Beth Nielsen Chapman Album

I started out
Innocent and young
With a thirst for love
A search for fun

I grew up fast
This mirror in my soul
Reflecting back
What I'd been told

Like every other child I've been
Jaded from the outside in

I don't know
All I've got is feelings
I came tumbling through my mother
To this world of different meanings
I don't know
It comes down to believing
And I'm looking for someone
Who has a picture of the answer

I started out
Guilty of no crime
So much to learn
So little time

A speck of life
A tiny grain of sand
A blink in time
Is that all I am

Spending my existence
Trying to make it all make sense

I don't know
All I've got is feelings
I came tumbling through my mother
To this world of different meanings
I don't know
It comes down to believing
And I'm looking for someone
Who has a picture of the answer

I don't know
All I got is feelings
I came tumbling through my mother
To this world of different meanings
I don't know
It comes down to believing
And I'm looking for someone
Who has a picture of the answer

One moment in the wink of an eye
There was nothing I could say
This strong feeling started up inside
I knew time would not erase away

For you, oh...
My heart is brave, my time is free
I believe deep down in my soul
You hold the key to holding me

All I know is what I feel
Baby, what I feel I can't conceal
I never play those games of mystery
Feelings come and feelings go
In a world where yes means yes and no
You hold the key to holding me

It's so easy to believe someone
When they tell you what you want to hear
I've trusted words that turned to clouds of smoke
As they faded in the atmosphere

But with you, oh...
Those words don't come so easily
I wonder if you even know
You hold the key to holding me

(Repeat Chorus)

One broken heart, you think twice
You feel you can only trust yourself
I've come across that desert
So sure I was never gonna find your love

(Repeat Chorus)

Baby, dance with me slow
Let me fly with you
While the band plays low
Till the night is through

The lights of the candles
Look like stars around the room
I'll try to be careful
But I know I'm not immune
'Cause I just can't imagine
How I'd ever come to harm
With this feeling that I'm feeling
As I'm drowning in your arms

Baby, dance with me slow
Till we barely move
Let that crowd rock and roll
While we share this groove

And float like two shadows
In and out and in between
Those faces around us
At the edges of this dream
And it won't even matter
If they stare as we go by
I'm aware of only your love
In this world of you and I

Baby, dance with me slow
Let me fly with you
Let me fly with you

Faith can blind you
And love can be too kind
The truth may find you
Running from the way you feel inside

Say it to me now
Say it to me anyway
Everything your heart would say
If all the walls came down
Say it to me now
Even if the truth tears us apart
I need to feel the closeness
Of knowing what's in your heart

Eyes are like windows
Oh, and I've tried, but I can't see
what makes you cry
your eyes closed
and stay a million miles away from me

(Repeat Chorus)

When I feel this way
Doesn't matter what I say
There are no words good enough
When I feel this way
Wrapped up in your arms, oh baby
My whole world is your love

Let's erase the doors and windows
Paint a silver moon
There is nothing more I'll ever want outside this room...
When I feel this way

When I feel this way
You can find out anything about me
I won't hide
When I feel this way
I know I could never be without you by my side

Let's erase the doors and windows
Slow these moments down
You're the only one I want around
When I feel this way

Let's erase the doors and windows
Let me show you how
You're the one my dreams are all about
When I feel this way

First she gets angry
Then she gets sad
Then she's decided
It wasn't so bad

This is the last time
This time he swore
She forgives him
Just this once more

First he starts drinking
Then he gets cruel
He don't like her thinking
He's anyone's fool

Teach her a lesson
Silence those eyes
Silence, silence
Later he cries

Oh, my sweet one
What have I done
Turn back the page and see
All that was done to me
Rage on rage

He brings her flowers
Sweet bridal lace
She hangs the pictures
Back into place

The one of the wedding
Needs a new frame
This one can't be
Mended again

There are only so many tears you can cry
Till your heart stops breaking
Only so many doors you can try
Till you finally find your way
Out of the dark, into the light
No, the clouds won't always be grey
The sun reappears in the blink of an eye
And there's only so many tears you can cry

