Beth Nielsen Chapman

Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi (2x) Quia per sanctam Crucem tuam redemisti mundum. Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi, Adoramus te, Christe. 

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 d...

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...

You can say you love me And I'll believe that's true Trusting you is easy 'Cause I believe in you There is nothing I would miss As long as we're in love like this CHORUS: All I have is all I need And it all comes down to you and me How far away this...

There's a woman in a wool suit Carrying an infant Coming through the bank doors Late for some appointment Now she rushes to the front desk And she talks to the receptionist Who motions to the telephone Over in the waiting room She's calling someone But I can...

I saw my life this morning Lying at the bottom of a drawer All this stuff I'm saving God knows what this junk is for And whatever I believed in This is all I have to show What the hell were all reasons For holding on for such dear life Here's where I...

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 Still the light will pierce the dark Still the dark will...

I wasn't ready for the avalanche When we let things slide I'd always hoped that we would have the chance At least to say we tried So I went sifting though my old mistakes On the day you left And I decided to forgive myself The heart can only take so much regre...

Ave Maria! Maiden mild! Oh, listen to a maiden's prayer For thou can't hear amid the wild This thou, this thou can't save amid, despair We slumbers safely tear the Mother Though we be man outcast relived Oh, Mainden, hear a maiden's sorrow Oh, Mother,...

Ave verum Corpus Natum de Maria Virgine, Vere passum, immolatum In cruce pro homine, Cuius latus perforatum Unda fluxit et sanguine, Esto nobis praegustatum In mortis examine, In mortis examine. 

Away beyond the blue One star belongs to you And every breath I take I'm closer to that place Yeah, baby I'm gonna meet you there On the outskirts of the sky Yeah, baby I'm gonna meet you there And we will fly Away beyond the blue One star belong...

She's wheeled into the hallway Till the sun moves down the floor Little squares of daylight Like a hundred times before She's taken to the garden For the later afternoon Just before her dinner They return her to her room [Chorus:] And inside her mind She is r...

I held you close to me Once in a distant dream Far from the shores of my fear I sailed on this ocean Where all I imagined could happen And now you are here It's so hard to touch what is out of our hands To know and to trust what the heart understands...

Baby, dance with me slow Let me fly with you While the band plays low Till the night is through The lights of the candles Look like stars around the room I'll try to be careful But I know I'm not immune 'Cause I just can't imagine How I'd ever come to harm Wi...

Fast asleep in the dawn of ages The soul of every child Has waited to be born a stranger Underneath the drum of his mothers heart Lying deep in a dream of darkness Where fear has never gone Each spark of a life is started Blind and pure to the world we come B...

In the tears you gave to me I found a river to an ocean A 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 eve...

[4x:] Dona nobis pacem, pacem Dona nobis pacem (Dona nobis pacem, pacem) (Dona nobis pacem) (Dona nobis pacem, pacem) 

Sometimes you wonder how much I care I get so distracted running nowhere And I take for granted our love is secure But if I started losing you, one thing is sure I'd be down on my knees Ready to pray, darlin' Down on my knees Making you stay I'd be begging yo...

My oh my, time sure flies I like what you've done to your hair I've been fine, yeah, these boys are mine That must be your little girl there Some friendships grow distant with time And it's no wonder, Emily, so much can change We're too far to visit, to...

You could spend your whole life Wanting what you don't have Tangled in the pain and strife Dragging up the ghost of your past You can curse the rain But the river remains Even as it all goes by Baby, it's a long road To the promised land And there a...

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 Paradis...

Fair enough There's nothing more to say You closed the door today You chose to walk away Fair enough You won't see the tears I cry Spare me your sad good-byes Let's keep this cut and dry 'Cause if my love can't stop you Words won't make you change you...

Faithful heart What more can one life ask One hand to hold along life's path Share with me this vow And for all time Our souls will be entwined I give this love, I live this love No greater joy is mine Storms will come, but we will never part For each of us b...

