Emiliana Torrini - To Be Free Lyrics






Once in a house on a hill
A boy got angry
He broke into my heart

For a day and a night
I stayed beside him
Until I had no hope

So I came down the hill
Of course I was hurt
But then I started to think

It shouldn't hurt me to be free
It's what I really need
To pull myself together
But if it's so good being free
Would you mind telling me
Why I don't know what to do with myself

There's a bar by the dock
Where I found myself
Drinking with this man
He offered me a cigarette
And I accepted
'Cause it's been a very long time
As it burned 'till the end
I thought of the boy
No one could ever forget

It shouldn't hurt me to be free
It's what I really need
To pull myself together
But if it's so good being free
Would you mind telling me
Why I don't know what to do with myself

To pull myself together
But if it's so good being free
Would you mind telling me
Why I don't know what to do with myself

To pull myself together
But if it's so good being free
Would you mind telling me
Why I don't know what to do with myself





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  1. M.... B....

    That's my official breaking up song, still hurts since 2013

  2. e.... c....

    i love her

  3. M.... L....

    someone understand this video? tbh partly i just think "wtf is going on"

    M.... L....

    alright the boy on the hill living in a monastery-like building. my fail

    M.... L....

    Погружение в депрессию, страхи и попытка избавится от них

  4. D.... d....

    If you liked this tune you have to listen the whole album 'love in time of science'

  5. D.... d....

    Disturbing video...

  6. B.... H....

    Finally found this song after searching for about an hour. Time well spent.

    B.... H....

    Brittni Hull beautiful. Isn’t it?♥️

  7. J.... V....

    I Love it♡ i love Emiliana Torrini

  8. A.... P....

    This song gives me such nostalgia for my high school days.

    Lime wire mixtapes were my shit

  9. C.... O....

    This song reminds me of New York City in the 90's.

  10. T.... d....

    Master piece. This will never happen. Again. Music elegant. If you have a good taste of music this will be your favorite

  11. M.... B....

    "He offered me a cigarette..."
    This vid is everything. The blood dripping from her body is one of the most beautiful metaphors for pain.

  12. R.... M....

    it's magical

  13. R.... 6....

    💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

  14. Z.... A....

    What an underrated singer. She has more talent in her pinky finger than all the pop stars currently.

  15. m.... s....

    💜💜

  16. f.... n....

    Crazy beautiful

  17. a.... n....

    roland orzabal from tears for fears brought me here

  18. s.... ....

    She's so beautiful she can pull off wearing that potato bag as a dress. Gorgeous song.

  19. D.... ....

    Sarmad S. Hindo, Dr. SSH...my Goofka. I screwed up. I screwed up with us. I did love you and shall always love you. I really think that you were my soulmate. And I screwed it all up. I am so so so sorry. I shall always love you. In this life and the next. Yours always, ASJ.

  20. J.... G....

    I found d it yes! Such an amazing singer artist

  21. A.... ....

    Wow, she really reminds me of Bjork!

  22. I.... I....

    interesting song

  23. H.... j....

    💞💕🕊☆♡★

  24. i.... G....

    There's a girl named Maria, she's only 25,
    Her boyfriend left her and she lost her job.
    All her friends are in relationships, she's lonely inside.
    It's been two months since her break up and Maria still cries.
    She hopped in the car and started to drive,
    Just thinking, "Maybe find a bar, start drinkin' and vibe"
    She's a shy type of chick, never winkin' at guys
    But tonight she's like, "Fuck it," just thinking, "Let's drive".
    She drove to a bar near a dock with bright lights,
    It was clear outside, summertime, a nice night
    Seventy-eight degrees, she wore a skirt, a tight white
    Shirt that she bought from a store that Mike likes
    Mike's her ex, all he wanted was sex.
    He cheated all the time and Maria was stressed.
    So she's desperate, she wore a diamond heart necklace.
    Her parents had dough, she drove a tight car, Lexus
    She walked in, sat down, had a round, actin' wild
    Flashed a smile, ass was out, what could happen now?
    A cat at the bar walked over, started talkin'
    Offered a Newport, "Do you come here often?"
    "Can I buy you a drink?" She accepted the gesture
    Tipsy by now, not feelin' any pressure
    Tits poppin' out, not concealin' her breasts up
    A kiss on the mouth, now revealin' she's giving sex up
    She walked in the bathroom, drunk
    Called her ex-boyfriend to make him jealous and stuff
    But Mike didn't answer, didn't even give a fuck
    So she left him a message, in the heat of her lust, saying:
    "There's a bar by the dock, where I found myself
    Drinking with this man
    He offered me a cigarette, and I accepted
    'Cause it's been a very long time"......

