Trying To Stop Your Leaving

Album: Long Trip Alone (2006)
Charted: 73
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  • Got a guitar
    Got a guitar on my back
    And I'm standin' on this lonesome railroad track
    Train's a-comin'
    It'll be here 'fore too long
    But I don't think I can stop it with a song
    Girl, that's the kind of way I'm feelin'
    Tryin' to stop your leavin'

    Got a pebble
    Got a pebble in my hand
    And I toss it out into the middle of the Rio Grande
    But the river keeps runnin'
    Don't even know that I'm around
    I could throw a million more and not slow it down
    Girl, that's kind of the way I'm feelin'
    Tryin' to stop your leavin'

    There's nothin' that I wouldn't try
    If I thought it would change your mind

    But you don't love me
    No, you don't love me anymore
    And I know as soon as you walk out that door
    Train's a comin', river's runnin'
    Train's a comin', river's runnin'
    Pain's a comin', tears are runnin'
    Yeah, that's kind of the way I'm feelin'
    Knowin' I couldn't stop your leavin' Writer/s: BRETT BEAVERS, DIERKS BENTLEY, JAMES BEAVERS
    Publisher: Anthem Entertainment, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Reservoir Media Management, Inc., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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