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DISC ONE

Track 1:  These 4 Walls - Shannon Cutts

Track 2:  Home - Amy Speace

Track 3: Box Of Shelter - Julie Shephard

Track 4:  Bravedancing - Rachael Sage

Track 5:  Rain - Rachel Loshak

Track 6: Come Home - Karen McFeeters

Track 7: Rain On The Roof - Susan Greenbaum

Track 8: This Could Be Our Home - Noelle Hampton

Track 9: Grace - Cindy Alexander

Track 10: Mocking Bird - Megan Slankard

Track 11: Calling You Home - Heather Murphy

Track 12: Darla - Eleisha Eagle

Track 13: Hold On - Denise Barbarita

Track 14: (Can I) Please Come Home - Katie Terrio

Track 15: This Time Around - Michelle Lewis

Track 16: Come Home - Yvonne Perea

Track 17: All I Want This Year Is Peace - Anne Deming

DISC TWO

Track 1: What's It Gonna Take - Katie Reider

Track 2: With Our Hands - Edie Carey

Track 3: Halfway Home - Antara & Delilah

Track 4: Coming Back Home - Carey Colvin

Track 5: Little Steps - Jill Phillips

Track 6: Nothing I Should Cry About - Vanessa Peters

Track 7: Fill Of Love - Ari Scott

Track 8: Close To Me - Nadine Goellner

Track 9: The Entertainer - Christene LeDoux

Track 10: Back Home - H.E.L.P.

Track 11: Southern Wind - Natalia Zukerman

Track 12: Welcome Home - Vickie Russell

Track 13: Never Forget You - Kay Story

Track 14: Truth - Dani Linnetz

Track 15: Possiblity - Sharon Goldman

Track 16: Home - Heather Stevenson

Track 17: Fear Not - Bethany Nobles

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THESE 4 WALLS
Shannon Cutts
Shannon Cutts, 2003 Lift Me Up Music (ASCAP)

These 4 walls are all my own
This is a place where I can go
They may be bare - just rock and steel
But it’s enough to know they’re real
That no one can take away
We are safe here in this space


And my heart is satisfied
And my pain is justified
You’ll never know how much it means
These 4 walls - they are my dream

To my neighbors and my friends
We’re just a family moving in
If they had seen the other side
A miracle we have survived
I have hungry mouths to feed
And finally I have the means

And my life begins again
And my pride is on the mend
You’ll never know how much it means
These 4 walls  they are our dream

These 4 walls  they are our dream
These 4 walls  they are our dream
These 4 walls  they are our dream
These 4 walls  they are my dream

www.shannoncutts.com
www.key-to-life.com

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Home
Amy Speace
Amy Speace, ©2005 Speace Monster Music (BMI)

Summertime on Old Bay Road
Innocence no where to go
There were fire flies in mid-July
Lighting up the Northern Sky
I’m with the love of my life tonight
I feel at home here

I used to watch you play from a stool at the bar
Watch where your fingers lay on that old guitar
Then I tried to sing to you a song I wrote
Anything that would move us closer to certainty
You left so easy
So I found a home alone

Now I dig down deep enough to find
A place I hide the tears
The photos and the tapes have lasted ten years

Now you live downstairs maybe across the street
With your wife and child and we sometimes meet
In the grocery line, the movie aisles,
Paying parking fines, sometimes on line on those rainy nights
In our different lives
We have our own homes

www.amyspeace.com

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Box Of Shelter
Julie Shephard
Julie Shephard and Dan McNeil, ©1998 Julie Shephard (SOCAN)

No one believed
Beyond their lives
A box of shelter
Wrapped up in paper
You and I
The fight to define
The inner voice
The layers of warmth
To silence a life
To silence this voice
To silence these dreams
For a lifetime of lies
These waves of thoughts
Flood over me

