Maria Mckee

My heart is empty.
Your eyes are dull.
Once we were hungry,
Now we are full.

These stars that bind us,
Can't beat these chains.
If love is shelter,
I'm gonna walk in the rain.

You were my angel.
Now, you are real.
So like a stranger,
Colder than steel.
The morning after,
You know what you bring.
If love is a red dress,
Well, hang me in rags.

Oh well.
There goes the fairy tale.
Lord, ain't it a shame?
In all this comfort,
I can't take the strain.

If we played even,
I'd be your queen.
But someone was cheatin'.
And it wasn't me.
I played it on the table,
You held something back.
If love is Aces,
Give me the Jack.

There you go
Flashing fever from your eyes
Hey babe, come over here and shut down tight
I'm not denying
We're flying above it all
Hold my hand, don't let me fall
You've such amazing grace
I've never felt this way

Show me heaven
Cover me
Leave me breathless
Show me heaven please

Here I go
I'm shaking just like breeze
Hey babe I need your hand to steady me
I'm not denying
I'm frightened as much as you
Though I'm barely touching you
I've shivers down my spine
And it feels divine

Show me heaven
Cover me
Leave me breathless
Show me heaven please

If you know what it's like
To dream a dream
Baby hold me tight
And let this be your...heaven

Cover me
Leave me breathless
Show me heaven please

Well all right you gave it all up for a dream
Fate proved unkind
To lock the door and leave no key
You're unsure
Well baby I'm scared too
When the world crushes you

[Chorus]
Let me be you're shelter shelter
From the storm outside
Let me be your shelter shelter
From the endless tide

Disillusion has an edge so sharp
It tears at your soul
And leaves a stain upon your heart
I need you to wash mine clean
You've felt it too
And you need me

[Chorus]

Your struggle with darkness has left you blind
I'll light the fire in your eyes

[Chorus]

Your struggle with darkness has left you blind
I'll light the fire in your eyes

[Chorus]

Let me be your shelter shelter shelter shelter shelter

There you go
Flashing fever from your eyes
Hey babe, come over here and shut down tight
I'm not denying
We're flying above it all
Hold my hand, don't let me fall
You've such amazing grace
I've never felt this way

Show me heaven
Cover me
Leave me breathless
Show me heaven please

Here I go
I'm shaking just like breeze
Hey babe I need your hand to steady me
I'm not denying
I'm frightened as much as you
Though I'm barely touching you
I've shivers down my spine
And it feels divine

Show me heaven
Cover me
Leave me breathless
Show me heaven please

If you know what it's like
To dream a dream
Baby hold me tight
And let this be your...heaven

Cover me
Leave me breathless
Show me heaven please

Now you know me
You know how proud I am
And what I'm gonna tell you now
Won't be easy to say

Before I left your side
Ooh, I was so happy then
But I've been so lonely
Since I've been away
Oh, baby

I've tried and I know I can't make it alone
It's such a hard way to go
I just can't make it alone
There's something in my soul
That will always
Lead me back to you

What can I say now?
Sorry is just not good enough
I couldn't blame you if you hurt me now
The way I hurt you then

But who else can I turn to?
Oh, baby, I'm begging you
Won't you reach out for my dying soul?
And make me live again
Oh, baby, it's so hard

I've tried and I know I can't make it alone
It's such a hard way to go
I just can't make it alone
There's something in my soul
That will always
Lead me back to you

Baby, help me
I've tried and I know I can't make it alone
It's such a hard way to go
And I can't make it alone
There's something in my soul
That will always
Lead me back to you

Oh, help me
(Please help me)
You know I need you
(I need you)
I'm saying that I need you
I just can't make it by myself
(I just can't make it by myself)
I just can't make it all alone
(I just can't make it all alone)
I just can't make it by myself
(I just can't make it by myself)
Come on baby

I Forgive You

Oh my love I have tried many times to convince myself
You'll never change, maybe I could be happy with someone else
But here you are at my door, baby let's end this crazy war
I forgive you, I forgive you baby, I forgive you

It's alright, I'll take you back again
I'll take the blame, you mean that much to me baby
I forgive you

Who would believe I would stand in the gap of this love affair
I've got my pride but something broke inside when I saw you standin' there
You are the blood in my veins
Why do we cause each other pain
I forgive you, I forgive you baby, I forgive you

It's alright, I'll take you back again
I'll take the blame, I wouldn't lie to you
I forgive you

(Don't stand for abuse)
I gave him everything what do I have to lose?
I know he hurts me, I hurt him, sometimes I don't deserve him
But he loves me and I love him and this is how we are...

