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Be Not Nobody, debut album with which Vanessa Carlton became famous. Or at least she enjoyed a few months of mediocre fame with "A Thousand Miles" which I remember was played ten thousand times a day on MTV and I titled it as my song of the 3rd-grade exams.
After this clarification that I believe might not interest you much, I would like to move on to the description of the album released in the summer of 2002.
As soon as you insert it into the player, I can assure you that your expression will change dramatically, and I mean for the worse, because if the songs are not listened to carefully you might label them "all the same," due to her passion for the piano and violins (instruments we are not used to hearing often in the songs currently broadcast to us), her slow rhythms, and her voice that seems like that of a little girl entering the early stages of puberty.
However, this album is not without merit; in fact, it can justifiably earn a passing mark because, if you listen carefully, you can distinguish one song from another but, above all, you can appreciate the sweet and harmonious music paired with her voice, which, even though it leaves much to be desired, is used well (and I am not contradicting myself now, because a voice can be beautiful, but if the person is not capable of using it, it is worth nothing).
I've had this for a few months now, and I haven't found any song that truly disgusts me, also because it is easy-listening music for everyone; the only thing is that in the long run, it might leave you indifferent due to its somewhat unvarying style.
The songs I prefer from this album are "Paradise," "A Thousand Miles," and "Rinse" because they manage to convey many emotions that songs from other genres I adore (like metal) unfortunately fail to make me feel.
Anyway, I consider Carlton a mediocre artist; certainly, she will add very little to the history of music, she will end up forgotten due to the saturation of the music market, but I would not define her songs as pre-planned or "commercial" because they differ from the existing music on the market.
In conclusion, I would like to specify that this is a CD you will listen to night and day, and if I were you, I wouldn't buy the original but would download it from the internet (cough cough cough...)
Happy listening.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Ordinary Day (04:00)
Just a day, just an ordinary day
Just trying 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
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
Although they did not feel, no
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
Take my hand
Live while you can,
Don't you see your dreams lie right
In the palm of your hand
In the palm of your hand
Please come with me
See what I've seen
Touch the stars, for time will not flee
Time will not flee, can you see
Just a dream, just an ordinary dream
As I wake in bed
And the boy, that ordinary boy
Was it all in my head
Didn'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
Take my hand
Live while you can
Don't you see your dreams lie right
In the palm of your hand
In the palm of your hand
In the palm of your hand
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
02 Unsung (04:22)
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
[chorus]
I wait for the words on the tip of your tounge
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
[chorus]
If I could be the lesson that you learn, you learn if only
I could be the last one that love burns, its burns...yeah
[2x]
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 I could find the door
Well, I am cryin'
You aren't tryin'
And I am melting away
[chorus]
03 A Thousand Miles (04:03)
Making my way downtown
Walking fast, faces pass and I'm homebound
Staring blankly ahead
Just making my way
Making a way through the crowd
And I need you
And I miss you
And now I wonder
(Chorus)
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 just see you
Tonight
It's always times like these
When I think of you
And wonder if you ever think of me
Cause everything's so wrong and I don't belong
Living in your precious memory
Cause I need you
And I miss you
And now I wonder
Chorus
And I, I don't wanna let you know
I, I drown in your memory
I, I don't wanna let this go
I, I don't
Making my way downtown
Walking fast, faces pass and I'm homebound
Staring blankly ahead, just making my way
Making a way through the crowd
And I still need you
And I still miss you
And now I wonder
If I could fall into the sky
Do you think time would pass us by
Cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles
If I could just see you, oh, oh
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 just see you
If I could just hold you tonight
04 Pretty Baby (03:57)
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'll 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
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'll 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'
Why can't you hold me and never let go
When you touch me, it is me that you own
Pretty baby, oh the place that you hold in my heart
Would you break it apart again, oh pretty baby
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'll 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
Pretty baby, why can't you see
Pretty baby, don't you leave me
Pretty baby, why can't you see
Pretty baby, don't you leave me
Oh pretty baby, my pretty baby, my pretty baby
Don't you leave me
05 Rinse (04:33)
She'd do anything to sparkle in his eyes
She would suffer, she would fight and compromise
She's been wishin' up 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 freed
But everything happens for reasons that she will never understand
Till she knows that the heart of a woman will never
Be found in the arms of a man
She must rinse
This all away
She can't hold anybody this way
She must rinse
This all away
She can't love him
And as she runs away, she fears she won't be followed
What could be worse than leaving something behind
And as the depth of oceans slowly become shallow
Its loneliness she finds
If only he was mine
She'd do anything to sparkle in his eyes
She would suffer, she would fight and compromise
She's been wishin' up 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 wont, she must rinse him
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
06 Sway (03:59)
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
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
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
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
Say you'd come and stop the rain
Say you'd come and stop the rain
Say you'd come and stop the rain
Say you'd come and stop the rain
07 Paradise (04:52)
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 cover's 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
Her 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 feel alright
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
Don't you try to hold it in, hold it in
One more day in paradise
One more day in paradise
It's one more day in paradise
One last chance to feel alright
Once upon a year gone by
She saw herself give in
Every time she closed her eyes
She saw what could have been
08 Prince (04:11)
Willing and able to run
I am
Willing and able I'm able to come (2x)
And if I wait for you now
Would you come
Would you run
Would you bring it back around
Oh, baby how (2x)
Willing and able to run
I am
Willing and able I'm able to come
If it all went away
Nothin' left to say
oh Would you fight it or would you lay down
At the hand of your God oh 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
willing and able to run,
I am willing, I am willing,
willing,willing.
Willing and able to run
I am
Willing and able I'm able to come(2x)
And if I wait for you now
Would you come
Would you run
Would you bring it back around
Oh, baby how (2x)
Willing and able to run
I am
Willing and able I'm able to come(2x)
09 Paint It Black (03:32)
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 sea 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.......
11 Twilight (04:51)
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
And 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
And it was so easy not to behold what I could hold
But you taught me I could change
Whatever came within these shallow days
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
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 so blind to all that is so real
But as illusion dies I see there is so much to be revealed
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
I was stained, by a role, in a day not my own
But 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 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...
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