1. Stay Awhile
Jennifer Clarke
Oh baby I've been sick for years
Drug you down with me soon as you appeared
Why I push away what means most to my heart
But you stand there strong and break these clouds apart
Fishes swim and rockets fly
It don't make sense yet we try and try
Never dwelling on how similar we are
Fight for our smiles our scars and our sins so proud of who we are
Cold and ragged this life has been
Like I was made to order but not to win
Each day I see your smile makes me remember each moment
I've chosen to stay awhile
Sweet summer so warm and still
Spiders spun down from a window sill
Remember that guy used to come around and talk about the war
Give him a bottle he'd stay all day man did he make us roar
I remember these things so small
This is life at its best of all
I knew a time when fear was nothing but a word
Lord take me back there deliver me from all that I have heard
Cold and ragged this life has been
Like I was made to order but not to win
Each day I see your smile makes me remember each moment
I've chosen to stay awhile
2. When The Weather Turns Bad
Jennifer Clarke
When the weather turns bad then some disappear
From the nearest shores to the farthest plied seas
Come on down to the shallows you'll know what I mean
Go on out to the banks and you'll see what they've seen
Now I don't know what to do with the fall
I hear dead men tapping their overturned hull
Through green water topped thick with white foam
I hear angels are calling them calling them home
I watched you head out like a kid wild and free
First times are the best you'd say to hell with the rest
Ok for awhile but then I would slide
As the days and the weeks and the months would drag by
Now I don't know what to do with the fall
I hear dead men tapping their overturned hull
Through green water topped thick with white foam
I hear angels are calling them calling them home
I walk the docks find our pilings at dawn
Your ropes still tied around them brown and frayed
Covered over with someone else's lover's lines
I only hope that theirs outlast yours and mine
Now I don't know what to do with the fall
I hear dead men tapping their overturned hull
Through green water topped thick with white foam
I hear angels are calling you calling you home
3. Forever Is Fine
Jennifer Clarke and Judd Fuller
Say you are mine say you are mine
All of my time I spend it with you
It's a big world with so many things to choose
forever is fine
Forever is fine
As long as you're mine
forever is fine
Awake in the shadows alone in our room
Summers come and the air is warm
I missed you under the season's first storm
Wishing you'd come home soon
Forever is fine
As long as your mine
forever is fine
Is it going to pass ending in a flash
I know these questions are pointless to ask
Because worries for fools all my love is for you
Take me with you take me with you
This life or next I'll be by your side
I know you'll be there all the sweet endless ride
With a heart so true
Forever is fine
As long as you're mine
forever is fine
4. You Never Even Try
Jennifer Clarke/Judd fuller/Mike Benjamin/Jim Parr
A whiskey bottle and birthday balloons lie by the side of the road
I'm trying to remember what joy was bought how many lies got told
If it were up to me I'd just let them sail by but I can't seem to move ahead
Seems like nothing is mine for the taking nothing lets go with the dead
Why can't you come and face me come and look me in the eye
There's so much that I had planned ways to make you understand
It's so hard to learn from what just won't burn
And you never even try
A cracked coffee cup and a bike frame well you showed up late that time
Smiling away always bright and blank each time you let us down
If it weren't for the rain at the town parade you'd have not showed at all and had it made
Give a listen to your heart sometime it beats fast just like mine
Why can't you come and face me come and look me in the eye
There's so much that I had planned ways to make you understand
It's so hard to learn from what just won't burn
And you never even try
Windshield wipers smear the rain
I think of all I'm scared of
I need something to make me tough
Make them say look what she's made of
Why can't you come and face me come and look me in the eye
There's so much that I had planned ways to make you understand
It's so hard to learn from what just won't burn
And you never even try