Melissa Etheridge – Breakdown Breakdown How could I stay How could I breathe There had to be more for me Promises gone Plastic and stone I'm doing fine all alone So you're having a breakdown So you're losing the fight So you're having a breakdown And I'm driving and crying Unraveled and flying I'm coming to your breakdown tonight I cannot run I cannot hide It came with me locked inside The bough will break Cradle will fall It only takes one call So you're having a breakdown So you're losing the fight So you're having a breakdown And you need me tonight I found my place in this downtown Salt air and yellow street lights So you're having a breakdown And I'm driving and crying Unraveled and flying I'm coming to you're breakdown tonight Angels Would Fall The rope that's wrapped around me Is cutting through my skin And the doubts that have surrounded me Are finding their way in I keep it close to me Like a holy man prays In my desperate hour It's better that way So I'll come by and see you again I'll be such a very good friend Have mercy on my soul I will never let you know Where my mind has been Angels never came down There's no one here they want to hang around But if they knew If they knew you at all Then one by one the angels Angels would fall I've crept into your temple I have slept upon your pew I've dreamed of the divinity Inside and out of you I want it more than truth I can taste it on my breath I would give my life just for a little death So I'll come by and see you again I'll be just a very good friend I will not look upon your face I will not touch upon your grace Your ecclesiastic skin I'll come by and see you again I'll have to be a very good friend If I whisper they will know I'll just turn around and go You will never know my sin Stronger Than Me So you closed your eyes in the morning You said you want to start smoking again You said you had that dream last night Of the stranger in your room You said you want to start making new friends Well I'd found some peace You want release You must be stronger than me I don't know how you can take it Invest your heart and then you break it I don't know how you can set it free You must be stronger than me Set it up but it's not perfect Tear it down cause it's not worth it If someone else can light your mystery They must be stronger than me So I closed my eyes at midnight Cinderella must go home But the map was burned And I've taken a wrong turn And I found myself alone I'm tired of this war I don't want to fight no more You must be stronger than me So it's too late then You could have told me when Living died and passion lied Now you're a refugee Well if it's what you need Run away from the truth you see You must be stronger than me Into The Dark There were stairs they were steep I was falling falling deep You were there you were small There was screaming down the hall I've been here sleeping all these years There comes a time we all know There's a place that we must go Into the soul into the heart Into the dark There was fire there was death There was lying on your breath I turned away I would pretend But the burning never ends I've been here sleeping all these years There was a wave over the house There was fear choked in my mouth You were there you left your mark As I stumbled in the dark Enough Of Me We were all wounded in some domestic war I found you to settle my score You looked like father You felt like mother My mind told my heart There is no other And I gave you my soul And every ounce of control I gave you my skin And my original sin I gave you my pride and my side oh my pride Ain't that enough I turned your dreams into lightning Ain't that enough I held the world back for you Ain't that enough I loved you past the point of dying Ain't that enough of me for you I was so sure one and one gave you one My noisy love is coming undone Now you leave like father Disappointed like mother And I know in my heart There is no other And I gave you my soul And every ounce of control And I gave you my shame And my eternal flame And I gave you my need and my seed Oh my need Why can't you hold on Truth Of The Heart I hear your questions I see your face Your life before you Is full of grace What can I tell you To let you know Your angel's eyes Will watch you grow Come listen close And I'll try to let you know It's all I know There is no magic There are no secrets We all begin this race at the start But I have come this far With a truth of the heart Deep down inside I think we're all the same Try not to judge someone And never shame I do believe that people are good They just want hope and respect And to be understood Sometimes it hard sometimes it's strange But the truth of the heart is people can change Yes there is danger and there are shadows And there is fear inside the dark It has powered countries and borne religion Fear can never rule the heart My father's burden My mother's rain My own desire My sister's pain All souls have traveled along this road Each one has carried their own heavy load Mama I'm Strange What's this little lie They keep on telling me It's just another high They keep on selling me I was only five They fed me so much jive They said just have a ball Just be a Barbie doll They churned and burned me out Until they turned me out Over and over again Mama I'm strange The thoughts and the wants are the locks On the back of my brain I'm descending pretending I'm blending I'm going insane And they want me to change Mama I'm strange I'm on a shaky wall I'm tripping down the hall And all the king's men can't Can't sew me up again I've got a leaky head Don't know the full extent I'm drowning in my bed I'm just an accident They chewed and blew me out Until they threw me out Over and over again If I could tranquilize I might just vaporize They couldn't supervise They couldn't criticize I have no evidence I have no reverence It makes no difference I have no innocence Help me mama help me now Scarecrow Showers of your crimson blood Seep into a nation calling up a flood Of narrow minds who legislate Thinly veiled intolerance Bigotry and hate But they tortured and burned you They beat you and they tied you They left you cold and breathing For love they crucified you I can't forget hard as I try This silhouette against the sky Scarecrow crying Waiting to die wondering why Scarecrow trying Angels will hold carry your soul away This was our brother This was our son This shepherd young and mild This unassuming one We all gasp this can't happen here We're all much too civilized Where can these monsters hide But they are knocking on our front door They're rocking in our cradles They're preaching in our churches And eating at our tables I search my soul My heart and in my mind To try and find forgiveness This is someone child With pain unreconciled Filled up with father's hate Mother's neglect I can forgive But I will not forget Scarecrow crying Waiting to die wondering why Scarecrow trying Rising above all in the name of love How Would I Know You say you don't feel like yourself Does that mean you're somebody else How would I know Oh you say you just don't feel quite right today Does that mean that you're slipping away How would I know You might believe there's a paradise In the next hello How would I know If you don't tell me so If you wanted to go How would I know You say you don't know what you're doing here Does that mean you might disappear How would I know You might feel that there's something real In the next hello My Lover No one conceals me like No one reveals me like My lover No one can disconnect No one can resurrect Like my lover My lover makes me weak Gives me breath to speak My lover takes me home Cools the rolling stone My lover's thorny kiss The reason to exist I wonder No one can saturate No one manipulates Like my lover The sensuality It's immortality My lover My lover needs to seize Bring me to my knees Reads me like a prayer Calls the spirit there Secretly inspires Strips me to desire I wonder No one can visualize No one can make me rise Like my lover They dream of paradise They'll never ever pay the price My lover Sleep After your laughter like thunder After your skin like coffee and cream After it takes our bodies into the night After we've come to the extreme I want to lay down on your shoulder Just inside your arm I want to listen to your heart beat And your breathing on and on I want to lay down on your shoulder Surrender to your peace And go to sleep And when we've gone a million miles Made true our dreams with sweat and bone After we've built it up with our bare hands Made strong a place we can call home And when the light in my eye is fading When running water becomes too deep Finally angels turn my fire to dust And when my soul's no longer mine to keep I want to lay down on your shoulder Just inside your arm I want to listen to your heartbeat And your breathing on and on I want to lay down on your shoulder Surrender to the peace And just go to sleep