It's alright, I'll take you back again
I'll take the blame, you mean that much to me baby
I forgive you

I can't stop this habit anyway
I can't stop this habit anyway
I can't stop it
I need it to breathe
Oh baby

My girlhood among the outlaws
Was salty, bittersweet
The things I did, I could just kick myself now
Through nights of lousy dreams

As visions gather in my head
I find it hard to live with the things I did and said
But for you, my friend
I'd live it all again and love you in the end

Anything for you, baby, anything for you
If it took those years to get me here
I'd do it again for you

I took a leap of faith and I stumbled
I tried to live outside grace and I was humbled
But I'd like to bet if I live to fear regret
Then we never would've met

Hey, anything for you, baby, anything for you
If it took those years to get me here
I'd do it again for you

So here we are and I don't know what to call it
'Cause love, love is such a funny promise
Commitment is impossible, forever is a lie
But that still leaves you and I

Hey baby, anything for you
If it took those years to get me here
I'd do it again for you

Oh baby, baby, baby, anything for you
If it took those years to get me here
I'd do it again, do it again

Do it again, do it again
I'd do it again, do it again
Do it again

Twenty seventh wagon, full of cotton
Was parked outside my chicken shack door
I kept my crib covered up in satin
In case my baby came around for more

Now I feel, Daddy, somethin's not the same
Cause there's weeds and there's rust
And the roof won't hold the rain

I remember better days
Lace in every window and roses 'round the gate
Now they've chased away all my friends
And they've locked me out and hung a sign on the fence
And it says, "This property is condemned"

Take me down the Vieux Carre
Where a little girl can get a bed or a bite
If you should see me coughin' 'round the corner
Won't you mix a little sugar with my tonic tonight?

I can feel like I'm part of the parade
Cause I feel like there's bourbon
Slappin' around in my veins

I remember better days
Lace in every window and roses 'round the gate
Now they've chased away all my friends
And they've locked me out and hung a sign on the fence
And it says, "This property is condemned"

I got a new tiara, Daddy, take me to the Mardi Gras
Buy me cotton candy, dress me up in flowers
Let me be your baby doll, we can ditch that social worker
In and out the swinging doors on Tchoupitoulas Street
You may call me jail bait but I ain't too little to take the heat

I can feel phantoms blowin' through my brain
And I feel like I need someone to make 'em go away, oh

I remember better days
Lace in every window and roses 'round the gate
Now they've chased away all my friends
And they've locked me out and hung a sign on the fence
And it says, "This property is condemned"

At first I was scared when I opened up my head
And the motor that was runnin' was the mind of you
I was scared when I looked at my reflection and the shine I saw were the eyes of you
I was scared when you touched my lips
And the breath I took was a breath that shook me with a shock
Like a flame as eternal as a song and the song is you and I
I will let you breathe through me
I will let you be with me

Whenever I'm alone and you're lost out there
I can feel you breathe 'cause our lungs we share
Whenever I'm alone anytime anywhere
I can feel your heart beat 'cause our blood we share

I was scared when you came into my room
The walls became the sea, your voice was the moon
Oh when you rocked me in your arms
Like a song, a wave on the tide of you and I
I will let you breathe through me
I will let you be with me

My heart beats your blood
Your breath fills my lungs
Your heart beats my blood
My breath fills your lungs

I was scared when you came into my room
The walls became the sea, your voice was the moon
Oh when you rocked me in your arms
Be with me...

I will let you breathe through me
I will let you...
I will let you...
I will let you...

Turning around I see someone
That I thought I used to know
You wide eyed in the crowd
How does it feel to see the world
And not turn cold

I wanna hold you
And protect you from the change
Though I know it's gonna happen anyway

Take this veil, I'll dry your eyes
In a world like ours you're nobody's child

I'm dependin' on you to teach me
All the things I forgot I ever knew
Baby, you can lean on me
I may lean a little too
Whatever gets us through

And I feel a mountain movin' deep within
At the end of the revival we begin

Take this veil, it'll dry your eyes
In a world like ours, our nobody's child

And I feel a mountain movin' deep within
At the end of the revival we begin

Take this veil, dry these eyes
You see me prayin', but I'm nobody's child

I had angels, a gang of angels by my side
Livin' lucky, golden girl, with an easy ride

Little worry, loads of time, yeah
Wasn't it enough?
Wasn't it, wasn't it enough?

