Artist: Carrie Newcomer
Lyrics of Artist: Carrie Newcomer
  1. [Lyric] The Plumb Line (Carrie Newcomer)

    [VERSE 1] It’s a world of light and a world of mist The place we fell and the way we kissed What I saw and all I missed Voices howl and voices sing In a landscape filled with broken things In the troubled water and rising wings [Chorus] I didn't know that I could be this blind I didn't plan to live in these trouble times But here I am, here I...Learn More
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  2. [Lyric] Writing a Better Story (Carrie Newcomer)

    [Chorus] I’m writing a new ending With a better storyline Turn the page and leave the blanks With a plot that’s less defined And though I won't get back A day of stolen time I could go to bed at night With a better storyline [VERSE 1] Leave what can’t be changed in the past Let the old house burn down And the wind scatter the ash Forgive myself...Learn More
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  3. [Lyric] Its Always Love (Carrie Newcomer)

    [VERSE 1] It takes some starts and stops To hold a paradox All that’s boundless and forever With an ever ticking clock [VERSE 2] I am every lonely ache And all the times I knew to wait I am all that I did right And I am every bad mistake [Chorus] It is love that breaks your heart Love that tears the world apart Always love that makes it worth it...Learn More
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  4. [Lyric] The Work Of Our Hands (Carrie Newcomer)

    [VERSE 1] Today a while it rained, I washed the jars [?], set the water to start And at the end of the day line up to cool and see 12 pints of spiced peach jam, 20 jars of dill beans canned From an old recipe, that my mother gave to me Because it’s good to put a little bit by For when the late snows fly All that love so neatly kept By the work of...Learn More
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  5. [Lyric] An Empty Chair (Carrie Newcomer)

    [VERSE 1] I don't like people staring at me like I'm a roadside wreck I don't wanna have to explain to the ones who rubberneck I don't like that the mail with his name is still delivered here I don't like where he used to be is now an empty chair [VERSE 2] My boy said, 'I don't want to sit down to dinner, it makes my stomach ache I don't like he...Learn More
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  6. [Lyric] Learning to Sit with Not Knowing (Carrie Newcomer)

    [VERSE 1] Learning to sit with not knowing When I don't see where it's going I'll cool my heels and start slowing I'm learning to sit with not knowing [VERSE 2] I'm learning to live with what's next What if and my best guess Be kinder when it's a process I'm learning to live with what's next [Chorus] Here's a clear space that I've chosen Where...Learn More
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  7. [Lyric] The Only Through is In (Carrie Newcomer)

    [VERSE] Can't get over it Can't go around it Can't get under it I know because I tried Checking the walls on every side And if I could pray Or do this any other way I'd have done it long ago [Chorus] The only way out is through But the only way through is in, again Where the soft soul waits And hearts beat and break And the real wars are waged and...Learn More
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  8. [Lyric] Visitation (Carrie Newcomer)

    [VERSE 1] It's hard letting go, more than I thought And if the truth be told, I'm a pillar salt I'm a pillar of salt for ever every time that it took Another bleeding glance, another long last look [Chorus] How can the mind transcend, how can the heart describe We light a candle everyday I ask the question even when the why seems hollow And...Learn More
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  9. [Lyric] My Mamma Said Its True (Carrie Newcomer)

    Sometimes I just give up trying It seems like a lifetime That I've been fighting It was hard enough Just getting out of bed today I'd call someone but what on earth Would I even say Here in this airless space No one to plead your pitiful case Some call this thing the soul of sadness Self-indulgence or a brilliant madness All I know is I dying for...Learn More
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  10. [Lyric] The Point of Arrival (Carrie Newcomer)

    [VERSE 1] First it is a bitter pill A rubber band stretched 'til it snaps Sitting cross-legged on the floor My empty hands are in my lap [VERSE 2] What is to become of me Here at my surrendering Where I arrive at the end The place where I begin again [Chorus] First we fold in and open out There is a faith that's only bound in doubt Acceptance is...Learn More
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  11. [Lyric] Every Little Bit Of It (Carrie Newcomer)

    [VERSE 1] Just beyond my sight Something that I cannot see I've been circling round a thought That's been circling round me Like the vapor of a song That is just out of earshot And I thought I knew the question But I guess not [Chorus] There it is just below the surface of things In a flash of blue, and the turning of wings Drain the glass, drink...Learn More
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  12. [Lyric] Writing You A Letter (Carrie Newcomer)

    [VERSE 1] I'm writing you a letter on hotel letterhead A record of my restlessness before I go to bed On the other side of midnight, on the far side of the world I'm sending out a signal, hoping that you heard [Chorus] I'm a stranger here, I'm only passing through But every place I go leaves its own tattoo That's how it is, layin' stone on...Learn More
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