TITLE Reckless (Deluxe Edition)

DATE January 28, 2022

LABEL Arista Nashville, Sony Music

PRODUCER Paul Ebersold, Sadler Vaden

  • written by Morgan Wade, Sadler Vaden

    Hand in my hair and you said I looked pretty
    You're so devious, rode in
    From the Windy City
    I ain't gotta clear view
    Tell me what you want me to do and
    Tell me every single secret in your mind
    Come on, baby, we got nothing but time
    You say, I'm too young for you
    You're scared I'm too right for you

    You said you hate the smell of cigarette smoke
    You only used to smoke when you drank
    When you lived in Chicago
    Unsure where the wind blows

    I wish I'd known you in your wilder days
    And now here we go
    You got me falling in love again
    You gotta secret, I wanna keep it
    I wish I'd known you in your wilder days

    The way you move your hands across my body
    Kissing you in a hotel lobby
    Baby I don't wanna lose this feeling
    You're giving me something to believe in
    And who were you before I knew your name?
    Were you drunk at midnight waiting for the train?
    You could have been anyone back then
    Just another kid reaching for the wind

    You said you hate the smell of cigarette smoke
    You only used to smoke when you drank
    When you lived in Chicago
    Unsure where the wind blows
    I wish I'd known you in your wilder days
    And now here we go
    You got me falling in love again
    You gotta secret, I wanna keep it
    I wish I'd known you in your wilder days

    What were you like when you were a little wilder?
    Why don't you show me?
    Why don't you show me?
    What you were like when you got a little higher?
    Just for tonight, just for tonight

    You said you hate the smell of cigarette smoke
    You only use to smoke when you drank
    When you lived in Chicago
    Unsure where the wind blows
    I wish I'd known you in your wilder days
    And now here we go
    You got me falling in love again
    You gotta secret, I wanna keep it
    I wish I'd known you in your wilder days

    I wish I'd known you in your wilder days
    I wish I'd known you in your wilder days

  • written by Morgan Wade, Sadler Vaden

    It's raining at my house, is it raining at yours?
    When it rains it pours, to hell with the metaphors
    I want you so bad I think I might die
    I'm sorry I keep feeding you these lines but

    I sure like your sounds and if you were here
    I'd love to get you high then lay down, I
    Want you hanging around
    I've been needing something good
    Hey, baby, can I use you right now?

    I wrote you a letter, I threw it in the trash
    I got it out, I lit it with a match
    I'm not gonna tell you how I feel
    It's overrated but damn, it's real

    I sure like your sounds and if you were here
    I'd love to get you high then lay down, I
    Want you hanging around
    I've been needing something good
    Hеy, baby, can I use you right now?

    If you don't want me that don't bother mе at all
    Don't be upset if I don't answer when you call
    Maybe I can move on but there was nothing to move on from
    My veins are on fire, babe, my face is numb

    I sure like your sounds and if you were here
    I'd love to get you high then lay down, I
    Want you hanging around
    I've been needing something good
    Hey, baby, can I use you right now?

    It's raining at my house, is it raining at yours?

  • written by Morgan Wade

    You knew my skin back before I had all these tattoos
    You remember me on late nights strung out from pills and booze
    We've had some bad times, baby, but we had some good times, too
    You knew my skin back before I had all these tattoos

    Baby, baby, baby
    We ain't nothing but Rolling Stones
    Being a gypsy ain't so bad when you're with me
    'Cause I never have to be alone
    You've seen the parts of me that the world says I should hide
    But even in the dark you love my bitter heart
    And we'll make it to the other side

    These days when I look back, I just have to laugh
    They all said that you and I would never last
    I've made my share of mistakes and we left that in the past
    These days when I look back, I just have to laugh

    Baby, baby, baby
    We ain't nothing but Rolling Stones
    Being a gypsy ain't so bad when you're with me
    'Cause I never have to be alone
    You've seen the parts of me that the world says I should hide
    But even in the dark you love my bitter heart
    And we'll make it to the other side

    But even in the dark
    You love my bitter heart
    And we'll make it to the other side

    Baby, baby, baby
    We ain't nothing but Rolling Stones
    Being a gypsy ain't so bad when you're with me
    'Cause I never have to be alone
    You've seen the parts of me that the world says I should hide
    But even in the dark you love my bitter heart
    And we'll make it to the other side

    Even in the dark
    You love my bitter heart
    And we'll make it to the other side
    Even in the dark
    You love my bitter heart
    And we'll make it to the other side

  • written by Morgan Wade, Paul Ebersold

    I'll always be my own worst critic
    The world exists and I'm just in it
    Find something good and mess it up
    Lie and say it just wasn't enough
    I'll always be my own worst critic
    And I hate to suffocate between something I love, something I hate
    If I don't know who I am, how can I ever give a damn?

