Terri Clark Album

(Terri Clark/Mary Chapin Carpenter)

I want a road stretching out before me
I want a radio in my ear
I want a full tank of absolution
No fear
I want a rainstorm to pull me over
Then a sky that begins to clear
Towards the truest of destinations
No fear

I used to hit every wall there was
I used to run away from love
All I ever wanted was right here
But I had to reach way down inside
I had to have faith I'd find
No fear

I want the world to just keep on turning
I want the dawn in my rear view mirror
I want to hear my own voice singing
No fear
And when I need two arms around me
And there's no one near
When I'm alone let the only sound be
No fear

I used to hit every wall there was
I used to run away from love
All I ever wanted was right here
But I had to reach way down inside
I had to have faith I'd find
No fear

I want peace, Love and Understanding
A stogie and an ice-cold beer
Don't want to live afraid of dying
I used to hit every wall there was
I used to run away from love
All I ever wanted was right here
But I had to reach way down inside
I used to stay up all night long
Wondering what I was doing wrong
All I ever needed was right here
But I had to reach way down inside
I had to have faith I'd find

(Terri Clark/Beth Nielsen Chapman/Annie Roboff)

I've got an ice-cold cup of coffee
And a paper I haven't read
A canyon in my heart
And a hammer in my head
And a waitress with an empty stare
That looks right through me
I'm sitting at a table
And I'm balancing the salt
Weighing out my choices
Baby, It's nobody's fault
And I'm torn up by these voices
Talking to me
You say there's no good reason
For me to walk away
You say there's so much good between us
Who wouldn't want to stay
But how can I be with you
If deep down I believe I'll loose a part of me

Sometimes goodbye is the only open door
I can't turn back when I know there's something more
I gotta find what my heart beats for

I've got a half a page of reasons
And a napkin full of tears
From trying to pull my spirit
Through the pocket of my fears
As the lunch croud emptys out
Into the city
And there may not be a way for me
To make you understand
I'll write down the words I'm feeling
And I'll leave it in your hands
But the memories of our love
I'm taking with me
You say there's no good reason
For me to walk away
You say we're meant to be together
And I'm making a mistake
But this emptiness inside me
Has brought me to this road and I have to let you go

Sometimes goodbye is the only open door
I can't turn back when I know there's something more
I gotta find what my heart beats for

For the passion everlasting
For deepest dream
For a chance to love like that
There is no in between

Sometimes goodbye is the only open door
I can't turn back when I know there's something more

(Terri Clark/Angelo)

Love is such a big rush
You wanna hurry it along
'Cause you can't get close enough
And I know it wouldn't feel wrong

But it's all right gong slowly
just fine getting to know me
I'll give you one thing you can't buy
Baby you can take my time

Like a river flowing
We can roll on and on
Not knowing where we're going
Living in the moment before it's gone

But it's all right gong slowly
just fine getting to know me
I'll give you one thing you can't buy
Baby you can take my time

I know what you want
I'll be here holding on

But it's all right gong slowly
just fine getting to know me
I'll give you one thing you can't buy
Baby you can take my time

Heart will be waiting
Baby you can take my time
My time
Going slowly
Getting to know me
You can take my time

(Terri Clark/Gary Burr)

Maybe it's been a little to long
Holding it in, trying to be strong
Funny the things we bottle up
Come streaming out when you feel enough
There is a trust the cautious will lack
Now that we've touched there's no holding back
I want to call out for love 'til I can't breath
I want to stare at the truth 'til I can't see
I want to pour out my soul 'til I'm empty
Empty
When only flesh and bone remain
I'll hold you close, then start again
Feeling nothing but a sweet release
When the ghosts are gone from inside of me
I've tried to fight it but what can I do
There's something deeper that surrenders to you
I want to call out for love 'til I can't breath
I want to stare at the truth 'til I can't see
I want to pour out my soul 'till I'm empty
Empty
When I touch you, when I hear you
How can I doubt when everytime I'm near you
I want to call out for love 'til I can't breath
I want to stare at the truth 'til I can't see
I want to pour out my soul 'til i'm empty
Empty

(Terri Clark/Gary Burr)

Well the sun sets in the west
But as fast as you go, how would you know
You're a busy boy, I guess
Who just wants the gold at the end of the road
Think of all you miss
Passing through like this

You want an answer as soon as you say a prayer
You want to land the moment you're in the air
Baby the living is all in the getting there

Don't be the first in every line
Now and then you can be at the end
'Cause there's only so much time
And you can't get back every minute you spend
You're not even sure
What you're running for

You want an answer as soon as you say a prayer
You want to land the moment you're in the air
Baby the living is all in the getting there

Think of all you miss
Passing through like this

You want an answer as soon as you say a prayer
You want to land the moment you're in the air
Baby the living is all in the getting there

The living is all in the getting there

(Carlene Carter/Susanna Clark)

There he goes, gone again
Same old story's gotta come to an end
Lovin' him was a one-way street
But I'm getting off where the crossroads meet
A quarter moon in a ten-cent town
Time for me to lay my heartaches down
Saturday night and I'm ganna make myself a name
Take a month of Sundays to try and explain

It's ganna be easy to fill the heart of a thirsty woman
Harder to kill the ghost of a no-good man
And I'll be ridin' high in a fandangled sky
It's ganna be easy
It's ganna be easy from now on

Raw is the wind, but clean as a bone
Soft to the touch when you take me home
When the morning comes and it's time for me to leave
Don't worry about me 'cause I got a wild card up my sleeve

It's ganna be easy to fill the heart of a thirsty woman
Harder to kill the ghost of a no-good man
And I'll be ridin' high in a fandangled sky
It's ganna be easy

