Vanessa Carlton

Making my way downtown Walking fast Faces passed And I'm home bound Staring blankly ahead Just making my way Making my way Through the crowd And I need you And I miss you And now I wonder … If I could fall Into the sky Do you think...

Just when the waves are washing over Just when you think you?re goin? down Just when the chill makes you colder The sun comes out for you And if you could see what?s come over me then you would know Cause I?m walking free the wind at my back Bathed in...

Fumbling down a road lined with signs It's obvious to me I'm in the wrong direction And I won't stop now you know I feel fine Just looking for some affection And all I ask is to be able to hold on longer And all I ask is to be able to walk on water Walk...

I've been mistaken You swindle once again Now there's no question I I was wrong And now I stand alone Just standing in your throne And your truth has shown You don't belong ooh And now I'm lost And now I run from you And now I see Just how I ble...

Well, she was an American girl, Raised on promises She couldn't help thinking that there was a little more to life Somewhere else After all it was a great big world With lots of places to run to And if she had to die Tryin', she Had one little promise...

Watch her as she flew deep within the blue The day out from the county I see you There's nothing you can do Someone gently says to you The doctor says that now it won't be long I try and live up til the moment and I hope that I don't blow it And what is...

Canyon This canyon Formations of sand and stone You'll navigate down the 'lope Ascension Ascension The sky is no separate light And we watch every day of our life And we grow And I go and die 

[Adam Duritz] They paved paradise and put up a parking lot With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone They paved paradise and put up a parking lot [Vanessa Carlton]...

I'm wrapped in the arms of a broken man And he asks "are you ready? Cause I'll take you as far as I can If you would just let me" Don't you think that I should hold you Don't you think that's what I should do So I'm wrapped in the arms of a broken man...

Man, it's so nice to see you again You're the great blue pool in L.A And I close my book, move my bag, make some space Cause it's time to give that song a break So tell me now how these few years have been When it's living to honor the best And I have be...

Always a do or die situation You can only see in black and white But you never thought, never thought that I'd be A little different this time, and Not every color that you will see Is the real one every time Let me clue you in on complexity And everybo...

I've been taking what you've given Now I'm thinkin' I've been livin' Fantasy of your sweet smile Sad as blue and blue as only You can cast the color on me Can you see my fire rain Ohh... Ohh... C'est La Vie C'est La Vie here am I lonely C'est La Vie...

Never thought it'd hurt so bad. I just wanted to love you; Never thought it'd hurt so bad. Never thought it'd feel so right; I was just thinking of you. Never thought it'd feel so right. It's the edge of the dawn when I look in your eyes And I want wha...

For all you broken hearted lovers lost Go find another one Cause you know time won't wait and you'll be late White rabbits on the run It's hard to know what's good for you I know she let you down But the fever breaks when it's too much to take So you c...

I've seen myself in a thousand faces Strung out on life's path I would add up what you mean to me But I cannot do the math And this fashionista's garden party Well I had enough of that Cause the only one I come undone for is you Oh the only one I come undone...

As usual, I'm in a tricky predicament Weather in my thoughts, on the roof sneaking a cigarette Dear California, it's been nice to know ya Tell me, will you miss me when I'm gone? 'Cause he loves me as I leave, so I'm gonna go And I'm not in companies whe...

I can see it but you won’t I look around you are alone Memories they seem to fade And I said I would stand by your side But his side seems to be your side Don’t let me get in the way So you can do-si-do with the devil in the dark And around and around...

Said the night wind to the little lamb "Do you see what I see? Way up in the sky, little lamb Do you see what I see? A star, a star, dancing in the night With a tail as big as a kite, With a tail as big as a kite." Said the little lamb to the shepherd boy, "D...

I’m waiting helpless and wanting more oh I have been here before So what’s the next step is it up or down Please [take*] me to the door But there are too many faces too many faces And I don’t know what they’re all for So give me earthquakes and heartach...

Say you see through the folly but you do it for the fame I'm fighting the jet stream drinking cheap wine on aeroplanes and you're in LA not Chicago key under mat, I walk the dog, order in, home alone. Found your letter on a full moon Sunday night on your...

