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Johnny Cash - Hurt 

 

A wonderful performance of Johnny Cash, maybe the last before he died in 2003.

The video for the song is generally recognized as "his epitaph".

The lyrics:

I hurt myself today

To see if I still feel

I focus on the pain

The only thing that's real

The needle tears a hole

The old familiar sting

Try to kill it all away

But I remember everything

[Chorus]

What have I become

My sweetest friend

Everyone I know

Goes away in the end

And you could have it all

My empire of dirt

I will let you down

I will make you hurt

I wear this crown of thorns

Upon my liars chair

Full of broken thoughts

I cannot repair

Beneath the stains of time

The feelings disappear

You are someone else

I am still right here

[Chorus]

And you could have it all

My empire of dirt

I will let you down

I will make you hurt

If I could start again

A million miles away

I will keep myself

I would find a way

Video hit Sunny Sweeney

Sunny Sweeney - Staying's Worse Than Leaving

"Staying's Worse Than Leaving" is the title of a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Sunny Sweeney. It was released in May 2011 as the second single from her album Concrete.

Sweeney wrote the song with Radney Foster and Jay Clementi.

The song's female narrator describes being in a failed relationship that has gone on for quite some time, because she felt like staying was easier ("Leaving's hard / Trust me it's really bad"). Although she acknowledges that the best option she can do at this point is walk away, because she knows that "staying's worse than leaving.

Music video

The music video, which was directed by Roman White, premiered on CMT on May 19, 2011. In the video, Sweeney and her husband are shown walking around their spacious home separately, both appearing distraught; Sweeney tears up, and the man frequently wrings his hands. At the end of the video, the two finally come together to sleep in the same bed.

The lyrics:

Leaving's hard...trust me, it's really bad

It'll shake ya, damn-near break ya, it always has

You don't go until you're praying to break even,

Until staying's worse than leaving

God knows we tried everything that we could do

You can keep your pride and blame me if you need to

Even though this freedom feels a lot like treason,

I know staying's worse than leaving

It's gotta get better, it can't get worse

Hope it's a blessing not a curse

I don't care who passes judgement on my reasons

I know staying's worse than leaving

It's gotta get better, it can't get worse

Hope it's a blessing not a curse

I don't care who passes judgement on my reasons

I know staying's worse than leaving

Both our hearts let go a long time ago

Words leave scars and Lord knows they heal slow

Our love died but somehow we are both still breathin'

I just hope someday we'll look back on this grievin'

and say, staying's worse than leaving

Yeah, that staying's worse than leaving

Yeah, that staying's...

...worse than leaving

Video hit Kellie Pickler

Kellie Pickler - Ring For Sale

This humorous story of love gone bad was penned by Jim Beavers and Chris Stapleton.

Kellie delivers line after line on the album The Woman I Am with palpable feeling and rich emotion. Belting it out on the swampy “Ring For Sale,” Kellie sings, I’ll throw in the dress for free, with fire when looking to get rid of a cheating man’s engagement ring.

"A girlfriend from home is going through this as we speak," Pickler told The Hollywood Reporter. "She had asked me in the middle of her whole divorce thing what she should do with the ring and I said, 'Sell it and go do something nice for yourself; I think you have earned that right considering what he has done.' So I heard that song and I played it for her and it made her smile. So I thought, I'm going to cut this for my friend. And when I sing it, I am going to be thinking of her, even though it's written in first person."