    Don't cry, don't cry, don't cry
    At some point, your hero must die
    To escape the hands of time
    It's okay to not be alright, and
    Let it go, let it go, let it go
    Face the truth and bare your soul
    Lose yourself and break your heart
    It's a beautiful thing to fall apart

    Always runnin' outta time
    Another's world wrapped up in mine
    On a trip, so devout until I get bored and I check out
    Always runnin' outta time
    I won't try to justify the things I've done, the lies I've lied
    I can leave the past in the past
    I smell it on my breath, I can't go back

    Don't cry, don't cry, don't cry
    At some point, your hero must die
    To escape the hands of time
    It's okay to not be alright, and
    Let it go, let it go, let it go
    Face the truth and bare your soul
    Lose yourself and break your heart
    It's a beautiful thing to fall apart

    I am not who I seem
    My alter ego takes the lead
    Sit back and let her drive
    But only one makes it out alive
    I gotta take control
    Lose myself to gain my soul

    Don't cry, don't cry, don't cry
    At some point, your hero must die
    To escape the hands of time
    It's okay to not be alright, and
    Let it go, let it go, let it go
    Face the truth and bare your soul
    Lose yourself and break your heart
    It's a beautiful thing to fall apart

    Don't cry, don't cry, don't cry, yeah
    Let it go, let it go, let it go, ooh
    Don't cry, don't cry, don't cry, yeah
    Let it go, let it go, let it go

  • written by Morgan Wade

    I was out of my head as I climbed in your bed
    And I thought I'd found something real
    You were asleep, I could feel you breathe
    I still love how that made me feel

    I am not much of anything
    You will always be everything

    Turn that car around
    You don't need to be leaving me now
    Come to bed and I will shut my mouth
    And I don't know what's wrong with me
    But you came along and finally I see
    The type of love I know I need
    No words spoken, I'm so broken
    I hope you can mend me

    And then we walked around every inch of this town
    As I nearly gave you my heart
    And I fell too fast and I knew it wouldn't last
    You told me it was bad from the start

    My whitе flag is up, I'm surrounded
    You've got me feeling groundеd

    Turn that car around
    You don't need to be leaving me now
    Come to bed and I will shut my mouth
    'Cause I don't know what's wrong with me
    But you came along and finally I see
    The type of love I know I need
    No words spoken, I'm so broken
    I hope you can mend me

    And you walked away
    Didn't know what to say
    So I, I just waved goodbye
    I took a step and let out my breath
    And I stared straight into that sky
    I felt like you betrayed me
    Now I'm thinking you've saved me

    Turn that car around
    You don't need to be leaving me now
    Come to bed and I will shut my mouth
    'Cause I don't know what's wrong with me
    But you came along and finally I see
    The type of love I know I need
    No words spoken, I'm so broken
    I hope you can mend me

  • written by Morgan Wade, Paul Ebersold, Sadler Vaden

    Tell me the truth
    Is it over for you?
    It isn't for me
    But I'll say what you want me to say
    Addiction is strong
    Know it's wrong
    But I need that high
    I ain't gonna lie
    Give me tonight
    So I can be alright
    I can hold your body
    And you can hold mine

    I want you one last time
    Another hit to ease my mind
    I don't want you to be over yet
    Won't you be my last cigarette?

    I thought it took three times
    To burn into my mind
    But, I had you once
    And you threw a punch
    But I'm not too mad
    All the fun that we had
    But it's hard to let go
    It's so hard to say no
    I can't go all day
    My hands, they shake
    I've gone off the deep side
    Habits gonna make me die

    I want you one last time
    Another hit to ease my mind
    I don't want you to bе over yet
    Won't you be my last cigarеtte?

    So, you want better now
    So, you gotta lay me down
    But don't go, not yet
    Wanna wake up with you on my breath

    I want you one last time
    Another hit to ease my mind
    I don't want you to be over yet
    Won't you be my last cigarette?