There are only so many reasons to give up
You're not even close
You've got to believe in the power of love
That's all anyone knows
And what makes you strong
And as far as weather and woes
Buckets of rain can fall from the sky
But there's only so many tears you can cry

Get on with it, get on with life
Forget about who's wrong or right
Come out and dance with me tonight
And we'll laugh, laugh, laugh all those tears away

There are only
There are only
There are only
... So many tears... you can cry

duet with Paul Carrack

In the time it takes to tell you
I could show you
In the time it takes to wonder
You could know
Everything inside my heart
Waiting for this dance to start
All you gotta do
All you gotta do is let go...

In the time it takes to want me
You can have me
And you'd never have to ask how much I care
Love for me is not some game
Any time you call my name
I'll be there

Like a star that's traveled years to shine
Like a song that wants to hear the rhyme
In the time it takes
In the time it takes

Like a spark that makes your soul ignite
Only love knows when the moments right
In the time it takes
In the time it takes

Nothing I wouldn't give
Knowing I couldn't live without you
And if I get my wish
Heavens gonna help me
Heavens gonna make you mine

(Repeat Chorus)

There are only so many tears you can cry
Till your heart stops breaking
Only so many doors you can try
Till you finally find your way
Out of the dark, into the light
No, the clouds won't always be grey
The sun reappears in the blink of an eye
And there's only so many tears you can cry

There are only so many reasons to give up
You're not even close
You've got to believe in the power of love
That's all anyone knows
And what makes you strong
And as far as weather and woes
Buckets of rain can fall from the sky
But there's only so many tears you can cry

Get on with it, get on with life
Forget about who's wrong or right
Come out and dance with me tonight
And we'll laugh, laugh, laugh all those tears away

There are only
There are only
There are only
... So many tears... you can cry

I remember thinking love was a fool's game
Break your heart you've got your own self to blame
I've played it smart so many times, but that all changed
From the moment you were mine

People fall in love and swear they are so sure
Then they turn around and say it's over
I never trusted love to come any closer
Till the moment you were mine

One moment in time
And I knew why I had waited so long
One look in your eyes
Meant forever from that moment on

I used to dream somebody's arms were around me
Wake up all alone and feel so empty
No I never dreamed how real love could be
Till the moment you were mine

One moment in time
And I knew why I had waited so long
One look in your eyes
Meant forever from that moment on

I used to dream somebody's arms were around me
Wake up all alone and feel so empty
No I never dreamed how real love could be
Till the moment you were mine

Till the moment you were mine

Faithful heart
What more can one life ask
One hand to hold along life's path
Share with me this vow
And for all time
Our souls will be entwined

I give this love, I live this love
No greater joy is mine
Storms will come, but we will never part
For each of us bequeath a faithful heart

I give this love, I live this love
No greater joy is mine
Storms will come, but we will never part
For each of us bequeath a faithful heart

Fast asleep in the dawn of ages
The soul of every child
Has waited to be born a stranger
Underneath the drum of his mothers heart

Lying deep in a dream of darkness
Where fear has never gone
Each spark of a life is started
Blind and pure to the world we come
Blind and pure to the world we come

Each of us a dancer to the drum
Each of us a dancer to the drum
Blind and pure we come

One is born into a life of hunger
One will be a king or a rich man's son
One will kill out of greed or anger
One will give his life for another one

There are smiles in the lies of innocence
There are blooms in the walls of stone
And we will see ourselves
In the eyes of everyone we have ever known
Everyone we have ever known

And the heart, the heart will ever be a witness
And precious time, no treasure is worth
And the child, the child will carry our existence
Through the days that we have on earth

Each of us a dancer to the drum
Each of us a dancer to the drum
Blind and pure we come

Fast asleep in the dawn of ages
The soul of every child
Has waited to be born a stranger
Underneath the drum of his mothers heart