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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Stones In The Road (1994)
In this world there's a whole lot of trouble baby
In this world there's a whole lot of pain In this world there's a whole lot of trouble but A whole lot of ground to gain Why take when you could be giving Why watch as the world goes by It's a hard enough life to be living Why walk when you can fly In this world there's a whole lot of sorrow In this world there's a whole lot of shame In this world there's a whole lot of sorrow And a whole lot of ground to gain When you spend you whole life wishing Wanting and wondering why It's a long enough life to be living Why walk when you can fly And in this world there's a whole lot of golden In this world there's a whole lot of pain In this world you've a soul for a compass And a heart for a pair of wings There's a star on the far horizon Rising bright in an azure sky For the rest of the time that you're given Why walk when you can fly |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Stones In The Road (1994)
I grew up in a house like this
You knew the groan of every stair All the walls seemed to listen in All the years seemed to take up air And when you dreamed it was of the wind blowing cold and hard And in those dreams you thought you lived in a house of cards And I grew up in a town like this You knew the names of every street On the surface it looked so safe But it was perilous underneath That's the place where you shoved your doubts and hid your ugly scars / God forbid if word got out about your house of cards And now I feel the wind about to blow Baby I'm so scared We're repeating the past instead of letting it go And I don't want to go back there Now we're standing here face to face Afraid to move or else I want to prop up this fragile place But I can't do it all by myself Cause when we dream it's of the wind blowing cold and hard And when we wake up we still live in a house of cards When we dream it's of the wind blowing cold and hard And when we wake up we still live in a house of cards |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Stones In The Road (1994)
When we were young, we pledged allegiance every morning of our livesThe classroom rang with children's voices under teacher's watchful eyeWe learned about the world around us at our desks and at dinnertimeReminded of the starving children, we cleaned our plates with guilty mindsAnd the stones in the road shone like diamonds in the dustAnd then a voice called to us to make our way back home When I was ten, my father held me on his shoulders above the crowdTo see a train draped in mourning pass slowly through our townHis widow kneeled with all their children at the sacred burial groundAnd the TV glowed that long hot summer with all the cities burning down And the stones in the road flew out beneath our bicycle tiresWorlds removed from all those fires as we raced each other home And now we drink our coffee on the run, we climb that ladder rung by rungWe are the daughters and the sons, and here's the line that's missing The starving children have been replaced by souls out on the streetWe give a dollar when we pass, and hope our eyes don't meetWe pencil in, we cancel out, we crave the corner suiteWe kiss your ass, we make you hold, we doctor the receipt And the stones in the road fly out from beneath our wheelsAnother day, another deal, before we get back home And the stones in the road leave a mark from whence they cameA thousand points of light or shame, baby, I don't know
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Stones In The Road (1994)
She says it's been so long, she can't remember when
The mention of his name didn't make her feel again That everything is possible and every day a brand new start Yeah, love's something powerful when it finds a willing heart Sometimes it's a fire burning out of control Sometimes it's a candle burning long and low All these years she never let it go There's a keeper for every flame There is someone in his past that he hasn't gotten over yet Each day's like the last, he just misses what he can't forget It's just an empty space where something used to be Now he guards the gate, but he's lost the key So no one enters, but no one leaves There's a keeper for every flame Thought my heart had broken, but it was just a little bruised I thought love had spoken, I guess I was just confused Sometimes we were a fire burning out of control Sometimes we were nothing but a candle glow But it never died, baby, how I know There's a keeper for every flame |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Stones In The Road (1994)
I have a heart
that's proud you bet I have a mind that won't forget And I have arms that are strong and yet Tender when they wanna to be Well you can be the will that finds the way And you can be the one who saves the day But show me tender when it's time to say Exactly how it ought to be And I never would've known it darlin' If I hadn't known about you You said everyone can be a rock and roll like a river too Well something happens when you find someone Who makes you feel like you can do no wrong No you don't have to take the whole world on Just be tender when you want be And I never would have known it baby If I hadn't known about you You said everyone can be a rock and roll like a river too So let the waters carry us away Wave goodbye to the old parade Baby when we're unafraid To be tender when we want to be All the waters wash our cares away All that we can see are better days Don't ever let me hesitate To be tender when I want to be |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Stones In The Road (1994)
Don't mean to get a little forward with you Don't mean to get ahead of where we are Don't mean to act a little nervous around you I'm just a little nervous about my heart 'Cause it's been a while since I felt this feeling That everything that you do gives me It's been too long since somebody whispered Oooh shut up and kiss me Didn't expect to be in this position Didn't expect to have to rise above My reputation for cynicism I've been a jaded lady when it comes to love But oh baby just to feel this feeling That everything that you do gives me It's been too long since somebody whispered Oooh shut up and kiss me There's something about the silent type Attracting me to you All business baby, none of the hype That no talker can live up too, woo woo Come closer baby I can't hear you Just another whisper if you please Don't worry 'bout the details darlin' You've got the kind of mind I love to read Talk is cheap and baby time's expensive So why waste another minute more ? Life's too short to be so apprehensive Love's as much the symptom as the cure Oh baby when I feel this feeling It's like genuine voodoo hits me It's been too long since somebody whispered Oh baby I can feel this feeling That everything that you do gives me It's been too long since somebody whispered Oooh shut up and kiss me Shut up and kiss me |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Stones In The Road (1994)
You can have it, I don't want it,
and when you've got it, I'll be gone It won't matter what you're saying when the damage has all been done Can't seem to keep the faith, as if that's all I need to do I'd rather walk away than take what belongs to you You can have it, I don't want it, and when you've got it, I'll be gone It won't matter what you're saying when the damage has all been done Some words will cut you down like you were only in the way Why should I stand ths ground, it won't hurt as much to say You can have it, I don't want it , and when you've got it, I'll be gone It won't matter what you're saying when the damage has all been done Sometimes we're blinded by the very thing we need to see I finally realized that you need it more than you need me You can have it, I don't want it, and when you've got it, I'll be gone It won't matter what you're saying when the damage has all been done The damage has all been done |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Stones In The Road (1994)
The night is soft and silent, new moon at my door
There's nothing near as quiet as the light I'm looking for And last time that it appeared he was lying next to me Last time I felt this near to whispered ecstacy And those who need adventure, they can sail the seven seas And those who search for treasure, they must live on grander dreams We rose and fell just like the tides, he filled my heart and soul and I Buried all my dreams for someone else to find in my pirate days This world is kinder to the kind that won't look back They are the chosen few, among us now, unbowed somehow And one day he turned to me, and before I took one breath I knew I would only see his shadow in what light was left And those who need adventure, they can sail the seven seas And those who search for treasure, they must live on grander dreams And if I've seen his face since then, it's only been in dreams my friend Since I came to the end of my pirate days And if I've called his name since then, it's only been in dreams my friend So I came to the end of my pirate days |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Stones In The Road (1994)
I was standing on this
sidewalk in 1945 in Jacksonville, Illinois When asked what my name was there came no reply They said I was a deaf and sightless half-wit boy But Lewis was my name though I could not say it I was born and raised in New Orleans My spirit was wild so I let the river take it On a barge and a prayer upstream They searched for a mother and they searched for a father And they searched 'til they searched no more The doctors put to rest their scientific test And they named me John Doe No. 24 And they all shook their heads in pity For a world so silent and dark Well there's no doubt that life's a mystery But so too is the human heart And it was my heart's own perfume when the crape jasmine bloomed on St. Charles Avenue Though I couldn't hear the bells of the streetcars coming By toeing the track I knew And if I were an old man returning With my satchel and pork pie hat I'd hit every jazz joint on Bourbon And I'd hit every one on Basin after that The years kept passing as they passed me around From one state ward to another Like I was an orphaned shoe from the lost and found Always missing the other They gave me a harp last Christmas And all the nurses took a dance Lately I've been growing listless Been dreaming again of the past I'm wandering down to the banks of the Great Big Muddy Where the shotgun houses stand I am seven years old and I feel my daddy Reach out for my hand While I drew breath no one missed me So they won't on the day that I cease Put a sprig of crape jasmine with me To remind me of New Orleans I was standing on this sidewalk in 1945 in Jacksonville, Illinois |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Stones In The Road (1994)
I can tell by the way you're walking,
That you don't want company I'll let you alone and I'll let you walk on and in your own good time you'll be Back where the sun can find you, under the wise wishing tree And with all of them made we'll lie under the shade and call it a jubilee And I can tell by the way you're talking, that the past isn't letting you go There's only so long you can take it all on, then the wrongs gotta be on its own And when you're ready to leave it behind you, you'll look back and all that you'll see Is the wreckage and rust that you left in the dust on your way to the jubilee And I can tell by the way you're listening, that you're still expecting to hear Your name being called like a summons to all who have failed to account For their doubts and their fears, they can't add up to to much without you And so if it were up to me I'd take hold of your hand Saying come hear the band play your song at the jubilee And I can tell by the way you're searching, for something you can't even name That you haven't been able to come to the table, simply glad that you came When you feel like this try to imagine that we're all like frail boats on the sea Just scanning the night for that great guiding light announcing the jubilee And I can tell by the way you're standing with your eyes filling with tears That it's habit alone that keeps you turning for home, even though your home is right here Where the people who love you are gathered, under the wise wishing tree May we all be considered then straight on delivered down to the jubilee Because to people who love you are waiting, and they'll wait just as long as need be When we look back and say those were halcyon days We're talking about jubilee |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Stones In The Road (1994)
Everywhere I see the signs, pointing one direction
No more twists or crooked turns, leaving room for doubt Where I used to take the time for quiet and reflection Now I only hear the noise of what I am without I see them walking hand in hand, and my eyes just want to linger On those golden wedding bands, wrapped around their fingers By the time I turn away, I feel it once again I'm back in this familiar place, outside looking in Baby, all the tears between us couldn't fill the spaces And all the word we grasped at, they just fell away I kept waiting on forgiveness to fix the broken places But nothing even like it ever came my way And tonight I drove around, and the street came up before me I took a turn and then I found this old house coming toward me I heard the sound a heart must make when a memory's caving in Oh baby, what a hungry place, outside looking in It's the hardest kind of need that never knows a reason Are we such a lonely breed, or just born in a lonely season Baby, it's all in the eyes, it's where the reckoning begins It's where we linger like a sigh, it's where we long to be pulled in It's where we learn to say goodbye without saying anything Standing on the borderline, outside looking in |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Stones In The Road (1994)
Baby where's that place where time stands still
I remember like a lover can But I forget it like a leaver will It's no place you can get to by yourself You've got to love someone and they love you Time will stop for nothing else And memory plays tricks on us, the more we cling, The less we trust And the less we trust the more we hurt And as time goes on it just gets worse So baby where's that place where time stood still It is under glass inside a frame Was it over when you had your fill And here we are with nothing but But this emptiness inside of us Your smile a fitting, final gesture Wish I could have loved you better Baby where's that place where time stands still I remember like a lover can But I forget it like a leaver will It's the first time that you held my had It's the smell and the taste and the fear and the thrill It's everything I understand And all the things I never will |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Stones In The Road (1994)
If you ever need to hear a voice in the middle of the night
When it seems so black outside that you can't remember Light ever shone on you or the ones you love in this or another lifetime And the voice you need to hear is the true and the trusted kind, with a soft Familiar rhythm in these swirling, unsure times, when the waves are lapping in And you're not sure you can swim, well here's the lifeline If you ever need to feel a hand take up your own When you least expect but want it more than you've ever known Baby, here's that hand, and baby's here's my voice that's calling This is love, all that ever was and will be This is love If you ever need some proof that time can heal your wounds, just step Inside my heart and walk around these rooms; where the shadows used to be, You can feel as well as see how peace can hover Time's been here to fix what's broken with its power and the love that Smashed us both to bits spent its last few hours calling out your name, And I thought, this is the kind of pain from which we don't recover But I'm standing here now with my heart held out to you You would have thought a miracle was all that got us through Well baby, all I know, all I know is I'm still standing And this is love, all that ever was and will be This is love, standing up for you baby, standing up for me And I see you still and there's this catch in my throat; And I just swallow hard till it leaves me There's nothing in this world that can change what we know Still I know I am here if you ever need me And this is love If you ever think of me, let it be around twilight, when the world has Settled down, and the last round of sunlight is waning in the sky as you Sit and watch the night descending A car will pass out front with lovers at the wheel, a dog will bark out Back, and children's voices peal over and under the air, you've been there, Lost in the remembering If you ever wish for things that are only in the past Just remember that the wrong things aren't supposed to last Baby, it's over and done, the rest is gonna come when you let it And this is love, all that ever was and will be This is love, when you let it baby, if you let it now This is love, all that ever was and can be This is love |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - A Place In The World (1996)
When it's been that kind of day baby
When everything is not what it should be Everybody's had their say Let's just say today is history And keep keeping the faith Keeping the faith, everyday We're keeping the faith Keep keeping the faith, don't give it away When your head's not making sense baby When your heart is just a mystery When you're sitting on the fence Instead of knowing where you're supposed to be Well, just keep keeping the faith Keeping the faith, everyday Well be keeping the faith Keep keeping the faith, don't give it away All the style, all the money, all the power you can buy Won't do nothing if there's something missing way down deep inside It's the weary, its the lonesome It's the forest that we just can't see Don't forget now, there ain't no one Who isn't trying to see beyond the trees So, just keep keeping the faith Keeping the faith, everyday Well be keeping the faith Keep keeping the faith, don't give it away Keeping the faith Keeping the faith, everyday We'll be keeping the faith keeping the faith, don't give it away |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - A Place In The World (1996)
We were born during the boom times,
played house down in the bomb shelter Suffered through the wonder years, and silence at the dinner hour But once upon a summertime, out behind the old garage We were buzzing on midnight, luckys and rolling rock Thinking we were heroes in our own hometown Nothing less than heroes in that old hometown Some married on a day in june, some disappeared without a trace And some of us are still at large, still searching for a better place But once upon another time, it didn't matter what they said Didn't matter if we fell behind, we'd still come out ahead Cause we believed in heroes in that old hometown Hey, you could be a hero in your own hometown Now I'm long away and very far, from gazing at an evening sky From wishing on a shooting star, from thinking that a heart can't lie This world is gonna wear you thin, knot you up and spin you round This world will take its aim, call you every name, trying to bring you down Everything seems so clear when u're looking back from such a distance When the road not taken disappears into the path of least resistance But once upon a time oh so long ago Underneath this same old sky every brand new road Would know that we were heroes in our own hometown Nothing less than heroes in that old hometown We still loved a hero in our own hometown Baby you could be a hero in your own hometown |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - A Place In The World (1996)