  • written by Morgan Wade

    If I could go let down my hair
    Would you take off those clothes you wear?
    And hold me here tonight?
    If I can learn to trust someone
    My heart is like a loaded gun
    Tell me it will be alright

    I've been looking for some peace of mind
    With you here, I think it's time

    Lay me down on the floor in the kitchen
    Show my angry heart what I've been missing
    Baby, take me away
    I'm so tired of being alone
    Won't you rest my angry bones?
    Baby, take me away
    I wanna feel something, mhm
    Take me away

    I'm so good at rеsisting
    Been putting up my best defensеs
    But I am growing weak
    Baby, baby, lay me down
    Take the words out of my mouth
    I'm too tired to speak

    The woman in me, she needs the lover in you
    I think you know what to do

    Lay me down on the floor in the kitchen
    Show my angry heart what I've been missing
    Baby, take me away
    I'm so tired of being alone
    Won't you rest my angry bones?
    Baby, take me away
    I wanna feel something, mhm
    Take me away

    Lay me down on the floor in the kitchen
    Show my angry heart what I've been missing
    Baby, take me away
    I'm so tired of being alone
    Won't you rest my angry bones?
    Baby, take me away
    Yeah, I wanna feel something, mhm
    Yeah, I wanna feel something, mhm
    Yeah, I wanna feel something, mhm

  • written by Morgan Wade, Sadler Vaden

    Goin' too fast down the wrong way
    Swimmin', and I pass where the waves break
    I don't know where I'm goin' now
    See no signs of slowin' down
    Tryna make sense of this whole thing
    Everybody runs from something, someday
    I don't have a clue, who I am without you

    Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
    You had me thinkin' I was okay
    Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
    But then you turn around and left me

    Reckless, no headlights
    Driving too fast down shadow lines
    Reckless, hand in the fire
    No one to love, while I'm walking on the wire
    Reckless, all alone
    My heart is broken on the side of the road
    I could fix it if I hеad home
    You ain't here to drivе me
    Reckless

    You told me I should be more free
    Is that how you tried to control me?
    Did you ever really want this?
    Were you afraid you were gonna miss?
    I quit checkin' all the road signs
    You don't give a damn what you left behind
    I guess I'll be, moving on
    'Til the thought of you is gone

    Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
    Gone like everything we've ever shared
    Oh-oh, oh-oh
    Like thinkin' you ever cared
    And now I'm

    Reckless, no headlights
    Driving too fast down shadow lines
    Reckless, hand in the fire
    No one to love while, I'm walking on the wire
    Reckless, all alone
    My heart is broken on the side of the road
    I could fix it if I head home
    You ain't here to drive me
    Reckless

    Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
    You had me thinkin' I was okay
    Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
    Then you turned around and made me

    Reckless, no headlights
    Driving too fast down shadow lines
    Reckless, hand in the fire
    No one to love while I'm walking on the wire
    Reckless, all alone
    My heart is broken on the side of the road
    I could fix it if I head home
    You ain't here to drive me
    Reckless

    You ain't here to drive me
    Reckless

  • written by Morgan Wade, Sadler Vaden

    Didn't know the difference between
    What I needed and what I was wanting
    And the way you looked at me
    Was a little haunting
    I can still see you with your whiskey and your ginger
    Back of the bar, drunk in early September
    But I'm missing you now
    I'm still stuck here in this southern town

    So tell me
    Tell me, how's that northern air
    And do you think of me when you're all alone?
    Won't you bring yourself on home?

    I sang you songs, I wrote about you, didn't even know it
    Or maybe you did and you were too afraid to show it
    Tonight I wonder if you're by yourself
    But I can't imagine you with anyone else

    So tell me
    Tell me, how's that northern air
    And do you think of me when you're all alone?
    I could drive all night to be there
    'Cause I don't think that I could stand
    One more night on my own
    Won't you bring yourself on home?

    There's a red wine stain on my white dress
    That I bought to impress you
    That night that I confessed my truth
    Didn't know it would upset you
    I haven't seen you in so long
    But after all this time, these feelings, they're not gone

    So tell me
    Tell me, how's that northern air
    And do you think of me when you're all alone?
    I could drive all night to be there
    'Cause I don't think that I could stand
    One more night on my own
    Won't you bring yourself on home?
    Won't you bring yourself on home?
    Won't you bring yourself on home?
    Won't you bring yourself on home?

