Beth Nielsen Chapman/Annie Roboff
I had it tough when I was just a little kid
It didn't matter what I thought
It didn't matter what I did
I felt the doubt for what I lacked right from the start
It did a number on my head but it could never touch my heart
'Cause I had just enough imagination
Just enough to keep the faith
That somehow I would think of what I do
When I'd get lost in a momentary weakness of emotion
All the angels came around to help me through
Life pulls fast changes
Wind blows past pages
All I see is I don't need this
High strung tightrope walk
Ticking time bomb clock
Scratch my name off
Cut these chains
Chorus:
I'm free...kicking out of that prison
I am free...singing those words of wisdom
Let it be...nobody's gonna put the blues inside of me
And in the stress to be the best I've done it all
I've slammed the doors I've jammed the locks
I've laid the bricks, I've built the walls
No one could tell me back then why joy eluded me
Kept bumping into that misery
Locked up deep down inside of me
Took that page and I
turned that page and I
Packed my tools went back to school
And I passed my gratuation, and I hold my PH.D.
In crash test blues I paid those due
(Chorus)
Time flies by in photographs and paper scraps and songs
Here I stand in ruby slippers, three times takes me home
(Chorus)
Angie Aparo
If I had just one tear runninkg down your cheek
Maybe I could cope, maybe I'd get some sleep
If I had one moment at your expense
Maybe all my misery would be well spent
Could you cry a little
Lie just a little
Pretend that you're feeling a little more pain
I gave now I'm wanting
Something in return
So cry just a little for me
If your love could be caged, honey, I would hold the key
And conceal it underneath the pile of lies you handed me
And you'd hunt down those lies, they'd be all you'd ever find
and that'd be all you'd have to know for me to be fine
And you'd cry a little
Die just a little
And baby I would feel just a little less pain
I gave it now I wanting
Something in return
So cry just a little for me
Give it up baby
I hear your doing fine
Nothing's gonna save me
'Til I see it in your eyes
Some kind of heartache honey
Give it a try
I don't want pity
I just want what is mine
Could you cry a little
Lie just a little
Pretend that you're feeling a little more pain
I gave now I'm wanting
Something in return
So cry just a little for me
Cry just a little for me Could you cry just a little for me