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Blown Away (Lyrics) – Carrie Underwood

 These are the lyrics for the single Blown Away, off Carrie Underwood’s new album of the same title.

[Verse 1:]

Dry lightning cracks across the skies

Those storm clouds gather in her eyes

Daddy was mean ole mister

Mama was an angel in the ground

The weather man called for a twister

She prayed blow it down

There’s not enough rain in Oklahoma

To wash the sins out of that house

There’s not enough wind in Oklahoma

To rip the nails out of the past

[Chorus]

Shatter every window till it’s all blown away,

Every brick, every board, every slamming door blown away

till there’s nothing left standing,

nothing left of yesterday

every tear-soaked whiskey memory blown away,

Blown away

[Verse 2:]

She heard those sirens screaming out

Her daddy laid there passed out on the couch

She locked herself in the cellar

listened to the screaming of the wind

Some people called it taking shelter

She called it sweet revenge

[Chorus:]

Shatter every window till it’s all blown away,

Every brick, every board, every slamming door blown away

till there’s nothing left standing,

nothing left of yesterday

every tear-soaked whiskey memory blown away,

Blown away

[Outro]

There’s not enough rain in Oklahoma

To wash the sins out of that house

There’s not enough wind in Oklahoma

To rip the nails out of the past

Shatter every window till it’s all blown away,

(blown away)

Every brick, every board, every slamming door blown away

(flown away)

till there’s nothing left standing,

nothing left of yesterday

every tear-soaked whiskey memory blown away,

Blown away, blown away, blown away, blown away

Good Girl (Lyrics) – Carrie Underwood

These are the lyrics for Carrie Underwood’s brand new single: Good Girl!

For my review, click here.

[Verse 1:]

Hey good girl

With your head in the clouds

I bet you I can tell you what you’re thinking about

You’ll see a good boy

Gonna give you the world

But he’s gonna leave you crying 

with your heart in the dirt

His lips are dripping honey 

But he’ll sting you like a bee

So lock up all your lovin’

Go and throw away the key

Hey good girl

get out while you can

I know you think you got a good man

[Chorus]

Why, why you gotta be so blind?

Won’t you open your eyes?

It’s just a matter of time till you find

He’s no good, girl

No good for you

You better get to getting on your goodbye shoes and go, go, go

you better listen to me he’s low, low, low

[Verse 2:]

Hey good girl

you got a heart of gold

You want a white wedding and a hand you can hold

Just like you should, girl,

like every good girl does

Want a fairytale ending, somebody to love

But he’s really good at lying girl,

Yeah, he’ll leave you in the dust

Cause when he says forever

Well it don’t mean much

Hey good girl

So good for him

better back away honey

you don’t know where he’s been

[Chorus]

Why, why you gotta be so blind?

Won’t you open your eyes?

It’s just a matter of time till you find

He’s no good, girl

No good for you

You better get to getting on your goodbye shoes and go, go, go

Yeah yeah yeah, he’s low

yeah yeah yeah

[Bridge]

he’s no good, girl

Why can’t you see?

He’ll take your heart and break it

Listen to me, yeah…

[Outro]

Why, why you gotta be so blind?

Won’t you open your eyes?

It’s just a matter of time till you find

he’s no good, he’s no good

won’t you open up your eyes?

It’s just a matter of time till you find

he’s no good, girl

he’s no good for you

you better get to getting on your goodbye shoes

Wine After Whiskey (Lyrics) – Carrie Underwood

These are the lyrics of Wine After Whiskey, off Carrie Underwood’s album “Blown Away.”  You can check out ALL the lyrics of the album here.

[Verse 1:]

Once upon a time our world was on fire and I loved to watch it burn

Wild and reckless, never any limits, guess I had a lot to learn

Cause fire turns to ember, embers to ashes that blow away too soon

[Chorus:]

Now everything’s after you is like having wine after whiskey

It went from do anything for you babe to you don’t even miss me

Once you’ve tasted a love that strong you can’t go back

And you can’t settle on anything less

And that’s what gets me. It’s like having wine after whiskey

[Verse 2:]

Looking back I guess it was really for the best, still you’re something that I crave

Even though I know it was right to let you go. You’re a habit hard to break

I got used to being high and nothing that I try seems good enough right now

[Chorus:]

It’s also watered down like having wine after whiskey

It went from do anything for you babe to you don’t even miss me

Once you’ve tasted a love that strong

You can’t go back and you can’t settle on anything less

And that’s what gets me. It’s like having wine after whiskey

[Outro:]

Once you’ve tasted a love that strong you can’t go back

And you can’t settle on anything less

And that’s what gets me. It’s like having wine after whiskey

Eighteen Inches (Lyrics) – Lauren Alaina [Written by Carrie Underwood]

These are the lyrics for the song Eigtheen Inches, written by Carrie Underwood, and featuring on Lauren Alaina’s upcoming debut album: Wildflower. For the album’s review, click here.

