Better Than Home
Release Date: April 2015
Release Date: April 2015
I woke up this morning
With a smile on my face
I threw out those stones
That stood in my way
And I put on a new pair
Of hard walking shoes
I woke up this morning
Laughing the blues
Woke up laughing the blues
When the talking on the tv
Tells me I should be scared
I don’t let it overwhelm me
I know that joy will be there
Behind every tear
It might take a while
Might as well smile
I go to the corner
and buy me a drink
I say to the man
“This shit helps me think”
He says “who ya fooling?
I know your type!!
A dead woman walking”
Maybe he’s right
I sure hope he ain’t right
And when the preacher on the tv
Tells me I should be scared
I don’t let it overtake me
I know that faith will be there
Behind every fear
It might take a while
Might as well smile
I woke up this morning
With a smile on my face
Without a warning
My fear was erased
So I put on a new pair
Of good walking shoes
I woke up this morning
Laughing the blues
Cause I got nothing to lose
And if the darkness brings the thunder
And my brother turns me away
I will turn and love another
There will be light in the shade
And that’s where I’ll lay
It might take a while
Might as well smile
It might take a while
Might as well smile
Writer & composer: Beth Hart
Whiskey wants a joke
The Marlboro wants to smoke
And tears need some salt to get by
The thorn looks for a crown
the beggar for a town
and The woman is never satisfied
Everyone’s looking
For something to hold
Some kind of savior
They need to be told
To hold on
Baby needs a mother
But the mother wants a lover
And this house can’t find home anywhere
The ship is scared to sink
The thirsty scared to drink
And I can’t find God way down here
Everyone’s looking
For something to hold
Some kind of savior
They need to be told
To hold on
Hold on
You can run
You can hide
But nothing good ever really dies
The pasture’s all dried out
The crows are all cried out
The hen hangs her head in the yard
And I’m tired of running
There’s got to be something
For this cold broken down heart
Everyone’s looking
For someone to blame
They sharpen their razors
Go out as they came
Someone tell ‘em to
Someone tell ‘em to
To hold on
Hold on
hold on
hold on
Someone tell ‘em to hold on
Written & composed: Beth Hart
Tell her you’re mine
That you have been blind
Tell her it’s over
And you belong to me
Tell me to come
And like hell I will run
Back into your arms
Cause you belong to me
There’s a river on my skin
There’s a dragon in the dark
But nothing scares me more
than the silence of your heart
If you wanna hold me
If you wanna know me again
If you wanna love me
Then take me home
I’ve been at the bottom
The deep end of the ocean
Barely surviving by the dark side of her street
Tell her you belong to me
She’ll never kiss you
the way that I miss you
What kind of lies doES she tell you
inside of the dark
She’ll never win
Cause I’m not giving in
You are my man
You belong to me
If you wanna hold me
If you wanna know me again
If you wanna love me then take me home
I’ve been at the bottom
The deep end of the ocean
Barely surviving by the dark side of her street
Tell her you belong you me
No she’ll never win
Cause I’m not giving in
No matter how long
I’ll still be holding on
This kind of love
I’m not giving up
So tell her, tell her
Tell her you were fooling!
If you wanna hold me
If you wanna know me again
If you wanna love me
Then take me home
I’ve been at the bottom
The deep end of the ocean
Barely surviving by the dark side of her street
Tell her you belong to me
Tell her you belong to me
You belong to me
You belong to me
Written & composed: Beth Hart
I didn’t come to make trouble
But there’s a war on the rise
We were built for survival
Given no compromise
But I just want
One day in the sun
Hanging out, having fun
I didn’t come to make trouble
Wait a minute, what you say?
