[ti:Before & After (Feat. Mary Chapin Carpenter)]
[ar:Carrie Newcomer]
[al:Before & After]

[00:01.00]Carrie Newcomer - Before & After (Feat. Mary Chapin Carpenter)
[00:04.00]LRC by lzh, from jiangxi pingxiang
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[00:11.60]The dust settles after a hit and run
[00:18.87]Bewildered by the damage done
[00:24.84]I don't know why we choose the roads we travel
[00:31.02]Or how a life could get so unraveled.
[03:26.56][02:02.99][00:39.97]We live our lives from then until now,
[03:32.54][02:09.27][00:46.16]By the mercies received or the mark upon our brow
[03:38.54][02:15.51][00:52.43]To my heart I'll collect what the four winds will scatter
[03:44.80][02:21.80][00:58.58]And frame my life into before and after.
[01:07.35]Once a trick of light made me believe,
[01:14.22]A red fire was blazing from every tree.
[01:20.10]We held hands as the evening gathered.
[01:26.28]I forgave myself for what I didn't ask her.
[01:35.64]I once saw the sky filled with falling stars
[01:41.63]Bumped my head in the dark and it left a scar
[01:47.64]Held on too tight before I let it go,
[01:53.90]Then forgave myself for what I didn't know.
[02:31.36]I've stretched my soul over fifty states,
[02:37.17]I have lived on fumes and religious cornflakes,
[02:43.08]And once I dreamt my shoe had grown thin and battered,
[02:49.60]And forgave myself for what didn't matter.
[02:58.53]God said Cain where is your brother,
[03:05.29]And who will tell his grieving mother?
[03:12.04]Jacob dreamt an angel called his name
[03:17.44]And he never was quite the same