    There's a red wine stain on my white dress
    That I bought to impress you

  • written by Morgan Wade

    I'd write you a love song
    But I don't know how that feels
    Tonight I am numb
    From a cocktail of pills
    I hallucinate
    Think I'm touchin' your skin
    I'd much rather die
    Than think of the bed that you're in

    And the streetlights, they might as well, burn and hold out
    Ain't nothing bright as you, ever step foot in this godforsaken town
    You lied and you left, and I'm wonderin' what the hell I should do?
    I'd seen it all, or so I thought, until I met you

    We didn't get our books
    In bed every night
    We're dancing in the kitchen
    Drunk off of some shitty wine
    I didn't get that ring
    There on my hand
    I didn't get your name
    In ink all over my skin

    And the streetlights, they might as well, burn and hold out
    Ain't nothing bright as you, evеr step foot in this godforsaken town
    You lied and you lеft, and I'm wonderin' what the hell I should do?
    I'd seen it all, or so I thought, until I met you

    Now I ain't, tryna ask you to save me
    Even I, don't like, who I've been lately
    And I'm well, aware, that I might not ever find loving
    But like Hemingway and Hadley, it's not the end of our story

    Sit here tonight
    Alone with my thoughts
    Alone with my sins
    And the things that I've bought
    I told you I loved you
    The night that we met
    I felt it back then
    And it ain't left me yet

    And the streetlights, they might as well, burn and hold out
    Ain't nothing bright as you, ever step foot in this godforsaken town
    You lied and you left, and I'm wonderin' what the hell I should do?
    I'd seen it all, or so I thought, until I met you

    I'd seen it all, or so I thought, until I lost you

  • written by Morgan Wade

    Somewhere between forgiveness and regret
    I'm not the girl I was back when you and I first met
    I can't say I'm any better
    But at least I'm tryin' to get it together

    Carry me home
    I've gone too far since I started to roam
    Carry me home
    I don't want to spend another Virginia night alone

    I hate sleepin' alone
    I chose the occupation, gonna always find me gone
    It's gettin' a little too hard to see
    Between the one I was and the one I wanna be

    Carry me home
    I've gone too far since I started to roam
    Carry me home
    I don't want to spend another Virginia night alone

    I hate looking like a fool
    I can find the right thing in the wrong thing to do
    Though it was with a slight hesitation
    Put the last drink down on a table in Penn Station

    Carry me home
    I've gone too far since I started to roam
    Carry me home
    I don't want to spend another Virginia night alone
    I don't want to spend another Virginia night alone
    I don't want to spend another Virginia night alone
    I don't want to spend another Virginia night alone
    I don't want to spend another Virginia night alone
    I don't want to spend another Virginia night alone

  • written by Morgan Wade, Sadler Vaden, Jaren Johnston

    We're sinners and we're saints
    Fresh coat of crazy red paint
    On this town, on our hands
    Ups and downs, get out while we can

    (Ooh-ooh) Like June and Johnny
    (Ooh-ooh) Like Clyde and Bonnie
    (Ooh-ooh)
    We run like rebels through the dust of the devil
    (Ooh-ooh)
    But it's you and me, baby, when the dirt all settles

    We're wine and we're whiskey
    Carolina, Mississippi
    Muddy water baptized
    Always come out clean on the other side

    (Ooh-ooh) Like June and Johnny
    (Ooh-ooh) Likе Clyde and Bonnie
    (Ooh-ooh)
    We run likе rebels through the dust of the devil
    (Ooh-ooh)
    It's you and me, baby, when the dirt all settles

    (Ooh-ooh)
    (Ooh-ooh)
    (Ooh-ooh)
    (Ooh-ooh)

    We're here then we're gone
    End of the road, two tombstones
    One last song from the band
    Six feet down and still holding hands

    (Ooh-ooh) Like June and Johnny
    (Ooh-ooh) Like Clyde and Bonnie
    (Ooh-ooh)
    We run like rebels through the dust of the devil
    (Ooh-ooh)
    It's you and me, baby, when the dirt all settles
    (Ooh-ooh)
    It's you and me, baby, when the dirt all settles
    (Ooh-ooh)
    It's you and me, baby, when the dirt all settles

    (Ooh-ooh)
    (Ooh-ooh)

  • written by Morgan Wade

    Bloodshot eyes on a balcony
    A bottle of whiskey and his hands all over me
    I was looking for the fire escape
    You showed up without a second to waste
    What if we run, what if we get away
    There ain't a single reason for us to stay

    Can we fly somewhere foreign?
    Get me high, mess me up until the morning
    'Cause all I see in every street
    Is where he made me numb
    There's gotta be somewhere
    Somewhere we can run, we can run

    So many places that I ain't been
    All I know is I was living my life for him
    We could fly, we could leave this town
    Bury these memories that been holding us down

