Christa Wells

You’ve Got A Home

Mountains melt into valleys and

you suddenly find yourself in shadowlands

where  all of life seems out of your hands

don’t think you’ve got no one left

Here’s a key to my front door

I got a pillow if you lost yours

you got a seat at my table

you’ve got a home

Here’s somebody who believes you

Let truth remind you

you’ve always got a place to go to

you’ve got a home

Rain has come for all of us

pours out a different tune for everyone

there’s rhythm and rhyme inside the dissonance

we’ll listen for it side by side

Chorus x2

Here’s a key to my front door, my front door

All The More

Clear as the cloudless sky

were the countless reasons that I

fell in love with the boy from a small town

that I’d never heard of

It was first the great span of your grin

that caught me and reeled me in

I was raised not to ask to be kissed

otherwise I would’ve

‘Cause you were perfect in so many ways

I thought surely one of these days

some skeleton’s gonna come callin’

After a while I came to see that your humanity

only made me want you all the more

All the more, All the more

I have loved you

All the more

For the many things you don’t realize you do

I have loved you

All the more

The beauty of loving through time is the intimate knowledge of lines

and of creases that tell all the stories we’ve written together

You’re in love with the truth about me

all those scars that no one else sees

and that vision you hold

speaks louder than a thousand love letters

Chorus

‘Cause you were perfect in so many ways

I thought surely one of these days

some skeleton’s gonna come callin’

After a while I came to see that your humanity

only made me want you all the more

Chorus x2

For the many things you don’t realize you do

I have loved you

All the more

My Best Remedy (Amazing)

Thank you for making me laugh today

you took me by surprise

Thank you for catching me down at the mouth

You ambushed me with delight

Amazing amazing

I’ll take your medicine anytime

you are my best remedy

Thank you for standing outside my head

‘til I came out to you

You forced me to wash my face in the fresh air

and step my feet in the dew

Chorus

Be here tomorrow when I awake

come running for a dance

Mischievous  angel you’ve taken your place in my heart

at last

Chorus x2

I’ll take your medicine anytime

You are my best remedy

A Thousand Things

You’re gonna cry yourself to sleep

Your’re gonna soak the pillow

for many weeks

You’re gonna cry

Why?

Why me?

But in spite of the ache

that doesn’t go away

You’ll be sharing your story

one rainy day

And at the next table somebody catches your words

He hear’s a truth that he’s never heard

He takes it back to the marriage he’d given up on

Hands it down to his daughter

who writes it into song

You didn’t know

A thousand things are happening in this one thing

Like a thousand fields nourished by a single drop of rain

So honey, wrap yourself in promise

while you wait the morning light

A thousand things are happening tonight

You’re gonna cry yourself to sleep

‘cause for the moment all that you can see

Is what you’ve lost , lost

Why me?

But in the midst of the most exquisite pain

you’re drawn into a peace that You cannot explain

and the praises you sing of a sovereign God

reach the girl whose last hope is gone

she never thought there was purpose in anything here

now the seed has been planted and it’s taking root there

You didn’t know

Chorus

A thousand things are happening tonight

You’re gonna cry yourself to sleep

A thousand miracles you’ll have to wait and see

Life Costs So Much

Death is easy you don’t know you’re a ghost

The fee is taken out nice and slow

While you’re walking around with your cardboard crown

We think we are kings

We think we are kings

Wisdom warned us but our flesh is strong

we’ll find our own way we’ll  get along

Who knows what we need

We want everything

we’re living like kings

living like kings

But

life costs so much

Life costs so much

Someone paid for the damage

the damage we’ve done

How else do you explain all these open graves we’ve got

Someone must have paid

‘cause life costs

A law of justice was long before

and all the people here  in this world

We hid our souls in shame

how could we be saved?

send us a king, send us our king

Chorus

How else do you explain all these open graves we’ve got

How else do you explain all these open graves we’ve got

Don’t Call it Love

I’m tempted to sit back in my overstuffed chair

with a gavel in hand and a tired-eye stare that says

I’m not surprised you’ve messed it up again

I’m tempted to sigh, I’m tempted to yawn

if you’d only do life the way I’ve told you all along

It could be so easy

If you would only be more like me

But oh, that’s the beast that brings us down

It’s the devil in a satin gown

So don’t, don’t call it love (don’t call it love)

love wraps herself around the wound

and weeps while she speaks truth

So don’t call this love

Too much to say, not enough time

you’ve got so much to learn it’ll hurt for a while

but you know that I’m only concerned

I- only want to help

You got what you gave

I said that you would

I guess it must be really hard to be so unsure,

but it could be so easy if you would only be more like me

Chorus

Oh oh

oh oh oh oh oh

oh oh

oh oh oh

oh oh

oh oh oh oh

(Repeat)

