1.Beautiful Pain(Featuring Sheryl Crow)
Do you wanna be honest, or do you wanna win？
You could have it all if you could gracefully give in.
Like when a martyr go sees a martyr.
Lookin' in the mirror makes you cry harder,
'Bout your glitterin' ball and chain.
In love, in love with your beautiful pain.
Excuses and all theories peak themelves and die.
Even when they don't hold water, you try to keep them safe and
dry.
An' trade your moan for a positive tone,
Reassured by ads about things you own,
And so we go through this again,
In love, in love with your beautiful pain.
If everything went runnin' smoothly,
You'd soon lose who you were.
Oh, the pain and hurt, for that's your real,
So go on, go back to her.
Instrumental Break.
You packed up all your troubles, you let me play the bars.
An' hiked out to the meadows and lay down on the fragrant moss.
Put down your own tree, then meticulously,
Built a cross right there and stared back at me.
An' climbed up on it again：
In love, in love with your beautiful
In love, in love with your beautiful
In love, in love with your beautiful pain.
2.44 Stories
Baptize her with bitter tears till she knows your pain is real.
Next time you see her on her knees, don't try to make a deal.
Don't stare her into silence, with frozen point of view.
'Cause she's got 44 stories：she wants to tell them all to you.
Welcome her to all your fears and trust that she will cope.
Give her one day of satisfaction for a thousand years of hope.
Don't turn to dry your eyes, and lose your chance to look.
'Cause she's got 44 stories： she wants to write them in a book.
Instrumental break.
Wait until your mem'ry clears, then welcome her to Rome.
The desert of your misspent years that led you to her home.
Don't hold her up to sunlight, she'll melt into the blue.
Don't make her shout through static if you want hear the truth,
'Cause she's got 44 stories;
She's got 44 stories;
She's got 44 stories： she wants to tell them all to you.
3.I'll Change For You(Featuring Steve Earle)
I'll change for you.
I'll change for you.
I'll change for you.
I'll turn night into day.
An' I'll change for you. (I don't care what the books say.)
I'll change for you. (I don't care what my friends say.)
I'll change for you,
An' I won't make you pay.
'Cause everything reminds me of you.
A baby's feet, an old man's smile.
Silent scream and lover's cry,
Till I can't do nothing,
But change for you. (An' all the rules that were lies.)
I'll change for you. (I sit an' watch while they burn.)
I'll change for you.
I'll be all that you need.
'Cause everything reminds me of you.
A baby's feet, an old man's smile.
Silent scream and lover's cry,
Till I can't do nothing.
But change for you.
Instrumental break.
I'll lie by your side an' whisper your name.
I'll clock all your dreams and knock over rails.
I'll let go my past, write your name in my skin.
I'll travel through time to love you again.
An' I'll change for you. (I'll just wait for you wherever.)
I'll change for you. (An' watch you lean back too much.)
I'll change for you.
I'll turn night into day.
I'll change for you. (An' I'll give it my best.)
I'll change for you. (An' I won't stop till you rest.)
I'll change for you.
An' I won't make you pay.
4.Rules Of Travel
Now that you've made your mistake.
Now that you know how the heart bends and breaks.
Just throw away the book, and take a second look,
Behind the door：a guided tour; what we came here for.
One：don't let the sun go down on,
Two： love, but are undone by,
Three： whose name is.....
I won't even start before we learn the rules.
Like one： don't let the sun go down on,
Two： love, but are undone by,
Three： whose name is.....
I won't even start before we learn the rules of travel,
Inside each other's hearts;
Inside each other's hearts.
When do the walls tumble down？
Into the sky, into the stars and the ground.
Today, to give it up; surrender to the love, no man to hold.
No way to know that you are home.
One： don't let the sun go down on,
Two： love, but are undone by,
Three： whose name is.....
I won't even start before we learn the rules.
Like one： don't let the sun go down on,
Two： love, but are undone by,
Three： whose name is.....
I won't even start before we learn the rules of travel,
Inside each other's hearts;
Inside each other's hearts.
Instrumental break.
One： (Don't let the sun.)
Two：
Three： (Don't let the sun.)
Four.
One： don't let the sun go down on,
Two： love, but are undone by,
Three： whose name is.....
I won't even start before we learn the rules.
Like one： don't let the sun go down on,
Two： love, but are undone by,
Three： whose name is.....
I won't even start before we learn the rules of travel,
Inside each other's hearts;
Inside each other's hearts.
5.September When It Comes(Featuring Johnny Cash)
There's a cross above the baby's bed,
A Saviour in her dreams.
But she was not delivered then,
And the baby became me.
There's a light inside the darkened room,
A footstep on the stair.
A door that I forever close,
To leave those memories there.
So when the shadows link them,
Into an evening sun.
Well first there's summer, then I'll let you in.
September when it comes.
I plan to crawl outside these walls,
Close my eyes and see.
And fall into the heart and arms,
Of those who wait for me.
I cannot move a mountain now;
I can no longer run.
I cannot be who I was then：
In a way, I never was.
I watch the clouds go sailing;
I watch the clock and sun.
