![]() it felt like a force that was bigger than a person." I could not remove myself, I couldn’t move on, move out, move forward. And then I went away to college, and every time I came home, he was just a magnet for me. "I had a high school boyfriend who I was madly in love with, and we broke up my senior year and got back together. "'Gravity' was born out of a high school relationship falling apart and me being a drama queen about it," Bareilles says, laughing. The third single from Bareilles' 2007 debut album Little Voice, "Gravity" is a haunting ballad about returning to a person over and over again. ![]() Now, Bareilles is opening up, and walking Bustle though the real stories behind eight of her most personal songs, from heartbreaking teen romances to one of U.S. ![]() Yet even as her success has skyrocketed, the 39-year-old has managed to keep a low profile when it comes to things like her mental health and romantic relationships, preferring to let her honest, intimate songs do the talking. "It's been six years - I’ve just done so many things, and so much has changed in my life." That's for sure since 2013, Bareilles has earned a handful of Grammy noms, hosted the Tonys, published a book, and performed on Broadway, just to name a few things. It’s been a long time coming, clearly," says the singer with a laugh, sitting down at Bustle's New York office a few days before the record's release. Nearly six years later, a new album, April's Amidst the Chaos, is here - and Bareilles, understandably, is anxious for people to hear it. The last time a real Sara Bareilles record arrived was 2013, with the release of the Grammy-nominated The Blessed Unrest. And yes, there was NBC's Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert! concert album in 2018, on which she sang as Mary Magdalene, but that was alongside the rest of the show's cast. There was 2015's Waitress soundtrack, featuring songs written and sung by Bareilles, but that was for a Broadway musical, not herself. And every day, with the help of this song and the love in my heart, I continue to be brave until the day I'm holding my Puppy Face for eternity.It's been a long time since the world got a new Sara Bareilles album. This song went from something I had never heard before to one of my favorites of all time. She wants me to be brave so that one day her and I will meet at the Rainbow bridge and walk across together. It was Minny's way of telling me she's ok, she's in a happy place and looking at me being so sad is hurting her as well. In one of the darkest moments of sheer sadness over the loss of my most beloved pet, two days after her death, 23 hours of crying, I hear this song and know like a gun it was pointed at my head. The coming out, for me, was the shell of sadness. Lou from Omaha, NeThe song might be for being brave in coming out, but it has a different meaning for me.When you see only one set of footprints, it was then When I need you most you would leave me."ĭuring your times of trial and suffering, "Lord, you said that once I decided to follow you, I also noticed that it happened at the very lowest I noticed that many times along the path of my life I looked back at the footprints in the sand. When the last scene of my life flashed before me, One belonging to me, and the other to the Lord. This poem has really helped me and if you need it, it will linger with you forever: "Footsteps in the Sand"Īcross the sky flashed scenes from my life. You may not see him-you may not feel him, but he is there holding you every second. Just because you can't see or feel something doesn't mean that it isn't there: sometimes it is just waiting for us to find it completely before you can feel it with you all of the time. You may not feel him with you all of the time, but know that he is. God is with us through every breath you take, the easy times and definitely in the hard times. I just want to let you know that you are not alone. Then one of my friends at church prayed for me and with a lot of encouragement, I am almost back to the way I was before her death. I was the exact same way when I lost one of my friends October 2016.except with several months of crying and then it was the song "I won't let go" by rascal flats that helped me.well not really, but I heard it and it was the beginning of my healing. Hadassah from United StatesI'm sorry for your loss.Hi from At SomewhereIs the song brave a 1st or 3rd hand account.Jamal from San Franciscothis song is a first person account and was actually video taped when first presented to executives at Sony, Sara sings like a belle of the ball, way to go girl.Say What You Wanna Say from And Let The Words Fall OutI REALLY Like This Song And It Was Sung By Someone Else Called (IDR The Name) 'Lovey James'(?).
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