make it home, all alone
While she lays dreaming, I try to get undressed without the light
And quietly she says how was your night?
And I come to her and say, it was all right, and I hold her tight
[Chorus]
And she believes in me, I'll never know just what she sees in me
I told her someday if she was my girl, I could change the world
With my little songs, I was wrong
But she has faith in me, and so I go on trying faithfully
And who knows maybe on some special night, if my song is right
I can find a way, find a way
[Verse 2]
While she lays waiting, I stumble to the kitchen for a bite
Then I see my old guitar in the night
Just waiting for me like a secret friend, and there's no end
While she lays crying, I fumble with a melody or two
And I'm torn between the things that I should do
And she says to wake her up when I am through
God her love is true
[Chorus]
And she believes in me, I'll never know just what she sees in me
I told her someday if she was my girl, I could change the world
With my little songs, I was wrong
But she has faith in me, and so I go on trying faithfully
And who knows maybe on some special night, if my song is right
I can find a way, while she waits while she waits for me
While she lays sleeping, I stay out late at night and play my songs
And sometimes all the nights can be so long
And it's good when I finally make it home, all alone
While she lays dreaming, I try to get undressed without the light
And quietly she says how was your night?
And I come to her and say, it was all right, and I hold her tight
[Chorus]
And she believes in me, I'll never know just what she sees in me
I told her someday if she was my girl, I could change the world
With my little songs, I was wrong
But she has faith in me, and so I go on trying faithfully
And who knows maybe on some special night, if my song is right
I can find a way, find a way
[Verse 2]
While she lays waiting, I stumble to the kitchen for a bite
Then I see my old guitar in the night
Just waiting for me like a secret friend, and there's no end
While she lays crying, I fumble with a melody or two
And I'm torn between the things that I should do
And she says to wake her up when I am through
God her love is true
[Chorus]
And she believes in me, I'll never know just what she sees in me
I told her someday if she was my girl, I could change the world
With my little songs, I was wrong
But she has faith in me, and so I go on trying faithfully
And who knows maybe on some special night, if my song is right
I can find a way, while she waits while she waits for me
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
- The Gambler (1978)
- Greatest Hits (1980)
- Vote for Love (1996)
- Love Collection (1998)
- 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