I’ve been trying
To make you love me
But everything I try
Just takes you further from me

You don’t love me, oh no
So you treat me cruel
But no matter how you hurt me
I’ll always be your fool

But if you don’t want me forever
And if you don’t need me forever
And if you can’t love me forever
Take me for a little while
So I can hold you, baby
So I can make you want me

I gotta stop it
There should be a law
‘Cause everytime you put me down
I love you more

And I feel so helpless
And it ain’t funny
‘Cause deep down inside I know
You’re never gonna love me

But if you don’t want me forever
And if you don’t need me forever
And if you can’t love me forever
Take me for a little while
So I can hold you, baby
So I can make you want me

I got to have you baby
Don’t you know anyway you want me I’m yours
Won’t you have me baby?
Anyway you want me I’m yours
Anything you want me to do

Take me down to the water
Take me back to the source
Call the meeting to order
And let it run its course

Take me back to my childhood
When I was so alone
Let me feel like a child would
Looking out across the great unknown

Take me down to the ocean
Take me down to the sea
Set the feeling in motion
Forget the tied up time and let my spirit free

Take away the illusion
Of the man, of the king
Help me lose the confusion
So I can breathe again

Take me down to the ocean
Take me down to the sea
Set the feeling in motion
So you can just be you and I can just be me
That’s how I need to be

Fly away with me tonight
Take me on a one-way flight in your lovin’ arms
And ev’rything’s gonna be alright

You’re the one who took my hand
When no one else could understand
You’re the one who moves me
Like nobody else can

Chorus:
Take me down where I wanna be
Turn around, this man who lives inside of me
Take me down and love me all night long
Hold me close and make me strong
Take me down, take me down tonight

In your eyes I see the light
It’s your emotions glowing bright
So keep the fires burning
And let it warm me through the night

You can be a part of me
‘Cause you’re what love was meant to be
You and me baby we’ll set this flame inside us free

You don’t have to stay forever
Let’s just put our hearts together
And share another night in ecstasy

We know that it’s feelin’ better
Ev’ry time we come together
Maybe love was meant for you and me

Chorus

Take me down tonight

Take me down tonight

Are you gonna take me
Shake me
Take me down tonight

Seems I’ve lingered too long in the darkness
unlock the door, turn the light on and wait.
I should know better than to rest on a promise
but this body before you has seen too much pain.

Take me down, take me down to the water,
take my hand, learn me all I should know.
Here I am, I’m waiting for you
just give me a sign, oh please don’t fail me now.

It’s at this time we feel the emotion,
nothing is wasted, nothing is lost.
I’m sure that I’ve been here before sometime
some bridges are reached but never are crossed.

Take me down, take me down to the water,
take my hand, learn me all I should know.
Here I am, I’m waiting for you
just give me a sign, oh please don’t fail me now.

Take me down, take me down to the water,
take my hand, learn me all I should know.
Here I am, I’m waiting for you
just give me a sign, oh please don’t fail me now.

Don’t fail me now
‘cos it’s out of my control.
I’m coming with you,
I’m right beside you,
oh feet don’t fail me now.

Seems I’ve lingered too long in the darkness
unlock the door, turn the light on and wait.
I should know better than to rest on a promise
but this body before you has seen too much pain.

Take me down, take me down to the water,
take my hand, learn me all I should know.
Here I am, I’m waiting for you
just give me a sign, don’t let me go.
Take me down, take me down to the water,
take my hand, learn me all I should know.
Here I am, I’m waiting for you
just give me a sign, oh feet please don’t fail me now

take me down to the underground
won’t you take me down to the underground
why oh why there is no light
and if i can’t sleep can you hold my life
and all i see is you
take my hand i lost where i began
in my heart i know all of my faults
will you help me understand
and i believe in you
you’re the other half of me
soothe and heal…
when you sleep when you dream
i’ll be there if you need me, whenever i hear you sing…
there is a sun, it’ll come, the sun, i hear them call me down
i held you once, a love that once, and life had just begun
and you’re all i see…
and trumpets blew, and angels flew on the other side
and you’re all i see, and you’re all i’ll need
there’s a love that god puts in your heart

