Mirrors And Windows

“She says that her songs are true stories about real people, so it’s no surprise that her lyrics are so accessible and down-to-earth. The singer-songwriter seems to know both her subjects and her listeners intimately — a benefit of growing up in a small town (now a McLean resident, Taylor spent her childhood in South Carolina). “You’re in people’s faces a lot,” she says on her Web site. “That makes you look at the human situation very closely.” Dulcie Taylor is like everyone’s best friend — sweet, understanding and honest. On her second album, “Mirrors and Windows,” Taylor simplifies deep feelings and delivers them with an honest voice, always staying direct and unpretentious.”
Katy Hershberger/Washington Post

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BLACKBERRY WINTER (Taylor/Landau)

Cold spell started yesterday
Nearly freezing in the month of May
But Spring is still here, She hasn’t surrendered
She’ll come through this blackberry winter

Saw a fox down in the meadow
Looked like he was running for his life
Maybe he’s confused with the change in the weather
Wish I could tell him everything’s alright

Cold spell started yesterday
Nearly freezing in the month of May
But Spring is still here, She hasn’t surrendered
She’ll come through this blackberry winter

You and I are caught in some trouble
Feels like we’re running for our lives
If we don’t stand up and face it together
We can kiss our love goodbye

This old world will keep on turning
That old sun’s gonna rise and fall
Sometimes love can be surprising
Just when you think you’ve seen it all

Cold spell started yesterday
Nearly freezing in the month of May
But how we can love, let us remember
And come through our blackberry winter
Blackberry winter

MAYBE (Taylor)

Maybe our being lovers should’ve never been the plan
Maybe we just should feel it and not try to understand
Maybe the truth lies somewhere between
The things that we want and the things that we need

I’d wake up tomorrow and do it all again
Even if I knew I would lose in the end
Sometimes the pleasure is worth any pain
Worth any price

Maybe is a word for dreamers with their heads in the clouds
I’ve always wanted the feeling of love without a doubt
Maybe the truth lies somewhere between
The light of the day and the shadow of a dream

I’d wake up tomorrow and do it all again
Even if I knew I would lose in the end
Sometimes the pleasure is worth any pain
Worth any price

Maybe the truth lies somewhere between
Figuring it out, and just letting it be

I’d wake up tomorrow and do it all again
Even if I knew I would lose in the end
Sometimes the pleasure is worth any pain
Worth any price

SEABOARD TRAIN (Taylor)

She comes flying every night through town
So close her wings could touch the ground
How I love to hear her sing
Soprano through my dreams

Seaboard train, seaboard train
Won’t you carry me home, carry me home
Seaboard train, seaboard train
C’mon and carry me home

She comes flying in the middle of the night
Still a few hours to the morning light
I’m in this all night cafe
Watch her fly in and fly away

Seaboard train, seaboard train
Won’t you carry me home, carry me home
Seaboard train, seaboard train
C’mon and carry me home,
Carry me home, carry me home

People are hugging hello and goodbye
I can see the love they feel
Man with the baggage rolls past the taxis
Cabbies wait behind the wheel

I’m in this all night café
I hate to see her fly away

Seaboard train, seaboard train
Won’t you carry me home, carry me home
Seaboard train, seaboard train
C’mon and carry me home, carry me home
Carry me home

ICE MELTS (Taylor/Recupido)

Sitting here waiting for the rain to fall
Well, the weatherman, he promised yesterday
It won’t help, Lord knows it would surely take
A hurricane to wash this pain away

Off somewhere a lonesome nightbird’s calling
From the sound of him this song will be his last
It’s so quiet I hear the darkness falling
I can even hear the ice melt in my glass

Off somewhere I know you’re loving someone new
And my body aches as time goes crawling past
I will give your memory a good talking to
Just as soon as the ice melts in my glass

Off somewhere a lonesome nightbird’s calling
From the sound of him this song will be his last
It’s so quiet I hear the darkness falling
I can even hear the ice melt in my glass

Off somewhere a lonesome nightbird’s calling
From the sound of him this song will be his last
It’s so quiet I hear the darkness falling
I can even hear the ice melt in my glass
I can even hear the ice melt in my glass

OUT OF MY BLOOD (Taylor/Landau)

Whenever I’m feeling strong I say that we’re through
But in the back of my mind I know it’s not true
I know you’re no good for me but still I stay
I can’t seem to find the strength to walk away

Heaven knows how hard I’ve tried
To give up on this one-sided love
Even if I say goodbye
I’ll never get you out of my blood
Never get you out of my blood

I could find another lover, somebody new
But every time we touched I’d wish he were you
It seems like I’m in a cage of solid steel
There is no escaping the way that I feel

Heaven knows how hard I’ve tried
To give up on this one-sided love
Even if I say goodbye
I’ll never get you out of my blood
Never get you out of my blood

