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Got a date a week from Friday with a preacher's son
Everybody says he's crazy; I'll have to see
I finally moved to Jackson when the summer came
I won't have to pay that boy to rake my leaves
I'm probably going on and on
It seems I'm doing more of that these days
I probably wouldn't be this way
I probably wouldn't hurt so bad
I never pictured every minute without you in it
Oh, you left so fast
Sometimes I see you standing there
Sometimes it's like I'm losing touch
Sometimes I feel that I'm so lucky to have had the chance to love this much
God gave me a moment's grace
'Cause if I never see your face
I probably wouldn't be this way
Mama says that I just shouldn't speak to you
Susan says that I should just move on
You ought to see the way these people look at me
When they see me 'round here talking to this stone
Everybody thinks I've lost my mind
But I just take it day by day
I probably wouldn't be this way
I probably wouldn't hurt so bad
I never pictured every minute without you in it
Oh, you left so fast
Sometimes I see you standing there
Sometimes I feel an angel's touch
Sometimes I feel that I'm so lucky to have had the chance to love this much
God gave me a moment's grace
'Cause if I never see your face
I probably wouldn't be this way
I probably wouldn't be this way
Got a date a week from Friday with a preacher's son
Everybody says I'm crazy
Guess I'll have to see
Everybody says he's crazy; I'll have to see
I finally moved to Jackson when the summer came
I won't have to pay that boy to rake my leaves
I'm probably going on and on
It seems I'm doing more of that these days
I probably wouldn't be this way
I probably wouldn't hurt so bad
I never pictured every minute without you in it
Oh, you left so fast
Sometimes I see you standing there
Sometimes it's like I'm losing touch
Sometimes I feel that I'm so lucky to have had the chance to love this much
God gave me a moment's grace
'Cause if I never see your face
I probably wouldn't be this way
Mama says that I just shouldn't speak to you
Susan says that I should just move on
You ought to see the way these people look at me
When they see me 'round here talking to this stone
Everybody thinks I've lost my mind
But I just take it day by day
I probably wouldn't be this way
I probably wouldn't hurt so bad
I never pictured every minute without you in it
Oh, you left so fast
Sometimes I see you standing there
Sometimes I feel an angel's touch
Sometimes I feel that I'm so lucky to have had the chance to love this much
God gave me a moment's grace
'Cause if I never see your face
I probably wouldn't be this way
I probably wouldn't be this way
Got a date a week from Friday with a preacher's son
Everybody says I'm crazy
Guess I'll have to see
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You see Leann with a wedding right on her finger, and they show the dress and the pictures in the video, so it's pretty obvious to me that she's married...or maybe engaged? I always go with married just because of the pictures on the wall. And this marriage wasn't a long one, because she's still got the dress out, and she says, "You left so fast".
I don't believe this song is about a break up. Personally, I think the song is about her husband/fiance dying, because she says that she's talking to a stone--a tomb stone.
What I find tragic about this song is that she's still holding on to her love for him after what seems like a pretty long time. She says that her mom and her friend keep telling her she should move on with her life; she moved to a different city even. But she's still got the ring, the dress, the pictures. There's even a shot where Leann tries to kill herself in the bathtub. Or at least, that's how I took it, since she just went in and stuck herself under water...
I'm pretty sure everyone can agree that no matter what you hear in the song, Leann's character has lost her mind. Talking to a tomb stone out loud is one thing--hell, I do that when I visit my family's graves. But when you're holdin on this long, even saying that you're disconnecting from reality (in the chorus) that's when ou've crossed a little bit of a line. What's truly haunting is that, in the chorus, she says that she was lucky to have know him, almost like she's gong for closure, and then says that she can't go on without him. In the start and finish of the song, she talks about going on this date with a new guy, but you can tell she really doesn't want to--it's almost like a formality or something.
Still, this is one of my favorite songs of all time. Leann Rimes sings it perfectly, and she was amazing in that music video.
Everybody says he's crazy; I'll have to see]]
She's got a date with this guy, and people are saying he must be crazy for dating her. She says she'll just have to see if he is.
[[I finally moved to Jackson when the summer came
I won't have to pay that boy to rake my leaves]]
Self-explanatory
[[I'm probably going on and on
It seems I'm doing more of that these days]]
Often when people grieve, when they start to talk about what they are mourning over, the words just seem to spill out and they can't seem to control letting everything spill.
[[I probably wouldn't be this way]]
I wouldn't be this way (mourning, grieving) if we had never met.
[[I probably wouldn't hurt so bad]]
Same, I wouldn't be in so much pain if we'd never been together.
[[I never pictured every minute without you in it
Oh, you left so fast]]
She figured they'd grow old together, but he was gone in the blink of an eye.
[[Sometimes I see you standing there]]
Sometimes she can see him there, like a ghost, or her mind playing tricks on her.
[[Sometimes it's like I'm losing touch]]
Sometimes it's as if she's losing touch with reality and can't quite decipher what is real and what is her mind, what is truth and what is there because she wants it to be.
[[Sometimes I feel that I'm so lucky to have had the chance to love this much]]
She can't quite let herself be upset over having been with him. She's grateful to have been giving the chance to love someone as fiercely as she loved him, and even though she lost him, it was worth the pain.
[[God, give me a moment's grace
'Cause if I'd never seen your face
I probably wouldn't be this way]]
She's praying that God gives her a moment of peace, because she was hooked on the man she loves from the moment she set eyes on his face, and now he's gone. Even if they'd never been together, just having seen his face and then now she'll never see it in person again... she's grieving for her lost love.
[[Mama says that I just shouldn't speak to you]]
Her mom thinks it would be easier to move on if she didn't continue to talk to "him" as if he were still alive, because that will only push her deeper into this unreal world she's created where he's still with her.
[[Susan says that I should just move on]]
Susan thinks that she needs to quite dwelling on the past and forgetting to live.
[[You ought to see the way these people look at me
When they see me 'round here talking to this stone]]
People keep looking at her with that mixture of sorrow, pity, and sadness for her. They see her just sitting there talking to a headstone and they pity her loss and that she can't seem to move on. Perhaps it's because she's there so often.
[[Everybody thinks I've lost my mind
But I just take it day by day]]
People are sure that she's lost herself in her sadness, but she thinks to herself that she's just taking her grief one day at a time, letting herself have time to heal before she jumps back into life.
I probably wouldn't be this way
I probably wouldn't hurt so bad
I never pictured every minute without you in it
Oh, you left so fast
Sometimes I see you standing there
[[Sometimes I feel an angel's touch]]
Sometimes she can almost feel this softness, such as a breeze-like touch on her shoulder, and she believes it to be an angel, as if it's watching over her.
Sometimes I feel that I'm so lucky to have had the chance to love this much
God gave me a moment's grace
'Cause if I never see your face
I probably wouldn't be this way
I probably wouldn't be this way
[[Got a Date a week from Friday with a preacher's son
Everybody says I'm crazy
Guess I'll have to see]]
She's going on this date, etc. Everyone is convinced that the loss of her husband has made her go crazy, and she's saying something like, "I guess I'll have to see if they are right about me. Only time will tell if I truly have lost my mind."
But I just take it day by day"
that passage is just so damn heartbreaking - the lyrics, the melody, and the way she sings them. great song, but that part especially just kills me.
Susan says that I should just move on
You ought to see the way these people look at me
When they see me 'round here talking to this stone" that it is about a death. What stone would she be talking to if it wasn't? I also get from this song that she is just kinda holding it all in. She is tryign to go pon a date already and people are sayingthat she is crazy for doing this. She is just trying to move on and take everythign the way that it goes!