Lyrics Tift Merritt

Tift Merritt

Hopes Too High

Listen baby, I won't leave no trace

Gonna light out of here for some cleaner place

I'll be sitting in the backseat with my hair in my face

Then gone fast as freedom on good wind

If I got my hopes too high, this is no easy kind of life

I see it in my mind's eye, touch me real as daytime

I can't keep from trying

No place to run for a girl like me

Whole lot of used to's and supposed to be's

I wanna burn like August, shine like gold dust

Where everyday living can't hold me

If I got my hopes too high, this is no easy kind of life

I see it in my mind's eye, touch me real as daytime

I can't keep from trying

So when I reach for you from some way down place

Don't be a stranger who won't show his face

I got no promise but these words I say

I carry you, you carry me

If I got my hopes too high, this is no easy kind of life

I see it in my mind's eye, touch me real as daytime

I can't keep from trying

I see it in my mind's eye, touch me real as daytime

I can't keep from trying