Beth Nielsen Chapman Album

(Beth Nielsen Chapman and Bill Lloyd)

Day one God smiled
Gave us all the wisdom of a new born child
But by the time we take our first step
We've already begun to forget
What the heart knows the heart sees
We're just as much the forest as we are the trees
Every little seed trying to find
Where the light comes from

Chorus:
And it's a world of hurt
Nothing works
It's a lonely little planet made of dust and dirt
Who'd ever thinks that in de midst of all this
Something as beautiful as love exists
And when I hold you and you hold me
Heaven doesn't seem like such a mystery
Darling in a world of hurt
You make me feel so good

Day one of our love
Two heartbroken people scared to trust too much
Oh here it's comes that feelin' again
What every lover swears will never end
We thought we'd been there, done that,
But when we've kissed,
We knew we'd never been her...
We've never done this
All the walls comes tumblin' down
When you love someone

(chorus)

(Beth Nielsen Chapman and Tommy Sims)

I dropped a coin in a wishing well
I turned the wild jack over
Listened to the devil tell
Seven story lies
Cross my heart I hope to live
Tangled with my lover
Opening my sorrows gifts
Laughing as I cry

Chorus
Still the light will pierce the dark
Still the dark will steal the light
And everything will be all right
Though change won't be denied
All these ways god loves me so
In languages I've come to know
Bended trees with melting snow
And angels by my side

Chorus
Now I lay me down to sleep,
The troubles of this world release
And the promise of tomorrow keeps
Angels by my side
Angels by my side
Angels by my side

Still the light will pierce the dark
And the dark will steal the light
And grace provides these
Angels by my side
Angels by my side
Angels, angels

(Beth Nielsen Chapman)

Every December sky
Must lose its faith in leaves
And dream of the spring inside the trees.
How heavy the empty heart,
How light the heart that's full.
Sometimes I have to trust what I can't know
Sometimes I have to trust what I can't know

We walk into Paradise;
The angels lend us shoes.
'Cause all that we own,
We'll come to lose,
And Heaven is not so far
Outside this womb of words.
With every rose that blooms
My soul is assured
It's just like a song I've known
Yet still unheard.

And every leaf of fire lets go,
Melting in the arms of earth and snow.
And if I could hold you now,
You'd enter like a sigh.
You'd be the wind that blows
The answer to "why?"
You'd be the spring-filled trees
Of every December sky.

(Beth Nielsen Chapman and Annie Roboff)

I had it all lined up
Then my future crashed
I heard the deadbolt lock
And there stood my past

But there are no signs for tomorrow
On the back roads of my sorrow
I could beg, steal
I could borrow
But the grace will have to come to me

Chorus
I'm gonna shake my soul
And release my hold
Givin' up control
And let the rest unfold
Cause it's a long, long way from here to where we go

Take off the training wheels
Lift off the handle bars
I'll drive right through my fears
And resurrect my heart

And even in my darkest hour
When my tears stay undercover
I know it one way or another
Love is coming back around to me

Repeat chorus

In the face that I wore as a child
I can see myself
Every day of my life I'm trying just to free myself
To be myself

And the rain comes I can hear it
Like a bass drum loud and clear it's
Ancient wisdom of the spirit
Ali, Ali all come free

Repeat chorus

It's a long, long way from here to where we go

(Beth Nielsen Chapman and Annie Roboff)

All my traveling time
Running circles around my dreams
Waking up to find
Our love's not what it seems

Now my soul keeps calling for a long lost day
And a love that I held so true
Well there's no use following the heartache
That leads me back to you, I'll

CHORUS:
Wait for the way
Through the valley of my shadow of doubt
Through the winter of my discontent
And when it seems like all my hope is spent
There's only one prayer I pray...wait for the way

Each small step of my life
There's a loneliness I've known
I take the road that's right
Even if I'm left alone

But I know that heaven holds amazing grace
When you trust what you feel inside
And a true heart opens at it's own pace
And I must say goodbye, and