I can see it now, walking by myself
And suddenly you're there walking with somebody else I can see it now, what's right up ahead A scene I've played a thousand times over in my head I can see it now, it isn't just a dream Can't shake myself awake, can't fall right back to sleep Face to face I come right up to the truth I can see it now, I'm still not over you I can hear it now,your voice sayin' my name It's too late for me to walk the other way I can hear it now, asking how I've been Oh and by the way have you met my friend I can hear it now, a breaking all apart A strange familiar sound that's coming from my heart Feelin' just as bad as the day that it was new I can see it now, I'm still not over you When you're out of sight, baby you're still on my mind you're much too hard to lose, you're too easy to find Like a bottle to a drunk, like trouble to a fool I've only ever seen, just what I've wanted to I can feel it now, as you walk away Somethin' left unsaid and the nothin' left to say I can feel it now like weather in my bones Before it even comes, before I even know I can feel it now, the empty and the ache That bitter little pill that I don't want to take Instead I'd swallow all the pride I ever knew To crawl back if you asked, all that I would do I can see it now |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - A Place In The World (1996)
I want to be your girlfriend
I want to be your new love I want to be the one that you can't get enough of I want to be your girlfriend nobody else's but yours I want to be the one who you'll do anything for Never thought I'd ever wind up in a daze like this Never thought I'd ever find myself wondering how you kiss I see you nearly everyday and everyday I lose my nerve That I built up the night before rehearsing every single word I want to be your girlfriend I want to be your new love I want to be the one that you can't get enough of You used to be just this guy I knew from that same old scene For all the time that I've known you just now I'm noticing That everything there is to feel feels worse than any teenage crush And all the times that I've been near you now I can't get near enough Oh, I want to be your girlfriend nobody else's but yours I want to be the one who you'll do anything for I just keep on hoping that you're gonna see If I could notice you then you could notice me Then I'd be more to you, oh I just wanna be I want to be your girlfriend I want to be your new love I want to be the one that you can't get enough of I'm gonna be your girlfriend nobody else's but yours I want to be the one who you'll do anything for |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - A Place In The World (1996)
You're like a cool breeze to a hot spell
You're like a long drink to a dry well Oh I know by now there's no use thinking That it's something in that water I've been drinking Cause I would not need even one more drop if you'd just let me into your heart you're like a blue sky to a grey day you're like a new try to an old way Oh I never needed much convincing 'bout that something in my life that's been missing But I think I know where to find that part if you'd just let me into your heart I got a past baby, now who doesn't I won't ask you to think that I wasn't Who I was back then, yes it's true But that was when I didn't know you You're like a sweet sight to these tired eyes You're like the first light after a long night Oh I never believed in the hands of fate But to be with you baby, I believe I'd wait Til the end of time for a chance to start If you'd just let me into your heart You're like a sweet smile to these tired eyes You're like the last mile on a long ride Oh I never believed in the arms of fate But to be in yours darling, I believe I'd wait Til the end of time for a chance to start If you'd just let me into your heart Til the end of time, baby I can start If you'd just let me into your heart |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - A Place In The World (1996)
What if we went to Italy A suitcase of books and one bag a piece for the summer I don't speak a word of Italian Except for Campari and soda for two, how much is a Lire Yes, a villa will do and a breeze, in Tuscany please What if we spent all of our days, improving our minds, learning new ways to be lazy It wouldn't be too much of a strain Relax after breakfast till lunch comes around Can't wait for dinner, oh, I need to lie down And refuel, out by the pool What if the ancients were lazy like us Too blissed out to paint, to sketch or to sculpt Just as relaxed as the tower of Pisa Not ever missing that old Mona Lisa What if we never got back on the plane As summer turned colder and then warmer again Losing all track of the passing of years Till it no longer mattered how long we'd been here What if we went to Italy Maybe next year, just you and me for the summer I still can't speak any Italian But words are replaced under Siennese skies By nothing so much as a nod, and a sigh, and a wish to be always like this |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - A Place In The World (1996)
I'm not made of stone, I'm not made of glass
I've been alone, every one has I've learned to forgive what I'm not I just try to live with what I've got Maybe I've got what you need If you need something that not only feels right Something that's based on a real life One thing that's worth every page of the deal Not some old line, or rose-colored dream Not some other time, you know what I mean When I tell you that this is all that it seems and that's real How far can I crawl out on this limb There's so far to fall and here comes the wind There's so much to lose, but love doesn't wait So I'll be a fool who found out too late But I've been a fool for far lesser things And I want something that not only feels right Something that's based on a real life One thing that's worth every page of the deal Not some old line, or rose-colored dream Not some other time, you know what I mean When I tell you that this is all that it seems, and that's real Not some old line or rose-colored dream Not some other time, you know what I mean When I tell you that I'm, I'm all that I seem, and that's real |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - A Place In The World (1996)
Today Joseph is sitting alone,
with occasional nods to the waitress She tops off his cup while she's snapping her gum, making her rounds on the lunch shift Counting out coins, he leaves them arranged, in neat lines and circles and arcs She just stares at the tip that spells out her name and ideas are like stars And yesterday pedaling down 4th Avenue, between the stalls and the bookshops The sepia tones of a lost afternoon cradled a curio storefront And inside the air was thick with the past, as the dust settled onto his heart And here for a moment is every place in the world and ideas are like stars They fall from the sky, they run round your head They litter your sleep as they beckon They'd teach you to fly without wires or thread They promise if only you'd let them For the language of longing never had words, so how did you speak from your heart Yet here is a box that swears it has heard that ideas are like stars Tonight Joseph stood out in the yard, as Debussy played from the kitchen Celestial companions `til mornings first lark, shone overhead and he listened And who was that shadow there by the gate, who was that there standing guard It was only loneliness, and loneliness waits, and ideas are like stars Ideas are like stars |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - A Place In The World (1996)
Been walking these streets, been deciding what's true
Been hands in my pockets, coat collar up, thinking `bout you I've been talking to myself, giving fate the third degree I've been eyes on the pavement admitting my part to strangers passing me And I know it isn't fair, but nothing's ever been Hey when you look at me baby, my god how I feel so good again I don't know where I went wrong, but it isn't right to lie Hey when you look at me baby, my hearts wide open, naked to the eye Now some lovers are apart, but they're never far away I can see her in your eyes, hear her in your voice and I have to turn away Oh what covet is to ache, is what aching is to me For the arms of a man who knows who I am and where I need to be And if I know what I know, then the lonely can't pretend When you look at me baby, my god how I feel so whole again Is there heaven after all, or just this empty space That no amount of time, nor comfort in it's hands can ever help me face Which is worse is yet to come, your rebuff or my resign Hey when you look at me baby, I'm helpless as a child, naked to the eye It's like a fever and a spell, unbroken by a sigh Oh when you look at me baby I'm going nowhere, just naked to the eye Yeah when you look at me baby, everythings there, naked to the eye Hey when you look at me baby, I haven't got a prayer, naked to the eye |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - A Place In The World (1996)
Some people need to know what to expect
Need to keep control, need to keep one step Ahead of every chance, as if chance decides Who it's gonna pass, who it will reward They don't understand, chances don't keep score They just find us when we're there to find And so this has to be, a sudden gift of fate You're nothing less to me than a sudden gift of fate It's not as if it comes down to your turn that someone somewhere feels you've earned You just learn to wait for sudden gifts of fate Some people have never been the lonely kind Never called a friend in the middle of the night Just to hear a voice say it's okay And now I hear you speak each and every word That I didn't think lonely people heard You took a long night and turned it into day And so this has to be, a sudden gift of fate You're nothing less to me than a sudden gift of fate Its not as if it comes down to your turn that someone somewhere feels you've earned You just learn to wait for sudden gifts of fate You can celebrate, gifts are never late You just learn to wait for sudden gifts of fate |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - A Place In The World (1996)
Every heart has got a story
About love holding out a lure Baby, when you've been that lonely You just want a cure Fool you once, you are forgiven Fool you twice, you're just a fool You fear the futures all been written By the past, and what didn't last All the better to dream of you The better to be this side of heaven Believing again when a dream comes true The better to dream of you Every story's got a chapter That chapter will be defined By what's before and what comes after This one is mine Everything that came before us Wore me out and weighed me down You raised me up like a gospel chorus Rock steady on solid ground The better to dream of you The better to be this side of heaven Believing again when some dreams come true The better to dream of you Like an old time tent revival I felt my heart come back alive No preacher baby, no bible, just this love to testify Oh, the better to dream of you The better to be this side of heaven Believing again some dreams come true The better to dream of you The better to dream of you Yeah, stranger things they might have happened Believing again that dreams come true The better to dream of you The better to dream of you The better to be this side of heaven Believing again some dreams come true The better to dream of you |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - A Place In The World (1996)
What I'm looking for, after all this time
Keeps me moving forward, trying to find it Since I learned to walk all I've done is run Ready, on my mark, doesn't everyone Need a place in the world Could be right before your very eyes Just beyond a door that's open wide Could be far away or in your own backyard There are those who say, you can look too hard For your place in the world Takes some of us a little longer A few false starts gonna make you stronger When I'm sure I've finally found it Gonna wrap these arms all around it Could be one more mile, or just one step back In a lovers smile, down a darkened path Friends will take our side, enemies will curse us But to be alive is to know your purpose It's your place in the world Your place in the world |
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from Steal This Movie (이 영화를 훔쳐라) by Mader [ost] (2000) | |||||
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from We Were Soldiers (위 워 솔져스) by Nick Glennie-Smith [ost] (2002) | |||||
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from It Could Happen To You (당신에게 일어날 수 있는 일) by Carter Burwell [ost] (1993)
Well I woke up this morning stumbled out of my rack
I opened up the paper to the page in the back It only took a minute for my finger to find My daily dose of destiny, under my sign My eyes just about popped out of my head It said "the stars are stacked against you girl, get back in bed" I feel lucky, I feel lucky, yeah No Professor Doom gonna stand in my way Mmmmm, I feel lucky today Well I strolled down to the corner, gave my numbers to the clerk The pot's eleven million so I called in sick to work I bought a pack of Camels, a burrito and a Barq's Crossed against the light, made a beeline for the park The sky began to thunder, wind began to moan I heard a voice above me saying, "girl, you better get back home" But I feel lucky, oh oh oh, I feel lucky, yeah No tropical depression gonna steal my sun away Mmmmm, I feel lucky today Now eleven million later, I was sitting at the bar I'd bought the house a double, and the waitress a new car Dwight Yoakam's in the corner, trying to catch my eye Lyle Lovett's right beside me with his hand upon my thigh The moral of this story, it's simple but it's true Hey the stars might lie, but the numbers never do I feel lucky, oh oh oh, I feel lucky, yeah Hey Dwight, hey Lyle, boys, you don't have to fight Hot dog, I'm feeling lucky tonight I feel lucky, brrrrr, I feel lucky, yeah Think I'll flip a coin, I'm a winner either way Mmmmmm, I feel lucky today |
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from John Lennon - Working Class Hero [tribute] (1995)
I told you before, stay away from my door
Don't give me that brother, brother, brother, brother The freaks on the phone, won't leave me alone So don't give me that brother, brother, brother, brother No! I, I found out! I, I found out! Now that I showed you what I been through Don't take nobody's word what you can do There ain't no Jesus gonna come from the sky Now that I found out I know I can cry I, I found out! I, I found out! Some of you sitting there with your cock in your hand Don't get you nowhere don't make you a man I heard something 'bout my Ma and my Pa They didn't want me so they made me a star I, I found out! I, I found out! Old Hare Krishna got nothing on you Just keep you crazy with nothing to do Keep you occupied with pie in the sky There ain't no guru who can see through your eyes I, I found out! I, I found out! I've seen through junkies, I've been through it all I seen religion from Jesus to Paul Don't let them fool you with dope and cocaine No one can harm you, feel your own pain I, I found out! I, I found this out! I, I found out! |
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from John Lennon - Working Class Hero [tribute] (1995)
Well
I don't wanna be a soldier mama I don't wanna die Well I don't wanna be a sailor mama I don't wanna fly Well I don't wanna be a faliure mama I don't wanna cry Well I don't wanna be a soldier mama I don't wanna die Oh no Oh no Oh no Oh no Oh no Well I don't wanna be a rich man mama I don't wanna cry Well I don't wanna be a poor man mama I don't wanna fly Well I don't wanna be a lawyer mama I don't wanna lie Well I don't wanna be a soldier mama I don' wanna die Oh no (12x) Well I don't wanna be a beggar mama I don't wanna die Well I don't wanna be a theif now mama I don't wanna fly Well I don't wanna be a church man mama I don't wanna cry Well I don't wanna be a soldier mama I don't wanna die Oh no (11x) |
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from John Lennon - Working Class Hero [tribute] (1995)
There you stand
With your L.A. tan And your New York walk And your New York talk Your mother left you when you were small But you're gonna wish you wasn't born at all Steel and Glass Steel and Glass Your phone don't ring No one answers your call How does it feel to be off the wall Your mouthpiece squawks as he spreads Your lies But you can't pull strings if your hands Are tied Your teeth are clean but your mind Is capped You leave your smell like and alley cat Steel and Glass Steel and Glass There you stand with your toilet scent And your Mickey duck and your Donald fuck Your Daddy left when you were small But you're gonna wish you wasn't born at all Steel and Glass Steel and Glass Steel and Glass |
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from John Lennon - Working Class Hero [tribute] (1995)
Imagine there's no heaven - it's easy if you try
No hell below us, above us, only sky Imagine all the people, living for today Imagine there's no country - I wonder if you do? Nothing to kill or die for; no religion, too Imagine all the people, living life in peace, you-hoo You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope that you will join us And the world would live as one Imagine no possessions - I wonder if you can? Nothing to keep only from greed or hunger - a brotherhood of man Imagine all the people, sharing all the world, you-hoo You may say that I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope that you will join us And the world would live as one |
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from John Lennon - Working Class Hero [tribute] (1995)
Grow old along with me
The best is yet to be When our time has come We will be as one God bless our love God bless our love Grow old along with me Two branches of one tree Face the setting sun When the day is done God bless our love God bless our love Spending our lives together Man and wife together World without end World without end Grow old along with me Whatever fate decrees We will see it through For our love is true God bless our love God bless our love |
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from Bridget Jones''s Diary 2 (브리짓 존스의 일기 2) by Patrick Doyle [ost] (2001)
Is it too much to ask I want a comfortable bed that won't hurt my back Food to fill me up And warm clothes and all that stuff Shouldn't I have this Shouldn't I have this Shouldn't I have all of this, and Passionate kisses Passionate kisses, whoa oh oh Passionate kisses from you Is it too much to demand I want a full house and a rock and roll band Pens that won't run out of ink And cool quiet and time to think Shouldn't I have this Shouldn't I have this Shouldn't I have all of this, and Passionate kisses Passionate kisses, whoa oh oh Passionate kisses from you Do I want too much Am I going overboard to want that touch I shout it out to the night "Give me what I deserve, 'cause it's my right" Shouldn't I have this (shouldn't I) Shouldn't I have this (shouldn't I) Shouldn't I have all of this, and Passionate kisses Passionate kisses, whoa oh oh Passionate kisses from you Passionate kisses Passionate kisses, whoa oh oh Passionate kisses from you |
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from My Best Friend's Wedding (내 남자 친구의 결혼식) by James Newton Howard [omnibus, ost] (1997)
What do you get when you fall in love?
