Cry Pretty

(Carrie Underwood, Hillary Lindsey, Liz Rose, Lori McKenna)

I’m sorry, but I’m just a girl

Not usually the kind to show my heart to the world

I’m pretty good at keeping it together

I hold my composure, for worse or for better

So I apologize if you don’t like what you see

But sometimes my emotions get the best of me

And falling apart is as human as it gets

You can’t hide it, you can’t fight what the truth is

You can pretty lie, and say it’s ok

You can pretty smile, and just walk away

Pretty much fake your way through anything

But you can’t cry pretty

Oh no you can’t dress it up in lace or rhinestones

It don’t matter if you’re in a crowd, or home all alone

Yeah it’s all the same when you’re looking in the mirror

A picture of pain, so let it flow like a river

You can pretty lie, and say it’s ok

You can pretty smile, and just walk away

Pretty much fake your way through anything

But you can’t cry pretty

You can’t turn off the flood, when the dam breaks

When all your mascara is going to waste

When things get ugly, you just gotta face that you can’t cry pretty…

No you can’t…

You can’t turn off the flood, when the dam breaks

When all your mascara is going to waste

When things get ugly, you just gotta face that you can’t cry pretty…

No you can’t cry

You can’t cry, you can’t cry pretty baby

No you can’t cry pretty

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Ghosts On The Stereo

(Hillary Lindsey, Tom Douglas, Andrew Dorff)

You think I’m crying over you

You think I’m dying too

You think I’m thinking way too much

And sadly out of touch

With all the world and all my friends

Well think what you want and think again

Think again

‘Cause what you don’t know

Is I’m throwing a party

And everybody tonight

Is feeling alright

With some Jack in their Coke

The records are spinning

And the speakers are smoking

There ain’t no last call

I’m having a ball

With Hank, Haggard, and Jones

No I ain’t alone, I feel right at home

With my ghosts on the stereo

There ain’t no lights on

The curtain’s drawn

Just one car in the drive

And the neighbors might think

It’s a haunted house

But I’ve never felt so alive

‘Cause what they don’t know

Is I’m throwing a party

And everybody tonight

Is feeling alright

With some Jack in their Coke

The records are spinning

And the speakers are smoking

There ain’t no last call

I’m having a ball

With Hank, Haggard, and Jones

No I ain’t alone, I feel right at home

With my ghosts on the stereo

One song at a time

I get their advice

And the pain melts away

Like whiskey on ice

But you don’t know

That I’m throwing a party

And everybody tonight

Is feeling alright

With some Jack in their Coke, yeah

The records are spinning

And the speakers are smoking

There ain’t no last call

I’m having a ball

With Hank, Haggard, and Jones

No I ain’t alone, I feel right at home

With my ghosts on the stereo

I got my ghosts on the stereo

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Low

(Carrie Underwood, David Garcia, Hillary Lindsey)

Like a cigarette without a light

Like a whippoorwill without the night

A broken buzz that’s lost its high

Oh baby that’s what I feel like

I’m so low

Like a diamond ring without a stone

Like a guitar without a song

Everything that was right is wrong

Ever since baby you’ve been gone

I’m so low

Yeah I’m low and blue

I’m so lonesome for you

Oh yeah, ohhh

Oh I’ve hit rock bottom, I’m in it deep

I can’t get no air, I can’t get no sleep

Without you by my side

I try to see the light baby but I can’t

Cuz way down here, in the where I am

The sun don’t shine

Cuz I’m low, low, low, low

I’m so low

I’m so tangled up and blue

I’m so lonesome for you

And I don’t know what to do

Cuz I’m so lonesome for you

Yeah I’m lonesome for you

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Backsliding

(Carrie Underwood, David Garcia, Hillary Lindsey)

