Ilse DeLange Album

I don't know where I'm going
It's an unchartered sky
I don't think I even really know
What I'm feeling inside
Love is so uncertain
Who can say what's in store
This is deeper, farther, higher
Than I've been before

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I'm flying blind
Wherever your love takes me
I'm letting go and I don't care if I fall
I'll close my eyes with you beside me
I follow faith and let it guide me
Tonight I'm leaving all my fears behind
I'm flying blind

I won't question tomorrow
It's a mystery to me
I just know what your touch in me does
I know this is where I wanna be
It's a risk worth taking
I don't want to come down
Play my heart
Got my cards on the table
Got my head up in the clouds

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How can you ask me
How have I been
I think you should know well
The shape that I'm in
You say that you wondered
If I was o.k.
Well that's a damn fool thing to say

The water is risin'
The water is wide
And your always standin'
On the other side
And then comes the moment
I wake before dawn
With hours to lie here alone

And you seem so surprised
That I'm feelin' this way
How am I so lonely today
If you ever loved me the way I loved you
You would be lonely too

So here's to the lovers
For old times sake
Who don't hold each other
To the promise they break
And smile through the window
And wave on the street
'Cause that's all you want now from me

Should I say something
To put you at ease
Or should I get down on my knees
If you ever loved me the way I loved you
You would be lonely too

If you ever loved me the way I loved you
You would be lonely too

I sat outside one afternoon
In an old lawn chair
And I watched the sun set off
For business west somewhere
While the sky turned watercolor fine
And gold and blue
And the stars all showed up one by one
And we waited for the moon

And I thought 'bout you and I wondered why
It took so long to say goodbye
You shined so bright you blinded me
And left me so I couldn't see

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I was the moon chasing the sun
There was never a prayer of ever catching up
No matter how fast I would run
Like the moon chasing the sun
Just like the moon chasing the sun

The crickets called
And the moon peeked out to the eastern sky
They both start up about this time each night
And an evening breeze stopped by
And brought some sweet relief
In the silver light I finally let go of the heat

And I thought 'bout you and I wondered why
It took so long to say goodbye
You shined so bright you blinded me
And left me so I couldn't see

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Yesterday we kept a safer distance
We walked a borderline that seemed so clear
We crossed that line last night
It vanished with the morning light
Now I wanna know, where do we go from here

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What does your heart say now
Now that we've touched, now that we've kissed
What does your heart say now
Now that it's come this
Is it the same, or has something changed
Now that we've let our guard down
I just want to know, what does your heart say now

Last night we said things one soul to another
In ways that spoken words could not express
No room was left for doubt
But I don't know where I stand now
Don't leave me in the dark
Don't make me guess

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If I were a ghost I'd haunt your house
Hang out in your rafters
You could be my mister Adams
I could be your Casper
I'd shake with you my afterlife of the unexplained
Walk through your walls let you rattle my chains
Yes I would

And if I were a snake I'd be a constrictor
Slicker than oil
I'd entice you with my slither wrap you in my coils
You could tie me in a thousand knots
And just watch me unfold
Hypnotize you with my stare swallow you whole
Think about it

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Welcome to my world of make believe
Check your reality at the door
Within my wishes and my wildest dreams
If I could be anything
Well baby, I'd be yours

And if I were a bird I'd be an owl
Wise beyond my years
Watch over you each night, calm you of your fears
You could set my head to spinnin'
With those little things you do
Like sayin' it was me you loved
When I asked you "who"

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Day one God smiled,
Gave us all the wisdom of a newborn 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 light comes from

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And it's a world of hurt, nothing works
It's a lonely little planet made of dust and dirt
Who'd ever think that in the midst of all this
Something as beautiful as love exists
And when I hold you, and you hold me
Heaven doesn't seem like such a mystery
Darling in a world of hurt
You make me feel so good

Day one of our love,
Two heartbroken people scared to trust too much
Oh but here it comes that feelin' again
That every lover swears will never end
We thought we'd been there, done that,
But when we kissed
We knew we'd never been here..
We've never done this
All the walls come tumblin' down
When you love someone