The lyrics:

Well he went down to the jewelry store and he signed his life away

I said yes and just like that he went from boyfriend to fiance'

Well I found out he been running around with a low class Jezebel

Now he's got a monthly payment and I got a ring for sale

I got a ring for sale

It's yellow gold with a princess diamond

I got a ring for sale

And I'm gonna let it go real cheap

I got a ring for sale

A blue box with the velvet on and

I gotta get out fore he finds out

And I'll throw in the dress for free

Well I thought about taking the highway and I thought about giving it back

And then I thought about all of them lowdown things that he's been doing behind my back

Now he can stop by and apologize if he thinks that's gonna help

But he's got another thing coming 'cause I got a ring for sale

I got a ring for sale

It's yellow gold with a princess diamond

I got a ring for sale

And I'm gonna let it go real cheap

I got a ring for sale

A blue box with the velvet on and

I gotta get out fore he finds out

And I'll throw in the dress for free

Well I'll burn the invitations, return the decorations

Took the hold off the Baptist church

I love to hit him so I'm gonna hit him

And I'll hit him right where it hurts

I'm gonna hit him right where it hurts

I got a ring for sale

It's yellow gold with a princess diamond

I got a ring for sale

And I'm gonna let it go real cheap

I got a ring for sale

A blue box with the velvet on and

I gotta get out fore he finds out

And I'll throw in the dress for free

I gotta get out fore he finds out

And I'll throw in the dress for free

I got a ring for sale

Video hit Randy Rogers Band

Randy Rogers Band - One More Sad Song

The Randy Rogers Band is an American Texas Country group from the state of Texas. The band is composed of Randy Rogers (lead vocals), Geoffrey Hill (guitar), Jon Richardson (bass guitar), Brady Black (fiddle), and Les Lawless (drums).

They have recorded four studio albums and two live albums, and have charted seven singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. 

Randy Rogers was born in Cleburne, Texas. At the age of 6 years, he learned to play the piano from his grandmother, and later started playing the guitar.

The Randy Rogers Band recorded its debut album, Live at Cheatham Street Warehouse, at a music hall of the same name in San Marcos, Texas.

By 2002, the band was signed to the independent Downtime record label, on which they released the album Like It Used to Be

It was around this time that the band began performing outside of San Marcos, primarily at Nutty Brown Cafe and Amphitheatre in nearby Dripping Springs, Texas.

Two years later, the album Rollercoaster was released, producing two minor entries on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts in early 2005.

Rogers also co-wrote "Somebody Take Me Home", a song recorded by Kenny Chesney, on his 2005 album, The Road and the Radio. Several of the songs on Rollercoaster were co-written by Radney Foster, who also co-produced the album.

Just a Matter of Time, the band's first major-label album, was released on Mercury Nashville Records in 2006.

The band also released their self-titled album on September 23, 2008, also on Mercury Nashville Records. The first single "In My Arms Instead", was released in August.

The band's fifth album, Burning the Day, was released on August 24, 2010 on MCA Nashville. The album's first single was "Too Late for Goodbye." It debuted at 55 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and after four weeks on the chart, it peaked at 47.

"One More Sad Song" was released in late 2012.

The song became the band's first Billboard Top 40 hit, and the first single from their sixth album, Trouble.

The lyrics:

We're on a road to nowhere

I don't know how we got there

Some wrong turn somewhere

Maybe I just stopped trying

There's just no justifying and now we're dying

I can tell which way that you're leaning

Don't know what it is but I got a feelin'

You're almost all gone

I'm scared that when you start believing

You and me, baby, will end up being

One more sad song

How will I live without you?

Who will I be in these shoes?

Once I've lost all that I can lose

Even if you forgave me

I don't know if I could make it

But that's our whole problem, maybe

I can tell which way that you're leaning

Don't know what it is but I got a feelin'

You're almost all gone

I'm scared that when you start believing

You and me, baby, will end up being

One more sad song

About someone who had it all

Let it all go wrong

I can tell which way that you're leaning

Don't know what it is but I got a feelin'

You're almost all gone

I'm scared that when you start believing

You and me, baby, will end up being

One more sad song

I can tell which way that you're leaning

Don't know what it is but I got a feelin'

You're almost all gone

I'm scared that when you start believing

You and me, baby, will end up being

One more sad song

Video hit Radney Foster

Radney Foster - Nobody wins

"Nobody Wins" is a song recorded by American country music musician Radney Foster, cowritten by himself and Kim Richey.

