Playlist Ben Rector

ben rector - 30000 feet

14a, window seat, tennis shoes and faded jeans
Nervous as he tells me it's his first time on a plane
We took off and headed East, I was thumbing through the magazines
He felt like talking and offered me his name
So I asked him how he was
And he smiled and said, Well son

I've been better, I've been worse
I've chased after pretty girls
Seen a couple places that I never thought I'd see
I've walked into harder times, and I've walked out the other side
It seems in like you end up getting what you need
Yeah, looking down from 30, 000 feet, life's been good to me

I've been out a month or so, another night, another show
One hundred different cities, they all just seem the same
He asked me what it must be like, singing songs under the lights
Well, it's got its moments, just the same as anything

I miss my town, I miss my wife
But I'm up here with you tonight
I said I've been better, I've been worse
I have loved a pretty girl
I've seen a couple places that I never thought I'd see
I've walked into harder times, I've walked out the other side
It seems like you end up getting what you need
Yeah, looking down from 30, 000 feet, life's been good to me

Good to me

Sometimes we can get lost living in the here and now
Sometimes it takes the sky to see what's on the ground

I've been better, I've been worse
I've chased after pretty girls
I've seen a couple places that I never thought I'd see
I've walked into harder times, I've walked out the other side
It seems in like you end up getting what you need
Yeah, looking down from 30, 000 feet, life's been good to me

Good to me

ben rector - brand new

I feel like new sunglasses
Like a brand new pair of jeans
I feel like taking chances
I feel a lot like seventeen

I feel like windows rolled down, new city, streets and cabs
I feel like anything can happen, laughing
You take me right back, when we were kids
Never thought I'd feel like this

Like when I close my eyes
And don't even care if anyone sees me dancing
Like I can fly, and don't even think of touching the ground

Like a heartbeat skip, like an open page
Like a one way trip on an aeroplane
It's the way that I feel when I'm with you, brand new
Brand new

I feel like a young John Cusack, like making big mistakes
I feel like for the first time in a long time I am not afraid
I feel like a kid, never thought it'd feel like this

Like when I close my eyes
And don't even care if anyone sees me dancing
Like I can fly, and don't even think of touching the ground

Like a heartbeat skip, like an open page
Like a one way trip on an aeroplane
It's the way that I feel when I'm with you, brand new

Time will always try to make us
You remind me what I used to know

Like when I close my eyes
And don't even care if anyone sees me dancing
Like I can fly, and don't even think of touching the ground

Like a heartbeat skip, like an open page
Like a one way trip on an aeroplane
It's the way that I feel when I'm with you, brand new

Brand new, yeah, yeah, yeah
And I feel brand new
I feel brand new
I feel brand new

ben rector - beautiful

There are days when I wake up
That I don't know what I'm doing here
I barely recognize the pair of eyes
staring back at me in the mirror
there was a day that I was free
Not a care that I could see
So good I barely could believe
that it was happening
Oh take me back again

I was 16 with an open heart
windows down in a beat up car
When I was dumb and the world
was young and she was beautiful
She was beautiful
She was beautiful

How do we end up like this?
Living lives that we don't care about?
Too busy fixing things
On computer screens
While the grass grows green
Me, I'm screaming out

There was a day that I was free
Not a care that I could see
So good I barely could believe
that it was happening
Oh take me back again

I was 16 with an open heart
windows down in a beat up car
When I was dumb and the world
was young and she was beautiful
She was beautiful
She was beautiful
She was beautiful
She was beautiful
Yeah, yeah, yeah

There was a day that I was free
Not a care that I could see
So good I barely could believe
that it was happening
Oh take me back again

I was 16 with an open heart
windows down in a beat up car
When I was dumb and the world
was young and she was beautiful
She was beautiful
She was beautiful
It was you, it was you,
and you are beautiful, yeah

I was 16 with an open heart
windows down in a beat up car
When I was dumb and the world
was young and she was beautiful
Oh oh oh

ben rector - white dress

So do you remember?
With your white dress on
It was the end of December
Count the days till dawn

I never knew
That I could love someone
The way that I love you
I never knew
That I could love someone
The way that I love you
I never knew
That I could love someone
The way that I love you
I never knew
I never knew

She's coming on Friday
And then the close spark
Cause its just minutes & highways
Till the one I love
The one I love
Till oh

