Martina McBride Lyrics

This page contains Martina McBride lyrics for some of her more recent songs. For older Martina McBride lyrics please check out the archives section.

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1. My Baby Loves Me
2. Life #9
3. Independence Day
4. Strangers
5. Safe In The Arms Of Love
6. Wild Angels
7. Valentine – (with Jim Brickman)
8. Broken Wing, A
9. Happy Girl
10. Wrong Again
11. Whatever You Say
12. I Love You
13. Love’s The Only House
14. There You Are
15. When God Fearin’ Women Get The Blues
16. Where Would You Be – (previously unreleased)
17. Concrete Angel – (previously unreleased)
18. Blessed – (previously unreleased)

[ Martina McBride lyrics ]1. My Baby Loves Me

Don’t need no copy of vogue magazine
Don’t need to dress like no
Beauty Queen
High heels or sneakers, he don’t
give a damn
My baby loves me just the way that I am
My baby loves me just the way that I am
He never tells me I’m not good enough
Just give me unconditional love
He loves me tender and he loves me mad
He loves me silly and he loves me sad

Chorus:
He thinks I’m pretty, he thinks I’m smart
He likes my nerve and he loves my heart
He’s always sayin’ he’s my biggest fan
My baby loves me just the way that I am
My baby loves me just the way that I am

And when there’s dark clouds in my eyes
He just sits back and lets ‘em roll on by
I come in like a lion go out like a lamb
My baby loves me just the way that I am
My baby loves me just the way that I am

Repeat Chorus

He thinks I’m pretty, he thinks I’m smart
He likes my nerve and he loves my heart
Don’t see no reason to change my plan
My baby loves me just the way that I am
My baby loves me just the way that I am

 

 

 

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2. Life #9

Don’t tell me no stories I don’t
Want to hear no lies
No reason, or excuses,none of
Your alibis
The phone rings I pick it up nobody’s
On the line
I know she’s waiting for you she’s
Just biding her time
You’d have me believe it’s just a
Night out with your friends
But I know you’re going back to see her again

Chorus:
You’re stealing love
Living on life #9
Breaking my heart
Living on borrowed time
You’re catting around
Playing with fire
You’re stealing love
Living on life #9

You’re running on empty troubles
on every side
you’ve used up your last chance
You’ve got no place to hide
I’m tired of these heartaches tired
of living a lie
Go to her she’s waiting
But someday you’re gonna find

The grass ain’t always greener on the other side
Now what you thought was love was what you left behind

Repeat Chorus Twice

 

 

 

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3. Independence Day

Well she seemed all right by dawn’s early light
Though she looked a little worried and weak
She tried to pretend he wasn’t drinkin’ again
But daddy left the proof on her cheek
and I was only eight years old that summer
And I always seemed to be in the way
So I took myself down to the fair in town On
Independence Day

Well word gets a round in a small, small town
They said he was a dangerous man
but Mama was proud and she stood her ground
she knew she was on the losin’ end
Some folks whispered some folks talked
but everybody looked the other way
And when time ran out there was no one about on
Independence Day

CHOURS:
Let Freedom ring
let the white dove sing
Let the whole world know that today is a Day of reckoning
Let the weak be strong
let the right be wrong
Roll the stone away
Let the guilty pay
It’s Independence Day

Well she lit up the sky that fourth of July
By the time the firemen come
They just put out the flames
and took down some names
And sent me to the county home
Now I aint sayin’ it’s right or it’s wrong
but maybe it’s the only way
Talk about your revolution It’s
Indepenedence Day

 

 

 

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4. Strangers

Two strangers passing on the sidewalk
Barely brush each other’s hand
He says “I’m sorry”
She says “Don’t worry”
And that is how it all began

A few short days and nights together
And it’s like they were meant to be
Lying there with her he softly whispers
Just think what we were so recently

Strangers, strangers
The world greatest lovers
Last week we were strangers

Two strangers passing in the hallway
Barely touch each other’s heart
Now they’re pretending
Two shadows blending
But they’re a million miles apart

Soon she’ll be packing up her suitcase
They’ll be dividing all the blame
They know how they started
Now empty hearted
They don’t have a clue how they became

Strangers, strangers
The world greatest lovers
And now they are strangers
The world’s greatest lovers
Have turned into strangers
Strangers, strangers

 

 

 

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5. Safe In The Arms Of Love

My heart’s not ready for the rocking chair
I need somebody who really cares
So tired of living solitaire
Someday I’m gonna be
Safe In The Arms Of Love

Strip your heart and it starts to snow
Love is a high-wire act I know
Someday I’ll find a net below

