More songs by Brandi Carlile
Description
Associated Performer: Sara Bareilles feat. Brandi Carlile
Composer, Associated Performer, Acoustic Guitar, Vocal, Lyricist: Sara Bareilles
Engineer, Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Baritone Guitar, Piano, Strings, Viola, Producer, Violin: Rob Moose
Lyricist, Composer, Associated Performer, Vocal: Brandi Carlile
Guitar, Drums, Engineer: Henri Bardot
Drums, Percussion: Jon Nellen
Bass Guitar: Chris Morrissey
Lyricist, Composer: Andrea Gibson
Engineer, Mixing Engineer: Jonathan Low
Mastering Engineer: Steve Fallone
Lyrics and translation
Original
Give me the light years, but I want the dark ones too.
Grief is the singer in my band, she's a passenger van and a shortcut straight to the truth.
Learn from the nightshades, they grow in the darkest places.
Had we not been stung so many times, would we ever have arrived at this heaven on
Earth that I don't wanna waste?
Pick a lucky penny up, and I'll marry you for your money, love.
So keep the novocaine out of my wisdom teeth.
Wanna feel it all, salt, then sour, then sweet.
Wanna kiss you and write love's name on my crumbling walls.
Lay them at your feet with the rest of me.
Salt, then sour, then sweet.
Come to the porch, love.
Look up at the perfect sky.
Holding the sun and the moon and the thunder in June while it teaches the birds and the rain how to fly. I don't need perfect.
No, I just wanna touch the truth.
I wanna cherish the trying and the living and the dying and make big mistakes the way kind people do.
Pick a lucky penny up, and I'll marry you for your money, love.
So keep the novocaine out of my wisdom teeth.
Wanna feel it all, salt, then sour, then sweet.
Wanna kiss you and write love's name on my crumbling walls.
Lay them at your feet with the rest of me.
-Nothing more I need. -Nothing more I need.
-Life is love, I believe. -Life is. . .
Salt, then sour, then sweet.
So sweet.
So sweet.
So sweet.
Life is love.
So -sweet.
-So sweet.
So sweet.
English translation
Give me the light years, but I want the dark ones too.
Grief is the singer in my band, she's a passenger van and a shortcut straight to the truth.
Learn from the nightshades, they grow in the darkest places.
Had we not been stung so many times, would we ever have arrived at this heaven on
Earth that I don't wanna waste?
Pick a lucky penny up, and I'll marry you for your money, love.
So keep the novocaine out of my wisdom teeth.
Wanna feel it all, salt, then sour, then sweet.
Wanna kiss you and write love's name on my crumbling walls.
Lay them at your feet with the rest of me.
Salt, then sour, then sweet.
Come to the porch, love.
Look up at the perfect sky.
Holding the sun and the moon and the thunder in June while it teaches the birds and the rain how to fly. I don't need perfect.
No, I just wanna touch the truth.
I wanna cherish the trying and the living and the dying and make big mistakes the way kind people do.
Pick a lucky penny up, and I'll marry you for your money, love.
So keep the novocaine out of my wisdom teeth.
Wanna feel it all, salt, then sour, then sweet.
Wanna kiss you and write love's name on my crumbling walls.
Lay them at your feet with the rest of me.
-Nothing more I need. -Nothing more I need.
-Life is love, I believe. -Life is. . .
Salt, then sour, then sweet.
So sweet.
So sweet.
So sweet.
Life is love.
So -sweet.
-So sweet.
So sweet.