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Sara Bareilles - Chasing The Sun

Sara Bareilles - Chasing The Sun Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Blessed Unrest
Released: 2013

Chasing The Sun Lyrics

It’s a really old city
Stuck 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 and the dates, some
Older than others the skyscrapers, little tombstone brothers
With Manhattan behind her, three million stunning reminders
Built a cemetery
In the center of Queens

You said, remember that life is
Not meant to be wasted
We can always be Chasing The Sun!
So fill up your lungs and just run
But always be chasing the sun!

So how do you do it,
With just words and just music,
Capture the feeling that my earth is somebody’s ceiling
Can I deliver in sound
The weight of the ground
Of a cemetery
In the center of Queens

There’s a history through her
Sent to us as a gift from the future
To show us the proof
More than that, it’s to dare us to move
And to open our eyes and to learn from the sky
From a cemetery
In the center of Queens

You said, remember that life is
Not meant to be wasted
We can always be chasing the sun!
So fill up your lungs and just run
But always be chasing the sun!

All we can do is try
And live like we’re still alive

It’s a really old city
Stuck between the dead and the living
So I thought to myself
Sitting on a graveyard shelf
And the gift of my heartbeat sounds like a symphony
Played by a cemetery
in the center of Queens

You said, remember that life is
Not meant to be wasted
We can always be chasing the sun!
So fill up your lungs and just run
But always be chasing the sun!

All we can do is try
And live like we’re still alive

All we can do is try
And live like we’re still alive

Writer/s: JACK ANTONOFF, MIKE ANDERSON, SARA BAREILLES
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Chasing The Sun

This is a song about mortality and what to do with the time we're here. "This last year," Bareilles said, "I've been thinking about my life on a grander scale. It feels good to me to tap into a higher sense of consciousness."

Bareilles wrote this song with Fun's Jack Antonoff. The pair were introduced through their mutual friend, Sara Quin, one half of twin sister duo Tegan and Sara, who felt the two would hit it off. The first time they sat down to write together, Antonoff played the singer a few demos that he had been working on, one of them being the instrumental for "Brave." The two also penned this tune for The Blessed Unrest. "He's the most incredible human," Bareilles said of Antonoff to Radio.com . "He's so inspiring, so funny, so dear and sweet and charming and talented."

Sara Bareilles - Manhattan

Sara Bareilles - Manhattan Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Blessed Unrest
Released: 2013

Manhattan Lyrics

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
The weather in the fall
And I'll bow out of place
To save you some space
For somebody new

You can have Manhattan
'Cause I can't have you

Ah

You can have Manhattan
The one we used to share
The one where we were laughing
And drunk on just being there
Hang on to the reverie
Could you do that for me
'Cause I'm just too sad to

You can have Manhattan
'Cause I can't have you

And so it goes
One foot after the other
'Til black and white begin to color in
And I know
That holding us in place is simply fear
Of what's already changed

Ah

You can have Manhattan
I'll settle for the beach
And sunsets facing westward with
Sand beneath my feet
I'll wish this away
Just missing the days
When I was one half of two

You can have Manhattan
'Cause I can't have you

Writer/s: SARA BAREILLES
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Manhattan

When Sara Bareilles moved from Los Angeles to New York she fell in love with the city but was forced to relinquish her boyfriend. She laments on this piano ballad:

"You can have Manhattan
'Cause I can't have you,"

Bareilles describes this conflict between two worlds and the ensuing ending of her long-distance relationship by comparing the sandy beaches of LA with the bustle and buildings of Manhattan. She told VH1: "When I played this song for the folks at the label, they said 'We gotta get this in a Woody Allen film!'"

Sara Bareilles - Little Black Dress

Sara Bareilles - Little Black Dress Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Blessed Unrest
Released: 2013

Little Black Dress Lyrics

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 I’m
Finally alone and dressed for the show
But going nowhere

They don’t need to see me crying

I’ll get my Little Black Dress on
And if I put on my favorite song
I’m gonna dance until you’re all gone
I’ll get my little black dress on

You came
Lifted me up but then you dropped a hurricane
Now I’m fighting to find the ground again,
To steady my feet
Get up off my knees and just remember that I am
More than just somebody’s puppet I can
Find the cord and then I’ll cut it I stand
A pretty good chance to dust myself off and dance

I’ll get my little black dress on
And if I put on my favorite song
I’m gonna dance until you’re all gone
I’ll get my little black dress on
I got my little black dress on
And if I tell myself that nothing’s wrong
This doesn’t have to be a sad song
Not with my little black dress on