Someday I’m gonna be
Safe In The Arms Of Love
Safe In The Arms Of Love

Chorus:
I want arms that know how to rock me
Safe In The Arms Of Love
I wanna fall and know that love as caught me
Safe In The Arms Of Love
Safe In The Arms Of Love

I want a heart to be forever mine
Want eyes to see me satisfied
Gonna hang my heartaches out to dry
Someday I’m gonna be safe in the arms of love
Safe In The Arms Of Love

Repeat Chorus

 

 

 

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6. Wild Angels

Between the perfect world and the bottom line
Keeping love alive in these troubled times
It’s a miracle in itself
And we know too well what that’s about
Still we made it through, only God knows how
We must’ve had a little help
(Must’ve been)

Chorus:
Wild Angels, Wild Angels
Watching over you and me
Wild Angels, Wild Angels
Baby what else could it be

Well it must’ve been hard, it must’ve been tough
Keeping up with crazy fools like us
‘Cause it’s so easy to fall apart
And we still break each other’s heart sometimes
Spent some nights on the jagged side
Somehow we wake up in each other’s arms
(Must’ve been)

Repeat Chorus

Bridge:
There are some nights
I watch you while you dream
I swear I hear the sound of beating wings

Repeat Chorus

 

 

 

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7. Valentine – (with Jim Brickman)

If there were no words
No way to speak
I would still hear you
If there were no tears
No way to feel inside
I’d still feel for you

And even if the sun refused to shine
Even if romance ran out of rhyme
You would still have my heart until the end of time
You’re all I need, my love, my Valentine

All of my life
I have been waiting for
All you give to me
You’ve opened my eyes
And showed me how to love unselfishly

I’ve dreamed of this a thousand times before
But in my dreams I couldn’t love you more
I will give you my heart
Until the end of time…
You’re all I need, my love, my Valentine

And even if the sun refused to shine
Even if romance ran out of rhyme
You would still have my heart until the end of time
‘Cause all I need is you, my Valentine
You’re all I need, my love, my Valentine

 

 

 

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8. Broken Wing, A

She loved him like he was
The last man on Earth
Gave him everything she ever had
He’d break her spirit down
Then come lovin’ up on her
Give a little then take it back

She’d tell him about her dreams
He’d just shoot ‘em down
Lord he loved to make her cry
You’re crazy for believin’
You’ll ever leave the ground
He said Only angels know how to fly

And with a broken wing
She still sings
She keeps an eye on the sky
With a broken wing
She carries her dreams
Man you ought to see her fly

One Sunday morning
She didn’t go to church
He wondered why she didn’t leave
He went up to the bedroom
Found a note by the window
With the curtains blowin’ in the breeze

And with a broken wing
She still sings
She keeps an eye on the sky
With a broken wing
She carries her dreams
Man you ought to see her fly

With a broken wing
She carries her dreams
Man you ought to see her fly

 

 

 

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9. Happy Girl

I used to live in a darkened room
Had a face of stone
And a heart of gloom
Lost my hope, I was so far gone
Cryed all my tears
With the curtains drwan
I didn’t know until my sould broke free
I’ve got these angels watching over me

Oh watch me go
I’m a happy girl
Everybody knows
That the sweetest thing that you’ll ever see
In the whole wide world
Is a happy girl

I used to hide in a party crowd
Bottled up inside
Feeling so left out
Standing in a corner wearing concrete shoes
With my frozen smile
And my lighted fuse
Now everytime i start to fell like that
I roll out my heart like a welcome mat

Oh watch me go
I’m a happy girl
Everybody knows
That the sweetest thing that you’ll ever see
In the whole wide world
Is a happy girl

Laugh when i fell like it
Cry when i fell like it
That’s just how my life is
That’s how it goes
Oh watch me go
I’m a happy girl
And i’ve come to know
That the world won’t change
Just ’cause I complain
Let the axis twirl
I’m a happy girl

Oh watch me go
I’m a happy girl
Everybody knows
That the sweetest thing that you’ll ever see
In the whole wide world
Is a happy girl

Oh,yeah oh,yeah
I’m a happy girl

 

 

 

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10. Wrong Again

From the day we met
You made me forget
All my fears
Knew just what to say
And you kissed away
All my tears

I knew this time I had finally found
Someone to build my life around
be a lover and a friend
After all my heart had put me through
I knew that it was safe with you
And what we had would never end
Wrong again

Everybody swore
They’d seen this before
We’d be fine
And you’d come to see that you still loved me
In good time

And they said there’s nothing you can do
It’s something that he’s going through
It happens to a lot of men
And I told myself that they were right
That you’d wake up and see the light
And I just had to wait ’til then
Wrong again

