suddenly up and running letting the wild heart go free joy for the up and coming maybe from now on i can be...happy patiently watching, waiting feeling the lightness of no fear thoughtfully contemplating all of the roads that led me here let me die trying if i fall at least my heart will have been true let me die trying i can cry tomorrow if i do not i don't know why it takes so long just to find out nothing's wrong...high on a cloud of lace and nothing can touch me while i glide absolute vindication here with my arms stretched open wide

Kristen: vocals, acoustic guitar
Byron Berline: violin
Bill Dillon: electric guitar
Sara Lee: bass
Jerry Marotta: drums
Matthew Sweet: vocals

why do you call me i gotta warn my heart i don't ever wanna hurt you but you always make me careful, careful darling you're gonna fall on your face i don't want to be the one to save you it isn't my place but if i could i would if i could i'd fall in love again heaven knows how hard i've tried if i could i'd fall in love with you there ain't enough time in my day to give you what you need oh you want all of me baby but you know i can't give it away you must not hear yourself talking and all the things you say i gotta shake my head and wonder what could make you wanna stay if i could i'd fall in love again heaven knows how hard i've tried if i could i'd fall in love with you baby look before you leap into the fire maybe you're worth a little more than just desire truth is all i ever wanted when i told you truth is all i ever wanted was to hold you nothing else matters except the way we feel i guess nobody ever told you so how will i know you hear there ain't no easy way around this no soothing words to say it's gone as quickly as we found it might as well be on my way

Kristen: vocals, acoustic guitar
Kristian Bush: 12 string
Bill Dillon: electric guitar, guitarorgan
Tony Levin: bass
Jerry Marotta: drums
Tommy Nicholson: piano

it's breaking my heart the way things are maybe it's you who needs to change maybe it's me who's gone too far late last night i'm in my bed i'm playing back the words you said take my heart and take my mind but don't you leave a trace behind do what you do best and go too many times i turned away hoping you'd see through all my fear so many things i meant to say if we try i have no doubt we have the means to work this out courage can erase the pain of all the times we tried in vain it's easier to turn and run easier to turn and run to me when you feel lonely come to where you're safe and warm run to me if you need holding there will be a place in these open arms even when you said we're thru deep inside i always knew it's such a waste it's such a shame and no one but ourselves to blame now i know that all this must be some sick tribute to our trust baby take a chance and ...

Kristen: vocals
Bill Dillon: electric guitar, guitarorgan
Tony Levin: bass
Jerry Marotta: drums
Bobby Messano: electric guitar
Allison Orotz: background vocals
David Sancious: piano
Jane Scarpantoni: string arrangement
Mark Feldman, Sara Parkins: violins
Tomas Ulrich: cello

you worked your fingers to the bone you sacrificed a happy home now you have nothing to show my energy's wasted on you you must be such a proud man you must be such a very proud man i waited on the doorstep down the hallway ears ringing from the words you threw you ask me to think about what i've done well mister tell me how about you? you must be such a proud man you must be such a very proud man i wait like a thief for a real emotion as if it's a cure or a magic potion i'm lost on ideas to escape the burning and i long for the day when the tables turn i'm watching you thinking you've got it made you pace like an animal in a cage it must have been something i said my energy's wasted on you

Kristen: vocals, acoustic guitar
Bill Dillon: acoustic guitar
Larry Gowan: vocals
Sara Lee: bass
Jerry Marotta: drums
Jane Scarpantoni: cello
Cooper Tisdale: electric guitar

one day i marvel at its beauty the next i marvel at its pain the world is such a big idea such a big idea and pain gets locked inside a child and there's a child in us all and that is such a big idea, such a big idea and mama it's not just irrelevant nonsense what are you hiding where is your conscience you expect me to follow but i am stronger than you and i'm ready to feel life i'm ready to find out and still the beauty if i care is always there where i can see and it is only in ourselves that we can choose to let it be but now i'm grounded at the gate in my attempt to save the world and that is such a sad idea, such a sad idea and mama it's not just irrelevant nonesense what are you hiding where is your conscience you don't even know me do you know how that feels it feels like i'm no one feels like i'm nothing

Kristen: vocals, acoustic guitar
Bill Dillon: guitarorgan
Tony Levin: bass
Jerry Marotta: drums

i am a navigator of the seas i built the ocean from my tears i go whichever way the wind might blow i've been drifting for what seems like a hundred years tragically not knowing i could ever steer the waves feel like a love i thought i knew i hold my breath while we ascend and love is nothing but a memory now like the port of every place i've ever been and the sails feel like my only friend i've been looking for a special place just for me and no one else and if you want me you can find me i'll be crossing the atlantic without charts i'm the ferdinand magellan of these parts i'm just following my compass, following my compass in the dark the wind is with me under coral skies and in my wake i leave behind a trail of others who will never seek and because they never seek they never find and they argue that it's all a waste of time today marks twenty years of endless seas and true i'm weathered from her storms my sails are ragged but my sights are set on the comfort of a more forgiving shore and a life that's more worth living for

