The Growing Pains - Booklet Alessia Cara
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- Cover101 all lyrics written by alessia cara no band-aids for the growing bains.
- growing pains[verse 1] make my way through the motions / I try to ignore it / but home's looking farther the closer I get / don't know why I can't see the end / is it over yet?/ a short leash and a short fuse / don't match / they tell me it ain't that bad / "now, don't you overreact" / so I just hold my breath / don't know why I can't see the sun when young should be fun / [pre-chorus] and I guess the bad can get better / gotta be wrong before it's right / every happy phrase engraved in my mind and I've always been a go-getter/ there's truth in every word I write / but still the growing pains, growing pains / they're keeping me up at night/ [chorus] (hey hey x8) and I can't hide/ 'cause growing pains are keeping me up at night (x2) [verse 2] try to mend what's left / of my content incomprehension / as I take on the stress of the mess that I've made / don't know if i even care for "grown" / if it's just alone / [pre chorus] / [chorus] / [bridge] it's starting to look like / Ms. Know-It-All can't take her own advice / can't find / pieces of my peace of mind / I cry / more than I want to admit but I can't lie / to myself, to anyone / cause phoning it in isn't any fun / can't run / back to my youth the way I want to the days my brother was quicker to fool/ AM radio, not much to do / used monsters as an excuse to lie awake / now the monsters are the ones that I have to face / no band-aids for the growing pains (Alessia Caracciolo, Warren Okay Felder, Andrew Wansel) / © 2018 Alcara Songs/Sony ATV Music Publishing (SOCAN/BMI)//Crow's Tree Publishing (BMI). All rights administered by Songs of Kobalt Music Publishing (BMI)//Andrew Wansel (BMI)/Songs of Universal, Inc. (BMI) / Produced by Pop & Oak / Engineered by Oak Felder at SuCasa Recording, Los Angeles, CA / Assistant Engineer: Keith "Daquan" Sorrells / Programming by Oak Felder/ Mixed by Manny Marroquin at Larrabee Sound Studios, North Hollywood, CA today not [verse 1] someday I won't be afraid of my head / someday I will not be chained to my bed / someday I'll forget the day he left / but surely not today / one day
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- kind my[verse 1] do you recall the days at your old place? / playing with troll dolls / to scare the kids away / my closet was a time machine/ yours, a stage / I wish we told those little girls / they're gonna be okay / still picture it all in my mind/making a campfire/out of broken flashlights/jealous of your high tops/'cause someone stole mine / wish someone would've told me that we'd be alright/[chorus] my kind of time/is meant to carelessly spend/ and my kind of nights / are the ones that don't end / my kind of fun/ doesn't make any sense/and my kind of love/you won't never forget/ [verse 2] do you remember/all the cartoons at midnight/like the one / about the crass-humoured french guy / and what about you, Mr. Poetry? / and what about all we built/in just a couple weeks/talking about all of our fears / through a cracked screen/ picking little fights/ over falling asleep /I wish you knew I loved you/when you knew you loved me / really wish I knew you / Sooner than my 20s/ [chorus]/[bridge] I'm a product of who's when's and how's/those who let go/ and those who stuck around/wish somebody would've told me / I'd be here now / 'cause this kind of life/is one to sing about/ [Chorus] (Alessia Caracciolo, Eric Frederic, Nate Mercereau) / ©2018 Alcara Songs/Sony ATV Music Publishing (SOCAN/BMI)//Frederic and Ried Music/Songs From the Boardwalk (BMI)/Sony/ATV Music Publishing, LLC (BMI)//Poslaniec Publishing (BMI)/Nice Life Songs (BMI)/Sony/ATV Songs LLC (BMI) / Produced by Ricky Reed and Nate Mercereau / Engineered by Ethan Shumaker at Elysian Park / Mixed by Manny Marroquin at Larrabee Sound Studios, North Hollywood, CA / Instrumentation by Alessia Cara and Ricky Reed out of love
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growing pains
[verse 1] make my way through the motions / I try to ignore it / but home's looking farther the closer I get / don't know why I can't see the end / is it over yet?/ a short leash and a short fuse / don't match / they tell me it ain't that bad / "now, don't you overreact" / so I just hold my breath / don't know why I can't see the sun when young should be fun / [pre-chorus] and I guess the bad can get better / gotta be wrong before it's right / every happy phrase engraved in my mind and I've always been a go-getter/ there's truth in every word I write / but still the growing pains, growing pains / they're keeping me up at night/ [chorus] (hey hey x8) and I can't hide/ 'cause growing pains are keeping me up at night (x2) [verse 2] try to mend what's left / of my content incomprehension / as I take on the stress of the mess that I've made / don't know if i even care for "grown" / if it's just alone / [pre chorus] / [chorus] / [bridge] it's starting to look like / Ms. Know-It-All can't take her own advice / can't find / pieces of my peace of mind / I cry / more than I want to admit but I can't lie / to myself, to anyone / cause phoning it in isn't any fun / can't run / back to my youth the way I want to the days my brother was quicker to fool/ AM radio, not much to do / used monsters as an excuse to lie awake / now the monsters are the ones that I have to face / no band-aids for the growing pains (Alessia Caracciolo, Warren Okay Felder, Andrew Wansel) / © 2018 Alcara Songs/Sony ATV Music Publishing (SOCAN/BMI)//Crow's Tree Publishing (BMI). All rights administered by Songs of Kobalt Music Publishing (BMI)//Andrew Wansel (BMI)/Songs of Universal, Inc. (BMI) / Produced by Pop & Oak / Engineered by Oak Felder at SuCasa Recording, Los Angeles, CA / Assistant Engineer: Keith "Daquan" Sorrells / Programming by Oak Felder/ Mixed by Manny Marroquin at Larrabee Sound Studios, North Hollywood, CA today not