Remain unknown
A lifeless life
Unfinished dreams
I'm going to fly
The box
The comfort zone I see
Is wrong for you and me
In this reflection
Our box of shelter
Look above the mystery sky
Reach me, teach me, let me be me
Hidden words
Silent waves
Thoughts in a wheel
In another shape
Forget what's lost
Remember what's yours

Remain unknown
A lifeless life
Unfinished dreams
I'm going to fly
The box
The comfort zone I see
Is wrong for me and you

Moved and chilled
Cannot feel
Your shadow obscure
Belief is what I hold onto
You never learn
You never learn
No one believed
Beyond their lives
A box of shelter
Wrapped up in paper
With no disguise
We realize
That a box of shelter
Is a box of lies

Remain unknown
A lifeless life
Unfinished dreams
I'm going to fly
The box
The comfort zone I see
Is wrong for you and me

Remain unknown
A lifeless life
Unfinished dreams
I'm going to fly
I'm going to fly
I'm going to fly
I'm going to fly
I'm going to fly

www.julieshephard.com

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Bravedancing
Rachael Sage
Rachael Sage, ©2003 Rachal Sage/Flybing Dybbuk Music (BMI)

You came to me like lightning
Upon a picket-fence
Shattering my illusion
With shockingly bad sense
And I may never feel the same
But I won't always feel this pain

So let faith fall on me now
I'm gonna be here till the end
If you do not see me bend
Then you will know I have been 
Bravedancing

You rained on me like ashes 
But volcanoes come and go
You seemed to have such passion
For someone so shallow
And I may never feel the same
But I refuse to play these games

So let faith fall on me now
I'm gonna be here till the end
If you do not hear my voice
Then you'll know I've had no choice to let 
Faith fall on me now
I'm gonna be my own best-friend
If you do not see me bend
Then you will know I have been
Bravedancing

I see the moon about to bloom into
Thousands of bright yellow roses
And they'll be spreading their light
Across the sky
And I wish my garden could grow this

When friendship is so frightening
It's hard not to overthink
Kisses were like kite-flying
I knew we'd sail or sink
And I may never feel the same
But you must see how much I'm changed

Chorus

www.rachaelsage.com

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Rain
Rachel Loshak
Rachel Loshak, ©2003 Rachel Loshak/Apple Blossom Records (BMI)

Don't listen too hard, the words I say won't last
One minute more than they should

I understand you, a flash of light amongst the blue.
I only take what I give.

Rain keeps coming down. I don't see you flying.
I won't let you down, I'll wait here rained through for you.

There are a few things that bring me down and make me sink.
With all the bright and the bad.

There is no ending to what we think we're spending,
To make a love to be proud.

Rain keeps coming down. I don't see you flying,
I won't let you down, I'll wait here rained through
For you I'd never lie.
When I tell you that I love you.
And when we come to die.
I'll wait here rained through for you.

Don't listen too hard, the words I say won't last
One minute more that they should.
Rain keeps coming down.

www.rachelloshak.com

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Come Home
Karen McFeeters
Karen McFeeters, ©2002 Karen McFeeters

Come home, home, come home
When are you coming home?

Put down my paper and pen, missing you
I walked down the hall to the den, longing for you
Saw your picture and then losing you hit me hard
You packed up your suitcase and went, missing you
Left me behind with the rest, longing for you
Moved three thousand miles west,
Losing you to the world

I know I can't blame you, I'd do the same
Following dreams, yes I know what that means
Still I confess I am selfish
Here's my silent plea:
Come home, home, come home
When are you coming home?
Home, come home
When are you coming home?

Three hundred sixty five days, missing you
Too long since you've been away, longing for you
I had my reasons to stay so losing you had to be
I think of you often and smile, missing you
Wish I could reach 'cross the miles, longing for you
Maybe after a while losing you will not hurt

Letting go isn't easy
The candle still burns, will my heart ever learn?
I'm hoping to find consolation singing to myself:
Come home, home, come home
When are you coming home?
Home, come home
When are you coming home?