Kristen: vocals, acoustic guitar
Erica Lindsey: harmonium
Emily Saliers: acoustic guitar, vocals
Jane Scarpantoni: cello
John Sebastian: electric guitar, harmonica

i was kind enough to love you, you were cruel enough to leave at the time i needed you most you brought me to my knees if i would've seen it coming if i could've had a clue i might never have fallen prey to you i remember very clearly when you said in piedmont park that you'd be there right beside me now i'm lonely in the dark oh i wished up on that hillside everything you said was true now i wish i'd never fallen prey to you look at me now don't i seem fine it drove me to tears for such a long time what will i do when i see you just let my eyes burn right through you now i'm picking up the pieces and i've camouflaged my scars but i can't erase the memories i'm trying very hard but there are still things that remind me part of everything i do screams i should've never fallen prey to you

Kristen: vocals, acoustic guitar
Bill Dillon: electric guitar, guitorgan
Sara Lee:bass
Jerry Marotta:drums

i think i'll take some time get away and do something for me i guess it's safe to say a holiday is just the thing i need and if i fly across the ocean could it take away the pain i feel peaceful for the notion but it's only for a moment in a day the seasons changed and now the flowers that once wilted are in bloom i catch the fragrance as it drifts into the windows of my room and as i float along the ceiling the curtains blow andstart to fray and this is such a perfect feeling but it's only for a moment in a day the patience of a mother turns into another shade of green a parody of danger find out what the anger really means and if i fly across the ocean could it take away the pain i feel peaceful for the notion but it's only for a moment in a day

Kristen: vocals, tremolo guitar
Bill Dillon: electric guitar, guitorgan
John Keane: vocals, slide guitar
Tony Levin: bass
Jerry Marotta: drums

just so you know i never loved someone as much as you just so you know i never tried so hard at breaking through i ask if you love me you can't make up your mind the luxury lovers can't affort is pride that is why i'm telling you just so you know part of me belongs to only you just so you know everything i told you still holds true your love is dying and it's hard to hide smoke from a fire that once burned inside just so you know there's a space that only you can fill just so you know i loved you then i guess i always will ... just so you know

Kristen:vocals, acoustic guitar
Bill Dillon:hi-string acoustic, electric guitar
Sara Lee:bass
Jerry Marotta:drums
Jane Scarpantoni:cello

how can i sit and watch let a good thing ride away suddenly all is lost as i search for words to say but all that comes are a million tears one for every time i should have told you fear burns hard and slow we've got a long hard row to sow seeds of a lifetime truth and forgiveness growing like a grapevine like nobody's business bitter tears we have cried but they never change a thing suddenly time gets lost how we spend it now means everything fear burns hard and slow we've got a long hard row to sow seeds of a lifetime courage and devotion growing like a grapevine sweet like emotion

Kristen: vocals, acoustic guitar
David Cook: guitar solo
Bill Dillon: hi-string acoustic, mandolin
John Sebastian: autoharp, baritone guitar

i have given, i have given and got none still i'm driven by something i can't explain it's not a cross it is a choice i cannot help but hear it's voice i only wish that i could listen without shame let it rain, let it rain on me i have been a witness to the perfect crime i wipe the grin off of my face to hide the blame it isn't worth the tears you cry to have a perfect alibi and now i'm beaten at the hands of my own game let it rain, let it rain on me it isn't easy to be kind with all these demons in my mind i only hope one day that i'll be free i do my best not to complain my face is dirty from the strain i only hope one day that i'll come clean

Kristen: vocals, acoustic guitar
Bill Dillon: electric guitar, pedal steel
Sara Lee: bass
Jerry Marotta: drums
Jules Shear: backing vocal
Choir: Ed Bishop, Matthew Brown, Amy Fradon, Ann Lange, Ammaretta Marks

there's no answer that comes easy when you ask me what i fear i am ill-equipped to tell you, you are ill-equipped to hear take for instance my aggression warnings you neglect to heed when in fact it draws you closer because it's just the thing you need don't tell me what you think i'm thinking of i've had enough of dreaming this is love so we come and go like fashion there for all the world to see and to keep up with the changes we are altered constantly and the trophies i've collected well now they don't mean a thing all the photographs and trinkets and my precious ruby ring don't tell me what you think i'm thinking of you've never stood in my shoes have you love well to tell the truth i'm lonely but that's a feeling i do well love has bought and sold me thrown me down the wishing well

Kristen: vocals, electric guitar
Bill Dillon: electric guitar, guitorgan
Sara Lee: bass
Michelle Malone: backing vocal
Jerry Marotta: drums
Bobby Messano: electric guitar
Tommy Nicholson: organ
Cooper Tisdale: electric guitar