It was released in January 1993 as the second single from his debut album Del Rio, TX 1959.

The song is the highest-peaking single of his career, spending twenty weeks on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts and peaking at number 2.

Radney Foster said: “I wrote this song with my friend Kim Richey, on her back porch on a beautiful sunny spring day. I drove up a little late because my wife and I had had a big fight the night before, and I’d gotten very little sleep. When I confessed my excuse, Kim said that she and her boyfriend had a fight the night before as well. I said, “It’s awful. Nobody ever wins in that deal.” And she said, “’Nobody Wins’ is a song title.” And I said, “Well, that’s what we’re writing today.

This was one of the easiest tracks to nail when we recorded, because everyone in the band really knew the song. I had sent them all the songs in advance, but once we got there most everyone confessed they either knew the song as a kid or played it in cover bands. It all fell right into place.”

The lyrics:

You said this ain't over yet

I've said things that I'll regret

Won't be easy to forget

Scars take time to heal

Before another bitter word gets used

I was hoping we could call a truce

'Cause nobody wins, we both lose

Hearts get broken and love gets bruised

When we light that same old fuse

Again and again

Nobody wins, slammin' doors

We both lost this fight before

And I won't play that game no more

'Cause nobody wins

Darlin', we got too much pride

It don't matter whose wrong or right

Honey, love ain't black and white

It's the way I feel bout you

All I want to do is hold you tight

I can't take another angry night

Nobody wins, we both lose

Hearts get broken and love gets bruised

When we light that same old fuse

Again and again

Nobody wins, slammin' doors

We both lost this fight before

And I won't play that game no more

'Cause nobody wins

I know something's 'bout to break if we don't bend

Baby, what's it gonna take

Nobody wins, we both lose

Hearts get broken and love gets bruised

When we light that same old fuse

Again and again

Nobody wins, slammin' doors

We both lost this fight before

And I won't play that game no more

'Cause nobody wins

Nobody wins, nobody wins

Nobody wins

Video hit Reba McEntire feat. Kenny Chesney

Reba McEntire feat. Kenny Chesney - Every Other Weekend

Every Other Weekend is a duet by American country music artists Reba McEntire and Kenny Chesney, recorded on the former's 2007 album Reba: Duets.

The song, written by Skip Ewing and Connie Harrington, is the third and final single from the album.

When shipped to radio, Chesney's vocals were replaced with Ewing's, although for most of its chart run the song was not credited to either duet partner.

"Every Other Weekend" is a mid-tempo ballad backed by piano and a string section. It alternates between the male and female duet partners, who take the roles of a divorced couple that share custody of their children and exchange them "every other weekend". Despite the fact that they are divorced, both characters state that they still love each other but are unable to tell each other in front of their children.

This song is about a divorced couple who every other weekend trade off the kids. The couple still wishes that they where together, and for 15 minutes they feel like a family again.

In the music video, Joanna García and Steve Howey, who were Cheyenne and Van Montgomery on the hit TV show Reba, play the roles as the two parents after the show had ended.

This was written by Skip Ewing and Connie Harrington. Ewing is also a singer, and duets with Reba on the single version of this song, singing from the perspective of the father. For the album, Kenny Chesney sang the father's part.

Music video

The music video was filmed in early June 2008, in Los Angeles, California.

The video was directed by Roman White and features Joanna García and Steve Howey, both of whom starred in McEntire's sitcom Reba as Cheyenne and Van, respectively.

Chesney and Ewing do not appear in the video, although Chesney's recording is used. The video debuted on July 8, 2008.