Tell me, why wasn't I more grateful?
Why wasn't I more grateful??
Why wasn't I
Why wasn't I
More grateful?
When life was sweet
When life was sweet

Some people want and want and want what they don't have
'Til it keeps 'em awake at night in their bed just twitchin'
Some people like to complain about ev'ry little thing
Some folks just never stop bitchin'
I had a good man, I took him for granted
And now I surely surely surely miss him
Wasn't it enough?
Wasn't it?
Wasn't it enough?

Tell me, why wasn't I more grateful?
Why wasn't I more grateful??
Why wasn't I
Why wasn't I
More grateful?
When life was sweet
When life was sweet

Why wasn't I, why wasn't I?
And it keeps me wonderin' what might have been
Keeps me wonderin' what might've been, yeah
To the Lord more grateful

I've been keeping busy since we've said goodbye
But all I do is think about you
The days are quick, the nights are long
I feel them tick, I watch them crawl
I'm petrified of running out of things to do

Though I've never really been in love
I know now what it means to miss someone

I have not been winning since we've said goodbye
Nothing fits and everything feels wrong
I guess it's useless to deny it, I'll admit that I've been crying
Guess I'm not so independent after all

Though I've never really been in love
I know now what it means to miss someone
To miss someone

Sometimes I dream we find each other in the night
And pass each other by
But part of me is running through
Every vein inside of you

I know where you're going, I know where you've been
I know everything about you
The walls inside my head will shake the very second that you break
I'd sell my soul to keep yours at my heel

Though I've never really been in love
I know now how it feels to miss someone
To miss someone
To miss someone

Turning around I see someone
That I thought I used to know
You wide eyed in the crowd
How does it feel to see the world
And not turn cold

I wanna hold you
And protect you from the change
Though I know it's gonna happen anyway

Take this veil, I'll dry your eyes
In a world like ours you're nobody's child

I'm dependin' on you to teach me
All the things I forgot I ever knew
Baby, you can lean on me
I may lean a little too
Whatever gets us through

And I feel a mountain movin' deep within
At the end of the revival we begin

Take this veil, it'll dry your eyes
In a world like ours, our nobody's child

And I feel a mountain movin' deep within
At the end of the revival we begin

Take this veil, dry these eyes
You see me prayin', but I'm nobody's child

It takes more love than a heart can hold to move the water to the shore
It takes more power than a heart can beat
It's more than we see baby, bigger than we know
But when you touch my hand I feel more than just a thrill
I feel the rush of the wind that turns the world
There's more love than a heart can hold
More than the body, more than the soul
Baby, baby there's more, more love than a heart can hold between us

When the day seems like night
Baby feel the rhythm of it movin' us along
And there's a place we have yet to touch
(Keep lookin' up) it's what we live for
But when you speak my name all the legends of love
Come true pounding with eternal drums
There's more love than a heart can hold
More than the body, more than the soul
Baby, baby there's more, more love than a heart can hold between us

Twenty seventh wagon, full of cotton
Was parked outside my chicken shack door
I kept my crib covered up in satin
In case my baby came around for more

Now I feel, Daddy, somethin's not the same
Cause there's weeds and there's rust
And the roof won't hold the rain

I remember better days
Lace in every window and roses 'round the gate
Now they've chased away all my friends
And they've locked me out and hung a sign on the fence
And it says, "This property is condemned"

Take me down the Vieux Carre
Where a little girl can get a bed or a bite
If you should see me coughin' 'round the corner
Won't you mix a little sugar with my tonic tonight?

