HOWLING TRAINS AND BARKING DOGS
CREDITS
Produced by Cindy Bullens
Recorded at The Root Cellar, Hallowell, Maine
Engineered by Bob Colwell
Mixed by Bob Colwell and Cindy Bullens
Mastered by Ray Kennedy at Room & Board, Nashville, TN
Band:
Cindy Bullens--Vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, mandolin, harmonica
Stephen B. Jones--dobro, electric guitar, slide guitar, bass
Bob Colwell--bass, accordion, organ, piano, Wurlitzer
Justin Maxwell--bass, electric upright bass
Ginger Cote--drums, percussion
David Mansfield--fiddle
Backing vocals--Radney Foster on "Labor of Love", Wendy Waldman & Deborah Holland on "Whistles and Bells", The Ordinaires on "I Didn't Know", Reid Bullens Crewe on "Everywhere and Nowhere" and "Let Jesus Do The Walkin'", Wendy Waldman and Bob Colwell on "The Misty Hills of Tennessee"
Album cover photos: Joanne Berman
LYRICS
LOVE GONE GOOD
First time I laid eyes on you sparks lit up the sky
You showed lots of promise but I just let it slide
After all my bad luck, I couldn't trust myself
But you were so relentless I could think of nothin' else
You just kept on comin' and I finally understood
This ain't love gone bad baby
It's love gone good
You showered me with sweet talk-I acted unimpressed
You took me in your lovin' arms with so much tenderness
After all my bad luck I couldn't trust myself
You were so relentless I could think of nothin' else
Now how could I resist it when you love me like you should
This ain't love gone bad baby
It's love gone good
Now here we are together way on down the line
Well, we still got each other--it all worked out fine
We stuck it out through thick and thin like you always said we would
This ain't love gone bad baby
It's love gone good
Writing by Cindy Bullens and Bill Lloyd
© Mommy's Geetar Music/EMI Blackwood Music/Okay Then/BMI
CAN'T STOP THIS TRAIN
We stood in line at the station
Hell-bent on love with our bags all packed
What's the matter baby?
Did you read your ticket?
Didn't you know that there's no turnin' back
Now the wheels are in motion
Don't you let them roll in vain
Cause you just can't stop this
Can't stop this train
Look out there baby
We got a clear shot
Ain't no bodies lying on the tracks
Ain't no unnecessary extra baggage
We don't have to drag around the past
It's good to travel lightly
In case your destination's changed
And you just can't stop this
Can't stop this train
Can't stop it -Runaway locomotion
Can't stop it -Well it's run on emotion
Just relax and hold on tight
This could be the ride of your life
Can't stop this train...
Written by Cindy Bullens and Matraca Berg
© Blue Lobster Music/Warner-Tamberlane Publishing/BMI
IN A PERFECT WORLD
In a perfect world you never hear a heartbreak
You get it right the first time 'round you never need a second take
And in a perfect world, you give yourself without a doubt
When trouble comes you'll find a way to work it out
I can't understand it why love has to be so cruel
Cause in a perfect world I'd still have you
In a perfect world every shoe's a perfect fit
Eventually you'll find your spot and stand in it
When love comes down like the summer rain
In a perfect world it washes all the pain away
I still don't understand it why love has to be so cruel
Cause in a perfect world I'd still have you
I guess I'm a fool believing for so long
If there's no such thing then I'll just make my own perfect world
I still don't understand it why love has to be so cruel
Cause in a perfect world
Cause in a perfect world
In a perfect world I'd still have you...
Written by Cindy Bullens and Bill Lloyd
© Mommy's Geetar Music/EMI Blackwood Music/Okay Then/BMI
LABOR OF LOVE
We been burning both ends at the very same time
Ain't enough money in this town to make it worth workin' so hard
Honey growin' so cold that you lose the heart and soul
So day by day we gotta spend some time
On the Labor of Love
There's no other way when everything is on the line
It's a labor of love
I want you, I need you, i know we're strong enough
It just takes workin' on the labor of love
You've been livin' on empty arms
I've been standin' on shaky ground
I been thinkin' bout who we are and what loves really means
Yeah, it's gonna take all we got
But the real thing always does
So day by day we gotta spend some time
On the Labor of Love
it's a give and take when everything is on the line
It's a labor of love
I want you, I need you, i know we're strong enough
It just takes workin' on the labor of love
I want you, I need you, i know we're strong enough
It just takes workin' on the labor of love
Working on the labor of love...