The lyrics:

Every other Friday

It's toys and clothes and backpacks

Is everybody in? Okay, let's go see Dad

Same time in the same spot

Corner of the same old parking lot

Half the hugs and kisses, they are always sad

We trade a couple words

And looks and kids again

Every other weekend

Every other weekend, very few exceptions

I pick up the love we made in both my arms

It's movies on the sofa

Grilled cheese and cut the crust off

But that's not the way Mom makes it

Daddy breaks my heart

I miss everything

I used to have with her again

Every other weekend

I can't tell her I love her

(I can't tell him I love him)

'Cause there's too many questions

And ears in the car

So I don't tell him I miss him

(I don't tell her I need her)

She's over me, that's where we are

So we're as close as we might ever be again

Every other weekend

Every other Saturday, first thing in the morning

I turn the TV on to make the quiet go away

I know why, but I don't know

Why we ever let this happen

Fallin' for forever was a big mistake

There's so much not to do

And all day not to do with him

Every other weekend

Every other Sunday I empty out my backseat

While my children hug their mother in the parking lot

We don't touch, we don't talk much

Maybe goodbye to each other

As she drives away with every piece of heart I got

I re-convince myself

We did the right thing

Every other weekend

I can't tell her I love her

(I can't tell him I love him)

'Cause there's too many questions

And ears in the car

So I don't tell him I miss him

(I don't tell her I need her)

She's over me, that's where we are

We're as close as we might ever be again

Every other weekend

Yeah, for fifteen minutes

We're family again

God, I wish that he was still with me again

Every other weekend

Video hit Billy Ray Cyrus

Billy Ray Cyrus - Change My Mind

Change My Mind is country singer Billy Ray Cyrus's thirteenth studio album and first on Blue Cadillac Music. It was released on October 23, 2012.

The album includes a re-recording of "I'm So Miserable", a cut from Cyrus' 1992 debut Some Gave All.

Co-producing the album with Brandon Friesen, Billy Ray wrote seven of the album’s 10 songs himself without outside influence. He’s also releasing the record on his own Blue Cadillac Music, a label he created with Friesen to launch the project. These decisions offer an idea about the amount of creative control Billy Ray has on Change My Mind, and the result is felt immediately in the urgency and ruggedness of the overall sound.

The album opener and lead-single “Change My Mind” draws its power from heavy guitars and thundering percussion as Billy Ray acknowledges the demons, singing, I’ve been talking to myself, low down in the mix. It’s more aggressive than anything he has ever released and the delivery comes off as more of a growl, stirring up images of clenched teeth. The first half of the album follows suit with some serious muscle as songs like “Once Again” and “Hillbilly Heart” revel in distortion and rock-oriented grooves. However, the sound stays just this side of Led Zeppelin as an incendiary fiddle screams on the former tune through standard country lyrics like, I feel my heart break once again. On “Hillbilly Heart,” a thick, swampy stomp rings loud as Billy Ray defends the musical direction, singing out, Lord, I love the guitar / Love to hear it loud / If you don’t like what you hear you should leave this crowd, with a laid-back drawl.

The lyrics:

I've been talkin' to myself

Thinkin' 'bout changing my mind

I've been talkin' to myself

Thought I put your memory high upon a shelf

Well, you know I said I'd forget you

You go away in time

But lately I've been thinking

And I'm thinkin' 'bout changing my mind

Change my mind, you, hoo, hoo

Change my mind, change my mind, woho-hoo

Well, I said I love you and then I said goodbye

I know I made you hapy and then I made you cry

If I promised you forever, then I told you a lie

But lately I've been thinkin'

And I'm thinkin' 'bout changing my mind

Change my mind, you, hoo, hoo

Change my mind, change my mind, woho-hoo

Change my mind

Thinkin' 'bout changing my mind

I've been talkin' to myself

Thought I put your memory high upon a shelf

Well, you know I said I'd forget you

You go away in time

But lately I've been thinking

And I'm thinkin' 'bout changing my mind

Change my mind, you, hoo, hoo

Change my mind, change my mind, woho-hoo

Oh, I'll change my mind

Video hit Gretchen Peters

Gretchen Peters - Breakfast At Our House (live)

Statistics show that almost 50% of marriages in the United States end in divorce.