A guy with a pin to burst your bubble. That's what you get for all your trouble. I'll never fall in love again. What do you get when you kiss a guy? You get enough germs to catch pneumonia. After you do he'll never phone ya. I'll never fall in love again. Don't tell me what is all about 'cause I've been there and I'm glad I'm out, out of the chains, the chains that bind you. That is why I'm here to remind you. What do you get when you fall in love? You only get lies and pain and sorrow. So, for at least, until tomorrow I'll never fall in love again |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come Darkness, Come Light: 12 Songs Of Christmas (2008)
Once in royal David's city,
Stood a lowly cattle shed, Where a mother laid her baby In a manger for His bed: Mary was that mother mild, Jesus Christ her little child. He came down to earth from heaven, Who is God and Lord of all, And His shelter was a stable, And His cradle was a stall; With the poor and meek and lowly, Lived on earth our Savior holy. And through all His wondrous childhood, He would honor and obey, Love and watch the lowly mother, In whose gentle arms He lay. Christian children all should be, Mild, obedient, good as He. For He is our child-hood's pattern, Day by day like us He grew, He was little, weak, and helpless, Tears and smiles like us He knew, And He feeleth for our sadness, And He shareth in our gladness. And our eyes at last shall see Him, Through His own redeeming love; For that child so dear and gentle, Is our Lord in heaven above, And He leads His children on, To the place where He is gone. Not in that poor lowly stable, With the oxen standing by, We shall see Him, but in heaven, Set at God's right hand on high; When like stars His children crowned, All in white shall be around |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come Darkness, Come Light: 12 Songs Of Christmas (2008)
When chimney smoke hangs still and low
Across the stubbled fields of snow And angry skies reach down and seize The sorry blackened bones of trees In the dead of winter when the silent snowbirds come You're my sweet maple sugar, honey, hot buttered rum When dreary Christmas decorations Line the streets and filling stations And dime store Santas can't disguise Their empty hands and empty eyes In the dead of winter when the tinsel angels come You're my sweet maple sugar, honey, hot buttered rum When gloves and boots and woolen parkas Bring cold comfort to the heart And bitter memories freeze the tongue And songs of love are left unsung In the dead of winter when the cold feelings come You're my sweet maple sugar, honey, hot buttered rum |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come Darkness, Come Light: 12 Songs Of Christmas (2008)
Still, still, still,
One can hear the falling snow. For all is hushed, The world is sleeping, Holy Star its vigil keeping. Still, still, still, One can hear the falling snow. Sleep, sleep, sleep, 'Tis the eve of our Saviour's birth. The night is peaceful all around you, Close your eyes, Let sleep surround you. Sleep, sleep, sleep, 'Tis the eve of our Saviour's birth. Dream, dream, dream, Of the joyous day to come. While guardian angels without number, Watch you as you sweetly slumber. Dream, dream, dream, Of the joyous day to come |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come Darkness, Come Light: 12 Songs Of Christmas (2008)
There's not a soul out on the street,
No footprints in the falling snow The only moving thing I see is the curl of chimney smoke Frost elts on the window panes and the house is getting warm From the fare's carckling flames on a quiet Christmas morn. Now I walked out in the silent world, No engines roared, no sirens whined No one raced off to work through the din of honking horns There was truly peace on earth on a quiet Christmas morn And on a quiet Christmas morn, a child was in a stable born Shepherds heard the baby cry, saw a new star in the sky On a quiet Christmas morn The hustle stops and the bustle stills, On this day all is calm Forgiving kindness and goodwill soothes like a healing balm The hardest heart is softened by the blessing that was born When the gift of grace was offered on a quiet Christmas morn And on a quiet Christmas morn, a child was in a stable born Shepherds heard the baby cry, saw a new star in the sky On a quiet Christmas morn Shepherds heard the baby cry, saw a new star in the sky On a quiet Christmas morn |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come Darkness, Come Light: 12 Songs Of Christmas (2008)
Come darkness, come light
Come new star, shining bright Come love to this world tonight Alleluia Come broken, come whole Come wounded in your soul Come anyway that you know Alleluia Come doubting, come sure Come fearful to this door Come see what love is for Alleluia Come running, come walking slow Come weary on your broken road Come see Him and shed your heavy load Alleluia There's a humble stable and a light within There's an angel hovering and three wise men Today a baby's born in Bethlehem Alleluia Come darkness come light Come new star burning bright Come love to this world tonight Alleluia |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come Darkness, Come Light: 12 Songs Of Christmas (2008)
Well I walked to town in the pouring rain
Paid my fare and I rode that train To the station under the avenue Hit the air at the stroke of noon At the cross streets where I staked my claim I played in tune with the winter rain Collecting dimes and dollar bills While the noisy traffic played the fills And it's Christmas time in the city When the air is filled with cheer And the storefronts look this pretty only once a year Well the vendors huddled and the taxis honked As I played for change beneath the neon clock Was dressed up looking like a Christmas tree Blinking down on that busy street When the crowd thinned out and the rain had quit And my fingers felt cold and stiff I took their money and I closed my case And I headed back towards home again And it's Christmas time in the city When the air is filled with cheer And the storefronts look this pretty only once a year As I walked back to the subway stairs I had twenty eight dollars in change for fare There was an old bag lady with an outstretched hand And a small Salvation Army band Playing Angels We Have Heard on High The First Noel and O Holy Night I folded up one dollar bill And I tucked it down into the till And it's Christmas time in the city When the air is filled with cheer And the storefronts look this pretty only once a year And it's Christmas time in the city When the air is filled with cheer And the storefronts look this pretty only once a year And it's Christmas time in the city |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come Darkness, Come Light: 12 Songs Of Christmas (2008)
How do you capture
The wind on the water? How do you count all the stars in the sky? How can you measure The love of a mother Or how can you write down A baby's first cry? Candlelight, angel light Firelight and star glow Shine on his cradle till breaking of dawn Gloria, Gloria in excelsis Deo! Angels are singing The Christ child is born Shepherds and wise men Will kneel and adore him Seraphim round him their vigil will keep Nations proclaim him Their Lord and their Saviour But Mary will hold him And sing him to sleep Candlelight, angel light Firelight and star glow Shine on his cradle till breaking of dawn Gloria, Gloria in excelsis Deo! Angels are singing The Christ child is born Find him at Bethlehem laid in a manger Christ our Redeemer asleep in the hay Godhead incarnate and hope of salvation A child with his mother That first Christmas Day Candlelight, angel light Firelight and star glow Shine on his cradle till breaking of dawn Gloria, Gloria in excelsis Deo! Angels are singing The Christ child is born Angels are singing The Christ child is born |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come Darkness, Come Light: 12 Songs Of Christmas (2008)
They say that spring will come again
No one knows exactly when. Still the sun's a long lost friend On the longest night of the year. We stare into the firelight While December beats outside Where the darkest hearts reside On the longest night of the year So keep me safe and hold me tight Let the candle burn all night Tomorrow welcome back the night It was longest night of the year I used to think the world was small Bright and shining like a ball Seems I don't know much at all On the longest night of the year We press our faces to the glass And see our little lives go past Wave to shadows that we cast On the longest night of the year So keep me safe and hold me tight, Let the candle burn all night, Tomorrow welcome back the light. 'Twas the longest night of the year Make a vow when Solstice comes: To find the Light in everyone Keep the faith and bang the drum On the longest night of the year So keep me safe and hold me tight, Let the candle burn all night, Tomorrow welcome back the light. 'Twas the longest night of the year So keep me safe and hold me tight, Let the candle burn all night, Tomorrow welcome back the light. After the longest night of the year |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come Darkness, Come Light: 12 Songs Of Christmas (2008)
Grateful for each hand we hold
Gathered round this table. From far and near we travel home, Blessed that we are able. Grateful for this sheltered place With light in every window, Saying "welcome, welcome, share this feast Come in away from sorrow." Father, mother, daughter, son, Neighbor, friend and friendless; All together everyone in the gift of loving-kindness. Grateful for what's understood, And all that is forgiven; We try so hard to be good, To lead a life worth living. Father, mother, daughter, son, Neighbor, friend, and friendless; All together everyone, let grateful days be endless. Grateful for each hand we hold Gathered round this table |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come Darkness, Come Light: 12 Songs Of Christmas (2008)
No presents, no candy, no trees, no stockings hung by the fire.
No parties, no family to greet, no angel's heavenly chiors. Bells are ringing, all over the world. Bells are ringing, calling the light Bells are ringing, all over the world, all over the world tonight. No doorways, no windows, no walls, No shelter here on the ground. No standing, no safe place to fall, Just the promise of this distant sound Bells are ringing, all over the world. Bells are ringing, calling the light Bells are ringing, all over the world, all over the world tonight. Wherever you're walking tonight, whoever you're waiting for Somehow, by the stable's faint light, Peace in your heart is restored. 'Cause Bells are ringing, all over the world. Bells are ringing, calling the light Bells are ringing, all over the world, all over the world Bells are ringing, all over the world. Bells are ringing, calling the light Bells are ringing, all over the world, all over the world tonight. |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come Darkness, Come Light: 12 Songs Of Christmas (2008)
The week before Thanksgiving Day
This town puts up its old display Streetlights hung with candy canes and bows The earlier it gets each year The scarcer is my Christmas cheer I guess I just like taking these things slow I really don't remember much Of Christmasses growing up Except the year the Beatles came to play On my record player that came from Sears That White Album filled my ears In 1968 on Christmas Day I haven't been to church since God knows when I'm not someone who usually attends Truth be told there's just two wishes On my list every Christmas Peace on earth and a snow storm now and then Now I pray that peace comes in our time It's hard enough to keep from crying When every bit of news just breaks your heart The same old stories, same old songs We dust them off when Christmas comes And for one day we just try to do our part And around here winter seems to come With rain and mud and bits of sun It's not exactly Currier and Ives I don't mind cold if it brings snow Alberta Clippers coem and go But a dursting would make everything all right Perhaps a Christmas eve from long ago Delivered Christmas day with knee-high snow It's something lost but not forgotten Like candy hidden in a stocking That makes me every year wish it were so Because Christmas is for children's joy For every single girl and boy That's the truth we come to understand But the memories that don't let go Like Beatles songs and falling snow Can make us feel innocent again And maybe next year we won't go insane When they rush to hang the bows and candy canes Because peace will shine in me and you From Bethlehem to Timbuktu Even if the forecast is for rain Because peace will shine in me and you From Bethlehem to Timbuktu Even if the forecast is for rain |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Shooting Straight In The Dark (1990)
I'm going out tonight to find myself a friend I need a welcome smile and the grasp of an open hand Gonna sit for hours in a small dark place, catch up with a long lost face And talk about how long it's really been I'm going out tonight with perfume on my wrist I'm need to find someone to show me what I've missed And when I see that someone sittin' there, gonna tell your memory I don't care If he offers something more than just a kiss Underneath the moon so bright, I wanna fall tonight Beneath a spell Underneath the sky so clear, I wanna find someone waiting there Who used to know me well I'm going out tonight without a chaperone I'm gonna leave that meddling heart of mine at home 'Cause it don't like crowds or closing time, neon blues or pickup lines It makes me spend my Friday nights alone Underneath the moon so bright Underneath the sky so clear I'm gonna tell myself that someone I adore Is the one I'm with, ain't that what friends are for 'Cause my empty arms are open wide; I'm long on spite, and short on pride And the old way isn't working anymore I'm going out tonight to find myself a friend |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Shooting Straight In The Dark (1990)
I?m all alone so come on over baby Right now right now I?m all alone so come on over baby Right now right now Oh don?t make em wait child don?t you hesitate C?mon along c?mon along I want to dance I need romance baby Right now right now I want to dance I need romance baby Right now right now Oh don?t let me down child don?t you mess around Let?s think of something to do and let?s do it Let?s think of somewhere to go let?s go And when you put your lovin?arms around me Oh you know how I love you so I need a thrill say you will baby Right now right now I need a thrill say you will baby Right now right now Oh don?t let me down child don?t you mess around C?mon along c?mon along |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Shooting Straight In The Dark (1990)
Well I think of you sometimes at night And sometimes it's still the same The way that it was when I was the keeper of your flame We all have our ghosts, we all have our doubts I'm no different with you or without But one thing's certain: only the names have changed And I think of you sometimes baby When an old friend gives a call And to hear us talk you'd think I felt nothing at all 'Cause nothing remains that used to be yours We all have our way of closing the door But it takes some time to get up when you fall But I'm the same sweet girl you couldn't get enough of Way back when you pledged your love And you'd drive to find me through the pouring rain Now I hear all about your running around Man you're a legend all over town The more things change, the more they remain the same Sometimes I wonder if you've ever heard The sound of a broken heart It ain't real pretty, it ain't the thing the nice folks talk about And the hardest thing you'll ever have to do Is face the one who's done it to you His eye's like an angel's, they're so devout But I'm the same sweet girl you couldn't get enough of Way back when you pledged your love And you'd drive to find me through the pouring rain Now I hear all about your running around Man you're a legend all over town The more things change, the more they remain the same Now I hear all about your running around Man you're a legend all over town The more things change, the more they remain the same |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Shooting Straight In The Dark (1990)
She threw her purse upon the bed She looked around and shook her head There's really nothing left, she said There's nothing I ain't done She wore your favorite dress tonight She hoped her hair would catch the light And you just sat there gettin' tight On double shots of rum You don't care what people say They're gonna say it anyway You don't hear what you can't use It's always been the same old news You don't beg and you don't plead Or miss a thing that you don't need She knew by the way you kissed her When she's gone, you won't miss her Morning comes on an old cat's paws And when the sun hits the walls The light's as bright as it ever was After or before And you wince as waking pounds your head And you drag your arm across the bed And the tangled sheets and the twisted spread Fall onto the floor And the kitchen table finds you silent If you had a thought, now you can't find it You take a long drag on your smoke And taste your coffee growing cold She didn't beg and you didn't plead She knew exactly how to leave The way she knew when you kissed her When she's gone, you won't miss her She didn't beg and you didn't plead She knew exactly when to leave The way she knew as you kissed her When she's gone, you won't miss her |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Shooting Straight In The Dark (1990)
For years she's lived on her own In a corner of the city Twice a year she gets back home Playing catch-up with the family She tells her folks what they need to know Her mother says she's much too thin Her sisters ask about her beau Her dad inquires, how's business been She's thirty-three this time around She's always been real good at listening Her sense of humor never lets her down Except sometimes there's something missing Hey, middle ground A place between up and down She could be safe and sound Oh, to know middle ground For years she's been on her guard She's kind of tense around the shoulders She wonders why she works so hard She counts the days 'til they promote her She'll take a weekend now and then To stay in bed and watch the reruns She'll turn the phone off when guilt sets in But Sunday always kinda leaves her let down Hey, middle ground; a place between up and down She could be safe and sound; oh, to know middle ground She gave her heart away one time, and says that she hasn't seen it since Love's a puzzle in her mind; the pieces match, but don't quite fit; hey... And these days run thick or thin It never rains, or else it's pouring All her single friends are men She thinks married girls are so damn boring Hey, middle ground; a place between up and down She could be safe and sound; oh, to know middle ground Hey, middle ground; a place between up and down She could be safe and sound; oh, to know middle ground Oh, to know middle ground; oh, to know middle ground |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Shooting Straight In The Dark (1990)
When I spoke what was on my mind I wasnt thinking of your heart I wasnt thinking bout the things I said That landed us so far apart And now my world is ending baby With a chance remark No, you cant take love for granted You look at me with your wounded eyes And I look back with fear There used to be such faith between us, now, darlin' Now its just not here And the door was slammed hours ago But its still ringing in my ears No, you cant take love for granted It was a funny way to show I love you A funny way to care Its a funny thing to be without you As empty as your stare You cant take love for granted Its got its own free will Its got a mind of its own when it wants one, baby And looks that can kill One day youre in heaven darling The next you feel like hell No, you cant take love for granted You can speak whats on your mind If youve got a gamblers heart You can be the truth incarnate You can shoot straight in the dark You can pull the moon down baby With a lasso made of stars But no, you cant take love for granted No, you cant take love for granted no Baby, don't take love for granted |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Shooting Straight In The Dark (1990)