Beware the danger, it lurks for those who get swept away The dreamers get punished most by the truth they say It's all in the little ways one reveals their love's gone away love's gone away When my hand was in your hand my heart was pure And now I see a diffe...

Are the echoes coming back to you? Is wisdom seeing patterns on a loom? Like a blanket around you You were weaving colors when I saw you Put your velvet on the moonlight Or have you lost your constellation eyes? Well you could give it time I wish I cou...

Half a week before the winter The chill bites before it comes And I'm a child of the pleasure Daddy brings before he runs He sits behind a desk of mahogany He whispers dreams into my ear And though I've given him his empire He delivers me my fear The...

I first saw you at the video exchange I know my heart and it will never change This temp work would be alright if you'd call me You'd call me I lay awake at night for you And I pray We'd cross the deepest oceans Cargo across the sea And if you don't b...

Stealing glances through the key hole In a brick wall's wooden door Change are keeping quite secrets 200 year old folklore And the graveyard on Elizabeth, no one ever goes Kneeling praying to a gravestone But the gravestone never tells Hear the bells...

Well, disaster it strikes on a daily basis And I'm looking for wisdom in all the wrong places But still wanna laugh in disappointed faces And you can't help me I'm blinded by these Heroes and thieves at my door And I can't seem to tell them apart anymor...

Some people live in a house on the hill And wish they were some place else There's nobody there When the evening is still Secrets with no one to tell Some I have known have a ship where they sleep with sounds of rocks on the coast They sail over oceans five f...

Strength and devotion come without warning You know when you know what to do No simple scheming, you should be sleeping Sometimes you just can't think it through And that's the way it is, love Go whichever way you need to go Nobody can tell you how to b...

I like your company Got a fresh philosophy Never knew Such a gentlemen You can take me on a cheap vacation I don’t wanna have expectations 'cause you Could be the end of me And I don’t need a house on a hill A swing on a tree Grandfather Clock Porcel...

I'll wait for you 'Til you come back 'Til you come back to me I'll wait for you and only you And love you constantly And when you pray I hear you And I'll be near whispering, dear And I'll wait for you til you come back 'Til you come back for me When...

And in the end You begin again It's the way of all things Your body's like a wishing well of a million diamonds Her bones to dust bursting into a million diamonds And you'll carry on Cause in the end It's the way of all things It will be beauti...

As I leave the demons behind me I find myself within your eyes I didn’t seem to know what I was missing Just seemed so out of my eyesight But now I feel like I could fly feel like I could rise up There to where you’re calling me No more asking why no mo...

Little Mary takes a walk With her perfect hair and perfect heart And happy as can be Little Mary Mary it’s just visual I don’t think it’s real Inside I think she’s me Well I could be wrong could be right Don’t think it matters Cause little Mary sings...

I waste away the days Waiting on a new age But time betrays me And I get older one more year Walk London's windy streets He waits for me at home But I wonder the secrets That only cobble stones hold Only the cobble stones know And I've never been so...

Boots on concrete Don't slip on the leaves Smile at the strangers Won't know what you mean Clouds like cathedrals Night hits the sea And I walk to the high light Ships gonna take me at midnight Storms sounding out like an overture It's time to join t...

Give her all your darkness Give her all your light Love is like a carriage It's no spirit in the night Like a wishing well Where your pennies fell He said it's only a matter of time Before your heart is mine Have you been searching? You've been look...

Floating down An endless river Passing dive Touching whatever Never knowing where you're going but still living every Moment that counts Stand and linger to see Meggie Sue is free Don’t speak She just wants to be Over waves Up and down Does not ma...

Cradling stones hold fire bright As crickets call out to the moonlight As you lean in to steal a kiss I'll never need more than this We all share the pain of our histories But the ache goes away if you could see This night under stars, well, I call it peace I...

Mmmmmmmmm We scream and shout and try to make it last Though it didn't work out, I don't love you any less My lover or friend, I wont ever tell Our secrets safe An unspoken citadel And in these broken times, well, It's so easy to forget So I sing to remind U...