You wanna smack my face
Well I ain’t your bitch or your baby
Don’t make me trash this place
Cause I just want
One day in the sun
Hanging out having fun
I didn’t come to make trouble
Just like a wrecking ball
I can’t keep my big mouth shut
I can’t seem to get along
Trouble’s just much too
I try to talk like a good woman
I try to walk like a good woman
But when I talk damage is done
And when I walk the angel runs
I try to talk
I try to walk
Just like a wrecking ball
I can’t keep my big mouth shut
I can’t seem to get along
Trouble’s just much too
I didn’t come to make trouble
But there’s a war on the rise
We were built for survival
Given no compromise
But I just want
One day in the sun
Hanging out having fun
I just want one night on the flow
Laughing like a rooster crow
I didn’t come to make
I didn’t come to make
I didn’t come to make
TROUBLE!!!!
Written & composed: Beth Hart
I can feel my body breathing
I can feel my heart is moving fast
I am not afraid or lonely
I am not chasing the ghosts of the past
I have found the place where hunger
Meets the edge and now I’m facing God
I won’t dare look into his eyes
I can only hang my head to the ground
When I try and open my mouth
There’s so many words but there’s no sound
And the angel comes upon me
And the love I feel’s a love I’ve never known
And it’s better than home
Better than home
Out on this long and winding road
Chasing the sound with my friends
And we ain’t never rolling back again
And who knows what we’re gonna find
knows what we’re gonna see
Knows how we’re gonna change
Knows what we’re gonna be
Baby it’s just you and me
So keep driving on
Cause this is better than home
Everything inside me is stirring
In every corner of every secret wound
In the light I am adoring
Feel like flying in circles around the moon
When I gaze upon the world
I know that I’m a part of something good
I knew that I could
And it’s a love I’ve never known
Better than home
This is better than home
Out on this long and winding road
Chasing the sound with my friends
And we ain’t ever coming back again
Yeah, who knows what we’re gonna find
knows what we’re gonna see
Knows how we’re gonna change
Knows what we ‘re gonna be
Baby it’s just you and me
So keep driving on
Cause this is better than home
This is better than home
This is better than home
Written & composed: Beth Hart
St. Teresa
I heard you’re coming to town
Your little footsteps
Make the sweetest sound
They come to put me down
Come to put me down down down
Mother is it ok if I call you mama?
My own walked away when I broke the law
And standing on the bridge
Feeling like falling
Would you pray for me mama?
St. Teresa
Have mercy on my soul
The good must die young
That’s why I’m getting so old
They come to put me down
They come to put me down down down
Mother is it ok if I call you mama ?
My own walked away when I broke the law
And standing on the bridge feeling like falling
Would you pray for me mama?
I was never good at confession
Never really that good at anything at all
And they don’t want me hanging around the mission
Singing hallelujah
Singing hallelujah
St. Teresa
Could I kiss your skin?
Come a little closer
To this hell I’m living in
When they put me down
When they put me down
Mother is it ok if I call you mama?
My own walked away when I broke the law
And standing on the bridge
Feeling like falling
Would you pray for me mama?
Would you pray for me mama?
Would you stay with me mama?
