Mary Chapin Carpenter songs lyrics

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...

This morning I work up with the feelin’ that I’d been away too long All this blacktop runnin’ underneath my wheels makes me feel too gone Well...

(Mary Chapin Carpenter) Can't remember lookin' for somethin' so hard to find I can't remember talkin' to myself just like I'd lost my mind I can't...

(Mary Chapin Carpenter) This isn't for the ones who blindly follow Jingoistic bumper stickers tellin' you To love it or leave it and you'd better...

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...

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...

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...

Last night I dreamed my head was in a fever Last night I dreamed it never was so far To reach a shore of safety and redemption And to gaze upon a...

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...

Nothing shatters Nothing brakes Nothing hurts Nothing aches We got ourself one hell of a place In my heaven Looking down at the world below A bunch...

When you see that you're leaving And you see that you're gone And you see there's no saying goodbye All the trees are in mourning The light is late...

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...

The sun's going down past the pines Shadows grow long down the hill Follow the path known by heart Down to the wide open fields Now that it's...

The whippoorwills were crying in the falling rain Far away a whistle hailed a passing train Out in the country summer was almost gone The fields were...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

We believe in things that we cannot see Why shouldn't we, why shouldn't we Hands that heal can set a chained man free Why shouldn't we, why shouldn't...