    As soon as she accepted, there was no escape,
    She had no idea that her life was at stake.
    They shared conversation and a drink, it was late
    About 1:45, and her drink was laced.
    At 2 AM, they left in the parking lot,
    The drug took affect, she went unconscious and was sodomized.
    He kept her in the basement for weeks where she lost her mind.
    Tortured by a man who even filmed a woman's homicide.
    The sixteenth body found raped and murdered
    You could tell she was tied up from the bruises that occurred, kid.
    No evidence, no DNA
    He was smart, the detectives had no leads on the case.
    At a different bar, a month from the last time
    He sat, drinking, waiting just to pray on a bad dime.
    A woman walked in, short skirt and dark tan line,
    He offered a cigarette and a drink, it was the last time.
    He walked her out when the bar was closed.
    She was woozy, didn't pass out, still on her toes.
    He put her in his car, where she saw where he drove
    1412 East Armadel Road.
    He tried to rape her but she was stronger than the rest,
    She escaped the house injured, cut, with marks on her chest.
    Called the cops, and they quickly thought of the rest
    There was traces of the drug GHB in every test.
    She told her story and remembered the address
    They got a search warrant, hoping this was the bastard
    When they entered the crib, he was dead, his head blasted.
    Suicide from a Ruger 9 and on his mattress,
    There was the tapes, from every rape,
    Every murder he committed, every woman that he faced.
    When they watched the horrible acts, all the deaths, it was strange.
    The women would think back on the night of they fate, saying:
    "There's a bar by the dock, where I found myself
    Drinking with this man
    He offered me a cigarette, and I accepted
    'Cause it's been a very long time"

  25. E.... M....

    19 yrs has passed...now Im discovering this

  26. O.... ....

    Finally fucking found this!!!!

  27. A.... G....

    I LOVE this song..from my fav movie crazy/ beautiful

  28. g.... ....

    I think she is way more feminine than every other woman that usually appears in the tv media

  29. J.... R....

    floating away peacefully

  30. h.... ....

    Wow this came out in 2008? I think I discovered it in maybe 2012. Listening now in 2018 it still brings on the feels.

    h.... ....

    The album was issued in 1999 actually :)

    h.... ....

    >>> Same!!! <<<

    h.... ....

    Love In The Time Of Science

  31. J.... A....

    i want a infinite loop of this song

  32. P.... D....

    This is a gorgeous song, and that is a gorgeous castle.

    P.... D....

    That's Czechia)

  33. r.... a....

    this gets sadder but bittersweet as you get older. #acceptance

  34. I.... N....

    5/18/2017

  35. H.... D....

    My Wife.

  36. J.... H....

    Just find out about this artist. She's wonderful!

  37. F.... ....

    Like si escuchaste el programa de Vorterix recomendando esta artista.

  38. D.... R....

    A million years later and I'm still obsessed with crazy/beautiful

    D.... R....

    And this song

    D.... R....

    Same such a wonderful beautiful story it tells. I relate so much

    D.... R....

    Destiny R 2019

    D.... R....

    me too!!

    D.... R....

    Me too... It's one of my favorite movies.

  39. C.... R....

    This is the album that Roland Orzabal from Tears for Fears produced, I believe. If you listen to his solo album, _Tomcats Screaming Outside_, you will get a reminiscent feel of it in this album. Wish Ro would produce more/do more solo work. The man is simply brill.

  40. E.... W....

    I watched crazy beautiful when I was 12, this song started playing, I fell in love with it it describes my heart being broken, this song gives me goosebumps til this day. I totally forgot about it until now, I knew it was off this movie, so I looked up the soundtracks for this song.

  41. B.... G....

    That is one of the best sex song ı have ver heard sweet relaxing and easy listening

  42. Z.... ....

    Crazy/Beautiful

  43. M.... J....

    after all the years that I have watched Crazy Beautiful,I Finally Looked Up This Song,Love It

  44. K.... W....

    Is this your new house ? Swap you for my flat.. need more room for Jansch my cat and two Strays Grumpy and Elvis ? We can Always Rely on you For Music With a difference Emiliana ..