I get these attacks where I just refuse
To pick myself up and carry on
I stop in my tracks, I shake in my shoes
My courage is gone, then I hear You say

CHORUS
Take Me by the hand, let Me lead you up
To a place
Where all of your tears subside
Take Me by the hand, let Me lead you out
Of this valley over to the other side

(and we’ll walk together)

As a general rule I try to stay real
I like to avoid all the big clich?s
But when totally cool is not how I feel
And I’m lost in a haze, I need to hear
You say

CHORUS
Let Me take your pain
Let Me throw your sin into the sea
Let Me hide the awful things
You’ve built
Turn it all over to Me

I can take it, I can break it
I can make it better than it was before

CHORUS

CHORUS

(Karen Staley)

Well this big city life is gettin’ me down
There’s just too many people around
There’s dirt in the air and crime in the street
High-rise buildings and cold concrete
This rat race sure enough takes a toll
I wanna run off to my fishin’ hole
Take me back take me back
Take me back to the country
Take me back take me back
Take me back to the country

Where the stars at night
Outshine those city lights
Take me back to the country
Where the eagles fly
And the treetops touch the sky
Take me back to the country

This traffic jam is makin’ me mad
I miss the simple life I had
Peace and quite runnin’ free
I wanna go home to my family
I’m sick of the clock, sick of the phone
Out in the country my time’s my own
Take me back take me back
Take me back to the country
Take me back take me back
Take me back to the country

Where the stars at night
Outshine those city lights
Take me back to the country
Where the eagles fly
And the treetops touch the sky
Take me back to the country

Where the stars at night
Outshine those city lights
Take me back to the country
Where the eagles fly
And the treetops touch the sky
Take me back to the country
Take me back to the country

Nothing’s wrong
I’m just wastin’
All the time that I’ve tasted
Take me back on a time trip

Won’t you take me back then
Why don’t you take me

Nothing’s wrong
I’m just wasted
I’m the one who’s tastin’
All the time that I’m faced with

(Dolly Parton)

Take me back, oh precious memories
To the days forever gone
I can still remember Mama washing on a rub board
On the back porch, while us kids played in the yard
Mama always seemed to be so happy and content
She never seemed to mind that times were hard

She went about her work singin’ some old favorite song of hers
And often singin’ favorite songs for us
And she was satisfied just bein’ Mama to us children
And the only woman Daddy ever loved

Take me back to Mama’s bosom
Back to Daddy’s lovin’ arms
Take me back, oh precious memories
To the days forever gone

I can still remember us a runnin’ to meet Daddy
In the evening when his working day was done
When Daddy saw us comin’ he would bend his tired old back
Holdin’ out his arms, and into them we’d run

And he’d hold us for a minute, we’d all walk home together
While Mama waited for him at the door
And he was satisfied just bein’ Daddy to us children
And the man my Mama lived her whole life for

Take me back to Mama’s bosom
Back to Daddy’s lovin’ arms
Take me back, oh precious memories
To the days forever gone
Take me back, oh precious memories
To the days forever gone

(Julie Miller)

Take me back, take me back, take me back to your heart
Can’t you love me again like you did at the start?
There’s a weight on my shoulders and I know I can’t win
Take me back, take me back again

I would call you to plead but I don’t have the nerve
‘Cause the thing that I need, I do not deserve
The way I was careless with your trust was a sin
Take me back, take me back again

If my love was fire, it would burn this house down
With all of the lies that were told
But it’s only a fever that burns me inside
From the longings of a broken-down soul

Now the wind’s blowing through and it’s crying for me
‘Cause it knows I was not what I wanted to be
And the sky must be sorry, ‘cuase it’s starting to rain
Take me back, take me back again

If my love was fire, it would burn this house down
With all of the lies that were told
But it’s only a fever that burns me inside
From the longings of a broken down soul

Take me back, take me back, take me back to your heart
Can’t you love me again like you did at the start?
There’s a weight on my shoulders and I know I can’t win
Take me back, take me back again