(Tammy Rogers/Dean Miller)

Throwin' pictures out the window
Scattered by the way the wind blows
Bye bye baby that's the last I'll see of you

Shoebox full of old love letters
I'll tear each one till I feel better
And I won't look back 'cause I don't like the view

What my heart needs now is rest
So I'm packin up and I'm headed west
My mind's made up I put it to the test
Pushin myself and this old machine
Burnin fumes and what's left of my dreams
Let 'em go 'cause I don't need no strings
Just give me a road and a little gasoline

We talked in circles till the words ran out
And it all came down to an angry shout
Before I knew it I was in 3rd gear and gone

Well this has been comin for a long long time
If I said I'm sorry well I'd be lyin
If you think I'd never make it well you'd be wrong

What my heart needs now is rest
So I'm packin up and I'm headed west
My mind's made up I put it to the test
Pushin myself and this old machine
Burnin fumes and what's left of my dreams
Let 'em go 'cause I don't need no strings

(Mary Chapin Carpenter/Kim Richey)

Last thing I wanted was
Someone who wants me so much
I don't like nobody leaning on me
Last thing I needed was
Somebody hanging around because
In their eyes I am something to see

Like a hole in my head, like a rock in my shoe
Like an ache in my heart when I think of you
Last thing I wanted
Last thing I wanted was you

Last thing I thought I'd do
Was open my heart to you
I got good reasons for keeping it closed
Last place I thought I'd be
Was here with you next to me
'Cause I'm used to sleeping alone

Like a hole in my head, like a rock in my shoe
Like an ache in my heart when I think of you
Last thing I wanted
Last thing I wanted was you

Sometimes what we want
Aint what we need, maybe
Baby I need you

Like a hole in my head, like a rock in my shoe
Like an ache in my heart when I think of you
Last thing I wanted

(Terri Clark/Mary Chapin Carpenter)

All this running nowhere fast
All these faces that I pass
All these souls that don't reach out
Leave me feeling so without
I think you got here just in time
I think it's meant to be
And I'm ready to do anything
I want to tell you everything
Every nightmare, every dream
Every fear I've ever had
All the good and all the bad
All the secrets that I've kept
My mistakes and my regrets
The relief that it would bring
Just to tell you everything

Just to be all you need
When you need somebody there
Just to let go and still know
You wont go anywhere

Just to find myself again
Tell you who I've always been
Just to feel my spirit rise
When I look into your eyes
And see what I've been dying for
Baby I want nothing more
Than these songs I'm ganna sing
When I tell you everything

Just to be all you need
When you need somebody there
Just to let go and still know
You wont go anywhere

All this loneliness that urled
All the years that had me fooled
Now they seem to slip away
When you turn to me and say
I think you got here just in time
I think we're going to be just fine
And it would be enough for me
Just to tell you everything
Baby I'd do anything

(Terri Clark/Angelo)

I've been looking for a way to fill this empty place
With everything from poetry to love in cyberspace
I contemplate my future, I analyze my past
I twist myself up like a pretzel in my yoga class
I find attraction in small distractions

It's a piece that I've been missing
A voice when I really listen
A groove that's going to make me sing
A feeling only love can bring
I'm ready for the real thing

Meditating
Medicating, looking for a fix
Now I'm getting to the bottom of my bag of tricks
Trying to catch a break with each ticking of the clock
Searching for the prize inside my cracker jack box
Something to save me
From all this waiting

It's a piece that I've been missing
A voice when I really listen
A groove that's going to make me sing
A feeling only love can bring
I'm ready for the real thing

I've looked around and I've discovered
Nothing can touch me like a lover

It's a piece that I've been missing
A voice when I really listen
A groove that's going to make me sing
A feeling only love can bring

(Terri Clark/Gary Burr)

We got our first McDonald's
And it made the headline news
In a town where no one locks their doors at night
All the lights are flashing yellow
We just roll right through
And there is not a superstore in sight
But there's more to life
I told myself I'd say good-bye
By the time the clock struck twelve

But I can't pull the trigger on that changing world out there
With all these dreams I can't believe I'm still standing here
It's time to face the fact that I'm not the rebel that I thought
'Cause midnights gone but I'm not

Everyone I run into
Has known me all my life
There are no secrets you can call your own
Since the age of seventeen
I've faced the morning light
Saying this day is the day I'm gonna go
All I have to do is drive away
But the things that make me crazy
Always make me stay

But I can't pull the trigger on that changing world out there
With all these dreams I can't believe I'm still standing here
It's time to face the fact that I'm not the rebel that I thought
'Cause midnights gone but I'm not

It's time to face the fact I'm not the rebel that I thought
'Cause midnights gone, midnights gone

(Jann Arden Richards/Robert Foster)

I’ve got money in my pocket
I like the color of my hair
I’ve got a friend who loves me
Got a house, I’ve got a car
I’ve got a good mother
And her voice is what keeps me here
Feet on ground
Heart in hand
Facing forward
Be yourself
I’ve never wanted anything
Oh I’ve never wanted anything
So bad...so bad
Cardboard masks of all the people
I’ve been thrown out with all the rusted, tangled dented worn-out miseries
You could say I’m hard to hold
But if you knew me you’d know
I’ve got a good father
And his strength is what makes me cry
Feet on ground
Heart in hand
Facing forward
Be yourself
I’ve never wanted anything
Oh I’ve never wanted anything so bad
I’ve got money in my pocket
I like the color of my hair
I’ve got a friend who loves me
Got a house, I’ve got a car
I’ve got a good mother
And her voice is what keeps me here
Feet on ground
Heart in hand
Facing forward
Be yourself
Heart in hand
Feet on ground
Facing forward
Be yourself
Just be yourself