Pretending we're lovers, my head full of flowers
And dreams are what keep me sane
It doesn't feel right all alone on this night
With stars calling out your name

Come home, home, come home
When are you coming home?
Home, come home
When are you coming home?

Come home, home, come home
When are you coming home?
Home, come home
When are you coming home?

www.karenmcfeeters.com

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Rain On The Roof
Susan Greenbaum
Susan Greenbaum, ©2002 Susan Greenbaum/GreenTree Songs (ASCAP)

The key unlocks the stained front door
Just as it did the day before
You find it looks about the same
Yet you seek someone to
Blame the changes on, now that the life you knew is gone
Then you hear something else in your ear
And you fight with the fear, but it's perfectly clear

You know what's wrong, you know what's right
Light up your morning, noon and night, alone
Silence on long-distance telephone
You cannot work, you cannot rest
Between the lines you'll find your test, the truth
And the burden of proof
While you listen for the rain on the roof

The more you say, the less you do
Nothing comes easily to you
Everyone hears your said refrain
Nobody listens but the rain
Is on its way, swallowing every word you say
And you've found your excuses are drowned
In the thundering sound as the pain starts to pound

Chorus

Lying to live and dying to give the knife to the glory
Try to pretend the lie will not end, keep spinning the story 
Over and over
Now the damage has been done
And you have nowhere left to run
In the end, only you are your friend
All your life is pretend, nothing there to defend

Chorus

www.susangreenbaum.com

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This Could Be Our Home
Noelle Hampton
Noelle Hampton, ©2002 Twinkle Twinkle Publishing (ASCAP)

There's an oak tree leaning towards the creek
And a willow is dead on its side
There's a perfect place for a garden
Where somebody has already tried

Look there, there's a part of a porch
That we can build up from
We just need some nails and paint
It's all burned out from the sun

This could be our home baby
This could be our home
This could be our home baby
This could be our home

We could cut down all of the barbed wire
And put up some kind of a gate
You know we've got to shed some blood
If you want to lock up your love and
Tie up your fate

Can you feel it baby
How the planets are aligned
Well I hope you wrote the number down
When we rolled past that sign

This could be our home baby
This could be our home
This could be our home baby
This could be our own
All we need is just a little love
This could be our home baby
This could be our home

In the heart of this land
This is a lost and broken soul
It's looking for love
And baby, it's dying for a home

This could be our home baby
This could be our home

www.noellehampton.com

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Grace
Cindy Alexander
Cindy Alexander, ©2005 JamCat Publishing (BMI)

So long my unfairweather friend
I leave you here
Under the cloud where the sidewalk ends

My misery your company
We fit so well
My need to please you self esteem
So give back the hand
Of someone you can't stand

When I fall into peace, into place
When I'm in love, and in light, and in grace
You - you don't like me this way
So I say

So long my unfairweather friend
I'm all filled up
Your solace in my sadness ends

You make amends, I make
A mirror to your soul
The way from here is getting clearer
I gotta go

Some day I pray
You'll smile for my sake

When I fall into peace, into place
Into love, into light, into grace
But you - you don't like me this way
So I can't stay

There's no wrong or right
It's not black and white
I know you can't se it now
But I found color in my life

Yes I fell into peace, into place
And I'm in love, I'm in light, I'm in grace
And God, I really love me this way
So I say
I hope you fall into peace, into place
That you're in love and in light, and in grace
You know, I love you anyway
But I can't stay

So long my unfairweather friend

www.cindyalexander.com

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Mocking Bird
Megan Slankard
Megan Slankard, ©2002 Megan Slankard

If I were a mocking bird
I'd mock you
In soft winds
And silent words
I'd spot you
Like snow blushing in the sunlight
And I'd melt you
Like morning into twilight

If I were a mocking bird
Would you chain me
In view of the endless sky world
From the window 
Wind reaches, desperate, through the
Cage bars
To seize me
And I'd die in your arms
But not your heart
If it please you

