I think I’ve found the perfect voice that I would want to own if given the chance. I can’t sing, but I am a great lover of music. Well, who’s the lucky girl? It’s Sarah Bareilles.

I’m so obsessed with Sara Bareilles‘ music. Her voice enchantingly starts with low-key, and she sings her high tunes beautifully. Her voice is firm, and beautifully melancholic. In other words – I am addicted to her voice. It must be one of the beautiful voices that I’ve ever heard in my life – not in a totally aesthetic sense, but there is something about her voice that makes you feel that her voice understands and is in one with her emotions . Her voice also engages the listener to relate and feel the song- a direct stab to the heart. Her lyrics, which are self-written are also stellar, that she was able to capture the human emotion just perfectly, specially in matters of the heart. I could just listen to her two songs forever – Gravity and Between The Lines. I have been playing these songs in my mp3 player for weeks already , and it just makes me feel over and over again.

My favorite part in the song Gravity,

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

Painful, painful. I feel the despair.

And Between the Lines ( a must-read song lyrics, written perfectly ),

I tell myself all the words he surely meant to say
I’ll talk until the conversation doesn’t stay on
Wait for me i’m almost ready
When he meant let go

Again, a decision that one would rather get lost in the world full of illusions than wake up and see reality, which is more painful. a very sad love song.

The way Sara Bareilles writes her songs are as if humans are fallen angels. It reveals that love is a very strong emotion that influences our actions, and our judgements. To love so much would lead us to err, that we willfully submit to it to experience soul’s bliss in expense of our rationality. We willingly allow ourselves to fall from grace just to be able to linger with such emotion, to keep us breathing with the air it gives us, right or wrong.

I’m listening to the rest of the songs from her Little Voice album, but I just think that these two songs are the best – fits my taste for melancholy.