The sound of my heart is ancient and true And it sings like a thousand bells For sorrow and grace, for my love of you The feathers, the bones and the shells I try to believe wherever you are There's a sky and a sea of blue And someone you trust whose shelteri...

You look so disbelieving At my suitcase by the door My taxi's on it's way I can't take it anymore Lately you've forgotten What loving me's about But now you've got five minutes To figure it out You've got five minutes To tell me what I'm needing to h...

I had it tough when I was just a little kid It didn't matter what I thought it didn't matter what I did I felt the doubt for what I lacked right from the start It did a number on my head but it could never touch my heart Cause I had just enough imagination Ju...

God is in the child's eye, see them wide, wondrous wise God is in the rain and snow and each snowflake this we know God is in the trees, the air, the rocks, the birds, the bees, the bears God is in the clouds above, God is in each act of love God is in th...

Hallelujah, here we are now At the same fork in the road We don't know why, we can't say how We're still carrying this long Crashed through anger Walked in blindness Stormed the boundaries Day and night If we could just remember kindness Would it ma...

Happiness showed up today And rang its bell above the din Long enough to change the spin And turn my wheels around I had driven past my last regret Down the side road of despair Where the answers don't come off the rear And grace just can't be found...

I used to live in a darkened room Had a face of stone and a heart of gloom Lost my hope, I was so far gone Crying all my tears with the curtains drawn I didn't know until my soul broke free I've got these angels watching over me Chorus: Oh watch me go...

Hey baby it's a mean old world Gotta keep your feet on the ground Gotta have a heart like Jesus When the devil come an' knock you down Trust what's inside you And heads up for the wrecking ball Hey baby it's a backseat ride Nothing but your hope at the wheel...

Life has taught me this Every day is new And if anything is true All that matters When we're through Is how we love Faced with what we lack Some things fall apart But from the ashes new dreams start All that matters to the heart Is how we love How...

I'll sing a hymn to Mary, The Mother of my God, The Virgin of all virgins, Of David's Royal blood. O teach me, holy Mary, A loving song to frame, When wicked men blaspheme thee, To love and bless thy name. O Lily of the Valley, O mystic Rose what tree Or flow...

I can see me loving you You can show me how There is nothing I won't do We can start right now I can see me loving you When we're old and gray Ups and downs, and joy and blues Laughing all the way Born into this world of darkness Every child would b...

I started out Innocent and young With a thirst for love A search for fun I grew up fast This mirror in my soul Reflecting back What I'd been told Like every other child I've been Jaded from the outside in I don't know All I've got is feelings I came tumblin...

I'll catch your smile on someone's face Your whisper in the wind's embrace Through diamond stars and songs and dreams I find your love in everything The sun, the sky, the rolling sea All conspire to comfort me From sorrow's edge life's beauty seems To find yo...

Seems like after all we've been through We would have learned by now Never to fight for gets the last word It doesn't matter anyhow But 'round and 'round we go in circles Trying to work things through And sometimes it feels like miles between us But I k...

Welcome to the chaos To the stacks and scraps of paper Puppets hanging in the kitchen In an avalanche of wind chimes Oh, I need you love Welcome to my guesses To the questions unremembered In a myriad of choices In the fragments of my sentences I nee...

I'll give my heart When I hear the sound You speak my name I'll turn around To a light I've always known To a love That calls me home I'll give my heart And I'll fall so far Into this dream Of who we are And the moment That it's right I'll giv...

In the time it takes to tell you I could show you In the time it takes to wonder You could know Everything inside my heart Waiting for this dance to start All you gotta do All you gotta do is let go... [Chorus:] In the time it takes to want me You can have me...

I was swinging on the swings when I was a little girl Trying to get a handle on the big, wide world When I noticed all the grass in the cracks in the concrete I said, "Where there's a will, there's a way around anything" CHORUS: Life holds on Given the...

