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* Whether interpreted as a father's song to his daughter or as a husband's song to his wife, "If Tomorrow Never Comes" is still interpreted the same: That he still loves her, and he wants her to have his feelings known even if he were to die the next day.
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* "Where the Cross Don't Burn" off of ''Fun'' is a story of a relationship between a young white boy and an old black man. The song ends with the singer's eulogy to the old black man. What really twists the knife is that this is a duet with ''Music/CharleyPride'', who died a month after the album's release.

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* "Where the Cross Don't Burn" off of ''Fun'' is a story of a relationship between a young white boy and an old black man. The song ends with the singer's eulogy to the old black man. What really twists the knife is that this is a duet with ''Music/CharleyPride'', Music/CharleyPride, who died a month after the album's release.
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* "Where the Cross Don't Burn" off of ''Fun'' is a story of a relationship between a young white boy and an old black man. The song ends with the singer's eulogy to the old black man. What really twists the knife is that this is a duet with ''Music/CharleyPride'', who died a month after the album's release.
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* "The Beaches of Cheyenne" is about a woman who "''just went crazy, screaming out his name''" upon hearing that her husband was killed by a rodeo bull in Cheyenne, Wyoming [[PartingWordsRegret after they got into an argument about his rodeo career and she told him she didn't care if he ever came back from Cheyenne.]] The couple's dreams "''died right there beside him''" and the grieving woman's breakdown causes her to seemingly commit SuicideBySea (although she keeps reappearing to people in a MaybeMagicMaybeMundane way).
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** Garth performed the song live for both the memorial of Dale Earnhart, Sr. and the GrandFinale of ''The Tonight Show with Jay Leno''. It’s also been used as the [[NetworkFinale last song]] for several country radio stations before a format change.
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* "Stronger Than Me", which he wrote for his wife Music/TrishaYearwood and which talks about how, in all the ways that matter, she's stronger than him. The last lines are a killer:
-->''And I'd give her anything in life that's mine to give her''
-->'' 'Til the last breath that I breathe''
-->''And if I have a choice, I pray God takes me first''
-->'' 'Cause she's stronger''
-->''Than me....''
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* "Wolves", for anyone feeling ground down by life.
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* "We Shall Be Free" was written just after the L.A. riots.
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* "Mom" can really get to anyone who has a close relationship to their mother.
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* "Standing Outside the Fire" can make one cry tears of amazement that someone could write such a wonderful song. The video is just as much of one, chronicling a boy with Down Syndrome training to run in the Special Olympics.

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* "Standing Outside the Fire" can make one cry tears of amazement that someone could write such a wonderful song. The video is just as much of one, chronicling a boy with Down Syndrome training refusing to run compete in the Special Olympics.tournament and going for the regular one instead.
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* The video for "The Dance" contained clips of JohnFKennedy, Martin Luther King, the crew of the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'', John Wayne, country singer Keith Whitley, and bullrider Lane Frost (who died during an event).

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* The video for "The Dance" contained clips of JohnFKennedy, UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy, Martin Luther King, the crew of the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'', John Wayne, country singer Keith Whitley, and bullrider Lane Frost (who died during an event).
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* "Standing Outside the Fire" can make one cry tears of amazement that someone could write such a wonderful song.

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* "Standing Outside the Fire" can make one cry tears of amazement that someone could write such a wonderful song. The video is just as much of one, chronicling a boy with Down Syndrome training to run in the Special Olympics.
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* The video for "The Dance" contained clips of JohnFKennedy, MartinLutherKing, the crew of the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'', John Wayne, country singer Keith Whitley, and bullrider Lane Frost (who died during an event).

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* The video for "The Dance" contained clips of JohnFKennedy, MartinLutherKing, Martin Luther King, the crew of the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'', John Wayne, country singer Keith Whitley, and bullrider Lane Frost (who died during an event).
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[[Music/GarthVoice This voice of nineties country music]] isn't burnin' the house down, [[TearJerker he's making you blubber]].

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[[Music/GarthVoice [[Music/GarthBrooks This voice of nineties country music]] isn't burnin' the house down, [[TearJerker he's making you blubber]].
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[[Music/GarthVoice This voice of nineties country music]] isn't burnin' the house down, [[TearJerker he's making you blubber]].
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* "Burning Bridges", in which a man contemplates his string of broken relationships, and knows that despite wanting desperately to change, he probably won't manage to do so until it's far too late.
* "Standing Outside the Fire" can make one cry tears of amazement that someone could write such a wonderful song.
* "Good Ride Cowboy", despite (or maybe even because of) its upbeat tune, is still a tribute to his late friend Chris [=LeDoux=].
* "The Change" was written just after the Oklahoma City bombings.
* The video for "The Dance" contained clips of JohnFKennedy, MartinLutherKing, the crew of the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'', John Wayne, country singer Keith Whitley, and bullrider Lane Frost (who died during an event).
* Others include "When You Come Back To Me Again" and "More Than A Memory".
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