Maybe someday I’ll do what I have to do
Maybe someday I’ll surprise you

I got to hand it to you, baby, you sure do know
How much is just enough to keep me on hold

Heaven knows how hard I’ve tried
To give up on this one-sided love
Even if I say goodbye
I’ll never get you out of my blood
Never get you out of my blood
Never get you out of my blood
Never get you out of my blood

THE WOMAN I USED TO BE (Taylor)

I want to see you face-to-face when I make my plea
You’ll find it harder to say no if you’re staring straight at me
You’re waiting in the full-length mirror
On the back of my bedroom door

Hey, in there, can you help me
I’m looking for the woman I used to be
The one who always forgave so easily
I’m looking for the woman I used to be

I had to come to you, please understand
If you can’t help me nobody can
It’s good of you to make this meeting
In the mirror on my bedroom door

Hey, in there, can you help me
I’m looking for the woman I used to be
The one who always laughed at life’s absurdities
I’m looking for the woman I used to be
I’m looking for the woman I used to be

She had a heart of gold
I don’t know if I could be that way again
To save my soul

Too many faces are swimming into view
They all look like me, I don’t know which to choose
Give a sign if you’re who I’m looking for
In this mirror on my bedroom door

Hey, in there, can you help me
I’m looking for the woman I used to be
The one who always knew just what to believe
I’m looking for the woman I used to be
I’m looking for the woman I used to be
What have you done with the woman I used to be

OTHER SIDE OF THE BED (Taylor)

I saw a man on television
Rcently, the interviewer told him
In the little time remaining
Could he share with everybody what he wanted
I got my answer ready should anybody ask
I know it by heart, I can even say it fast

A meal when I’m hungry
A fire when I’m cold
Good friends sharing the road
And you on the other side of the bed

Sometimes I have a nightmare
And I don’t know what is real and what I’m dreaming
Then I wake enough to realize
You’re there beside me, hear you breathing
I reach my foot out and find you with my toe
As soon as I touch you the fear inside me goes

You’re my meal when I’m hungry
The fire when I’m cold
You’re my good friend sharing the road
I got you on the other side of the bed

You’re not a man for talking much
But when you do the words are worth saying
Make me happy every morning
You’re the first thing I see when I’m waking
You are the mirror I look in and see
The woman I am, the woman I want to be

You’re my meal when I’m hungry
The fire when I’m cold
You’re my good friend sharing the road
I got you on the other side of the bed
I want you on the other side of my bed

PILLOW LIKE A STONE (Taylor)

You asked someone how I’m doing
Come by and see for yourself
Take one look in these haunted eyes
Then you’ll know that every night

I lay down in my bed and pray for sleep
And I ask the Lord to take from me this need
This burning desire for you and you alone
But my pillow feels like a stone

I had some friends to warn me
That you were trouble and pain
I could not hear them, now I find
Love made me deaf as well as blind

I lay down in my bed and pray for sleep
And I ask the Lord to take from me this need
This burning desire for you and you alone
But my pillow feels like a stone

Someday you’ll fall for somebody
Whose heart is crueler than yours
Some ruthless lover who’ll cut you down to size
Then I’ll know that every night

You lay down in your bed and pray for sleep
And you ask the Lord to take from you your need
Your burning desire for her and her alone
But your pillow feels like stone
Your pillow feels like a stone
Your pillow feels like a stone

MIRACLE (Taylor/Williams)

Friday night, southern town
A hard driving rain is coming down
My friends are here like they always are
Drinking in this noisy bar
Hoping somehow something’s going to change

Working hard to get a share
Will this job lead anywhere
Funny how it comes to this
Dreaming on and wondering if
Somehow something’s going to change

Everybody’s looking for a miracle
Everybody’s trying to catch a dream
Searching for someone to hold them through the night
Stumbling through the darkness
Looking for the light

Is it time to try another plan
Another job, another man
More each day I understand
Life is built on shifting sand
In a moment everything can change

Time to close, one more round
The rain, the crowd is slowing down
We laugh and drink and in our eyes
We show the cost of compromise
But there’s one thing that never seems to change
There’s one thing that never seems to change

Everybody’s looking for a miracle
Everybody’s trying to catch a dream
Searching for someone to hold them through the night
Stumbling through the darkness
Looking for the light

Everybody’s looking for a miracle
Everybody’s trying to catch a dream
Everybody’s looking for a miracle
Everybody’s trying to catch a dream

LOVE LIKE YOURS AND MINE (Taylor)

This world can break a body
Tear dreams apart
But deep in the darkest hour
A miracle can start

When I am old, darling
And dreaming back through time
I’ll still thank God for giving me
A love like yours and mine

You don’t take me for granted
You don’t try to hold me down
You want to see me happy
You love me the way I am

When I am old, darling
And dreaming back through time
I’ll still thank God for giving me
A love like yours and mine

When I am old, darling
And dreaming back through time
I’ll still thank God for giving me
A love like yours and mine