Fire flies and so do I
I fly high to hide in flight
Why, I delight in blue sky
It's almost like dying

Mocking bird
I'd fly all around
Top of the world
And never come down
From here

If I were a mocking bird
I'd give you feathers
And my very own blood
And other treasures
Which you keep on your dresser at night
In corner darkness
By the candle that you never light
Though it be moonless

Fire flies, so do I
I fly to hide in flight
Why, I delight in blue sky
It's so much, so much like dying

Against the tide
I'd fly all around
With the wind
And never come down
From here

Fire flies, so do I
I fly high to hide in flight
I delight in windy sky
It's almost so much like dying
Fire flies, so do I
I fly high to ride like kites
Why, I delight in blue sky
It is almost so much like dying

If I were a mocking bird
I'd fly all around
To the top of the world 
And never come down 
From here

www.meganslankard.com

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Calling You Home
Heather Murphy
Heather Murphy, ©2002 Heather Murphy Music

This is a song I send out to the distant mountains
This is a song I send to every sea
My voice will carry in and out of every corner
This sound will travel through every quaking tree

This is a song where I will set my own intention
To create the life that I was meant to lead
And I will stand up and embrace my own true power
To reveal my heart, and call you here to me

'Cause I know, now, just exactly how I want to be touched and
I know, now, how I want you to look into my eyes and
I know, now, what it means to rest myself in your arms and
I know, now, that I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready&ldots;for you

Through the passing of these times we've learned our lessons
To live in truth and with integrity
To always search for love and move with clear intention
And always bathe our souls in beauty

But now I think it's time we let go of this solo journey
It's time we rest our aching feet
I think we've learned enough to hold ourselves and each other up
And now it's time that our two paths should meet

'Cause I know, now, just exactly how I want to be touched and
I know, now, how I want you to look into my eyes and
I know, now, what it means to rest myself in your arms and
I know, now, that I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready&ldots;for you

And you will hear this the wind
And you will feel this in the rain&ldots;in the rain

Now's the time when I will ask you to remember
A distant memory of a life with me
For I am sure that we have walked this path before together
And I am sure that my heart holds the key

So let your body listen to the rushing rivers
And let your soul shine through with clarity
And feel the message surging through the ground you walk on 
As it rises up, and calls you back to me

'Cause I know, now, just exactly how I want to be touched and
I know, now, how I want you to look into my eyes and
I know, now, what it means to rest myself in your arms and
I know, now, that I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready&ldots;for you
I'm calling you home to me&ldots;I'm calling you home

www.heathermurphy.org

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Darla
Eleisha Eagle
Eleisha Eagle, ©2004 Eleisha Eagle

Darla,
Slow down.
Take a deep breath.
Call someone who you know and trust.
You will not last out on the street with a stranger know only as Joseph.
I know it's tough but you can do it. 

Straighten your barette.
On your mark, get set, go - home, runaway
Go home, runaway.

You're not the first to look for yourself under exploited city lights.
And you're not the last to realize it's dark. 
Possibly worse than all the silly fights.
I know I'm right and you can do it.

Straighten your barette. 
On your mark, get set, go - home, runaway.
Go home, runaway.
Darla, you've run so far away.
And everyone is missing you. 
Everyone is missing you, Darla. 
Go home, runaway. 
Go home

www.eleishaeagle.com

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Hold On
Denise Barbarita
Denise Barbarita, ©2001 MyShyTune Publishing (BMI)

Everybody needs some time to hurt
Acceptance of the soul's pain
Appreciate when all falls into place
Count your blessings, honey, one by one

Try to rest, give yourself some time to breathe
Nothing wanted comes easily
Give it time and don't start giving up
Well, what if "my time' never comes

I'm just disheartened, losing sleep
Take me to my safe place
Wrapped in daddy's arms while
He says I can do anything

Just hold, hold on - just a little longer
Somebody save me
Just hold, hold on - just a little longer
Can you catch me if I fall, he said, "always"

How can I explain this constant pull
The want of letting go
My own soul tries to run off on her own
Without a body to keep herA warm
Who am I to think I can change the world
All I offer is a song
A string of words for the ragged worn and thin
Don't we all hunger for sympathy?