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You come to me crying with your head hung down
You say that you're trying
But you can't change now
I know your pain is real
I know that you're but still
There's just so much I can do
Ashes on the table, shoes on the floor
Talking like a hundred other times before
You know I'm into you, you know my love is true
I just don't know what else to do
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'Cause I'm not your savio, I can't part the sea
I ain't a genie, I got no tricks up my sleeve
I don't have the answers, I don't hold the key
But I'm all the woman that you,
That you'll ever need
If you're looking for a love, baby here I am
But I'm only human so please understand
I can't take back your bad times
Turn water into wine
Just what am I supposed to do
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I'm all of the woman that you'll ever need
I'll rock you gently when you're feeling weak
But honey it's not fair if you don't do your share
Who's gonna take care of me
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I see all that I ever wanted
When you look at me like you do
I'd love to believe you've got all I need
But there's something missing in you
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If you had the heart to go with those eyes
I'd fall for you and never think twice
I'd trust those lips that tell such sweet lies
If you had the heart to go with those eyes
It's easy to see that you thrill me
But I know your story so well
You think hearts are for breaking
And love's made for taking
You give nothing at all of yourself
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'Cross the Bering strait
to a foreign land
I took to the sky just like I planned
Left my old life behind
there in the ice and snow
followed a rainbow to Mexico

Somewhere this side of lucky just shy of goin' down
there's a pilot with her wings on fire
and she doesn't even notice,
she got magic on her mind
'cause she's flyin' solo for the first time

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Flying solo
like an angel in the night
flyin' solo
across the great devide
I've been down so low, now I'm up so high
there ain't nothin' short of dying
is gonna make me change my mind
flyin' solo, flyin' solo

Like a fallin' leaf
I fell down from your tree
chalk one up to prosperity
in search of warmer waters
I'm like a bird gone south
don't know just what I'll find
but I'm finding out

Now here I'm dancin' with the moon
spinning out of control
never be the same again
'cause there's a place under the horizon
where it hardly ever rains
the sun is always shining
freedom is it's name

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Around the world that's where I'll be
Amelia Earheart's got nothin' on me

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Walking that line, saying I'm fine
Thought I kicked you off my mind long ago
Though you tore me apart when you broke my heart
I never, ever, ever let it show
I can't keep this storm inside me anymore
I can't stop this rain that's got to pour
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I'm crying old tears
The dam is breaking after all these years
And you know what... I don't care
I don't care who sees me cry
I've been so strong
But there's no way that I can move on
No, this pain will never disappear
Untill I cry these old tears
Just the littlest thing,
The sound of your name
I start to feel this ache inside my soul
I try to lock it all in, push it all down
It's just so hard to keep it in control
I could fill the ocean baby, I'm so blue
The only way that I'll get over losing you
Is crying old tears...

I can almost read your mind,
It's running fast, out of control
you're afraid of what you'll find
if you get too close
you imagine I don't care
you see walls that just aren't there
you think I'm too strong to let you in
well that's just not fair

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I'm not so tough, I 'll call your bluff
and let you see a side of me
that wants you here and cries real tears
and needs someone to love
I'm not so tough

I know that you've been hurt before
well so have I what can you do
that doesn't mean you close the door
so stop blamin' me, I don't blame you
I'm not some ghost from your past
the one who tore your heart in half
I'm not her, it's not my fault you're holding on to that

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The silence that's fallen between us,
is the lonelyest sound that i've heard,
how can we find forgiveness,
if we can't find the words.

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When we don't talk,
when we don't speak,
when we don't share all the feelings,
that are buried so deep,
how can we know,
what's hidden behind these walls?
when the door's locked.

When we lose touch
when you and i lose sight of us
the honesty's lost
and the tears say it all
we don't talk

When so much goes unspoken
and sorry is left unsaid
the silence remains unbroken
and our hearts are breaking instead

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Bright lights and funny clowns
Hammin' it up on the circus grounds
Horses, big parade
Such a pretty sight, this love we made
>From way up here, life's just a ball
With you by my side, love is worth the fall
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So we're tap dancing on a highwire
We could go tumbling down
But something makes me want to go higher
Think it's having you around
Oh, get a look at us playing with fire
Oh, we're tap dancing on a highwire
Big applause, from the crowd out there
Watching our hearts hang in mid-air
No strings and no fear
Keeps our love suspended up here
We know we could go lose our balance and fall
but a heart that don't dance
Ain't a real heart at all
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I'd lived my life convinced I'd find
your love somehow, some way
I held on to the faith that you
would show yourself one day
something in me believed
this night was meant to be

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You are the promise I made to my heart
you are the vision I saw in the dark
you are the reason I waited so patiently
so many nights when I closed my eyes
It's you that I have seen
I am the dreamer
you are the dream

It wasn't always clear to see
where I was headed to
but of all life's roads somehow I chose
the one that led to you
it doesn't matter how far I've been
I found my journey's end

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