As anyone who's been through it, or who knows anyone who's been through it, divorce is an ugly thing. Getting through one will strain the bounds of the human ability to cope.

Sometimes, coping with the seas that rage beneath the surface of a doomed marriage result in a situation that singer/songwriter Gretchen Peters describes as becoming "almost polite" with one another.

It's the gradual, subtle shutting down of emotions stemming from the death of communication where "there's too much anger, too much water under the bridge, too much pain" for the marriage to recover. She's been there. "I think the problem is that, if you're separating a relationship, usually one party gets to the realization first," says Peters.

"It's not usually arrived at simultaneously. I think the other thing I was really trying to get across in this song... there comes this point when you almost start to be polite with each other, because the situation is so strained and so strange. So you don't even have the intimacy left to fight. And that point I really wanted to try and get across. Because having been in the situation, I just thought, wow, this is so weird. You get to where you've lost so much intimacy that you even feel that sort of weird, distant kind of politeness."

Having experienced the struggle that sometimes accompanies songwriting, Peters says this song happened the other way around. It came on like a sudden storm. "It wasn't calculated. Actually, that song was one that really poured out, basically, in one sitting. It wasn't as though I sat down and thought, Hmmm, well, this is what I'm going to try to convey here. I mean, it just kind of came out. You know, one of those."

The lyrics:

this is how it is

no dramatic scenes

you read your morning paper

i read my magazine

happy weatherman

says we need the rain

but i don’t know what he’s thinking

it’s been coming down for days

and this brew is just too bitter

too strong for me to drink

gonna pour it down the drain right now

right down the kitchen sink

cold coffee in my cup

you turn the tv up

breakfast at our house

and this is how it is

and it’s no easy trick

we can promise what we want to

but we can’t make it stick

half a life ago

with this ring we wed

and now we’re sittin’ at this table

with the things we never said

but to come right out and say ‘em

would be rude and out of place

so I’ll keep it to myself I guess

but it’s written all across your face

burnt toast and offerings

that’s what the morning brings

breakfast at our house

so here’s to all the young boys, to all the fair haired girls

who ran away on honeymoons, who married in a whirl

whose pretty bed of roses feels like a bed of coals

who sit at breakfast tables and stare into their bowls

who had their dreams of love, but now they’re waking up

breakfast at our house

cold coffee in my cup, you turn the tv up

breakfast at our house

Video hit Court Yard Hounds

Court Yard Hounds - April's Love

Recording artists Court Yard Hounds, featuring Martie Maguire and Emily Robison of The Dixie Chicks, shoot an exclusive performance to debut their new CD for Degree Women Natureffects in Austin, Texas. Watch this video and check out their new song "April's Love."

Court Yard Hounds is the debut album by American country duo the Court Yard Hounds, founded as a side project of the Dixie Chicks by sisters Emily Robison and Martie Maguire.

The album was released on May 4, 2010 via Columbia Records.

It was mainly recorded in Maguire's home studio in Austin, and co-produced with Jim Scott (who was also the Grammy-winning sound mixer/engineer on the Dixie Chicks' latest album Taking the Long Way and Playlist: The Best of the Dixie Chicks).

The lyrics:

All the years I've gone through my life

Taking the fall just to make it alright

A time and place, never could erase

The day we met

You can't make me stay

I wouldn't anyway

'Cause it don't feel right

When it's said and done

You can't hold on to the light

If it don't feel right

Yeah, I'm OK, but I'm not the same

And I take it in stride

There's no way to lose, with pictures to prove

The lives we made

You didn't take a stand

You didn't hold my hand

You should have held on tight

When it's said and done

She's gonna run through the dead of night

If it don't feel right

Crimson pair, we could make 'em stare

Oh, but I slipped right down

I saw his face, all time erased

But that don't make it right

You've got a thousand lines

You're going overtime

Just to change my mind

With so much to prove

Babe you're on the move... it's a million miles

When it don't feel right

Video hit Bruce Robison

Bruce Robison - Angry All The Time

Bruce Robison insists that he was not agitated, bitter or even slightly cross when he wrote Angry All The Time.