Scratching clawing gnawing on the bone of my existence
If I can make a meal from scraps and shreds
I can do anything

www.myshytune.com

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(Can I) Please Come Home
Katie Terrio
Katie Terrio, ©2005 Julayla Music/Overground Music (ASCAP)

I've got my feet in some six-deep feelings,
Some strapped-up dealings
And a car crash.
I've got my hands in a muddy feeling,
A strip-tease feeling and a fever.
I like my eyes when I sort of see things,
When I see through ceilings and a meltdown.
I like my eyes when I start to see things, 
When I start to burn you like a fire.

Can I please come home to see you?
Can I please come home to stay/today?

I wish I had some six-gun feelings,
Some really big tires,
And a speedbump.
And if the car goes dumb and it stalls me,
I can keep moving on the road. 
I can keep on moving just to find you.

Chorus

www.katieterrio.com

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This Time Around
Michelle Lewis
Music by Michelle Lewis and Michael Shorr, words by Michelle Lewis
©2004 Michelle Lewis Music (ASCAP)

Flying down a partly spiral stairway
I wipe the hair back from my face
And I take one last look past my right shoulder
And I say goodbye to this place
I walk through the door and I will close it one last time
Got that look, not a smile not quite a frown
And if pain were my family then I guess I'm homeward bound
But I'm fine this time around
Yes I'm fine this time around

I drive down the highway in a slow lane car
But I'm passing people left and right
And I can picture your face inside the sun's orange glow
As I watch the day turn into night
And it's not the fact it was the wrong place and wrong time
Or that I lost the love we once had found
It's that I knew from the start of this it never would work out
But I'm fine this time around
Yes I'm fine this time around

And I don't know why I've these delusions in my mind
Of fairytales built once upon a time
And I can't figure out what all this misery's about
But I'll be fine
this time

Going down going down
Going down without a sound
As I watch my dreams all shatter to the ground
Going down going down
Silence never seemed so loud
Going down down down
Going down down down
But I'm fine
this time
Said I'll be fine
this time
I'll be fine
this time
around.

www.michellelewismusic.com

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Come Home
Yvonne Perea
Yvonne Perea, ©2002 Yvonne Perea

I know I haven't been the best friend I could've been,     
I know I've let you down so many times   
Look what our lives have become, 
Pages of things undone, 
I promise I'll make it all up to you soon

And this life that we have is not over just yet  
And this love that we share is holding on by a thread,
Forgive me, forgive me
I know that I'm better than this

     When your heart ain't so angry, you can come home
     When your love ain't so restless, you can come home
     I know you will see me, and you will be home

I have been able to find some sort of peace in my mind.
I need you to open your heart to me
I know that it's hard to believe, 
I know you want to wait and see, 
But I love you more now than I ever have

And my arms are not reaching that far anymore, 
I need you to meet me in the middle of this war, 
I'll hold you I promise you will be safe from now on

     When your heart ain't so angry, you can come home
     When your love ain't so restless, you can come home
     I know you will see me, and you will be home

www.yvonneperea.com

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All I Want This Year Is Peace
Anne Deming
Anne Deming, ©2005 Anne Deming (ASCAP)

Anne was inspired to write this song for this compilation after listening to the Home CD.  She was recognized as an "International Poet of Merit" for 2005-2006 by the International Society of Poets for the lyrics.


