Diamond & Glass

“Dulcie Taylor’s “Diamond & Glass” has all the makings of a hardcore country album: tales of divorce, despair and death, along with occasional allusions to emotional abuse and reckless drinking. But Taylor, a Wammie-award-winning singer-songwriter, is more poet than honkytonker, and far too much of a romantic to let an album unfurl without conveying inspirational thoughts and comforting messages.”
Mike Joyce/Washington Post

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Corazon Frio(Cold Heart)

The sides of the mountain are so smooth and steep
Just like the sides of your heart
Nothing to catch me or to hold onto
Does my love leave any mark

Corazon frio, cold heart
What makes me love you still
Corazon frio, how can I get through
Freezing water that surrounds a frozen will

Tell me, my love, so I will understand
What has caused the change in your heart
Are we the victims of some evil spell
Cast to keep us apart

Corazon frio, cold heart
What makes me love you still
Corazon frio, how can I get through
Freezing water that surrounds a frozen will

Diamond & Glass

The men that I once loved
Came to see me in my dreams
Of one I asked forgiveness
And one asked it of me

The words we said stayed with me
Long after I awoke
In a world that’s never certain
Here are two sure things I know

I know love can cut like a diamond
I know love can shatter like glass
Love can cut like a diamond
Love can shatter like glass

I used to wish away
Some of the mistakes I had made
Thinking that would put me
In a better place

But now I know they showed me
What I need and what I don’t
They’re part of who I am
Taught me what I know

I know love can cut like a diamond
I know love can shatter like glass
Love can cut like a diamond
Love can shatter like glass

Everyday is an open story
Everyday with an open heart

Love can cut like a diamond
Love can shatter like glass
Love can cut like a diamond
Love, love, love can shatter like glass

Easy for you

I could feel it this morning in the air I breathed
Like a stillness just before the storm, ain’t gonna be easy for me
If I can pretend this is happening to someone else
I’ll get through this if I can fool myself

I don’t blame you, baby, for saying goodbye
If your heart isn’t in it, you surely got that right
I don’t blame you, baby, do what you have to do
It just seems so easy for you
Why is it so easy for you

I can tell by how you’re talking that your mind won’t change
And there’s a high wall around you holding back my pain
When I look in your face there’s nothing I see
Of the man who fell so in love with me

I don’t blame you, baby, for saying goodbye
If your heart isn’t in it, you surely got that right
I don’t blame you, baby, do what you have to do
It just seems so easy for you
Why is it so easy for you

Well I guess I never knew you like I thought I did
And the bond we had between us was mostly in my head
From now on what will hurt me so
You’ll just be someone I used to know
I don’t blame you, baby, for saying goodbye
If your heart isn’t in it, you surely got that right

I don’t blame you, baby, do what you have to do
It just seems so easy for you
Why is it so easy for you
Why is it so easy for you

Goodnight ‘Til Then

Late, late night, telephone ring
I hate that sound, I’m always scared of what it means
Across a long distance hum
A family voice is saying, “We need you to come home”

I rush to pack my clothes, I rush to catch a plane
Red-eye flight, take me back from where I came
Stare out the window at the dark night
Somewhere up ahead we’ll make the lights of home

Goodnight, Mother, angels sing you to your rest
I know you’re up there watching a ballgame
And smoking those cigarettes
When my time comes I know I’ll see you again
Goodnight ‘til then

The preacher reads a poem, we sing her favorite hymn
I draw so much comfort from the faces of her friends
Her love I depended on, I still can feel it
Even though she’s gone from home

Goodnight, Mother, angels sing you to your rest
I know you’re up there watching a ballgame
And smoking those cigarettes
When my time comes I know I’ll see you again
Goodnight ‘til then

Goodnight, Mother, angels sing you to your rest
Goodnight, Mother, angels sing you to your rest
Goodnight, Mother

I Don’t Know Anymore

I don’t know right from wrong anymore
I trust you, let the decisions be yours

It’s a sad situation
When a woman cries
And she can’t tell you
The reason for the tears

I don’t know right from wrong anymore
I trust you, let the decisions be yours

I wake after midnight
Running from dreams
I shine a light in the mirror
To show me who I am

I believe anyday now
I will see clearly once more
But until that morning
I need you like never before

I don’t know right from wrong anymore
I trust you, let the decisions be yours

God help the lonely
What do they do?
Those who have no one
To help them in the dark

I don’t know right from wrong anymore
I don’t know right from wrong anymore
I don’t know right from wrong anymore

I Have a Ring

The streets of home seem smaller now
Since my Mother passed away
In my dreams I hear her call me
Like the child I was yesterday
She and Daddy had three children
They were married twenty years
They were divorced when I was little
What is left now after the tears

I have a ring Daddy gave Momma
Back when their love was brand new
I have a ring Daddy gave Momma
As a promise to love her true

I used to wonder when I was growing
Why does a married couple part
Why don’t they just sit down together
Work it out and make a new start
Then I learned happy endings
Aren’t always in the cards
Now that I’m grown I understand it
Day-to-day can wear a heart

I have a ring Daddy gave Momma
Back when their love was brand new
I have a ring Daddy gave Momma
As a promise to love her true

Now I know happy endings
Aren’t always in the cards
Now that I’m grown I understand it
Day-to-day can wear a heart

