MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER
COME ON COME ON
(Columbia CK-48881)
June 30/1992
Produced by John Jennings & Mary Chapin Carpenter
John Jennings - guitar/bass,/percussion,/vocals
Mike McAdam - guitar/tremolo
John Jorgenson - guitar
Paul Franklin - steel
Jerry Douglas - dobro
J.T. Brown, Edgar Meyer, Denny Dadmun, Bob Glaub - bass
Robbie Magruder, Andy Newmark - drums
Matt Rollings, John B. Jarvis, Jon Carroll, Benmont Tench - piano/synthesizer/organ
Vocals:
Joe Diffie, Rosanne Cash, Amy Ray, Emily Saliers, Shawn Colvin, Indigo Girls
1.
HARD WAY
(Mary Chapin Carpenter)
« © '92 April Music, ASCAP / Get A Real Job Music, ASCAP »
Show a little inspiration show a little spark
Show that things that drew me to you and stole my heart
And tell me something I don't know instead of everything I do
Look at me as if I mean something to you
Our hearts are beatin' while we sleep but while we're wide awake
You know the world won't stop and actions speak louder
Listen to your heart and what your heart might say
Everything we got we got the hard way
Show a little passion baby show a little style
Show the knack for knowing when and the gift for knowing how
And have a little trust in us when fear obscures the path
You know we got this far darling not by luck but by never turning back
Some will call on destiny but I just call on faith
That the world won't stop...
Caught up in our little lives there's not a lot left over
I see what's missing in your eyes you're searching for that field of clover
[ guitar ]
So show a little inspiration show a little spark
Show the world a little light when you show it your heart
We've got two lives one we're given and the other one we make
And the world won't stop and actions speak louder
Listen to your heart and your heart might say
Everything we got we got the hard (everything we got we got the hard) way
Everything we got we got the hard way
(Because the world won't stop) hang on baby...
[ guitar ]
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2.
HE THINKS HE'LL KEEP HER
(Don Schlitz - Mary Chapin Carpenter)
« © '92 New Don Songs, ASCAP / BMG Songs, ASCAP /
April Music, ASCAP / Get A Real Job Music, ASCAP »
She makes his coffee she makes his bed
She does the laundry she keeps him fed
When she was twenty-one she wore her mother's lace
She said forever with a smile upon her face
She does the car-pool she PTA's doctors and dentists she drives all day
When she was twenty-nine she delivered number three
And every Christmas card showed a perfect family
Everything runs right on time years of practice and design
Spit and polish till it shines he thinks he'll keep her
Everything is so benign safest place you'll ever find
God forbid you change your mind he thinks he'll keep her
[ guitar ]
She packs his suitcase she sits and waits with no expression upon her face
When she was thirty-six she met him at their door
She said I'm sorry I don't love you anymore
Everything runs right on time...
[ guitar ]
For fifteen years she had a job and not one raise in pay
Now she's in the typing pool at minimum wage
Everything runs right on time...
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3.
RHYTHM OF THE BLUES
(Mary Chapin Carpenter)
« © '92 April Music, ASCAP / Get A Real Job Music, ASCAP »
I can hear the rain come down I can listen with my heart
I can see you with both eyes closed in the dark
Sleep will come in just a while but till it does I choose to listen to the rain
It's the rhythm of the blues
I walk along these streets of home that once belonged to us
And now baby I walk alone and I am lost
In the sound of my own footsteps on the avenues I guess I'm only walking
To rhythm of the blues
I don't wanna hear another word spoken I don't wanna see another tear shed
I can't seem to fix what's broken like this record baby in my head
[ guitar ]
Lonely looks as bad on me as lonely looks on you and still we keep on moving
To the rhythm of the blues
I want a place to call my own where you have never been
I wanna look around and know you won't be coming back again
On some pretense paper-thin that I can see right through
You come and go baby like the rhythm of the blues
You come and go baby like the rhythm of the blues
You come and go baby like the rhythm of the blues
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4.
