Beth Hart Album

Good As it Gets

[Beth Hart]

Album: 37 days (2007)

Ain't got style like a magazine-no my shoes don't shine
Ain't got pride like a beauty queen-can't even walk a straight line
Somebody say the best things in life are on the inside
Say my name, all my love's in vain, in the welfare line

Nobody told me there'd be days like these
There's gotta be somethin' more than misery
It's the salt that stings

[Chorus:]

As Good As it Gets
I want the sunshine, champagne all the time
I'll live on Wine and Roses, so hold me closer
Untill I break a Sweat, it ain't
As Good As it Gets

Workin' on dreams, call 'em „Jelly Beans“
They make me laugh out loud
When the crowd screams-it is good indeed
And makes my mamma proud
Somebody say the best things in life, get em while you can
Say my name I think it is gonna rain-I got to find my man

Nobody told me where the sun's gonna shine
Heaven is only when the good's inside-right before I die

[Chorus: Repeat]

I wanna break out-wanna break out-won't you let me in
wanna make out-wanna make out-fill my cup again
To the fucking rim
As Good As it Gets

Jealousy

[Beth Hart]

Album: 37 days (2007)

Love is cold hard & cruel on the way down
When a man just don't want you, no part of you around
Love is cold hard & cruel on the way down, all the way down

I ain't no soldier-ain't no savior-ain't no winner
And I ain't that proud
I am just a woman-a jealous woman-who wants to love you
Love you out loud
She is so pretty, she is a beauty
She is a lady, laughin' in the clouds

[Chorus:]

Jealousy-look what you've done to me
Jealousy-look what you've done
Jealousy-look what you've done to me
Now she's loving you not me

If I could take back-you know I would take back
every mistake-in my face
I would try harder-try and be stronger
I would love longer-in every way
but she is so lovely, she's like a painting
In the garden, I can't catch my breath

[Chorus: Repeat]

Love is cold hard & cruel on the way down
When a man just don't want you, no part of you around
Love is cold hard and cruel on the way down
Yeah, all the way down

One-Eyed Chicken

[Beth Hart/Jon Nichols]

Album: 37 days (2007)

Oh father, come together
My sisters and all my brothers
Apathy, getting crazy
Help me understand
There's water there's fire
Which one should I aspire
Compassion or reaction
What will command
(Reach out and hold me or reach out and bite my hand)

[Chorus:]

I'm like a one-eyed chicken and a two-legged dog
Shrinking heads in the kitchen then I piss on the lawn
I'm not the kind of woman that you want to take home
Only heaven knows the devil's pain
I just can't change

I'm diggin' diggin' diggin' diggin' on you
Diggin' diggin' diggin' diggin' on me
We're diggin diggin diggin diggin are we
What we gonna do?

Oh father, make it better
Make my love shine bigger than ever
Tell Jesus, Never leave us, this is my prayer
There's kindness, there's cruelty
A little bit of both inside of me
Come love me Come heal me
Make me aware
(Reach out and hold me-or reach out and bite my hand)

[Chorus: Repeat]

So glad you made it
Or I'd be nothing at all
I'm tired and faded
I'm like a wreckin' Ball

[Chorus: Repeat]

[Chorus: Repeat]

Lonelier tonight than a sinking stone
I can hardly breath
I am drowning in the dark
wrong is never right still I'm breaking bones
& every part of me
I hear the pounding of my heart

Mama I can hardly wait
take a little chance on fate
chew it up and spill it out
Finally see what love's about

I'm living loving laughing over you
Tossing Turning Trying over you
Kicking Screaming Crying over you
Wanting Needing Dying to get over you

Mama always said that “you'll know better
When you do grow up”
“all you gotta do is breath”
“Take a little look inside yourself
& see what turns you on
and then you will finally see”

Well mama I can hardly wait
to take a little chance on fate
Kick it up into the sky
Finally see what love feels like

I'm living loving laughing over you
Tossing Turning Trying over you
Kicking Screaming Crying over you
Wanting Needing Dying to get over you

I'm living loving laughing over you
Tossing Turning Trying over you
Kicking Screaming Crying over you
Wanting Needing Dying to get over you