I’m not supposed to be thinking about you lying here in this bed

Too much has gone wrong and we should move on

That’s what we both said

There’s a million reasons why we said goodbye

Why we couldn’t try, couldn’t fight for it anymore

Put your ring in the back of the dresser drawer

And we closed that door

So why am I at 2am picking up my phone

And you’re standin’ in my porch light

Backsliding

Wearing your old t-shirt in the morning

It feels so right

Backsliding

Ooh – we say we won’t

Ooh – but then we do

Same old thing fallin’ right back in

Say it’s gonna be the last time

Backsliding

I heard that you’ve been hanging around with someone new

Yeah, word gets around in such a small town

Bet you heard I’m seeing someone too

There’s a million reasons why we should be happy

Not looking back living in the past anymore

But they ain’t adding up

I guess they ain’t enough

Cuz here I am at 2am picking up my phone

And you’re standing in my porch light

Backsliding

Wearing your old t-shirt in the morning

It feels so right

Backsliding

Ooh – we say we won’t

Ooh – but then we do

Same old thing fallin’ right back in

Say it’s gonna be the last time

Backsliding

We keep pushing, pulling, backsliding

Pushing, pulling, slipping, backsliding

I keep asking myself

Keep asking myself

Why do I need you and nobody else

If we’re not meant to be

Then why do we keep backsliding

And why am I at 2am picking up my phone

And you’re standing in my porch light

Backsliding

Wearing your old t-shirt in the morning

It feels so right

Backsliding

Ooh – we say we won’t

Ooh – but then we do – yeah

Same old thing fallin’ right back in

Say it’s gonna be the last time

Backsliding

Why do we keep backsliding

I can’t help it, I’m backsliding

I need you, I’m backsliding

Why do we keep backsliding

Backsliding

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Southbound

(Carrie Underwood, David Garcia, Josh Miller)

We got a pontoon boat with a Yamaha

People dressed like they’re in Panama

Small town spring break every weekend around this place

And there’s a bunch of boys trying to catch the eyes

Of all the pretty girls that are walking by

And those red neck margaritas are 2 for 1 at that old marina

Tan lines and gas station cheap sunglasses

They’re coming here from all around

To get a little southbound, un-wound

Tennessee honey kind of buzz

Them south sounds up loud

Summer dripping off of us

From the river bank to the Party Cove

‘Long as it floats, we’ll rock the boat

It’s all looking up when we get down

And get a little southbound, southbound

Get a little southbound, southbound

Bo got a ticket in a no-wake zone

But Katie’s the one that should take it slow

‘Cause she’s dancing on the dock and it’s only 2 o’clock

Yeah the fish ain’t biting ‘cause the party’s on

The old men are thinking ‘bout going home

But those redneck margaritas are 2 for 1 at that old marina

They’re gonna get a little southbound, un-wound

Tennessee honey kind of buzz

Them south sounds up loud

Summer dripping off of us

From the river bank to the Party Cove

‘Long as it floats, we’ll rock the boat

It’s all looking up when we get down

And get a little southbound, southbound

Get a little southbound, southbound

Got the rope swing swinging like a chandelier

Little bit of heaven on the water right here

Don’t need much just a couple of beers and you and me

Gotta love this time of year

Southbound, southbound

Let’s get a little southbound, un-wound

Tennessee honey kind of buzz

Them south sounds up loud

Summer dripping off of us

From the river bank to the Party Cove

‘Long as it floats, we’ll rock the boat

It’s all looking up when we get down

Yeah, and get a little southbound, southbound

Get a little southbound, southbound

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That Song That We Used To Make Love To

(Hillary Lindsey, Jason Evigan)

Don’t wanna hear that stupid melody

The one we used to always keep playing on repeat

‘Cause it just takes me to the place when you were mine

When you laid my body down

And then got drunk on me like wine

Don’t wanna feel that bass rattlin’ my bones

‘Cause once I do I know it won’t leave me alone

It haunts me baby, it does me wrong

Still I just can’t make myself delete it from my phone

Chorus:

That song that we used to make love to

It kills me, heals me, gets me, thrills me

I know I shouldn’t say it

But I just wanna play it

That song that we made love to

That we made love to

I know I’m contradicting everything I said

But I wanna turn it up when I’m lying in this bed

Pull the sheets over my head

Drift off dreaming, baby go on let it take my breath

Repeat Chorus

Me and you, you and me

On repeat, on repeat

Me and you, you and me

On repeat, on repeat

That song that we used to make love to

It breaks me, makes me

Wanna hear it again and again and again

Repeat Chorus

That song, that song, that song

That song that we made love to

That we made love to

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Drinking Alone

(Carrie Underwood, David Garcia, Brett James)