I FEEL LUCKY
(Don Schlitz - Mary Chapin Carpenter)
« © '92 New Don Songs, ASCAP / BMG Songs, ASCAP /
April Music, ASCAP / Get A Real Job Music, ASCAP »
Well I woke up this morning stumbled out of my rack
I opened up the paper to the page in the back
It only took a minute for my finger to find
My daily dose of destiny under my sign
My eyes just about opped outta my head
I said the stars are stacked against you girl get back in bed
I feel lucky I feel lucky yeah
No Professor Doom gonna stand in my way mhm I feel lucky today
[ guitar ]
Well I strolled down to the corner gave my numbers to the clerk
The pot's eleven million so I called in sick to work
I bought a pack of Camels a burrito and a Barks
Crossed against the light made a beeline for the park
The sky began to thunder the wind began to moan
I heard a voice above me sayin' girl you'd better get back home
But I feel lucky oh oh oh I feel lucky yeah
No tropical depression gonna steal my sun away mhm I feel lucky today
[ guitar ]
Now eleven million later I was sittin' at the bar
I bought the house a double then the waitress a new car
Dwight Yoakam's in the corner try'n to catch my eye
Lyle Lovett's right beside me with his hand upon my thigh
The moral of this story it's simple but it's true
Hey the stars might lie but the numbers never do
I feel lucky oh oh oh I feel lucky yeah
Hey Dwight hey Lyle boys you don't have to fight hot dog I feel lucky tonight
I feel lucky I feel lucky yeah
Think I'll slip a coin I'm a winner either way mhm I feel lucky today
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5.
BUG
(Mark Knopfler)
« © '92 Almo Music, ASCAP »
Well it's a strange old game you learn it slow
One step forward and it's back you go
You're standin' on the throttle you're standin' on the brake
In the groove till you make a mistake
Sometimes you're the windshield sometimes you're the bug
Sometimes it all comes together sometimes you're a fool in love
Sometimes you're the Louisville Slugger sometimes you're the ball
Sometimes it all comes together babe sometimes you're gonna lose it all
You gotta know happy you gotta know glad
Because you're gonna know lonely and you're gonna know sad
When you're rippin' and a ridin' and you're coming on strong
You start slippin' and a slidin' and it all goes wrong
Because sometimes you're the windshield...
[ dobro ]
One day you got the glory and then you got none
One day you're a diamond and then you're a stone
Everything can change in the blink of an eye
So let the good times roll before we say goodbye
Sometimes you're the windshield...
Sometimes you're the windshield...
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6.
NOT TOO MUCH TO ASK
(Don Schlitz - Mary Chapin Carpenter)
« © '92 New Don Songs, ASCAP / BMG Songs, ASCAP /
April Music, ASCAP / Get A Real Job Music, ASCAP »
[ with Joe Diffie ]
To hear you say my name to see you search my eyes
To feel you touch my hand it more than satisfies
If I was not the first just say I'll be the last
It's too much to expect but it's not too much to ask
Now I can only dream of being all you need
And I can only try to be the reason why
You think about today and forget about the past
It's too much to expect but it's not too much to ask
[ dobro ]
Now I can only dream...
It's too much to expect but it's not too much to ask
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7.
PASSIONATE KISSES
(Lucinda Williams)
« © '88 Lucy Jones Music, BMI / Warner-Tamerlane Publishing, BMI »
Is it too much to ask I want a comfortable bed that won't hurt my back
Food to fill me up and warm clothes and all that stuff
Shouldn't I have this shouldn't I have this shouldn't I have all of this
And passionate kisses passionate kisses whoa oh oh passionate kisses from you
Is it too much to demand I want a full house and a rock and roll band
Pens that won't run out of ink and cool quiet and time to think
Shouldn't I have this...
[ guitar ]
Do I want too much am I going overboard to want that touch
I shouted out to the night give me what I deserve cause it's my right
Shouldn't I have this...
Passionate kisses passionate kisses from you
Passionate kisses passionate kisses from you
(Passionate kisses passionate kisses) from you
(Passionate kisses passionate kisses) from you
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8.
ONLY A DREAM
(Mary Chapin Carpenter)
« © '92 April Music, ASCAP / Get A Real Job Music, ASCAP »
I can recall the sound of the wind
As it blew through the trees and the trees would bend
And I can recall the smell of the rain
On a hot summer night coming through the screen
I'd crawl in your bed when the lightning flashed
And I'd still be there when the storm had passed
Dead to the world till the morning cast its light all around your room
We lived on a street where the tall elm shade
Was as green as the grass and as cool as a blade
That you held in your teeth as we lay on our backs
Staring up at the blue and the blue stared back
I used to believe we were just like those trees
We'd grow just as tall and as proud as we pleased
With our feet on the ground and our arms in the breeze under sheltering sky
Twirl me about and twirl me around let me grow dizzy and fall to the ground
And when I look up at you looking down say it was only a dream
A big truck was parked in the drive one day
They wrapped us in paper and moved us away
Your room was no longer next door to mine
This kid sister thing was old by that time
But oh how our dreams went bump in the night
And the voices downstairs gettin' into a fight
And the next day a silence you could cut with a knife
And feel like a blade at your throat
Twirl me about and twirl me around...
