Tangled Up Kites

This song is on my album, "The Shakes." Get it on iTunes or at http://myspace.com/irishloc . Download it from the music store on there, or for an actual, physical CD, scroll down and click "Buy Now."

For chords/tab, go to http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/search.php?value=lauren+o%27connell&search...

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My fists have been grasping real tight
On ribbons that hang onto tangled up kites
For the notes that will fill
Up the saccharine still
Of the air here tonight

But it feels like there's little to show
For time that you've spent on things that no one can know
How the lines in your hands
Read like maps in the sand
With nowhere specific to go

If you let it
It all goes away

It's the strangest feeling at parts
When things are okay right when the rain starts
Like the dripping of stars
On the roof of my car
In the minutes just after dark

But sometimes I think I'm losing sight
Of whatever it was that made everything right
But I lack violins
To make sorrows of sins
So I guess that it must be alright

If you let it
It all goes away

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Lauren
• O'Connell
• Tangled
• Up
• Kites
• Acoustic
• Alternative
• Folk
• Music
• Guitar
• Song
• Singer
• Songwriter
• Fairport
• Rochester

[ZechsMerquise73]

I thought this said 'Tangled Up Kittens'. I'm disapointed.

[LaurenOC12]

Yeah, I had to pull that video. PETA threatened legal action.

[protagonist14]

they always ruin other people's fun don't they?

[LaurenOC12]

Also shut down my ferret racquetball league.

[ThomasRaymann]

You look really beautiful with these glasses..:o)

[LaurenOC12]

Thank you sir.

[moneyquickeasy]

@mdkay1995 She was about 18 when she recorded this video. She is now 22.

[jahoppes]

I love this song :)

[trackstud0913]

1:30 - 1:37 "I lack violins to make sorrows of sins, so I guess it must be alright..."

I have heard that as life goes, we learn that God gave us all we need in the end when we were created. If you haven't got the tool for the job, the job doesn't need to be done. We're all sinners. No changing that. Just let those kites fly and hold their strings like they were keeping your ship afloat amongst a storm. Our scars make us who we are, and yours are beautiful.

[Chikarinki]

You look so much like Ingrid Michaelson in those glasses. (: Anyway, you're voice is wonderful. :3

[bbullock]

@ThomasRaymann I would argue she always looks beautiful...

[juliajane05]

Your lyrics are so philosophical--makes me realize I'm not the only one who thinks that way... Amazing how you put abtract words/thoughts in such a fashion that can depict a thought in such a tangible

[littleboss44]

OMG Lauren loving the glasses!!!!! And loving ya'!

[mdkay1995]

You are definitely the display of what kind of person SHOULD be discovered on youtube. not sombody like Beiber who is crap at music.

But out of curiosity becasue of the deepness and thought behind your lyrics, how young are you?

[ALTERED13TH]

The lyrics are nice but why do you shift to the third person in the second verse? The rest of the song is all in the first person, except for the chorus, which is personal and it seems awkward to shift to third person unless of course you are singing that verse to another person.