Let me make one thing clear

You can buy me a beer

But you ain’t taking me home

No pick-up lines

I came here tonight

To shed a few tears on my own

Sitting there across the room

I couldn’t help but notice you

Seem a little down on your love, too

Yeah, my heart might be breaking

But this seat ain’t taken

You got me thinking

We should be drinking alone, together

Drowning the pain is better

With somebody else who got problems

We ain’t gonna solve ‘em

But misery loves company

Tonight all I need is a stranger

Lips with a whiskey chaser

And a corner booth kiss

To make me forget that he’s gone

We should be drinking alone

We should be drinking alone, together

Don’t know what she did

To make you hurt like this

But I know just what to do

It starts with a bottle of good reposado

And ends with a shooter or two

Tomorrow when the sun comes up

Tonight’s the night that never was

Baby, just forget my name

Won’t be your one and only

But just ‘cause we’re lonely

Don’t mean that we should

We should be drinking alone

‘Cause drowning the pain is better

With somebody else who got problems

We ain’t gonna solve ‘em

But misery loves company

Tonight all I need is a stranger

Lips with a whiskey chaser

And a corner booth kiss

To make me forget that he’s gone

We should be drinking alone, together

We should be drinking alone

I’ll pretend that I care

Baby, pull up a chair

We’ll stay here ‘till they make us go home

We should be drinking alone

Oh, we should be drinking alone, together

Drowning the pain is better

With somebody else who got problems

We ain’t gonna solve ‘em

But misery loves company

Tonight all I need is a stranger

Lips with a whiskey chaser

And a corner booth kiss

To make me forget that he’s gone

Oh, we should be drinking alone, together

We should be drinking alone

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The Bullet

(Marc Beeson, Andy Albert, Allen Shamblin)

Line of limousines leaves one by one

The prayers been prayed, the hymn’s been sung

Black mascara’s already run

But the tears keep flowing

You can blame it on hate or blame it on guns

But mamas ain’t supposed to bury their sons

Left a hole in her heart and it still ain’t done

The bullet keeps on going

Chorus:

Through every branch of his family tree

Every birthday that he’ll never see

Every chance to live a good life that was stolen

Through the son he’ll never get to raise

His daughter on her wedding day

Wishing it was his hand she was holding

Till every heart that’s left to break is broken

The bullet keeps on going

The grass grows back around the stone

Friends stop checking in on the phone

The camera crews have all moved on

But the wound’s still open

The bullet keeps on going

Repeat Chorus

Line of limousines leavin’ one by one

Prayers been prayed, the hymn’s been sung

Mamas ain’t supposed to bury their sons

The bullet keeps on going

Through the son he’ll never get to raise

His daughter on her wedding day

Wishing it was his hand she was holding

Till every heart that’s left to break is broken

The bullet keeps on going

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Spinning Bottles

(Carrie Underwood, David Garcia, Hillary Lindsey)

She’s waiting, praying that he don’t drive tonight

She’s pacing the floor, she’s checking the time

Wondering how the glow of that porch light

Hasn’t gone out ‘cause it’s been on now

For three days straight, he’s been nowhere to be found

Probably drowning in the neon where the wagon broke down

She called up his mama and his friends in town

But they ain’t seen him, another night of no sleeping

‘Round and ‘round and ‘round they go

Will it end, nobody knows

She’s all cried out on the kitchen floor

Spinning rooms, spinning wheels, spinning out of control

Spinning bottles

He’s in a hotel room with the TV on

Getting lost in the static with the curtains drawn

Knowing this could be the time that gets her gone

For good, he’d quit if he could

But one down, two down, three down, four

Can’t even recognize the man in the mirror anymore

‘Round and ‘round and ‘round they go

Will it end, nobody knows

He’s passed out on the bathroom floor

Spinning rooms, spinning wheels, spinning out of control

Spinning bottles

This ain’t a game

Nobody wins

Nobody gets lucky

When that bottle spins

Again and again

So ‘round and ‘round and ‘round they go

Will this end, nobody knows

Can’t live like this anymore

Spinning rooms, spinning wheels, spinning out of control

Spinning bottles

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Love Wins

(Carrie Underwood, David Garcia, Brett James)

Stray bullet and a mama cries

Her baby won’t be coming home tonight

Sirens screaming down the avenue

Just another story on the evening news, oh

Politics and prejudice

How the hell’d it ever come to this?

When everybody’s gotta pick a side

It don’t matter if you’re wrong or right, no

And so it goes

But I hold onto hope and I won’t let go, ‘cause

Chorus:

I, I believe you and me are sisters and brothers

I, I believe we’re made to be here for each other

We’ll never fall if we walk hand in hand

Put a world that seems broken together again

I, I believe in the end, love wins

Sometimes it takes a lot of faith

To keep believing there will come a day

When the tears and the sadness, the pain and the hate

The struggle, this madness will all fade away, yeah

Repeat Chorus

Love is power

Love is a smile

Love reaches out

Love is the remedy

Love is the answer

Love’s an open door

Love is the only thing worth fighting for, yeah

Repeat Chorus

Oh yeah, love wins

Love will, love can, love still, love wins

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End Up With You

(Hillary Lindsey, Brett McLaughlin, Will Weatherly)