And it seemed to me the pain would last
My chance for happiness had passed
And nothing waited ’round the bend
I was sure I’d never find someone
To heal the damage you had done
And my poor heart would never mend
Wrong again
Wrong again

 

 

 

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11. Whatever You Say

You think I’m always makin’
Something out of nothin’
you’re sayin’ everything’s okay
You’ve always got an answer
Before I ask the question
Whatever you say

Now we can change the subject
Pretend I never brought it up
Same old story anyway
Later we can work it out
Right now you’re talked out
Yeah, whatever you say

Oh I know you can hear me
But i’m not sure you’re listening
I hear what you’re sayin’
But still there’s somthing missin’
Whether I go whether I stay
Right now depends on
Whatever you say

You say yes you need me
And no you wouldn’t leave me
And that should be enough to make me stay
And even though I want to
I don’t hear I love you
In whatever you say

Oh I know you can hear me
But i’m not sure you’re listening
I hear what you’re sayin’
But still there’s somthing missin’
Whether I go whether I stay
Right now depends on
Whatever you say

Oh whether I go whether I stay
Right now depends on
Whatever you say
Whatever you say
Whatever you say

 

 

 

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12. I Love You

The sun is shining everyday
Clouds never get in the way
For you and me
I’ve known you just a week or two
But baby I’m so into you
Can hardly breathe

And I’m in so totally
Wrapped up emotionally
Attracted so physically
Actin’ so recklessly
I need you so desperately
Sure as the sky is blue
Baby, I love you
I love you

I never knew that I could feel like this
Can hardly wait till our next kiss
You’re so cool
If I’m dreamin’ please don’t wake me up
Cause baby I can’t get enough
Of what you do

And I’m in so electrically
Charged up kinetically
Actin’ erratically
Need you fanatically
You get to me magically
Sure as the sky is blue
Baby, I love you

I can’t believe that this is real
The way I feel
Baby I’m gone head over heels

And I’m in so totally
Wrapped up emotionally
Attracted so physically
Actin’ so recklessly
I need you so desperately
Sure as the sky is blue
Yeah
And I’m in so electrically
Charged up kinetically
Actin’ erratically
Need you fanatically
You get to me magically
Sure as the sky is blue
Baby, I love you

Baby I love you
Do you love me too
Baby I love you

 

 

 

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13. Love’s The Only House

I was standing in the grocery store line
The one they marked express
When this woman came through with about 25 things
And I said don’t you know that more is less
She said this world is moving so fast
But I just get more behind with every day
And every morning when I make my coffee
I can’t believe my life’s turned out this way
All I could say was

Love’s the only house big enough for all the pain in the world
Love’s the only house big enough for all the pain

He was walking by the other day and I said
Hey baby how you been?
Yeah I got me a little girl now and she’s 4 years old
And she’s got her daddy’s little grin
And you only want what you can’t have
And baby you can’t have me now
I gave me heart to another
Yeah I’m a mother and he’s a father and we’re a family
And we’ve got each other
And I found out the hard way that

Love’s the only house big enough for all the pain in the world
Love’s the only house big enough for all the pain

You drive three miles from all this prosperity
Down across the river and you see a ghetto there
And we got children walking around with guns
And they got knives with drugs and pain to spare
And here I am in my clean, white shirt
With a little money in my pocket and a nice warm home
And we got teenagers walkin’ around in a culture of darkness
Livin’ together alone, and all I can

Love’s the only house big enough for all the pain in the world
Love’s the only house big enough for all the pain

And I can’t explain it and I can’t understand
But I’ll come down and get my hands dirty and together we’ll make a stand
Somewhere cross the parking lot some bands playin out of tune
City streets are gonna burn if we don’t do something soon
And senorita can’t quit cryin, baby’s due now any day
Don Juan left, got sick of tryin
No one there to show him the way she came down to the grocery store and
She said I, I wanna buy a little carton of milk but I don’t have any money
I said hey I’ll cover you honey cause the pain’s gotta go somewhere
Yeah the pain’s gotta go someplace
So come on down to my house
Don’t you know that

Love’s the only house big enough for all the pain in the world
Love’s the only house big enough for all the pain

 

 

 

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14. There You Are

There you are in the early light of day
There you are in the quiet words I pray
I’ve been blessed by the simple happiness
Of the perfect love we’ve made

Every time I turn around
When I’m lost and when I’m found
Like an angel standing guard
There you are

Every time I take a breath and when I forget to breathe
You’re watching over me there you are
When I’m looking for the light in the middle of the night
Searching for the brightest star
There you are

There you are standing in a crowded room
There you are the earth and I’m the moon
My desire is to stand by the fire
That burns inside of you

Every time I turn around
When I’m lost and when I’m found
Like an angel standing guard
There you are

