Album: Little Voice (2007)

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• Something always brings me back to you
  It never takes too long
  No matter what I say or do
  I'll still feel you here 'til the moment I'm gone
  
  You hold me without touch
  You keep me without chains
  I never wanted anything so much than to drown in your love
  And not feel your rain
  
  Set me free, leave me be
  I don't wanna fall another moment into your gravity
  Here I am, and I stand
  So tall, just the way I'm supposed to be
  But you're on to me and all over me
  
  Oh, you loved me 'cause I'm fragile
  When I thought that I was strong
  But you touch me for a little while
  And all my fragile strength is gone
  
  Set me free, leave me be
  I don't wanna fall another moment into your gravity
  Here I am, and I stand
  So tall, just the way I'm supposed to be
  But you're on to me and all over me
  
  I live here on my knees as I try to make you see
  That you're everything I think I need here on the ground
  But you're neither friend nor foe though I can't seem to let you go
  The one thing that I still know is that you're keeping me down, ooh
  You're keeping me down, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
  You're on to me, on to me, and all over
  
  Something always brings me back to you
  It never takes too long Writer/s: Sara Bareilles
  Publisher: CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Sentric Music, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 8

• Dfrench from Nouvelle-aquitaineSara Beth (I like a lot of Beths (Hart, Gibbons, Rowley)) is amongst the best and one of the few who can cover Joni Mitchell. Sorry Brandy.
• Jfp from IranWhat ever this song mean; I'm listening when I'm sad and imagine that we will never be toghther... but I will love you
• Dale from Melbourne Kurt Cobain once said songs mean whatever they mean to you.
• Lynn from Los AngelesSara Bareilles states that this song was about her first real heartbreak.
• Mary from UsaThis song is about falling in love.... with a forbidden lover. To love so passionately that love is taking over your ability to do what you know is right. You want to leave; to do what's right; but the moment you think you're strong the feelings are undeniable... there's no turning back. But in the end you beg that the lover will turn and walk away...
  You can feel the passion, pain and
  Grief of this broken heart. I know all too well.
• Bobo from Los Angeles, CaIn So You Think You Can Dance, this song was used for addicition. I do not in any way shape or form discredit what was said here, but if one really wanted to, he or she could interpret it in a different way. In SYTYCD, it works for addiction, and I also associate it with depression. I know it is about heartbreak, but it also could be interpreted in one's own opinion for other things that bring you down and you cannot get away from, no matter how hard you try (i.e. addiciton, depression, etc)
• Jessie from Arlington, VaOn the special dual CD edition of "Little Voice", she states before the acoustic version that this is a song written about her first real heartbreak.
• Glenda from Cagliari, ItalyIt's just lovely! Still full of power.

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