Lyrics

OUNCE OF COURAGE
Written By : Jerry Blackburn / Ron Stevens



She takes the phone to another room, and keeps her voice down low
Goes back to work late at night but them ain?t no working clothes
he don?t dare ask her for fear of what she?ll say
There ain?t no doubt she?s stepping out, that?s hard for a man to take?

If he had an ounce of courage, If he cared a little less
He?d put her out of his misery, get himself out of this mess
He keeps reaching for the bottle, a shot of backbone in a glass
looking for that ounce of courage, to put her in the past?

She left the house again tonight without even a goodbye
He never followed her before but something told him he should this time
Watched ?em pull into a motel, tears running down his cheek
(From a) brown bag swigging shots of Jack, sits cursing room twenty three?

If he had an ounce of courage, If he cared a little less
He?d put her out of his misery, get himself out of this mess
He keeps reaching for the bottle, a shot of backbone in a glass
looking for that ounce of courage, to put her in the past?

From his seat pulls out a thirty eight, as something snaps inside
When he kicked that room door open, love ain?t all that died?

When he found that ounce of courage, he could have cared less
He put them out of his misery, got himself out of that mess
He threw down that empty bottle, a shot of backbone in a glass
that one last ounce of courage, help put her in the past?

That one last ounce of courage, help put them in the past?