Bethany Joy Lenz

"Moving on from 1972 ain't an easy task," he said Says he's been sober since she left him for dead And the old man takes a swig of his non-alcoholic beer And the tired man proudly takes a drag, it's been nearly 28 years. And it still blows me away How ea...

Everybody knows how this goes Everybody knows how wide and how much and how far Everybody's got my number now Maybe I can find a way out I've been running too long on this shift And I've been keeping tabs on myself And now I'm cutting in close on my l...

The farther I com the farther I fall Whatever I knew it was nothing at all Nothing at all, just making me small Smaller and smaller I fall back Sooner or later with a view from the ground Chasing the race and the races run you down Sooner or later with a view...

Here I am Red high heels Yellow dress Perfect nails Lips like velvet Don't you want me, baby? I've been here and back again It never answers anything Where was I when they handed out the knowing you are loved? Don't it get lonely out there, little...

I've been behind on the events of the past 7 days I've been sleeping in my bed And missing you like sometimes crazy girls do I've been hanging like a child onto this photograph of us It was taken on a bus across town the last time I saw you And now this...

Said I want to live the city life This small town could eat me alive I gotta pack my things and go where the railroad takes me Mama's too poor to send me away But I've been saving up on most everyday Little bit out of each check from the Gas & Deli...

This day probably tore me apart And I didn't even know it This day probably ate up my heart And I got nothing to show for it Why (why) is it so so (so) easy to compromise This fog is like strawberry pie But it keeps you keeping reaching Here I am just...

I could never leave you Even if you asked me to I could never say goodbye Make you cry, Oh I could never stumble With you walking by my side I could never love you more than I already do So don't walk away Don't walk away Don't lie, tell me that yo...

I love the time and in between The calm inside me In this space where I can breathe I believe there a distance I have wandered To touch upon the years Reaching out and reaching in Holding out holding in I believe This is heaven to no one else but me...

Did you think I would stay quiet? Did you think I would smoke out like an ember from a firework? After seven years of bullshit did you think I would lay down and that you would get away with it? I’m not the kind that you tried to make me I’m not the k...

It's gotta be this one, You don't have to fake it You know I can take it What if I told you your tears haven't been ignored And everything that's taken can be restored Ref. Feel this Can you feel this My heart's beating out of my chest Feel this Can you feel...

Get up It's been too long Everybody's been pushing and shoving and walking and making me Move my feet Get up Don't wait too long Maybe if everybody's been pushing and shoving it's time that we Move our feet Hey, don't you remember? Hey, everybody's...

The girl in the moon Is alone with the stars And the spaceships The girl in the moon Is alone and alive With the dust and the air Nothing grows Everything is moving But only goes in circles And no one to talk to Is reason enough to be blue The gir...

I never promised you a ray of light, I never promised there'd be sunshine everyday, I give you everything I have, the good, the bad. Why do you put me on a pedestal, I'm so up high that I can't see the ground below, so help me down you've got it wrong, I...

I will not sleep well tonight (I will not sleep well tonight) I will not be found when the morning brings the dreaded light I will kiss the lips that say goodbye (I will kiss your lips) Clinging to the comfort of my God all night I will not be moved by and by...

Honestly I didn’t mean to cry so hard the heartache was pouring in like rain I didn’t mean to show I care Honestly I didn’t mean to laugh so loud but it just sounds so absurd to say that you want me Say that you need me after everything you’ve done Really...

I love the time and in between, the calm inside me, in the space where i can breathe I believe there is a distance I have wandered to touch upon the years of reaching out and reaching in, holding out, holding in. I believe this is heaven to no one else...

I know what this looks like, I know I know I know what they’re saying, I know I know That you’re just on the other side of a real bad way and you’re just on the other side of drowning your life away Well it’s too damn bad it’s all a big cliche Cause I kn...

Here I am Red high heels Yellow dress Perfect nails Lips like velvet Don't you want me, baby? I've been here and back again It never answers anything Where was I when they handed out the knowing you are loved? Don't it get lonely out there, little d...

You're everything I thought I wanted as a young girl Handsome and troubled, worldly - wise and misunderstood They call you a scholar but they don't know the difference and They call you "professor" but they don't know the subject And its and its all the...

It's only a three day drive And I was hoping you'd come along Come on Josiah, don't be cross I hear New Mexico is really gorgeous this time of year Don't you want to see the Spanish moss I've been running far too long For you to give up on me now Won't you f...

I know a place in Carolina It’s open year round But only after dark so Bring your gal and bring your wine Unwind from your day Gee, don’t you know that you’re in for a show When you go down to Karen’s Cafe I know a place in Carolina It’s open year round But o...

I don't need to fall at your feet Just 'cause you cut me to the bone And I won't miss the way that you kiss me We were never carved in stone If I don't listen to the talk of the town Then maybe I can fool myself.. [CHORUS] I'll get over you.. I know I will I'...

I woke up in white cotton sheets With a glass of champagne in my hand I looked out the window beside me Breathed in the sea and the sand And all felt fine I stood up on a white tile floor Took down my hair and I cried I walked through the arches and on...

Spending all your money Ain't it funny how the time goes by? First you start believing Then you're leaving for no reason And you're wondering why So till the morning breaks Go and make your mistakes Don't be surprised if your head hurts Life is for the...

