"A Keeper for Every Flame".

By Mary Chapin Carpenter

-this song can be found on her CD "Stones in the Road"

She says its been so long she can't remember when
The mention of his name didn't make her feel again
That everything is possible and every day a brand new start
Yeah love is something powerful when it finds a willing heart
 
Sometimes its a fire burning out of control
Sometimes its a candle burning long and low
All these years she never let it go
There's a keeper for every flame
 
There was someone in his past that he hasn't gotten over yet
Each day's like the last, he just misses what he can't forget
It's just and empty space where something used to be
Now he guards the gate but he's lost the key
So no one enters but no one leaves
There's a keeper for every flame

I thought my heart had broken but it was just a little bruised
I thought love had spoken I guess I was just confused
Sometimes we were a fire burning out of control
Sometimes we were nothing but a candle glow
But it never died baby and how I know
There's a keeper for every flame

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