Saturday night and the moon is out I wanna head on over to the Twist and Shout Find a two-step partner and a Cajun beat When it lifts me up I'm gonna find my feet Out in the middle of a big dance floor When I hear that fiddle wanna beg for more Gonna dance to a band from a-Lou'sian' tonight Well I never have wandered down to New Orleans Never have drifted down a bayou stream But I heard that music on the radio And I swore some day I was gonna go Down Highway 10 past Lafayette To Baton Rouge and I won't forget To send you a card with my regrets 'Cause I'm never gonna come back home Saturday night and the moon is out I wanna head on over to the Twist and Shout Find a two-step partner and a Cajun beat When it lifts me up I'm gonna find my feet Out in the middle of a big dance floor When I hear that fiddle wanna beg for more Gonna dance to a band from a-Lou'sian' tonight They got a alligator stew and a crawfish pie A gulf storm blowin' into town tonight Livin on the delta's quite a show They got hurricane parties every time it blows And here up north it's a cold cold rain And there ain't no cure for my blues today Except when the paper says: Beausoleil is coming into town Baby let's go down Saturday night and the moon is out I wanna head on over to the Twist and Shout Find a two-step partner and a Cajun beat When it lifts me up I'm gonna find my feet Out in the middle of a big dance floor When I hear that fiddle wanna beg for more Gonna dance to a band from a-Lou'sian' tonight Bring your mama, bring your papa, bring your sister too They got lots of music and lots of room When they play you a waltz from 1910 You gonna feel a little bit young again Well you learned to dance with your rock'n'roll You learned to swing with a do-si-do But you learn to love at the fais-so-do When you hear a little Jolie Blon Saturday night and the moon is out I wanna head on over to the Twist and Shout Find a two-step partner and a Cajun beat When it lifts me up I'm gonna find my feet Out in the middle of a big dance floor When I hear that fiddle wanna beg for more Gonna dance to a band from a-Lou'sian' tonight |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Shooting Straight In The Dark (1990)
Late one night when the wind was still Daddy brought the baby to the window sill To see a bit of heaven shoot across the sky The one and only time Daddy saw it fly It came from the east just as bright as a torch The neighbors had a party on their porch Daddy rocked the baby, Mother said "amen" When Halley came to visit in nineteen ten Now back then Jackson was a real small town And it's not every night a comet comes around It was almost eighty years since its last time through So I bet your mother would've said "amen" too As its tail stretched out like a stardust streak The papers wrote about it every day for a week They wondered where it's going and where it's been When Halley came to Jackson in 1910 Now Daddy told the baby sleeping in his arms To dream a little dream of a comet's charms And he made a little wish as she slept so sound In nineteen eighty-six that wish came 'round It came from the east, just as bright as a torch She saw it in the sky from her daddy's porch As heavenly sent as it was back then When Halley came to Jackson in nineteen ten Late one night when the wind was still |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Shooting Straight In The Dark (1990)
I can read your eyes just like a book You tell me different, but I know that look And I don't have to guess what's between the lines So what in the world am I still doing here You push me away when I get too near Saying love's too simple to analyze So why do I feel confused Why do I feel so used Like a worn-out thought you threw away It wasn't what you said, it's what you didn't say Where are the windows, where are the doors? I haven't the key to your heart anymore I haven't a clue to what's gone wrong 'Cause you look at me sometimes as if I weren't there You say you're listening, but you never hear The strains of silence have grown so strong I never wanted to doubt you But I'd be better off without you I'm no good at looking the other way It wasn't what you said, it's what you didn't say So look at me one last time With eyes that still know how to shine Hold me like you won't let go But you let go anyway No one belongs where they're not wanted You're just a ghost, and my heart is haunted When I said goodbye, you didn't even beg me to stay It wasn't what you said, it's what you didn't say No baby, it wasn't what you said, it's what you didn't say |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Shooting Straight In The Dark (1990)
I?m standing here freezing at a phone booth baby In the middle of God knows where I got one quarter left your machine packs up But baby I know you?re there And I just start crying ?cause it makes no sense To waste these words and twenty-five cents On a losing game Baby you win again I?ve been turning it over and over again Like a stone I?m waiting to wish on I?ve been holding my breath just wondering when You?ll make some sort of decision To let me in or let me go I?ll always lose if I never know Where I fit in Baby you win again I can?t be right if I?m always wrong I can?t stand up if I?m always kneeling At your altar or at your throne You could show just a little feeling For who I am Baby you win again Last night I dreamed we were standing here On the corner of love and heartache You jumped into your car you found first gear And baby I felt the earth shake And I woke up trembling with my heart in my throat 'Cause there?s never a look a word or a note At the bitter end Baby you win again I can?t be right if I?m always wrong I can?t stand up if I?m always kneeling At your altar or at your throne You could show just a little feeling For who I am Baby you win again Baby you win again Baby you win again |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Shooting Straight In The Dark (1990)
When I was young I spoke like a child, and I saw with a child's eyes And an open door was to a girl like the stars are to the sky It's funny how the world lives up to all your expectations With adventures for the stout of heart, and the lure of the open spaces There's 2 lanes running down this road, whichever side you're on Accounts for where you want to go, or what you're running from Back when darkness overtook me on a blind man's curve I relied upon the moon, I relied upon the moon I relied upon the moon and Saint Christopher Now I've paid my dues cuz I have owed them, but I've paid a price sometimes For being such a stubborn woman in such stubborn times Now I've paid my dues cuz I have owed them, but I've paid a price sometimes For being such a stubborn woman in such stubborn times Now I have run from the arms of lovers, I've run from the eyes of friends I have run from the hands of kindness, I've run just because I can But now I'm grown and I speak like a woman and I see with a woman's eyes And an open door is to me now like the saddest of goodbyes It's too late for turning back, I pray for the heart and the nerve And I rely upon the moon, I rely upon the moon I rely upon the moon and Saint Christopher I rely upon the moon, I rely upon the moon I rely upon the moon and Saint Christopher |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come On Come On (1992)
Show a little inspiration, show a little spark And show that things that drew me to you and stole my heart And tell me something I don't know instead of everything I do And look at me as if I mean something to you Our hearts are beating while we sleep, but while we're wide awake You know the world won't stop, and actions speak louder Listen to your heart, and what your heart might say Everything we got, we got the hard way Show a little passion, baby, show a little style And show the knack for knowing when and the gift for knowing how And have a little trust in us when fear obscures the path You know we got this far, darling, not by luck, but by never turning back Some will call on destiny, but I just call on faith That the world won't stop, and actions speak louder Listen to your heart, to what your heart might say Everything we got, we got the hard way Caught up in our little lives, there's not a lot left over I see what's missing in your eyes; you're searching for that field of clover So show a little inspiration, show a little spark Show the world a little light when you show it your heart We've got two lives, one we're given and the other one we make And the world won't stop, and actions speak louder Listen to your heart, and your heart might say Everything we got, we got the hard (everything we got, we got the hard way) Everything we got, we got the hard way (Because the world won't stop) hang on, baby... |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come On Come On (1992)
She makes his coffee, she makes his bed She does the laundry, she keeps him fed When she was twenty-one she wore her mother's lace She said "forever" with a smile upon her face She does the car-pool, she PTAs Doctors and dentists, she drives all day When she was twenty-nine she delivered number three And every Christmas card showed a perfect family Everything runs right on time, years of practice and design Spit and polish till it shines. He thinks he'll keep her Everything is so benign, safest place you'll ever find God forbid you change your mind. He thinks he'll keep her She packs his suitcase, she sits and waits With no expression upon her face When she was thirty-six she met him at their door She said I'm sorry, I don't love you anymore Everything runs right on time, years of practice and design Spit and polish till it shines. He thinks he'll keep her Everything is so benign, safest place you'll ever find God forbid you change your mind. He thinks he'll keep her For fifteen years she had a job and not one raise in pay Now she's in the typing pool at minimum wage Everything runs right on time, years of practice and design Spit and polish till it shines. He thinks he'll keep her Everything is so benign, safest place you'll ever find At least until you change your mind. He thinks he'll keep her |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come On Come On (1992)
I can hear the rain come down, I can listen with my heart I can see you with both eyes closed in the dark Sleep will come in just awhile but 'til it does I choose To listen to the rain, it's the rhythm of the blues I walk along these streets of home that once belonged to us And now, baby, I walk alone and I am lost I guess I'm only walking to the rhythm of the blues I don't want to hear another word spoken I don't want to see another tear shed I can't seem to fix what's broken Like this record player in my head Lonely looks as bad on me as lonely looks on you And still we keep on moving to the rhythm of the blues I want a place to call my own where you have never been I want to look around and know you won't be coming back again On some pretense paper-thin that I can see right through You come and go, baby, like the rhythm of the blues You come and go, baby, like the rhythm of the blues You come and go, baby, like the rhythm of the blues |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come On Come On (1992)
Well I woke up this morning stumbled out of my rack I opened up the paper to the page in the back It only took a minute for my finger to find My daily dose of destiny, under my sign My eyes just about popped out of my head It said "the stars are stacked against you girl, get back in bed" I feel lucky, I feel lucky, yeah No Professor Doom gonna stand in my way Mmmmm, I feel lucky today Well I strolled down to the corner, gave my numbers to the clerk The pot's eleven million so I called in sick to work I bought a pack of Camels, a burrito and a Barq's Crossed against the light, made a beeline for the park The sky began to thunder, wind began to moan I heard a voice above me saying, "girl, you better get back home" But I feel lucky, oh oh oh, I feel lucky, yeah No tropical depression gonna steal my sun away Mmmmm, I feel lucky today Now eleven million later, I was sitting at the bar I'd bought the house a double, and the waitress a new car Dwight Yoakam's in the corner, trying to catch my eye Lyle Lovett's right beside me with his hand upon my thigh The moral of this story, it's simple but it's true Hey the stars might lie, but the numbers never do I feel lucky, oh oh oh, I feel lucky, yeah Hey Dwight, hey Lyle, boys, you don't have to fight Hot dog, I'm feeling lucky tonight I feel lucky, brrrrr, I feel lucky, yeah Think I'll flip a coin, I'm a winner either way Mmmmmm, I feel lucky today |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come On Come On (1992)
Well it's a strange old game you learn it slow One step forward and it's back you go You're standing on the throttle You're standing on the brake In the groove 'til you make a mistake Sometimes you're the windshield Sometimes you're the bug Sometimes it all comes together baby Sometimes you're just a fool in love Sometimes you're the Louisville Slugger Sometimes you're the ball Sometimes it all comes together Sometimes you're gonna lose it all You gotta know happy - you gotta know glad Because you're gonna know lonely And you're gonna know sad When you're rippin' and you're ridin' And you're coming on strong You start slippin' and slidin' And it all goes wrong because Sometimes you're the windshield Sometimes you're the bug Sometimes it all comes together baby Sometimes you're just a fool in love Sometimes you're the Louisville Slugger Sometimes you're the ball Sometimes it all comes together Sometimes you're gonna lose it all One day you got the glory and then you got none One day you're a diamond and then you're a stone Everything can change in the blink of an eye So let the good times roll before we say goodbye because Sometimes you're the windshield Sometimes you're the bug Sometimes it all comes together baby Sometimes you're just a fool in love Sometimes you're the Louisville Slugger Sometimes you're the ball Sometimes it all comes together Sometimes you're gonna lose it all Sometimes you're the windshield Sometimes you're the bug Sometimes it all comes together baby Sometimes you're just a fool in love Sometimes you're the windshield Sometimes you're the bug Sometimes it all comes together baby Sometimes you're just a fool in love |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come On Come On (1992)
To hear you say my name, to see you search my eyes To feel you touch my hand, it more than satisfies If I was not the first, just say I'll be the last It's too much to expect, but it's not too much to ask Now I can only dream of being all you need And I can only try to be the reason why You think about today and forget about the past It's too much to expect, but it doesn't hurt to ask It's too much to expect, but it's not too much to ask Now I can only dream of being all you need And I can only try to be the reason why You think about today, 'cause the past is just the past It's too much to expect, but it doesn't hurt to ask It's too much to expect, but it's not too much to ask |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come On Come On (1992)
Is it too much to ask I want a comfortable bed that won't hurt my back Food to fill me up And warm clothes and all that stuff Shouldn't I have this Shouldn't I have this Shouldn't I have all of this, and Passionate kisses Passionate kisses, whoa oh oh Passionate kisses from you Is it too much to demand I want a full house and a rock and roll band Pens that won't run out of ink And cool quiet and time to think Shouldn't I have this Shouldn't I have this Shouldn't I have all of this, and Passionate kisses Passionate kisses, whoa oh oh Passionate kisses from you Do I want too much Am I going overboard to want that touch I shout it out to the night "Give me what I deserve, 'cause it's my right" Shouldn't I have this (shouldn't I) Shouldn't I have this (shouldn't I) Shouldn't I have all of this, and Passionate kisses Passionate kisses, whoa oh oh Passionate kisses from you Passionate kisses Passionate kisses, whoa oh oh Passionate kisses from you |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come On Come On (1992)
I can recall the sound of the wind, as it blew through the trees and the trees would bend And I can recall the smell of the rain on a hot summer night coming through the screen I'd crawl in your bed when the lightning flashed and I'd still be there when the storm had passed Dead to the world till the morning casts its light all around your room We lived on a street where the tall elm shade was as green as the grass and as cool as a blade That you held in your teeth as we lay on our backs staring up at the blue, and the blue stared back I used to believe we were just like those trees, we'd grow just as tall and as proud as we pleased With our feet on the ground and our arms in the breeze under a sheltering sky (chorus:) Twirl me about and twirl me around Let me grow dizzy and fall to the ground And when I look up at you looking down Say it was only a dream A big truck was parked in the drive one day They wrapped us in paper and moved us away Your room was no longer next door to mine This kid sister thing was old by that time But oh how our dreams went bump in the night and the voices downstairs getting into a fight And the next day a silence you could cut with a knife and feel like a blade at your throat (chorus) The day you left home you got an early start I watched your car back out in the dark I opened the door to your room down the hall I turned on the light and all that I saw Was a bed and a desk and a couple of tacks No sign of someone who expects to be back It must've been one hell of a suitcase you packed (chorus |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come On Come On (1992)
I'm a town in Carolina, I'm a detour on a ride For a phone call and a soda, I'm a blur from the driver's side I'm the last gas for an hour, if you're going 25 I am Texaco and tobacco, I am dust you leave behind I am peaches in September and corn from a roadside stall I'm the language of the natives, I'm a cadence and a drawl I'm the pines behind the graveyard and the cool beneath their shade Where the boys have left their beer cans, I am weeds between the graves My porches sag and lean with old black men and children My sleep is filled with dreams, I never can fulfill them I am a town I'm a church beside the highway where the ditches never drain I'm a Baptist like my daddy, Jesus knows my name I am memory and stillness, I am lonely in old age I am not your destination, I am clinging to my ways I am a town I'm a town in Carolina, I am billboards in the fields I'm an old truck up on cinderblocks, missing all my wheels I am Pabst Blue Ribbon, American, and "Southern Serves the South" I am tucked behind a Jaycees sign on the rural route I am a town I am a town I am a town Southbound |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come On Come On (1992)
When you set a match to your heart Fueling it with bitterness and doubt That's a blaze that, once it starts, No amount of tears can put out I know you're scared, but no one's spared When you play with matches You've got me walking through fire Walking through fire Maybe you've been burned by lovers Maybe you've been scarred by the pain But baby, I'm not like the others Drawing moths to a flame Spite is like a spark, crackling in the dark Consuming all it catches And you've got me walking through fire Walking through fire to get to you Walking through fire, walking through fire You can see the toll it's taking You can feel the faith it's shaking You can hear the heart it's breaking now Baby, I have burned with a fever I've been scorched by desire But baby, I am not your deceiver Or your eloquent liar Your jealous heart is tearing us apart And turning love to ashes You've got me walking through fire Walking through fire As the flames shoot higher You've got me walking through fire Walking |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come On Come On (1992)
I took a walk in the rain one day on the wrong side of the tracks I stood on the rails till I saw that train Just to see how my heart would react Now some people say that you shouldn't tempt fate And for them I would not disagree But I never learned nothing from playing it safe I say fate should not tempt me I take my chances, I don't mind working without a net I take my chances, I take my chances every chance I get I sat alone in the dark one night, tuning in by remote I found a preacher who spoke of the light but there was brimstone in his throat He'd show me the way according to him in return for my personal check I flipped my channel back to CNN and I lit another cigarette I take my chances, forgiveness doesn't come with a debt I take my chances, I take my chances every chance I get I've crossed lines of words and wire and both have cut me deep I've been frozen out and I've been on fire and the tears are mine to weep Now I can cry until I laugh and laugh until I cry So cut the deck right in half, I'll play from either side I take my chances, I pay my dollar and I place my bet I take my chances, I take my chances every chance I get I take my chances, I don't cling to remorse or regret I take my chances, I take my chances every chance I get I take my chances I take my chances |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come On Come On (1992)
Some people remember the first time, some can't forget the last Some just select what they want to from the past It's a song you danced to in high school, it's a moon you tried to bring down On a four in the morning drive through the streets of town Come on come on, it's getting late now Come on come on, take my hand Come on come on, you just have to whisper Come on come on, I will understand It's a photograph taken in Paris at the end of the honeymoon In 1948, late in the month of June Your parents smile for the camera in sienna shades of light Now you're older than they were then that summer night Come on come on, it's getting late now Come on come on, take my hand Come on come on, you just have to whisper Come on come on, I will understand It's a need you never get used to, so fierce and so confused It's a loss you never get over the first time you lose And tonight I am thinking of someone seventeen years ago We rode in his daddy's car down the River Road Come on come on, it's getting late now Come on come on, take my hand Come on come on, you just have to whisper Come on come on, I will understand Come on come on, it's getting late now Come on come on, take my hand Come on come on, you just have to whisper Come on come on, I will understand |
