Sara Bareilles

Back of the room Looking at you Counting the steps Between us A hundred and five Little blades in a line From your skin to mine And I feel it Eyes on the ground But I can't look up now Don't wanna give it away My secret In another life, My teeth and tongue...

[Verse 1: Sara Bareilles] When holding your breath is safer than breathing When letting go is braver than keeping When innocent words turn to lies And you can't hide by closing your eyes [Verse 2: John Legend] When pain is all that they offer Like the...

Can't teľl you the truth least I don’t like ’bout that. A kind of comfort in you comes when you lie right back Safe from such a strange point of view: to hear your own words on you. I’m onto you; go to be gone, you are any way the wind blows Any way t...

Let it begin, let Adam in Step one: original sin Underneath the leaves, Adam found Eve Both of them found something sweet under the apple tree Then it was over, roads divide Step two: learning how to lie Let me ask a question to present day: How the hel...

I must be crazy I can't see straight anymore I'm ten feet from your door Surprise, dear--you both don't know That I'm here watching alone My worst fear, now my home Such a cruel Such a cruel heart Such a cruel, cruel heart Her eyes, they shine on you While I...

[Verse 1] It's a bad idea, me and you It's a bad idea, me and you I've never known anything so true It's a terrible idea, me and you [Pre-Chorus] You have a wife You have a husband You're my doctor You've got a baby coming It's a bad idea, me and yo...

I don't want to talk about it to you I'm not an open book that you can rifle through The cold, hard truth that you'll see right to I'm just basket case without you He's not a magic man or a perfect fit But had a steady hand and I got used to it And a gl...

You wanna walk into the room like that other girl does The one that's always making everybody fall in love You see, girl you're a lot like me She rearranges all the light in the room So you're always in the shadows Well that's what it feels like to you...

Don't know where to put you anymore You can't be kept inside my dresser drawer I find the pieces of you in my dreams And in the evenings Spill out the edge of my mind. Memories of you feel like they're miles wide It's all I can do to get to the other side Of t...

Time to tell me the truth To burden your mouth for what you say No pieces of paper in the way Cause i cant continue pretending to choose The opposite sides on which we fall The loving you laters if at all No right minds could wrong be this many times My memor...

Bittersweet seasons. Mistake a warm winter for spring. Seems like I’m best at leaving when leaving is not the best thing. You couldn’t help it if you needed more than I could give. That’s just the way it goes. Now.. I call you misplaced but never a waste of...

Word came through in a letter, One of us changing our minds. You won't need to guess who Since I usually do not send letters to me That are mine I told you I saw this coming, That I'd practically packed up my things. I was glad at the time that I said...

There'll be girls across the nation That will eat this up babe I know that it's your soul but could you bottle it up and Get down to the heart of it, No it's my heart you're shit out of your luck Don't make me tell you again my love love love love. Love love l...

You can be amazing You can turn a phrase into a weapon or a drug You can be the outcast Or be the backlash of somebody’s lack of love Or you can start speaking up Nothing’s gonna hurt you the way that words do And they settle ‘neath your skin Kept on the insid...

Car is parked, bags are packed, but what kind of heart doesn't look back. At the comfortable glow from the porch, the one I will still call yours? All those words came undone and now I'm not the only one Facing the ghosts that decide if the fire inside sti...

Hold my breath and I'll count to ten I'm the paper and you're the pen You fill me in and you are permanent And you'll leave me to dry I'm the writer and she's the muse I'm the one that you always choose She will falter and gift her blame And it's starts all ov...

California in the evening Rush past the water Get me over the great state line The skies electrical it’s screaming Trying to find the morning Hell I’d settle for the other side Don’t bother counting up the days boy Numbers gettin’ bigger by the minute a...

Come in close now it's time to tell the story Long ago, and so many years before we Ever were, ever dreamed we even could be There was her and her very first heartbeat All alone in a corner of the night sky Spiral bones of a supernova starlight Fell in...

It's a really old city Split between the dead and the living So I thought to myself, sitting on a graveyard shelf As the echo of heartbeats, from the ground below my feet Filled a cemetery in the center of Queens I started running the maze of The names...

There's a harvest each saturday night At the bars filled with perfume and hitching a ride A place you can stand for one night and get gone It's clear this conversation ain't' doing a thing Cause these boys only listen to me when i sing And i don't feel like si...

I could use another cigarette But don't worry daddy, I'm not addicted yet One too many drinks tonight and I miss you Like you were mine All your stormy words have barely broken And you sound like thunder though You've barely spoken Oh, it looks like rain toni...