I know, you know, we don't see We sow our truth, wait patiently I walk the streets with a song in my head We ebb and we flow so Got my toes on my pup at the foot of my bed My heart always seems to know Now take the glitz back, I want the soul instead Cos I fo...

I will admit that you're the closest I have come There's just something about you that I trust I didn't say but I was sad to see you go You went back to the ghost, I went back to what I know Seems like every night, meet my friends at some bar I tell myse...

I could be your operator I could bring you joy Something like a freedom fighter Guns ain't just for boys I heard what you said You should say it again, cause it's bold It's getting late Darling get a move on it, we should go You should never tell you...

Just a day, just an ordinary day Just tryin' to get by Just a boy, just an ordinary boy But he was lookin' to the sky And as he asked if I would come along I started to realize That every day he finds just what he's lookin' for And like a shooting star...

I see a red door and I want it painted black no colors anymore, I want them to turn black I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes I have to turn my head until my darkness goes I see a line of cars and they are painted black with flowers and my...

Look out Look where you wanna be Look left Look where you left me I should have known By the ice in your eye That you warm me up in your so sweet demise and Nestled in your calculated emotion Boy you give good... Love, plastic love You're a genuine wannabe Y...

Once upon a year gone by she saw herself give in every time she closed her eyes she saw what could have been well nothing hurts and nothing bleeds when covers tucked in tight funny when the bottom drops how she forgets to fight... to fight And it's one more d...

You light me up and then I fall for you you lay me down and then I call for you stumbling on reasons that are far and few I'd let it all come down and then some for you Pretty baby don't you leave me I have been saving smiles for you pretty baby why can...

Willing and able to run I am willing and able I'm able to come And if I want for you now would you come would you run would you bring it back around oh, baby how If it all went away nothin' left to say would you fight it or would you lay down at the hand of...

Oh oh oh Oh oh oh Gotta get a little Gotta get a little All the world has gone to bed And I am drowning in it's silence But a solitude is in my head, from you, maybe And if the silence was a song Well, its rhythm grooves and it's a private radio And on this...

If in the middle of a vital conversation I chose not to listen Would that be okay? And if in the middle of a heated confrontation I chose not to Would that be okay? And if I love you without reference to occasion Would you run away? Or would that be...

She'd do anything to sparkle in his eye she would suffer, she would fight, and compromise she's been wishin' on the stars that shine so bright for answers to the questions that will haunt her tonight She must rinse this all away she can't hold him this w...

Sailors on the sea, are we heading clear for the edge of the ocean? There's no city that keeps you king for a gypsy And are we guided by some vision? All our moves adding up to an ancient arc We are free of the canyon cliff of my heart The river flows, i...

I, I know what you did Like a boy of summer gives his first kiss Love is dancing on my finger He got to the heart of the matter and lingered And now I'm walking with the living I always liked steinbeck and those old men whistling We're back, we're...

Watching puddles gather rain Theres no better place to lay Shes as fine as dandelions blowing in the wind Shes not thinkin' about anything... She floats Floats... Wearing black patent mary janes She steps out in to the rain She's as dry as clear blue skies Sw...

Nah, nah-nah-nah, nah nah nah Nah, nah-nah-nah, nah nah nah I was heading down to Spring Street with a suitcase in my hand Filled with love and life and grand illusion, I knew you'd understand I left you by the stairwell And your eyes were wet with tears Moth...

Mother may i lay my head down What would you say If all thats lost will never be found Ist gone away I never thought it would be me Head so high Fell so far Mother may i lay my head down Im a falling star Chorus Superhero won?t you come And take me away Super...

My heart, your hands, gentle my friend break me neatly, numb me sweetly Say you would, say you could say you'd come and stop the rain say you'd try and hold me tight and you just give me away make me high on lullabies a melody for me to sway say you w...

I've been mistaken you swindle once again now there's no question I was wrong and now I stand alone just a dent in your throne your true colors shown you don't belong (chorus) and now I'm lost and now I run from you and now I see just how I bleed from you an...

