Emotion

there you are in the early light of day
There you are in the quiet words i pray
I've been blessed by the simple happiness
Of the perfect love we've made

Every time i turn around
When i'm lost and when i'm found
Like an angel standing guard
There you are

Every time i take a breath and when i forget to breathe
You're watching over me there you are
When i'm looking for the light in the middle of the night
Searching for the brightest star
There you are

There you are in standing in a crowded room
There you are the earth and i'm the moon
My desire is to stand by the fire
That burns inside of you

Every time i turn around
When i'm lost and when i'm found
Like an angel standing guard
There you are

Every time i take a breath and when i forget to breathe
You're watching over me there you are
When i'm looking for the light in the middle of the night
Searching for the brightest star
There you are

(patty griffin)

Occurred to me the other day
You been gone now a couple years
Well i guess it takes a while
For someone to really disappear
And i remember where i was
When the word came about you
It was a day much like today
The sky was bright and wide and blue

And i wonder where you are
And if the pains ends when you die
And i wonder if there was
Some better way to say good-bye

Today my heart is big and sore
It's trying to put right through my skin
Won't see you anymore
I guess that's finally sinking in
Cause you can't make somebody see
With the simple words you say
All their beauty from within
Sometimes they just look away

And i wonder where you are
And if the pains ends when you die
And i wonder if there was
Some better way to say good-bye

my right hand holds matches,
My left holds my past,
I hope the wind catches,
And burns it down fast,
I'm gonna step into the fire,
With my failures and my shame,
And wave good-bye to yesterday,
As i danced among the flames,

So don't try to save me now,
Let the walls of my world all burn down,
Just stand back and wait till the smoke finally passes,
And i will rise,
From the ashes,
From the ashes,
From the ashes,

For all that i'm loosing, much more will i gain,
The hard part is choosing,
To change what needs changed,
And my stance will be much lighter,
With these demonds off my chest,
I'm born with better spirit,
To lay the old to rest

So don't try to save me now,
Let the walls of my world all burn down,
Just stand back and wait till the smoke finally passes,
And i will rise
From the ashes,
From the ashes,
From the ashes,

And i'll walk away stonger,
I will be fyin,
Higher and truer
Then ive flown before,

My right hand holds matches,
My left holds my past,
I hope the catches,
And burns it down
Fast.

yeah
The sun is shining everyday
The clouds never get in the way for you and me
I've known you just a week or two
But baby i'm so into you i can hardly breathe

And i'm in
So totally wrapped up
Emotionally attracted
So physically active
So recklessly i need you
So desperately sure as the sky is blue
Baby i love you
I love you

I never knew that i could feel like this
Can hardly wait till our next kiss
You're so cool
If i'm dreaming please don't wake me up
'cause baby i can't get enough of what you do

And i'm in
So electrically charged up
Kinetically active
Erractically need you
Fanatically you get to me
Magically sure as the sky is blue
Baby i love you

I can't believe
That this is real
The way i feel
Baby i've gone head over heels

And i'm in
So totally wrapped up
Emotionally attracted
So fisically active
So recklessly i need you
So desperately sure as the sky is blue
Yeah

And i'm in
So electrically charged up
Kinetically active
Erractically need you
Fanatically you get to me
Magically sure as the sky is blue
Baby i love you
Baby i love you
Do you love me too?
Baby i love you

this uncivil war


(gretchen peters)

There's a silence on the front lines
You can cut it with a knife
You can stay and take your changes
Or you can run to save your life
And one side is retreating
And the other's runnin scared
And the drums of war are beating
Even through its undeclared

And both sides say they're winning
And both sides know they're losing
And neither one knows what they're fighting for
And in the quiet little places
You can see the little faces
Huddled right outside the bedroom door
Praying for an end to this uncivil war

Papa needs a new job
So he's swallowing his pride
Oh, but it don't go down easy
And it eats him up inside
And mama, she don't notice
Little sister's ragged dress
Lately she don't notice
Much of anything
I guess

They're just fightin off the hunger
Tryin to keep from goin under
But the wolves just keep on
Gatherin' round the door
There's no place to run for cover
So they're turning on each other
Cause there really ain't no winners anymore
Just victims of this uncivil war

There's a silence on the front lines
You can cut it with a knife
You can stay and take your chances
Or you can run to save your life

(tom douglas/buzz cason)

I was standing in the grocery store line
The one they marked express
When this woman came through with about 25 things
And i said don't you know that more is less
She said this world is moving so fast
But i just get more behind with every day
And every morning when i make my coffee
I can't believe my life's turned out this way
All i could say was

Love's the only house big enough for all the pain in the world
Love's the only house big enough for all the pain

He was walking by the other day and i said
Hey baby how you been?
Yeah i got me a little girl now and she's 4 years old
And she's got her daddy's little grin
And you only want what you can't have
And baby you can't have me now
I gave me heart to another
Yeah i'm a mother and he's a father
And we've got each other
And i found out the hard way that

Love's the only house big enough for all the pain in the world
Love's the only house big enough for all the pain

You drive three miles from all this prosperity
Down across the river and you see a ghetto there
And we got children walking around with guns
And they got knives with drugs and pain to spare
And here i am in my clean, white shirt
With a little money in my pocket and a nice warm home
And we got teenagers walkin' around in a culture of darkness
Livin' together alone, and all i can

Love's the only house big enough for all the pain in the world
Love's the only house big enough for all the pain

And i can't explain it and i can't understand
But i'll come down and get my hands dirty and together we'll make a stand
Somewhere cross the parking lot some bands playin out of tune
City streets are gonna burn if we don't do something soon
And senorita can't quit cryin, baby's due now any day
Don juan left, got sick of tryin
No one there to show him the way she came down to the grocery store and
She said i, i wanna buy a little carton of milk but i don't have any money
I said hey i'll cover you honey cause the pain's gotta go somewhere
Yeah the pain's gotta go someplace
So come on down to my house
Don't you know that

Love's the only house big enough for all the pain in the world
Love's the only house big enough for all the pain