Sara Bareilles - Between The Lines Lyrics






Time to tell me the truth
To burden your mouth for what you say
No pieces of paper in the way
Cause I can't continue pretending to choose
These opposite sides on which we fall
The loving-you-laters, if at all
No right minds could wrong be, this many times

My memory is cruel
I'm queen of attention to details
Defending intentions if he fails
Until now, he told me her name
It sounded familiar in a way
I could have sworn I'd heard him say it ten thousand times,
If only I had been listening

Leave unsaid unspoken
Eyes wide shut unopened
You and me
Always between the lines
Between the lines

I thought I thought I was ready to bleed
That we'd move from the shadows on the wall
And stand in the center of it all
Too late two choices to stay or to leave
Mine was so easy to uncover
He'd already left with the other
So I've learned to listen through silence

Leave unsaid unspoken
Eyes wide shut unopened
You and me always be
You and me always be

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

Leave unsaid unspoken
Eyes wide shut unopened
You and me
Always be
You and me
Always between the lines
Between the lines
Between the lines





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  1. E.... B....

    As of this moment there are 493 thumbs down for this song..........To that I can only insert a (?). I know that's not a very big percentage compared to almost 5 million views, but still......is there really that many people listening to Sara's music who are devoid of emotion. It begs the question: what brought them to this song? Why would they be listening to this if they have nothing better to do than to criticize it.... as if they could do better? WTF? Sara has such a beautiful soul. It's easy to see it when you listen to a song like this.

  2. K.... ....

    OMG she is so beautiful. I would go out with her in a SECOND!!! SARA, IM SINGLE!!! :) Seriously

  3. s.... i....

    My yellow heart.. Yours.. My baby.. Big baby.. Little babbies soon after marry wit my big baby 😍😘😋😂😍😘 love u big baby cling

  4. e.... ....

    Little voice is her best album so far.

  5. T.... G....

    Everyone: this song makes me think of X memory

    Me (with absolutely no love life): this makes me think of ships

  6. J.... R....

    Time to tell me the truth
    To burden your mouth for what you say

    No pieces of paper in the way

    'Cause I can't continue pretending to choose

    These opposite sides on which we fall

    The loving-you-laters, if at all

    No right minds could wrong be

    This many times



    [Verse 2]

    My memory is cruel

    I'm queen of attention to details

    Defending intentions if he fails

    Until now: he told me her name

    It sounded familiar in a way

    And I could have sworn I'd heard him say it

    Ten thousand times

    Oh, If only I had been listening



    [Chorus]

    Leave unsaid unspoken

    Eyes wide shut, unopened

    You and me

    Always between the lines

    Between the lines



    [Verse 3]

    I thought I, thought I was ready to bleed

    That we'd move from the shadows on the wall

    And stand in the center of it all

    Too late, two choices: to stay or to leave

    Mine was so easy to uncover

    He'd already left with the other

    So I've learned to listen through silence



    [Chorus]

    Leave unsaid unspoken

    Eyes wide shut, unopened

    You and me, always be–

    You and me, always be–



    [Bridge]

    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"



    [Chorus]

    Leave unsaid unspoken

    Eyes wide shut, unopened

    You and me, always be–

    You and me, always between the lines

    Between the lines

    Between the lines

    Mmm...

  7. C.... M....

    Istorya ng #WalangKayo: https://my.w.tt/aG2BfElaK1

  8. T.... V....

    I use to cry everytime I heard this song... I don't anymore.

  9. r.... d....

    17 years of my life 😭

  10. E.... P....

    Leave unsaid unspoken,
    Eyes wide, shut, unopened,
    You and me Always be
    Between the lines
    😭😭😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔💜

  11. S.... L....

    This song delivers.

  12. F.... M....

    what happened to her?

  13. E.... 6....

    I always thought this song was about a woman whose boyfriend was cheating or was unhappy with her but she failed to read between the lines or see the truth. Cool to see how diff people get diff things from it.

  14. R.... L....

    Years after, I am back here again to reminisce how deeply once I felt this song and honestly, the words still hit hard.

  15. P.... M....

    "Leave unsaid, unspoken" . Very powerful lines

  16. S.... P....

    My all-time favorite SB song!

  17. J.... M....

    This was her breakaway track... I wrote brave, and a few more way before she wrote this song for me...