Come along beside me

I’ll come along beside you

and I will wash your hands in my tears

I’ll take your boots to the river

and we can sing

where love makes music

love makes music

Oh oh

oh oh oh oh oh

oh oh

oh oh oh

oh oh

Oh oh oh oh

(Repeat x3)

I Want To Know That Man

If there’s a man with a vision to recognize beauty

in places and faces the rest have passed by

If there’s a man who can meet with the queen

and stay warm with a beggar the very same night

a man who would pour himself out for a stranger for years for no kind of pay

let me know his name

I wanna know that man

I wanna know that man

I wanna know that man

If there’s a man without a wallet or looks to explain

why these masses of people wanna follow him around

if there is something compelling if he’s saying

something they know they’ve gotta know more about

a man who could love like a mother and die for a world instead of saving himself

I wanna know his name

Chorus

Oh, I’d be a fool to go on acting like it’s unimportant

it might take a little more faith to imagine him away

to walk the other way…….Oh Oh

If he came

if he lived

if he came

if he lived

If he died

if he lived

If he IS

if he IS

If there’s a God who would enter humanity

to capture the love of a rebel like me

I want to know his name (I want to know his name)

I wanna know that man

I wanna know that man (I want to know that man)

I wanna know that man

I wanna know that man, Oh… yeah

Weightless

Nothing scalds like the memory of wrongs I did when I was young

how could I

How could I

I’m sorry

I see the eyes of the ones that  I so carelessly abused

how could I

how could I

I’m sorry

Well, I’ve carried this a long time

in a well  hidden bundle on my back

but I’ve realized repentance  is weightless

so I’ll  leave my burden on the tracks

And then I face the yesterdays that disappointed

misunderstood by a cruel world

and I’m angry

You might suppose

the years would close the curtains on a scene

from such a time

but this was mine

to harbor

Well, I’ve carried this a long time

in a well  hidden bundle on my back

but I’ve realized forgiveness  is weightless

so I’ll  leave my burden on the tracks

Its gonna be like delivery that’s overdue and getting too heavy

Then suddenly

I’m weightless

Chorus

‘Cause  I’ve carried this a long time

in a well  hidden bundle on my back

but I’ve realized forgiveness  is weightless

so I’ll  leave my burden on the tracks

I’ll leave my burden on the tracks

On The Mountain

I’ve been climbing my whole life

and I’m only at the bottom of the mountain,

at the bottom of the mountain

Rising up from my feet

in the daylight

rising up into the clouds and out of my sight

is the height of that mountain

Well my hands cannot reach it

and my mind can’t comprehend it

but my soul is gonna get there one day

Well my hands cannot reach it

and my mind can’t comprehend it

but my soul  is gonna get there one day

Lord, these shoes are gonna need some help

so we can make it to the top of the mountain

to the top of your  mountain

Many feet have gone before us

with a habit of faith and courage

they’ll meet us at the road’s end

Chorus

Yes, yes  I think I will

Oh Yes I know we will

Yes yes I know we will

Oh yeah, I know we will

I’ve been climbing my whole life

and I’m only at the bottom of the mountain

at the bottom of the mountain

All along this road

when it feels  so far to the top

you say, just hold on to the mountain

Chorus x2

Well my soul (oh, my soul) is gonna get there one day

Frame the Clouds

Oh friend what a great listener you are

You sit across the table with your coffee long gone

And I am talking about the books that I’ve been reading

when the house is dark and still

All the words, all the words

all the words, they are my fingers on a face

oh the words

looking for patterns in the shapes

You’re so good

to be a witness to my sounds

trying to frame the clouds

My feet are stepping on new earth all the time

discovery lights the fraying wires of my mind

for every one good answer, two more questions

and it all feels incomplete

‘til the words,’ til the words

Chorus

Well I wish I had more show for the years I’ve been alive

there’s more to learn before I go than there is time

So friends don’t take me wrong on those days when I sound too sure

of the things I say, I say

Chorus

I’m trying to frame the clouds

Fly

Ten years have brought us here

ten years have gone

ten years have made us parents

told us who we are

My mother seemed older at my age

but I’m just a baby

‘cause the years behind me are a handful of days

I’m 26 and 17

and I’d like to hold those moments again

turn them over

like stones  in my hand

before they fly

I wanna know grandma back at age 35

I wanna know the mystery woman that she carries inside

Her world moved slower than mine does

but passed as quickly

‘cause the work and the wars and her life’s love

are hard- to-catch memories

and she’d like to hold those moments again

turn them over

like stones in her hands

before they fly

Ooh, I miss the flowers on the walls

I used to trace them ‘til I could fall asleep

Ooh, I miss the welcome we’d come home to

when we gathered under one roof back then

Ooh, I miss my baby on my chest

and the downy top of his head

Try  to hold those moments again

turn them over

like stones in my hand

before they fly