I never knew
That I could love someone
The way that I love you
I never knew
That I could love someone
The way that I love you
I never knew
That I could love someone
The way that I love you
I never knew
I never knew

I never knew
That I could love someone
The way that I love you
I never knew
That I could love someone
The way that I love you
I never knew
That I could love someone
The way that I love you
I never knew
I never knew, no
I never knew, no
I never knew

That I could love
That I could love
That I could love someone
That you could love
That you could love someone like me
Oh, that I could love
That I could love
That I could love someone like
That you could love someone like me

ben rector - favorite song

1, 2

Well call me crazy or you can call me anytime you want
Or call me maybe cuz I kinda love that song
Be my Madonna or Steven Tyler in my dreams
Cuz when I'm with you yea, well I don't wanna miss a thing

I can't help but turnin you up
And I can't seem to be gettin enough well
Time after time I hit rewind

When I'm woe you turn me on just like
The radio with every single note
I'm wild and young and free and loud sayin
Don't stop and leave your windows down
Well I can't help but sing along
Cuz you feel like my favorite song yeah
You feel like my favorite song

You could be my all star just like smash mouth
Said you were circus summer maybe 1994 (99)
Be john Bon jovi or cool like Johnny Cash used to
Living on a prayer singing the fulsome prison blues

I can't help but turnin you up
And I can't seem to be gettin enough well
Time after time I hit rewind

When I'm woe you turn me on just like
The radio with every single note
I'm wild and young and free and loud sayin
Don't stop and leave your windows down
Well I can't help but sing along
Cuz you feel like my favorite song yeah
You feel like my favorite song

Oh and you keep spinning round in my head
And when it's over play it again and again
And I know ever leave and oh my heart
Cuz you feel just like my favorite song

Ooh turn me on just like the radio
With every single note
I'm wild and young and free and loud saying
Don't stop and leave your windows down
Well I can't help but sing along
Cuz you feel like my favorite song yeah
You feel like my favorite song
You feel like my favorite song

ben rector - note to self

Note to self, clean the living room
Do the things you don't wanna do
Maybe fold that week old pile of clothes
Note to self, get some exercise
Feels right and you have to try
But as far as I can tell, that's how life goes

Note to self, don't let yourself worry quite as much
It'll end up fine enough, it always has up until now
Something else, you should think of other people a little more
You should've thought of that before
Cause of everything you've written down
This is the first note that you've wrote for someone else
Note to self

Note to self, keep choosing her
Cause she's yours and wonderful and
Forever is a long time to be sad
And one more thing, call your mother back
Talk for too long, it's probably half of
What she'd like, she's the only mother that you have

Oh and don't let yourself worry quite as much
It'll end up fine enough, it always has up until now
Something else, you should think of other people a little more
You should've thought of that before
Cause of everything you've written down
This is the first note that you've wrote for someone else
Note to self

I don't know how long I have to keep reminding myself
To be who I wanna be and not somebody else
Just thought by now I'd figure out the who and how I wanna be

Because I still let myself worry way too much
Maybe it ends up fine enough, it always has and does still now
I still need to think of other people more
Yes I've thought of that before, maybe one day I'll figure out
You don't find peace till you love somebody else
You don't find peace until you love somebody else
Note to self

ben rector - after all

Took a ride
When the sun comes round
Good lord, bless me well

And today, when the sun retires, and then I see your face
Litten up by candle lights

All I see is just this sunny weather
All I need is the one I love
So lord please bless me with some time together
And I won't ask anymore after all

So I ve been around
The past
Down by the river ends
Her tails from far away
That's where it starts to by
Down their

All I see is just this sunny weather
All I need is the one I love
So lord please bless me with some time together
And I won't ask anymore after all
After all after all
It is said and done
After all
After all
After all
It's come and gone

All I see is this stormy weather
All I need is the one I love
So lord please bless me with some time together
And I won't ask anymore after all

ben rector - when a heart breaks

Woke up this morning
And I heard the news
I know the pain of a heartbreak
I don't have answers
And neither do you
I know the pain of a heartbreak

This isn't easy
This isn't clear
And you don't need Jesus
Til you're here
Then confusion and the doubts you had
Up and walk away
They walk away
When a heart breaks

I heard the doctor
But what did he say
I knew I was fine about this time yesterday
I don't need answers
I just need some peace
I just need someone who could help me get some sleep
Who could help me get some sleep

