Before And After Lyrics - Before & After - Carrie Newcomer

The dust settles after a hit and run 

Bewildered by the damage done 

I don't know why we chose the roads we travel 

Or how a life could get so unraveled 

[Chorus: x2] 

We live our lives from then until now 

By the mercy received and the marks on our brow 

To my heart I'll collect what the four winds will scatter 

And frame my life into before and after 

Once a trick of light made me believe 

A red fire was blazing from every tree 

We held hands as the evening gathered 

I forgave myself for what I didn't ask her 

I once saw the sky filled with falling stars 

Bumped my head in the dark and it left a scar 

Held on too tight before I let it go 

Then forgave myself for what I didn't know 

I've stretched my soul over fifty states 

I have lived on fumes and religious cornflakes 

And once I dreamt my shoe had grown thin and battered 

And forgave myself for what didn't matter 

God said Cain where is your brother 

And who will tell his grieving mother 

Jacob dreamt an angel called his name 

And he never was quite the same 

[Chorus]