If the Sun was the size of a basketball That would make the solar system small The Earth would only be a grain of sand You could hold the planets with one hand How far away would Pluto be If we started sailing that cosmic sea A hop, skip, jump gets us a...

Look at how your love has changed my life Woke up all the dreams I've held inside All the stars fell in place When you first touched my face And once again the world felt right Look at how you knew you'd found my heart Deep out of the blue and torn apart Long...

You come home late from work, baby You wonder why it ain't on the table After the day that I've had I don't believe I'm able You give me every little reason in the book But there's one thing that I think you've overlooked You say you're tired, well so a...

1, 2 1, 2, 3 Deep inside our single heart All the roads to heaven start Sun and moon shall fall and rise Every day begins baptized Stay with me here Go with me there Nothing to fear Lighter than air And with this vow Blessed from above This is a...

I can almost feel you smiling From beyond those silver skies As you watch me finding my way Here without you in my life Chorus: No one knows but you How I feel inside No one knows No one knows but you I’ve come so close to believing All the echoes...

Fingers press the keys for interface The printer taps the words across the page We have gotten men upon the moon And babies from a spoon In this high tech finely tuned computer age [Chorus:] But we've got no system No system for love We've got no system No sy...

O sanctissima, o piissima, Dulcis Virgo Maria! Mater amata, intemerata, Ora, ora pro nobis Tu solatium et refugium, Virgo mater Maria! Quidquid optamus, per te speramus, Ora, ora pro nobis. Tolle languores, sana dolores, Ora, ora pro nobis. Virgo,...

O God of loveliness, 0 Lord of heaven above, How worthy to possess my heart's devoted love. So sweet thy countenance, so gracious to behold That one, one only glance to me were bliss untold. Thou art blest Three in One, yet undivided still, Thou art the One a...

There are only so many tears you can cry Till your heart stops breaking Only so many doors you can try Till you finally find your way Out of the dark, into the light No, the clouds won't always be grey The sun reappears in the blink of an eye And there's only...

Panis Angelicus fit panis hominum; Dat panis coelicus figuris terminum: O res mirabilis! Manducat Dominum. Pauper, servus et humilis. Te trina Deitas, unaque poscimus, Sic nos tu visita, sicut te colimus; Per tuas semitas duc nos quo tendimus, Ad lucem...

I have come from so far away Down the road of my own mistakes In the hope you could hear me pray Oh Lord, keep me in Your reach How I've longed through these wasted years To outrun all the pain and fear Turned to stone from my un-cried tears And now it...

If love could say God's name We'd hear a trillion sounds Choirs from the balconies And grass grow through the ground The sound would ring so true As every fist uncurled One human family All across the world The prayers of an atheist Sent from the em...

First she gets angry Then she gets sad Then she's decided It wasn't so bad This is the last time This time he swore She forgives him Just this once more First he starts drinking Then he gets cruel He don't like her thinking He's anyone's fool Teach her a le...

True love knows the way Across the sea of time Straight to the place we long to find. It's true, love can take a promise I know lies It paints those pretty blue and sunny skies. Good souls lost at sea Caught up in storms like these Would never leave the land...

Love, it's true that when it comes to you I've tried to keep my two feet on the ground My, it's strange how quickly life can change You've got my nights and days all turned around Waited for it...sweet surrender Waited for it...endless charm Waited for it...e...

Listen up children, got a story to tell There's music out in space, ringing clear as a Bell I promise that it's true, though it's hard to believe Get your radio tuned to the frequency….here goes Her career was finished and her bright days were done She'd...

Salve Regina caelitum, o Maria! Sors unica terrigenum, o Maria! Iubilate, Cherubim, Exsultate, Seraphim! Consonante perpetim: Salve, salve, salve Regina. Mater misericordiae, o Maria! Dulcis parens clementiae, o Maria! Iubilate, Cherubim, Exsultate...