I'm old enough to know, too young to let it go Connected to one billion stars and lights I know you have to go Do we follow what we know? I'll be here for you in the night Say it once, say it twice, to yourself, to the night A shaman's prayer It's natu...

God rest his head Sunday afternoon, and The wicked in me is surly the wicked in you We pray to a ghost that we never met Time turns for a cure, for the scientists for Madness, madness of the heart but you knew it, you knew it from the start And Hawkin...

Ahhh Holiday and I come home I hope to see this boy I know I can't wait for us to be alone Flippin' through the radio We sing along to the indie show The songs they play mean more than I can say And the tape I made you, Hope you think of me when it plays thr...

Speeding into the horizon Dreaming of the sirens Wishing for broken glass on a highway It could be so easy The rhythm, rhythm of an engine Always makes me empty I see the headlights coming at me I can't help but wonder Flying, flying in slow motion The wind...

It's 4 a.m. and I'm wide awake Waiting for my thoughts to fade A flickering of all of my mistakes And as the light starts creeping in I slowly feel The day I'm missing But I wouldn't even know where to begin Do I push to hard? Or fall to fast? The moment neve...

I was stained with a row in a day not my own, As you walked into my life, you showed what needed to be shown, And I always knew what was right I just didn’t know that I might peel away, And choose to see with such indifference sight ….. And I will nev...

Feel it come on like a sudden hope Bursting through a lost dome It's beautiful as the sadness starts to quiet Leave the city for a desert sky It's like one big eye on you The storm is now and the horses wanna run And they run You know what you should...

If only I could get into that corner of your head where things finally match and meet the standards that you set oh how I wish I was the treasure that you were lookin' for bet I would feel better if only I could find the door I am cryin' you aren't tryin...

I have wandered far and wide for something real something to die for but I have found you and you do not see all that is me all that is true I am more than you will see, I am more than you will need, I am more than you will see, more than wanted As you float...

Ooh.. I'm not your average type of girl I'm gonna show the world The strength in me that sometimes they can't see I'm about to switch my style And soon things may get wild But I will prove that I can conquer anything So from my head to toe I'm taking full co...

Oh thinkin' about all our younger years. There was only you and me. We were young and wild and free. Now nothing can take you away from me. We've been down that road before. But that's over now. You keep me coming back for more. And baby your all that I...

I want to run I want to hide I want to tear down the walls That hold me inside I want to reach out And touch the flame Where the streets have no name I want to feel, sunlight on my face I see that dust cloud disappear without a trace I want to take shelter fr...

Crashed on the floor when I moved in This little bungalow with some strange new friends Stay up too late, and I'm too thin We promise each other it's til the end Now we're spinning empty bottles Just the five of us With pretty eyed boys girls die to trust I ca...

Stand up straight Do your trick Turn on the stars Jupiter shines so bright When you're around They tell us slow down, We're too young you need to grow The speed's the key And they don't know who we are And who's to say that we're not good enough? And who's to...

Find a love, go build a cabin Find land and tree, carve in a wish on your knees, planting seeds the dirt making rows where the devil don't see My love I agree, so lucky to find ya But memories They don't stay behind us Our minds are strong Could it be...

Half a week before the winter The chill bites before it comes I'm a child of the pleasure Daddy brings before he runs He sits behind a desk of mahogany He whispers dreams into my ear And though I've givin' him his empire He delivers me my fear The un...

When the pressure will not fade away When the real things starts to become fake When you can’t recognize your own hands Turn around and begin again When the sky starts ripping and falling And the horizon is no longer calling please Don’t try to make it on emp...

If in the middle of a vital conversation, i choose not to listen, would that be ok? and if in the middle of a heated confrontation, i choose not to, would that be ok? and if i love you without reference to occasion, always you can run away or would that be o...

I know the seasons, they change for a reason But I can't tell spring, summer, winter apart ‘Cause my eyes see one colour, my mouth tastes one taste All of the beauty and nuance you take I've always loved you, haven't always loved you right I had no direc...