BREAK IT | BEAUTIFUL TRAGEDY | NOVEMBER TREES | CLOUDS | BAND IN THE WINDOW | 30 SHADES OF BLUE | I CAN'T | SO FAR | (JUST ANOTHER SONG YOU WON'T HEAR) ON THE RADIO | RAPUNZEL | SHACKIN' UP | JUST TO BE HERE

• BREAK IT

  Written by Lisa Brokop & Fred Wilhelm '2008 Mike Curb Music (BMI) / Nick 'N Ash Music (BMI), Farm Thang Music (BMI) / Mr. Noise Music (BMI). All rights reserved. Used by Permission

  I'm gonna need all the Kings horses and all the Kings men
  To help me put the pieces back together again
  Same old same old same feels like a cage that I'm in
  What I need is more than just to shake it

  CHORUS- Break it, throw it up against the wall
  Take a hammer to my world
  And watch the pieces fall
  I need to tear it down start again
  I'm so tired of me that I can't take it, anymore
  So I'll break it

  This caterpillar's climbin' in her cocoon
  I ain't comin' out 'till I become someone new
  And everyone who held me back and told me not to
  I can't wait to see their faces

  CHORUS-

  BRIDGE- As long as it's still workin' you can always find a person
  Who says good enough wear it out
  Make it do or do without
  But I'm not one of those
  And I say if it's not broke

  TAG- The only way to change it
  Break it

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• BEAUTIFUL TRAGEDY

  Written by Lisa Brokop & Victoria Banks '2008 Libre Music (Socan), Circle C Songs (Ascap / Socan). All rights reserved. Used by Permission

  If I painted over you
  Another shade of blue
  The color would still show through
  Still be easy to see

  Another page I've turned
  Another lesson learned
  Another healing hurt
  That I wear on my sleeve

  It's part of me like an old friend
  The good, the bad, the start and the end

  CHORUS - Even roses have thorns
  And rainbows have rain
  And the bitters right next to the sweet
  So I take all the storms
  And I take all the pain
  Throw in the good times
  And weave 'em up magically
  Into my tapestry
  All my life's meant to be's
  In a beautiful tragedy

  Shakespeare couldn't write
  A sweeter sacrifice
  A tale of fire and ice
  Of oceans and stars

  The woman standing here
  Is the sum of all my tears
  And all that I hold dear
  Is the soul of this heart

  I know how to walk 'cause I've crawled
  I know how to fly 'cause I've learned how to fall

  CHORUS -

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• NOVEMBER TREES

  Written by Lisa Brokop & Jeff Ross '2008 Libre Music (Socan), Curb Songs (Ascap). All rights reserved. Used by Permission

  First cold snap of an angry autumn
  Is winnin' through the trees
  And it reminds me of
  The way you treated me
  Gonna be a long time 'till spring comes 'round again
  It'll just be me and this god forsaken wind

  CHORUS- You stripped me down to shakin'
  Now my soul is naked
  I feel like I'm about to freeze
  Crackin' under pressure
  Beaten from the weather
  Cryin' like November trees

  How dare you walk away
  And leave me with a lie
  Poison everything we had
  'Til it withered and died
  You'll go on and find somebody else
  But you'll still only be thinkin' of yourself

  CHORUS -

  BRIDGE - I'm cryin', I feel like dyin'
  No use tryin' to feel any other way

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• CLOUDS

  Written by Lisa Brokop & Fred Wilhelm '2008 Libre Music (Socan), Music Of Stage Three (BMI) / Not More Music (BMI). All rights reserved. Used by Permission

  My goodbyes have been said
  Got my boarding pass
  The bags have been checked
  So I'll settle back in a window seat

  Isn't it always this way
  Got my seat belt on
  Another rainy runway
  Another broken heart I'm healin' from
  We're movin' now, liftin' off the ground

  CHORUS ' Up, up and away
  Into the great unknowable what's to come
  Flyin' through the rain
  Waiting through clouds, clouds, clouds
  Then sun

  I know this too will pass
  Every storm must end
  I might not look back and laugh
  But I know some day I'll love again
  I can't rush it, it takes time to rise above it

  CHORUS -

  BRIDGE - closer to, over you

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• BAND IN THE WINDOW

  Written by Lisa Brokop & Kim McLean '2008 Mike Curb Music (BMI) / Nick 'N Ash Music (BMI), Kim McLean Music (Ascap). All rights reserved. Used by Permission