Instead, the Texas-based singer/songwriter admits that his mood was more reflective than enraged.

The idea took shape as he thought of his divorced parents.

"Their divorce was maybe the most formative event of my childhood," Bruce explains. "I can remember thinking to myself, 'Why does everyone have to be so angry all the time?' But the song is not about that particular situation. What I always try to do is paint a picture that people will relate to from their own experience."

And the picture developed quickly. "When I sat down to write one day a few years ago, I started with a little melody I had in my mind," he recalls. "The song ended up being about a marriage breakup. It only took me about a half-hour to write it, once I had the framework."

Bruce recorded "Angry All The Time" for his 1996 self-titled debut album, as well as 1998's Wrapped, featuring his wife, Kelly Willis, on backing vocals. It caught on in alt-country circles in Austin, where Bruce has for years been a club fixture.

But when it captured the attention of Faith Hill, the doors to national success flew open.

Faith happened to be watching TV one evening when Bruce and Kelly's "Angry All The Time" video came on. She loved the tune and recommended it to husband Tim McGraw. Bruce, however, had no knowledge of this life-changing chain of events.

"Suddenly, I get a call in the middle of the night saying that Tim had recorded the song," he says, shaking his head in amazement. "I had no idea he was even looking at it. That's very unusual, because normally a song goes through different channels, and you know when an artist wants it months in advance."

Tim added backing vocals by Faith for the single, which climbed into the Top 5. "Her harmony is just heartbreaking," raves Bruce, who has just released his CD Country Sunshine. "I think they both did a wonderful job.

"A sad song like this might be a departure for them," Bruce continues, "but it's certainly not a departure for country music. I'm very gratified about what's happened with this song."

The lyrics:

Here we are

What is left of a husband and a wife

Four good kids

Who have a way, of getting on with their lives

I’m not old

But I’m gettin’ a whole lot older everyday

It’s too late to keep

From goin’ crazy I’ve got to get away

C H O R U S :

The reasons that I can’t stay

Don’t have a thing to do with being in love

And I understand that lovin’ a man

Shouldn’t have to be this rough

You ain’t the only one

Who feels like this world left you far behind

I don’t know why you gotta be

Angry all the time

Our boys are strong

A spittin’ image of you when you were young

I hope someday

They can see past, what you have become And I remember

Every time I said I’d never leave

What I can’t live with

Is memories of the way you used to be

C H O R U S :

Twenty years

Have came and went since I walked out of your door

I never quite

Made it back to the one I was before

And God it hurts me

To think of you For the light in your eyes was gone

Sometimes I don’t know why

This old world can’t leave well enough alone

C H O R U S :

I don’t know why you gotta be

Angry all the time 

Video hit Darius Rucker

Darius Rucker - All I Want (live)

Rucker penned this song with the American record producer and songwriter Frank Rogers ("I'm Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin' Song)"). He recalled on his record label's website: "After we wrote this, I said to Frank Rogers, 'Do you love your wife?' and he said, 'Yeah!' He said, 'Do you love your wife?' and I said 'Yeah!' You would think it was written by two guys who weren't too happy with their wives. When we first started dating, my wife thought every song I wrote was about us. When she heard this, I thought she was going to say, 'You want a divorce?' which is the last thing I want. By the time we got to 'Leave Me Alone' in the chorus, she was on the floor laughing. Often you can write a song and only realize a few days later what it's about. There were a lot of people around me going through divorce – that's what triggered the idea."