Written by Cindy Bullens and Radney Foster
© Mommy's Geetar Music/BMI/Universal Polygram International/St. Julien Music/ASCAP
ALL MY ANGELS
In the night time as the cool breeze comes up
I let it brush against my face with a healin' touch
I lay down, I close my eyes
I let this weary day slip away
Then they come to me
Gather me up
And I fly out on the wings of love
And they comfort me
Yeah, they know me well
All my angels
I am one of the restless ones
Driven by the wind iike the summer dust
I got an angry heart but a willin' soul
And when I go to sleep tonight I know
They will come to me
Gather me up
And I fly out on the wings of love
And they comfort me
Yeah, they know me well
All my angels
And when I'm suffering
I see their faces shining
Angels of Mercy-Angels of Light
Carry me
Oh they come to me
Gather me up
And I fly out on the wings of love
And they comfort me
Yeah, they know me well
All my angels...
Written by Cindy Bullens and Wendy Waldman
© Mommy's Geetar Music/Wendy Waldman Songs/BMI
WHISTLES & BELLS
Whistles and bells won't ever bring you love and happiness
She's never gonna give her heart the way that I could give
She's got you spinnin' round in circles I can tell
With lights, buzzers, whistles and bells
I've seen her runnin' round this town in her fancy car
A girl can afford you're hopes and dreams
But darlin' all those pretty toys won't help your broken heart
When she's through and send you packin' back to me
Whistles and bells won't ever bring you love and happiness
She's never gonna give her heart the way that I could give
She's got you spinnin' round in circles I can tell
With lights, buzzers, whistles and bells
I cried those lonely tears until the day I realized
That you were hurting so much more than me
There are some things in this world that just don't have a price
Like the love you could have had if you had me
Whistles and bells won't ever bring you love and happiness
She's never gonna give her heart the way that I could give
She's got you spinnin' round in circles I can tell
With lights, buzzers, whistles and bells
Whistles and bells won't ever bring you love and happiness
She's never gonna give her heart the way that I could give
She's got you spinnin' round in circles I can tell
With lights, buzzers, whistles and bells
With lights, buzzers, whistles and bells
Written by Cindy Bullens and Radney Foster
© Mommy's Geetar Music/BMI/Universal Polygram International/St. Julien Music/ASCAP
I DIDN'T KNOW
Back in the days
When we were both so young
I didn't know any better
This feels so strong
Why did we wait so long
Now you're the best thing ever
I'm so glad we got together
I didn't know that you could talk that talk
I didn't know that you could walk that walk
When I think of all the times that I would turn my back
I didn't know, I didn't know that you could love like that
More than once before
I swore this is the one
Only to be unsatisfied
I couldn't see
The answer to my dreams
Was right before my eyes
It just leaves me mystified
I didn't know that you could talk that talk
I didn't know that you could walk that walk
When I think of all the times that I would turn my back
I didn't know, I didn't know that you could love like that
I didn't know, I didn't know
I didn't know, I didn't know
I didn't know that you could love like that
Written by Cindy Bullens and Al Anderson
© Blue Lobster Music/Mighty Nice Music/Songs of Windswept Pacific/BMI
EVERYWHERE AND NOWHERE
I've been around all over town
Up one side and down the other
I've seen the night and heard the lonesome sound
Of one heart beating alone without the other
I guess life goes on even when love dies
I've been from everywhere to nowhere
What have I learned and what have I got?
Everywhere to nowhere
What do I want?
What do I believe?
