burn to shine

ALONE

This empty room it fills my mind

Freedom is lease make it fine

Every single rope has break

But in this life you can't turn back

I don't want to live, I don't want to live alone

alone

As these words are with my tongue

I question why they even sounds

I have promised but I lied

I don't even know myself inside

I don't want to be, I don't wanna be here alone

alone

Today and tomorrow have become one

Every single thing that has become none

You monday child is a beast

What I've done most to show at the least

Please don't leave me here, please don't leave me here

Don't you leave me alone

alone

THE WOMAN IN YOU

Could've sworn I heard you saying this morning

showing some kind of sign that you believe

Did it fall from your tongue without warning

or just another trick to fall from your sleeve

Did I hear you say that you believe in angels

I guess I bring the devil out in you

But we can both remove our halos

'cause even an angel needs love too

even an angel needs love too

The woman in you is the worry, the worry in me

Some things never change,

Some things never stay the same

But you're so innocent, I'll take all the blame

How I hate to remember

for that means the day is past

Sometimes I wonder if I know her

or if I really need to ask

The woman in you is the worry, the worry in me

Woman

...

Half-man walks with no shadow

of life the other his distaste

No apology is expected

Love carved sorry in his face

The woman in you is the worry, the worry in me

The woman in you, in you, is the worry in me

Woman

...

LESS

I could give you more

but you still wouldn't be happy

I could give all you need

but you still wouldn't be satisfied

I could give to our poor

Now what good would that be

You'd shake hands with Jesus

and you still would not believe

If you're happy with nothing

you'll be so very happy with me

The less you expect the more

you'll be pleased

The more you'll be pleased

I could change your mind

but what would you really be thinking

I'll show you a sign

but you just pass it on by

I could hold your hand

but then we'll both be sinking

The problem with the world

is everone's not just like you

If you're happy with nothing

you'll be so very happy with me

The less you expect the more you'll be pleased

The more you'll be pleased

If you're happy with nothing

you'll be so very happy with me

(repeat)

