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The Middle Ages - Mary Chapin Carpenter



     
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Looking back is not the same as looking forward
You can't see what it is you're heading toward
All that's visible is what's left behind
The dreams distilled and the dreams discarded
What made you leap or left you empty hearted
In the moment and in the fullness of timeNow you see what it is that you would have changed if only you'd known
Where you'd be and to be here is very strange waking up alone
In the middle agesAll along you paid close attention
To the answers when a voice asked the question
How'd you get here, where do you belong
17 makes us brave and so full of nerve
35 makes us pause but we're undeterred
Never say die and so we push onAnd some come to a place of reckoning try to fix what they find
I arrived with the questions still beckoning in the back of my mind
To the middle agesNow you bitch about your job what's wrong with folks today
The price of gas and milk and the guy who begs for change
He's camped out at the light you hide behind your shades
And will the green to flash to speed your getaway

You're racing to keep up or just to be on time
That's what you tell yourself when the emptiness inside
Threatens to break out clouding up your eyes you just have to pull overWe used to dread lives rendered ordinary
We always said we'd own a grander story
But the only kind worth telling somehow
Is the one about a jolt that makes you listen
That jagged lightning bolt of recognition
That love and kindness are all that matter nowAnd way back in the back of your mind you heard something getting through
Like some beautiful passage without words welcoming you to the middle ages
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Mary Chapin Carpenter (born February 21, 1958 in Princeton, New Jersey) is a highly successful country music singer-songwriter and guitarist. According to Songfacts, Carpenter had a fairly privileged upper middle class upbringing. Her father was at least partly responsible for her embarking on a musical career. The song "House of Cards" was inspired by the divorce of her parents when she was sixteen.

One of her most widely known singles is "Passionate Kisses" (written by fellow singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams), a song with a rock flavor musically and lyrics listing simple desires such as "a comfortable bed", "food to fill me up", and "time to think". Another big hit was "Down At The Twist And Shout", which she performed in January 1997 at Super Bowl XXXI in New Orleans.

A number of Mary Chapin Carpenter's songs speak to women, urging them on through hard times or troubled relationships. In "He Thinks He'll Keep Her", co-composed by Carpenter and Don Schlitz, the singer makes the case for strength and self-respect. Another common theme in her music is that of taking life at your own pace, rather than rampant goal-driven materialism, such as "The Long Way Home" from her 2001 album Time*Sex*Love, which pokes fun at a man who "retire(s) at thirty to his big-ass house next to the putting green." The album has a relatively different feel musically, incorporating elaborate orchestra melodies, but with her characteristic lyrical depth.

Her album Between Here And Gone, was released in 2004.

Carpenter's most recent album, The Calling, released on March 6, 2007 by Rounder records' rock/pop imprint Zoë, features commentary about contemporary politics, a reaction to the impact of Hurricane Katrina on a track entitled "Houston," and an incendiary track entitled "On With The Song", dedicated to the Dixie Chicks, and addressing the visceral reaction to the trio.

In less than three months after its release, The Calling sold more than 100,000 copies in the US.

Carpenter has won five Grammy Awards: Best Female Country Vocal Performance for 1991 through 1994, and also Best Country Album for 1994.


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