I used to write those sad songs Where the cowboy lost his girl And his horse and his pick-up And his job and his self-esteem And he sat in a bar feelin' mean. 'Cause that was my life 'til you came along, I used to sing my soul out For the lost semi-lovers when they left I cried my heart out And wrote it all down And I lived it with six strings and a cheap mike In run-down bars And honkey-tonks All over in these little country towns.. And I don't know if the sad rubbed off on me from the songs Or if the songs came out of the sad But we fed each other And we fit each other Me and the sad And the end of each and every song was bad. But I can't sing those sad songs any more Can't write a single sad verse. I can't sing a line That I wrote during that time 'Cause you releived me of that curse! You took all my hurtin' and rolled it all up And you threw it back to me and it was a smile You took my tears and made them into the gentle rain That watered the garden of our love. You took the lost days and years and gave them back to me As the promise of the future found in your arms You took the lonliness from my eyes And gave me the vision of years of looking at your lovliness. You took the pain from my heart and squeezed it with your eyes Until it was nothing next to the joy I found in you. You took an empty shell and filled it with love And made me finally real. What I was is not to regret, for what I am now is yours And will be Forever.