View Single Post
Old 01-29-2007, 07:46 PM   #9
Noellenc
Eskimo Baby
 
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 16
Default

I might be able to find it, and if so I will edit this post with a link. Twilight is one of my all time favorite songs. Her album version has a lot of strings and orchestration, the end is almost an all out symphony. I actually prefer it just piano though because the lyrics are so powerful -- I will just write them out here because Damien Rice fans appreciate lyricism and Vanessa gets a lot of flack for "A Thousand Miles" because of it's pop appeal.

I was stained by a role, in a day, and not my own.
But as you walked into my life you showed what needed to be shown.
And I always knew what was right,
I just didn't know that I might peel away
and choose to see with such a different sight.

And I will never see the sky the same way
And I will learn to say goodbye to yesterday
and I will never cease to fly if held down
and I will always reach too high, 'cause I've seen twilight.

I never cared, never wanted, never sought to see what flaunted.
So on purpose, so in my face, couldn't see beyond my own place.
And it was so easy not to behold what I could hold,
but you taught me I could change whatever came within these shallow days.

Repeat chorus

But as the sun shines through it pushes away and pushes ahead
and fills a warmth of blue, but leaves a chill instead.
I didn't know that I could be so blind to all that is so real,
but as illusion dies I see there is so much to revealed.

Repeat chorus
Repeat first verse

And an interesting piece of info is that she wrote this song when she was about 17 when she ended up having to leave ballet school in NY. She said she wrote it at a rickety old piano they had in the dorm and she didn't have any intention of even being a singer then.

Sorry for plugging her, but I'm a big fan
Noellenc is offline   Reply With Quote