Beth Nielsen Chapman/Darrell Scott
Hallelujah, here we are now
At the same fork in the road
We don't know why, we can't say how
We're still carrying this load
Crashed through anger
Walked in blindness
Stormed the boundaries day and night
If we could just remember kindness
Would it matter who is right
Would it matter who is right
And all I ever wanted was a love that I could say was mine
A heart of gold if only it could last a lifetime
Hallelujah here we are now
At the entrance to the caves
If we stand and face our shadows
Maybe this love can be saved
Now I can't wake up in your darkness
I've got darkness of my own
But this sacred light between us
That's enough to guide us home
That's enough to get us home
And all I ever wanted was a love that I could say was mine
A heart of gold if only it could last a lifetime
Sweet love coming back around this time
Sweet love finally found this heart of mine
Sweet love opened up my eyes
Love that I can see forever, baby its now or never
Sweet love everything I have with you
Sweet love tested till its tried and true
Sweet love all that we've been through
Baby after everything you still make me sing
Hallelujah
Beth Nielsen Chapman/Darrell Scott
I can see me loving you, you can show me how
There is nothing I won't do, we can start right now
I can see me lov'in you when we're old and grey
Ups and downs or joys and blues, laughing all the way
Born into this world of darkness every child will be
Always reaching towards the light
Every living breathing soul unfolds this mystery
Gently rolling to that good night
I can see me loving you
See you loving me
In each moment shining through eternity
Take my hand and walk with me, our love will abide
Past the point of no return to the other side
Might wakeup someday and wonder what life's come to
Is this good as love can be?
All I know is from the moment I laid eyes on you
You're as far as I can see
I can see me loving you
See you loving me
In each moment shining through all eternity
Beth Nielsen Chapman/Annie Roboff
You could spend your whole life wanting what you don't have
Tangled in the pain and strife, dragging up the ghosts of your past
You can curse the rain, but the river remains
Even as it all goes by...
Baby its a long road to the promised land
And there are dreams we hold in the palm of our hands
But we can never know how the promise will end
Even as it all goes by
Flying through the hourglass like a grain of sand
Every moment opens right in our hands
So love me like a slow dance on a fast train
Kiss me as the world flies past and the sceneries change
And as time rolls through I will hold on to you
Even as it all goes by
Flying through the hourglass like a grain if sand
Every moment opens right in our hands
As fleeting as the first light on a window sill
Reaching through the darkest night, it can never be still
Like the earth that spins,where it ends it begins
Even as it all goes by, even as it all goes by
Either way it all goes by
Beth Nielsen Chapman
Life has taught me this
Everyday is new
And if everything is true
All that matters when we're through is how we love
Faced with what we lack
Some things fall apart
But from the ashes new dreams start
All that matters to the heart is how we love
How we love, how we love
With the smallest act of kindness
In a word, a smile, a touch
In spite of our mistakes
Chances come again
If we lose or if we win
All that matters in the end is how we love
How we love, how we love
I will not forget your kindness
When I needed it so much
Sometimes we forget
Trying to be so strong
In this world of right and wrong
All that matters when we're gone
All that mattered all along
All we have that carries on...is how we love
Beth Nielsen Chapman
Welcome to the chaos
To the scraps and stacks of paper
Puppets hanging in the kitchen
In an avalanche of wind chimes
Oh I need you love...
Welcome to my guesses
To the questions unremembered
In a myriad of choices
In the fragments of my sentences
I need you love
I need you love...
Need you like an arrow
Needs the center of a circle as it flies
I need you love
Like sleep and light and oxygen
And your warm arms around me when I cry
Oh baby I'll try to find a million ways
To tell you all the endless reasons why
Welcome to the circus
And the days so swift unfolding
Where I have no flipping clue
And yet I sound as if I do
You know I need you love
Welcome to the lessons
And the dance of sweet forgiveness
To the gift of my intentions
And the depth of my commitment
Oh I need you love
I need you love...
I need you through the spirals
And detours
And the dark nights of my soul
I need you love...
