MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER – Quittin’ Time

Hey baby tell me what we’re gonna doIt’s getting crazy and I need some help from youWe were so connected that you were a part of meNow I feel an emptiness ...

MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER – Where Time Stands Still

Baby where’s that place where time stands stillI remember like a lover canBut I forget it like a leaver willIt’s no place you can get to by yourselfYou’ve ...

MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER – What To Keep And What To Throw Away

These are your instructionsShould you choose to followSit down with pen and paperBegin with something hollowLike the last words that he offeredNo kind ...

MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER – Transcendental Reunion

From 20,000 feetI saw the lights below meTwinkling just like ChristmasWe descended slowlyAnd the curve of the world passedWith all of that flyingAbove ...

MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER – The Swords We Carried

Back when I believed in luckAnd stones & crossesI’d put a coin found on the streetTowards cosmic lossesAnd passing graveyards in a carTracing every ...

MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER – Soul Companion

All of our dreams are laid out and measuredArrows and pins and a rainbow of threadsLike hope on a string, sewn into the liningsFor the courage to face ...

MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER – Once In Royal David’s City

Once in royal David’s city,Stood a lowly cattle shed,Where a mother laid her babyIn a manger for His bed:Mary was that mother mild,Jesus Christ her little ...

MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER – Old Love

I want old love, the kind that takes yearsTo turn to gold, love, burnished and searedOn the high wire, by rain, wind and sunWith the hard times forgiven ...

MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER – New Year’s Day

We are sitting at a table in a bar in BaltimoreIt’s the last night of DecemberAnd the room is nearly fullAnd the front door pulls a draft in every time ...

MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER – My Heaven

Nothing shattersNothing brakesNothing hurtsNothing achesWe got ourself one hell of a placeIn my heavenLooking down at the world belowA bunch of wineFighting ...

MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER – Learning The World

Grief rides quietly on the passenger sideUnwanted company on a long, long driveIt turns down the quiet songs and turns up the dinIt goes where you go, ...

MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER – Late For Your Life

You’ve been saying for the longest time that the time has comeYou’ve been talking like you’re of a mind to get some changing doneMaybe move out of the ...

MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER – Jericho

You can’t see me yetSeeing takes a long, long timeFrom the outside inMeasuring each shift and sighBut as you let your eyes adjustTo the darkness deep ...

MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER – I Tried Going West

I tried going west where the sky meets the sunWhere the edge of the world’s always beenAs far from this place as a girl gets to runWhen her reasons to ...

MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER – I Am A Town

I’m a town in Carolina, I’m a detour on a rideFor aphone call and a soda, I’m a blur from the driver’s sideI’m the last gas for an hour if you’re going ...

MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER – He Thinks He’ll Keep Her

She makes his coffee, she makes his bedShe does the laundry, she keeps him fedWhen she was twenty-one she wore her mother’s laceShe said “forever” with ...

MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER – Hero In Your Own Hometown

We were born during the boom times, played house down in the bomb shelterSuffered through the wonder years, and silence at the dinner hourBut once upon ...

MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER – Halley Came To Jackson

Late one night when the wind was stillDaddy brought the baby to the window sillTo see a bit of heaven shoot across the skyThe one and only time Daddy ...

MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER – The Moon And St. Christopher

When I was young I spoke like a child, and I saw with a child’s eyesAnd an open door was to a girl like the stars are to the skyIt’s funny how the world ...

MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER – Fading Away

You are fading away in pieces and partsLike old china and glass, in fragments and shardsMoment by moment, a day at a timeBy the side of the road, in the ...