I can feel like I'm part of the parade
Cause I feel like there's bourbon
Slappin' around in my veins

I remember better days
Lace in every window and roses 'round the gate
Now they've chased away all my friends
And they've locked me out and hung a sign on the fence
And it says, "This property is condemned"

I got a new tiara, Daddy, take me to the Mardi Gras
Buy me cotton candy, dress me up in flowers
Let me be your baby doll, we can ditch that social worker
In and out the swinging doors on Tchoupitoulas Street
You may call me jail bait but I ain't too little to take the heat

I can feel phantoms blowin' through my brain
And I feel like I need someone to make 'em go away, oh

I remember better days
Lace in every window and roses 'round the gate
Now they've chased away all my friends
And they've locked me out and hung a sign on the fence
And it says, "This property is condemned"

At first I was scared when I opened up my head
And the motor that was runnin' was the mind of you
I was scared when I looked at my reflection and the shine I saw were the eyes of you
I was scared when you touched my lips
And the breath I took was a breath that shook me with a shock
Like a flame as eternal as a song and the song is you and I
I will let you breathe through me
I will let you be with me

Whenever I'm alone and you're lost out there
I can feel you breathe 'cause our lungs we share
Whenever I'm alone anytime anywhere
I can feel your heart beat 'cause our blood we share

I was scared when you came into my room
The walls became the sea, your voice was the moon
Oh when you rocked me in your arms
Like a song, a wave on the tide of you and I
I will let you breathe through me
I will let you be with me

My heart beats your blood
Your breath fills my lungs
Your heart beats my blood
My breath fills your lungs

I was scared when you came into my room
The walls became the sea, your voice was the moon
Oh when you rocked me in your arms
Be with me...

I will let you breathe through me
I will let you...
I will let you...
I will let you...

Saturday night and I'm all alone
no ring on the doorbell, no ring on the phone
and nobody wants to know anyone lonely like me

Your boyfriend's good-looking, he's got it all there
looks like God made him with something to spare
you look good together scurrying off down the street

Has he got a friend
Has he got a friend for me

has he got a friend
has he got a friend for me

He's got the haunt of the sea in his eyes
but he wouldn't notice me passing him by
I could be in the gutter
or dangling down from a tree

If he knows someone who's graceful and wise
and won't mind a girl who is clumsy and shy
I wouldn't mind going with someone that I've never seen

Has he got a friend for me
has he got a friend
has he got a friend for me?

Well all right you gave it all up for a dream
Fate proved unkind
To lock the door and leave no key
You're unsure
Well baby I'm scared too
When the world crushes you

[Chorus]
Let me be you're shelter shelter
From the storm outside
Let me be your shelter shelter
From the endless tide

Disillusion has an edge so sharp
It tears at your soul
And leaves a stain upon your heart
I need you to wash mine clean
You've felt it too
And you need me

[Chorus]

Your struggle with darkness has left you blind
I'll light the fire in your eyes

[Chorus]

Your struggle with darkness has left you blind
I'll light the fire in your eyes

[Chorus]

Let me be your shelter shelter shelter shelter shelter

At first I was scared when I opened up my head
And the motor that was runnin' was the mind of you
I was scared when I looked at my reflection and the shine I saw were the eyes of you
I was scared when you touched my lips
And the breath I took was a breath that shook me with a shock
Like a flame as eternal as a song and the song is you and I
I will let you breathe through me
I will let you be with me

Whenever I'm alone and you're lost out there
I can feel you breathe 'cause our lungs we share
Whenever I'm alone anytime anywhere
I can feel your heart beat 'cause our blood we share

I was scared when you came into my room
The walls became the sea, your voice was the moon
Oh when you rocked me in your arms
Like a song, a wave on the tide of you and I
I will let you breathe through me
I will let you be with me

My heart beats your blood
Your breath fills my lungs
Your heart beats my blood
My breath fills your lungs

I was scared when you came into my room
The walls became the sea, your voice was the moon
Oh when you rocked me in your arms
Be with me...

I will let you breathe through me
I will let you...
I will let you...
I will let you...

Saturday night and I'm all alone
no ring on the doorbell, no ring on the phone
and nobody wants to know anyone lonely like me

Your boyfriend's good-looking, he's got it all there
looks like God made him with something to spare
you look good together scurrying off down the street

Has he got a friend
Has he got a friend for me

has he got a friend
has he got a friend for me

He's got the haunt of the sea in his eyes
but he wouldn't notice me passing him by
I could be in the gutter
or dangling down from a tree

If he knows someone who's graceful and wise
and won't mind a girl who is clumsy and shy
I wouldn't mind going with someone that I've never seen

Has he got a friend for me
has he got a friend
has he got a friend for me?