I don’t really care

‘Bout making any plans

Leave it up in the air

Give it up to chance

Seein’ where it goes

Seein’ where it lands

I just wanna go

As fast as we can

Chorus:

We could end up broke down on some backroad

Lovin’ in the backseat to the radio

Wouldn’t be the worst scenario

‘Cause all I wanna do is end up with you

Get home and we’re locked out

Middle of the backyard laying down

Last thing that I’d worry ‘bout

‘Cause all I wanna do is end up with you

All I wanna do is end up with you

To the end of the world

If you wanted to

Yeah, ‘cause you could light up

The dark side of the moon

Don’t leave it up to me

I’ll leave it up to you

‘Cause I just want one thing

When the night is through

Repeat Chorus

All I wanna do is end up with you

Repeat Chorus

All I wanna do is end up with you

End up with you, end up with you, all I wanna do is end up with you (REPEAT)

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Kingdom

(Carrie Underwood, Chris DeStefano, Dave Barnes)

It’s two kids flying down the hall in the morning into our bedroom

It’s a creaky board on the front porch, you swear you’re gonna fix it soon

It’s a kitchen table where we say our prayers

Give a little thanks to the man upstairs

It’s the feeling I get baby when I look at you

Chorus:

It ain’t always pretty as a picture

And it ain’t a mansion on a hill

It’s perfectly imperfect

It’s worth more than its worth

It’s our life

It’s our heart

It’s our home

This is our kingdom

It’s been late nights, a few good fights, wouldn’t sleep until we worked things out

It’s been long days of leaning on faith, even when we had our doubts

Barely getting by, stretched to the limits, all the hard times

No I wouldn’t trade a minute

We’ve come so far, it made us who we are

Right here right now

Repeat Chorus

This is our, this is our kingdom

This is our kingdom

Repeat Chorus

This is our, this is our kingdom

This is our kingdom

It’s our names carved out in that old oak tree

Pictures on the wall of you and me

It’s our heart, it’s our home, it’s our babies’ faces

It’s the life, it’s the love living in these places

It’s church on Sunday, tire swings

Good and the bad times, praying on our knees

Thanking the Lord for this beautiful life

The love we have built will stand the test of time

Oh this is our kingdom

This is our kingdom, yeah

This is our kingdom

It’s pictures on the wall of you and me

Thanking the Lord, praying on our knees

In our kingdom

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The Champion* Featuring Ludacris (Bonus Track)

(Carrie Underwood, Brett James, Chris DeStefano, Christopher Bridges)

I’ll be the last one standing

Two hands in the air, I’m a champion

You’ll be looking up at me when it’s over

I live for the battle, I’m a soldier, yeah

I’m a fighter like Rocky

Put you flat on your back like Ali

Yeah I’m the greatest, I’m stronger

Paid my dues, can’t lose, I’m-a own you

I’ve been working my whole life

And now it’s do or die

I am invincible, unbreakable, unstoppable, unshakeable

They knock me down, I get up again

I am the champion

You’re gonna know my name

You can’t hurt me now

I can’t feel the pain

I was made for this

I was born to win

I am the champion

When they write my story

They’re gonna say that I did it for the glory

But don’t think that I did it for the fame

I did it for the love of the game

This is my chance I’m taking

All them old records I’m breaking

All you people watching on the TV

You go ahead and put your bets on me

I’ve been waiting my whole life

To see my name in lights

I am invincible, unbreakable, unstoppable, unshakeable

They knock me down, I get up again

I am the champion

You’re gonna know my name

You can’t hurt me now

I can’t feel the pain

I was made for this

I was born to win

I am the champion

Born champion

Luda!

The C is for the courage I possess through the drama

H is for the hurt but it’s all for the honor

A is for my attitude working through the patience

Money comes and goes

So the M is for motivation

Gotta stay consistent, the P is to persevere

The I is for integrity, innovative career

The O is optimistic, open and never shut

And the N is necessary cuz I’m never giving up

See they ask me how I did it, I just did it from the heart

Crushing the competition, been doing it from the start

They say that every champion is all about his principles

Carrie!

I am invincible, unbreakable, unstoppable, unshakeable

They knock me down, I get up again

I am the champion

You’re gonna know my name

You can’t hurt me now

I can’t feel the pain

I was made for this

I was born to win

I am the champion (the champion, surpassed all rivals)

I am the champion (it’s all about who wants it the most…fight for what we believe in…that’s what champions are made of)

I am the champion

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