After the big success of her single “Fight song”, American singer and songwriter Rachel Platten is ready to touch our hearts once again with “Better place”, third single from “Wildfire”.
“It’s one of my favorite songs on the album, it just was the easiest one to write” said Rachel about the song. “I wrote it with a woman called Sally Seltmann who wrote Feist’s “1234.” She brought in the idea of that initial melody, and then we kind of left it and didn’t do anything else with it. And then I sat with it over a couple of months. Then all of a sudden, my sister called me one day and told me that she’s found the person she’s going to marry after years of thinking she was just going to be single forever. The song just wrote itself after that. I was just looking out, with this beautiful sunlight filtering through the trees, and it just felt like this gift from the sky. It was already written, it just came through me”.
The album “Wildfire” is her major-label debut and reached number five in the U.S Billboard chart.
Lyrics:
I’ll tell the world, I’ll sing a song
It’s a better place since you came along
Since you came along
Your touch is sunlight through the trees
Your kisses are the ocean breeze
Everything’s alright when you’re with me
And ah ah ah ah ah, you’re my favorite thing
Ah ah ah ah ah, all the love that you bring
But it feels like I’ve opened my eyes again
And the colors are golden and bright again
There’s a song in my heart, I feel like I belong
It’s a better place since you came along
It’s a better place since you came along
I see the whole world in your eyes
It’s like I’ve known you all my life
We just feel so right
So I pour my heart into your hands
It’s like you really understand
You love the way I am
And ah ah ah ah ah, you’re my favorite thing
Ah ah ah ah ah, all the happiness you bring
But it feels like I’ve opened my eyes again
And the colors are golden and bright again
And the sun paints the skies and the wind sings her song
It’s a better place since you came along
It’s a better place since you came along
Ah ah ah ah ah
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ah ah ah ah ah
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Now I’m alright, now I’m alright
Everything’s alright
Cause it feels like I’ve opened my eyes again
And the colors are golden and bright again
There’s a song in my heart, I feel like I belong
It’s a better place since you came along
It’s a better place since you came along