Oh, I watch myself, depending on,
September when it comes.
So when the shadows link them,
And burn away the clouds.
They will fly me, like an angel,
To a place where I can rest.
When this begins, I'll let you know,
September when it comes.
6.Hope Against Hope
It's all coming back to me now.
But try as I have to keep,
The taste of you off of my tongue;
Your face from my fitful sleep.
An' I wait and hope against hope like before.
An' I wait an' hope that I won't anymore.
An' this won't stop till I do.
Until I learn to kill the thought,
Of everything I could have said：
Of everything I wished I'd not.
An' I wait, hope against hope like before.
An' I wait, hope that I won't anymore.
Show rises up from the street,
An' a crowd rises up to it's feet.
I followed blind after you：
I might know better if I'd ever wanted to.
Instrumental Break.
The painting here is still not dry,
An' I can smell it from the door.
It covers every mark you made：
The countin' days are keepin' score.
An' I wait, hope against hope like before.
An' I wait, an' hope that I won't anymore.
An' I wait, hope against hope like before.
An' I wait, an' hope that I won't anymore.
7.Will You Remember Me
Will you remember me, like the circled stones,
On the ancient hills where you walk alone？
Where the wind can speak my secret name,
Like the air you breathe, will you remember me？
Will you remember me, as your airplane flies？
Over foreign seas an' breaking skies.
Like a perfect child you can't bear to leave.
In your last long days, will you remember me？
Instrumental break.
Will you remember me, on the edge of life,
Where time runs slow; where song can fly.
In these shuttered rooms where we say goodbye.
When the soul is free, will you remember？
When there's no need to breathe, will you remember me？
8.Three Steps Down(Featuring Teddy Thompson)
Three steps down below the city streets.
In our private room, the colour all runs out.
An' not a sound, the smoke curls in the air.
An' I can feel a sliding peace, come over me tonight.
Dead or dancin', cross the room,
The candles burn and shadows loom.
I hide below it all,
Or heaven's underground.
The clouds are fallin' at our feet,
Three steps down below the street.
So comin' down： it's like water after wine.
Oh, comin' down a long hard line.
An' I know better's gettin' harder all the time.
From three steps down.
From three steps down.
Instrumental break
Dead or dancin', cross the room,
The candles burn and shadows loom.
I hide below it all,
Or heaven's underground.
The clouds are fallin' at our feet,
Three steps down below the street.
Three steps down below the city streets.
In our private room, the colour all runs out.
The colour all runs out.
The colour all runs out.
The colour all runs out.
9.Closer Than I Appear
Lock all the doors an' turn out the lights.
Work this thing through till we get it right.
But if I seem angry an' cold,
Or I don't speak at all,
It's just that old fear,
'Cause baby, I'm closer than I appear.
An' here are the facts, as much as I know.
We've got to turn back if we can't let it go.
You know your heart an' your mind.
An' I'm just three steps behind,
But I feel those tears,
'Cause baby, I'm closer than I appear.
Yeah, baby, I'm closer than I appear.
'Cause somewhere inside, I'm reachin' out for you.
Somewhere inside, we both know the truth.
But I learned lots of rules 'bout what a man's made of,
An' I got to rethink what I know about love.
Hey, I'm willin' to change.
If I still seem the same, well it's just them old fears.
An', baby, I'm closer than I appear.
If I was born to stand here, an' give you nothing but love,
To fill up these years,
Then, baby, I'm closer than I appear.
Yeah, baby, I'm closer than I appear.
Well, come closer, an' I'll come closer.
Well, come closer, closer than I appear.
10.Western Wall
I stand here by the Western Wall,
Baby, look at that wall, standin' silent an' tall.
An' I shove my prayers in the cracks.
Got nothin' to lose, no-one to answer back.
All these years I've brought up for review,
Wasn't taught this but I learned somethin' new.
Had to answer a distant call,
At the Western Wall.
An' I've got a heart full of fear,
An' I offer it up on this altar of tears.
Red dust settles deep in my skin.
Don't know where it starts or where I begin.
It's a crumblin' pile of broken stones;
It ain't much but it might be home.
If I ever loved a place at all,
It's the Western Wall.
Instrumental break.
I don't know if God was ever a man,
But if She was, I think I understand.
Why he found a place to break his fall,
Near the Western Wall.
11.Last Stop Before Home
I am the keeper of a very old flame.
It's long been ignored, but it's not been completely in vain.
And all that I was, I gave that to you.
And if it's not enough, oh, there's nothing more I can do.
I guard the well to a century of tears.
I let them fall after hours and all through the years.
And all that I am as I stand here today,
Seems more than enough, there's nothing more I will say.
You're the last stop before home,
An' I always go home.
You're the last stop and everything I know,
That I always go home.
Instrumental break.
I'm not the sleeper who waits for a kiss.
But who is the God who designed me to love you like this？
An' if I break in two and fall to my knees,
An' tell you the truth, would you then believe you have been
this to me.
The last stop before home,
An' I always go home.
You're the last stop and everything I know,
That I always go home.
You're the last stop before home,
An' I always go home alone.
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