Hard Edges - Chris Knight

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Hard Edges Lyrics

Lisa used to love to dance
Ever since she was ten years old
Her bare feet raising dust on a yard
Where the grass wouldn't grow

Slowly spinning round and round
To the music playing in her head
Late at night it could almost drown out
The whiskey on her old man's breath

The wrecking yards and dingy bars
And abandoned factories
But down among the jagged souls
A ballerina sways unseen

Hard edges hide a tender heart
Silent as a midnight prayer
Hard edges hide the sweetest part
Till you'd never know it's there

Lisa's in a club downtown
Where the neon burns till dawn
She calls herself Tina now
But she dances to the same old songs

Slowly spinning round and round
In the smoke and the smell of rye
She takes off all her clothes
So they don't see down in her eyes

The scarlet rouge and blue tattoos
Are only painted on
But underneath the dark drumbeat
A ballerina dances on

Hard edges hide a tender heart
Silent as a midnight prayer
Hard edges hide the sweetest part
Till you never know it's there

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Chris Knight (born on June 24, 1960, in Slaughters, Kentucky) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Having written songs for Confederate Railroad, John Anderson, and Randy Travis among others, Knight[ is perhaps best-known for writing the hit Montgomery Gentry song "She Couldn't Change Me". Knight[ has been compared to Steve Earle and John Prine throughout his career as a musician. Due to his particular fame in Texas, Knight[ been named an "Honorary Texan" by Texas Governor Rick Perry.

Knight started on his musical journey at just three years old when he requested a plastic guitar for Christmas. When he turned 15, he became more serious and began teaching himself John Prine songs on his older brother's guitar. He has a degree in agriculture from Western Kentucky University. He worked for close to ten years as a mine reclamation inspector and as a miner's consultant. In 1986, after earning his degree, he heard Steve Earle on the radio and decided to try his hand at writing songs. After six years of working on his songs he came to Nashville and won a spot on a songwriters' night at the Bluebird Cafe. He snatched the interest of Frank Liddell, who signed him to a publishing deal with Bluewater Music. He then went back home and kept writing, and when Decca Records hired Liddell for an A&R position, Knight got a record deal and Decca released his self-titled debut in 1998. Knight still lived in a trailer house on 90 acres in Slaughters when the album was released. He has since become a popular name in the Americana music genre.

His albums include:
Chris Knight (1998)
A Pretty Good Guy (2001)
The Jealous Kind (2003)
Enough Rope (2006)
The Trailer Tapes (2007)
Heart of Stone (2008)
Trailer II (2009)
Little Victories (2012) Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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