Lyrics - Dance For Rain

Gone

A thousand miles to Houston
As the past just disappears
Behind the hills and valleys
And the future becomes clear
God knows it's never easy
To leave the past behind
To risk losing familiar
For what you hope to find

I've overturned the rock and learned
I've rested here too long
I'll take this chance, no looking back
I'm wide awake and gone
I'm wide awake and gone

Now all the lines are just a blur
Like all the days before
I've seen the truth and faced it
It doesn't scare me anymore
God knows it's never easy
To trust what's out of sight
But all the risks worth taking
Happen on thin ice

CHORUS

Did you think I'd stay, the pawn you made?
I have other things in mind
I'll pay whatever cost, will carry me across
I don't have anything to lose

CHORUS

© 2000, Elizabeth White

Dance For Rain

Looking out over the snow
Wondering where I will go
Now that we're done
Looking out over the land
Thinking all I held in hand
Is now gone
Wasn't what I had in mind
After all this love and time
We'd come so far

But if I dance for rain
Could it bring life from this pain?
If I get down on my knees
Would mercy come find me?
If I dance for rain?

Somehow running down the tracks
We forgot how to look back
To keep from harm
Don't know what else I could do
To stay in love with you
In empty arms
Somewhere there must be much more
Than I ever had before
If I can just hold on

CHORUS

In the turmoil of the moment
Sometimes it's just so hard to see
That we'll be taken care of
And survive in one whole piece

CHORUS

© 1999, Elizabeth White

Can't Let You Go

Well my head is running west
And my heart is flying east
And the pain just tears right through me
Like the claws of some wild beast

Like dawn rising in the dark
I hold on to hopes last spark
There has to be a way
To hold on to your heart

And I can't let you go
I can't let you go
I can't let you go, no

So now you've crossed that bridge
Made all my choices mute
You think the grass is greener
And your luck will change for you

But I don't think that you will find
The answers that you seek
The insights cannot find you
If you run from what they teach

CHORUS

I know I'm pleading with loves ghost
And I'm the only one who knows
The detriments of these words
I just cannot let you go

CHORUS

© 1999, Elizabeth White

You've Got It All Wrong

So you think that I don't care
And you've waited far too long
But you never see me stare
Even after your long gone

But you've got it all wrong
Our wire got crossed
And somehow the message that I'm sending
you got lost
And it's my fault that you're having all
these thoughts
But you've got it all wrong

I wish you could read my mind
And decipher all this mess
You see, what I really want
Scares me to confess

CHORUS

If I could find a way to say
What consumes me night and day
If I could find, some strength inside
If I could only be that brave

CHORUS

Endure

I feel awkward in my thoughts
Such a vulture attitude
I want to wish you both the best
But it's something I cannot do

Wish I could say my motives here were
Clean and pure
I don't know how much more of this
My poor heart can endure
Endure

I know you're happy where you are
I can see it on your face
But I can't help wishing I was
Lying in her place

Must desire always stay so
Secret and obscure?
I don't know how much more of this
My poor heart can endure
Endure

If I bide my time
Will you cross that line?

So for now I'll be content
Dreaming from afar
God that's such a blatant lie
You make crazier by far

Every day this distance makes me
Only want you more
I don't know how much more of this
My poor heart can endure
Endure
Endure

Two Feet Away

Lit only by the moonlight
The only one in the place
I cannot take my eyes from you
The beauty of your face

I've been waiting for this day
Reaching for your hand
Now there you stand
Two Feet Away

The longing never left me
Long after our goodbyes
The distance in between us
Lay so heavy in the night

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Is this the love that I'd die for?
Where searching comes to rest?
Have I done my time alone here?
Do we go on to what comes next?

The miles in between us
Have melted like the snow
And the comfort of your body
Revives my weary soul

CHORUS

© 1998, Elizabeth White

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