Sick

(Beth Hart / Jon Nichols / Rune Westberg)

Album: 37 days (2007)

I beg your attention
From my generation
This is all your fault
You feed me distractions
& sell misdirections
This is all your fault

The blind are tying to lead the way
It's time someone had something to say
But nothing changes we're all strangers
Faces in the crowd
If these are the choices we get from our voices
Then you can count me out

(Chorus:)

Lay me down Over the Ocean Where the good life still exists
Lay me down Under the Covers Cause this life makes me
Sick

We're alienated suppressed and sedated
This is all your fault
Don't want compensation from your hate corporation
This is all your fault

The lost are trying to lead the way
The cost is left for us to pay
But nothin' changes we're all strangers faces in the crowd
If these are the choices we get from our voices then
You can count me out

(Chorus: Repeat)

I beg your attention
from my generation
This is all your fault
I am not discouraged
Or the slightest bit nervous
You've been voted out

[No lyrics]

When you cant find the light,
That got you through the cloudy days,
When the stars aint shinin bright,
You feel like youve lost youre way,
When those candle lights of home,
Burn so very far away,
Well you got to let your soul shine,
Just like my momma used to say.

(chorus)
She used to say soulshine,
Its better than sunshine,
Its better than moonshine,
Damn sure better than rain.
And if the people dont mind,
We all get this way sometime,
Got to let your soul shine, shine through the break of day.

Growin up, I thought I had it made,
Gonna make it on my own.
Life can take the strongest man,
Make him feel so all alone.
Now sometimes I feel a cold wind,
Blowin through my achin bones,
I think back to what my daddy said,
He said girl, it's the darkest before the dawn:

(chorus)
Let your soul shine,
Its better than sunshine,
Its better than moonshine,
Damn sure better than rain.
And if the people dont mind,
We all feel this way sometimes,
Gotta let your soul shine, shine through the break of day.

Sometimes a man can feel this emptiness,
Like a woman has shot down to his very soul.
A woman too, God knows, she can feel like this.
And when your world seems cold, you got to let your spirit take control.

(chorus)
Let your soul shine,
Its better than sunshine,
Its better than moonshine,
Damn sure better than rain.
Lord now people dont mind,
We all get this way sometimes,
Gotta let your soul shine, shine through the break of day.

Oh, its better than sunshine,
Its better than moonshine,
Damn sure better than rain.
And if the people dont mind,
We all get this way sometimes,
Gotta let your soul shine, shine till the break of day.

Forever Young

[Beth Hart / Rune Westberg / James Thomas]

Album: 37 Days (2007)

It was you and me
Sitting in an apple tree
At the summer's end
We were only seventeen
We held on so tight, that September night
Then you promised me

[Chorus:]

We're never getting older we're never gonna be that way
Remember when I told ya we would make it out someday
Let them say we're crazy, ‘cause we already won
When you promised me, we'd be forever young

I got your letter
I can't seem to put it down
It makes it better
To have a piece of you around
They're all just strangers
Their words don't mean a thing
I swear I'll die here
I swear that I'd do anything
To be back again, at the summer's end
When you promised me

We're never getting older, we're never gonna be that way
Remember when I told ya we would make it out someday
They still say we're crazy and I still say we won
When you promised me, we'd be forever young

Sooner or later-time gets the best of you
I should've known better-you gotta do what you gotta do
If I had me a river
I'd sit and watch it run by
I'd never let it run dry
I'm never gonna say goodbye

Go on and crash the car
take the keys I won't get far
Nowhere will do just fine
Here I am again
beginning at another end
there's no turning back this time

Don't let me down
I need you now
to make it easy
Dying ain't that hard
So in a little while
I'm gonna make it easy
make it easy

The sweet sunshine won't let me be
a good man wants to marry me
I burn my house down to the ground
Wine and Roses and a symphony
The best things in life are terrifying me
I break my heart every time

Don't let me down
I need you now
to make it easy
Dying ain't that hard
So in a little while
I'm gonna make it easy
make it easy