I have a ring Daddy gave Momma
Back when their love was brand new
I have a ring Daddy gave Momma
As a promise to love her true
I wear a ring Daddy gave Momma
As a promise to love her true

It Ain’t Love

He says he loves you but he’s running around
You believe him ‘cause he’s beaten you down
It ain’t love, it ain’t love
He says he loves you but he’s never home
Even when he is you’re still alone
It ain’t love, it ain’t love

Love doesn’t mean you keep swallowing his lies
Or turning your head and closing your eyes

You’ve been drinking to help you through
Maybe the whiskey’s distorted your view
It ain’t love, it ain’t love
The bottle gets you anesthetized
When it wears off you still got the lies
It ain’t love, it ain’t love

Love doesn’t mean you keep taking the fall
Or day after day, spend it nailed to the wall

It makes me heartsore how little you’ll settle for
We each have only so much time

Unless he’s got a heart that’s true
Unless you feel it when he touches you
It ain’t love, it ain’t love
Unless he wants the best for you
Unless he holds you and cherishes you
It ain’t love, it ain’t love

Love’s open arms never turn you away
Love lifts you up and renews you everyday

Never Enough

She can’t get satisfaction
There’s nothing she can do
Her lover leaves her cold
Her husband does too

Where’s it gonna lead the girl
How’s it gonna end
She’s running, running into trouble
It’s always right around the bend

Never enough, never enough
Hold her and cry, tell her you’d lay down and die for her
It’s never enough, never enough

Everything is always first class
Completely guaranteed
But none of her silk possessions
Can give her what she needs

Money’s just a short diversion
It lets her down and then
She’s running, running into trouble
It’s always right around the bend

Never enough, never enough
With the world at her feet, she still feels incomplete
There’s never enough, never enough

But she can be an angel
When a friend needs a hand
But when people try to help her
Nobody can

She can’t get satisfaction
There’s nothing she can do
As soon as she catches up to one thing
Here comes something new
Attended by the best of doctors
It hasn’t helped her win
She’s running, running into trouble
It always right around the bend

Never enough, never enough
Can’t ever find any peace in her mind ‘cause there’s
Never enough, never enough
Hold her and cry, tell her you’d lay down and die for her
It’s never enough, never enough
Never enough

Sometimes Love Ain’t Enough

There are long stretches of time
When I forget you were ever mine
Then some scene plays in faded light
Grainy film in black and white

But the story and the message are perfectly clear
Sometimes love ain’t enough
Sometimes love ain’t enough

Full of hope, full of dreams
We were sure love was all we’d need
So alike in so many ways
Then so far apart which such hell to pay

And the story and the message still ring in my head
Sometimes love ain’t enough
Sometimes love ain’t enough

And the story and the message are perfectly clear
The story and the message still ring in my head
Sometimes love ain’t enough
Sometimes love ain’t enough
Sometimes love ain’t enough

Spirit of Love

Two long years of a hit and miss romance
Two long years afraid to give myself a chance
The spirit of love knew my heart was in disguise
The spirit of love finally made me realize
You’re the one who assures my soul
Passing through the fire we’ve proven gold
Together

Sometimes the words don’t come like I want them to
Sometimes words can’t approach what I feel for you
You got the power to make a frozen love revive
You got the power to keep a fading heart alive
You’re the one who can spell my time
Goodbye sorrow nevermind
Forever

Two long years of a hit and miss romance
Two long years afraid to give myself a chance
The spirit of love can turn a mountain on its side
The spirit of love can help a dying soul survive
You’re the one and you’ll always be
Rocking my time, you and me
Together

Spirit of love, spirit of love
Spirit of love, spirit of love
Spirit of love, spirit of love
Spirit of love

When the Cherokee Roamed

Columbus sailed the ocean blue
He was looking for gold and a trading route
The Miami skyline was nothing but trees
On Manhattan island the deer ran free

When the Cherokee roamed this land, no man owned this land
Back when the rain didn’t burn the trees
Before the settlers’ greed and fear drove them down the Trail of Tears
Back when the Cherokee roamed

I would love to have seen one hundred whooping cranes
Spreading their wings and calling their name
And the Raton Pass on the Santa Fe Trail
Before the robber barons laid those gleaming rails

When the Cheyenne roamed this land, no man owned this land
Back when the rain didn’t burn the trees
Before Custer’s foolish stand, before cars and aluminum cans
Back when the Cheyenne roamed

I call on my phone, drive my car
Play my radio, my VCR
They haven’t come cheap, we’ve paid a high cost
So much beauty, has been forever lost

When the Sioux roamed this land, no man owned this land
Back when the rain didn’t burn the trees
Before their dreams of staying free died at Wounded Knee
Back when the Sioux roamed

When the Cherokee roamed this land
No man owned this land

You & Me

This can’t be you and me
Paying a third party
To help us put our hearts back together again

This can’t be you and me
Hoping a total stranger
Can help us get across this ocean of pain

Talk, talk, analyze
Who did what and why
Talk, talk, talk, deny
Cry, cry

If we don’t get it
If we don’t learn how to hold on
We’ll have to learn how to let go

Talk, talk, analyze
Who did what and why
Talk, talk, talk, deny
Cry, cry

We go in circles
Saying the same thing over and over
Then end up where we started, still apart

If we don’t get it
If we don’t learn how to hold on
I’ll have to learn to live with a hole in my heart

This can’t be you and me
This can’t be you and me
This can’t be you and me
This can’t be you and me