I've Done Everything I Can Do
Rodney Crowell

I'd love to hear you laughing

Love so see you smile

Dance that little dance you danced

When you were just a child

The way the world came at you

Left you bitter and confused

The more I tried to guide your path

The more you just felt used

The sun comes up to my room

But there are no guarantees

It can rock you like a baby

It can knock you to your knees

The path that lies between us

Is a star crossed avenue

I've done everything I can

There's nothing I can do

So you loved that girl to death

And you're scared to take a breath

It's like everything you've dread

Swings are hammer in your head

So her heart's locked in a vault

And you think it's all your fault

It's a dream as old as dirt

And you can't stand to see her hurt

May the little voice that guides you

Send a message through for me

Reminding you you're beautiful

And will forever be

I wish that I could be there now

To tell you it's alright

It's a darkened, taunting raiser's edge

You're walking on the night

The sun comes up to my room

But there are no guarantees

It can rock you like a baby

It can knock you to your knees

The path that lies between us

Is a rough and rocky route

I've done everything I can

And there's nothing I can do

So you're learning to let go

And the process is so slow

While your baby plums the depths

You keep climbing up the stairs

She was daddy's little girl

You were ruler of the world

And now she's out there in the fray

I'll bet she'll be back someday

You heard me say a million times

My work is never done

For those who keep the wolves at bay

There is no setting sun

To see you standing here today

Pretty child, you've come so far

Which proves that you can find your way

No matter where you are

The sun comes up to my room

But there are no guarantees

It can rock you like a baby

It can knock you to your knees

The path that lies between us

It's the long way home, it's true

I've done everything I can

And there's nothing I can do

I've done everything I can and look at you


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Lyrics by Rodney Crowell

  'til I Gain Control Again   'til I Gain Control Again   Above And Beyond   Adam's Song   After All This Time   Ain't No Money   Ashes By Now   Ballad Of Possum Potez   Banks Of The Old Bandera   Beautiful Despair (For James)   Best Years Of Our Lives   Big Heart   Brand New Rag   Bring It On Home To Memphis   Candy Man   Closer to Heaven   Come On Funny Feelin'   Come Sundown   Crazy Baby   Dancin' Circles Round The Sun (epictetus Speaks)   Don't Get Me Started   Earthbound   Elvira   Even Cowgirls Get the Blues   Faith Is Mine   Famous Last Words Of A Fool In Love   Fate's Right Hand   Fever On The Bayou   Forty Winters   Frankie Please   Funky And The Farm Boy   Give My Heart a Rest   Glascow Girl   Glasgow Girl   God I'm Missing You   Grandma Loved That Old Man   Heartbroke   Her Hair Was Red   Higher Mountains   Highway 17   I Ain't Livin' Long Like This   I Ain't Living Long Like This   I Couldn't Leave You If I Tried   I Don't Fall In Love So Easy   I Guess We've Been Together For Too Long   I Hardly Know How To Be Myself   I Hope You Shed a Million Tears   I Just Wanted To See You So Bad   I Know Love Is All I Need   I Walk The Line   I Walk The Line (Revisited)   I Want You #35   I Wish It Would Rain   I Wouldn?t Be Me Without You   I've Done Everything I Can   If Looks Could Kill   If You Lived Here You'd Be Home Now   Ignorance Is the Enemy   It's A Different World Now   It's Not For Me To Judge   It's Only Rock & Roll   It's Such A Small World   Jesus Talk To Mama   Jewel of the South   Just Pleasing You   Just Say Yes   Ladder Of Love   Last Waltz   Le Danse De La Joie   Leavin' Louisiana In The Broad Daylight   Let the Picture Paint Itself   Life Is Messy   Looking For You   Love to Burn   Lovin' All Night   Loving You Makes Me Strong   Many a Long and Lonesome Highway   Maybe Next Time   Moving Work Of Art   Night's Just Right   No Memories Hanging Round   Now That We're Alone   Obscenity Prayer (Give It to Me)   Oh King Richard   Oh What a Beautiful World   Old Pipeliner   On A Real Good Night   Once in a While   Please Remember Me   Prechin' To The Choir   Queen of Hearts   Ridin' Out The Storm   Ridin' Out The Storm   Rise and Fall of Intelligent Design   Say You Love Me   Sex and Gasoline   Shame on the Moon   She Ain't Going Nowhere   She Loves the Jerk   She's Crazy for Leavin'   She's Crazy For Leaving   Shelter from the Storm   Somebody?s Shadow   Soul Searchin'   Stars on the Water   Still Learning How to Fly   Storm of Love   Stuff That Works   Telephone Road   That Ol' Door   The Ballad Of Possum Potez   The Faith Is Mine   The Ladder of Love   The Last Waltz   The Long Journey Home   The Man in Me   The Obscenity Prayer (Give It to Me)   The Outsider   The Rise and Fall of Intelligent Design   The Rock of My Soul   The Rose of Memphis   The Traveling Kind   The Weight of the World   Things I Wish I'd Said   Things That Go Bump in the Day   Thinking About Leaving   This Too Will Pass   This, Too, Will Pass   Time to Go Inward   Topsy Turvy   Truth Decay   U Don't Know How Much I Hate U   Victim Or A Fool   Voila An American Dream   Wandering Boy   We Can't Turn Back   We Can't Turn Back Now   What Kind Of Love   What Kind of Love [*]   When The Blue Hour Comes   Who Do You Trust   Why Don't We Talk About It   You Been on My Mind   You Can't Say We Didn't Try

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