by Mary Chapin Carpenter on album Ashes and Roses

There's a big white house on a leafy street On a summer's day of 1963 Station wagons parked in the drive Dents in the fender and wood on the side There's kids and dogs and instamatic cubes squinti

by Mary Chapin Carpenter on album Come Darkness, Come Light: Twelve Songs of Christmas

The week before Thanksgiving Day This town puts up its old display Streetlights hung with candy canes and bows The earlier it gets each year The scarcer is my Christmas cheer I guess I just like takin

by Mary Chapin Carpenter on album Come Darkness, Come Light: Twelve Songs of Christmas

The week before Thanksgiving Day This town puts up its old display Streetlights hung with candy canes and bows The earlier it gets each year The scarcer is my Christmas cheer I guess I just like takin

by Mary Chapin Carpenter on album Come Darkness, Come Light: Twelve Songs of Christmas

The week before Thanksgiving Day This town puts up its old display Streetlights hung with candy canes and bows The earlier it gets each year The scarcer is my Christmas cheer I guess I just like takin

by Mary Chapin Carpenter on album Come Darkness, Come Light: Twelve Songs of Christmas

The week before Thanksgiving Day This town puts up its old display Streetlights hung with candy canes and bows The earlier it gets each year The scarcer is my Christmas cheer I guess I just like takin

by Mary Chapin Carpenter on album Between Here And Gone

I don't really know how I got here this time I was only just following orders Listening to the voice in my mind Saying steer clear of margins and borders So I wasn't thinking of where we would go On a

by Mary Chapin Carpenter on album 2007-01-18: Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, UK

I don't really know how I got here this time I was only just following orders Listening to the voice in my mind Saying steer clear of margins and borders So I wasn't thinking of where we would go On a

by Mary Chapin Carpenter on album State Of The Heart

Hey baby tell me what we're gonna do It's getting crazy and I need some help from you We were so connected that you were a part of me Now I feel an emptiness right to the heart of me But you pretend

by Mary Chapin Carpenter on album Time*Sex*Love*

This morning I work up with the feelin that Id been away too long All this blacktop runnin underneath my wheels makes me feel too gone Well I could use a lot of sleep and a little bit of time on my ow

by Mary Chapin Carpenter on album Party Doll and Other Favorites

Hey baby tell me what we're gonna do It's getting crazy and I need some help from you We were so connected that you were a part of me Now I feel an emptiness right to the heart of me But you pretend

by Mary Chapin Carpenter on album Between Here And Gone

I’m standing at a traffic light somewhere in West LA Waiting for the sign to change then I’ll be on my way The noise, the heat, the crush of cars just robs me of my nerve And someone yells and bla

by Mary Chapin Carpenter on album Time* Sex* Love*

Tonight the brightest moon in a hundred years Floods the streets of Rome and I am standing here Wondering where the ghosts of antiquity Hide on nights like this once a century Where do shadows fall wh

by Mary Chapin Carpenter on album Songs From the Movie

I'm standing at a traffic light somewhere in west L.A. Waiting for the sign to change then I'll be on my way The noise, the heat, the crush of cars just robs me of my nerve Then someone yells and blas

by Mary Chapin Carpenter on album Songs From the Movie

I'm standing at a traffic light somewhere in west L.A. Waiting for the sign to change then I'll be on my way The noise, the heat, the crush of cars just robs me of my nerve Then someone yells and blas

by Mary Chapin Carpenter on album Songs From the Movie

I'm standing at a traffic light somewhere in west L.A. Waiting for the sign to change then I'll be on my way The noise, the heat, the crush of cars just robs me of my nerve Then someone yells and blas

by Mary Chapin Carpenter on album The Calling

Let's go down to the fields tonight Where the grass grows round our knees Lay down in the silver light Dripping through the trees Broken halo in my hands And distance in your eyes The past is gone, go

by Mary Chapin Carpenter on album The Essential: Mary Chapin Carpenter

(Mary Chapin Carpenter/Don Schlitz) 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

by Mary Chapin Carpenter on album Playlist: The Very Best of Mary Chapin Carpenter

(Mary Chapin Carpenter/Don Schlitz) 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

by Mary Chapin Carpenter on album The Very Best of Mary Chapin Carpenter

(Mary Chapin Carpenter/Don Schlitz) 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

by Mary Chapin Carpenter on album The Essential: Mary Chapin Carpenter

(Mary-Chapin Carpenter/Don Schlitz) 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 s