All alone I didn't like the feeling All alone I sat and cried All alone I had to find some meaning In the center of the pain I felt inside All alone I came into this world All alone I will someday die Solid stone is just sand and water, baby Sand and water, a...

Say goodnight not good-bye You will never leave my heart behind Like the path of a star I'll be anywhere you are In the spark that lies beneath the coals In the secret place inside your soul Keep my light in your eyes Say goodnight not good-bye Don't you fea...

Faith can blind you And love can be too kind The truth may find you Running from the way you feel inside [Chorus:] Say it to me now Say it to me anyway Everything your heart would say If all the walls came down Say it to me now Even if the truth tears us apar...

I want to hold you now And listen to you breathe It's like the ocean sound Whispering through the trees In the hollow of your shoulder There's a tide pool of my tears Where the waves came crashing over And the shoreline disappears Baby close your eyes Fly bac...

Fine, fine Everything remembering Its own time Every wave surrenders At the shoreline Time peels back the sky And the clouds Hurl shadows at the wind Oh, yes Pay no mind to me It's only hopeless By a small degree Let's watch the sunset Slide in...

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 shak...

Hey, time won't wait, life goes by Every day's a brand new sky Every tear comes to dry All that really matters in this crazy world Is you and I together baby, just remember The first leaves off the tree The way you look at me A thousand chiming church...

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 s...

Through the sleepless nights I cry for you And wonder who Is kissing you Oh these sleepless nights Will break my heart in two Somehow through the days I don't give in I hide the tears That wait within Oh but then through sleepless nights I cry again Why did...

There's a tree out in the backyard That never has been broken by the wind And the reason it's still standing It was strong enough to bend For years, we have stayed together As lovers and as friends What we have will last forever If we're strong enough...

Rita's out on the street tonight Driving through the rain She's got lots of new reasons not to trust any man again And even though she'll be alright She'll never be the same again She'll move closer to her mama, let her daughter keep her daddy's name Sometimes...

Tantum ergo Sacramentum Veneremur cernui: Et antiquum documentum Novo cedat ritui: Praestet fides supplementum Sensuum defectui. Genitori, Genitoque Laus et iubilatio, Salus, honor, virtus quoque Sit et benedictio: Procedenti ab utroque Compar sit...

Well humanity was in the dark for several thousand years They based their fortunes good and bad, plus all their hopes and fears On omens in the Earth and sky, and superstitious rot But now we have a better way to understand our lot Test retest and verify,...

Old ticket stubs, gum wrappers etched In ways to write your name Love letter scraps no strings attached Just odds and ends and things Wind blows through these photographs Our innocence, the aftermath Thanks to spring I changed my purse Came upon this ancient...

Nights alone Silent telephone The curtains on my window dark and drawn Sleepless dream It would almost seem The nights would drive me crazy now you're gone, but [Chorus:] That's the easy part When I'm alone, and I can cry That's the easy part Don't have to sm...

The Universe is the strangest place Started with the big bang boom Created time and also space Way back in the big bang boom No galaxies or stars to see Way back in the big bang boom An expanding singularity Way back in the big bang boom The big bang...

Feathered clouds of golden hues Are fashioned by the gentle winds A silent dome of stars appears The canopy of night descends Hidden treasures then are found Their subtle glories greet the eye And the gifts of peace are handed down To watchers of the M...

I remember thinking love was a fool's game Break your heart you've got your own self to blame I've played it smart so many times, but that all changed From the moment you were mine People fall in love and swear they are so sure Then they turn around and say i...

Moon, Moon, Moon, Moon Moon, Moon, Moon, Moon Oh the Moon, oh the Moon, oh the big round Moon I love to watch the beautiful Moon It's a wonder in the sky from July through June There's nothing quite as lovely as the Moon, the Moon There's nothing quite...