The afternoon has settled long and heavy on my shoulders The winter's light feels different on my skin It doesn't seem to strike as far below the surface so I have to conclude that shadow won't let it in That shadow won't let it in, shadow won't let it in...

Door number two It's for you, little lady Is it all that you dreamed of? How, if I knew, would've been there waiting I'd have screamed out and jumped up Now here I am With my feet on the sand And a body that won't move The tide's coming in And I'm bo...

Let me paint a picture for you then I'll have to teach you to see it Illustrate the remnants of the life I used to live here in Eden Rolled a lucky pair of dice, ended up paradise Landed on a snake's eyes, took a bite and ended up bleeding You know if I could...

Every word, every touch every look is a little too much I’m helpless now to the arms of this stranger. Haunting smiles, one by one creep inside and it’s over and done Lost control, but without feeling danger CHORUS Does he know how it feels, to be dying insid...

Today's a day like any other But I am changed I am a mother Oh in an instant And who I was has disappeared It doesn't matter, now you're here So innocent I was lost for you to find And now I'm yours and you are mine Two tiny hands, a pair of eyes An...

[Verse 1] Tandy with the good hand, stutters when she's speaking Johnny drives a big rig, Johnny's not sleeping Sweet Geraldine turned 80 in the spring But her nerves won't quit, she worries about everything Sara's on a work trip crying at a hotel Jessie...

Cinderella's on her bedroom floor She's got a Crush on the guy at the liquor store Cause Mr. Charming don't come home anymore And she forgets why she came here Sleeping Beauty's in a foul mood For shame she says None for you dear prince, i'm tired today I'd ra...

Look how you're standing there There with your hands out Standing next to the road that goes up Running your mouth about how you're gonna wait for the one that comes down Who do you think you are? Somebody's baby? You want what everyone has but you want...

Sara Bareilles] Goodbye Should Be Saying That To You By Now, Shouldn’t I? Laying Down A Law That I Live By Well, Maybe Next Time I’ve Got A Thick Tongue Brimming With The Words That Go Unsung I Simmer Then I Burn For A Someone The Wrong One [Ryan T...

Little girl, little town, little left to say Hard enough to get out, much less get away Speak your mind if you dare to be heard I warn you I'm very daring with words I was wild, entertained, on a hunt for myself Got your claws in my mane As if I need help Made...

When are you gonna come down? When are you going to land? I should have stayed on the farm I should have listened to my old man You know you can't hold me forever I didn't sign up with you I'm not a present for your friends to open This boy's too young...

Something always brings me back to you It never takes too long No matter what I say or do I'll still feel you here 'til the moment I'm gone You hold me without touch You keep me without chains I never wanted anything so much Than to drown in your love And n...

I miss the days my mind would just rest quiet My imagination hadn't turned on me yet I used to let my words wax poetic But it melted a puddle at my feet now It is a calcifying crime, it's tragic I've turned to petrified past life baggage I want to disappear an...

I never meant to be the one to let you down If anything, I thought I saw myself going first I didn't know how to stick around How to see anybody but me be getting hurt I keep remembering the summer night And the conversation breaking up the mood I didn'...

It was so right, it was so wrong Almost at the same time The pain and ache a heart can take No one really knows When the memories cling and keep you there Till you no longer care You can let go now It's wrong for me to cling to you Somehow I just needed time...

Let the bough break, let it come down crashing Let the sun fade out to a dark sky I can't say I'd even notice it was absent Cause I could live by the light in your eyes I'll unfold before you Would have strung together The very first words Of a lifelong love...

Go ahead, throw your axe at me From your little glass house and then take off running You're no better than me We've both made mistakes intentionally And I won't do what you keep doing Sit in judgment of a house I ruined I don't claim to be proud But my head w...

Give me a heart to hold the godlike truth Give me one good soul that I can tell it through Give me good reason to believe in you And give me strength if you have time Give me two hands that'll hold this up And know you give me no more than just enough You gav...

Oh What if I wanna be the one who Never looks like anybody? What if I wanna be the one who Goes her own way? Would you still believe in someone like me? What if I wanna be the one who Doesn't belong here? What if I wanna be the one who Won't fit in...

[Verse 1] You tell me that you're leavin' You say that time will slow the bleedin' Of this heart that I've placed into your hands I held it out to you Now you give it back, what am I supposed to do? Oh, I had a feeling this day would come and leave me re...

If I dare to ask you I dare it to be true If I dare to risk it I know that I'm willing to If I dare to want this To want more than i have Than I dare to believe I'll have it in the end You climbed the mountaint Send pictures of the view And still ca...

