Little Love Letters lyrics

(Carlene Carter/Howie Epstein)

I'll be waitin' by the door when you come home
Waiting for the words
I've wanted to hear from you for so long
Everything could change
Anything is possible
In this world of miracles

I'm here, you're there
We're worlds apart
But still we share love deep in our hearts
I still cry over you at the drop of the hat
I lose control just like that

(Carlene Carter/Howie Epstein/Benmont Tench)

You used to love me a lot, you said that I was the best
Although you didn't agree with the way that I dressed
We were the business, oh what a team
Now our hillbilly heaven's turned into a bad, bad dream
Is it something you drank, is it something you ate
Did I somehow rain on your hit parade!
I can't please you, no there ain't no way

You used to love me a lot, you said that I was the best
Although you didn't agree with the way that I dressed
We were the business, oh what a term
Now our hillbilly heaven's turned into a bad, bad dream
Is it something you drank, is it something you ate
Did I somehow rain on your hit parade!
I can't please you, no there ain't no way
I'm gonna wash my hands of you

(Carlene Carter/Howie Epstein)

It was sometime late September
The leaves were gold and green
My baby's eyes were the saddest sight I'd ever seen
Two summers back I loved him
Two years I cried and tried
But I tell you, too many teardrops falling down cannot be dried

It's been a long hard fall
Long hard fall
Long hard fall

So something came between us
A feeling cold as ice

It was sometime late September
The leaves were gold and green
My baby's eyes were the saddest sight I'd ever seen
Two summers back I loved him
Two years I cried and tried
But I tell you, too many teardrops falling down cannot be dried
It's been a long hard fall
Long hard fall
Long hard fall
So something came between us
A feeling cold as ice

(Carlene Carter/Howie Epstein)

Oh Lord, I stand before you
A past I can't deny
A sinner from the old school
Repent before you die
I tried to run
I tried to hide
I tried so hard to stray
But your love has found
It's way around
And grace has paved the way

No more to roam
I've found my home
Hallelujah in my heart

Salvation sweet awaits us
Beyond a shining light

(Carlene Carter/Howie Epstein)

Love lifts me up
When I'm down at heart
And fills me with a hope that we can start
To change the way we feel
With just a glimpse
Of something real
Every night
We hold on tight
Love makes us strong

If your heart is right
You can't go wrong
You can't go wrong

When the world is wicked
And worse for wear
Love's the ticket
To anywhere

(Carlene Carter/Al Anderson)

I hear songs on the radio
They might be fast or they might be slow
But every song they play's got me thinkin' 'bout you
I see a fella walkin' down the street
He looks at me and he smiles real sweet
But he don't matter to me
'Cause I'm thinkin' 'bout you

Every little dream I dream about you
Every little thought I think about you

(Carlene Carter/Radney Foster)

I love you 'cause I want to
I love you 'cause I want to

Sometimes I wonder baby
Why I put up with you
You ought to pay attention
I've got better things to do
I could be tearing the Eiffel Tower down to the ground
I could be helping Superman and break the speed of sound
Nobody tells me what to do
And I don't love you 'cause I have to

(Carlene Carter/Anni O'Brien)

Two blue hearts steppin' off a nowhere train
Standin' on a one-way street dreamin' bout a long sea cruise
Gonna have a brand new start
Gonna have a grand new part to play
We're gettin' off a nowhere train

We won't turn back, we got some place to be
A better life ahead for the likes of you and me
Leave our sorrows behind
That was a bad old time we had

(Carlene Carter/Howie Epstein)

On a night not unlike this
With a chill in the wind
And a moonlit mist
Daddy took Mama down by the bay
Kissed her and showed he
What words cannot say

They were meant to be
Sweet meant to be
Sweet meant to be
They were meant to be
Sweet meant to be, sweet meant to be

I know in my heart
I feel it right here
With you and me darlin' I have no fear

(Carlene Carter/Bernie Taupin)

How long
Has it been dear
Since we felt the rain
Endless were our summers
Until the weather changed
Our love was lifted like a harvest
No winter in your eyes
Now cold winds cut Right through us
And so the harvest dies

Stranded and lost without you
My pain lives in this house
It's like your heart here
Empty and cold dear
My wild birds flying south

(Benmont Tench)

An empty house
A broken fairy tale
A hollow girl with empty arms
From an angel's tears
God made the stars
Why can't he make me an unbreakable heart
In my blue world
You shone like heaven's fire
And left me cryin' in the dark
How could anyone
Be so hard
Did you think I had
An unbreakable heart
I suppose I should know
Sometimes love just comes and goes