Vanessa Carlton - Be Not Nobody Words

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ordinary day

just a day, just an ordinary day

just tryin' to get by

just a boy, just an ordinary boy but

he was looking to the sky and

as he asked if I would come along

I started to realize that everyday he finds just what he's lookin' for

and like a shooting star he shines, and he said



take my hand, live while you can,

don't you see your dreams lie right in the palm of your hand



and as he spoke, he spoke, ordinary words

thought they did not feel

for I felt what I had not felt before

and you'd swear those words could heal and

as I looked up into those eyes, his vision borrows mine

and I know he's no stranger

for I feel I've held him for all of time, and he said



chorus



please come with me, see what I see

touch the stars for time will not flee

time will not flee, can't you see...



just a dream, just an ordinary dream

as I wake in bed

and that boy, that ordinary boy

was it all in my head?

don't he ask if I would come along

it all seemed so real, but as I looked to the door

I saw that boy standing there with a deal, and he said



chorus



just a day, just an ordinary day

just tryin' to get by

just a boy, just an ordinary boy, but

he was looking to the sky





unsung



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 am melting away



I wait for the words on the tip of your tongue

I'm only as good as the last one

well you decide and I abide as my song goes unsung (yeah, yeah, yeah)



things are goin' crazy and I'm not sure who to blame

everything is changing and I do not feel the same

I'm slippin' through the cracks of floors I thought that were strong

I'm tryin' to find a place where I can feel like I belong



well, I am cryin'

you aren't tryin'

I am melting away



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if I could be the lesson that you learn, you learn if only

I could be the last one that love burns, it burns...yeah

if only I could get into that corner of your head

where things finally match and meet the standards that you set

of how I wish I was the treasure that you were lookin' for

bet I would feel better if only I could find the door



well, I am cryin'

you aren't tryin'

and I am melting away



chorus





a thousand miles



makin' my way downtown

walking fast

faces pass and I'm homebound



staring blankly ahead

just makin' my way

I'm makin' a 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 time would pass me by

cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles

if I could see you ... tonight



it's always times like these

when I think of you

and I wonder if you ever think of me



cause everything's so wrong

and I don't belong

livin' in your precious memory



cause I need you

and I miss you

and now I wonder



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and I, I don't want to let you know

I, I drown in your memory

I, I don't want to let this go

I, I don't ...



makin' my way downtown

walking fast

faces pass and I'm homebound



staring blankly ahead

just makin' my way

I'm makin' my way

through the crowd



and I still need you

and I still miss you

and now I wonder



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pretty baby



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't you see

you're the one that I belong to

I'm be the embrace that keeps you warm

for you're the sun that breaks the storm

I'll be alright and I'll sleep sound

as long as you keep comin' round, oh pretty baby



and I know things can't last forever

but there are lessons that you'll never learn

oh just the scent of you it makes me hurt

so how's it you that makes me better



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why can't you hold me and never let go

when you touch me it is me that you own

pretty baby of the place that you hold in my heart

would you break it apart again ... oh pretty baby



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rinse



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 questions that will haunt her tonight



she must rinse this all away

she can't hold him this way

she must rinse this all away

she can't love him this way



how she'd be soothed, how she'd be saved if he could see

she needs to be held in his arms to be free

but everything happens for reasons that she will never understand

'til she knows that the heart of a woman will never be found in the

arms of a man



chorus



and if she runs away she fears she won't be followed

what could be worse that leaving something behind

and as the depth of oceans slowly become shallow

it's loneliness she finds ...

if only he was mine



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 questions that will haunt her tonight



she must rinse him

she must rinse him

she can't rinse him

she can't rinse him

she can't, she won't, she must rinse him

she can't, she won't, she must rinse him

she must rinse him

she can't rinse him

she must rinse him

she can't rinse him





sway



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 would, say you could

and you don't do anything



come down heavy, try and steady

precious ladies, love you, love me ...



chorus



hold my head up to the lies that you feed me

I'll fall under the spell you cast as you let me down



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

make me high on lullabies a melody for me to sway



chorus



say you'd come and stop the rain ...





