Song Lyrics Iris DeMent - The Way I Should    [Lyrics & Song Text Archive] lyrics archive>> I>> Iris DeMent Singer Lyrics [Iris DeMent other resources]>> The Way I Should Song Lyrics Author/Artist/Singer: Iris DeMent Music Title/Track: The Way I Should Theme ID: 8476 Album: N/A A cold wind against my shoulder woke me up in the middle of the night An Autumn leaf was scraping against my window like it was trying hard to get inside and then a ghost that I had met before kept me up 'til dawn and everything I thought was right was suddenly all wrong He said, "Your score is looking pretty bad" and then he asked me what it was that I had to show So I went running down a list of things some were real, but on some of them I lied 'cause I felt I had to justify each breath that I'd been breathing in this life Then I realized I was playing into someone else's rules, trying to keep my score up in a game I did not choose Then I looked that ghost straight in the eye and said "You'd better not be coming back by again" And it's true that I don't work near as hard as you tell me that I'm supposed to I don't run as fast as I could but I live just the way I want to and that's the way I should October's leaves were dancing 'round like angels dressed in robes of Red and Gold but November's come and gone now and they're lying in the gutter out along the road They're gonna make their way out to the ditch or someday to the sea, they'll get to where they're going without the help of you or me and if each life is just a grain of sand I'm telling you man, this grain of sand is mine And it's true that I don't work near as hard as you tell me that I'm supposed to I don't run as fast as I could but I live just the way I want to and that's the way I should but I live just the way I want to and that's the way I should Related Lyrics Random lyrics: When Love Was Young, WHEN MY MORNIN COMES AROUND, Where The Soul Of Man Never Dies, Whispering Pines, Wildwood Flower, Ah Leah, Agnes, Ah! Leah!, Back On The Streets, Daddy Dont Live Here Anymore, I Cant Hear You, Joking, Shes So Wild, Too Young To Love, Color Me Blue, Love Is Like A Rock, My Girl, 10th Street, Love Is like a Rock, Fields of Athenry, Four Green Fields, HARD TIMES COME AGAIN NO MORE, Ill Take You Home Kathleen, In Dublins Fair City (Molly Malone), Ride On, Skye Boat Song, THE CLIFFS OF DONEEN, Whistling Gypsy Rover, Wild Rover, Will You Go Lassie Go (Wild Mountain Thyme), BarrettS Privateers, Peter Street, A BUNCH OF THYME, A Fenian Song, A Little Bit Of Heaven, A Man You Dont Meet Every Day, A Mothers Love Is A Blessing, A Muirsheen Durkin, A Nation Once Again, A NIGHT TO REMEMBER, A Pair Of Brown Eyes, A Rainy Night In Soho, A Soldiers Song, A STR MO CHROI, A TRACE BOY ON LIGONIEL HILL, A WALK IN THE IRISH RAIN, ADMIRAL WILLIAM BROWN, ALL AROUND MY HAT, Amhrn na bhFiann, AN IRISHMANS DREAM, Other Iris DeMent song Lyrics Acres Of Corn Lyrics Banks Of Marble Lyrics Big City Lyrics Break My Mind Lyrics Childhood Memories Lyrics City Of New Orleans Lyrics Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room Lyrics Folsom Prison Blues Lyrics Goodbye Little Darling Lyrics Higher Ground Lyrics Hotter Than Mojave In My Heart Lyrics ...Show All Other Artists Iris Donnie Lyrics Iris, Donny Lyrics Irish Aires Lyrics Irish Descendents Lyrics Irish Folksongs Lyrics Irish Rovers Lyrics Irma Schultz Lyrics Irma Tapio Lyrics Irma Thomas Lyrics Iron And Wine Lyrics All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners and are strictly for educational purposes only. lyricstrue.net Copyright © 2005-2007 All Rights Reserved., , Privacy policy