  45. c.... ....

    Holy Music ! Who is this woman ! Amazing musician !

  46. M.... S....

    The Dancer movie brought me here from the past. Could not imagine this movie without Emiliana and Prodigy

  47. A.... ....

    This song is just too much to me

    A.... ....

    It's kinda hurts my feeling because I understand what she's says behind the lyrics

  48. S.... C....

    This song pulls myself together!!

  49. S.... B....

    this song is going to be in my story I am writing

  50. C.... M....

    i've listened this song in 2000. brings me many remenbering from my most depressing young times. i used to be ao anti social. this kind of music was a refugee for me.

  51. E.... ....

    crazy beautiful brought me here

  52. X.... R....

    I'm currently in the hospital listening to this. This is the only song that can calm me down .🙏

    X.... R....

    I hope you're out now, beautiful girl.

    X.... R....

    Xandra Rosas ....we hope you....a good....health...take..care of youself......🙌🍎🍒

    X.... R....

    What hapenned? Im here to know

  53. M.... B....

    I've listened to this song way too much just after my ex gf broke up with me back in 2013

    M.... B....

    @***** K.

  54. C.... ....

    this song goes unnoticed, but in the right scenario, it's heaven!

  55. M.... T....

    Happy that Emiliana exists

    M.... T....

    That's a sweet sentiment.

  56. d.... ....

    Underrated song of all history

  57. M.... L....

    you like this. listen to john Murdock's sample of this song.

  58. B.... P....

    A great song from Crazy/Beautiful :)

  59. G.... W....

    So beautiful I want to cry.

  60. K.... D....

    Always loved it

  61. F.... P....

    fine asf

  62. J.... H....

    love it!

  63. P.... W....

    Vous je ne sais pas mais moi j'aime cette femme!

  64. G.... D....

    Discovering this at 03:28AM

    G.... D....

    03:24 AM

    G.... D....

    from 202.fm_The_Chillout_Lounge 01.15am

    G.... D....

    05:02 AM after the "White Rabbit"

    G.... D....

    4:13 for me😉

  65. D.... P....

    i love this women

  66. M.... R....

    Beautiful song

  67. J.... L....

    Sounds like Morcheeba... slightly Portishead.

    J.... L....

    +Jack Lope I just discovered this and was thining the same

    J.... L....

    Yes! And parts sound like Bjork too.

  68. k.... ....

    Jon Murdock's hip hop song "Maria" brought me here! Look it up it's haunting!

  69. D.... C....

    Metaphorically a vampire, of emotion, lol

  70. D.... C....

    Contrasting the void~I like your take on the video. That was my impression anyway. Beautiful song Emiliani

  71. D.... O....

    Pernštejn?

    D.... O....

    @Dorkas Olomouc Pochybuju.

    D.... O....

    +Dorkas Olomouc jj! je to Pernštejn podívej se na ofic. stránky hradu Pernštejn, video je tam uvedeno , že se tam natáčelo

    D.... O....

    +Josef Bolfík
    Je to tak vážení natáčelo se na hradě Pernštejn..

    D.... O....

    Jasně že je to Pernštejn, ale taky jsem byl překvapený...

  72. S.... C....

    This is my song.

  73. T.... G....

    Big song, nice voice.

  74. C.... T....

    Hmmm...interesting song. My theory that I take away from this song is that (based on the setting, lyrics, and her body language) she met a man at a bar by the coast (suggesting that he's a traveler) and apparently was a lady killer and good with words. He brought her to this castle, only to reveal himself to be a vampire and attacked her... Which explains why she has fresh wounds on her neck, sluggish movements to gather herself, sudden urge to eat, and tendency to lose her balance. The fact that sunlight isn't affecting her would suggest that she has been given a choice to stay human and possibly die from the bite or live with him as a vampire...but in doing so, she would be sired to him and would almost be a slave to his every will. She then makes her choice to live free for what time she has left.

    Lol yeah I'm a geek

    C.... T....

    @Contrasting The Void Hi. I've loved it for years but I never bothered to look up the video until now.

