 Genius Lyrics
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Sharon Van Etten – I Know
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Now I turn into a lover on the side / I cannot tell the poet eye apart from mine / And now you see me with a tear fall on my right / I know, you know / You see me turn around and
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Sharon Van Etten – Seventeen
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According to Sharon Van Etten, the lyrics for “Seventeen” were inspired by New York City, and the changes she saw in the city in all the time she lived there:
“Seventeen” just
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Sharon Van Etten – Beaten Down
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[Verse 1] / Your big ol' heart takes a lot on / Shoulders the world / It takes a lot to unfold / And you compromise so / Don't try to understand / [Pre-Chorus] / Your big ol' heart
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Sharon Van Etten – Porta
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“Porta” is Sharon Van Etten’s first single in 2022, accompanied by a music video released the same day.
Sharon wrote the lyrics in 2020, “at one of the lowest lows” of her life
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Sharon Van Etten – Born
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[Verse 1] / I was never like her / I laugh as I am knocked down / Turned your face like I always did / When I was taking my time / [Pre-Chorus] / I knew where I was born / I knew
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Sharon Van Etten – Come Back
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[Verse] / Wall eyes / Ceiling felt too high / Nights were falling down skies / Was no look in the eyes / Subtle moments of past / What a wondering time / Come back / [Pre- Chorus
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Sharon Van Etten – Taking Chances
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Taking Chances was the first single released by Sharon Van Etten from her 2014 album Are We There.
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Sharon Van Etten – Break Me
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No show / Isn't that how it goes? / No show / He makes / He's making room for me in the city / He makes / He can break me / With one hand to my head / Go in dark, dear / Dissipate
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Sharon Van Etten – Hands
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“Hands” is a song about forgiveness in a relationship.
Here is a quote from Sharon’s banter during her MicroShow for The Current at the Warming House in Minneapolis on Feb. 17
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Sharon Van Etten – Leonard
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[Verse 1] / There he goes / He finally closed the door / I turn the lock feeling more confused than before / What gives? / I thought that you would love more / Now you're a coward
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Sharon Van Etten – Darkness Fades
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Rain, sleep tonight / Sunrise, hold hands all night / It's been a while since I held you close / Been a while since we've touched / All the doors close / I've seen the fall / I've
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Sharon Van Etten – Save Yourself
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[Verse 1] / I want every town, I need you to know / There's nothing left to sell me, I'm broke / I just want these holes for when I try to run / For no reason, or so I'm told / [
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Sharon Van Etten – Headspace
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[Verse 1] / Eyes on screen to left of me / All the clouds are wrapped around your brain / Hardly see what's next to you / Can't you see I'm trying to get through? / [Chorus] / Baby
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Sharon Van Etten – For You
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I was walking up the street / I was thinking about my dreams that might come true / With you / I was whispering in my sleep / All the secrets that I keep, I told to you / I do, I
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Sharon Van Etten – Feel Good
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When I look around / The state of affairs / When you pull / My feet up there / I read your palm lines / And ask if we are going to make it / When you said undress / All my life
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Sharon Van Etten – I'll Try
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My hell in drive / My heart in, like, a fog / I hear them now / Every time I cross the park / Believe the death / Karma, your life / Come what fear undone / My life on the path
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Sharon Van Etten – Love More
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Sharon said:
“Epic was written in the aftermath of a really bad relationship. This guy didn’t even let me have a guitar. I don’t have any bitterness toward him because he kicked my
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Sharon Van Etten – Malibu
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[Verse 1] / We held hands as we passed the truck / Just a couple of dudes who don't give a fuck / Tap the brakes and we slow down / Just a couple of jokers on the edge of town / In
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Sharon Van Etten – Every Time the Sun Comes Up
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[Verse 1] / Pace man for you / Hold my horses patient / Hey, man, tricks can wait / To heal my emotions / [Chorus] / Every time the sun comes up, I'm in trouble / Every time the
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Sharon Van Etten – All I Can
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The sun is at stake / And I'm at your window / Beyond all sleep / And I can't speak / In all Tokyo / Translate memories / That I cannot free / But what will it take? / We all make
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Sharon Van Etten – Serpents
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Van Etten has said that her second album Epic was inspired by her recovery from a bad relationship:
This guy didn’t even let me have a guitar. I don’t have any bitterness toward
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Sharon Van Etten – Stay
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“Stay”, Remind Me Tomorrow’s closing track, is a poignant tribute to Sharon Van Etten’s child, who was born in the years since her previous album.