    Sarah I will love you with a thousand reasons, and even considering reasons you came to me for this. You fill a void no other woman can in demand other ways. I can't fathom anything better than what we both know we want!! d=°p

    J.... M....

    Words that end up going everywhere, but HERE, if you get my drift... that almost turned into gently....


    ..no I mean onsite-correct

    J.... M....

    Are we talking motor cars?? Or AUTOCORRECT?!

    J.... M....

    And it "can go" up here somewhere...

    J.... M....

    I'm sorry, I'm on chalu chalus Indian Chaulk Tau Saints Fabio'or's" Tinijæ's" ' Bosnia' "... Tetra-Hydra Phenoiloptistraugitatritioner's General In Commander's Chair, at the WhiTeBoaRd!!

    J.... M....

    WHItEHOUßE .... which almost turned into WHoREHOUse!!!

  18. h.... ....

    Leave unsaid unspoken....eyes wide shut unopened! Wow just wow

  19. H.... F....

    I relate this song..when the one i love she's hate me so much when i was in dubai 😢

  20. C.... S....

    My favourite song by this singer
    Just a great song about a couple coming to terms with being over
    I know it's over
    Sometimes the only thing to say is goodbye
    Just goodbye
    I've always been the between the lines just only used again

  21. C.... W....

    Most talented female artist since Joni Mitchell. Love her voice and her lyrics

  22. L.... ....

    painfully beautiful she sings my feeling

  23. n.... c....

    I love yo talent Sara kip it up.

  24. A.... R....

    'Between these Lines' lies so much Pain & Truth... GENIUS Bareilles, looking back, this Whole Album from 2010 plays like a Greatest hits, A Kaledescope Heart. S B, every Song, Lyric, Note & Emotion is So Beautiful & Timeless.♥️ Gravity, Blessed Unrest, Waitress & Now 'Amidst the Chaos' LOVE THIS LEGEND SO MUCH 💎

    A.... R....

    Adam she sings the song Gravity which belongs to Sir Elton John (he's the songwriter of this beautiful song) They have the opportunity to sing this song together and Sarah played the piano was awesome!❤❤

  25. N.... L....

    Lagu ini memiliki sentimentil perasaan yang tinggi buat saya. Tiap dengerin lagu ini saya ingat pada sosok yang saya cintai, namun cinta itu hanya sepihak dan tidak berpuan.

  26. c.... B....

    you are truly gifted Sara

  27. F.... M....

    My memory is cruel

  28. M.... C....

    why the line "Until now , he to me her name..." really makes me sad everytime I hear that part??
    Can someone explain whats the meaning of that part cuz im confuse

  29. A.... R....

    'You & me, always B...Between the the Lines'... or to put it another way 'didnt we almost have it all' ? Sara Barielies is another Queen of Our Hearts 💝 & so Good with words & Real emotions a True Gem in our Troubled times 🌍 #Time 4A New Album please🙏

  30. A.... R....

    OMG another Stunning one from the Queen of Our Heart - Sara Barielies - This Woman can Do No Wrong.... Love all 3 of her albums & That E.P - your Lyrics, voice, Soul, stories, albums, live performances kooky personality, passion & your beauty both inside & out... Is a gift to our Humanity #TrueStar 💝🙏🌍 #AwesomeSoul

  31. M.... D....

    "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"......😰❤

  32. n.... ....

    I'm a little glad that I didn't found this song earlier or else it would be too heart-breaking. He was (or still?) my bestfriend. We technically work together in a uni organization and we got along really well. Everything was so easy with him. Long before we became close, I already liked him, although not romantically and we spoke several times but that was it.

    By the time when we got close, he had already been with another girl. Although this girl was the one who was actually 'chasing' for him, I felt like during his relationship we still kind of playfully leading each other's on-- we both knew it was a mistake.

    But couldn't help it when we were together and felt the potential, and know deep inside we did truly like each other but always kept it close. I could feel it in his eyes. In his tone. In his touch. Though I still couldn't tell myself surely how or what kind of feeling that is, but *something* was definitely there. We all know it.

    He finally admitted it in a letter he wrote me when he broke up with her ex, as I did admitted, although we were both still subtle. He also mentioned once, not on letter, how he just realized that sometimed you could love someone but didn't know it.