[ piano ]
The day you left home you got an early start
I watched your car back out in the dark
I opened the door to your room down the hall
I turned on the light and all that I saw
Was a bed and a desk and a couple of tacks
No sign of someone who expects to be back
It must've been one hell of a suitcase you packed
Twirl me about and twirl me around...
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9.
I AM A TOWN
(Mary Chapin Carpenter)
« © '92 April Music, ASCAP / Get A Real Job Music, ASCAP »
I'm a town in Carolina I'm a detour on the ride
I'm an phone call and a soda I'm a blur from the driver's side
I'm the last gas for an hour if you're going twenty-five
I am Texaco and tobacco I am dust you leave behind
I am peaches in September and corn from a roadside stall
I'm the language of the natives I'm a cadence and a drawl
I am pines behind the graveyard and the cool beneath their shade
Where the boys have left their beer cans I am weeds between the graves
Porches sag and lean with old black men and children
My sleep is filled with dreams I never can fulfill them I am a town
I'm the church beside the highway where the ditches never drain
I'm the Baptist like my daddy and Jesus knows my name
I am memory and stillness I am lonely in old age
I am not your destination I am clinging to my ways I am a town
I'm a town in Carolina I am billboards in the fields
I'm an old truck up on cinder blocks missing all my wheels
I am Pabst Blue Ribbon American and Southern Serves the South
I am tucked behind the Jaycees sign on the rural route I am a town
I am a town I am a town Southbound
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10.
WALKIN' THROUGH THE FIRE
(Mary Chapin Carpenter)
« © '92 April Music, ASCAP / Get A Real Job Music, ASCAP »
Hey when you set a match to your heart fueling it with bitterness and doubt
That's the place that once it starts no amount of tears can put out
I know you're scared but no one's spared when you play with matches
You got me walkin' through fire you got me walkin' through fire
Maybe you've been burned by lovers maybe you've been scarred by the pain
But baby I'm not like the others drawin' moths to a flame
Spite is like a spark cracklin' in the dark consumin' all it catches
And you got me walking through fire you
Got me walking through fire to get to you
Got me walkin' through fire (walkin' through fire)
You got me walkin' through fire (walkin' through fire)
You can see the toll it's taking you can feel the faith it's shaking
You can hear the heart it's breaking now
[ guitar ]
Baby I've been burned by the fever I've been scorched by desire
But baby I am not your deceiver or your eloquent liar
Your jealous heart is tearing us apart turning love to ashes
When you got me walkin' through fire...
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11.
I TAKE MY CHANCES
(Don Schlitz - Mary Chapin Carpenter)
« © '92 New Don Songs, ASCAP / BMG Songs, ASCAP /
April Music, ASCAP / Get A Real Job Music, ASCAP »
I took a walk in the rain one day on the wrong side of the tracks
I stood on the rails till I saw that train just to see how my heart would react
Now some people say that you shouldn't tempt fate
And for them I would not disagree
But I never learned nothing from playing it safe I say fate should not tempt me
I take my chances I don't mind working without a net
I take my chances I take my chances every chance I get
I sat alone in the dark one night tuning in by remote
I found a preacher who spoke of the light but there was brimstone in his throat
He'd show me the way according to him in return for my personal check
I flipped my channel back to CNN and I lit another cigarette
I take my chances yes forgiveness doesn't come with a debt
I take my chances I take my chances every chance I get
[ guitar ]
I've crossed lines of words and wire and both have cut me deep
I've been frozen out and I've been on fire and the tears are mine to weep
But I can cry until I laugh and laugh until I cry
So cut the deck right in half I'll play from either side
I take my chances I pay my dollar and I place my bet
I take my chances I take my chances every chance I get
I take my chances yeah I don't cling to remorse or regret
I take my chances I take my chances every chance I get I take my chances
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12.
COME ON COME ON
(Mary Chapin Carpenter)
« © '92 April Music, ASCAP / Get A Real Job Music, ASCAP »
Some people remember the first time some can't forget the last
Some just select what they want to from the past
It's a song that you danced to in high school it's a moon you tried to bring down
On a four-in-the-morning drive through the streets of town
(Come on come on) it's gettin' late now (come on come on) take my hand
(Come on come on) you just have to whisper (come on come on) I will understand
[ ac.guitar ]
It's a photograph taken in Paris at the end of the honeymoon
In 1948 late in the month of June
Your parents smile for the camera in sienna shades of light
Now you're older than they were then that summer night
(Come on come on) it's gettin' late now...
It's a need you never get used to so fierce and so confused
It's a loss you never get over the first time you lose
[ piano ]
Tonight I am thinking of someone seventeen years ago
We rode in his daddy's car down the river road
(Come on come on) it's gettin' late now...
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