And keep singing hallelujah
Mama
Written & composed: Beth Hart
We’re still living in the city
In a tiny rental made of wood
We’ve loved and we’ve lost friends
Time and time again
Like ripples in a stream quietly die
Every party’s got its pity
Especially when it’s time to go
Between the sun and all its moons
The biggest love I’ve found Is in you
When you touch me it always makes me shine
And I am crazy ’bout you baby tonight
Sometimes I just sit and listen
To the heart of that old hard working train
Ya know the one behind Jimmy’s bar
Whistling by like a shooting star
Its rhythm reminds me of the rain
And let’s go swimming in that river
I know it’s small and there’s some trash
Life don’t treat you like it should
But when it’s bad it’s still pretty good
I may be poor but I am rich on the inside
Cuz I am crazy ’bout you baby tonight
We’re still living in the city
In a little house made from a tree
And I don’t really need a view
I’d rather climb up on top of you
Your pretty face never fails to get me high
And I’m still crazy ’bout you baby after all this time
Written & composed: Beth Hart
Every night I go down town
Take a walk around
Every soulful sound
Reminds me of you
And all the shit you do
You are the mood that I’m in
Every afternoon I try
Don’t have to wonder why I
Kiss on some other guy
I just can’t help missing you
And all that shit you do
You are the mood that I’m in
All I wanna do is cook your bread
I just wanna make sure you’re well fed
I would rather die one hundred ways
Go blind than watch you walk away
Come on home
You are the mood that I’m in
Started smoking cigarettes
One hundred sixty sticks
All my love is sick
Don’t wanna hear where you been conversations
You are the mood that I’m in
All I wanna do is cook your bread
I just wanna make sure you’re well fed
I would rather die one hundred ways
Go blind than watch you walk away
Come on home
You are the mood that I’m in
Those wicked eyes they captify straight through my dress
Don’t be so shy while I am swimming in your hands
I can taste your sweat
Cause all I wanna do is cook your bread
I just wanna make sure you’re well fed
I would rather die one hundred ways
Go blind than watch you walk away
Come on home
You are the mood that I’m in
Come on home
You are the mood that I’m in
Written & composed: Beth Hart
I was born with a mechanical heart
Miles of wires and video parts
If only I had a human touch
I’d give you the love you deserve so much
And if heaven’s way up in the clouds, way up in the clouds
For you I’m gonna bring it all down, I’m gonna bring it all down
I will be your aeroplane
Give you the world and watch you dance in Spain
Fly you way above the stars
And show you what you are
In my mechanical heart
Love it cannot be programmed
I’m sorry to say this is all that I am
Computer screens and new touch phones
Can’t hold your hand or take you home
And if heaven’s way up in the clouds, way up in the clouds
I swear I’m gonna figure it out, I’m gonna figure it out
I will be your aeroplane
Give you the world and watch you dance in Spain
Fly you way above the stars
And show you what you are
In my mechanical heart
I’ll bring heaven to you
I’ll bring heaven to you
I’ll bring heaven to you
You, you
And if heaven’s way up in the clouds, way up in the clouds
It’s waiting on you now, on you now
I will be your aeroplane
Give you the world and watch you dance in Spain
Fly you way above the stars
And show you what you are
In my mechanical heart
I was born with a mechanical heart
Miles of wires and video parts
Written & composed: Beth Hart
Walk into the bar
And shake off my coat
Pull up a chair
And light up a smoke
Where did all those summers go?
Guess I’ll never know
So barkeep let’s give it a go
Pour me a dream
And play me a tune
And I’ll get along
Just as long
As I have a song
Sit by the church
And hear children sing
I like to pretend they’re
Singing for me
Memories of melodies
And words that made me cry
They have all abandoned me
Sit back and watch me die
Pour me a dream
And play me a tune
And I’ll get along
Just as long
As I have a song
The river is wide
And the ocean’s so deep
The harder I try
The faster I sink into the rich of the dark
The cheapest of tricks
I’ve lost the fire
Still I’m sharpening my wick
But it’s just Smoke
And that’s all
So pour me a tune
As blue as the moon
And I’ll get along
Just as long
As I have a song
I’ll hum along
And that is how I’ll
Get along
Written & composed: Beth Hart
For all the things I never said
I’m sorry that I never did
I thank you for your precious time
For teaching me how to climb
I love you more than summertime
You’ve been such a good friend of mine
And every sacred word is true
I learned to love because of you and
Oh mama I saw the world
And it was good
And full of kindness
Every step I took you held my hand
And watched me grow
You’ll never know
How much I love you
And I am not afraid, I’m not afraid
I finally grew
Mama this one’s for you
You always look beyond the dark
You told me joy lives in the heart
And life is what you make of it
Make sure to cherish every bit and
Oh mama I saw the world
And it was good
And full if kindness
Every step I took you held my hand
And watched me grow
You’ll never know
How much I love you
And I am not afraid, I’m not afraid
I finally grew
Mama this one’s for you
You, you, you
Mama this one’s for you
You, you, you
Mama this one’s for you
Written & composed: Beth Hart