It's October again Leaves are coming down One more year's come and gone And nothing's changed at all Wasn't I supposed to be someone Who can face the things that I've been running from... Let me feel, I don't care if I breakdown Let me fall, even if I...

Maybe I was wrong Maybe I was looking in all the wrong places Maybe I was wrong Maybe I was searching in all the wrong places If I knew that you were coming for me I would have stayed in one place If I knew that you were coming for me I would have made my pea...

Oo Hoo, oh oh... Anthony works in the grocery store Saving his pennies for someday. Momma Leoni left a note on the door. She said, "Sonny, move out to the country. Aw, but working too hard can give you a heart attack, ack, ack, ack, ack, ack; You oughtt...

Saturdays can be so cruel if you'd know what you're doing Supposed to catch a flight to Miami But the weather's brewing and brewing I call the airport and they cancelled my flight So I crawl back into bed in the middle of the night Every day's just anoth...

Everybody else knows how this goes Everybody knows how wide and how much and how far Everybody's got my number now Maybe I can find a way out I've been running too long on this shift And I've been keeping tabs on myself And now I'm cutting close in on my...

There's no way that I can win I just need to get over My foolish heart Same old story Longing for What I can't have what doesn't belong to me Oh I guess I had to come to this place Oh my knees were on my face Up on my face Oh God Wish I had somethi...

Well I guess I can't argue with you if you think you've found her So long then, say bye bye I'm no good in a competition I'm better off alone yeah So bye baby bye Hey what's the matter boy I thought you said you were leaving me I ain't crying cuz it do...

Woe is me, something dramatic like I could be Ophelia Love's labor lost, before it began I’m not trying to be clever I’m just saying what I am Ophelia Oh, I’m turning over will And I’m cleaning up this holy mess I made Everything’s fine Everything’s...

Well the sale at Macy's is over Ain't there nothing left to buy Cause everything you were gonna get's already gone. When it's midnight at the Eiffel Tower Something's strange and smelling sour Reeks of a memory I thought I'd lost. Well I've been thinki...

If you're in love with me Why don't you show me If you can't live without Holding me then hold me I have been ignored And abused and rejected So it's time you told me If this is what it is Then it is not Anything for me Are you going to try Or is i...

I'd like to say I make good use of my time while you've been away And it's true I've been at my piano everyday thinking of you They talk around I hear them whisper It's the funniest thing really They think you're gone forever I know the truth It's just gettin...

They set me up real nice here in the corner I've got my very own self to keep my mind and body warm They set me up real nice in the back room Even let me eat the shit they borne Don't nobody know any better, I suppose Ain't nobody looking really But t...

Love, what metal are you made of? You must be from some scheming star Love, you’re wicked and heavenly You set me free Then you lock the door I can’t go back and I can’t go forward You got me wrapped around your finger Tie a rope around me Ready, aim, and pul...

Wade in the water Find something real Like mountains in the ocean Something other than beneath me I can feel Like my body in the river Make me shiver all over Make me shiver all over Make me shiver all over with love Wade in water Who’s that young g...

Honey I just can't Get around it anymore You make me feel like Home is where you are And baby I just can't Run around it every morn'n It's time that I believe it Home is where you are Notes in my drawers Songs in my pockets Fragments of letters that...

Everyday I find I am looking for me And these unfinished lives Every movement and emotion settles my heart It is paralyzing Maybe I am crazy I say there is a better way And these waves come crashing on my shore I will not be moved 'cause I know who I a...

Here's the summer Gone creeping out just like the Sunday storm Just a little bit of brown Over the blue If you see me walking And the wind is loud and blowing strong I'm just trying to stand up Under the blue Ahh Like the Carolina Rain Honey I'll ju...

Sunday is only two days away Already they said a train was coming in late I’ll wait This reminds me of last year September, I think When you said you loved me But you had to leave me So I’ll wait, I said On a Sunday train I can hear the whistle Blowing you aw...

It's lonliest when you're here It's quietly when you're right beside me I don't say it to hurt you I just miss the touch of his hand The lonliness is better near now Than to satisfy the crave The lonliness is better near now Than to satisfy the crave,...

So here's another one of those Stretches and beautiful roads I ain't giving up 'Till I get my way You can call me crazy if you like But I've got a secret And I know somehow Whatever comes I'm gonna get by Let's take the long way I don't mind Let's...

I’m a frantic un-satisfied woman When the day grows long and I can’t seem to settle down Then slowly grows our little faith I hang my head on Everyday my dreams will get bigger Then I hear there’s nothing I can dream hasn’t been dreamt before So I wate...

Dancing where the stars go blue Dancing where the evening fell Dancing in my wooden shoes In a wedding gown Dancing out on seventh street Dancing through the underground Dancing little marionette Are You happy now, yeah Where do You go when Y...

The Gypsy dances in circles and beckons your ear She knows your fancy, divines how to play to you fear She's lost and she's lonesome and wounds everyone that she's near But I love her just the same, wicked Calamity Jane Sparkling eyes are so tender and so...

When, when you touch me when you say my name Oh I never liked the sound of my name till you said it baby No, don’t you leave me don’t you leave my side, I’d lose my mind You’ll never hear the sound of your name like I said it baby When you touch me...