Album: The Story (2007)

Charted: 75

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• All of these lines across my face
  Tell you the story of who I am
  So many stories of where I've been
  And how I got to where I am
  But these stories don't mean anything
  When you've got no one to tell them to
  It's true, I was made for you
  
  I climbed across the mountain tops
  Swam all across the ocean blue
  I crossed all the lines, and I broke all the rules
  And, baby, I broke them all for you
  Oh, because even when I was flat broke
  You made me feel like a million bucks
  You do
  I was made for you
  
  You see the smile that's on my mouth
  It's hiding the words that don't come out
  And all of our friends who think that I'm blessed
  They don't know my head is a mess
  No, they don't know who I really am
  And they don't know what
  I've been through like you do
  And I was made for you
  
  All of these lines across my face
  Tell you the story of who I am
  So many stories of where I've been
  And how I got to where I am
  Oh, but these stories don't mean anything
  When you've got no one to tell them to
  It's true, I was made for you
  Oh yeah, well, it's true, that I was made for you Writer/s: Phillip John Hanseroth, Timothy Jay Hanseroth
  Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 5

• Friend from EarthWow I can’t even while I was singing this this song it was the “you see the smile that’s on my mouth” part and it just.. represents me and… yeah
• Ursula Baltzer from Bentonville VaIt can have many meanings “The Story” part of hot for my husband and part of it To God. Thank you for such a beautiful song. Lines across my face reminds me of this 67 year a old that has been through a world of hurt, disappointed, and stress because I tried to make everyone else happy and forgot about me.
• AnonymousIts a great song wo that last verse anyways but DAMN...... that line is the best part. Screaming on pitch.......that's rare.
• Joe from Roseville, CaAnton from Earth - you are spot on! Said everything I couldn't put in writing! Keep on posting....you nailed it.
• Anton from EarthToward the end of the song, on the last repetition of "All of these lines across my face", it sounds like she's scream-singing the lyric so hard her voice breaks. Lends a powerful emotional punch, and becomes, probably, the most gripping part of the song. But heard or read somewhere that it was due to an accidentally or intentionally overloaded amp, or maybe a post recording effect that was pushed into clipping/distortion. At any rate, it was decided to leave it in because, artistically, it was the right thing to do. Conceptually, brings to mind the backup vocal Merry Clayton did on the Rolling Stones song "Gimme Shelter", where her voice actually does break on one of the iterations of the lyric "Rape, murder, it's just a shot away".

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