The lyrics:

Don't act surprised, it ain't like you didn't know

It's been a long long time coming and it's time for me to go

Tryin' to split things up could drive us crazy

So I'm gonna make this easy, baby

You can have the money, you can have the house

Take the Cadillac and that boat out back

And your mother's pink and yellow couch

You can have every penny that I'll make from this here song

Girl all I want you to leave me is alone

Don't get me wrong I will always love you, girl

You were my life you were my heart, you were my world

But we both know it's over, there's no need to fight it

Girl I just need some peace and quiet

So you can have the money, you can have the house

Take the Cadillac and that boat out back

And that ugly pink and yellow couch

You can have every penny that I will make from this here song

Girl all I want you to leave me is alone

You can have the money, you can have the house

Take the big screen and your diamond ring

And those shoes that you swore you couldn't live without

You can have every penny that I will make from this here song

Girl all I want you to leave me is alone

Girl all I need you to leave me is alone

Video hit Jennifer Hanson

Jennifer Hanson - '73

Jennifer Hanson told AOL Music the story behind this song: " '73 is my story. It really kind of wrote itself. I was home a few summers back, and I was looking at an old photo album of pictures me when I was little.

My parents got divorced when I was six years old, but I found this picture of me, my mom and my dad when I was just a couple months old, and it was amazing to me how happy and in love they looked, because I don't remember them that way.

And as I was looking through this photo album, I was kind of looking at my life unfolding before me: Once they got divorced, then it's me with my mom at Christmas time, and Christmas with my dad, and then my brother came along.

My dad went on to remarry and have two more children, and there were no pictures of the three of us together until I graduated from high school. And it just really put everything in perspective.

Like that one decision - them not staying together - changed the whole course of my life. But what I realized is I wouldn't have it any other way. I'm so grateful of I'm where I'm at. That's the path I was supposed to be on. And there are people that wouldn't be in my life had they stayed together, like my brother and my sister. I've been amazed how many people have responded to that song.

They come up to me and say, 'That's my story,' even though it's my story. They relate to it, because they've lived that, too. That's all you can hope to do as an artist and a writer is touch people."

The lyrics:

Southern California, standin' in the drive

A picture perfect moment, frozen in time

Mom holdin' dad, dad holdin' me in '73

There's me in that striped dress, beneath the Big Boy sign

Bottom of the Polaroid says fall of '79

Yeah, that's the night that Dad tried to explain to me

Why he had to leave

Everythin changes, hey, that's reality

Sometimes I wonder how all our lives would be

If they'd a stayed in love like they were in '73

Here's pictures openin' presents, December '83

Some with mom and some with dad, two different Christmas trees

And there's me and my new half brother

In his baby blue outfit, winter '86

Mom and I, we both survived those awkward teenage years

Graduation '91, dad flew back to be there

There's me in my cap and gown

Standin' between them, the three of us again

Everythin changes, hey, that's reality

Sometimes I wonder how all our lives would be

If they'd a stayed in love

Everythin changes, hey, that's reality

Sometimes I wonder how all our lives would be

If they'd 'a stayed in love like they were in '73

'73, '73, '73

Video hit Natalie Grant

Natalie Grant - In Christ Alone (Live)

Natalie Grant led worship at Sunset Christian Center in Rocklin, CA. She did an amazing job with this song called "In Christ Alone" by Stuart Townsend & Keith Getty.

Natalie Diane Grant (born December 21, 1971) is a singer-songwriter of contemporary Christian music. She received the Gospel Music Association's Dove Award for Female Vocalist of the Year four consecutive years (2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009), and again in 2012.

She was also nominated for a Grammy in 2012 for her performance of "Alive".

Her signature song is "Held".

Career

Natalie Grant first started in contemporary Christian music when she auditioned for the traveling music group Truth.

Later she moved to Nashville, Tennessee to pursue her solo career. There she signed with Benson Records in 1997 and began working on her self-titled debut which was released in 1999. She left Benson for Pamplin Music soon after and released the album Stronger in 2001. She then ended up at Curb Records after Pamplin folded, where she has made five solo albums as of 2012, starting with Deeper Life in 2003. Awaken was her breakthrough success, in 2005. It was RIAA certified gold. It was followed by Love Revolution on August 24, 2010 and Hurricane on October 15, 2013.