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from Music From And Inspired By The Motion Picture Dead Man Walking (데드맨 워킹) [ost] (1999) | |||||
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Time Sex Love (2001)
Whenever you're ready I've got the car and the engine running It's such a bore when you know what's coming all the time Whenever you're ready To slam the door 'til the hinges fly Trace an arc cross the big blue sky It's always gonna be hard To take things a little to far Na na na na, c'mon baby Na na na na, yeah it's crazy Na na na na, I'll be waiting whenever you're ready Whenever you're ready Whenever you're ready To light a match and to burn some bridges Try to dance on a narrow ledge that's way too high Whenever you're ready To give it up or to just give in The more you lose hell the more you win In spite of all of your plans It's always been out of your hands Na na na na, c'mon baby Na na na na, yeah it's crazy Na na na na, I'll be waiting whenever you're ready Whenever you're ready It's always gonna be hard to take things a little too far Na na na na, c'mon baby Na na na na, yeah it's crazy Na na na na, I'll be waiting whenever you're ready Whenever you're ready |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Time Sex Love (2001)
Your making this today of all the things you haven't done yet your drivin everyone crazy, are you having any fun yet? Mother says you auta get married Shrink says here's a little blue pill To young for your mid-life crisis Mayor says your over the hill *Chorus* Theres nothing wrong with you The simple life gets complicated Theres nothing you can do Just enjoy the view, be glad you made it Your making making resolutions and it isn't even new years You could try a new religion You could wait until the dust clears Friends say your way to cheesey Shrink says see ya next week Goo goo says control your breathing Your afraid you might have peeked! *Chorus* There's nothing wrong with you The simple life gets complicated There's nothing you can do Just enjoy the view, be glad you made it Cuz things could be better (things could be better) Cuz things could be worse (things could be worse) Cuz life could be charmed and cursed Theres fast, slow, and strong no reverse Your making this today of all the things you haven't done yet Your drivin everyone crazy Are you having any fun yet!? *Chorus* There's nothing wrong with you The simple life gets complicated There's nothing you can do Just enjoy the view, be glad you made it Theres nothing wrong with you the simple life gets over rated theres nothing you can do just enjoy the view, be glad you made it This far, ohh yeah. |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Time Sex Love (2001)
I am waiting with a ticket with a carry-on People everywhere on their way, at a run Then I see you from a distance Light years later at fate's insistence Old wounds, sad scenes, love lost, bad dreams Heartache, old scars, old walls, these are Swept away, swept away, swept away You are standing by the pay phones, by the stairs I walk straight into your arms and you hold me there I am falling slowly backwards Right into your famous last words Old wounds, sad scenes, love lost, bad dreams Heartache, old scars, old walls, these are Swept away, swept away, swept away All this ancient history, every unsolved mystery Years I've carried with me, vanish when you kiss me Old wounds, sad scenes, love lost, bad dreams Heartache, old scars, old walls, these are Swept away, swept away, swept away |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Time Sex Love (2001)
Don't want to need the way I need you Don't want to feel like this Holding back all the words but not the kiss For the moment my heart begins to murmur The moment of truth arrives And I know you'll shake your head and say goodbye I know the price of this to me I'll light the candle that shines on you I'll be a slave to the beauty but not the truth Don't want to fear the way I fear you'll Hurt me because you can I never believed I'd crave that kind of man I've seen the trail of hearts you've broken I've seen the traps you lay And if I had the strengh I'd run without delay I know the price of this to me I'll light the candle that shines on you I'll be a slave to the beauty but not the truth It's dark and getting colder and I'm the beholder And you're all I long to see Don't want to love the way I love you... I know the price of this to me I'll light the candle that shines on you I'll be a slave to the beauty but not the truth I know the price of this to me I'll light the candle that shines on you I'll be a slave to the beauty but not the truth |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Time Sex Love (2001)
It's all I hate but oh so tempting Fills me up but leaves me empty It's all regrets and second chances What's the point of backward glances That lead me nowhere I can't go back there Everything is so uncertain All happening to you in a whirl That's the beauty and the hurting Of living in a maybe world Who can stand all those should haves They wake us up and make us feel bad The famous road will stay untaken All mistakes are worth making Go back to sleep now It all works out somehow Everything is so uncertain All happening to you in a whirl That's the beauty and the hurting Of living in a maybe world I'm sorry for the rain that broke the dam that caused the flood I'm sorry for the pain but that's the way it is because Everything is so uncertain All happening to you in a whirl That's the beauty and the hurting Of living in a maybe world Everything is so uncertain All the garbage baby and the pearls That's the beauty and the hurting Of living in a maybe world |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Time Sex Love (2001)
What was it like How did it feel It's so hard to tell if it was real I know I was there but with every day It slips away And I feel like a passing glance that you never gave a chance Baby that's not right What was it like What did you say What did I hear When did it start to disappear I know you were there You know that too What did we do 'Cause I feel like a big mistake that you managed to not quite make And just walk away What did you say Guess I've waited long enough hoping it might be something Other than what it was You took something that felt so good And crushed it because you could One summer night What was it like What was it like What was it like |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Time Sex Love (2001)
He wants to own your heart He already owns your soul No matter what you do He's always in control And when he calls your name you have to follow Like moths into a flame, no fear or sorrow will fall upon you You belong to the King of Love He wants to know your thoughts He already knows your mind No matter where you are You're someone he'll always find His very mention brings the slightest shudder Deep inside you know there is no other as skilled and tender Just surrender to the King of Love But when the night falls down, he will not wear a crown No jewels upon his hands, he is just a man He wants to rule your world He already rules your dreams No matter what you want He'll never make you Queen Still when he calls your name you have to answer And when his music plays you are a dancer for him the only Never lonely, King of Love For him the only, never lonely, King of Love |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Time Sex Love (2001)
This is your voice of reason This is your voice of calm This is your heart that's speaking Saying the time has come Here is your pride and grace now Here is your strengh and soul Everything's at the ready, you're finally good to go Now tell him there's one last thing that you forgot to do This is me leaving you, this is me leaving you He told you to try believing (don't you worry) He asked you to keep the faith (or keep guessing) He took all that you were giving (don't be sorry) As if it all were his to take (you're progressing) Now it's the truth that won't let go (don't you doubt it) Now it's the facts that you can't shake (and don't fear it) Now it's just time to let him know (each new step is) You made a big mistake (one more near it) Maybe these final words will offer up a clue This is me leaving you, this is me leaving you This is me baby, breaking us in two This is me leaving you I'm your better half Baby that's a laugh This is your voice of reason This is your voice of calm This is your heart that's speaking Don't look back, just keep on going This is me leaving you, this is me leaving you This is me leaving you, this is me leaving you |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Time Sex Love (2001)
Tonight the brightest moon in a hundred years Floods the streets of Rome and I am standing here Wondering where the ghosts of antiquity Hide on nights like this once a century Where do shadows fall when there's only light Why'd you follow me halfway 'round the world tonight What I'd give right now not to even care And then this could be someone else's prayer And on a sleepless night by St. Stephen's Green Oh I turned and tossed with my Irish dreams And when the morning shone through the burned off mist I could sense you still just as close as this Just as close as lips brush against a cheek It's your voice I hear and it's your name I speak But when I look around there's no one there How I wish you were someone else's prayer And now the twilight comes as a silent guest And of all its gifts I like stillness best Except for tin roof rains that commence with spring It's a lullaby when that tin roof sings Now you can look for me on the streets of Rome Or in Dublin town but I've gone back home I would always be just a stranger there And now you're free to be someone else's prayer |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Time Sex Love (2001)
The stars are out tonight, the breeze is warm and light As I'm walking right back to you Along the dreaming road, the only way to go When I'm travelling by our code that north is true Once upon a time these same bright stars did shine Down the center line leading here Nearly thirty years ago, now the map is stained and old But on the dreaming road the coast is clear I loved you more than life and I guess that's why I died When you would not love me back I couldn't survive And so the girl I was turned into someone else Keeping to myself and from the light I wasn't odd or strange, just quietly rearranged Sometimes the biggest change stays out of sight So without plot or clue I ran away from you I was twenty-two and drunk in Amsterdam Got robbed in Paris, France, got home on one last chance And without a backward glance I began again And the days just kept on rolling and I just kept on going Without a thought of ever slowing down I made this long road mine but it was not the dreaming kind Too many lost souls trying to get found But beneath this ancient sky, one night we did collide And the hole I thought was scaled opened wide I tried so hard again not to fall back in But you had me then by the throat And a strange futility came washing over me Almost peacefully I felt the rope A million miles goes by in the blink of an eye And so I cannot try to slow time down And years are made of sand slipping through my hands Even faster than the speed of sound The stars are out tonight, the breeze is soft and light As I'm walking right back to you With nothing left to hide, the tears have all been cried And the girl who died is walking too Down the dreaming road, where the light is always gold The air is never cold and always fine And north is always true and you are always you And I'm that girl you knew once upon a time |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Time Sex Love (2001)
I haven't a reason, a clue or a sign I haven't the slightest idea Of the shape of your heart or the state of your mind Do you ever let anyone near Do you ever reach out with arms open wide Do you ever jump in closing your eyes Or are you one of the fortunate kind Alone but not lonely Everyday on the street I study their faces The ones who rush on through the crowd Towards their own quiet worlds, their separate places Somewhere I'm never allowed 'Cause I've always been one to say what I need And than the next thing it's done and I'm watching 'em leave And I'm thinking, I wish I could be Alone but not lonely So which one are you tonight Do you change with the morning light Do you say more than what sounds right Do you say what you mean? There are moments in time that are meant to be held Like fragile, breakable things There are others that pass us, you can't even tell Such is their grace and their speed And this one is gone in the blink of an eye You can ask me the truth but tonight I will lie Unflinching I'll tell you that I'm alone but not lonely |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Time Sex Love (2001)
You could be this man, he's got it all worked out To the nth degree, no fears, no doubts He'll retire at thirty to his big-ass house next to the putting green Now he's got a picture in his head of the perfect wife, Their perfect children, their perfect life Bothing wrong with that, coming home each night to his cul-de-sac of dreams Funny now how it all went by so fast One day he's looking over his shoulder at the past When everybody had to go, had to be, had to get somewhere How did he forget about what got him there Now you could be this woman, she's the CEO She's got her powersuits and her IPO's She punched a hole in the ceiling years ago and she hasn't pulled back since Now there's a gardener for the flowers, a cook for the meals, A maid for the laundry, an accountant for the bills A walker for the dog and a trainer when she feels the need to lose an inch Funny now how it all went by so fast One day she's looking over her shoulder at the past When everybody had to go, had to be, had to get somewhere Somehow she forgot about what got her there Accidents and inspiration lead you to your destination Or you could be the one who takes the long way home Roll down your window, turn off your phone See your life as a gift from the great unknown And your task is to receive it Tell your kid a story, hold your lover tight Make a joyful noise, swim naked at night Read a poem a day, call in well sometimes and Laugh when they believe it Funny now how it all goes by so fast One day I'm looking over my shoulder at the past Now everybody's got to go, got to be, got to get somewhere Baby don't forget about You really shouldn't forget about Baby don't forget what got you there I think it's what got you there Yeah it's really what got you there You know what got you there |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Time Sex Love (2001)
It's the spell that can't be broken It's your breath upon my neck It's the words I long to tell you but haven't yet It's the need to see you constantly And the need to be alone Just to balance out what's left of me And what's too far gone What if the night complied, bringing you to my door What if I let you in, baby, isn't that what the night is for? In the name of love there's nothing that I would not do In the name of love I'd lose myself to find you In the name of love..... It's the prayer I send up daily for some courage and some pride When your hand brushes my shoulder and our eyes collide It's the smallest of seductions and the quietest of lures And I'm all at once an innocent in the big bad world But what if the night conspired, bringing you to my door Why should I turn you away now, I don't want to wait anymore In the name of love there's nothing that I would not do In the name of love I'd lose myself to find you In the name of love..... But when the darkness fades, giving way to morning light You will find me gone, to carry on the lonely fight In the name of love there's nothing that I would not do In the name of love I'd lose myself to find you In the name of love..... |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Time Sex Love (2001)
You've been saying for the longest time that the time has come You've been talking like you're of a mind to get some changing done Maybe move out of the city, find some quiet little town Where you can sit out on your back porch step and watch the sun go down No one know where they belong The search just goes on and on and on For every choice that ends up wrong Another one's right A change of scene would sure be great the thought is nice to contemplate But the question begs why would you wait and be late for your life Now you might never find that perfect town But the sun still sets on a rooftop where the city sounds like a Gershwin clarinet And you might still be searching every face for one you can't forget Love is out there in a stranger's clothes You just haven't met him yet No one knows where they belong The search just goes on and on and on for every day that ends up wrong Another one's right Call it chance or call it fate Either one is cause to celebrate Still the question begs why would you wait And be late for your life Call it chance baby, call i fate Either one is case to celebrate And the question now is why would you wait don't be late for your life |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Between Here And Gone (2004)
What would you say to me? What would you say to me? What would you say to me, If we met one day? On the street of broken dreams. On the street of broken dreams. On the street of broken dreams, Not so far away Would you offer me a smile? Would you offer me a smile? Would you stop and talk a while, Or would you walk away? Why would you wanna see? Why would you wanna see, Another tear from me? It's just a game you play. You're not the only one. You're not the only one, When all was said an' done, Who had to hurt this way. Well, take a walk around the town. Take a walk around this town. Collar up an' head down, Agaianst the cold and grey. We're only strangers here. (Strangers here.) We're just like strangers here. (Strangers here.) Hearts full of achin' fear, Whisper: "Come what may." Time only goes one way. Time only goes one way. Time only knows one way, And it ain't come back. So when you remember me, When you remember me, Some might, tenderly, Just remember that. What would you say to me? What would you say to me? What would you say to me, If we met one day? |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Between Here And Gone (2004)
Was it a light only she could see
A gypsy's spell, a mystery Something to cause our girl to roam Was it a song only she could hear Whispering charms in her ears Causing her to leave our happy home Guess the light of the moon is all we've got to go on Guess we're never gonna know and she's not telling no one Luna's gone, she's gone away All day long I call her name Luna's gone There wasn't a sign of wanderlust A quarrel, a breach of faith or trust Nothing to give us one thin clue Her eyes like the moon in a heart-shaped face Astonishing speed, amazing grace Little wild child we loved so true Guess the wind in the trees is all she left behind her Guess it's part of the plan to know we'll never find her Luna's gone, she's gone away All day long I call her name Luna's gone Woo-ooo, the end has come, verse and chapter Woo-ooo, I'll miss that girl forever after Woo-ooo, she left us now the way she came No amount of love could tame her, free as the wind that blows... Guess she couldn't resist the lure of the open spaces You won't find her in Miami Beach or Vegas Luna's gone, she's gone away All day long I call her name Luna's gone, she's gone away All day long I call her name Luna's gone, she's gone away All day long I call her name Luna's gone |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Between Here And Gone (2004)
Nothing shatters nothing breaks
Nothing hurts and nothing aches We've got ourselves one helluva place in my heaven Looking down at the world below a bunch of whining, fighting schmo's Up here we got none of those, in my heaven There's pools and lakes and hills and mountains Music, art, lighted fountains Who needs bucks here, no one's counting in my heaven No one works, we all just play We can pick the weather everyday And if you change your mind, that's ok, in my heaven Grandma's up here, Grandpa too In a condo with to-die-for views There's presidents and movie stars you just come as you are No one's lost and no one's missing No more parting just hugs and kissing And all these stars are just for wishing In my heaven There's little white lights everywhere Your childhood dog in Dad's old chair And more memories than my heart can hold When Eva's singing "Fields of Gold" There's neighbors, thieves and long lost lovers villains, poets, kings and mothers Up here we forgive each other, in my heaven For every soul that's down there waiting, holding on, still hesitating We say a prayer of levitating, in my heaven You can look back on your life and lot But it can't matter what you're not By the time you're here, we're all we've got In my heaven In my heaven In my heaven |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Between Here And Gone (2004)
I'm standing at a traffic light somewhere in west L.A.
