Nancy Beaudette

A Million Reasons

I've got a million reasons to be here with you
The fact I feel like singing is number twenty-two

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You know I love you, I’m counting the ways
Just a little more each day I’m with you
Yes I love you, This smile on my face
Nothing can erase when I’m with you

You know I feel so lucky to have you by my side
You're like a winning ticket that I didn’t have to buy

If love is rocket science, show me the stars
And start the count down, to launch my hear
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1,

c2008 Nancy Beaudette, All rights reserved.

Good Time for a Change

Nothing new about starting over
People do it all the time
Someone finds a new lover
Another stays behind
Leaving you isn't easy
I won't get points for bravery
Nothing new about starting over
It's just new to me

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I don't need luck
I don't want fame
But I don't want to stay the same
It's my chance
It's mine to claim
It's as good a time as any for a change

So I'm breaking with tradition
Might be a story of amends
Plotting my destination
On unfamiliar wings
Feels a lot like restitution
For a host of unknown sins
Though I'm breaking with tradition
It's a mess I'm glad I'm in

If I let another day go by
Waiting for tomorrow
Soon enough there'll be no time to borrow
No time to borrow
No time to borrow

I Lost the Star We Wished On

The lights of Tucson
Shine like diamonds in the sand
I’m heading west to find them
Leaving more than miles behind
And if the glow of the city
Brings a sparkle to my eyes
Maybe I’ll stay forever
On Arizona desert time

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Counting sleepless nights and stars in the sky
On a clear night I can count for miles
But I can’t outrun everything I’ve done
Cause I lost the star we wished on

The Catalina foothills
Are full of flowers in July
And to bury a heartache
It’s a perfect place to hide
I’d like to dance in a garden
Without having to explain
Why I had to leave
And take my heart so far away

Sun comes up, sun goes down
Another night to ponder
And dust settles on sand and stone
‘Til it’s half past too late for going home

Honestly

Honestly, I thought that you had already gone
I can't stand this awful feeling of moving on
Were you every really mine
Beautiful pearl to find
From the deep I pulled my love
Where such secrets lie

Honestly, I can't fathom the space between
Stars are not as far away as you from me
Waiting for the sky to fall
Even when I know
Wishing for a heart to change
Will not make it so

After all is said and done
We're just sorry after all
After all is said and done
We're just sorry
Oh so sorry

Honestly, I'm not ready to say goodbye
What choice have I? I'm all out of reasons why
Once upon our innocence
Lovers at least awhile
Too many seasons to forget
That you love me still
Do you love me still?

Something Beautiful

Write it down on a piece of paper
Sketch and trace the things that matter
Fold it up kiss it once for luck
Watch it rise up in the air
As smoke and flames take it there
And hope that it’s enough
Don’t lie awake at night and wonder how on earth
The things you dream will ever come to be, just…

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Keep your feet on the ground
And your heart above the clouds
Don’t look back
Don’t look down
It’s always been in front of you
Let it fill you up with something beautiful

Black coffee in a paper cup
Sipping slow while the sun comes up
Make it last, and wrap it up to go
Take time for the simple things
Letting go of what might have beens
Can be harder than you know
‘Cause all that time you spend looking back and forth
Just makes you tired
And leaves you uninspired, so…

Something like a big, big love
That fills you up - it fills you up
Something way more than enough of something
Something real that makes you high
Makes you laugh and makes you cry
And it feels so right inside

Hard Times

These are more than memories
A picket fence and grown up dreams
Wrapped around a family
And finer things

I really thought I had it all
A good job, a fancy car
Living high but overdrawn
When I lost it all

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Hard times, Bottom lines
Take it all away
Hard times all over town
But we’re not going down
Hard times, Shameful lies
Take it all away
Gonna be a bumpy ride
Got two hands, and a whole lotta pride

When the walls came crashing down
They fall hard when they hit the ground
The silent echo of the sound
Is deafening
All the things that used to matter
Just don’t matter anymore
When these troubles are behind me
I’ll be stronger, stronger than before

c2008 Nancy Beaudette & Dawn Kenney – All rights reserved

Cold

I miss you
I can't sleep
Around me
Too much space
There are no clouds tonight
No blanket in the sky

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I'm cold
I'm cold
I'm cold

If I could
Have one wish
I'd wish for
One more day
There are no hours left to burn
The wind comes, the flame is gone

Place the flowers
In your hair
When forever
Takes me there

My Heart Is Yours

I've been living for this moment
All I have to do is breathe
And let the moon and stars inside you
Fill my emptiness with peace
If a thousand words for love
Could say everything I feel
It wouldn't be enough
To tell you

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My heart is yours, and it's on fire
My heart has never been so sure
My heart is yours

I want to lay with you forever
And touch the magic in your soul
Cause my worries melt like springtime
When I'm wrapped inside your arms
Our music moves through time
In the tender ebb and flow
Between your love and mine

I would do anything, give everything
To stay here with you

It Finally Took Loosing You (to find me)

After all these years of you and me
Well so much for history
Looks like all our best made plans
Will soon turn into should have beens
And should have beens don’t make good memories

Wish there was someone that I could blame
Or just a simple word that would explain
Cause it isn’t that I’m not in love
But somehow it’s just not enough
There’s nothing I can say to ease the pain

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I never, ever thought I’d end up here
With the lines so well defined yet so unclear
Between needing you, and missing you, and loving you
It finally took loosing you to find me

Maybe I should take a holiday
Just to get my heart away
For a moment just go with the wind
Forget about this mess I’m in
Like forgetting’s something I could do anyway

When The Last Whistle Blows
Ode to the closing of the paper-mill in Cornwall

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When the last whistle blows
We'll go out on the town
For a job well done
Even though they shut us down
Any hope that pulp and fiber
Would line our dreams with gold
Is going straight up the stack
When the last whistle blows

The news is rather grim
And we hate to see it come
Cause we've been reeling paper
Since eighteen eighty one
O'er a hundred years of toil
To this agonizing end
It's hard to point a finger
For the mess that we're in

The last shift is over
The final shipment gone
No more boiling wood chips
From dusk until dawn
There's a sad and eerie silence
As the last machine shuts down
'Cause we know it won't be easy
It's all different now

This is the only place I've ever called home
This town's rebounded from hard times before
I still believe they'll be something here for me
It won’t take long, It won’t take long

I Think I'll Buy a Christmas Tree

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I think I'll buy a Christmas tree
And bring it home for decorating
I love the smell of evergreen
It fills a room like you fill me

I'll hang a wreath out on the door
And string up lights of blue and gold
I'll taste a flake of falling snow
And wish that you were here
I'll remember how you looked
Beside a fire of apple wood
We were bundled safe and warm
But that was long ago

I'll take the box down from the hall
With the tinsel and the Christmas balls
You took your favourites when you left
So I guess the rest are mine
One by one I'll find a branch
With all my strength I'll reattach
My hope that all the hurt has past
And I'm doing fine

One Step Closer Than Yesterday

Yesterday I said a prayer
I breathed the words into the air
I gave them to a sky of melted grey
I didn't say goodbye
I just gave my whisper away

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Hear the thunder, feel the rain
Counting seconds between the pain
Ever after will have to wait
But I'm one step closer than yesterday

Yesterday I laid a wreath
To mark the spot where angels sleep
And look for signs of forgotten grace
I just closed my eyes
That's when I felt the fluttering of wings

Passing time
How can I get on with moving on?
Ask me today
I'd have to tell you I'll never be that strong

Yesterday I held a seed
I dug the earth to bury deep
A tragedy no words can explain
And though I walked away
Somehow I know a garden remains