Love, I get so lost, sometimes Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart When I want to run away I drive off in my car But whichever way I go, I come back to the place you are All my instincts, they return The grand facade, so soon will burn Without a noise...

I've been winding Down the same road for days I've seen the coastline Going both ways Some days are perfect And some simply could not get worse Some days it's all worth it And some days this life is nothing but a curse And I wonder who will break first I am...

Waiting for the bus stop Waiting for the concrete black top to settle down Long enough for me to get off and get a little ground I'm ready for the sea change Helpless felt this coming from a mile away And now you're looking at me babe, and how we'll separ...

All the colors Of the rainbow Hidden 'neath my skin Hearts have colors Don't we all know? Red runs through our veins Feel the fire burning up Inspire me with blood Of blue and green [Outro] I have hope Inside is not a heart But a kaleidoscope 

Oh (oh oh oh) Oh (oh oh oh) Oh (oh oh oh) Oh (oh oh oh) Keep drinkin' coffee Stare me down across the table While I look outside So many things I'd say if only I were able But I just keep quiet And count the cars that pass by You've got opinions,...

He was a good man he had a good heart with a good soul A good thing we had so I thought but I was wrong He let me down by never letting on He was as good as gone. He had a good game he held a good hand played the cards that He should play so you understand wh...

I wish I were pretty I wish I were brave If I owned this city Then I'd make it behave And if I were fearless Then I'd speak my truth And the world would hear this That's what I wish I'd do, yeah If my hands could hold them you'd see I'd take all the...

Tell the truth, no lies I can take it Burned your breath, just this once Run your mouth I bet I can catch it You sound just like a Judas And if there's anything I learned That would keep me standing If I take you and your word Then I'm empty handed...

Okay, I can see it now it's all the same thing Just different wrapping around it No need to soften your words, they're still gonna hurt So don't pull punches I tried to be everything you'd ever want And sometimes I even stood on my heart and stomped Now...

It's everything I am and what I'm not And all I'm trying to be This is the part where I spit it all out and you decide what you think of me I'm not trying to be complicated I'm never waiting to get the last laugh But I've been handing out benefits of the do...

I don’t care if the house is packed, Or the strings of light are broken. I don’t care if the gifts are wrapped, Or there’s nothing here to open. Love is not a toy, and no paper will conceal it. Love is simply joy that I’m home. I don’t care if the carp...

We met on a rainy evening in the summertime Don't think I need to tell you more I needed a raise I worked so hard for this love of mine Still I got nothing to show for it. Tongue tied and twisted, go on baby and go to my head. Here's a simplification of ever...

Head under water And they tell me to breathe easy for a while The breathing gets harder, even I know that Made room for me but it's too soon to see If I'm happy in your hands I'm unusually hard to hold on to Blank stares at blank pages No easy way to sa...

Let's make a new one Mama, what do you say? I love you when you let me pick out the name Sugar and butter and flour and mother... I think today we'll start with strawberry cream I'm calling this one: Lulu's Strawberry Dream Sugar and butter and flour and...

Tell me off in a letter Completely ignore me Getting high off of saying Why you don’t adore me Baby, please, I’m well versed In how I might be cursed I don’t need it articulated Stand in line wasting All of your time just to hate me Every dime gone...

You can have Manhattan I know it’s for the best I’ll gather up the avenues And leave them on your doorstep And I’ll tip toe away So you won’t have to say You heard me leave You can have Manhattan I know it’s what you want The bustle and the buildings...

There's too many things that i haven't done yet Too many sunsets I haven't seen You can't waste the day wishing it'd slow down You would've thought by now I'd have learned something I made up my mind when i was a young girl I've been given this one world I wo...

[Verse 1] Smiles in the morning at me Apartment on the second story Strangers in a brand new city Both remembering last night Kitchen table and a bottle of wine The only thing on my mind is you [Pre-Chorus] The way the moonlight flickered in We were...

I'm not scared of you now Or so i say There's no reason to run Although i may I'm not as sure as i seem This much i know What does it mean you leave and i follow I could try to forget what you do when i let you get Through to me but then you do it over again...

He bends his breath around my name And I am humbled I feel small and plain But his arms are angels by his side You need not ask if they're open, just how wide His lips are day And his skin is night Oooh, and with our love we conjure up the twilight His finger...

I will never let you let me leave I promise I'm not lying Go ahead ask anybody who has seen me trying I'm not going, if it seems like I did I'm probably waiting outside Such a stubborn man you'll likely never meet another When we have our family dinner...

