I just love Carlile’s sound and her lyrics are amazing. I first discovered her music on Grey’s Anatomy and have been listening to her songs on Napster. This is a really good song and I really like the lyrics. Listen to it sometime:
Turpentine:
I watch you grow away from me in photographs And memories like spies
And salt betrays my eyes again
I started losing sleep and gaining weight
And wishing I was was ten again So I could be your friend again*
These days we go to waste like wine
That’s turned to turpentine
It’s six AM and I’m all messed up I didn’t mean to waste your time
So I’ll fall back in line But I’m warning you we’re growing up*
I heard you found some pretty words to say
You found your little game to play and there’s no one allowed in
Then just when we believe we could be great
Reality it permeates
And conquers from within again*We’re OK I know we’re OK
and
Wasted:
Every time you close a door and nothing opens in its place you’ve wasted
And when you speak the words you know to those who know the words themselves you’re wasted,
You’re such a classic waste of cool, so afraid to break the rules in all the wrong places
Then again it’s good to get a call Now and then just to say hello