(repeat chorus)

Now my soul keeps calling for a long lost day
And a love that I held so true
Though there's no use falling for the heartache
That leads me back to you, I'll

(repeat chorus)

(Beth Nielsen Chapman and Annie Roboff)

Straight shot of misery
Some days make a mess of me
I touch the ground when I can find my feet
You know it all comes down to love

I tell myself I can do it all
I juggle everything
I drop the ball
Sometimes it feels my life's impossible
But then it all comes down to

Love
I'd love to take you on a time machine
Fill those cracks things fall between
So we could find more days to fly away from the hurricane
But in the ebb and flow
It all comes down to love
Oh, it all comes down to love

Yeah, yeah, yeah

The clock chimes
The babies cry
I turn around and he's six feet high
And as I let him go and
I watch him fly
I know it all comes down to love

I light the candles and I'll cut the cake
Make a wish for every heart that breaks
Sweet forgiveness never made a mistake
You know it all comes down to

Love
I could love you 'till my heart's content
I know you must be Heaven sent
The way you sweep me up in your arms in the middle of an argument
And you let me know
It all comes down to love
Oh, it all comes down to love

Take you down to guts and the rubble
Diggin' up the deeper stuff
You gotta trust when you're runnin' into trouble
That it all comes down to

Love
Love
Love
Love
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
You know it all comes down to love
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
You know it all comes down to love
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
You know it all comes down to love
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah

(Beth Nielsen Chapman and David Wilcox)

In the tears you gave to me
I found a river to an ocean
Concrete sky, and a stone cold sea
I came to where the emptiness cracked open

All my fears came crashing through
And met the fire of my sorrow
But I found my strength in forgiving you
I never even dreamed how far my heart could go

To give my life beyond each death
From a deeper well of trust
To know that when there's nothing left
You will always have what you gave to love

In this life the love you give
Comes back around to be your treasure
What you lose will be what you win
A well that echoes down too deep to measure

A silver coin rings down that well
You can never spend too much
A diamond echoes deeper still
And you'll always have what you gave to love

(Beth Nielsen Chapman and Joe Henry)

And sleep I think to myself
For all of us, for all of us
Beating fiercely against the wind
Or lying there with broken hands
Wondrous wings and blinded eyes
That see even beyond seeing
The same heartcrushing sorrow
The same unspeakable loveliness
All at the same time
How beautiful and sad
And peace I think to myself
For all of us, for all of us
Each and everyone alone
Reaching out from endless dreams
With open hearts and fragile souls
Like children always seeking home
Where love is as easy as breathing
And breath is as light
As the atmosphere
All at the same time
How frightening and sweet it is
The same heartcrushing sorrow
The same unspeakable loveliness
All at the same time
How beautiful and sad it is
And sleep I think to myself
For all of us, for all of us
Sleep I think at last
Oh sleep in heavenly peace

(Beth Nielsen Chapman)

All for the love we want
All for the love we need
Deep in the lonely heart
Winter holds the seed
Reach till you know how far
Trust till you know how true
Give till you know how much
Loves inside of you
For this we shed our skin
Feel where each breath begins
Bleed as we pick the rose
Fall back with both eyes closed
All for the love we want
All for the love we want
For this we shed our skin
Feel where each breath begins
Bleed as we pick the rose
Fall back with both eyes closed
All for the love we want
All for the love we want
All for the love we want

(Beth Nielsen Chapman)

There's a light, there's a light in the darkness
And the black of the night cannot harm us
We can trust not to fear for our comfort is near
There's a light, there's a light in the darkness

It will rain it will rain in the desert
In the cracks of the plain there's a treasure
Like the thrust of the seed we will await we believe
It will rain it will rain in the desert

We will fly we will fly we will let go
To this world we will die but our hearts know
We'll see more on that side when the door opens wide
We will fly we will fly we will fly we will fly
We will all go