All I want this year is peace
No wars to fight, no mouths to feed
My heart is heavy with sorrow from the earth
Blessed mother, let us not forget your worth
 
All I wish for you this year is love
Strong arms to hold you, a future to dream of
I'll pray each day your sunny skies stay blue
Blessed child, I wish all of this for you
 
All I have to give this year is joy
For every child, every girl every boy
We promise to protect you, this is my gift to you
A future full of laughter and tears but a few
 
In troubled times
In darkest hours
We turn to the light
With hopeful hearts
With open arms
We ask for peace tonight
 
All I want this year is peace
A world of sharing with no more greed
Free of poverty and circumstance
The children of the world deserve a better chance
www.annedeming.com

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What's It Gonna Take
Katie Reider
Katie Reider, ©2004 KRM Records

You want to reach me
You don't know how
My door is open for you
your heart is angry
I can see right through you
But that's no the way to get to me

So, what's it gonna take
To get you back to the middle
What's it gonna take to get right through you
What's it gonna take to make
Your heart the way it loves to be
What's it gonna take for you

I know you're angry, I know you're hurting
But you got to let it go, you got to let it go
Your heart is searching for the one thing
That I know that can help you, help you

So, what's it gonna take to get you
Back to where you know you should be
What's it gonna take to let it go
What's it gonna take to bring the 
Love back to your heart, well
I want to know, I want to know
I want to know what'll set you free

So let it go, reach down into your soul
And why don't you give it up
Quit trying to hold on
Let it go, reach down into your soul
And why don't you give it up and
Find the one thing that makes you whole

www.katiereider.com

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With Our Hands
Edie Carey
Edie Carey, ©2003 Accidental Poet Productions (BMI)

This all started with our hands
Underneath a table and I couldn't concentrate
I don't even think I heard tha bad
Cuz everything in me kept saying
Maybe you're too late

But you love me still
Anyone could see you felt broken
Yeah, you loved me still
Anyone could see it, yeah

The best revenge is a new song
And lord knows we both had no shortage of those
But you can only harvest heartache for so long
It's getting to the point I just want a safe place to go

So I love you still
Anyone could see my heart was reeling
Yeah I loved you still
Anyone could see it, yeah

Now you say you want to be responsible
You don't want to one day have to take it all back
Do you really think that I'm that breakable?
And baby you know I hate that you see me like that

Will you love me still?
Anyone could see my heart is reeling
Will you love me still?
Anyone could see it, yeah

www.ediecarey.com

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Halfway Home
Antara & Delilah
Antara Blasius, ©1999 AntDeli Music

I'm gonna go for a drive
Across the Mohave
Let the sun try to beat me back
It's a bridge, a leg of this journey
An essential part of my path

Chorus
And I'll drive this molten highway
And I'll stall again and again
But when I see that cool horizon
I'll know I'm halfway home

They say that the start is the hardest
When a child is left behind
As this road turns into a lifetime
There are fewer mileage signs

Chorus
And I feel like a world explorer
Lost at sea in the eye of a storm
But when I see that blue horizon
I'll know I'm halfway home

No matter what direction
Toward the mountains or the sea
This road is heading homebound
Wherever home may be

Repeat Chorus I

www.antdeli.com

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Coming Back Home
Carey Colvin
Carey Colvin, ©2005 Carey Colvin/Raspberry Sun Music® (BMI)

For Summer Barrow

You've been gone so long, seems longer than it's really been
I don't know what went wrong, but I can't wait to have you home again
You were so lost to me; you were so far away
We couldn't find common ground or too much to say

     You're coming back home, where I want you to be
You're coming back home, and I know there's uncertainty
You're coming back home, you're coming back home to me

We had our differences, and you know we always will
All of the consequences, baby, they won't go away until
You turn your mind around and you make the choice
To turn your life around and raise your voice

     You're coming back home, where I want you to be
You're coming back home, but I want you to see
You're coming back home, you're coming back home to me

Don't let the past whisper to you,
Don't let the ghosts come through your door
Don't let the echoes haunt you any more

Come back home where you want to be
You're coming back home, I know there's uncertainty
You're coming back