Beth Nielsen Chapman Album

(Beth Nielsen Chapman/Bill Lloyd)

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 love you...I've lost and found myself in who you are
Trying to love you...So easy and so hard, trying to love you

I've watched myself get stuck
Squandered all my luck
But I cannot give up
Trying to love you

Trying to love you...It broke my heart, it's chipped away my pride
Trying to love you...Everytime I'd see that faultline slide
Trying to love you...I've crossed the great divide trying to love you

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Trying to love you...I've screamed your name, I've slammed a thousand doors
Trying to love you...I've worn a million miles across the floor
Trying to love you...Still I could not ignore trying to love you

It's pulled the best from me
For all the world to see
And I will always be
Trying to love you

(Beth Nielsen Chapman/Annie Roboff)
Featured guest Michael McDonald

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...every moment spent in your arms

Sends me right back into the feeling
When the world melts under your touch
And you toss my heart through the ceiling
No reason not to fall in love

Love I've lost came at so high a cost
Thought I'll be better off just on my own
Then we kissed and all the fun I'd missed
Felt like a thousand ships turning for home

Waited for it...I'd almost given up
Waited for it...believing you would come
Waited for it...everytime I think I should run

You send me right back into the feeling
Where the world melts under your touch
And you toss my heart through the ceiling
No reason not to fall in love

I try to think about the consequences
Second guessing with a backward glance
But my brain doesn't stand a chance
Chained to the crazy dreams my heart has

Repeat Chorus

(Beth Nielsen Chapman / Andy Bey)

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 before I could see you were so meant for me
You held me in your arms so tight

Love finds a way
Through time and grace
How sweet to step into this dance
When I never thought my heart
Would get a second chance

Look at how your love has changed my life
Filled me with a hope that shines so bright
That the past closed the book
When I turned back to look
At how your love has changed my life

(Beth Nielsen Chapman/Annie Roboff)

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
Just enough to keep the faith
That somehow I would think of what to do
When I'd get lost in a momentary weakness of emotion
All the angels came along to help me through

Life pulls fast changes
Wind blows past pages
All I see is, I don't need this
Highstrung tight rope walks
Ticking time bomb clocks
Scratch my name off, cut these chains

I'm free...Kicking out of that prison
I'm free...Singing those words of wisdom
Let it be...Nobody's gonna put the blues inside of me..

And in the stress to be the best I've done it all
I've slammed the doors I've jammed the locks
Laid the bricks, I've built the walls
No one could tell me back then why joy eluded me
Kept bumping into that misery locked up deep down inside of me

Took that rage and I
Turned that page and I
Packed my tools, went back to school
And I've passed my graduation
I hold my Ph. D. in crash test blues
I've paid those dues

I'm free...
Repeat Chorus

Time flied by in photographs
And paper scraps and songs
Here I stand in ruby slippers
Three taps takes me home...I'm free...

(Beth Nielsen Chapman/Mat Rollings)

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 says all I need to know
You could always touch my heart that way

Sail on my love, life is only a blink in time
Go on and show all those stars what it means to shine

Like a fire that spins inside a spark
As the ashes cool to grey
Kicked up by the wind, dancing through the dark
You will always touch my heart that way

Instrumental

Sail on my sweet love, this world is a blink in time
Go on and show all those stars what it means to shine

And I know your love is here with me
I can feel you every day
Even if the beauty of your face I cannot see
Only you could touch my heart that way
You can always touch my heart that way

(Beth Nielsen Chapman/Harlan Howard)

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

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 on and on
That time won't tell

Time won't tell me how it might have been
Time won't make what's wrong alright
It can only take me back again
And re-run all those memories in black and white

I watch us kiss goodbye that day
Here's where you turned around and walked away
What were the words that would have made you stay
Time won't tell

(Repeat chorus)

You never see the road you didn't take
You never feel the love you fail to make
To never know may be the worst mistake
Cause time won't tell
No, time won't tell...

(Beth Nielsen Chapman/Al Anderson/David Baerwald)

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 life is love
What were they thinking of
Whatever it is it was
Never enough....

Two lost souls
Turning into two black holes
Offer up the last red rose
Into the fire

Chorus

Will and Liz
Just a couple of crazy kids
Callin' it love

(Beth Nielsen Chapman/Allen Shamblin)

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 died
Said if she burns in hell, well I won't give a damn
But that's not who I am,
That's not who I am

Lost behind the masks we wear
The barbed wire fences of our fear
We drag each other through these tears
And strike the wounds that scar
But that's not who we are
That's not who we are

Someday I'll hold her, for this I pray
That time and grace will roll the stone away
And we'll love each other with open hearts
Just for who we are
Just for who we are

A mother who gave all she could
A child who tried to just be good
In father brother sisterhood
We reach and fall so far
Like dust of ancient stars
That's just who we are
Dust of ancient stars
That's just who we are

(Beth Nielsen Chapman/Eric Kaz)

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 makes you cry
Some loves say goodbye
Your love stays inside my heart for life

Like a key that opens every door
You give me the love I've waited for

Some love makes you cry
Some loves say goodbye
Your love stays inside my heart for life
Your love stays inside my heart for life

(Beth Nielsen Chapman/Patrick Doyle)
On the movie soundtrack "Calendar Girls"

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 your love in everything

I've come to trust the hope it brings
To find your love in everything
Even as I fall apart,
Even through my shattered heart

I'll catch your smile on someone's face
.....amazing grace