paradise



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 day in paradise

one more day in paradise



as darkness quickly steals the light

that shined within her eyes

she slowly swallows all her fear

and soothes her mind with lies

well all she wants and all she needs

are reasons to survive

a day in which the sun will take

her artificial light ... he light



and it's one more day in paradise

one more day in paradise

it's one more day in paradise

one last chance to fee alight ... alright



don't pretend to hold it in just let it out

don't pretend to hold it in just push it out

don't you try to hold it in just let it out and

don't you try to hold it in you hold it in



chorus



once upon a year gone by

she saw herself give in

every time she closed her eyes

she saw what could have been





prince



willing and able to run

I am

willing and able I'm able to come



and if I wait 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 your God could you see the light

oh my prince can't you see what's been found



willing and able to run

willing and able to come

I am willing, I'm willing



willing and able to run

I am

willing and able I'm able to come





paint it black



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 love both never to come back

I see people turn their heads and quickly look away

like a new born baby it just happens every day



I look inside myself and see my heart is black

I see my red door and it's heading into black

maybe then I'll fade away and not have to face the facts

it's not easy facing up when your whole world is black



I wanna see it painted painted, painted black, oh baby

I wanna see it painted painted, painted black, oh baby



no more will my green see go turn a deeper blue

I could not foresee this thing happening to you

if I look hard enough into the setting sun

my love will laugh with me before the morning comes



I wanna see it painted, painted, painted black, oh

black as night, black as coal

I wanna see the sun blotted out from the sky

painted, painted, painted black oh baby

painted painted, painted black





wanted



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 the flimsy surface

you should know life lies beneath it

don't pretend you feel what I feel for you

live illusions and I am real



chorus



I know, I know you like the way

you feel when I play

I know, I know you don't really

hear what I say

I know, I know you are waiting

for something to raid

I know, I know you wish you could be

more than you say



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



chorus



more than you'll love, more than you'll hate

more than you'll hold, more than wanted

more than you'll crave, more than you'll cherish

more than you'll have, more than wanted





twilight



I was stained, with a role,

in a day not my own

but as you walked into my life

you showed what needed to be shown

I always knew, what was right

I just didn't know that I might

peel away and choose to see

with such a different sight



and I will never see the sky the same way,

and I will learn to say good-bye to yesterday

and I will never cease to fly if held down,

and I will always reach too high cause I've seen,

cause I've seen twilight



never cared never wanted

never sought to see what flaunted

so on purpose so in my face

couldn't see beyond my own place

it was so easy not to behold what I could hold

but you taught me I could change

whatever came within these shallow days



chorus



as the sun shines through it pushes away

and pushes ahead

it fills the warmth of blue

and leaves a chill instead and

I didn't know that I could be

but as illusion dies

I see there is so much to be revealed



chorus



I was stained, with a role,

in a day not my own

but as you walked into my life

you showed what needed to be shown

I always knew, what was right

I just didn't know that I might

peel away and choose to see

with such a different sight



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(taken from the Be Not Nobody CD booklet - typed out by Judy)





red ditty



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 okay?



and if in the middle of this final declaration

I walked away

what would you say?

would that be okay?



swindler



I've been mistaken

you swindled once again

now there's no question

I, I was wrong

and now I stand alone

just ? your throne

your true colors shown

you don't belong 



and now I'm lost

and now I run from you

and now I see

just how I bleed from you

and all the lies, all the lies

how could I let you in?

but now it's clear

I went along for the ride 



hey, Mr. Merry Man

I know you'll come again

till you find just what you're looking for

and if I'm your little lamb

oh, would you leave again?

oh no, I bet you'd stay for more 



and now I'm lost

and now I run from you

and now I see

just how I bleed from you

and all the lies, all the lies

how could I let you in?

but now it's clear

I went along for the ride 



and now I'm finding out

you were nothing about

what I thought you were

and now I understand

just how you work your plan

first you're warm and then you just burn 



and now I'm lost

and now I run from you

and now I see

just how I bleed from you

and all the lies, all the lies

how could I let you in?

but now it's clear

I went along for the ride 



and now I'll make my way

through another day

'cause I know better now

you'll drop another line

on someone else's time

but in me you still resound 



and now I'm lost

and now I run from you

and now I see

just how I bleed from you

and all the lies, all the lies

how could I let you in?

but now it's clear

I went along for the ride