    Little did I know, by the time he confessed his feelings, was the time he meant goodbye. I found out he fell in love with another girl--one of our friends; in fact, leaving everything that we had behind coming undone.

  33. L.... H....

    Beautiful but god how this breaks my heart everytime I listen to it

  34. k.... ....

    I certainly relish reading and hearing between these lyrical lines.

  35. M.... H....

    I was lied by this Marine that I fell in love with but it was my fault I chose to ignore it because I had hopes that maybe just maybe he could love me and that he wasn’t lying and cheating he had this other girl with him already and I didn’t know about it when I met him I spent 5 months getting to know him and fell for him but I didn’t know he was trying to run away from his obligations he got his girlfriend pregnant and left to the Marines and tried to move on from her never told me about her or that she was pregnant until one of our mutual friends told me everything and I confronted him about everything and he didn’t say anything and just left it there like if it was nothing biggest heart break because the reason i fell for him was because I thought he was genuine because I thought he cared for people...

  36. *.... b....

    this reminds me of someone who was my best and only friend when I was 12 and 13. He was the first (and only) person I’ve ever fallen I love with. He changed though. He doesn’t exist at all anymore. But I like this song because it reminds me of those times and how much fun we had. I wish I could go back.

  37. A.... W....

    Sad song😔

  38. F.... A....

    my situation exactly...

  39. J.... C....

    This song and gravity together are the story of my life.

  40. E.... V....

    Joey my heart stopped when you died December 30 2014 miss u so much my God .....

  41. L.... O....

    This song and Hercules are her best in my opinion

  42. t.... ....

    Sara Bareilles is so underrated

    t.... ....

    she earned more money (58 million) than any other artist in the country last year.  She has a huge following

  43. A.... M....

    💙💙 😍

  44. A.... W....

    I give 👎 not because this song bad.. But, because i'm so sad heard this song😖

  45. A.... T....

    Been between the lines with him for years... We have never been at the same place at the same time. One of us always starts to move on. But my heart still wants him even though I should be long moved on

  46. N.... D....

    My memory is cruel. The queen of attention to details.

    N.... D....

    Brilliant line!

  47. S.... ....

    2018 😭

  48. C.... A....

    I think this is saying that this is a girl who has wanted a boy to love her. She has liked him for a very long time and then he tells her that he is in love with someone. Maybe the girl and the boy were in love, maybe not. But whatever happened, he doesn't like her enough to fall in love with her. She's saying that she never noticed and that she will always love him.

  49. M.... H....

    Between the line-means a yes or a no until one step on the other side and just let go

  50. R.... F....

    I've have learn so much about myself from Sara !!!! Amazing song writter AMAZING LYRICS amazing singer!! I don't have any clue how i survived without her!!!! 💜💜❣❣❣❣🔊🔊🔊💯

  51. J.... s....

    So beautiful ...but so sad 💜

  52. a.... l....

    I ❤ u sara bareilles 😍

  53. H.... J....

    So many interpretations.. I hear this song as her being in love with a married man... When he meant let go... Let go of him because he chose the other. You and me will always between the lines, the topic you don't mention or say, the one you keep to yourself. Loving you laters if at all. Waiting for him to get away from his wife. Leave unsaid, unspoken. He didn't tell her about the other which is why she implies that he spoke the others name ten thousands times, if only she had been listening..
    None the less... I love her and this song tells a story I know all too well...

    H.... J....

    Married? Girl...No where does it imply she was the side the piece... pshh... classless.

  54. J.... C....

    when you realise you are the second lead in your own life.😢

  55. T.... ....

    WHEN YOU LITERALLY LOVE ALL OF HER SONGS. WHAT A WOMAN!

  56. N.... A....

    What a treasured talent and connected heart. BEAUTIFUL

  57. A.... J....

    3:19 to 3:35 😭

  58. R.... V....

    No right mind could wrong be this many times

  59. K.... R....

    I love Sara!!!

  60. W.... A....

    This song is timeless

  61. T.... V....

    "What that love could have been" song

  62. S.... ....

    I love this song!

  63. R.... L....

    " *wait for me I'm almost ready when he meant let go* "

    THIS. BREAKS. ME.

    R.... L....

    And here I am again.