Grant released three albums between 1999 and 2003, although the majority of her hits came later in her career. She has since reported being unhappy with the way she was imaged by her early record label which marketed her partly on her looks, and says of her first record, "It wasn't me at all either." However, she credits her early albums with having been necessary to her progressing and growing into an artist that takes control of such decisions, starting with her first widely successful album, Awaken.

Another factor that was essential to her later successes was a life-altering trip to India in 2004. Not only did this trip inspire her charitable pursuits, "but it brought a new passion and direction to her music." Instead of focusing only on what song might be a hit, Grant reports that she now focuses on songs that will inspire, give hope, and motivate others to make their lives matter.

There have been other noteworthy events along the way. She wrote a book entitled The Real Me in 2005. She toured on the Speaking Louder Than Before tour with Bebo Norman and Jeremy Camp in 2008. She contributed the song "Breathe On Me" to Crystal Aikin's self-titled debut album. She was a speaker and performer on the Revolve Tour, a conference for teen girls from Women of Faith. She toured with award winning, multi-platinum selling Billboard magazine's Artist of The Decade MercyMe in April 2011. Also, in October 2011 she starred in the Gospel Music Channel (GMC) made-for-television movie Decision.

Personal life

Natalie Grant was born December 21, 1971 in Seattle, Washington. She enrolled at Northwest College (Now Northwest University) in Kirkland, Washington, studying to be a schoolteacher.

She reportedly figured that her musical gifts were merely for sharing with her local church until she learned how to find God's true calling for her life, and so switched directions and joined the musical group Truth.

In pursuing her music career, Grant moved to Nashville, Tennessee where she now lives with her Canadian producer husband, Bernie Herms, and their three daughters. These include a set of fraternal twin girls, Grace Ana and Isabella Noelle (born February 16, 2007).

In an interview with The 700 Club, Natalie revealed that she suffered from bulimia. She says God helped her get over her eating disorder. She later wrote a book in 2005 titled The Real Me: Being the Girl God Sees, about her struggle and how she overcame it.

Philanthropy

Grant is involved in campaigning against human trafficking. She was affected by an episode of Law & Order that dealt with the topic and began researching. Her studies led her and her husband to travel to India to witness the red-light districts and what is being done to stop them. That experience changed the trajectory of Natalie's life and reportedly changed the way she approaches her music.

In 2005 Grant founded The Home Foundation, which has since evolved into Abolition International, an international organization with the aim of eradicating sex trafficking through aftercare accreditation, advocacy, and education and provision of restoration homes for victims of sex trafficking.

On October 23, 2012, Grant received the 2012 Bishop Ketteler Award for Social Justice from the Sisters of Divine Providence, who honored her for her work against human trafficking.

The lyrics:

In Christ alone my hope is found

He is my light, my strength, my song

This Cornerstone, this solid ground

Firm through the fiercest drought and storm

What heights of love, what depths of peace

When fears are stilled, when strivings cease

My Comforter, my All in All

Here in the love of Christ I stand

In Christ alone, who took on flesh

Fullness of God in helpless Babe

This gift of love and righteousness

Scorned by the ones He came to save

Til on that cross as Jesus died

The wrath of God was satisfied

For every sin on Him was laid

Here in the death of Christ I live, I live

There in the ground His body lay

Light of the world by darkness slain

Then bursting forth in glorious Day

Up from the grave He rose again

And as He stands in victory

Sins curse has lost its grip on me

For I am His and He is mine

Bought with the precious blood of Christ

No guilt in life, no fear in death

This is the power of Christ in me

From a lifes first cry to final breath

Jesus commands my destiny

No power of hell, no scheme of man

Could ever pluck me from His hand

Til He returns or calls me home

Here in the power of Christ I stand

I will stand, I will stand

All other ground is sinking sand

All other ground, all other ground

Is sinking sand, is sinking sand

So I stand