The song’s title (and closing
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Sharon Van Etten – Tarifa
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Hit the ground / The yard, I found something / I could taste your mouth / Shut the door / Now in the sun tanning / You were so just / Looking across the sky / Can't remember / I
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Sharon Van Etten – Our Love
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[Verse 1] / You say I am genuine / I see your backhand again / I'm a sinner, I have sinned / We're a half-mast flag in wind / [Chorus] / It's our love, it's our love / It's our
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Sharon Van Etten – Don't Do It
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[Verse 1] / Said you need to do it, 'cause you can't feel it tonight / Well you can if you want to / Want to take you outside, want to show you the sky / To remind you why you
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Sharon Van Etten – The End of the World
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“The End of the World” is a cover of Skeeter Davis’s “The End Of The World”.
It was released on March 3, 2017, as a part of Resistance Radio: The Man In The High Castle, which is
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Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen – Like I Used To
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[Verse 1: Sharon Van Etten] / Will the marker stain the skin? / Stole the dress I saw you in / Now nothing comes to mind / Saw a life as override / One more session overdrive / The
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Sharon Van Etten – Kevin's
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True / Tell everyone you know / It's all we ask / If it were all up to me, I would say / Come up to these truths instead / You dig your own grave / You dig your own grave / Buried
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Sharon Van Etten – Give Out
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Track 2 off of the brilliant Tramp. On “Give Out,” Sharon sings about how hard it is to end something that’s meant so much to her over the years.
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Sharon Van Etten – A Crime
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“A Crime” is the first song in Sharon Van Etten’s second studio album Epic (2010).
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Sharon Van Etten (Ft. Jenn Wasner) – This Is Too Right
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This is too right / You have mistaken me for another life / This is too right / You have mistaken me for / Someone you used to like / It’s too right, it’s too right / It’s too
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Sharon Van Etten – Darkish
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Turn me back and you'll say / "Here is what you have / Only in the stars you saw / Harmony is all you see / And home is what you hold / And what you have to hold / Is what you
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Sharon Van Etten – Do you realize
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Do you realize? / That you have the most beautiful face / Do you realize? / We're floating in space / Do you realize? / That happiness makes you cry / Do you realize? / That
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Sharon Van Etten (Ft. Zach Condon) – We Are Fine
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In an NPR interview, Van Etten described the inspiration behind this track:
I wrote the song about a friend talking me through a panic attack. [In] moving to New York City and
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Sharon Van Etten – Close to You
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[Verse 1] / I got a taste of, being with you / Don't wanna waste more time / Just when I think I, got it all figured out / You turn up shining / [Chorus] / Put on your best dress
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Sharon Van Etten – Consolation Prize
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I came to you / My conscience clean / Blood on my knees / The moral of the story is / Don't walk away again / I called you out / To see my bow / Our final scene / The moral of the
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Sharon Van Etten – DsharpG
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[Verse 1] / Everyone thinks I'm a liar / Wading on the edge of fire with you / In the hour of questions I wonder, who? / Who? / Why do they want? Who are we all? / What do we do
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Sharon Van Etten – Comeback Kid
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The first single off Sharon Van Etten’s fifth studio album, Remind Me Tomorrow.
Described as “faster, firmer and more boisterous” than her previous work, “Comeback Kid” foretold
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Sharon Van Etten – No One's Easy to Love
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Remind Me Tomorrow differs from Sharon Van Etten’s previous output by focusing on rougher, synthesized sonic backgrounds (courtesy of producer John Congleton) instead of her usual
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Sharon Van Etten – Anything
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Up the whole night, undefined / Can't stop thinking about peace and war / Up the whole night, right before / The sun takes everything / It could've been anything / I didn't feel
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