[Verse 1] I feel you, it's like you're in the next room At any given moment, you could reappear Thin air, you're out there in it somewhere If I could only get there, I could breathe again [Pre-Chorus] Tell me how to start What comes after you? I am in...

It comes calling in the evening When the temperature is dropping out They said it don't get cold here But I beg to differ now There is something in the shadows More than sister silhouette Something sinister and strange That I haven't seen yet And I d...

Once upon another time Somebody's hands who felt like mine Turned the key and took a drive Was free Highway curve, the sun sank low Buckley on the radio Cigarette was burning slow So breathe Just yellow lines and tire marks And sun-kissed skin and handle bars...

Just about the time the shadows call I undress my mind and dare you to follow Paint a portrait of my mystery Only close my eyes and you are here with me A nameless face to think I see To sit and watch the waves with me till they're gone A heart I'd swear I'd r...

Babe, will you save me a dance by the river Moonlight is serving us well She makes the whole world silhouette Makes it flicker like film on a strip Don’t let the sadness in yet Who we act as if somehow it’s all come and gone Let’s pretend we’re all healed up...

The day starts like the rest I've seen And all the carbon copy of where I've already been. Days keep coming one on one, and they keep coming. Don't know what I wish I had, But there's no time now, For thinking things like that. I've got too much to do (...

[Verse 1] Come by the fire, lay down your head My love, I see you're growing tired So set the bad day by the bed And rest a while, your eyes can close You don’t have to do a thing but listen to me sing I know you miss the world, the one you knew The one...

It's a feeling my hands and feet held to the floor Like I'm kneeling crawl straight to What fate sent through Holding down the only solid ground I could find cause I don't want to try the other kind I don't have it yet a good sense of knowing when What I...

[Intro] Ooh [Verse 1] By the time you hear this, I'll be in the rearview mirror I'll even wear that green dress you like, so when I disappear You can turn around, one last look at the girl you lost In the time you took to make up your mind between two r...

I know we're headed for the open road. Don't know where to go. We've got our separate ways in the same direction Getting nowhere slow. We saw the end was coming, the credits rolling in A few hundred miles back Oh but our horizon tends to be deceiving You neve...

I've been down, I've been out I did it all on my own Seems growing up Didn't take long I feel strange, I feel good I feel better with you You've changed, you should Cause I think I did too Made my mistakes I did a few things right But it will take what it wil...

Bound for the blessing You wouldn't see it coming I keep you guessing Watch while you come undone You were an island No one would dare to tread upon I came in like the wise men Ask you to take my gift of love Hold me responsible It's all my fault, I want You...

It's coming on Christmas They're cutting down trees They're putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on But it don't snow here It stays pretty green I'm going to make a lot of money Then I'm going to qui...

If I build it out of blood and bone If I love it and I even give it a good name And I let it stand up on its own And if I even ever learn to trust and walk away Will it crumble on its own two feet? Or will it multiply and grow big, white wings? If I lov...

[Verse 1] We're leaving all the windows open We don't even mind the rain Or where we let the floors get wet So what if the hardwood stains? 'Cause we're collecting evidence Of one remarkable storm How wild it was to find it, finally feel the climate In...

This one's for the lonely child Brokenhearted, running wild This was written for the one to blame One who believe they are the cause of chaos and everything You may find yourself in the dead of night Lost somewhere up in the great big beautiful sky You...

Say, you're sorry Won't you , please, say you're sorry Say, you're sorry Circus of silence down at our feet Paper cut tigers starting to bleed Hang from your tightrope above the mess Just say you're sorry, no more no less Words you won't use, you don't feel t...

Holding my breath Last one I’ve got left 'til I see you Deliver my heart with the Pieces and parts of me left Every last day seemed to carry the weight Of a lifetime Watch from the ground As the gold fluttered down from the sky Sweet sun Send me th...

It's not simple to say, Most days I don't recognize me. These shoes and this apron, This place and it's patrons Have taken more than I gave them. It's not easy to know I'm not anything that I used to be. Although it's true, I was never attention sweet center I...

She has her back to me at the kitchen sink I’m trying to read her mind, wondering What she doesn’t say to anybody The laundry’s folded, beds are made It’s like this every single day It’s memorized, but a thin disguise I see what she can’t see Her ligh...

Sitting in the morning sun I'll be sitting til the evening comes Watching the ships roll in Then I'll watch them roll away again I'm gonna sit on the dock of the bay Watching the tide roll away Sit on the dock of the bay Wasting time Left my home in Georgia...

