Nichole Nordeman - Every Mile Mattered

이게 대체 얼마 만인가요, [Brave, 2005] 이후 다섯 번째 정규 앨범을 발표하기까지 무려 12년이 흘렀네요.  (물론 그 사이 몇 곡을 담은 EP, 여러 아티스트가 참여한 프로젝트 성격의 앨범 등을 통해 좋은 곡들을 선보이기는 했습니다)

1972년 생으로 1997년부터 활동을 시작한 그녀는 GMA 도브상 2001년 "Female Vocalist of the Year", 2003년에는 앨범 [Woven & Spun]과 싱글 'holy'로 "Song of the Year", "Female Vocalist of the Year"을 비롯 무려 5개의 상을 수상하는 등 2000년대를 대표하는 여성 싱어송라이터 중 한명입니다.

Spread the map on the table, with the coffee stain Put your finger on the places, show me where you've been ; Is that California, where your teardrops dried? You drew a circle around Georgia, can you tell me why?

I see shoulda beens, coulda beens Written all over your face Wrong turns and bridges burned Things you wanna change

It's history You can't rewrite it You're not meant to be trapped inside it ; Every tear brought you here Every sorrow gathered ; Yeah, it's history And every mile mattered 

Get the box off the top shelf, with the black and white Snapshots of your old self, in a better light ; Ghosts and regrets back again, I can see it in your eyes Send them home, let 'em go Don't you think it’s time? Yeah

It's history You can't rewrite it You're not meant to be trapped inside it ; Every tear brought you here Every sorrow gathered It's history And every mile mattered

And every road and every bend Every bruise and bitter end All you squandered, all you spent It mattered, it mattered ; Mercy always finds a way To wrap your blisters up in grace And every highway you'd erase It mattered, it mattered

But it's history It don't define you You're free to leave It all behind you ; Every tear brought you here Every sorrow gathered It's history And every mile mattered Every mile mattered

'Every Mile Mattered' (2017) 

 Ben Glover, David Garcia, Nichole Nordeman

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Every Mile Mattered

You're Here

Dear Me

No Longer

Lean

Hush, Hush

Listen To Your Life

Beautiful Day

Sound of Surviving

Anywhere We Are

Slow Down (feat. Pepper Ingram)