Waiting for the sign to change then I'll be on my way The noise, the heat, the crush of cars just robs me of my nerve Then someone yells and blasts their horn and pins me to the curb I'm a stranger here, no one you would know My ship has not come in, but I keep hoping though And I keep looking past the sun that sets above Saying to myself goodnight America And I am driving into Houston on a rain-slicked Texas road Land so flat and sky so dark I say a prayer to float Should all at once the San Jacinto surge beyond its banks Like Noah reaching higher ground I'd offer up my thanks 'Cause I'm a stranger here, no one you would know I'm just passing through, I am therefore I go The moon rose in the east, but now it's right above As I say aloud goodnight America Midnight, it's hard to see the stars Out on a highway near Atlanta full of strip malls and used cars First light, just roll your window down and smell The salty air perfume of Charleston town. I'm looking with a pilgrim's eyes upon some promised land I'm dreaming with my heart outstretched as if it were my hand And I'll hit the Cross Bronx just in time to beat the rush hour lock But got no clue what time it is from this world's busted clock I'm a stranger here, no one you would know I'm from somewhere else, well isn't everybody though I don't know where I'll be when the sun comes up But till then sweet dreams, goodnight America |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Between Here And Gone (2004)
Tonight, the moon came out, it was nearly full. Way down here on earth, I could feel it's pull. The weight of gravity or just the lure of life, Made me want to leave my only home tonight. Now I'm just wonderin' how we know where we belong. Is it in a photograph, or a dashboard poet's song? Will I have missed my chance to right some ancient wrong, Should I find myself between here and gone? Now I could grab my keys, clear out in my truck, With every cent on board bringing me their luck. An' I could drive too fast, like a midnight sleeve, As if there was a way to outrun the grief. Now I'm just wonderin' how we know where we belong. In a song that's left behind in the dream I couldn't wake from. Could I have felt the brush of a soul that's passing on, Somewhere in between here and gone? Up above me, Wayward angels, A blur of wings and grace. One for courage, One for safety, One for "just in case". I thought a light went out, but now the candle shines. I thought my tears wouldn't stop, then I dried my eyes. And after all of this, the truth that holds me here, Is that this emptiness is something not to fear. Yeah, I'll keep wondering how we know where we belong, After all the journeys made, and the journeys yet to come. When I feel like giving up instead of going on, Somewhere in between. Yeah, I'm just wondering how we know where we belong. Is it in the arc of the moon, leaving shadows on the lawn? In the path of fireflies and a single bird at dawn, Singing in between here and gone. |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Between Here And Gone (2004)
Call the folks, leave a note, lock the doors and windows
Pack the truck, here's to luck, here's to how the wind blows Got the cash, got the gas, now lose the map and compass Now read the signs, obey the lines, follow all your hunches 'Cause now it's just an the open road One small heart and a great big soul that's driving Radio singing low just like a true companion L.A.'s lights wavy bright, they follow like a lantern Then morning comes and desert sun rises like redemption Another day to make your way from answer back to question Out here on the open road One small heart and a great big soul that's driving No set of directions, no shortcuts Just some empty soda cans, some cigarette butts The key to traveling light is to not need very much Late tonight you'll see the lights of a thousand stars above you And at a roadside stop you'll call to talk to a voice back home that swears they love you But at the sound of the tone you'll hang up the phone and peel out of that joint You'll try again, God knows when; at least they got the point They lost you to the open road, one small heart and a great big soul That's driving, driving Out here on the open road One small heart and a great big soul that's driving |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Between Here And Gone (2004)
So your day begins like this
Wondering what might have been Old regrets and chances missed Borne away on some lambent wind The job's okay, so it doesn't inspire Thoughts of leaving it all behind You used to have dreams of settin' the world on fire All you want now is peace of mind And a beautiful racket an' whispers and roars The bitter and sweet between the truces and the wars The noise and the quiet, the courage and the fear And all of the wisdom between a smile and a tear Do your dreaming in traffic jams You do your running in shopping malls You do your breathing the best you can Between car pools and cell phone calls Who cares, you'll never live in Paris So what, you'll never travel by Lear How do some of us learn what matters While others never get to hear Such a beautiful racket an' whispers and roars The bitter and sweet between the truces and the wars The noise and the quiet, the courage and the fear And all of the wisdom between a smile and a tear Hold on Hold on So your day will end like this Turning slowly down your street Silent worlds of kitchens lit Front yards full of fallen leaves Trees are bare, the garden's done Another season gone to earth Before you blink a new one comes Reminding you what the old one's worth And a beautiful racket comes in whispers and roars The bitter and sweet between the roses and the wars The noise and the quiet, the courage and the fear And [Incomprehensible] wisdom [Incomprehensible] Such a beautiful racket Such a beautiful racket, hold on Such a beautiful racket, hold on |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Between Here And Gone (2004)
Girls like me aren't hard to find
We grow like roses on the vine And wear our hearts on our sleeves You probably know a girl like me We live alone and in our heads We eat standing up or in our beds Guilt and fear merge easily In the quiet souls of girls like me And loneliness is like a cold Common and no cure we're told We take to bed perchance to dream In the blue light of the TV screen Girls like me like summer light A cold beer on a summer night And boys who aren't afraid of what they see Inside the eyes of girls like me And hopefulness is like a drug It makes a girl believe in love And if somehow you love us back We think there's something wrong with that Girls like me aren't hard to trust Your deepest secret's safe with us And when its time we set you free You can always count on girls like me Its good to know a girl like me You used to love a girl like me |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Between Here And Gone (2004)
River full of stones when there's no rain
River full and rushing when the clouds let loose again River every season like a prayer We're standing in the shallows making crosses in the air Want to build the strongest bridge Want to love you the best I can Feel no fear upon the edge Here's my heart, baby take my hand River like a poem to the trees River telling stories to the rushes and the leaves River every season like a vow We're standing in the shallows wondering who will save us now Want to build the strongest bridge Want to love you the best I can Feel no fear upon the edge Here's my heart, baby take my hand River from the currents to the pools River turning kinder turning suddenly too cruel River every season like a dream We're standing in the shallows wading in to wash us clean Want to build the strongest bridge Want to love you the best I can Feel no fear upon the edge Here's my heart, baby take my hand Want to build the strongest bridge Want to love you the best I can Feel no fear upon the edge Here's my heart, baby take my hand Want to hold you close to me, never fail you, never falter Seeing all that love can see, reflecting back on the water... |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Between Here And Gone (2004)
Got my work clothes on for love, sweat and dirt. All this Holy dust upon my face an' shirt. Headin' uptown now, just as the shifts are changin', To Grand Central Station. I got my lunch box, got my hard hat in my hand. I ain't no hero, mister, just a workin' man. An' all these voices keep on askin' me to take them, To Grand Central Station. Grand Central Station. I wanna stand beneath the clock just one more time. Wanna wait on the platform for the Hudson line. I guess you're never really all alone, or too far from the pull of home, An' the stars upon that painted dome still shine. I paid my way out on the 42nd Street. I lit a cigarette an' stared down at my feet. Imagined all the ones that ever stood here waitin', At Grand Central Station. Grand Central Station. And now Hercules is starin' down at me. Next to him's Minerva an' Mercury. Well, I nod to them an' start my crawl, flyers coverin' every wall: Faces of the missing are all I see. Tomorrow, I'll be back there, workin' on the pile. Going in, comin' out, single file. Before my job is done, there's one more trip I'm makin', To Grand Central Station. Grand Central Station. Grand Central Station. Grand Central Station. |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Between Here And Gone (2004)
You always had the gift of speed, you'd disappear without a trace
It all depended on the need and on the pain you could not face So, you would leave the home you'd found Pack it up without delay Cut your losses, blow that town And tomorrow was another day All the years and all the miles Maybe you lost track of time I look back now only once in awhile My memory just wants to blur the lines Cause you know me, I just can't change I greet the sun and find it strange To watch you run for the shelter of storms For the shelter of storms Now where are you out in the world, searching for a little grace Searching for a precious pearl, wisdom from some future place You let me go without a wave, I noticed that and nothing more I guess I'm going to my grave wondering what it all was for All the years and all the miles, it's so hard keeping track of time Do you think of me every once in awhile When the rain lets up and the sun can shine Just a little peace and quiet for a change I still greet the sun and find it strange To watch you run for the shelter of storms For the shelter of storms Roll back the years, subtract the miles And see what's left for you to find All the battles all the trials, you can't be free till you leave behind Your bitter heart, but you can't change You curse the sun and pray for rain And always run for the shelter of storms For the shelter of storms |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Between Here And Gone (2004)
I don't really know how I got here this time
I was only just following orders Listening to the voice in my mind Saying steer clear of margins and borders So I wasn't thinking of where we would go On a cold afternoon through the mountains we drove Up a few hairpin turns and then spread out below The valley appeared with the sun Like Elysium I looked out the window and stared at the fields Where the blue sky and the green were colliding I looked back at you and I knew we were sealed By a fate that has ways of providing Yes sometimes you get there in spite of the route Losing track of your life and what it's about The road seems to know when to straighten right out The closer you come To Elysium They say there's a place for those who are good With its pearly gates swinging wide open The rest of us here are just knocking on wood Quietly, piously hoping I could wonder if all of it led me to you I could show you the arrows and circles I drew I didn't have a map, it's the best I could do On the fly and on the run To dreams that were tethered like kites to the ground To the bridges I burned, to then turning around It was here in your heart I was finally found And the last battle won for Elysium |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Beautiful Racket (2004)
So your day begins like this
Wondering what might have been Old regrets and chances missed Borne away on some lambent wind The job's okay, so it doesn't inspire Thoughts of leaving it all behind You used to have dreams of settin' the world on fire All you want now is peace of mind And a beautiful racket an' whispers and roars The bitter and sweet between the truces and the wars The noise and the quiet, the courage and the fear And all of the wisdom between a smile and a tear Do your dreaming in traffic jams You do your running in shopping malls You do your breathing the best you can Between car pools and cell phone calls Who cares, you'll never live in Paris So what, you'll never travel by Lear How do some of us learn what matters While others never get to hear Such a beautiful racket an' whispers and roars The bitter and sweet between the truces and the wars The noise and the quiet, the courage and the fear And all of the wisdom between a smile and a tear Hold on Hold on So your day will end like this Turning slowly down your street Silent worlds of kitchens lit Front yards full of fallen leaves Trees are bare, the garden's done Another season gone to earth Before you blink a new one comes Reminding you what the old one's worth And a beautiful racket comes in whispers and roars The bitter and sweet between the roses and the wars The noise and the quiet, the courage and the fear And [Incomprehensible] wisdom [Incomprehensible] Such a beautiful racket Such a beautiful racket, hold on Such a beautiful racket, hold on |
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from Super Hits Of 1997 (1999)
(mary chapin carpenter)
I want to be your girlfriend, I want to be your new love I want to be the one that you can't get enough of I want to be your girlfriend, nobody else's but yours I want to be the one who you'll do anything for Never thought I'd ever wind up in a daze like this Never thought I'd ever find myself wondering how you kiss I see you nearly everyday, and everyday I lose my nerve That I built up the night before, rehearsing every single word I want to be your girlfriend, I want to be your new love I want to be the one that you can't get enough of You used to be just this guy I knew from that same old scene For all the time that I've known you, just now I'm noticing That everything there is to feel, feels worse than any teenage crush And all the times that I've been near you, now I can't get near enough Oh, I want to be your girlfriend, nobody else's but yours I want to be the one who you'll do anything for I just keep on hoping that you're gonna see If I could notice you then you could notice me Then I'd be more to you, oh, I just wanna be I want to be your girlfriend, I want to be your new love I want to be the one that you can't get enough of I'm gonna be your girlfriend, nobody else's but yours I want to be the one who you'll do anything for |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Hometown Girl (1989)
He was a long tall stranger from way down south where he'd left his life behind
He had a big old Gibson and a pickup truck and Shenandoah eyes And I remember him sitting in that local bar where I earned my pay each night Singing my songs to empty chairs and going home half tight So the nights rolled by like headlights shining on a lonesome strip of tar I kept his words of kindness close to me like a pick on my guitar; And we Talked about the singers and the songs we loved and the songs we'd most forgot In that run-down bar they'd make last call and I'd never want to stop 'Cause I was living on nothing but a young girl's dreams With my cowboy boots and my old six-string Hitching my wagon to a star, dreaming of leaving those local bars When I'd get him up at closing time for a couple of songs and a chance to shine Like the star that he longed to be, he looked a helluva lot like me He'd played a lot of places where the only wages were food and beer for free No fancy licks, but he had him a gift for the kind of songs he'd sing But you do what you can to be a satisfied man, just to have your peace of mind So he gave it all up for a government job where the paychecks come on time So now he comes to the bar to hear me play guitar and to share a drink or two And we sit swapping tales of where we've been and what we'd rather do There's a wealth of danger when you're talking to strangers, and I meet them all the time But my heart knew better than my head when I looked into those eyes 'Cause I was living on nothing but a young girl's dreams with my cowboy boots and my old six-string Hitching my wagon to a star, dreaming of leaving those local bars When I'd get him up at closing time for a couple of songs and a chance to shine Like the star that he longed to be, he looked a hell of a lot like me Well, maybe I'll quit when I got me a kid and a place to call my own But tonight there ain't nobody there waiting up for me at home It's a hell of a way to live from day to day not knowing where you're bound But the look in his eyes made me realize I was glad for the life I'd found 'Cause I was living on nothing but a young girl's dreams with my cowboy boots and my old six-string Hitching my wagon to a star, dreaming of leaving those local bars When I'd get him up at closing time for a couple of songs and a chance to shine Like the star that he longed to be, he looked a hell of a lot like me Like the star that he'd always be, he looked a hell of a lot like me |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Hometown Girl (1989)
Years ago in my hometown I was a headstrong girl and a heartstrong one We'd ride all summer with the top rolled down through the sleepy streets of that Jersey town Now I knew girls when I was sixteen Could make a smart boy stutter, turn a nice boy mean And the boys made the girls into homecoming queens Married each other instead of their dreams These days I'm mostly out on my own Looking for someplace that I can call home Late at night, or just before dawn I pretend you're with me now It never seemed that hard before What happened to that hometown girl? The seasons changed in my hometown The way they changed in yours The windows opened up to the Spring Like every spring before And I ran with boys who weren't like you I was young but somehow I knew The difference between a man and a fool Sometimes I think that could have been you These days I'm mostly out on my own Looking for someplace that I can call home Late at night, or just before dawn I pretend you're with me now It never seemed that hard before What happened to that hometown girl? Hometown girls are like hometown dreams Some start fading, others stay keen I won't forget you but I'll let you be Love never was that kind to me Late at night or just before down I pretend you're with me now You had your madness and you had your charm But only when your heart allowed And my heart just won't allow no more What happened to that hometown girl? |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Hometown Girl (1989)
Outside another yellow moon Has punched a hole in the nighttime I climb through the window and down to the street I'm shining like a new dime The downtown trains are full With all those Brooklyn girls They try so hard to break out of their little world You wave your hand and they scatter like crows They have nothing that will ever capture your heart They're just thorns without the rose Oh, be careful of them in the dark And if I was the one You chose to be your only one Oh baby now, can't you hear me now Will I see you tonight on a downtown train Where every night is just the same;You leave me lonely now (Now) I know your window and I know it's late I know your stairs and your doorway I walk down your street and past your gate I stand by the light at the fourway You watch them as they fall Ooh, and they all have heart attacks They stay at the carnival, but they'll never win you back Will I see you tonight on a downtown train Where every night, every night is just the same; you leave me lonely Will I see you tonight on a downtown train Where every night, every night is just the same, all upon a downtown Will I see you tonight on a downtown train Where every night, every night is just the same, you leave me lonely Will I see you tonight on a downtown train Where all my dreams just fall like the rain, all upon a downtown train |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Hometown Girl (1989)