I believe that I let you slip away
From love into nothing
One more time I ended up in this place
I just want to hold you
But how can I hold you
You're everywhere and nowhere
The streets are lonely and the wind is cold
Blows so hard through my restless soul
I've been thinkin' bout all the dark places
And I realize that it's me that has to change
I guess life goes on even when love dies
I've been from everywhere to nowhere
What have I learned and what have I got?
Everywhere to nowhere
What do I want?
What do I believe?
I believe that I let you slip away
From love into nothing
One more time I ended up in this place
I just want to hold you
But how can I hold you
You're everywhere and nowhere
Written by Cindy Bullens and Jimmy Tittle
Mommy's Geetar Music/BMI/Wild Babies Music/Bug Music/ASCAP
LET JESUS DO THE TALKIN'
I was just about 16
Didn't need no help
I got in plenty of trouble all by myself
When I heard that screendoor
And saw my mama's face
She said "I raised you up
And now you know the way"
Let Jesus do the talkin'
Let Jesus bring you in
Let Jesus do the judgin'
Cause he knows where you been--he knows
I heard about a young woman
Taken to her knees
She said " I don't deserve nobody lovin' me"
Well, she ain't done nothin'
We haven't all thought of
A little understanding wouldn't hurt too much
There ain't nobody walked in her shoes
Better keep our mouths shut till we do
And let Jesus do the talkin'
Let Jesus bring us in
Let Jesus do the judgin'
Cause he knows where we been
I was shakin' my finger
Turnin' red in face
With a piece of my mind all over the place
Then I looked in the mirror
And to my surprise
Was a big ole tear comin' to my eyes
I thought who do I think that I am
It ain't justice I hold in my hand
Let Jesus do the talkin'
Gotta let Jesus bring me in
Let Jesus do the judgin'
Cause he knows where we been
He knows...
Gotta let Jesus...
Written by Cindy Bullens, Kye Fleming, Mary Ann Kennedy
© Blue Lobster Music/BMI/EMI April Music Inc/My Pug Music/ASCAP/EMI Blackwood Music/Rio Bravo Music/BMI
THE MISTY HILLS OF TENNESSEE
In the misty hills of Tennessee
In the early mornin' far as you can see
There's someone who waits for me
In the misty hills of Tennessee
As the sun rises in the sky
And the summer heat runs high
I won't tell my heart a lie
As the sun rises in the sky
In the misty hills of Tennessee
Early morning far as you can see
There's someone who waits for me
In the misty hills of Tennessee
Howlin' trains and barkin' dogs
I've been a fool, I've been so lost
Damn this town and what it cost
Of howling' trains and barkin' dogs
Where I will go time will tell
Will it be Heaven or it be Hell
Only Jesus knows me well
Where I will go time will tell
In the misty hills of Tennessee
Early morning far as you can see
There's someone who waits for me
In the misty hills of Tennessee
Written by Cindy Bullens
© 2010 Mommy's Geetar Music/BMI
GOOD AT BEING GONE
Saw you sitting in that restaurant
Hand in hand with your new love
I realized what a fool I'd been
To still believe in us
I had dreams that one day
We would fall in love again
Our past would be forgotten
And this would not be the end
Seein' you so happy now
Brings up all my deepest fears
The last thing that you said to me
Still ringin' in my ears
You said I was good for nothin'
But now I can prove you wrong
I know I'm good for somethin'
Yeah I'm good at bein' gone
I'm holed up in my livin' room
With a bottle by my side
That old clock of yours keeps tickin'
I haven't had a drink in all these years
But it's callin' out my name
Our last conversation
It's bound me up in shame
Seein' you so happy now
Brings up all my deepest fears
The last thing that you said to me
Still ringin' in my ears
You said I was good for nothin'
But now I can prove you wrong
I know I'm good for somethin'
Hey I'm good at bein' gone
You said I was good for nothin'
But now I can prove you wrong
I know I'm good for somethin'
Hey I'm good at bein' gone
I know I'm good at somethin'
I'm good at being gone.
Written by Cindy Bullens
©2010 Mommy's Geetar Music/BMI