It’s time to connect the dots
And draw a different picture up
And paint you with the colors of
Everything I ever was
Return to the scene of the crime,
The day I let the music die
And rewrite the final lines 'cause this time I

I’ll get my little black dress on
And if I put on my favorite song
I’m gonna dance until you’re all gone
I’ll get my little black dress on
I got my little black dress on
And if I tell myself that nothing’s wrong
This doesn’t have to be a sad song
Not with my little black dress on

Writer/s: SARA BAREILLES
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Little Black Dress

Bareilles told VH1 that this song reveals the difficulty she faces showcasing her authentic self in the world of entertainment. "I feel people's pain maybe more than I need to sometimes, because it can be very crippling," she said. "This song started as a love letter to the lost."

Sara Bareilles - Eden

Sara Bareilles - Eden Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Blessed Unrest
Released: 2013

Eden Lyrics

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 change anything, I think I would start with the name
The truth is all those angels started acting the same†¨
And I know there’s no going back now 'cause
Life in Eden
Life in Eden changed†¨
No way to make the pain play fair†¨
It doesn’t disappear just because you say it isn’t there
So when they ask why’d she go you can say 'cause
Life in Eden†¨
Life in Eden changed†¨
Life in Eden changed

Walking in the garden was a serpent-shaped heart and he told me†¨
What is broken cannot show, and less than beautiful is worse than unholy
Idolized my innocence,
Stole it from me in the end†¨
Now I’m wide awakened and still paying for the poison they sold me

You know if I could change anything, I think I would start with the name
The truth is all those angels started acting the same†¨
And I know there’s no going back now 'cause†¨
Life in Eden
Life in Eden changed†¨
No way to make the pain play fair†¨
It doesn’t disappear just because you say it isn’t there, so
When they ask why’d she go you can say 'cause
Life in Eden†¨
Life in Eden changed†¨
Life in Eden changed

There was a time when I was taking all bets†¨ that
This place was even better than as good as it gets and now
Looking back from the outside in†¨
I think I was choking on the air in Eden
Choking on the air in Eden

Life in Eden changed†¨

You know if I could change anything, I think I would start with the name
The truth is all those angels started acting the same†¨
And I know there’s no going back now 'cause†¨
Life in Eden
Life in Eden changed†¨
No way to make the pain play fair
It doesn’t disappear just because you say it isn’t there, so
When they ask why’d she go you can say 'cause
Life in Eden
Life in Eden changed†¨
When they ask why’d she go
'Cause life in Eden
Life in Eden changed

Life in Eden changed
Life in Eden changed

Writer/s: SARA BAREILLES, MATT HALES
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Eden

Bareilles uses Adam and Eve as an allegory as she sings of her life changing move from her home state of California to New York. "I found myself a little stuck in the disillusionment in Los Angeles," she explained to VH1, "and this is about letting go of that and moving into a different space."

Sara Bareilles - I Choose You

Sara Bareilles - I Choose You Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Blessed Unrest
Released: 2013

I Choose You Lyrics

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 letter

Tell the world that we finally got it all right
I choose
you
I will become yours and you will become mine
I choose
you
I choose
You, yeah

There was a time when I would have believed them
If they told me that you could not come true
Just love's illusion
But then you found me
And everything changed
And I believe in something again

My whole heart
Will be yours forever
This is a beautiful start
To a lifelong love letter

Tell the world that we finally got it all right
I choose
You
I will become yours and you will become mine
I choose
You
I choose
You

We are not perfect we'll learn from our mistakes
And as long as it takes I will prove my love to you
I am not scared of the elements I am underprepared,
But I am willing
And even better
I get to be the other half of you

Tell the world that we finally got it all right
I choose
You, yeah
I will become yours and you will become mine
I choose
You
I choose
You

I choose
You

Writer/s: BAREILLES, SARA / BLYNN, JASON / HARPER, PETE
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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I Choose You

This soaring romantic declaration finds Bareilles singing of a "lifelong love letter." She told VH1: "This song, for me, was about really claiming my belief that there is true love out there."

Bareilles wrote the song with Pete Harper and Jason Blynn, who as well as playing on The Blessed Unrest are also members of the rock band Harper Blynn. It was produced by mixer and producer Mark Endert whose other credits include Maroon 5's "This Love" and Train's "Hey Soul Sister."