So happy with nothing

So happy with me

TWO HANDS OF A PRAYER

First time that I saw her she had white doves in her eyes

She spoke to me but I could not reply, not reply

She was a stranger I had known for years

She brought to me so many smiles and tears

smiles and tears

The two hands of a prayer

Together like the two hands of a prayer

Tired maid slowly drifts into the past

into the past

And finds a home where echoes rest

where echoes rest

She softly kissed my mind

and whispered what will we do with time

do with time

The two hands of a prayer

Together like the two hands of a prayer

Another man I choosed to be, choosed to be,

Or just the man I used to be, used to be

Another man I want to be, I want to be

And this question, it keeps haunting me

haunting me

The two hands of a prayer

Together like the two hands of a prayer

PLEASE BLEED

Make me feel like a beggar

Make me feel like a thief

Make me feel like a battle, that cannot end in peace

Make me feel like running, as if I've lost my nerve

Make me feel like crying, tears I don't deserve

Please bleed

So I know that you are real

So I know that you can feel

The damage that you've done

Who have I become

To myself I am numb, I am numb, I am numb

Is this really living Sometimes it's hard to tell

Or is this a kind of gentler hell

Turn out the lights

And let me stare into your soul

I was born and bled for you old

Please bleed

So I know that you are real

So I know that you can feel

The damage that you've done

Who have I become

To myself I am numb, I am numb, I am numb

Never said thank you

Never said please

Never gave reason to believe

So as it stands

I remain on my knees

Good lovers make great enemies

Please bleed

So I know that you are real

So I know that you can feel

The damage that you've done

Who have I become

To myself I am numb, I am numb, I am numb

SUZIE BLUE

Won't you sing me the blues

Sing me something my heart can use

misery loves a symphony

Does your face

your pretty face get lost in a crowd

And you say no one's there

To hear you cry out loud

What will you do, Suzie Blue

Where did you learn to do that so well

I guess that would be like kiss and tell

If it's a secret, why did you show me

But your far away from the love you used to hold

don't sit and watch your self grow

old

The day is new, Suzie Blue

Real life has let you down

Someone stripped the shoes from your ground

Everybody is always somebody's something

Kissing from heaven in your arms

And we'll make love to the memories

They will always see us new, Suzie Blue

The day is new, Suzie Blue

STEAL MY KISSES

I put into Nashville, Tennessee

but you wouldn't even come around to see me

And since your headin up to Carolina

You know I gonna be right there behind you

'Cause I always have to steal my kisses from you

Always have to steal my kisses from you

Now I love to feel that warm southern rain

just to hear it fall is the sweetest sounding things

And to see it fall on your simple country dress

it's like heaven to me I must confess

'Cause I always have to steal my kisses from you

Always have to steal my kisses from you

Now I've been hangin around you for days

but when I'm leanin you just turn your

head away

I know you didn't mean that

She said I love the way you think

but I hate the way you act

'Cause I always have to steal my kisses from you

Always have to steal my kisses from you

BURN TO SHINE

We made love until we cried and cried ourselves to laughter

Laughed until we realise our hearts were struck were fear

How in just a moments time could one see for ever after

I gently lie beside of you and dream away with my tears

Won't you let me treat you kind

We're gonna burn to shine

Won't you let me treat you kind

We're gonna burn to shine

Funny things you learn from your mama

like the way you throw your head back when

swallowing pills

Funny things you learn from your papa

like when you're talking you just can't keep

your hands still

But that was now and this is then

It never lasts for long

How I miss the good old days

but I'm so glad they're gone

Won't you let me treat you kind

We're gonna burn to shine

Won't you let me treat you kind

We're gonna burn to shine

I'd like to spend the time that you would like to spend with me

So you could help me out with my dependancy

'Cause I'm hoplessly addicted addicted to your sorrow

Makes me never wanna work, beg or borrow

Won't you let me treat you kind

We're gonna burn to shine

Won't you let me treat you kind

We're gonna burn to shine

SHOW ME A LITTLE SHAME

You, you've been looking at me just a little too long,

now I can never look the same

Blindness and kindness,

there's no difference in the two when

I can no longer see the good in you

So won't you show me a little shame

Won't you show me a little shame

Now 'cause I'm, I'm a gentleman

before gentlewomen so-called ladies keep

breakin my heart

Show me your house

show me your home

show me how it could all fall apart

So won't you show me a little shame

Won't you show me a little shame

'Cause now I wake up in the morning more tired than before I slept

I get through crying and I sat up and before I wept

I get through thinking and the thoughts have left my head

I get through speaking and I can't remember not a word that I said

You change your mind so many times, I wonder if you have a mind at all

And I rather be by myself than to have your lonesome company come to call

So won't you show me a little shame

Won't you show me a little shame

FORGIVEN

I will wait like nothing; I have ever waited for

I will catch your tears from falling

Until from my hands they fall

You can leave me abandoned

I'll be here if you want back in

Like the rest I have been branded far beneath the skin

So far beneath the skin

You shall be, you shall be, you shall be Forgiven

Here I have been standing while the time has come and gone

I tried singing to you, but you turned my words to stone

Here I have been waiting, it seems for quite a while

Changed all my reflections

But inside I'm still just a child

But inside still just a child

You shall be, you shall be, you shall be Forgiven

These eyes weren't made for crying; This love wasn't made to waste

These arms weren't made for battle, but to share your warm embrace

You shall be, you shall be, you shall be Forgiven

BELOVED ONE

We have both been here before

Knockin' upon love's door

Begging for someone to let us in

Knowing this we can agree to keep each other company

Never to go down that road again

My beloved one, my beloved one

Your eyes shine through me

You are so divine to me

Your heart has a home in mine

We won't have to say a word

With a touch all shall be heard

When I search my hearth it's you I find

My beloved one, my beloved one, my beloved one

You were meant for me,

I believe you were sent to me

from the dreams trailing to my heart

Hold your body and close to me

You mean most to me

We will keep each other safe from harm

My beloved one, my beloved one, my beloved one

IN THE LORD'S ARMS

Like the wings stolen from an angel

Like pebbles gone from the roads

Like a dove caught in a storm

Tonight he's in the Lord's Arms

The wind it blew straight through us

And whispered to me in tongues

I was told I was wrong

Tonight he would be in the Lord's Arms

Tonight he is in the Lord's Arms

So I drinked this wine to him

With each glass of memory

He left with his crown of thornes

Tonight he's in the Lord's Arms

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