The lips the hands the eyes the voice
The story that we share as it unfolds
This dream we hold
Promise me we will always be together
And you'll never let me go
Welcome to forever
Even more and ever after
After all the things we've weathered
Whether anything else matters
Oh I need you love...
I need you, love
Beth Nielsen Chapman/Danny Flowers
Deep inside our single heart
All the roads to Heaven start
Sun and moon shall fall and rise
Every day begins baptized
Stay with me here, go with me there
Nothing to fear, lighter than air
And with this vow, blessed from above
This is about more than love
More than love
Struggles, trials, tears and pain
Storm through life like clouds of rain
Hope and grace and peace abide
Shining from the other side
Follow the song into the dance
It won't take long given the chance
Soon we'll find out what we're made of
This is about more than love
Beth Nielsen Chapman
Happiness showed up today and rang its bell above the din
Long enough to change the spin and turn my wheels around
I had driven past my last regret, down the side road of despair
Where the answers don't come up for air and grace just can't be found
All my fears disguised as truth danced the dark night of my soul
But the light of day revealed no proof that God would let me down
Happiness showed up today drunk again and full of wit
Singin "let's see how far we can spit and leave those tears to dry"
The past is gone and all for naught, the future cannot be controlled
And the only moment we can hold is this one going by
All those lies I told myself, all those brutal self-hate jabs
Makes a heart feel like a concrete slab. well kiss those days goodbye
Happiness showed up today, a silver throated mocking bird
With the sweetest song I ever heard it flashes across the sky
Beth Nielsen Chapman/Benmont Tench
I'll give my heart
When I hear the sound
You'll speak my name
I'll turn around
To a life I've always known
To a love that call me home
I'll give my heart
And I'll fall so far
Into this dream of who we are
And the moment that its right
I'll give my heart for the rest of my life
When I see my sweet start shining...
I'll give my heart
And I won't regret
One cloudy day
One teardrop shed
Every turn on the way
Brings me close to the day
I'll give my love
I'll give my life
I'll give my all
I'll give my heart
Beth Nielsen Chapman
Fine, fine
Everything, remember
In it's own time
Every wave surrenders
At the shoreline
Times peels back the sky
And the clouds
Hurl shadows at the wind
Oh yes
Pay no mind to me
It's only hopeless
By a small degree
Let's watch the sunset
Slide into the sea
As the clouds
Hurl shadows at the wind
And love is still
A word held in my heart
My candle for the times
The world goes dark
Left, right
I don't know these steps
And there's spotlight
Screaming through my head
Well, baby hold on tight
We'll dance until we're dead
Let the clouds
Hurl shadows at the wind
Dream days
Ending in a sigh
And its the same haze
Hung up in that sky
I'm singing "Both sides now"
It helps me cry
While the clouds hurl shadows
I've looked at clouds from both sides
While the clouds
Hurl shadows at the wind
Beth Nielsen Chapman/Michael McDonald
I have come from so far away
Down the road of my own mistakes
In the hope you can hear me pray
Oh, Lord keep me in your reach
How I've longed through these wasted years
To outrun all the pain and fear
Turned to stone from my uncried tears
And now its your grace I seek
Love won't compromise
It's a gift
Its a sacrifice
My soul renewed
My heart released
In you I'll find my peace
Oh wondrous child of whom the angels sing
Know my joy
feel my suffering
Shining star make this love you bring
So bright that I may believe
That my way will not be lost
From now on, 'til that rivers crossed
My soul renewed
My spirit free
In you I'll find my peace
Beth Nielsen Chapman
Oh the path of love is deep with a thousand twists and turns
There are promises to keep, there are endless things to learn
Through the laughter and the tears sometimes lost, sometimes alone
Letting go is how you steer, and it always leads you home
Oh the path of love is free, it will never hold you back
Like the branches of a tree, reaching out till its lost track
And it opens wide each heart like the seed that breaks the stone
No matter where you are, it will always lead you home
Oh the path of love is true, and it only wants whats best
There are doors it pulls us through as it puts us to the test
And there's nothing to pretend, in our heart somehow we've known
The path of love won't end, no it only leads us home
The path of love won't end, it only leads us home
