One Sweet Love

I always have a love for songwriters who compose mostly everything on piano. I'm sure it stems from years of piano training (not that I can still play well at all - I haven't played in AGES). There is something so simplistic and beautiful about a person who can sit down at a piano and engage an audience.

And, that is why Sara Bareilles caught my eye this summer. Her debut album "Little Voice" has skyrocketed past established artists and her single "Love Song" is spinning on top-40 radio stations nationwide. In fact, it remained on iTunes' top 10 list forever... I'm not sure how long, but at least since this summer. She's a VH1 "You Oughta Know" artist and is doing a hotel cafe tour... one of the most ingenious tour ideas I've seen in a long time. It fits her.

"Little Voice" was an album I picked up and immediately kept on heavy iPod rotation from the start. I'm getting a little tired of "Love Song" because I've heard it so much, but her other tracks like "Vegas" and "Gravity" are amazing. Her lyrics come from a place of experience, and she clearly communications emotions in a fresh new way. I picked up "One Sweet Love" the other day for the first time in a long time, and I'm glad I did. I love it when songs speak truth...


"One Sweet Love"

Just about the time the shadows call
I undress my mind and dare you to follow
Paint a portrait of my mystery
Only close my eyes and you are here with me
A nameless face to think I see
To sit and watch the waves with me till they're gone
A heart I'd swear I'd recognize is made out of
My own devices....
Could I be wrong?

[CHORUS]
The time that I've taken
I pray is not wasted
Have I already tasted my piece of one sweet love?

Sleepless nights you creep inside of me
Paint your shadows on the breath that we share
You take more than just my sanity
You take my reason not to care.
No ordinary wings I'll need
The sky itself will carry me back to you
The things I dream that I can do I'll open up
The moon for you
Just come down soon

[CHORUS]
The time that I've taken
I pray is not wasted
Have I already tasted my piece of one sweet love?
Ready and waiting for a heart worth the breaking
But I'd settle for an honest mistake in the name of
One sweet love.

Savor the sorrow to soften the pain sip on
The southern rain
As I do, I don't look don't touch don't do anything
But hope that there is a you.

The earth that is the space between,
I'd banish it from under me...to get to you.
Your unexpected love provides my solitary's
Suicide...oh I wish I knew

[CHORUS]
The time that I've taken
I pray is not wasted
Have I already tasted my piece of one sweet love?
Ready and waiting for a heart worth the breaking
But I'd settle for an honest mistake in the name of
One sweet love.