by Carrie Newcomer on album Betty's Diner: The Best of Carrie Newcomer

Stretched as thin as paper, hollow as the sky Empty as my pockets, hungry as my eyes Wells fill up from the bottom, and it's gonna take some time It's gonna take a little doing, to gather my insides S

by Carrie Newcomer on album The Best of Carrie Newcomer - Betty's Diner

Stretched as thin as paper, hollow as the sky Empty as my pockets, hungry as my eyes Wells fill up from the bottom, and it's gonna take some time It's gonna take a little doing, to gather my insides S

by Carrie Newcomer on album Betty's Diner: The Best of Carrie Newcomer

It's just a good excuse to watch the sun go down On a gravel pit outside of town My father had three daughters So I became his only son Summertime in Allen County You can slice the air like bread Pac

by Carrie Newcomer on album Betty's Diner: The Best of Carrie Newcomer

Let it go my love, my truest Let it sail on silver wings Life's a twinkling and that's for certain But it's such a fine thing There's a gathering of spirits There's a festival of friends And we'll ta

by Carrie Newcomer on album The Best of Carrie Newcomer - Betty's Diner

Let it go my love, my truest Let it sail on silver wings Life's a twinkling and that's for certain But it's such a fine thing There's a gathering of spirits There's a festival of friends And we'll ta

by Carrie Newcomer on album The Best of Carrie Newcomer - Betty's Diner

It's just a good excuse to watch the sun go down On a gravel pit outside of town My father had three daughters So I became his only son Summertime in Allen County You can slice the air like bread Pac

by Carrie Newcomer on album A Permeable Life

I will bring a cup of water. here's the best that I can offer In the dusk of coming night, there is evidence of light with the pattering of rain, let us bow as if in grace consider all the ways we hea

by Carrie Newcomer on album Before And After

He leaned in and whispered as he turned the page And he said, "Make yourself into a flame" A crazy old lion with his hair all backlit Grinnin' like a little boy who has a secret And I do not know its

by Carrie Newcomer on album Miscellaneous

Let it go my love, my truest Let it sail on silver wings Life's a twinkling and that's for certain But it's such a fine thing There's a gathering of spirits There's a festival of friends And we'll ta

by Carrie Newcomer on album Miscellaneous

Holy as a day is spent Holy is the dish and drain The soap and sink, and the cup and plate And the warm wool socks, and the cold white tile Shower heads and good dry towels And frying eggs sound like

by Carrie Newcomer on album Miscellaneous

There's a light in the kitchen There's a glass on the stand Three women round the table And they're holding hands They're care taking the birthings Bringing food when they can They're easin' the leav

by Carrie Newcomer on album Before And After

If not now, tell me when? If not now, tell me when? We may never see this moment Or place in time again If not now, if not now, tell me when? I see sorrow and trouble in this land I see sorrow and tr

by Carrie Newcomer on album Miscellaneous

Who have you been and who are you now? Where has your heart traveled Who have you loved and what have you lost What have you bought and what was the cost I can see in your eyes there's a whole life b

by Carrie Newcomer on album Before And After

There's a crack in the glass where the water gets out There's a dusty wind when the heart's in drought And the map of the world looks as if true north Disappeared entirely I can live divided or bent

by Carrie Newcomer on album Miscellaneous

Here I am without a message Here I stand with empty hands Just a spirit tired of wandering Like a stranger in this land Walking wide eyed through this world Is the only way I've known Wrapped in hope

by Carrie Newcomer on album Miscellaneous

Hold tight, hold hands with me All is trouble just as far as you can see So here we are and here we stand So we'll stare it down just to prove we can And ride it out to the last, it's true, this too w

by Carrie Newcomer on album Before And After

John Roth had a heart like flame He believed all souls were loved the same He packed up his hopes And his family and moved to Ohio There in the deep, dark wilderness With a newborn son he soon was bl

by Carrie Newcomer on album Miscellaneous

There's more to this than me There's more to this than you More to this than the sum of all its parts More to this than I can just keep in my heart There's a woman offering a spirit like wine And a m

by Carrie Newcomer on album Miscellaneous

Miranda works the late night counter In a joint called Betty's Diner Chrome and checkered tablecloths One steamy windowpane She got the job that shaky fall And after hours she'll write till dawn With

by Carrie Newcomer on album Miscellaneous

Looking for a safe place Looking for a safe place half of my life Some kind of Walden, some kind of Eden Some kind of state of mind A safe place There've been times when I found a safe place Pulled