  64. D.... A....

    This is My NEW FAVORITE MUSIC!!!

  65. M.... T....

    she'abeautifly

  66. T.... W....

    I think this is about clean cutting someone and leaviing them no replies no words. Lousy lovers.

  67. F.... N....

    falling in love with this song 👏❤❤❤

  68. B.... ....

    wait so this isn't about cheating????

  69. M.... K....

    true love don't have ending line because it started from heart of soul.

  70. E.... S....

    Sara created her own meaning of MUSIC in this song. #salute

  71. B.... N....

    it's about being in love with someone who loves another! I've worked with Sara. im a roadie. I've done concerts my whole life. I first met her on the Santa Monica Pier. Best pianist ever!

  72. j.... E....

    Slight change in tone of comments: I finally got the courage to ask out my friend today, spurred in part by this song. I wanted to act before it was too late.

    j.... E....

    How did it go?

    j.... E....

    Good for you!!! :)

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

    LOVE this song, thank you Sara Barellis!!

  74. S.... J....

    Splintered anyone?

  75. s.... ....

    She loved him, he almost loved her until he didn't. It's over for him, but she will always think about how it almost worked. In my own imagination, she moves on with the love of her life, and he is now alone, realizing Damn! I really DID love her...But now it's too late for him. He will never find another like her. Actually this is MY story. Even though I am totally happy with the love of my life, I occasionally think, with a squeeze of my heart, of him. Once you truly love someone, you don't stop. even if you've moved on. I am sorry for him and how he lost me.

    s.... ....

    then what about your current love, time is said to heal all the wounds

  76. M.... D....

    Still my turn to song for reflection🚩

  77. S.... b....

    Many better than nothing relationships evolve resulting out of loneliness. They love and respect many qualities the other has but then never give them their heart. Not easy and painful for both parties.

  78. A.... A....

    i watch this cause a good song.🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶

  79. P.... Y....

    I just want to see Sara in person in this life. that would be so amazing

    P.... Y....

    I have and it was the most magical experience :)

  80. M.... K....

    with faithfully,with honest,with truly .

  81. M.... K....

    welcome if believe in true love without any kinds of expectation.

  82. e.... ....

    and so I learned to listen to silence......

  83. S.... I....

    The choice of punctuation confuses me.

  84. J.... F....

    *crying* 😭

  85. M.... J....

    i feel its about unrequited love yes like alot of ppl are saying here but at the same time for some reason i keep thinking theres a tad bit of emotional abuse in here too. thats what i went through for 3 years. "so i learned to listen through silence." alot of ppl interpret music so differently thats what i love about music

  86. c.... ....

    ... finally understand this song. and it so f!ing sad. damn.

  87. B.... B....

    Brilliant Musician Sara. Love all your songs. #She Used To Be Mine

  88. J.... M....

    totally breath taking song

  89. E.... L....

    Sara Bareilles is such an underated artist! She deserves more popularity!!!

    E.... L....

    Maybe So....Except for those Who know 😉 why Follow all That MSM glitter when U can See the beauty & Talent of one True Diamond ✨I Love her more for not being a Katy, Taylor, mariah or Beyonce 🙏

    E.... L....

    Wanna keep her for myself....

    E.... L....

    All great things go unnoticed. .

    E.... L....

    I'd be honored if some Sara Bareilles fans would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal performance of LOVE SONG in tribute to one of the greatest albums of the '00s decade. Live acoustic on my YT channel with no autotune or digital editing. Thanks and peace.

  90. M.... M....

    No song better describes it to me.

  91. F.... N....

    Oh man, I feel this song so deep

  92. A.... ....

    Can somebody tell me which font is that? I love the combination with the yellow background.

  93. R.... A....

    one of the deepest most heartfelt songs I have ever heard. Sara Bareilles is a high level master of her trade!

  94. J.... ....

    This one and Manhattan my favourite ones! I absolutely love the sadness and melancholy in her songs.

  95. B.... A....

    brilliant beatiful

  96. A.... L....

    Suddenly dropped my tears when I listened to this song, such an emotional one ;-( Perfectly represents the feeling of all broken-hearted people

    A.... L....

    Yes broken hearted and surprised how and when you get there, all you can think is why?? How??

  97. J.... C....

    Ouch! Love is a beautiful hurt