Every time I take a breath and when I forget to breathe
You’re watching over me there you are
When I’m looking for the light in the middle of the night
Searching for the brightest star
There you are

When i’m looking for the light in the middle of the night
Searching for the brightest star
There you are

There you are
There you are

 

 

 

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15. When God Fearin’ Women Get The Blues

(Intro)
She was the prom queen
He was the quarterback
Of the football team
And it all look so promising
We never thought anything
Would happen like this
And then all of a sudden
Twenty-five years
Of love and devotion
Down the drain

We all heard
Her hollerin’
For a country mile
Cheatin’ shows
Your complete
Lack of style
Well she took out
Three parking meters
And a pedestrian’s purse
The day she quit
The Baptist choir
And threw that
Ford into reverse

Lock up your husbands
Lock up your sons
Lock up your whiskey cabinets
Girls lock up your guns
Lock up the beauty shop
No tellin’ if they’ve heard the news
Call the boys downtown at Neiman Marcus
Tell’em lock up them high heel shoes

Chorus:
When God-fearin’ women get the blues
There ain’t no slap-dab-a tellin’
What they’re gonna do
Run around yellin’
I’ve got a Mustang
It’ll do 80
You don’t have to be my baby
I’ve stirred my last batch of gray
You don’t have to be my baby

Call all the deacons
Call the Ladies Aid
Call all the altos, sopranos, tenors
Call every bass
Well call all the Pentecostals
Bring that anointing oil too
Well call the preacher
He’s the only one can reach her
And there ain’t no time to lose

Repeat Chorus

She’s on all our prayer list
She’s on all our hearts
As for the Easter cantata
We don’t know who’ll sing her part

Repeat Chorus

 

 

 

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16. Where Would You Be – (previously unreleased)

I wonder where your heart is
‘Cause it sure don’t feel like it’s here
Sometimes I think you wish
That I would just disappear
Have I got it all wrong
Have you felt this way long
Are you already gone

Do you feel lonely
When you’re here by my side
Does the sound of freedom
Echo in your mind
Do you wish you were by yourself
Or that I was someone else
Anyone else

Chorus:
Where would you be
If you weren’t here with me
Where would you go
If you were single and free
Who would you love
Would it be me
Where would you be

I don’t wanna hold you back
No I don’t wanna slow you down
I don’t wanna make you feel
Like you are tied up and bound
‘Cause that’s not what love’s about
If there’s no chance we can work it out
Tell me now
Oh, tell me tell me now

Repeat Chorus

Have I become the enemy
Is it hard to be yourself
In my company

Repeat Chorus

 

 

 

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17. Concrete Angel – (previously unreleased)

She walks to school with the lunch she packed,
Nobody knows what she’s holding back,
Wearing the same dress she wore yesterday,
She hides the brusies with the linen and lace.

The teacher wonders but she doesn’t ask,
It’s hard to see the pain behind the mask,
Bearing the burden of a secret storm,
Sometimes she wishes she was never born.

Through the wind and the rain she stands hard as a stone,
In a world that she can’t rise above,
But her dreams give her wings and she flies to a place where she’s loved,
Concrete Angel.

Somebody cries in the middle of the night,
The neighbors hear but they turn out their light,
A fragile soul caught in the hands of fate,
When mornin’ comes it’ll be too late.

Through the wind and the rain she stands hard as a stone,
In a world that she can’t rise above,
But her dreams give her wings and she flies to a place where she’s loved,
Concrete Angel.

A statue stands in a shaded place,
An angel girl with an upturned face,
A name is written on a polished rock,
A broken heart that the world forgot.

Through the wind and the rain she stands hard as a stone,
In a world that she can’t rise above,
But her dreams give her wings and she flies to a place where she’s loved,
Concrete Angel.

 

 

 

[ Martina McBride lyrics ]

18. Blessed – (previously unreleased)

I get kissed by the sun
Each morning
Put my feet on a hardwood floor
I get to hear my children laughing
Down the hall through the
Bedroom door
Sometimes I sit on my
Front porch swing
Just soaking up the day
I think to myself, I think to myself
This world is a beautiful place

Chorus:
I have been blessed
And I feel like I’ve found my way
I thank God for all I’ve been given
At the end of every day
I have been blessed
With so much more than I deserve
To be here with the ones
That love me
To love them so much it hurts
I have been blessed

Across a crowded room
I know you know what I’m thinking
By the way I look at you
And when we’re lying in the quiet
And no words have to be said
I think to myself, I think to myself
This love is a beautiful gift

Repeat Chorus

When I’m singing my kids to sleep
When I feel you holding me
I know

Repeat Chorus

 

 

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