Oh, the path of love is deep With a thousand twists and turns There are promises to keep There are endless things to learn Through the laughter and the tears Sometimes lost, sometimes alone Letting go is how you steer And it always leads you home Oh,...

The changes of seasons affect all of life The reasons aren't easily seen It all has to do with the angle of light Yes it's all in the way that we lean Our mothership Earth keeps us spinning around Creating each new day we see The axis of spin isn't stra...

There is no darkness There is no night There is no place In Earth or space Without the light The great illusion Our eyes can't see There is no darkness In you and me When time began When space was born Before the stars came out to shine And the worlds were fo...

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 the...

I don't want another heartbreak I don't need another turn to cry, no I don't want to learn the hard way Baby hello, oh no, goodbye But you got me like a rocket Shooting straight across the sky It's the way you love me It's a feeling like this It's centripical...

I can't believe that after all this time You keep slipping back across my mind Did we maybe leave a love behind Afraid of what we felt [Chorus:] Other loves I've had have come and gone I don't know why they just don't last too long There are questions that go...

There are songs I love that catch my breath When the first chord starts to play Effortless and true, it's funny but I knew You would always touch my heart that way And it hurts so much to let you go And there are no words to say But the corner of your smile s...

I blew out all my plans The world fell in my hands The day that I began Trying to love you The secrets I have kept The nights I haven't slept I've laughed until I've wept Trying to love you Trying to love you...No one's come as close or gone so far Trying to...

Veni, Veni Emmanuel! Captivum solve Israel! Qui gemit in exsilio, Privatus Dei Filio. [Refrain:] Gaude, gaude, Emmanuel Nascetur pro te, Israel. Veni, O Jesse virgula, Ex hostis tuos ungula, De specu tuos tartari Educ et antro barathri. [Refrain] Veni, Ven...

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 [Ch...

What a fool Thought I'd wrapped up the case I went and promised my heart But you just laughed in my face What a fall Never thought I'd forget you I gave it all But I've got no regret I loved you I cared CHORUS: So if by chance you walk my way And...

When I feel this way Doesn't matter what I say There are no words good enough When I feel this way Wrapped up in your arms, oh baby My whole world is your love Let's erase the doors and windows Paint a silver moon There is nothing more I'll ever want...

She says she hates me- and not to call She's used her pain to build a concrete wall She's rolled her angry words into a fist But that's not who she is That's not who she is I slammed the phone down hard and walked outside I wrote her off that day as if she'd...

[Chorus:] Will and Liz Headed down the road to bliss Just a couple of crazy kids Callin' it love Sex, drugs, lies Another day in paradise So wonderful they don't think twice Callin' it love Fairytales so happy never ending Pretending All you really need in l...

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...

I went home for Christmas To the house that I grew up in Going back was something after all these years I drove down Monterey Street And felt a little sadness When I turned left on Laurel and the house appeared And I snuck up to that rocking chair Where...

The electromagnetic spectrum, is making a lot of waves You know that they go from radio, to energetic gamma rays But you can see the blues, in all the visible hues The colors of the rainbow, are the energies that we use Can't see a single X-ray baby But y...

One moment in the wink of an eye There was nothing I could say This strong feeling started up inside I knew time would not erase away [Chorus:] For you, oh... My heart is brave, my time is free I believe deep down in my soul You hold the key to holding me Al...

You make me promises that you don't keep. Tears are expensive, honey, words are cheap. You tell me one thing then do something else. And even though I know that all too well, I keep forgiving, I keep forgetting, I keep expecting you to change. You say you wil...

Some love makes you cry Some loves say goodbye Some love stays inside your heart for life Once love takes you in Lets you feel again Gets beneath your skin it seems so right Like a key that opens every door You give me the love I've waited for Some love mak...

There are constellations in the sky they call the Zodiac Don't be confused by that strange word it's just the planets' path The planets wander night to night on the ecliptic plane And astronomers would much prefer that scientific name Zo-di-a-cal Zydeco...