 Genius Lyrics
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Vanessa Carlton – A Thousand Miles
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The lead single for Carlton’s debut album Be Not Nobody, “A Thousand Miles” has solidified itself over the years as an Internet sensation that cross through all forms of media
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Vanessa Carlton – Willows
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[Verse 1] / Find a love / Go build a cabin / Find land and a tree / Carve in a wish / On your knees, planting seeds / The dirt, making rows, where the devil don’t see / [Verse 2
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Vanessa Carlton – Ascension
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[Verse 1] / Canyon / This canyon / Formations of sand and stone / We'll navigate down below / [Verse 2] / Ascension / Ascension / The sky is no separate light / And we watch
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Vanessa Carlton – Blue Pool
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Blue Pool is the fifth track on Vanessa Carlton’s fifth album, Liberman. It was first released as the lead single from the Blue Pool EP and later included on the album.
Lyrically
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Vanessa Carlton – White Houses
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White Houses is the lead single from Vanessa Carlton’s sophomore album Harmonium.
The track’s lyrics is a coming of age story, and features the narrator dealing with the loss of
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Vanessa Carlton – London
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[Verse 1] / Waste away the days / Waiting on a new age / But time betrays me / And I get older one more year / [Verse 2] / Walk London's windy streets / Go anywhere but home / '
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Vanessa Carlton – Operator
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The first single, “Operator”, was released for digital download on September 25, 2015. A music video for the single, directed by Daniel Henry, was released on October 13, 2015
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Vanessa Carlton – Ordinary Day
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This piano-driven pop song was released as the second single from Carlton’s debut album, Be Not Nobody. She wrote it when she was 17, and the first song she was able to finish in
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Vanessa Carlton – Carousel
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[Verse 1] / For all you broken-hearted lovers lost / Go, find another one / 'Cause you know time won't wait and you'll be late / White rabbit's on the run / [Verse 2] / It's hard
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Vanessa Carlton – Twilight
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[Verse 1] / I was stained with a role in a day not my own / 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
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Vanessa Carlton – Rinse
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Vanessa Carlton – Papa
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[Verse 1] / Look up, look where you wanna be / Look left, look where he left me / I should've known by the ice in his eye / But you warm me up with your so sweet demise / And
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Vanessa Carlton – Afterglow
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[Verse 1] / Just when the days start getting colder / I walk the streets I never knew / There's some words I never told you / The sound rings out like the truth / [Chorus] / And if
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Vanessa Carlton – Nolita Fairytale
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According to Carlton, the song is about her life in Nolita (a neighborhood of New York City) and, in her words:
Nolita is a place in New York where I lived. It is north of Little
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Vanessa Carlton – This Time
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[Verse 1] / It's 4 a.m. and I'm wide awake / Waiting for my thoughts to fade / And a flickering of all of my mistakes / And as the light starts creeping in / I slowly feel the day
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Vanessa Carlton – Annie
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[Verse 1] / Watch her as she flew deep within the blue / A day out from the county ICU / There's nothing you can do, someone gently says to you / The doctor says that now it won't
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Vanessa Carlton – San Francisco
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[Verse 1] / I, I know what you did / Like a boy of summer gives his first kiss / Love, is dancing on my finger / He got to the heart of the matter and lingered / Now I'm walking
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Vanessa Carlton – Pretty Baby
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Vanessa Carlton (Ft. Stevie Nicks) – The One
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[Verse 1: Vanessa Carlton] / Holiday, and I come home / I hope to see this boy I know / I can't wait for us to be alone / Flipping through the radio / We sing along to the indie
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Vanessa Carlton – Hands on Me
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“Hands on Me” is a song on Vanessa Carlton’s third studio album, Heroes & Thieves (2007), and is the album’s second single. According to the website FMQB.com, it was released to
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Vanessa Carlton – Dreams
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Now here you go again, you say you want your freedom / Well, who am I to keep you down? / It's only right that you should play the way you feel it / But listen carefully to the
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Vanessa Carlton – Home
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[Verse 1] / And some people live in a house on a hill / And wish they were some place else / There's nobody there when the evening is still / Secrets with no one to tell / [Verse 2