Last Sunday we got in the car and we drove To the town you were raised in, your boyhood home The trees were just turning, up on the ridge And this was your valley when you were a kid You showed me the railroad that your daddy worked on As we neared the old house where your granny lives on She's nearing ninety years now, with her daughters by her side Who tend the places in the heart where loneliness can hide Raised by the women who are stronger than you know A patchwork quilt of memory only women could have sewn The threads were stitched by family hands, protected from the moth By your mother...and her mother, the weavers of your cloth Your grandmother owned a gun in 1932 When times were bad just everywhere, you said she used it too And the life and times of everyone are traced inside their palms Her skin may be so weathered, but her grip is still so strong And I see your eyes belong to her and too your mama too A slice of Virginia sky, the clearest shade of blue Raised by the women who are stronger than you know A patchwork quilt of memory only women could have sewn The threads were stitched by family hands, protected from the moth By your mother...and her mother, the weavers of your cloth And a rich man you might never be, they'd love you just the same They've handed down so much to you besides your Christian name And the spoken word won't heal you like the laying on of hands Belonging to the ones who raised you to a man Raised by the women who are stronger than you know A patchwork quilt of memory only women could have sewn The threads were stitched by family hands, protected from the moth By your mother...and her mother, the weavers of your cloth |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Hometown Girl (1989)
He pulled out in a cloud of dust Laying rubber and spewing rust And on any road he'd take He'd have his foot on the pedal and my heart on the brake Underneath the smooth tar curves A road is only dust and dirt On a lonely interchange The signs all look the same 'Cause a road is just a road and a feeling's just a feeling No matter where you go, from Waterloo to Wichita A road is just a road that the one you love is leaving on And midnight's another dawn, 100 miles ago His wheels spun out of sight of me Believing that I'd set him free But I'd heard the voice of the prisoner Saying he couldn't get enough of her You go by land, you go by air You go by sea, hell I don't care You can go any way you choose Wearing out the soles of your traveling shoes And a road is just a road and a feeling's just a feeling No matter where you go, from Bangor, Maine to Bakersfield A road is just a road that the one you love is leaving on And midnight's another dawn, a hundred miles ago And every sleepless night I see him Screaming by the scenery Not noticing another mile That's rolled down between him and me 'Cause a road is just a road and a feeling's just a feeling No matter where you go, from Saskatoon to San Antone A road is just a road that the one you love is leaving on And midnight's another dawn, a hundred miles ago Yes, a road is just a road and a feeling's just a feeling No matter where you go, from San Bernardino to Sault Ste. Marie A road is just a road that the one you love is leaving on And midnight's another dawn, a hundred miles ago |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Hometown Girl (1989)
Fetch me a glass, let's fill it with fine romance Pour slow the wine, then let your eyes kiss mine You, you with the charming eyes Lately I've found myself truly beguiled If this is a waltz, then I can't refuse To dance with a man like you. She must be fine, she must be enchantingly kind And she must be fair, and never reveal that she cares Then, then when you've got her heart Spin her around till she begs you to stop But this is a waltz and no lady refuses To dance with a man like you. And if she inquires the meaning of love You'll silence her words with a glance And if she desires to wonder and pause You'll charmingly ask her to dance You promised me that you would forever be kind And if meant to be, our love would find comfort in time Now, now that you feel no more How could I follow you out to the floor And now it's the waltz but I have to refuse To dance with a man like you But this is your waltz and you'll find someone new To dance with a man like you |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Hometown Girl (1989)
Have you ever loved someone you knew nothing of Except you'd seen the light inside their eyes Have you ever loved someone just because Nothing felt so easy or so right And I think of you like the others do Wondering if you think of me And if you do, if you really do Who is it that you see Have you ever loved Whether right or wrong Have you ever loved someone Just because Have you ever tried to speak the truth instead of lie When it seemed you had everything to lose Have you ever tried to stand your ground instead of hide When staying only made you look a fool And I stayed by you though I think I knew It wouldn't change a thing Changes come to hearts with ease But they come so hard to me Have you ever tried to make it last, not knowing why Except you had to try Just because And every day that passes now, I s'pose I'm getting older Wiser with the things I've done But I hope I don't grow colder And now I see the ones, who've lost so much They swear they're done With love and all the chance it brings for pain But have you ever touched, and by itself it was enough To make you want to reach out once again And I'll touch you when I need a friend Or just a small reminder That I haven't grown too cold to feel You penetrate my armor Have you ever loved Whether right or wrong Have you ever loved someone Just because Have you ever loved someone Just because |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Hometown Girl (1989)
Heros and heroines are scarcer than they've ever been So much more to lose than win the distance never greater Way back when you made history by flying planes across the sea Embarking on your odyssey You put away the danger Heaven bless the one who flys A pioneer on frontier skies The world was dark and your only mark Was the light of the northern star I imagine what was in your eyes The seeds of rust and days gone by Your wings hang in a gallery sky I wonder how you're flying Way out on the western plains The snow drifts high and the dust wind burns The chinooks blow their winds Across the mountains A life that's never safe and dry rodeos and riding high Ladies and their men get by on six guns and white lightening. Heaven bless them on the road those drifters and their dreams of gold The world was wide and a cowboy's song could span the whole horizon I imagine what was in your eyes The dust and the dirt under out law skies A piece of land and a stubborn mind were the only things worth having Now they say the moon is dust and ash and California's made of cash We're waiting for those hills to crash into sparkling waters Rain and snow and sun and wind You roamed the earth and you spread your wings Long ago my hero's dreams belonged to all God's creatures Heaven bless the ones who sleep The ones who laugh and the ones who weep Heaven bless the one who keep their bearings strong and certain And Lord help the fool who said You'd better quit while you're ahead A dreamer born is a hero bred on earth and up in heaven And Lord help the fool who said You'd better quit while you're ahead A dreamer born is a hero bred on earth and up in heaven |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - State Of The Heart (1989)
Well that's a real nice jacket son It looks like it cost you too And that car you're driving Hey does that belong to you Well you don't look familiar Are you new in town Here's a local girl Who wants to show you around How do Where'd you get that accent son It matches your cowboy boots Tonight those lone star ladies Must be lonesome and oh so blue 'Cause we're a thousand miles From the Texas line And if you've no objection son Tonight you're mine How do Well I've been to Paris baby I've been to Dallas too But I didn't see no one there Who looked half as good as you So if you ain't in a hurry baby Just sit tight I'm sort of in the mood To speak some French tonight Et vous? How do |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - State Of The Heart (1989)
She used to watch him from afar She used to dream about him and she'd wish upon a star That one day she'd have him for her own Throw caution to the wind And with a grin He'd take her home She's something of a dreamer somethig of a fool something of a heart break when she gives her heart to you And she used to hear his voice at nigth a sweet whisper from the shadows dancing with the backporch light and she used to feel him in the wind his warm breath upon her neck and the goosebumps up and down her skin She's something of a dreamer somethig of a fool something of a heart break when she gives her heart to you Well she should have known by now but that's the foolish part of her she should of seen some how but a dreamer's never cured when heartbreaks fast approach when a love ain't truly love he promised wine and roses and she thought it was enough |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - State Of The Heart (1989)
No one's got to tell me it's over I could see it from miles away No one's got to tell me What I don't already know today No one's got to tell me they've seen you On the town with an old girlfriend No one's got to tell me You look like you've fallen in love again 'Cause you're out of my life now With a wave of her hand You never had it so good babe I never had it so bad Now you can do what you want to And never feel sad You never had it so good babe I never had it so bad No one's got to tell me the difference Between me and the one who's returned No one's got to tell me You never really got over her No one's got to tell me they've seen you Looking like a brand new man No one's got to tell me You look like you've fallen in love again 'Cause you're out of my life now With a wave of her hand You never had it so good babe I never had it so bad Now you can do what you want to And never feel sad You never had it so good babe I never had it so bad So you just go where you go And do what you do And be who you want to be But when she burns you again And your phone doesn't ring Baby it's me 'Cause you're out of my life now With a wave of her hand You never had it so good babe I never had it so bad Now you can do what you want to And never feel sad You never had it so good babe I never had it so bad |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - State Of The Heart (1989)
A few more cigarettes now honey One more jolt of joe A couple hours past New York City A few more turnpike tolls One more minute away from you Is a minute that lasts too long When I get back we're gonna lock the door baby And disconnect the phone We could use a week to get reacquainted Some time to feel it out But leave your small talk back at home baby This ain't what that's about Just read my lips Yes I think you can Just read my lips And you'll understand Well I can see it in your eyes now honey 'Cause I've seen it in myself You've got a few old scars that's ancient history baby That was someone else Well I could tell you that you're only human That you're right to be afraid But how can you pull back on me now Don't you make that big mistake Well you could give it up Or you could just give in Now it's a choice between the two But I weren't born no yesterday baby I wasn't born a fool Just read my lips Yes I think you can Just read my lips And you'll understand Just read my lips And you can read my mind Just read my lips Just one more time This ain't no game of cat and mouse It ain't no truth or dare I ain't got 20 questions for you Just one thing to declare Just read my lips Yes I think you can Just read my lips And you'll understand Just read my lips And you can read my mind Just read my lips Just one more time |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - State Of The Heart (1989)
This shirt is old and faded All the color's washed away I've had it now for more damn years Than I can count anyway I wear it beneath my jacket With the collar turned up high So old I should replace it But I'm not about to try This shirt's got silver buttons And a place upon the sleeve Where I used to set my heart up Right there anyone could see This shirt is the one I wore to every boring high school dance Where the boys ignored the girls And we all pretended to like the band This shirt was a pillow for my head On a train through Italy This shirt was a blanket beneath the love We made in Argeles This shirt was lost for three whole days In a town near Buffalo 'Till I found the locker key In a downtown Trailways bus depot This shirt was the one I lent you And when you gave it back There was a rip inside the sleeve Where you rolled your cigarettes It was the place I put my heart Now look at where you put a tear I forgave your thoughtlessness But not the boy who put it there This shirt was the place your cat Decided to give birth to five And we stayed up all night watching And we wept when the last one died This shirt is just an old faded piece of cotton Shining like the memories Inside those silver buttons This shirt is a grand old relic With a grand old history I wear it now for Sunday chores Cleaning house and raking leaves I wear it beneath my jacket With the collar turned up high So old I should replace it But I'm not about to try |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - State Of The Heart (1989)
Hey baby tell me what we're gonna do
It's getting crazy and I need some help from you We were so connected that you were a part of me Now I feel an emptiness right to the heart of me But you pretend and I pretend That everything is fine And though we should be at an end It's so hard admittin' When it's quittin' time Hey baby I'm running out of things to say Please don't hate me this feeling just won't go away Now we're spending all our time caught in a fantasy Just trying to keep in mind the way it used to be But you pretend and I pretend That everything is fine And though we should be at an end It's so hard admittin' When it's quittin' time But you pretend and I pretend That everything is fine And though we should be at an end It's so hard admittin' When it's quittin' time |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - State Of The Heart (1989)
Fields of green by the side of the road Going down in Mary's land Roll down the window feel the cool of a grove Hit the palm of your outstretched hand Radio's playing a tune from the country Fiddle and an old time band Race with the moon to the edge of the water Down in Mary's land Down in Mary's land East of Virginia where the bay meets a river Down in Mary's land The wind pulls your sleeve like a long lost lover Whose heart can't understand How you ever could leave The view you behold Ain't it fine and ain't life grand When you don't need nothing But some beer and a bushel Down in Mary's land Gonna sleep with the stars And a slice of the moon Hanging right above my bed Gonna dream not of things That I've left behind But those I've found instead Down in Mary's land Radio's playing a tune from the country Fiddle and an old time band Race with the moon to the edge of the water Down in Mary's land Gonna sleep with the stars And a slice of the moon Hanging right above my bed Gonna dream not of things That I've left behind But those I've found instead Down in Mary's land |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - State Of The Heart (1989)
Every night she sleeps alone And by her bed she puts the phone And every morning after that She takes the phone and puts it back He's got a wife back home and three kids up and grown But these are things that go unsaid He might call her from the road just in time to say hello And goodbye again She keeps his picture tucked away She thinks she'll have it framed one day And maybe he'll come see it there Hanging by her rocking chair In a corner of her room on a Sunday afternoon When all the world is dull and gray She might close her eyes and sit, rocking gently for a bit Till all the bad thoughts go away Back when children played their games London Bridge and Jesse James She captured flags, she bounced the ball And every time, she beat them all And now she comes home to a cat in a three-room walk-up flat And plays a game of solitaire Well she made a fist last night, and she broke the hallway light And the pieces scattered everywhere You see, he's got a wife back home and three kids up and grown But these are things that go unsaid He might call her from the road just in time to say hello And goodbye again |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - State Of The Heart (1989)
Too tired to fight so I just gave in Last night I slept in your arms again And I felt my heart next to your skin Beatin' like crazy Been runnin' from something I can't explain It ain't just anger, it ain't just pain But it goes away when you call my name Callin' me baby But you ain't no good for a girl like me I was doin' fine when I first met you Swept me off my feet, next thing I knew I was wonderin' where you'd gone off to Leavin' me lonely This town's too small for your kind of games Pointin' fingers, namin' names But I'm so far gone I'll take anything That you can give me Still you ain't no good for a girl like me Last night I felt that I couldn't stand no more But I found myself standin' right here by your door Too tired to care that you're bad for me My heart says stay, but my head says leave But I can't get far when I'm on my knees Begging you baby You ain't no good for a girl like me Last night I felt that I couldn't stand no more But I found myself standin' right here by your door Too tired to fight so I just gave in Last night I slept in your arms again And I felt my heart next to your skin Beatin' like crazy Beatin' like crazy Beatin' like crazy Hey! |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - State Of The Heart (1989)
Out on the floor the couples are swaying To "One Faded Love" on the jukebox tonight You slide in your coins and the music keeps playing A slow country dance on a Saturday night Sweethearts in love and others just lonely Searching for someone to waltz with tonight In a smoky old bar you know that it's only A slow country dance on a Saturday night And love's never easy or ever as true When the changing of partners is no longer new You lead with your heart, and closing your eyes Dance just to dance in three-quarter time Down at the bar a woman tells stories Batting her eyes to someone not there Her glass is half full or maybe half empty Like the jokes told about her when they think she can't hear Now the perfume is cheap and the makeup is careless And the dress out of fashion for a woman her age But she don't give a damn for those who would cherish A much lighter step and a much younger face And love's never easy or ever as true When the changing of partners is no longer new You lead with your heart, and closing your eyes Dance just to dance in three-quarter time Out on the floor the couples are swaying To "One Faded Love" on the jukebox tonight |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - State Of The Heart (1989)
Well I know it ain't been roses lately, baby, it's just been thorns And no matter what we do, nothing seems to change Love has always been my shelter, for you it's been a storm But for a while I thought we'd almost beat the rain Now there's a hole here in my pocket where all my dreams have gone Fallen out like so many nickels and dimes And last of all you, you'd always been my good luck charm I should've known that luck's a waste of time 'Cause it don't bring you love if you don't love And it don't bring you time if you ain't got time And it don't bring you strength, baby, if you ain't strong And it don't bring you kindness if you ain't kind Now there's a whole lot of life to be unsure of But there's one thing I can safely say I know That of all the things that finally desert us Pride is always the last thing to go But it won't bring you love if you don't love And it won't bring you time if you ain't got time And it won't bring you strength, baby, if you ain't strong And it won't bring you kindness if you ain't kind And now I wish you only roses, baby, without the thorns And I hope your dreams are always within reach And I wish you shelter, baby, from all your storms They scared you, but they never seemed to teach That I can't bring you love if you don't love And I can't bring you time if you ain't got time And I can't bring you strength, baby, if you ain't strong And I can't bring you kindness if you ain't kind And I can't bring you kindness if you ain't kind |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - What Would You Say To Me (2004)
What would you say to me?
