Chords for Sara Bareilles performs Taylor Swift's "Clean"

_ Thank you so much, Taylor.
To help celebrate you, I am so pleased to welcome
another great songwriter, Sarah Bareilles,
for a special tribute.
_ _ _ Thank you so much, David, for giving me the opportunity
to celebrate a true songwriting icon.
Ms.
Taylor Swift has proven herself over and over again
to be an extraordinary storyteller, an innovator,
a leader, an advocate, an activist,
and this woman shows no signs of stopping.
To share a little brief story, I got invited out
to join Taylor to sing my song Brave on her Red Tour
several years ago and had a horrible malfunction
of my in-ears and couldn't adjust quickly
to the amount of applause that she deals with
on any given night.
So, little old Sarah going out to a stadium show
and hearing the amount of teenage girls screaming
was something I had to adjust for
and couldn't hear the music and I sang _ horribly.
And dear, sweet Taylor came to my room after the show
where I was in tears, felt so embarrassed
that I had embarrassed her somehow.
And _ she was so deeply kind and so deeply compassionate
and so comforting and I will never, ever forget
that wonderful kindness that you offered me, Taylor.
So, thank you for being a friend to songwriters,
to artists, for lifting other people up,
giving them opportunities that they wouldn't have otherwise
and for continuing to be a total badass leader
in our community.
I look up to you so much, so thank you for everything.
I want to also thank the NMPA for all they do for songwriters.
Where would we be without you?
Truly, you are our safeguard in so many ways.
So, thank you for this beautiful moment
and I wanted to sing a song called Clean
from Taylor's album, 1989.
And I've thought a lot about the moves you're making
right now, Taylor, in taking back your own narrative
and I feel this song, which always touched me
off that record, about rebirth and renewal
and going through hardship and taking your own story back.
_ I feel like I'm watching you do it [E] right now
and it's very, very inspiring.
So, here is Clean for you, Taylor. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ ♪ The drought was the very [C#m] worst, _ _
_ [A] oh, oh [E] ♪ _ _
♪ And the flowers that [C#m] we'd grown _ together [A] died of thirst ♪
_ ♪ It was [Em] months and months of back and [C#m] forth, _ _ _ [A] oh, oh, oh [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C#m] _ ♪
_ [A] _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _
[E] ♪ And the blood that we'd _ _ _ _ _ _ shed, oh, oh, _ _ [C#m]
oh, oh ♪
♪ It was months and months of back and forth, oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ And the flowers that we'd grown together died of thirst ♪
♪ It was months and months of back and forth, oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ I [E] think I'm finally clean _ _ _ _ _ _ ♪
♪ [C#m] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
There was [B] nothing left to [C#m] do, _ _ [E] oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ When the butterflies turned [C#m] to dust, they covered my [E] hole _ ♪
♪ So I punched [B] a hole and _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ let the flood carry [C#m] away all my pain ♪
♪ I've got pictures [E]
of you, _ water filled my lungs ♪
♪ I screamed so loud, but no one heard it _ _ _ _ _ _ ♪
♪ The rain _ came [B] _
pouring [C#m] down when I was drowning [E] ♪
♪ That's when I could finally breathe, and by _ _ [B] then gone [C#m] was any trace of [E] you _ _ _ _ _ _ ♪
[B] _ _ _ _ [C#m] _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ ♪ [E]
Ten months older, I must admit, just because you're clean don't mean you don't miss it ♪
♪ Ten months older, I won't give in, now that I'm clean, I'm never gonna risk it ♪
♪ The drought [B] was the very [C#m] worst, _ _
_ [B] oh, _ oh, [E] _ _
oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
And [B] the flowers that we'd [C#m] grown _ together [E] died of _ _ thirst.
_ _ [E] The rain _ came _ [B] pouring [C#m] down when I was drowning.
[E] That's when I could finally breathe.
And by _ [B] morning, _ [C#m]
gone was any trace of you.
[A] I think I am finally clean.
The rain came [B] pouring [C#m] down when I was drowning.
[E] That's when I could finally breathe.
And by [B] _ _
morning, [C#m] gone was any trace of [E] you.
I think I am finally clean. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ _
_ [E] I think I am finally clean. _
_ _ _ _ _ Finally [C#m] clean.
_ _ _ [E] I think I am [A] finally clean. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [C] _
[G] Thank you, Sarah, for that beautiful tribute.
And thank you all for joining the 2021 NMPA annual meeting.
We look forward to being in person next year,
where I will get to quote a lyric from our songwriter
icon Taylor Swift and say, welcome to New York.
_ And I say, welcome to New York.
[C] _ _ _ _ [G] Welcome to [D] New York.
[C] Welcome to New York.
_ [G] Welcome to New York.
[C] _ It's been waiting [G] for you.
Welcome to New [A] York.
[C] Welcome to New York.
_ [G] _
It's a new sound track.
I could dance to [C] this beat.
_ _ Beat [Em] forever. _
Lights are [D] so bright.
_ _ _ [C] _ _