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Vanessa Carlton – Hear the Bells
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Vanessa Carlton was experiencing some serious health problems when she started writing the songs for Rabbits On The Run. This song was inspired by her lack of physical well being
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Vanessa Carlton – Who's to Say
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[Verse 1] / Stand up straight, do your trick, turn on the stars / Jupiter shines so bright when you're around / To tell us slow down, we're too young, you need to grow / The speed'
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Vanessa Carlton – Sway
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[Verse 1] / My heart, your hands, gentle my friend / Break me neatly, numb me sweetly / [Chorus] / Say you would, say you could / Say you'd come and stop the rain / Say you'd try
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Vanessa Carlton – Paradise
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Vanessa Carlton – Miner's Canary
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[Verse 1] / I will sing to keep the peace / Down below in the cage you built for me / A cave of echoes / A miner's canary / [Verse 2] / You were older, you knew the way / To keep
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Vanessa Carlton – Fairweather Friends
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[Verse 1] / Say you see through the folly but, you do it for the fame / And, I'm fighting the jet stream, drinking cheap wine on airplanes / You're in L.A. not Chicago / Key under
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Vanessa Carlton – Heroes & Thieves
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[Verse 1] / Well disaster / It strikes on a daily basis / I'm looking for wisdom / In all the wrong places / But still want to laugh / In disappointed faces / [Pre-Chorus] / But
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Vanessa Carlton – More Than This
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[Verse 1] / Cradling stones, hold fire bright / As crickets call out to the moonlight / And as you lean in to steal a kiss / I'll never need more than this / [Verse 2] / We all
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Vanessa Carlton – C'est la Vie
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[Verse 1] / I've been taking what you've given / Now I'm thinkin' I've been livin' / The fantasy of your sweet smile / Sad as blue and blue as only / You could cast the color on me
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Vanessa Carlton – Wanted
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[Verse 1] / I have wandered, far and wide / For something real, some thing to die for / But I have found you, and you do not see / All that is me, all that is true / [Chorus] / I
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Vanessa Carlton – Dear California
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[Verse 1] / As usual, I'm in a tricky predicament / Weathering my thoughts, on the roof sneaking a cigarette / Dear California, it's been nice to know ya / Tell me, will you miss
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Vanessa Carlton – Matter of Time
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[Verse 1] / Give her all your darkness / Give her all your light / Love is like a carriage / It's no spirit in the night / [Verse 2] / Like a wishing well / Where all your pennies
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Vanessa Carlton – Private Radio
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[Intro] / Oh oh oh / Oh oh oh / Gotta get a little / Gotta get a little / [Verse 1] / All the world has gone to bed / And I am drowning in it's silence / But a solitude is in my
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Vanessa Carlton – I Don't Want to Be a Bride
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[Verse 1] / I like your company / You've got a fresh philosophy / Never knew such a gentleman / And you can take me on a cheap vacation / I don't want to have expectations / 'Cause
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Vanessa Carlton – Unsung
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Vanessa Carlton – Get Good
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[Verse 1] / Are the echoes coming back to you? / Is wisdom seeing patterns on a loom? / Like a blanket around you / You were weaving colors, when I saw you / [Verse 2] / Put your
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Vanessa Carlton – Spring Street
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[Intro] / Nah, nah-nah-nah, nah nah nah / Nah, nah-nah-nah, nah nah nah / [Verse 1] / I was heading down to Spring Street / With a suitcase in my hand / I'm filled with love and
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Vanessa Carlton – My Best
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[Verse 1] / We scream and shout / And try to make it last / Though it didn't work out / I don't love you any less / My lover or friend / I won't ever tell / Our secret's safe / An
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Vanessa Carlton – The Marching Line
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[Verse 1] / Boots on concrete / Don't slip on the leaves / Smile at the strangers / They'll know what you mean / Clouds like cathedrals / The night hits the sea / [Chorus 1] / And
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Vanessa Carlton – Come Undone
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[Verse 1] / I've seen myself in a thousand faces / Strung out on life's path / I would add up what you mean to me / But I cannot do the math / And this fashionista's garden party
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Vanessa Carlton – River
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[Verse 1] / Sailors on the sea / Are we heading clear for the edge of the ocean? / There's no city that keeps you king for a gypsy / And are we guided by some vision? / All our
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