I NEVER MET A LIAR ( I DIDN'T LIKE)

Walk me to the corner when the moon is full
Tell me that you've never seen any moon as beautiful as me
Never seen a star shine so bright
I'm the one that you've been watching all night
Walk me out to where the lights are dim
Give me something to remember to forget about him
Do anything darlin' I won't fight
'Cause I never met a liar that I didn't like

Dance me 'cross the dance floor one more time darlin'
Tell me everything that's goin' on in your mind
Every little thing you never could say
To any other love you never could sway
Whisper to me I'm your hearts delight
I'm your hearts desire while the moon's on fire
Take me in your arms hold me tight
'Cause I never met a liar that I didn't like

No I never met a liar that I couldn't fall for
Under any moon, over any dance floor

Walk me to the door beneath the neon light
Whisper to me everything is gonna be alright
Lead me up the long stairway
To the door at the end of the long dark hallway
Don't be afraid don't be ashamed
Ask anything darlin' but don't ask my name
Turn up the radio turn down the light
'Cause I never met a liar that I didn't like

No I never met a liar that I couldn't fall for
Under any moon, over any dancefloor

(c) 1989 Ron & Connie Hynes

SHE'S NOT WILD ANYMORE

She could've made a midnight move
Left the landlord with a sad sad story
She could've cleaned out just one closet
Took her favorite shoes and whatever she could carry
O but the landlord he lay sleeping safely in his bed
With no cause to worry
She wasn't goin' out in no blaze of glory
She's not wild anymore she's just sorry

Why it's three AM
She could be on the 401 right now, doin' one forty
Passin' semis on the double lines
In a beat up sixty nine plymouth fury
She could be bent out of her mind
So that her eyes would shine but her vision might be blurry
But she's not goin' out in no blaze of glory
She's not wild anymore she's just sorry

How many times has she passed the point of never returning
But every morning that you wake up
You're wrapped up in the same skin you were born in

Now the dawn is closin' in like a hobo train
She's almost out of whiskey
Not long ago twenty bills and a call
Put a bottle in her hand from a late night cabby
And she would dream that she was Belle Starr
A saloon girl at a gunslingers' party
But she's not goin' out in no blaze of glory
She's not wild anymore she's just sorry
She's not goin' out in no blaze of glory
She's not wild anymore she's just sorry

(c)1995 Ron & Connie Hynes

PICTURE TO HOLLYWOOD

The bride wore a floor length gown of nylon lace
And a sweetheart crown that held in place
A fingertip veil of illusion
She carried an American Beauty rose bouquet
And the piano played O Promise Me
Promise me love eternally

But Rita Alverna remembers a different dream
Than the one that she came to realize
When she was young and she looked real good
She sent her picture to Hollywood
And she waited for a reply
Beneath a blue New Brunswick sky

Reception was held in the school auditorium
And the best man's toast to the bride and groom
Wished them the stars and the moon
And Rita would say Betty Mae caught the bride's bouquet
As they drove away that day
In a fifty five chevrolet

But Rita Alverna remembers a different dream
Than the one that she came to realize
When she was young and she looked real good
She sent her picture to Hollywood
And she waited for a reply
Beneath a blue New Brunswick sky

And all the crowd
Came from Harcourt and Browns Yard
And from the Maritimes
And south of the forty nine

The bride wore a floor length gown of nylon lace
And a veil that hid the only trace
Of a single tear that stained her face
She carried an American Beauty rose bouquet
And the piano played O Promise Me
Promise me love eternally

But Rita Alverna remembers a different dream
Than the one that she came to realize
When she was young and she looked real good
She sent her picture to Hollywood
And she waited for a reply
Beneath a blue New Brunswick sky

When she was young and she looked real good
She sent her picture to Hollywood
And she waited for a reply
Beneath a blue New Brunswick sky

(c)1992 Ron & Connie Hynes (Fat Baby Publishing/Augusta Songs/Sold For A Song/MCA Music Canada(SOCAN)

LEAVE OR BE THE ONE

I should go I know
Or I'll be watchin' you go
I should loose these chains, shake these ties that bind
Better choose the door this time
Or be the last across the line
I better leave or be the one you leave behind

I better face the truth
Or take the consequences
Take love from a man who just resents it
Take a run and jump this gate
Before hatred makes me blind
I better leave or be the one you leave behind

I better ride away
Or stay and have my heart taken for all it's worth
Why should I have to pay for the same mistake
That you keep makin' again and again
Better choose the door this time
Or be the last across the line
I better leave or be the one you leave behind

(c) 1992 Ron & Connie Hynes

MARY GOT A BABY

Mary got a baby and she's only fifteen
You can't see buddy for dust
Strangled in a small town, stuck out like a sore thumb
Nowhere to run, Nowhere to run
Shame for the family
Mary got a secret and the whole dirty little town knows
Mary thought it was love, Buddy thought it was lust
But it was Mary's balloon that got busted

Mary's old man just stares at the TV
Doesn't look at Mary at all
Mary just shivers like a lamb in the rain
He begins to pace, He slaps her face
Mary's mom's shattered
Little baby sister just screamin' on the kitchen floor
So Mary runs away in the middle of the night
Cause she can't stay home and be crucified
She says hey everybody here's a four letter word
And a three letter word for you

Mary has her baby in a faraway town
Nobody makes any fuss
No flowers, no tears, not a friendly face appears
Nobody cares, nobody cares
Mary gives the baby up
Stares out a window at nothin' for a couple of days
Doesn't see the baby, doesn't have the heart
And she doesn't go home to make a brand new start
She says hey everybody here's a four letter word
And a three letter word for you