  Well his name is red and plays the tele
  Broke it in 20 years ago sittin' in this same bar
  Same hat same boots same everything

  Her name's louise but not mandrell
  She's got 80's hair and fringe all around her skirt
  And she pours her heart out when she sings

  CHORUS - There's a band in the window
  Down on Broadway where the streets are paved
  With hopeful expectations
  Take it Johnny, bring it home
  The bus is leavin' gotta go
  One more up-tempo, band in the window

  Well now jerry's a drummer he lives for the music
  One shot of Cuervo and he's ready to play
  Nothin' else matters more
  No shirt no shoes no job no wife

  Side walks full of bystanders and tourists
  Wantin' a taste of the gypsy thing
  Rockin' to the loud guitars
  Rebels and Chevy's and neon signs

  CHORUS-

  Three nights ago we were downtown
  I swear I saw a silhouette
  Shimmerin' in the light
  Out walkin' after midnight

  Well she went through the door and nobody else saw her
  Followed her shadow there by the stage
  Starin' up at Louise
  Singin' every word of sweet dreams

  CHORUS-

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• 30 SHADES OF BLUE

  Written by Lisa Brokop & Fred Wilhelm '2008 Libre Music (Socan), Farm Thang Music (BMI) / Mr. Noise Music (BMI). All rights reserved. Used by Permission

  I tried to be what you wanted
  What you wanted I still don't know
  Now you and I need to be honest
  And to be honest
  I don't think I ever made you more than

  CHORUS - 30 shades of blue
  The best that I could do
  Was to lighten your mood for awhile
  Happiness never lasted
  Couldn't change the glasses
  You see this world through
  30 shades of blue

  Please don't doubt that I love you
  'Cause I love you more than I know how to say
  But I have loved you long enough to
  Know that I can't pull you out of

  CHORUS '

  And it breaks my heart
  That you'll never see
  All the colors of me

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• I CAN'T

  Written by Victoria Banks, Tania Hancheroff and Tia Sellers '2008 Coburn Music, Inc. / Sillers With An 'I' Think Tank Music (BMI), Circle C Songs (Ascap / Socan), Universal Music ' Z Tunes LLC (Ascap). All rights reserved. Used by Permission

  I got the thunder in my bones, I got the trouble in my soul
  I've been drownin' in tears my eyes were too proud to cry
  I hear you knockin' at my door, but I can't open it no more
  'Cause this heart's half full off rain and risin' high
  Sometimes all that you can do is just survive

  I can' t row you across right now, I can't row you across right now
  I'm too busy buildin' a bridge
  I can't throw you a line right now, I can't throw you a line right now
  I'm too busy tryin' to live

  I've been a fool for holdin' on, I've been a fool for bein' strong
  I've been a fool for love and I'll be a fool again
  As soon as the rain stops pourin' down, as soon as I find some higher ground
  I'll be good as new but I can't tell you when
  So just keep on strikin' matches until then

  I can't burn you a flame right now, I can't burn you a flame right now
  I'm too busy seein' the light
  I can't lift you up right now, I can't lift you up right now
  I'm too busy tryin' to fly

  BRIDGE - Let go the anchor, let go the chains
  Don't reach for me, don't call my name
  Shake off the past and baby just swim for the shore
  Throw me a kiss and hope for the best
  Take what you will, take what you get
  Do what you want but I can't save you no more

  I got the thunder in my bones, I got the trouble in my soul
  I've been drownin' in tears my eyes were too proud to cry
  I can't whisper a prayer right now, I can't whisper a prayer right now
  I'm too busy baby sayin' goodbye

  BRIDGE -

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• SO FAR

  Written by Lisa Brokop & Mary Sue Englund '2008 Mike Curb Music (BMI) / Nick 'N Ash Music (BMI), Janesparade Publishing (BMI). All rights reserved. Used by Permission

  I smiled for you
  As you passed by
  I couldn't let you see me cry
  You looked so proud then you turned away
  What's best for is killing me
  I didn't know it'd be this hard
  I know you had to go
  But why'd you go so far

  I always knew this day would come
  Was there something I could have done
  To change your mind to keep you here with me
  And though I wish you could have stayed
  You had to follow your heart
  I know you had to go
  But why'd you go so far

