2. Those Summer Nights 

- Ray Coudret

Nothing quite like the summertime

Sunshine in an azure sky

Those puffy clouds float on by

And the mu-sic feels right

Back beat, with a sweet bass line

Hit's a warm place in the back of your mind

Sipping lemonade, wearing your cool shades

You feel so alive

Fresh cut hay in the meadow morn

Mixed with the earth

Smells like where you were born

Heat of the day gives way to the fading light

So much hope and so much life…

On a summer night

Floppy hat and summer shorts

Confidence. Enough to rule this world

Top down and you don't care

You got the wind in your hair

Nothing wrong, for a just little while

Summer sun, always makes you smile

Summer hope and summer dreams,

It's a summer thing

It's a summer thing

We thought every single word

was written for us

Singing "Summer of '69" at the top of our lungs

We sang "Standin' on your momma's porch"

And really thought "it would last forever"

Those summer nights.

Those summer nights.

Fresh cut hay in the meadow morn

Mixed with the earth

Smells like where you were born

Heat of the day gives way to the fading light

So much hope and so much life…

Those summer nights

Those summer nights

4. Nashville 

- Ray Coudret

We pack up your stuff cause your leaving town today

Gonna take your shot with your guitar

And the songs you made

No more weekends in the bars

after working 10 hours each day

It's a crazy idea

I'm happy things are going your way.

Dust swirling in the eddy

Behind you as you drive away slow

Half a bottle of whiskey

On the counter from the night before

Staring out the window,

Then I drop my gaze to the floor

I'll never forget the last time

You walked out the door

I won't make it down to Nashville

It's too far from home

Won't you carry my dreams down

With you when you go

Those southern smiles so lovely

Like a siren song

Hope you can make a little room

To take my dreams along

Well these old bones are tired

My voice ain't what it used to be

I still got the feeling

And my guitar sings to me

So I tune it up, and plug it in

Hope somebody sings along

Call up the band;

Pray they join me for one more song

I won't make it down to Nashville

It's too far from home

Won't you carry my dreams down

With you when you go

Those southern smiles so lovely

Like a siren song

Hope you can make a little room

To take my dreams along

Those southern smiles so lovely

Like a siren song

Hope you can make a little room

To take my dreams along

6. Stage Lights Dim To Memories 

- Ray Coudret

I was out in Colorado when the call came,

I knew I couldn't stay

I was missing you and what I thought could be

But I had to hear you say it

So when you said come on home and that you missed me

I packed up right away

Sunlight fading in my rear-view, east on 70,

I'd be home within the day.

Sometimes pride can cloud my vision

Almost let the best thing slip right past

Some nights are way too long and yet it seems

Somehow the years slip by so fast

As we're loading in these memories

Why not fill them up with laughter while we can

So the best of days are filled with loving you

The worst ain't all that bad

I'll never choose to let this go

Everything must end I know

Since there's no doing this again

I came home and you let me in

To make the world we want to know

When these stage lights dim to memories

And the warm glow of the spotlight fades away

And we're left alone in quiet contemplation

At the closing of the day

When the roar of the applause gives way to quiet

And there's nothing left to say

I know you'll sit with me in silence as I smile

For what we've shared along the way.

I'll never choose to let this go

Everything must end I know

Aaah there's no doing this again

We opened up and love came in

To make the world we want to know

I'll never choose to let this go

Everything must end I know

Aaah there's no doing this again

We opened up and love came in

We made the world we want to know

Since there's no doing this again

I hope you know how much it meant

We made the world we want to know

There's no doing this again

I hope you know how much it meant

We made the world we want to know

8. Counterpunch 

- Ray Coudret

Yesterday in our finest hour

Looking out on a million tomorrows

It felt like we had superpowers

We talked all night and we walked all day

Nothing standing in our way

But right now I'm little bit tired

I tell you right now I didn't see it coming

You hit that door and you just kept running

Down the street,

I tell you right now I didn't see it coming

You, never looking back at me

I thought the best was yet to come,

And then everything come undone

It was battle that nobody won

We just punch, and counterpunch,

And counterpunch and counterpunch

And now we' re done

Sunglasses on,

You were the queen of the show

Walking on air with your fine new clothes

You had the look of a super model

When I look a little closer, I can really see

You don't really care about me

And you had no...Superpowers

I tell you right now I didn't see it coming

You hit that door and you just kept running

Down the street,

I tell you right now I didn't see it coming

You, never looking back at me

I thought the best was yet to come,

And then everything come undone

It was battle that nobody won

We just punch, and counterpunch,

And counterpunch and counterpunch

And now we' re done

I thought the best was yet to come,

And then everything come undone

It was battle that nobody won

We just punch, and counterpunch,

And counterpunch and counterpunch

And now we' re done

10. Solo Cups 

- Ray Coudret

Solo cups stuck through the fence

Out in the distance

I can't make out what they say

They're either rooting for the home team

Or another hero lost his way

Thoughts and prayers can't cure this loneliness

They keep coming anyway

And there's no hero

In the heartache left behind

No matter what you say

I thank God for silver linings

Cause there's clouds most every day

All this pressure should have made diamond but it

Don't seem to work that way

So I'm stuck here with these memories

Poor companions

with your love so far away

And I sit here in this room filled to the rafters

With the bones of my mistakes

Another hero died today

Soldier's gone in a rich man's game

Families bow their heads to pray

Chaplin says what she's got to say

It feels so lonely on these streets

The day to day pulls at the seams

Your memory floats in with the breeze

The work is harder than the dream

The work is harder

Its so much harder

Than the dream

Another hero died today

Soldier's gone in a rich man's game

Families bow their heads to pray

Chaplin says what she's got to say

It feels so lonely on these streets

The day to day pulls at the seams

Your memory floats in with the breeze

The work is harder than the dream

The work is harder

Its so much harder

Than the dream

The work is harder

Its so much harder

Than the dream