It’s about fifteen hundred miles to California,
they’ll get there Friday if they leave tonight,
she sneaks out at three thirty in the morning,
leaves a note so she won’t see her daddy cry.

He cuts the engine when he coasts in the driveway,
she slides in and gives him one kiss for the road,
no friends and no family, no job out there waiting,
the whole town will call them crazy but they gotta go.

‘Cause when you’re young and in love, yeah,
you might do some things that don’t seem all that smart,
’cause there ain’t no greater distance than the eighteen inches from your head to your heart, yeah.

They can barely make rent on a rundown apartment,
she’s waiting tables and he’s a valet,
they’re behind on the bills and the car’s barely running,
but he buys a ring with the tips that he’s saved.

When you’re young and in love, yeah,
you might do some things that don’t seem all that smart,
’cause there ain’t no greater distance than the eighteen inches from your head to your heart.

Last thing they need is another mouth to feed, but they want one,
just kids themselves but that’s all to change in nine more months,

she wakes him up at three thirty in the morning,
ready or not their new life’s going to start,
seven pounds and eighteen inches,
the doctor lays that new baby’s head right on her heart.

When you’re young and in love, yeah,
you might do some things that don’t seem all that smart,
but thank God for those eighteen inches,
the distance it is from your head to your heart, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I have to say I’m very impressed. Carrie is telling a story here without taking sides: she doesn’t showcase the pregnancy in a positive light, which would have turned this song into a saccharine love song and she doesn’t condemn it, making it preachy. On the contrary, she’s simply narrating a segment of someone’s life and uses beautiful imagery to do so, mostly revolving around the double meaning of eigtheen inches.

Favorite line?

“Cause there ain’t no greater distance than the eighteen inches from your head to your heart” – Lyric GOLD!

The song is not out yet but listen to a live version:

We Found Love (Single Review) – Rihanna

Rihanna keeps churning these singles and albums, faster than any market can contain them. Wasn’t it less than a year ago that she released her most recent album, Loud!, and aren’t we being bombarded with her most recent single Cheers (Drink To That) on radio as I’m writing and you’re reading this?

Well, no matter… she’s ready to release yet another album, set for a November 21st release date and she has teamed up with Calvin Harris to deliver the lead single off the album, a club-banger titled: We Found Love.

“Yellow diamonds in the light And we’re standing side by side,” she sings to an electropop beat behind her. “As your shadow crosses mine, what it takes to come alive. It’s the way I’m feeling I just can’t deny… But I’ve gotta let it go.” And then she breaks into the chorus.

What’s the chorus, you might ask? It’s just one sentence. But unlike Lady Antebellum’s We Owned The Night, she doesn’t say it only once. She repeats the sentence four times. The sentence in question: “we found love in a hopeless place.”

The song’s second verse goes as follows: “Shine a light through an open door, love and life I will divide. Turn away cause I need you more. Feel the heartbeat in my mind. It’s the way I’m feeling I just can’t deny… But I’ve gotta let it go”

Insert repeat chorus.

So it’s needless to say that there’s not really much lyrical backbone for We Found Love to go on. What the song relies on is, however, some very tight production that gives you a result that is nothing short of incredibly catchy, with a great beat to go with it.And that’s pretty much it with We Found Love. It’s a dance song that is sure to become a radio hit. After all, almost anything radio friendly that Rihanna releases finds itself in the highest possible rotation on radio – no matter how frequent her releases come to be.

Will you be blasting this in your car on repeat? I don’t think so – well, unless this is your kind of music. Will it be blasted in night clubs across the world on repeat? Yes, it will. And at the end of the day, it’s not really a bad song. There’s just not much substance going for it. And in a time where pop radio is slowly changing, one wonders why Rihanna did not wait longer and release something with more power. After all, the fact that Adele’s Someone Like You is exploding on radio and Lady Gaga’s You and I is also doing well, as well as Lady Antebellum’s newly released (to pop radio that is) Just a Kiss, should be indicative enough that change is on the horizon – and it’s not just because of the names associated with those songs.

Maybe Rihanna’s label should stop making her their only viable source of income and give her some room to breathe. God knows it’d be good for her and us.

But I need to repeat this… We Found Love is not a bad song. It’s just same old, same old.

Listen to We Found Love here