What would you say to me? What would you say to me If we met one day? On the street of broken dreams On the street of broken dreams On the street of broken dreams Not so far away Would you offer me a smile? Would you offer me a smile? Would you stop and talk a while Or would you walk away? Why would you wanna see? Why would you wanna see Another tear from me? It's just a game you play You're not the only one You're not the only one When all was said and done Who had to hurt this way Well, take a walk around the town Take a walk around this town Collar up an' head down Against the cold and gray We're only strangers here (Strangers here) We're just like strangers here (Strangers here) Hearts full of achin' fear Whisper, "Come what may" Time only goes one way Time only goes one way Time only knows one way And it ain't come back So when you remember me When you remember me Some might, tenderly Just remember that What would you say to me? What would you say to me? What would you say to me If we met one day? |
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from 'Til Their Eyes Shine... The Lullaby Album (1992)
Sun goes down and says goodnight
Pull your covers up real tight By your bed, we'll leave a light To guide you off to dreamland Your pillows soft your bed is warm Your eyes are tired when day is done One more kiss and you'll be gone On your way to dreamland Every sleepy boy and girl In every bed around the world Can hear the stars up in the sky Whispering a lullaby Who knows where you'll fly away Winging passed the light of day The man in the moon and the milky way Welcome you to dreamland Every sleepy boy and girl In every bed around the world Can hear the stars up in the sky Whispering a lullaby Who knows where you'll fly away Winging passed the light of day The man in the moon and the milky way Welcome you to dreamland |
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from It Could Happen To You: Music From The Motion Picture (1994)
Well I woke up this morning stumbled out of my rack
I opened up the paper to the page in the back It only took a minute for my finger to find My daily dose of destiny, under my sign My eyes just about popped out of my head It said "the stars are stacked against you girl, get back in bed" I feel lucky, I feel lucky, yeah No Professor Doom gonna stand in my way Mmmmm, I feel lucky today Well I strolled down to the corner, gave my numbers to the clerk The pot's eleven million so I called in sick to work I bought a pack of Camels, a burrito and a Barq's Crossed against the light, made a beeline for the park The sky began to thunder, wind began to moan I heard a voice above me saying, "girl, you better get back home" But I feel lucky, oh oh oh, I feel lucky, yeah No tropical depression gonna steal my sun away Mmmmm, I feel lucky today Now eleven million later, I was sitting at the bar I'd bought the house a double, and the waitress a new car Dwight Yoakam's in the corner, trying to catch my eye Lyle Lovett's right beside me with his hand upon my thigh The moral of this story, it's simple but it's true Hey the stars might lie, but the numbers never do I feel lucky, oh oh oh, I feel lucky, yeah Hey Dwight, hey Lyle, boys, you don't have to fight Hot dog, I'm feeling lucky tonight I feel lucky, brrrrr, I feel lucky, yeah Think I'll flip a coin, I'm a winner either way Mmmmmm, I feel lucky today |
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from Steppin' Country (1993)
Saturday night and the moon is out
I wanna head on over to the Twist and Shout Find a two-step partner and a Cajun beat When it lifts me up I'm gonna find my feet Out in the middle of a big dance floor When I hear that fiddle wanna beg for more Gonna dance to a band from a-Lou'sian' tonight Well I never have wandered down to New Orleans Never have drifted down a bayou stream But I heard that music on the radio And I swore some day I was gonna go Down Highway 10 past Lafayette To Baton Rouge and I won't forget To send you a card with my regrets 'Cause I'm never gonna come back home Saturday night and the moon is out I wanna head on over to the Twist and Shout Find a two-step partner and a Cajun beat When it lifts me up I'm gonna find my feet Out in the middle of a big dance floor When I hear that fiddle wanna beg for more Gonna dance to a band from a-Lou'sian' tonight They got a alligator stew and a crawfish pie A gulf storm blowin' into town tonight Livin on the delta's quite a show They got hurricane parties every time it blows And here up north it's a cold cold rain And there ain't no cure for my blues today Except when the paper says: Beausoleil is coming into town Baby let's go down Saturday night and the moon is out I wanna head on over to the Twist and Shout Find a two-step partner and a Cajun beat When it lifts me up I'm gonna find my feet Out in the middle of a big dance floor When I hear that fiddle wanna beg for more Gonna dance to a band from a-Lou'sian' tonight Bring your mama, bring your papa, bring your sister too They got lots of music and lots of room When they play you a waltz from 1910 You gonna feel a little bit young again Well you learned to dance with your rock'n'roll You learned to swing with a do-si-do But you learn to love at the fais-so-do When you hear a little Jolie Blon Saturday night and the moon is out I wanna head on over to the Twist and Shout Find a two-step partner and a Cajun beat When it lifts me up I'm gonna find my feet Out in the middle of a big dance floor When I hear that fiddle wanna beg for more Gonna dance to a band from a-Lou'sian' tonight |
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from Steppin' Country (1993)
Well I woke up this morning stumbled out of my rack
I opened up the paper to the page in the back It only took a minute for my finger to find My daily dose of destiny, under my sign My eyes just about popped out of my head It said "the stars are stacked against you girl, get back in bed" I feel lucky, I feel lucky, yeah No Professor Doom gonna stand in my way Mmmmm, I feel lucky today Well I strolled down to the corner, gave my numbers to the clerk The pot's eleven million so I called in sick to work I bought a pack of Camels, a burrito and a Barq's Crossed against the light, made a beeline for the park The sky began to thunder, wind began to moan I heard a voice above me saying, "girl, you better get back home" But I feel lucky, oh oh oh, I feel lucky, yeah No tropical depression gonna steal my sun away Mmmmm, I feel lucky today Now eleven million later, I was sitting at the bar I'd bought the house a double, and the waitress a new car Dwight Yoakam's in the corner, trying to catch my eye Lyle Lovett's right beside me with his hand upon my thigh The moral of this story, it's simple but it's true Hey the stars might lie, but the numbers never do I feel lucky, oh oh oh, I feel lucky, yeah Hey Dwight, hey Lyle, boys, you don't have to fight Hot dog, I'm feeling lucky tonight I feel lucky, brrrrr, I feel lucky, yeah Think I'll flip a coin, I'm a winner either way Mmmmmm, I feel lucky today |
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from Tribute To Tradition (1998)
Everybody's going out and having fun
I'm just a fool for staying home and having none I can't get over how he set me free, oh, lonesome me A bad mistake I'm making by just hanging round Well I know that I should have some fun and paint the town A lovesick fool that's blind and just can't see, oh, lonesome me Well, I'll bet he's not like me, he's out and fancy free Flirtin' with the girls with all of his charm I still love him so, mister don't you know I'd welcome him right back here in my arms Well, there must be some way I can lose these lonesome blues Forget about the past and find somebody new I've thought of everything from A to Z, oh, lonesome me Oh, lonesome me I'll bet he's not like me, he's out and fancy free Flirtin' with the girls with all of his charm I still love him so, [Incomprehensible] don't you know I'd welcome him right back here in my arms There must be some way I can lose these lonesome blues Forget about the past and find somebody new I've thought of everything from A to Z, oh, lonesome me Oh, lonesome me, oh, me ------------- Lyrics Powered by LyricFind Written By GIBSON, DON <i>Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC</i> |
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from Country Dance Super Hits (1995)
Well I woke up this morning stumbled out of my rack
I opened up the paper to the page in the back It only took a minute for my finger to find My daily dose of destiny, under my sign My eyes just about popped out of my head It said "the stars are stacked against you girl, get back in bed" I feel lucky, I feel lucky, yeah No Professor Doom gonna stand in my way Mmmmm, I feel lucky today Well I strolled down to the corner, gave my numbers to the clerk The pot's eleven million so I called in sick to work I bought a pack of Camels, a burrito and a Barq's Crossed against the light, made a beeline for the park The sky began to thunder, wind began to moan I heard a voice above me saying, "girl, you better get back home" But I feel lucky, oh oh oh, I feel lucky, yeah No tropical depression gonna steal my sun away Mmmmm, I feel lucky today Now eleven million later, I was sitting at the bar I'd bought the house a double, and the waitress a new car Dwight Yoakam's in the corner, trying to catch my eye Lyle Lovett's right beside me with his hand upon my thigh The moral of this story, it's simple but it's true Hey the stars might lie, but the numbers never do I feel lucky, oh oh oh, I feel lucky, yeah Hey Dwight, hey Lyle, boys, you don't have to fight Hot dog, I'm feeling lucky tonight I feel lucky, brrrrr, I feel lucky, yeah Think I'll flip a coin, I'm a winner either way Mmmmmm, I feel lucky today |
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from Country Dance Super Hits (1995)
Saturday night and the moon is out
I wanna head on over to the Twist and Shout Find a two-step partner and a Cajun beat When it lifts me up I'm gonna find my feet Out in the middle of a big dance floor When I hear that fiddle wanna beg for more Gonna dance to a band from a-Lou'sian' tonight Well I never have wandered down to New Orleans Never have drifted down a bayou stream But I heard that music on the radio And I swore some day I was gonna go Down Highway 10 past Lafayette To Baton Rouge and I won't forget To send you a card with my regrets 'Cause I'm never gonna come back home Saturday night and the moon is out I wanna head on over to the Twist and Shout Find a two-step partner and a Cajun beat When it lifts me up I'm gonna find my feet Out in the middle of a big dance floor When I hear that fiddle wanna beg for more Gonna dance to a band from a-Lou'sian' tonight They got a alligator stew and a crawfish pie A gulf storm blowin' into town tonight Livin on the delta's quite a show They got hurricane parties every time it blows And here up north it's a cold cold rain And there ain't no cure for my blues today Except when the paper says: Beausoleil is coming into town Baby let's go down Saturday night and the moon is out I wanna head on over to the Twist and Shout Find a two-step partner and a Cajun beat When it lifts me up I'm gonna find my feet Out in the middle of a big dance floor When I hear that fiddle wanna beg for more Gonna dance to a band from a-Lou'sian' tonight Bring your mama, bring your papa, bring your sister too They got lots of music and lots of room When they play you a waltz from 1910 You gonna feel a little bit young again Well you learned to dance with your rock'n'roll You learned to swing with a do-si-do But you learn to love at the fais-so-do When you hear a little Jolie Blon Saturday night and the moon is out I wanna head on over to the Twist and Shout Find a two-step partner and a Cajun beat When it lifts me up I'm gonna find my feet Out in the middle of a big dance floor When I hear that fiddle wanna beg for more Gonna dance to a band from a-Lou'sian' tonight |
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from Backstage Pass - Dvd Concert Collection (Volume L) (2001)
Some people remember the first time, some can't forget the last
Some just select what they want to from the past It's a song you danced to in high school, it's a moon you tried to bring down On a four in the morning drive through the streets of town Come on come on, it's getting late now Come on come on, take my hand Come on come on, you just have to whisper Come on come on, I will understand It's a photograph taken in Paris at the end of the honeymoon In 1948, late in the month of June Your parents smile for the camera in sienna shades of light Now you're older than they were then that summer night Come on come on, it's getting late now Come on come on, take my hand Come on come on, you just have to whisper Come on come on, I will understand It's a need you never get used to, so fierce and so confused It's a loss you never get over the first time you lose And tonight I am thinking of someone seventeen years ago We rode in his daddy's car down the River Road Come on come on, it's getting late now Come on come on, take my hand Come on come on, you just have to whisper Come on come on, I will understand Come on come on, it's getting late now Come on come on, take my hand Come on come on, you just have to whisper Come on come on, I will understand |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - Time Sex Love (2001) | |||||
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from The All Time Greatest Christmas Songs (1999)
No presents, no candy, no trees, no stockings hung by the fire.
No parties, no family to greet, no angel's heavenly chiors. Bells are ringing, all over the world. Bells are ringing, calling the light Bells are ringing, all over the world, all over the world tonight. No doorways, no windows, no walls, No shelter here on the ground. No standing, no safe place to fall, Just the promise of this distant sound Bells are ringing, all over the world. Bells are ringing, calling the light Bells are ringing, all over the world, all over the world tonight. Wherever you're walking tonight, whoever you're waiting for Somehow, by the stable's faint light, Peace in your heart is restored. 'Cause Bells are ringing, all over the world. Bells are ringing, calling the light Bells are ringing, all over the world, all over the world Bells are ringing, all over the world. Bells are ringing, calling the light Bells are ringing, all over the world, all over the world tonight. |
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - I Put My Ring Back On [single] (2010) | |||||
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from Mary Chapin Carpenter - The Way I Feel [single] (2010) | |||||
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from Boulder To Birmingham (Live) [digital single] (2016) |