1.

Beautiful Pain

Craig Northey

© Tea Guy Music, ASCAP

with Sheryl Crow

Do you wanna be honest or do you wanna win
You could have it all if you could gracefully give in
Like when a martyr go sees a martyr
Lookin' in the mirror makes you cry harder
Bout your glitterin' ball and chain
In love in love with your beautiful pain

Excuses and all theories peak themselves and die
Even when they don't hold water you try to keep them safe and dry
And trade your moan for a positive tone
Reassured by ads about things you own
And so we go through this again
In love in love with your beautiful pain

If everything went runnin' smoothly
You'd soon lose who you were
Oh the pain and hurt for that's your real
So go on go back to her

You packed up all your troubles you let me play the bars
And hiked out to the meadows and lay down on the fragrant moss
Put down your own tree then meticulously
Built a cross right there and stared back at me
And climbed up on it again
In love in love with your beautiful
In love in love with your beautiful
In love in love with your beautiful pain

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2.

44 Stories

Rosanne Cash - John Leventhal - Bob Warren

© Chelcait Music, BMI

Baptize her with bitter tears till she knows your pain is real
Next time you see her on her knees don't try to make a deal
Don't stare her into silence with frozen point of view
Cause she's got forty-four stories she wants to tell them all to you

Welcome her to all your fears and trust that she will cope
Give her one day of satisfaction for a thousand years of hope
Don't turn to dry your eyes and lose your chance to look
Cause she's got forty-four stories she wants to write them in a book

Wait until your mem'ry clears then welcome her to Rome
The desert of your misspent years that led you to her home
Don't hold her up to sunlight she'll melt into the blue
Don't make her shout through static if you want hear the truth
Cause she's got forty-four stories she's got 44 stories
She's got forty-four stories she wants to tell them all to you

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3.

I'll Change For You

Rosanne Cash

© Chelcait Music, BMI

with Steve Earle

I'll change for you I'll change for you
I'll change for you I'll turn night into day

And I'll change for you (I don't care what the books say)
I'll change for you (I don't care what my friends say)
I'll change for you and I won't make you pay

Cause everything reminds me of you
A baby's feet an old man's smile
Silent scream and lover's cry
Till I can't do nothing

But change for you (and all the rules that were lies)
I'll change for you (I sit an' watch while they burn)
I'll change for you I'll be all that you need

'Cause everything reminds me of you
A baby's feet an old man's smile
Silent scream and lover's cry
Till I can't do nothing
But change for you

I'll lie by your side an' whisper your name
I'll clock all your dreams and knock over rails
I'll let go my past write your name in my skin
I'll travel through time to love you again

An' I'll change for you (I'll just wait for you wherever)
I'll change for you (and watch you lean back too much)
I'll change for you I'll turn night into day

I'll change for you (and I'll give it my best)
I'll change for you (and I won't stop till you rest)
I'll change for you and I won't make you pay

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4.

Rules Of Travel

Rosanne Cash - John Leventhal

© Chelcait Music, BMI

Now that you've made your mistake
Now that you know how the heart bends and breaks
Just throw away the book and take a second look
Behind the door a guided tour what we came here for
One don't let the sun go down on
Two love but are undone by
Three whose name is
I won't even start before we learn the rules
Like one don't let the sun go down on
Two love but are undone by
Three whose name is
I won't even start before we learn the rules of travel
Inside each other's hearts
Inside each other's hearts

When do the walls tumble down
Into the sky into the stars and the ground
Today to give it up surrender to the love no man to hold
No way to know that you are home

One don't let the sun go down on
Two love but are undone by
Three whose name is
I won't even start before we learn the rules
Like one don't let the sun go down on
Two love but are undone by
Three whose name is
I won't even start before we learn the rules of travel
Inside each other's hearts
Inside each other's hearts

One (Don't let the sun)
Two
Three (Don't let the sun)
Four

One don't let the sun go down on
Two love but are undone by
Three whose name is
I won't even start before we learn the rules
Like one don't let the sun go down on
Two love but are undone by
Three whose name is
I won't even start before we learn the rules of travel
Inside each other's hearts
Inside each other's hearts

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5.

September When It Comes

Rosanne Cash - John Leventhal

© Chelcait Music, BMI

with Johnny Cash

There's a cross above the baby's bed a Saviour in her dreams
But she was not delivered then and the baby became me
There's a light inside the darkened room a footstep on the stair
A door that I forever close to leave those memories there

So when the shadows lengthen into an evening sun
First there's summer then I'll let you in September when it comes

I plan to crawl outside these walls close my eyes and see
And fall into the heart and arms of those who wait for me
I cannot move a mountain now I can no longer run
I cannot be who I was then in a way I never was

I watch the clouds go sailing I watch the clock and sun
Oh I watch myself depending on September when it comes

When the shadows lengthen and burn away the past
They will fly me like an angel to a place where I can rest
When this begins I'll let you in September when it comes

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6.