[verse 1] someday I won't be afraid of my head / someday I will not be chained to my bed / someday I'll forget the day he left / but surely not today / one day
I won't need a PHD / to sit me down / and tell me what it all means / maybe one day it'll be a breeze/but surely not today/[pre-chorus] oh, you don't know what sadness means / till you're too sad to fall asleep / one day I'll be snoozing peacefully / but surely not today / [verse 2] / one day I swear the pain will be a blip / I'll have the hardest time recalling it / I'll be the king of misery Management/ but surely not today one day that song / won't make my cry anymore / one day I'll get up off the bathroom floor / oh, piece by piece I'll be restored / [pre-chorus 2] / oh, you don't know what happy means if it's only in your dreams / I'll be acquainted with my jollities / but surely not today / [bridge] surely not, surely not, surely not surely not today / [outro] one day the thought of him/ won't hurt the same / won't need distractions / to get through the day/
I guess I hope I'm gonna be okay / 'cause I'm not today
(Alessia Caracciolo)/2018 Alcara Songs/Sony ATV Music Publishing (SOCAN/BMI)
/ Produced by Jon Levine / Engineered by Inaam Haq at Cherry Beach Sound, Toronto, Canada and The Synagogue, Los Angeles, CA / Mixed by Matt Green at Studio 55, Los Angeles, CA/Vocals: Alessia Cara/Guitar: Jon Sosin / Violin: Blanca McC / Keyboard, Bass and Drum Programming: Jon Levine
If there's a do you she's think he's Looking down do you think Looking a god he's
If there's i don't want to [verse 1] You went and turned the red flag white / darlin, and you waved it/ you've always had a way with words/why can't you explain it / then? / I see your face in everyone / baby, and I hate it/who would have ever thought / I'd have to erase it/ (pre-chorus)/ every little thing is reminding me of you / guess I'll set fire to my whole room/ (Ah, ah, ah)/[chorus] I don't want to let it show/ but i still love you / and how do I let you know / if I can't call you / and I don't wanna be alone another night / I don't wanna feel this blue / how do i let you go if I don't want to / [verse 2] I double take at every phone/that rings out of habit / I can't shake the little things/ they're harder to manage, oh oh /I can't bury the past / but I'll bury the hatchet/can we just pretend / like this never happened / Yeah / [pre-chorus] / [chorus] / [bridge] so what are you doing tonight / 'cause I miss you and I/ and i can't even lie/I need you/I could get on a flight/I could make up the time / I know I'm out of line/Can i see you/[chorus] / Baby, how do I let you go if I don't want to /how do I let you go / if I don't want to (Alessia Caracciolo)/ © 2018 Alcara Songs/Sony ATV Music Publishing (SOCAN/BMI) / Produced by Alessia Cara / Engineered by Alessia Cara at Alessia's Basement Studios, Brampton, ON / Mixed by George Seara / All instrumentation by Alessia Cara
7 days
[verse 1] If there's a God / do you think he's looking down/ curled up on his couch right now? / as we fail to figure it out/ does he turn down the sound? / is he proud? / are we proud? / Guess we forgot / how to live a life with no filter/making boring people famous / let's pretend they're fascinating / let's tell little girls / that pretty girls are better/ or that pigment or religion really matters / [pre-chorus] we're in some trouble / Mr. Maker / don't turn away from your screen/ at least the bubble/ that we've created / could make for some good TV/ [chorus] oh, Mr. Man Upstairs /I know you're tuning in up there/way up there / would you care / to answer my question? / oh, the land of poor taste / the spectacle of cut and paste / that we've made/ would you say / please say / it was worth the 7 days/ [verse 2] does he hang his head / at all the greed we possess? / as the anti-social media / perpetuates the mess / maybe it's a test / maybe he's upset / by the loose-ends / stressed, like the rest of us / it happens to the best of us God / or is it Mr. G to me? / I hope that through the static you'll show us the clarity / 'cause it's hard to find the silver lining in the bittersweet/wonder if you're praying for us / before you go to sleep? / do you sleep in peace? / [pre-chorus] / [bridge] don't touch the remote / we'll be back in a moment / we are not hopeless/we are just coping / the mayhem is volant / but it ain't showbiz/reality's potent / chaotic, I know it / but we're growing/have some hope in us / were we worth all the time you gave up? / [chorus]
(Alessia Caracciolo, Warren Okay Felder, Andrew Wansel) / ©2018 Alcara Songs/Sony ATV Music Publishing (SOCAN/BMI)//Crow's Tree Publishing (BMI). All rights administered by Kobalt Music Publishing (BMI)//Andrew Wansel (BMD)/Songs of Universal, Inc. (BMI)/ Produced by Pop & Oak / Engineered by Oak Felder at SuCasa Recording, Los Angeles, CA and Harbourfront Studios, Toronto, Canada / Assistant Engineer: Keith "Daquan" Sorrells/ Instrumentation and Programming by Pop & Oak/Mixed by Manny Marroquin at Larrabee Sound Studios, North Hollywood, CA / Vocals: Alessia Cara / Keyboards: Pop & Oak