You know you never can out-race
All the mistakes that you've left scattered
They'll blow back in your face
Until the teardrops string your eyes
The worst mistake I ever made
Was thinkin' that it didn't matter
That I could let the memories fade
And cover up my alibis
Now it's no use to pretend
To try to lose myself in small talk
I just can't go back in
To the laughter and the light
Tonight there's something in the wind
That makes me want to hit the sidewalk
And go face-to-face with the night
Try to hide out in the crowd
While that old jukebox keeps on moaning
But it don't matter just how loud
It can't drown out every sound
Mistakes down in my mind
Confessions that I've been postponing
Hearts I've broken and let down
I've got to face them all sometime
All the mistakes that you've left scattered
They'll blow back in your face
Until the teardrops string your eyes
The worst mistake I ever made
Was thinkin' that it didn't matter
That I could let the memories fade
And cover up my alibis
Now it's no use to pretend
To try to lose myself in small talk
I just can't go back in
To the laughter and the light
Tonight there's something in the wind
That makes me want to hit the sidewalk
And go face-to-face with the night
Try to hide out in the crowd
While that old jukebox keeps on moaning
But it don't matter just how loud
It can't drown out every sound
Mistakes down in my mind
Confessions that I've been postponing
Hearts I've broken and let down
I've got to face them all sometime
more tracks from the album
From the album
- Tonight We Ride (1986)
Michael Martin Murphey popular songs
- Maybe This Time
- Wildfire
- Red River Valley
- What’s Forever For
- Radio Land
- Face to Face with the Night
- The Pony Man
- Pilgrims on the Way (Matthew’s Song)
- O Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
- Disenchanted
- Got to Pay the Fiddler
- Woodsmoke in the Wind
- Wild Ripplin’ Waters
- Pearls in the Snow
- The Running Blood
- Family Tree
- Two Step Is Easy
- Cool Water
- Rings of Life
- Two-Step ’Round The Christmas Tree
- River of Time
- I’m Gonna Miss You, Girl
- The Old Chisholm Trail
- Love Affairs