Rollercoasters (with Tarriona 'Tank' Ball) (From “Norah Jones is Playing Along” Podcast)

I've always wondered why people rode the biggest rollercoasters

Why the feeling brought up some type of excitement

That they didn't receive on a regular day?

Like when did feeling sick become equivalent to thrill or nausea, the new X pill?

I've always wondered why people rode those really big rollercoasters

And I remember, I remember when I did

It's the butterflies

And the fireflies

Fighting in my stomach

(The light between their wings)

I'm scared to fly

I might come down

I think I'm ready now

(Now)

That was so pretty, Norah

I love it

Oh, I liked it

It's the twist and the curve

Or the up and the swerve

And smiling so wide and smiling

It's the feeling of my nerves on the front edge of the seat

Eyes are open

Tears are coming from the thrill of sight moving as fast as light

Laughing for no reason

Screaming for all the things I should not have said in that last fight

Those rollercoasters, those rollercoasters

Those rollercoasters are like meeting God with a kite in your left hand

Strings are still twisted around your forefinger

Your right hand is busy gripping the safety rail

There is this moment when you feel like

You're in an incredible ocean of your own butterflies

And this is the moment when you get free and you let your arms fly

I know I'm flying right now

It's the butterflies

And the fireflies

Fighting in my stomach

(The light between their wings)

I'm scared to fly

I might come down

I think I'm ready now

(Ready now)

Getting back in line

Fly, fly, fly, fly

Fly, fly, fly, fly

Oh oh, oh oh

Fly, fly, fly, fly

Fly, fly, fly, fly

Oh oh, oh oh

I wanna fly so (fly)

I wanna fly so high (fly, fly, fly)