Don't let me down
I need you now
to make it easy
Dying ain't that hard
So in a little while
I'm gonna make it easy
make it easy

Do you want the good news?
or the bad news?
Do you want the good things
No, you want everything
Keep your possessions, I've made my decision
and it was easy, easy

I've waited for this all my life

Don't let me down
I need you now
to make it easy
Dying ain't that hard
So in a little while
I'm gonna make it easy
make it easy

Don't let me down
I need you now
to make it easy
Dying ain't that hard
So in a little while
I'm gonna make it easy
make it easy

Heaven Look Down

[Beth Hart]

Album: 37 Days (2007)

Hell is on the TV, the world I know is screaming
What a way to cut me down
Everyone is shaking, no giving only taking
If I could only Kill that sound
If there is anyone still up there
Won't you take a good look around
Please heaven look down

She will never go to school today
Or know a home or know the way
Doesn't she deserve a chance
Her daddy can't keep from drinking
His heart has drowned and it's sinking
Somethin' come and save that man
If there is anyone still up there
Won't you take a good look around
When will heaven look down

[Chorus:]

Don't Don't Don't Don't leave
Don't Don't Don't Don't leave
I'm begging you God Please
Down on broken knees
If you can hear me now
Take a good look around
Then heaven look down

I don't really know the way-Out
I don't think I can take it anymore

no more scars no more stones
no more words I can't..
take it no more
No more bullets No country
hypocrisy
can't take it no more
promises wash away like rain

I'll be missing you, I'll be missing you
No I, don't wanna fight No More
I'll be missing you

No more danger
your angers
the stranger I..
Can't take it no more
No more ruthless excuses
They're useless I..
can't take it no more
We're only children after all

I'll be missing you, I'll be missing you
No, I don't wanna fight No more
I don't wanna fight
I'll be missing you

We're only children after all, I swear I saw you needing me
We're only children after, children after all..

Waterfalls

[Beth Hart / Jon Nichols / Tom Lilly / Todd Wolf]

Album: 37 Days (2007)

Roll the top down
Feel the dark
Whole I'm not now
Kill it apart

[Chorus:]

Years are running by like
These old roads
Tears are falling down like
Waterfalls

Shadow boxer
Save some for me
ever after
I don't believe

[Chorus: Repeat]

Mama don't don't gimme none
Don't gimme none of that lip
Gotta get me some
Before the devil comes
Gotta get me some of that shit

Crashing Down

[Beth Hart / Jon Nichols]

Hell is on to me
This desert wants a She
Black fire becomes the road
Diving down the dark
Gold inside my hear
Black fire begins to blow

[Chorus:]

I'm crashing down
There's no one for miles around
Crashing down
On the road, on the road
On the quiet side of the road

I begin to run
Begging for someone
Bring mercy for my soul
Too damn tired to breath
I'm too damn scared to scream
My will begins to slow

[Chorus: Repeat]

Guess that I just don't know better
Or I'd change my ways
I'd change everything
But we all can't live forever
So I'll take my fate
And swallow whole

I can hear his heels
The scratching of his tail
He's coming for my gold
On his chest it reads
Liars, tramps and thieves
And my name is
Big and Bold

[Chorus]

At the Bottom

[Beth Hart]

Album: 37 Days (2007)

Hold in my breath-not taking a step
The good church has closed its doors on me
God don't like my dirty feet

Burnin' the lawn-everyone's gone
Ain't no BBQ going on today
I drink my dinner in the shade

[PreChorus:]

Days & days go by
Children laughin'
Still I don't smile at all
Mary's calling to me
“Can't you see what I see”
She would never let me down

[Chorus:]

It's been a long time at the bottom
I spend a lot of time way down there
It's been a long time at the bottom
I don't know how I made it here

Been livin' a lie-my kisses are dry
I got No where else left to run
My love is blind deaf and dumb

Heaven can't wait-to lock up the gate
Tell me that I never could be long
I had my chance but got it wrong

[PreChorus: Repeat]

[Chorus: Repeat]

Mother Mary stay with me
Don't let me die
You're the only god part left of my trash
God knows I can't change me
I've tried and tried
I never meant to make you cry