Almost Home Mary Chapin Carpenter

Almost Home (Mary Chapin Carpenter/Beth Nielson Chapman/Annie Roboff) I saw my life this morning Lying at the bottom of a drawer All this stuff I'm saving God knows what this junk is for And

Another Home Mary Chapin Carpenter

There’s another home somewhere There’s another glimpse of sky There’s another place unlearned And a face not memorized There’s another quilt of green Where the trees throw down their shade There’

Come On Home Mary Chapin Carpenter

Slowly as you look at me In your eyes I can't believe All the love I'm seeing now Plain as day to me somehow Oh, love, come on home Promises a heart can keep Happiness is you and me Never was a dream so

The Dreaming Road Mary Chapin Carpenter

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

The Long Way Home Mary Chapin Carpenter

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

Goodbye Again Mary Chapin Carpenter

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

Halley Came To Jackson Mary Chapin Carpenter

had a party on their porch Daddy rocked the baby mother said amen When Halley came to visit in 1910 Now back then Jackson was a real small town And it’s not every night a comet comes around It was almost

Fading Away Mary Chapin Carpenter

Some phantom performing a strange sleight of hand And the places I see are returning once more To the places I knew them to be long before They merged with your laugh They locked with your eyes I have almost

Stones In The Road Mary Chapin Carpenter

Stones In The Road (Mary Chapin Carpenter) When we were young, we pledged allegiance every morning of our lives The classroom rang with children's voices under teacher's watchful eye We learned

I Tried Going West Mary Chapin Carpenter

at the top of my lungs Driving and crying and driving some more Oh the south is a good place to hide Hot nights cold beer and creaky screen doors And a motel’s vacancy sign A letter a day I wrote back home

It Don't Bring You Mary Chapin Carpenter

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

Hometown Girl Mary Chapin Carpenter

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

Thanksgiving Song Mary Chapin Carpenter

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.

Jubilee Mary Chapin Carpenter

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

Don't Need Much To Be Happy Mary Chapin Carpenter

shine with light All in good stead I'm safe and I'm fed With dreams in my head Good night The feel of my hand being taken Driving at night all alone The breeze on a warm summer evening And coming home

Something of a Dreamer Mary Chapin Carpenter

Something of a Dreamer (Mary Chapin Carpenter) She used to watch him from afar She used to dream about him And she'd wish upon a star That one day he'd want her for his own Throw caution to the

Rhythm Of The Blues Mary Chapin Carpenter

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

Someone Else's Prayer Mary Chapin Carpenter

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

Grand Central Station (Album Version) Mary Chapin Carpenter

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.

Going Out Tonight Mary Chapin Carpenter

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

Oh, Lonesome Me (Album Version) Mary Chapin Carpenter

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

A Lot Like Me Mary Chapin Carpenter

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

One Small Heart (Album Version) Mary Chapin Carpenter

, 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

Down At The Twist And Shout Mary Chapin Carpenter

Down At The Twist And Shout (Mary-Chapin Carpenter) Chorus: 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

Read My Lips Mary Chapin Carpenter

Read My Lips (Mary Chapin Carpenter) 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

I Feel Lucky Mary Chapin Carpenter

I Feel Lucky (Mary-Chapin Carpenter/Don Schlitz) 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

Between Here And Gone Mary Chapin Carpenter

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

Between Here And Gone (Album Version) Mary Chapin Carpenter

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?

Middle Ground Mary Chapin Carpenter

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

Christmas Time in the City Mary Chapin Carpenter

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

New Years Day Mary Chapin Carpenter

played guitar Like a boxer punches with his fist And taken or just lost to me It’s better now to say I dwell in possibility On New Year’s Day And this is what it looked like When we started walking home

Family Hands Mary Chapin Carpenter

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

Mrs. Hemingway Mary Chapin Carpenter

of December Farewell old Hudson River Here comes the sea And love was as new and as bright and as true When I loved you and you loved me Two steamer trunks in the carriage Safe arrival we cabled back home

Only A Dream Mary Chapin Carpenter

feel like a blade at your throat Twirl me about and twirl me around Let me grow dizzy and fall to the ground When I look up at you looking down Say it as only a dream The day you left home

Grow Old With Me Mary Chapin Carpenter

Grow Old With Me (John Lennon) 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 o...

The Bug Mary Chapin Carpenter

The Bug (Mark Knopfler) 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 ma...

How Do Mary Chapin Carpenter

How Do (Mary Chapin Carpenter) 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

Dreamland Mary Chapin Carpenter

Dreamland (Mary Chapin Carpenter) Sun goes down and says goodnight Pull your covers up real tight By your bed we뭠l leave a light To guide you off to dreamland Your pillows soft your bed is warm

I Can See It Now Mary Chapin Carpenter

I Can See It Now (Mary Chapin Carpenter) 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

Shut Up And Kiss Me Mary Chapin Carpenter

Shut Up And Kiss Me (Mary-Chapin Carpenter) 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

Ideas Are Like Stars Mary Chapin Carpenter

Ideas Are Like Stars (Mary Chapin Carpenter) 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

He Thinks He`ll Keep Her Mary Chapin Carpenter

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-poo...

The Hard Way Mary Chapin Carpenter

The Hard Way (Mary Chapin Carpenter) 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 Want To Be Your Girlfriend Mary Chapin Carpenter

I Want To Be Your Girlfriend (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

Never Had It So Good Mary Chapin Carpenter

Never Had It So Good (Mary Chapin Carpenter/John Jennings) 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

Hero In Your Own Hometown Mary Chapin Carpenter

Hero In Your Own Hometown (Mary Chapin Carpenter) 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

Let Me Into Your Heart Mary Chapin Carpenter

Let Me Into Your Heart (Mary Chapin Carpenter) 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

Keeping The Faith Mary Chapin Carpenter

Keeping The Faith (Mary Chapin Carpenter) 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 Chorus: And

A Place In The World Mary Chapin Carpenter

A Place In The World (Mary Chapin Carpenter) 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

Passionate Kisses Mary Chapin Carpenter

Passionate Kisses (Lucinda Williams) 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 ...