Journey To The Center Of Your Heart Lyrics - Ozark Mountain Daredevils

(GUITARS INTRO) 

well, you walked that valley's grassy floor and climbed that hilly ridge 

you stood there naked stung with fear and tippy-toed on the edge 

well, you swung on a vine, you crawled in the dirt and made the river your best friend 

you ate ev'rything from a skunk to perch and filled me up with Zen 

well, you went to acapella and you sang Acapulco, danced on a coin 

you tied six Mexicans up in chains, then hitch-hiked to Des Moines 

you put the tube in the tub when you joined a club, and took the soles off your shoes 

but, baby, there's one thing you forgot to do 

you got to love me 

more than the trees and stars high above me 

you got to love me, 

love me, 

love me all the time, 

if you wanna be mine 

(whhheeeewww....) 

well, you turned my pockets inside out and my inside upside down 

took fourteen reds and shaved your head and let a semi run you down 

you filed your teeth and chromed your feet, shot a fifteen under par 

prayed thirteen days in eighteen ways then gurued in a bar 

well you slipped me a Mickey and you read James Dickey, drank up all my wine 

you did all that then drowned a bat and bought a Wurlitzer on time 

you ate barbecued stork with a spoon and a fork in a second-hand fun'ral plot, 

but baby, there's one thing that you forgot 

you got to love me 

more than the trees and stars high above me 

you got to love me, 

love me, 

love me all the time, 

if you want to be mine 

(MANDOLIN SOLO) 

[spoken during the mandolin solo and the last chorus:] 

I've been alone a long time now, and it seems like forever 

It's not that I wanna be 

it's just that all them things in there, together - bother me 

guess it's culture 

ahhhhhhhh 

if you'd only come back 

figure this thing out 

I guess it keeps going on here 

I'm runnin' outta breath, death... 

you got to love me 

more than the trees and stars high above me 

you got to love me, 

love me, 

love me all the time...