(c) 1993 Ron & Connie Hynes

IF YOU LET ME GO I'LL FALL

If you let me go I'll fall
Into the arms of someone else
To the waiting arms of someone
Not that different than yourself
So don't stand on ceremony
If you feel inclined to leave
There'll be one less ring on my finger
And one ace up my sleeve

I remember when you took me down
To meet your mom and dad
Your brother Ray you said was half ways good
Half ways bad
And I recall he took my hand
A chill ran to my heart
A secret that mere words could not impart

And I remember at the altar, he stood right there by your side
And I stood on your left and both your mom and daddy cried
And I promised I'd be true to you behind a white lace veil
But when I said I do to you, I said the same to him as well

So if you let me go I'll fall
Into the arms of someone else
To the waiting arms of someone
Not that different than yourself
So don't stand on ceremony
If you feel inclined to leave
There'll be one less ring on my finger
And one ace up my sleeve

I have never been untrue to you
Tho' I've been alone with him
A thousand times it's true
Still in all just let me say
The one thing that got in the way
Of him and me was you
Him and me was you

So if you let me go I'll fall
Into the arms of someone else
To the waiting arms of someone
Not that different than yourself
So don't stand on ceremony
If you feel inclined to leave
There'll be one less ring on my finger
And one ace up my sleeve

(c) 1991 Ron & Connie Hynes

APRIL FOOLS

All the April fools have passed
You're the biggest fool at last
Up a ladder, down a tree
You're a bigger fool than me
Darlin' every step I take
Is a step that walks away
So if you're thinkin' we're not thru
Somethin's foolin' you
Somethin's foolin' you

Your every look, your every touch betrays
Your hard heartless ways darlin'
You've been untrue
I've seen that shadow cross your smile
Tho' I pretended for a long long while
But now I don't have to

All the April fools have passed
You're the biggest fool at last
Up a ladder, down a tree
You're a bigger fool than me
Darlin' every step I take
Is a step that walks away
So if you're thinkin' we're not thru
Somethin's foolin' you

So what's there to do
Now that you've gone and you've spoiled it all
You brought it to the wall darlin'
You made me blue
Now that you've broken the only rule
Leading yourself to believe that I'd be your fool
But I got news for you

All the April fools have passed
You're the biggest fool at last
Up a ladder, down a tree
You're a bigger fool than me
Darlin' every step I take
Is a step that walks away
So if you're thinkin' we're not thru
Somethin's foolin' you
If you're thinkin' we're not thru
Somethin's foolin' you

(c) 1992 Ron & Connie Hynes

ONLY LONELY SOMETIMES

I'm only lonely sometimes

Late afternoons and night times
Just before dawn till sun shines

I'm only lonely sometimes

I'm almost over that pain
Just about in out of that rain
But I still ache, I still wait, I'm still heartsick and blind

But I'm only lonely sometimes

Don't make me second guess
Save me from all of this
Let me up for air
Don't let me drown down here

(c) 1995 Ron & Connie Hynes

LOVE'S THIN LINE

He steps out when he gets restless
To places he's not known
To places where love costs less
Than he has to pay at home
He steps in at the break of dawn
To the place that he depends upon
And the one excuse that's on his mind
Is love's thin line
Is love's thin line

She closes the book that she's been reading
And the door to everything
Like a case that she's been pleading
That she could never hope to win
And with nothing else to hide behind
All she does is bide her time
And the only comfort she can find
Is love's thin line
Is love's thin line

It was her that cast the first stone glance
At the fading of romance
And now she stands against the wall
And takes the final fall

And the moon turns grey and fades away
Love lies hard and still
They don't speak about these things
And they probably never will
But at the fading of the evening sun
And at the hour before the dawn
The only tie that intertwines
Is love's thin line
Is love's thin line

(c)1992 Ron & Connie Hynes

MAYBE SHE WENT CRAZY (R.Hynes/C.Hynes)

Her time had taken a turn for the worse
One day's a blessing and one's a curse
So like a martyr to a state of grace
She disappeared without a trace
All anyone could say
Was that she simply went away
Years turn to yesterdays

But I can remember when I was a child
Her shining eyes and her sweet smile
Till the night that she came home way past dark
And what she brought home was a broken heart
And whatever had made the change
Had a face that she would never name
She wrote it down under lock and chain

Maybe she took a walk out across the sand
Because the pain would never end
She ran all the way to the deepest end
But rumours abound
History's hazy
Maybe she went crazy
Maybe she went crazy

All anyone could say
Was that she simply went away
Years turn to yesterdays

Maybe she took a walk out across the sand
Because the pain would never end
She ran all the way to the deepest end
But rumours abound
History's hazy
Maybe she went crazy
Maybe she went crazy

(C) 1992 Augusta Songs/Fatbaby/Sold For A Song:Tmp Socan

HEART OF A MAN

The heart of a man beats as bold as roaring thunder
Or as soft as a baby's in slumber
The heart of a man runs as reckless as rain swollen rivers
And as constant as cold in december
The heart of a man may not be your best bet
But I'll wager what's on my hand
Cause I wanna be there whenever I can
In the heart of a man
In the heart of a man

The heart of a man can break thru a mountain of stone
Or break just as well on it's own
The heart of a man can betray without any concern
Or bleed just as well in it's turn
The heart of a man is an ironclad gate
Depending on what side you stand
But I wanna be there whenever I can
In the heart of a man
In the heart of a man

The heart of a man is the cure and the blame
It's the joy and the shame
It's the pride and the pain

The heart of a man may not be your best bet
But I'll wager what's on my hand
Cause I wanna be there
I wanna be there whenever I can
In the heart of a man
In the heart of a man
In the heart of a man

(c) 1996 Ron & Connie Hynes