This isn't easy
This isn't clear
And you don't need Jesus
Til you're here
Then confusion and the doubts you had
Up and walk away
They walk away
When a heart breaks

This isn't easy
This isn't clear
And you don't need Jesus
Til you're here
Then confusion and the doubts you had
Up and walk away
They walk away
When a heart breaks

ben rector - hide away

I gotta mind full of questions
And they just won't let me be
I am weary from the restless
Heart inside of me
I never care about believing
Till I see I lost my way
And then my troubles all around me
And all that I can say,

See me through another day
Cause the devils calling
I need a place to hide away,
From the storm
When the waters rising,
When the sun don't shine
I need a place to hide away
And some peace tonight

Found out life was complicated,
More grey and black and white
Sometimes I wanna follow jesus
But sometimes he's hard to find
I never care about believing
Till I see I lost my way
And then my troubles all around me
And all that I can say is,

See me through another day
Cause the devils calling
I need a place to hide away
From the storm
When the waters rising,
When the sun don't shine
I need a place to hide away
And some peace tonight

When the waters rise around me,
When my worry's all I see
I called your name and you came and found me
Through the darkness I can see
Oh I can see oh

Will you lead me through another day
Cause the devils calling
I need a place to hide away
From the storm
When the waters rising
When the sun don't shine

I need a place to hide away
And some peace tonight
I need a place to hide away,
Could you bring me some peace tonight

ben rector - more like love

I use to think I wanted to be famous
I'd be recognized out in a crowd
But the funny thing is anytime I've gotten what I want
It lets me down

But now I just wanna look more like love
I just wanna look more like love
This whole world is spinning crazy
And I can't quite keep up
It's the one thing around here
That we don't have quite enough of
So I just wanna look a little more
Like love

I used to think I needed all the answers
I used to need to know that I was right
I used to be afraid of things I couldn't cover up
In the lime light

But I just wanna look more like love
I just wanna look more like love
This whole world is spinning crazy
And I can't quite keep up
It's the one thing around here
That we don't have quite enough of
So I just wanna look a little more
Like love

I find the farther that I climb
There's always another line
Of mountain tops
It's never going to stop
And the more of anything I do
The thing that always ends up true
Is getting what I want
Will never be enough

So I just wanna look more like love
I just wanna look more like love
This whole world is spinning crazy
I can't quite keep up
It's the one thing around here
That we don't have quite enough of
So I just wanna look a little more
Like love

Like love

ben rector - autumn

So I knew a girl once
She was the one I adored
So I fell in love once
With the girl that I mentioned before

And I'm giving up slowly
Giving up slowly
Giving slowly love
And so I'm giving up slowly
Giving up slowly
Learning how to love someone

So look what you did to me
Look what you did to me
Look what you did to me autumn
I'm a leaf that's gone falling free
Beneath all the maple trees
In front of your house to the bottom

So I watched the leaves fall
All of the way to the ground
And I knew that that was what love was
To die so that it could be found

And they're giving up slowly
Giving up slowly
Giving slowly now
And so they're giving up slowly
Giving up slowly
Learning how to love someone

They say look what you did to me
Look what you did to me
Look what you did to me autumn
I'm a leaf that's gone falling free
Beneath oh the maple trees
In front of this house to the bottom

Winter's chill won't leave until
I let it lay me down
And you can't see the spring
Til you're like the leaves
Here on the autumn ground

And so I'm giving up slowly
Giving up slowly
Giving up slowly love
And so I'm giving up

So look what you did to me
Look what you did to me
Look what you did to me autumn
I'm a leaf that's gone falling free
Beneath oh the maple trees
In front of your house to the bottom

Yeah winter's gone
Spring has come
Love is here can't you see
Like the autumn leaves
Bring me to the spring
Show me how to love someone

ben rector - almost home

I lost my shoes in New York City
So I bought some new because that felt fitting, yeah yeah
But the pavement underneath
Them walked those city streets and felt alive, yeah
I almost quit in Oklahoma
Ten years out here will take a toll, yeah
One million miles of fear and beauty
And I could not explain it even if I tried
That's alright, oh yeah

Cause we're almost, we're almost home
We're almost, we're almost home
We're almost, we're almost home
Yeah

I was offered hope and fear and savior
I was offered sex from total strangers, mm
And with all that noise around me
I found a peace that I could call my own
And we're almost home, oh oh yeah

