Coupla songs
Couple of songs for John and the boys. Y'all that have known me a while know how nutty I am about Mary-Chapin Carpenter. Stones in the Road is my fave of her albums, and two songs made me wistful tonight, as her music is wont to do. Seemed to fit my post-premiere preoccupation.
One's Where Time Stands Still, and the other is This is Love.
Here are the lyrics:
Where Time Stands Still
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
Memory plays tricks on us,
and 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
Is it 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 hand
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
And "This is Love" lyrics:
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
Well, baby, here's that hand, and baby 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
One's Where Time Stands Still, and the other is This is Love.
Here are the lyrics:
Where Time Stands Still
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
Memory plays tricks on us,
and 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
Is it 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 hand
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
And "This is Love" lyrics:
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
Well, baby, here's that hand, and baby 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