by Sara Bareilles on album Careful Confessions

Something always brings me back to you It never takes too long No matter what I say or do I still feel you here 'til the moment I'm gone You hold me without touch You keep me without chains I

by Sara Bareilles on album Little Voice

Head under water and they tell me To breathe easy for awhile The breathing gets harder, even I know that Made room for me, it's too soon to see If I'm happy in your hands I'm unusually hard to hold o

by Sara Bareilles on album Kaleidoscope Heart

Keep drinking 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, man We'

by Sara Bareilles on album Kaleidoscope Heart

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 o

by Sara Bareilles on album Little Voice

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? Get down to the heart of it No, it's my heart, you're shit out of your luck Don'

by Sara Bareilles on album Miscellaneous

It's comin' on Christmas They're cuttin' down trees They're puttin' up reindeer And singin' songs of joy and peace I wish I had a river I could skate away on But it don't snow here It stays pretty gr

by Sara Bareilles on album Kaleidoscope Heart

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 fo

by Sara Bareilles on album Little Voice

There's too many things I haven't done yet There's too many sunsets I haven't seen You can't waste the day wishing it'd slow down You would have thought by now, I'd have learned something I made up m

by Sara Bareilles on album Kaleidoscope Heart

No words My tears won't make any room for 'em, oh 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

by Sara Bareilles on album The Blessed Unrest

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

by Sara Bareilles on album The Blessed Unrest

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 D

by Sara Bareilles on album Little Voice

Time to tell me the truth To burden your mouth for what you say No pieces of paper in the way 'Cause I can't continue pretending to choose These opposite sides on which we fall The loving you laters

by Sara Bareilles on album Kaleidoscope Heart

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

by Sara Bareilles on album Careful Confessions

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 l

by Sara Bareilles on album Careful Confessions

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 an

by Sara Bareilles on album The Blessed Unrest

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

by Sara Bareilles on album Careful Confessions

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

by Sara Bareilles on album Kaleidoscope Heart

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 I have hope Ins

by Sara Bareilles on album Careful Confessions

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 And it's clear, this conversation ain't doing a thing '

by Sara Bareilles on album Careful Confessions

He bends his breath around my name And I am humbled, I feel small, plain His arms are angels by his side You need not ask if they're open, just how wide And his lips are day and his skin is nigh