  BRIDGE- And today, it's a beautiful day
  Perfect accept for the tears on my face

  You're in your best standing there
  Promises are in the air
  And here she comes to take your ring and your name
  Just two words you'll become one
  And you will leave me torn apart
  I know you had to go
  But why'd you go so far

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• (JUST ANOTHER SONG YOU WON'T HEAR) ON THE RADIO

  Written by Lisa Brokop and Fred Wilhem '2008 Mike Curb Music (BMI) / Nick 'N Ash Music (BMI), Farm Thang Music (BMI) / Mr. Noise Music (BMI). All rights reserved. Used by Permission

  She baked a cake today from a box of Betty Crocker
  Then she hung the clothes out on the line
  Her mama called from Manitoba, talked about nothin' for an hour
  Brought in the clothes when they were dry
  Yellow school bus three o'clock dropped off her little girl
  A smiling' face, a piece of cake, ain't gonna change the world

  CHORUS - Just another song you won't hear on the radio
  An ordinary story everybody already knows
  But it won't make the front page headlines, top 10 drive time
  It's all there but you won't hear it on the radio

  He drives a delivery van full of potato chips and
  stocks all the shelves in all the store
  leaves for work when it's still dark out, gets lunch from a drive-thru window
  and as always he'll be home by 4
  it's not the kind of life you'll hear 'bout on the news
  him and his hand cart whistlin' out of tune

  CHORUS -

  BRIDGE - it isn't always heartache, tough breaks, lost love, mistakes
  it's plain old everyday and that's okay

  CHORUS -

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• RAPUNZEL

  Written by Lisa Brokop & Kim McLean '2008 Mike Curb Music (BMI) / Nick 'N Ash Music (BMI), Hippie Chick Twang Tunes (Ascap). All rights reserved. Used by Permission

  Maybe I'm Rapunzel and i should let my hair down
  Maybe I'll just fly out of this window and ride the wind
  Maybe I'm a bluebird and this is
  Happy as I'm ever gonna be
  If heaven's not the remnant of some magic carpet
  Then It's the fading daylight on the blue bonnets
  So I think I'll pay attention
  To the beauty all around me that I see

  CHORUS - Am I carryin' the weight of broken dreams
  Or am I standin' on a pedestal
  That lifts me to the stars
  I accept the things I cannot change
  My weakness but my life's made stronger
  By a heart of heavy stone

  Maybe bliss is only in the minds of fools and lovers
  I have been a fool so maybe I've at last discovered
  What it means to really love you
  And to let you love me as I truly am
  I have let my guard down like Rapunzel's golden hair
  Come to me at midnight and we will
  Taste the cold wild air
  I've cast aside my fears for you
  You can leave or you can take my hand

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• SHACKIN' UP

  Written by Lisa Brokop & Fred Wilhelm '2008 Libre Music (Socan), Music Of Stage Three (BMI) / Not More Music (BMI). All rights reserved. Used by Permission

  I'm ready for a change
  Anything but the same old, same old
  We've been together so long
  Maybe it's time we moved on to another chapter
  We'll be happier after we

  Put these days behind us
  With only pictures to remind us
  Of my little apartment
  Back when, we lived apart and
  You had to drive to see me
  Let's make it easy

  CHORUS- We're shackin'up, packin' up, movin' out
  Movin' in together
  What could be better than
  Two under one roof, always comin' home to
  And wakin' up with someone you love
  Shackin' up

  You bring your 70's sofa
  I'll bring my grandma's quilt to throw over
  Put our cd's together, 2 of each Beatles record
  My cat and your dog
  Will have to get along

  CHORUS-

  BRIDGE- My daddy may not like it, but none the less
  We got the same address

  CHORUS-

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• JUST TO BE HERE

  Written by Lisa Brokop & Fred Wilhelm '2008 Libre Music (Socan), Farm Thang Music (BMI) / Mr. Noise Music (BMI). All rights reserved. Used by Permission

  The sky is large enough
  There's room for clouds to pass
  Fields of golden rod
  And bending willow

  This is home to me
  These worn paths I have made
  The lark can't sing a song
  That's not familiar

  CHORUS - There's no longing in my soul
  No distant calling I hear
  The world is still and at the moment
  It's enough just to be here

  Sometimes I drift into
  The comfort of silence
  And all I take with me
  Is your hand in my hand

  CHORUS

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