Cause we're almost, we're almost home
But we're almost, we're almost home
But we're almost, we're almost home
Yeah, uh huh huh
We're almost, we're almost home
Just another hundred miles and then it's done
We're almost, we're almost home, oh

Seen a lifetime of pain and beauty, oh
Felt fear and joy running through me, yeah
You can lose yourself out on this road

We're almost, almost home
And we're almost, almost home
We're almost, almost home, yeah yeah
And we're almost, we're almost home
Just another thousand miles and then we're done
We're almost, we're almost home

ben rector - crazy

You ever get tired of turning on the radio
And asking yourself: who lives that kind of life?
Cause I don't
I need an anthem, I need a song that I can sing
So raise your glass if your life is crazy
Crazy normal

Last night was crazy, yeah we tore it up again
Kicked off our shoes and went to bed by 9pm
We were balling and Netflix
We turned it up to ten
Last night was crazy
I threw my hands up in the air
At that detective show we watch
You drank red wine and I had Brita on the rocks
We made some pasta with our favorite kind of sauce
Last night was crazy, yeah

(One, two)
Yeah we're living fast and free
Here on our favorite street
So raise a glass with me, oh
You know we're going hard
And that we're living large
Right here in our back yard, oh
This life is crazy
This life is crazy

We got off work and met at Bed
Bath and Beyond (that's right)
You looked at curtains
I bought a birthday card for mom (awesome)
We wanted tacos, but the taco truck was gone
Last night was crazy, yeah
Then Saturday, slept till 8: 30
And felt so re-energized
My car was dirty so I washed it in the drive
We've got dinner reservation
With our friends later tonight
And it might get crazy
We probably won't get crazy
Unless you guys want appetizers (apps for everyone)

We're living fast and free
Here on our favorite street
So raise a glass with me, oh
You know we're going hard
And that we're living hard
Right here in our backyard, oh
This life is crazy
This life is crazy

I don't know where all these party people at
You've gotta have a job and get some sleep, you do the math
And someone's gotta pay for all those bottle service tabs
And that sounds crazy

And if you're living fast and free
Here on your favorite street
Then raise your glass with me, oh
And if you're going hard
If this is living large, and you know who you are

Yeah, we're living fast and free
Here on our favorite street
So raise your glass with me, oh
You know we're going hard
And that we're living large
Right here in our backyard, oh
This life is crazy
This life is crazy
This life is crazy
This life is crazy

ben rector - like the world is going to end

If we found out that the world
Was going to end on Tuesday morning
What everybody do? MM yeah
It's funny how the thought of
That can make some things real important
And a lot of things seem pretty worthless too

But I'd be dancing like a fool
And I'd be laughing, I'd be crying
Calling anybody who I've ever hurt and reconcile
And I'd call everyone I love
Say what I was scared to say to them
Now that I think about it
Maybe I should always live like the world is going to end
Live like the world is going to end, yeah

I'd hit all my favorite restaurants
They'd be open for business
Would not care what people thought, yeah, mm
And I'd speak love to anybody
Who came close enough to listen
And if somebody done me wrong
I'd call and tell them I forgot

And then I'd be dancing like a fool
And I'd be laughing, I'd be crying
Calling anybody who I've ever hurt and reconcile
And I'd call everyone I love
Say what I was scared to say to them
Now that I think about it
Maybe I should always live like the world is going to end
Oh yeah, oh oh

We spend most our lives
And almost all our time on what we don't care about
What we could do without
Every tragedy, is that we can't see it
We can't see it until time is running out

Cause I'd be dancing like a fool
I'd eat ice cream every morning
I'd call up everyone I love and drive them out to California
And we'd say the things
That we've been scared to death to say till then
Now that I think about it
Maybe we should always live like the world is going to end
Live like the world is going to end

Live like the world
Live like, live like
Live like the world is going to end

ben rector - make something beautiful

Please let me make something beautiful
A thing that reminds us there's good in the world
A thing that remind us
There's still something out there worth fighting for
Cause it feels like the world has gone crazy
Spinning faster and cheaper than ever before and
And it feel likes there's nobody giving a damn
That it's getting worse

Ooh ooh ooh
Let it be something wonderful
Ooh ooh ooh
Let it be something beautiful
Please let me make something beautiful
A thing that reminds us there's good in the world

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