Sugar Sugar, butter, flour Sometimes I still see her My mother the dreamer She'd say, "Nothing's impossible child" A dream needs believing To taste like the real thing Like some stranger you recognize So pure, so pure, so electric So sure, so sure, s...

[Verse 1] Could I rest here for a while Near that medal 'round your neck? St. Jude's wearin' a smile He wouldn't mind, I bet I can't go face the world My bones won't hold me up [Refrain] So, tell the saint of lost souls where to find me Softly sleepi...

Since you went away, You can color me, colour me, colour me, colour me in grey So I’m working on the words I want to say I never knew, never knew, never knew your name You’re just my soldier, babe You lost track of the days They come and they go, and th...

We found a tender love it blossomed wild and free. Pure proof was in your arms when you were kissing me. I was an open book, you were an ocean breeze; Rustling through pages I never should have let you see. Never should have let you see. Was I so wrong being...

Saturday Empty room Filled with people Don’t mean a thing You and I Holding hands Nobody knows Nobody understands I don’t care for sunlight It only means it’s over I’m in no mood for that Stay tonight Don’t come morning Don’t come light They ma...

Autumn never seemed this cold before Here I am sleeping on the floor We changed just like the leaves outside my house And my phone lay silent by the couch I remember June Back when I met you And your eyes were green And we were, too But summer is ove...

Sometimes I can be perfectly sweet Got the sugary me all stuffed up in my sleeve And I’ll talk of ponies and rainbows and things And I’m just who you want me to be Like most creatures down here on the ground I’m composed of the elements moving around But I gro...

We're talking away I don't know what I'm to say I'll say it anyway Today's another day to find you Shying away I'll be coming for your love, OK? Take on me, take me on I'll be gone In a day or two So needless to say I'm odds and ends But that's me stumbling...

In the morning it comes Heaven sent a hurricane Not a trace of the sun But I don't even run from rain Beating out of my chest Heart is holding on to you From the moment I knew From the moment I knew You were the air in my breath Filling up my love soaked l...

Noise collapsed around In circles to the ground In specks of silver blue Shades of me and you Behind the crippled wall Sound was hiding small Waiting for a door Staring alone at the floor I keep him locked inside He broke my heart, he lied He went...

Some people long for a life that is simple and planned Tied with a ribbon Some people won't sail the sea 'cause they're safer on land To follow what's written But I'd follow you to the great unknown Off to a world we call our own Hand in my hand An...

Pardon me, my mistake Thought it my turn for a break But since the rain loves my face I’ll just let it be. Long since gave up on long walks To avoid the long talks Lately the silence won’t stop Talking at me CHORUS And I’m getting weary waiting for the harbo...

No words, My tears won't make any room for more, And it don't hurt, like anything I've ever felt before, this is No broken heart, No familiar scars, This territory goes uncharted... Just me, in a room sunk down in a house in a town, and I Don't breathe,...

Silly me, look what I did again I found what I want Is what I cannot have I didn't mean to be so predictable But I blame it all on who made you irresistible And it isn't something I need 'til you tell me I can't Why wear my heart on my sleeve When it looks so...

Gonna sell my car and go to Vegas 'Cause somebody told me That's where dreams would be Gonna sell my car and go to Vegas Finally see my name upon the Palace marquis Gonna quit my job and move to New York 'Cause somebody told me that's where Dreamers should go...

Sugar, sugar, sugar, butter Sugar, butter, flour Sugar, butter, flour Sugar, butter, flour My hands pluck the things I know that I'll need I'll take the sugar and butter from the pantry I add the flour to begin what I am hoping to start And then it's d...

I stick with real things, Usually facts and figures. When information's in its place, I minimize the guessing game. Guess what? I don't like guessing games. Or when I feel things, Before I know the feelings. How am I supposed to operate, If I'm just t...

[Verse 1] Poured my glass of wine You caught me some fireflies Told me their names And how much they love their life in a jar You twist around me like vines You rub the stars in my bright eyes Then you sold me a future From the ones you had in the trun...

WINTER SONG This is my winter song to you. The storm is coming soon, it rolls in from the sea My voice; a beacon in the night. My words will be your light, to carry you to me. Is love alive? Is love alive? Is love.. They say that things just cannot grow bene...

I could find the whole meaning of life in those sad eyes They've seen things that you never quite say, but I hear Come out of hiding, I'm right here beside you And I'll stay there as long as you let me Because you matter to me Simple and plain and not much to...