Anyone have the lyrics for this song? Was this supposed to be on his second solo album?

This is just from my listening to it so many times so it may have errors and some of the words may not be right. :

Its loud enough to hear, its loud enough to fear
Its loud enough to hear, you told me
So you shot the gun and missed
And never thought it would be like this
So you shot the gun and missed
Forever

A house of cardboard and pretty bride
Plenty of things to hold my pride, dear heaven
I tried my best, she lost me

I'm holding out for you, like you told me to
I'm holding out for you like you told me
You told me to never leave, you told me you hated me
You told me to never leave, never

A house of cardboard and a pretty bride
And plenty of things to hold my pride, dear heaven
I tried my best, she lost me

The more you took away, the more I had enough
The more you took away, the more I had enough
The more you took away, the more I had enough
The more you took away, the more I had enough
The more you took away, the more I had enough
The more you took away, the more I had enough

A house of cardboard and a pretty bride
And plenty of things to hold my pride, dear heaven
A house of cardboard and a pretty bride
And plenty of things to hold my pride, dear heaven
I tried my best, dear heaven
I tried my best

This is not David's song. It was written by Neal Tiemann of the Midwest Kings. David just sings it.

Anyone have a link to said song?
Thanks

I hear "The more she took away, the more I had enough"
but maybe that's just me.





so it was or wasn't going to be on his second album?
im just a little confused and trying to clear things up xD

That's "Dear Heaven" - I've been trying to find out where that one came from ...Thank You!

http://www.david-cook.org/David-Cook-Dear-Heaven-t4815.html


The mp3 is right here on this board...I just didn't know the timeline...and those lyrics match perfectly with the ones from the lyrics site I use.

"Dear Heaven" appears to be a one-off...why I had no idea where it belonged in the discography.

This is the list of songs David put up as being on the unreleased album..."Dear Heaven" isn't in there.

Thursday, August 30, 2007
New Album Updates
So we're all but done with pre-production. New songs are coming together sexy-like. We're going in to do drums on September 8th and 9th on ten songs. They are as follows:
DISCLAIMER: These are all working titles and they are in no particular order. Also, any one of these songs may not make the album
A Daily AntheM
Precious Decline
Chandelier
The Downfall
Only If...
Better Late Than Never
We're Only Honest When We're Sleeping
Elizabeth
Never To Return
By The Fire, Gently Burning

Ahhh. okay.
I couldn't remember where I found that list so I couldn't go back and look. So thanks.
Maybe "Dear Heaven" was just a random song he did out of boredom?
Or Dear Heaven isn't it's real name? :\
Could be like "Better Never Than Late,"
how everyone thought it was "Optimistic to a Fault" since it's said those words in the song?
lol You never know?

The official title for "Dear Heaven" is "BETTER NEVER THAN LATE." So, yeah, he had planned most likely to put it on his 2nd solo album.

ETA: Wait, scratch that. I confused "Dear Heaven" with "Optimistic to a Fault" e__e;;

OK, guys...let's clear up the confusion:

Dear Heaven is the correct title of this song. it was written by neal tiemann and sung by david cook. it is NOT a david cook song...it is NOT one of the songs on either of his solo albums.

His first solo album, released in 2006 is called Analog Heart and is available for download on this site.
His second solo album was never released because he made it on American Idol. that album is called Optimistic to a Fault.

Better Never than Late is the title for the song that people also know as Optimistic to a Fault.

I hope this helps clarify this thread.

You can tell from a mile away that David did not write that song. I like it anyway though, but it is strange how un-david it is though. So so so very weird that people have a songwriter like David amongst them and they only have him sing with someone else writing.

OMG, A Daily AntheM was going to be on his next album! Sorry, I'm sure that I'm late on picking up on that, but I love making all these connections between life before Idol and life after Idol.

don't apologize... it's always fun picking up those connections and new stuff comes up all the time. yeah... I was so excited to see it there when the tracklist for his latest album was released... SO excited that it was the first song I played when the album preview came up for streaming (and subsequent hidden track).
kid. in. a. candy. store.