    Can we fly somewhere foreign?
    Get me high, mess me up until the morning
    'Cause all I see in every street
    Is where he made me numb
    There's gotta be somewhere
    Somewhere we can run, we can run

    You and me staring at a southern sky
    Dreaming of any place we could be tonight

    Can we fly somewhere foreign?
    Get me high, mess me up until the morning
    'Cause all I see in every street
    Is where he made me numb
    There's gotta be somewhere
    Somewhere we can run, we can run

    Somewhere we can run, we can run

  • written by Morgan Wade

    By summer's end, I predict that I'll
    Have finally lost my mind
    The doctor said that these new pills
    Well, they might help me this time
    And I hope that's the case 'cause I feel I am wastin'
    The one life that I have
    The chances, they come, and the chances, they go
    But the time, well, you can't get that back

    And Johnnie called me late last night
    And I told Mr. Walker just go home

    Why do the demons in my mind
    Never wanna leave me alone?
    It's the pistol and the bottle
    It's the drugs and it's the throttle
    They tell me they'll make me feel alive
    But I know good and well that ain't gonna help
    I'm just praying, praying I make it through the night

    Well, I'd love to get to sleep, but I can't get too deep
    Though I'm doing the best that I can
    My mind wants to talk about everything I'm not
    Even worse, everything I am
    I tell my friends and they tell me that
    Time will only do me well
    But I won't shut my mouth, is it a rule down in the south
    That you can't talk about your mental health?

    And Johnnie called me late last night
    Well, I told Mr. Walker just go home

    Why do the demons in my mind
    Never wanna leave me alone?
    It's the pistol and the bottle
    It's the drugs and it's the throttle
    They tell me they'll make me feel alive
    But I know good and well that ain't gonna help
    I'm just praying, praying I make it through the night

    Well, Johnnie called me late last night
    And I told Mr. Walker just go home

    Why do the demons in my mind
    Never wanna leave me alone?
    It's the pistol and the bottle
    It's the drugs and it's the throttle
    They tell me they'll make me feel alive
    But I know good and well that ain't gonna help
    I'm just praying, praying I make it through the night

    I'm praying I make it through the night

  • written by Morgan Wade, Sadler Vaden

    The scariest thing I ever heard
    Was a three-year-old mouth the words
    "I want to be like you, someday"
    It got me to thinking that maybe I should change my ways

    I'm watching every line
    Because they love to memorize
    Every word, I say
    Maybe I should change the songs I sing

    Oh, the innocence of a child
    Never afraid to let their thoughts run wild
    I wish I could be that kind
    I wish I could see the world through your eyes

    Oh, that child-like faith
    The kind that no one should take away
    I think I had, it once bеfore
    Got me to thinking that maybe I should pray a littlе more

    Oh, the innocence of a child
    Never afraid to let their thoughts run wild
    I wish I could be that kind
    I wish I could see the world through your eyes
    I wish I could see the world through your eyes

    It's a phone call when I'm alone
    Asking me when I'll come back home
    When they're gonna see me again
    Got me to thinking I should spend more time with them

    Oh, the innocence of a child
    Never ashamed to let their thoughts run wild
    I wish I could be that kind
    I wish I could see the world through your eyes
    I wish I could see the world through your eyes

    The scariest thing I ever heard
    Was a three-year-old mouth the words
    "I want to be like you, someday"
    It got me to thinking that maybe I should change my ways

  • written by Mark James

    We're caught in a trap, I can't walk out
    Because I love you too much, baby
    Why can't you see, what you're doing to me?
    When you don't believe a word I'm saying

    We can't go on together
    With suspicious minds (With suspicious minds)
    And we can't build our dreams on
    Suspicious minds

    So if an old friend I know, stops by to say, "Hello"
    Would I still see suspicion in your eyes?
    Here we go again (Here we go again)
    You're asking where I've been (You're asking where I've been)
    You can see these tears are real I'm crying

    We can't go on together
    With suspicious minds (With suspicious minds)
    And wе can't build our dreams on
    Suspicious minds

    Oh, let our love survivе
    I'll wipe the tears from your eyes
    Let's not let a good thing die
    You know I would never lie to you

    We can't go on together
    With suspicious minds (With suspicious minds)
    And we can't build our dreams on
    Suspicious minds

    We're caught in a trap, I can't walk out
    Because I love you too much, baby

    We can't go on together
    With suspicious minds (With suspicious minds)
    And we can't build our dreams on
    Suspicious minds