Kitty Wells

After dark you come slipping back to me
From the one who shares your name but scorns your love
While the one who has your name from scandal is free
But the whole world my darling looks down on me
Don't you think I have no pride or shame
Don't you care that we're the gossips of the town
Does our love to you just mean a past time lark
Are you ashamed to be with me till after dark
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Here out late I can't help but doubt your love
So many things you've promised have turned to lies
You say I'm your love and you're all mine I'm so tired of double talking your alibis
Don't you think I have no pride...

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As long as I live, if it be one hour
Or if it be one hundred years
I'll keep rememberin', for-ever and e-ver
I'll love you dear, as long as I live.

It was easy said, that night we part ed
That we'd forget, we'd ever met
I haven't forgotten, I wonder if you have
Or if your heart, is full of re- gret.

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I never thought, that night we parted
That life without you, would be this bad
It may sound funny, but I can't forget you
The only happiness, I've ever had.

I don't claim to be an angel
My life's been full of sin
But when I met you darling
That all came to an end

Never doubt my love dear
Whatever you may do
I don't claim to be an angel
But my love for you is true

You'll hear talk around town
Of things I used to do
Some will try to poison your mind
That my love can't be true

Many nights I lay awake dear
Hoping our love will last
Wondering if your love is strong enough
To forget about my past

I don't claim to be an angel...

I never knew what real love was
Till you came along
You changed my outlook on life
Made me regret my wrongs

Why should my past keep haunting me
All through the years
I paid for each mistake
With millions of bitter tears

I don't claim to be an angel...

As I sit here tonight, the jukebox playin'
The tune about the wild side of life
As I listen to the words you are sayin'
It brings memories when I was a trusting wife

It wasn't God who made honky tonk angels
As you said in the words of your song
Too many times married men
Think they're still single
That has caused many a good girl to go wrong

It's a shame that all the blame is on us women
It's not true that only you men feel the same
From the start
Most every heart that's ever broken
Was because there always was a man to blame

It wasn't God who made honky tonk angels
As you said in the words of your song
Too many times married men
Think they're still single
That has caused many a good girl to go wrong

I'm taking your ring from my left hand since you've made it plain we must part
But I'm placing it on my right hand
To show the world that I once possessed your heart
From left to right means goodbye oh what a small ring can do
I'm left with these heartaches but I'll always have the right kind of love for you
I'll wear it my darling forever tho' you did me wrong I'm not ashamed
When asked who's the giver the tears may fall but proudly I'll tell them your name
From left to right I've made the chance tho' the diamond still shines just as bright
As the day that you gave it and my love's as strong


Though I'm changing from left to right

You're uptown tonight where all the bright lights glow
Where all the honky tonks with wine and music flow
And I've been walking with these blues since then down
Looking for you on the lonely side of town
I can see the lights of town from where I stand
Now I know you're having fun and holding hand
I knew tonight when you never came around
That you had left me on the lonely side of town

Thought the life they live up there has lured your heart
To where they dance and slip around till after dark
Now the wild life and the pretty girls you found
And you left me on the lonely side of town
I wish I could be uptown with you tonight
For I'm afraid that you found someone new you like
Now I don't want to give away my wedding gown and be left on the lonely side of town

Makin' believe
That you still love me
It's leaving me
Alone and so blue
But I'll always dream
Still I'll never own you
Makin' believe, it's all I can do

Can't hold you close, when you're not with me
You're somebody's love, you'll never be mine
Makin' believe, I'll spend my li-ifetime
Lo-oving you, making believe

Making believe
That I never lost you
But my happy hours
I find are so few
My plans for the future
Will never come true-ue
Makin' believe
What else can I do

Can't hold you close, when you're not with me
You're somebody's love, you'll never be mine
Making believe, I'll spend my li-ifetime
Lo-oving you, making belie-ie-ieve

I go to see my little girl each Sunday afternoon
And how I dread the words I know she'll say
She'll ask me when I'm coming home I'll answer pretty soon
But I know I'm just her mommy for a day
She's much too young to realize why mommy can't come home
And that her daddy wanted things this way
We kiss goodbye and my heart breaks to walk away alone
To have to be her mommy for a day

I loved her dad with all my heart they lied and ruined our home
Oh why did he believe the things they said
I pray in time he'll change his mind and take me back once more
Then I'll not be her mommy for a day
She's much too young to realize

One by one we've broke each vow we made
It was you who lied it was me who paid
As sure as there's a heaven beyond the sun we'll pay for our lies one by one
My plans and hopes have tumbled down my castle of dreams plunged to the ground

How can you face me after what you've done
You've shattered my dreams one by one
One by one...

How can you go to sleep at night don't know mem'ries make you long for daylight
You'll pay the price after having your fun you'll regret each mistake one by one
The love I treasured you sold for gold and then you left me cold
You're happy now but the time will come your false love will lead you one by one
One by one...

Password please use the password it opens the door to my heart
Password love is the password just say the words of love and come on in
This game of love we're playing is a game that's played by two
Two that seem so much in love still one cannot be true

We played this game of love before but this time I hope I'll win
'Cause I don't think that I can go through this game of love again
Password please use the password just say the words of love and come on in

Password please use the password...

Please release me
Let me go
I don't love you anymore

To live together is a sin
Release me
And let me love again

I have found a new love dear
And I'll always want him near
His lips are warm
While yours are cold

Release me darling
Let me go

Oh please release me
Let me go...

Searching, I've spent a lifetime, darling
Searching, looking for someone like you
Dreaming, in all my dreams I dream
That someday I'd find someone like you

Other love have come my way but they were not for me
Tell me that you're here to stay, don't ever set me free
'Cause I've been searching, I've spent a lifetime, darling
Searching, looking for someone just like you

Other love have come my way but they were not for me
Tell me that you're here to stay, don't ever set me free
'Cause I've been searching, I've spent a lifetime, darling
Searching, looking for someone just like you

Once you were my life and breath
And you rode your free horse to death
Oh you trifled around too much
Then you lost your loving touch

Now whose shoulder will you cry on
You didn't love me all alone
'Cause you can't love and do me wrong
I don't trust you no more
So go knock on another's door
And whose shoulder will you cry on

Just let those hot tears burn your eyes
They're just payments on the line
That made a wreck of me
From that chain I've been set free
Now whose shoulder will you cry on

You didn't love me all alone...

Searching, I've spent a lifetime, darling
Searching, looking for someone like you
Dreaming, in all my dreams I dream
That someday I'd find someone like you

Other love have come my way but they were not for me
Tell me that you're here to stay, don't ever set me free
'Cause I've been searching, I've spent a lifetime, darling
Searching, looking for someone just like you

Other love have come my way but they were not for me
Tell me that you're here to stay, don't ever set me free
'Cause I've been searching, I've spent a lifetime, darling
Searching, looking for someone just like you