Tracy Lee Lawrence (born January 27, 1968) is an American country music artist. He started at a country music restaurant called "Live At Libby's" where owner Libby Knight would help local talent find their way into country music. Lawrence signed to Atlantic Records in 1991, Lawrence debuted that year with the album Sticks and Stones, which produced his first chart single and first Number One hit in its title track. Five more studio albums, as well as a live album and a compilation album, followed throughout the 1990s and into 2000 on Atlantic before the label's country division was closed in 2001. Afterward, he recorded for Warner Bros. Records, DreamWorks Records, Mercury Records Nashville and his own label, Rocky Comfort Records.
Lawrence has released nine studio albums, three compilations, a live album, and a Christmas album. His studio albums have accounted for more than forty singles on the Billboard country music charts. Of these, eight have reached number one: "Sticks and Stones" (1991), "Alibis", "Can't Break It to My Heart", "My Second Home" (all 1993), "If the Good Die Young" (1994), "Texas Tornado" (1995), "Time Marches On" (1996) and "Find Out Who Your Friends Are" (2007).
Tracy Lawrence is the seventh studio album by country music artist Tracy Lawrence, released in 2001, his only album for the Warner Bros. Records label. Only two singles were released from this album: "Life Don't Have to Be So Hard" and "What a Memory", the latter of which failed to make Top 40 on the country charts. "That Was Us" was later recorded by Randy Travis on his 2004 album Passing Through.
Barely old enough to call it love
showin off skippin rocks across the water
stones
i handed one to you you put it in your pocket
said you love it said you'd keep it forever
stones
(CHORUS)
one by one they mark our passage
along this winding road we're on
with each turn we take
from the cradle to the grave
our lives are paved with stones
tiny velvet box one perfect little rock
a little thing just a ring but it says marry me
stones
we'll build ourselves a home where loves a cornerstone
we'll have children they'll have children till they roll of on their own
like stones
(CHORUS)
Burning stones, stepping stones skipping rocks
and dodgeing lots of sticks and stones
and ive been on both sides of the road in stones
(CHORUS)
the years are like the wind
they're here and gone again
they'll blow away our ever trace
all except our names engraved in stones