All My Favorite Songs Are Sad Songs

🎵 All My Favorite Songs Are Sad Songs

Verse 1

There’s a jukebox in the corner where I go

When I need something honest and slow

I don’t pick ‘em… they just pick me

Like they know what I need to see

“Hello darlin’”… yeah that one still hits

Like a long time gone I ain’t over yet

And those blue eyes cryin’ in the rain

Sound a whole lot like my kind of pain

There’s a neon moon hangin’ over this town

And a fool hearted memory still hangin’ around

I was checkin’ yes or no, now I don’t know why

I let love walk away without a fight

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Chorus

All my favorite songs are sad songs

From “he stopped lovin’ her” to “I’m so lonesome I could cry” all night long

Every line’s like a truth I learned

From every bridge I ever burned

All my favorite songs are sad songs

Where the chair’s still empty and the night rolls on

If it hurts but it feels this strong

That’s why all my favorite songs are sad songs

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Verse 2

There’s a midnight train that don’t come back

And a man in black still walkin’ that track

Sunday mornin’ comes down too hard

When you’re countin’ sins instead of stars

There’s a reason to believe then it slips away

Like a whiskey river at the end of the day

And freedom’s just another word I learned too late

When there was nothin’ left to take

I’ve been lookin’ for love in all the wrong places

Seen too many lost highway faces

Yeah I’ve played the part and I’ve paid the cost

Of every love I ever lost

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Pre-Chorus

I didn’t learn this from livin’ right

I learned it all from those late-night lines

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Chorus

All my favorite songs are sad songs

From goodbye lines to where did we go wrong

Every word’s like a hand on my back

When I’m one step off the track

All my favorite songs are sad songs

Where the truth don’t care how long it’s gone

If it breaks but it pulls me along

That’s why all my favorite songs are sad songs

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Bridge (this is where it all blends together)

They taught me love don’t always stay

And leavin’ don’t mean you got away

That some hearts bend and some just break

And some words you can’t unsay

Yeah I’ve walked the line, I’ve crossed it too

And I’ve paid my dues in shades of blue

Somewhere between wrong and right

Is a song that gets you through the night

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Final Chorus (lift, full meaning lands)

All my favorite songs are sad songs

‘Cause they told me who I was all along

In the tears, in the scars, in the things I’ve done

In the man I’ve become

All my favorite songs are sad songs

Every one’s like a road I’ve been on

If you listen close, it ain’t just songs…

It’s a life that’s been sung all along