Hope Against Hope

Joe Henry - Jacob Dylan

© Brother Jumbo Music, ASCAP

It's all coming back to me now
But try as I have to keep
The taste of you off of my tongue
Your face from my fitful sleep

And I wait and hope against hope like before
And I wait And hope that I won't anymore

And this won't stop till I do
Until I learn to kill the thought
Of everything I could have said
Of everything I wished I'd not

And I wait hope against hope like before...

Show rises up from the street
And a crowd rises up to it's feet
I followed blind after you
I might know better if I'd ever wanted to

The painting here is still not dry
And I can smell it from the door
It covers every mark you made
The countin' days are keepin' score

And I wait hope against hope like before
And I wait and hope that I won't anymore

And I wait hope against hope like before
And I wait and hope that I won't anymore

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7.

Will You Remember Me

Rosanne Cash - John Leventhal

© Chelcait Music, BMI

Will you remember me like the circled stones
Like the secret hills where you walk alone
Where the wind can speak my other names
Like the air you breathe will you remember me

Will you remember me as your airplane flies
Over foreign seas and breaking skies
Like a perfect child you can't bear to leave
In your last long days will you remember me

Will you remember me on the edge of life
Where time runs slow where some can fly
In these shuttered rooms where we say goodbye
When the soul is free will you remember
When there's no need to breathe will you remember me

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8.

Three Steps Down

Marc Cohn - John Leventhal

© Museum Steps Music, ASCAP

with Teddy Thompson

Three steps down below the city streets
In our private room the colour all runs out
And not a sound the smoke curls in the air
And I can feel a sliding peace come over me tonight

Dead or dancin' cross the room
The candles burn and shadows loom
I hide below it all or heaven's underground
The clouds are fallin' at our feet
Three steps down below the street

So comin' down: it's like water after wine
Oh comin' down a long hard line
And I know better's gettin' harder all the time
From three steps down from three steps down

Dead or dancin' cross the room...

Three steps down below the city streets
In our private room the color all runs out
The color all runs out the color all runs out
The color all runs out

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9.

Closer Than I Appear

Rosanne Cash

© Chelcait Music, BMI

Lock all the doors and turn out the lights
Work this thing through till we get it right
But if I seem angry and cold or I don't speak at all
It's just that old fear cause baby I'm closer than I appear

And here are the facts as much as I know
We've got to turn back if we can't let it go
You know your heart and your mind
And I'm just three steps behind
But I feel those tears cause baby I'm closer than I appear
Yeah baby I'm closer than I appear

Cause somewhere inside I'm reachin' out for you
Somewhere inside we both know the truth
But I learned lots of rules bout what a man's made of
And I got to rethink what I know about love
Hey I'm willin' to change
If I still seem the same well it's just them old fears
And baby I'm closer than I appear

If I was born to stand here and give you nothing but love
To fill up these years
Then baby I'm closer than I appear
Yeah baby I'm closer than I appear
Well come closer and I'll come closer
Well come closer closer than I appear

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10.

Western Wall

Rosanne Cash

© Chelcait Music, BMI

I stand here by the western wall
Maybe a little of that wall stands inside of us all
I shove my prayers in the cracks
I got nothing to lose no one to answer back

All these years I've brought up for review
I wasn't taught this but I learned something new
I had to answer a distant call

At the western wall I've got a heart full of fear
And I offer it up on this altar of tears
Red dust settles deep in my skin
I don't know where it stops and where I begin

It's a crumbling pile of broken stones
It ain't much but it might be home
if I ever loved a place at all it's the western wall

I don't know if God was ever a man
But if she was I think I understand
Why he found a place to break his fall
Near the western wall

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11.

Last Stop Before Home

Rosanne Cash

© Chelcait Music, BMI

I am the keeper of a very old flame
It's long been ignored but it's not been completely in vain
And all that I was I gave that to you
And if it's not enough oh there's nothing more I can do

I guard the well to a century of tears
I let them fall after hours and all through the years
And all that I am as I stand here today
Seems more than enough there's nothing more I will say

You're the last stop before home
And I always go home
You're the last stop and everything I know
That I always go home

I'm not the sleeper who waits for a kiss
But who is the God who designed me to love you like this
And if I break in two and fall to my knees
And tell you the truth would you then believe you have been this to me

The last stop before home...

You're the last stop before home
And I always go home alone

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