    The way I see it, it's a break-up song and the loss of your own identity when you fall in love. She's saying she was in love with a guy, she gave him everything, until she lost herself in him and forgot who she was. He ended up breaking her heart. As it happens with many people after a long term relationship that ends, she doesn't know "what to do" with herself and is trying to regain her identity. Throughout the song she keeps telling herself that it's okay, that it shouldn't hurt to be free, but at the same time she harbors doubts and is insecure. The bar is a symbol for a place she's not familiar with, a new experience. As you know many people try going to bars after a break up trying to meet new people. There she meets a new person -a casual fling, or bounce back relationship, if you will- who offers her "a cigarrette" (a metaphor for sex, maybe?). She accepts it because it's been "a very long time" even though "as it burned til the end" she's thinking of the boy "no one could ever forget", so she must have told him that she's still trying to get over that break-up.

    The metaphor of loss of identity is present in the video too -being bitten by a vampire, recovering herself, walking in broad daylight. Think of how a vampire sucks blood/life out of a person. According to that mythology, you'll either die from a bite or you become a vampire too. She wakes up feeling disoriented, she knows something happened to her and it hurts her, she detects a wound in her neck, but she slowly regains her memories, and manages to stand up and "pulls herself together" i.e. she gets her (emotional) baggage, and stars carrying them by herself. Though she stumbles a few times, almost dropping them, and walks down the castle's hallways in circles, it takes her a long time but she eventually manages to get out.

    All in all, I think it's an optimistic ending. She realized she had been bitten, but she didn't die in broad daylight, that means she'll go back to being who she was before that happened. We see her carrying on, into the unknown, but not really looking back.

  75. r.... -....

    This song means alot to me. I first heard it when i was about 16 years old (24 now) and going through my metal/emo phase ;-) This song was just so different and made me feel so calm and alive at the same time. Hearing it now, it just makes me feel sad.

    r.... -....

    i feel you. 

    r.... -....

    You know metal and emo isn't the same, right?

  76. M.... L....

    Even though this track is old, its very sexy. It would make a great Bond track.

  77. B.... C....

    Bjork is that you?

    B.... C....

    Talvez :)

    B.... C....

    @Alan Carlos Rocha simmmmm. Meu novo vício

    B.... C....

    She Icelandic and female. That's about it.

    B.... C....

    @Shaun Hamilton I know I was just joking about it :)

  78. R.... K....

    Brilliant text

  79. M.... ....

    Mm I really like this song 

  80. A.... ....

    i saw this way way back

  81. A.... J....

    Does anyone know where is this place? where it was filmed this clip?

    A.... J....

    @Martina Štětinová Thank you!!! =)

    A.... J....

    @Martina Štětinová
     I thought this was draculas castle?

    A.... J....

    @MoriWeasel No, we have there no draculas :-) I think so :-)

    A.... J....

    @Martina Štětinová I saw this castle in a movie once; a long time ago. Perhaps they used this setting; because probably the castle in Romania is restricted to public access. Back then in the black and white movies they use a lot of castles from Czech R. And Poland. It would be interesting to see the movie history.

    A.... J....

    @MoriWeasel In this page there is the movie history of this castle http://www.hrad-pernstejn.eu/filmoteka/  ....,. I think that probably you know Van Helsing or the Borgias or Three Musketeers .... 

  82. P.... M....

    мой кумир!

  83. K.... ....

    "Crazy Beautiful" brought me here....such a peaceful music!.....

    K.... ....

    i had it the exact opposite, i know the song first

    K.... ....

    I knew the song first from high school n being in my teens but unfortunately it was one of them songs u let slip the radar then watched crazy beautiful n memories came flooding back why getting angry at myself why let such a great song be forgotten

  84. G.... R....

    Emmanuel

  85. a.... ....

    super song....does somebody know where was the video filmed ??? ... It  reminds me one Bohemia Castle .... Pernstejn :) 

  86. T.... ....

    Watched Crazy Beautiful last night and now I can not get this song out of my head

    T.... ....

    @TheThigWife that's a great movie

    T.... ....

    2018 same

  87. U.... ....

    Bravissima, voce stupenda.

  88. L.... ....

    Bloody phenomenal.

  89. p.... ....

    This song has always been and will always be the perfect mix of pain and hope it's wonderful

  90. p.... ....

    Love this

  91. E.... F....

    tampoco me referia a eso ¬¬

  92. A.... ....

    I used musicXmatch on a lapdance video, glad I found this.

  93. U.... B....

    Pero no se parece en nada a Bjork, sólo en el tipo de voz, que obviamente es porque es islandesa... y ambas hablan Islandés...