Chris Gaines (born August 10, 1967 ) was a fictional Australian rock star persona created as an alter ego for Garth Brooks to explore rock and roll styles far removed from his success as a country singer.
Initially, Brooks planned to feature the Gaines persona in The Lamb, a motion picture which never materialized. In 1999, Brooks released one album as Gaines; the album produced two charting Billboard singles, including the Top 5 pop hit "Lost in You."
In 1999, Brooks and his production company Red Strokes Entertainment, with Paramount Pictures, began to develop a movie in which Brooks would star. The Lamb was to have revolved around Chris Gaines, a fictional rock singer and his emotionally conflicted life as a musician in the public eye. To create buzz for the project, Brooks took on the identity of Gaines in the October 1999 album Garth Brooks in ... The Life of Chris Gaines, which was intended as a 'pre-soundtrack' to the film. Brooks also subsequently appeared as Gaines in a television "mockumentary" for the VH1 series Behind The Music and as the musical guest on an episode of Saturday Night Live, which he hosted as himself.
Christopher Randall Gaines (born February 3, 1965) is a former American football linebacker who played one season with the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Phoenix Cardinals in the fifth round of the 1988 NFL Draft. He played college football at Vanderbilt University and attended DuPont High School in Hermitage, Tennessee. Gaines was also a member of the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. He was also an assistant coach for the Argonauts and Vanderbilt Commodores after retiring from football due to osteoporosis.
(Tommy Simms/Tony Arata)
It's only natural with time
Details can somehow slip your mind
Something so sweet, though incomplete
You fill the spaces in-between
It never will be that way again
Maybe it wasn't way back when
But to my heart and soul
This is the way the story has to be told
That's the way (that's the way) I remember it
I remember it that way
From the day I was living there
I remember it that way
Some of our stories fade as we grow older
Some get sweeter every time they're told
That's the way (that's the way) I remember you that way
Guess now if the truth were known
Among diamonds they were stones
To say would be fair, girl, nothing compares
To when I called you all my own
So darling don't ever you think twice
Those were the best days of my life
When I held you there
And I'll tell this story this way, time and again
That's the way (that's the way) I remember it
I remember it that way
From the day I was living there