FIONA APPLE - I WALK A LITTLE FASTER

I WALK A LITTLE FASTER

FIONA APPLE

SONGWRITERS: CAROLYN LEIGHT & CY COLEMAN

MUSIC: VERNON DUCK

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: THE BEST IS YET TO COME: THE SONGS OF CY COLEMAN

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 2009

 

           Fiona Apple McAfee-Maggart(born September 13, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter. She has released five albums from 1996 to 2020, which have all reached the top 20 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart. Apple has received numerous awards and nominations, including three Grammy Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards, and a Billboard Music Award.

         The youngest daughter of the actor Brandon Maggart, Apple was born in New York City and was raised alternating between her mother's home in New York and her father's in Los Angeles. Classically trained on piano as a child, she began composing her own songs when she was eight years old. Her debut album, Tidal, containing songs written when she was 17, was released in 1996 and received a Grammy Award for Best Female Vocal Rock Performance for the single "Criminal". She followed with When the Pawn... (1999), produced by Jon Brion, which was also critically and commercially successful and was certified Platinum.

      For her third album, Extraordinary Machine(2005), Apple again collaborated with Brion and began recording the album in 2002. However, Apple was reportedly unhappy with the production and opted not to release the record, leading fans to protest Epic Records, erroneously believing that the label was withholding its release. The album was eventually re-produced without Brion and released in October 2005. The album was certified Gold, and nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album. In 2012, she released her fourth studio album, The Idler Wheel..., which received critical praise and was followed by a tour of the United States and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 2013. Apple's fifth studio album, Fetch the Bolt Cutters, was released in 2020 to widespread acclaim, earning two Grammy Awards: Best Alternative Music Album and Best Rock Performance for the lead single "Shameika".

          The Best Is Yet to Come: The Songs of Cy Coleman is a compilation album and tribute to Cy Coleman, released in September 2009. The album peaked at number 32 of Billboard's Jazz Albums chart.

Pretending that we'll meet

Each time I turn a corner, I walk a little faster

Pretending life is sweet

'Cause love's around the corner, I walk a little faster

 

Can't begin to see my future shine as yet

No sign as yet, you're mine as yet

Rushing to a face I can't define as yet

Keep bumping into walls and taking lots of falls

 

And even though I meet 'round each and every corner

With nothing but disaster

 

I set my chin a little higher, I hope a little longer

Build a little stronger castle in the air

And thinking you'll be there, I walk a little faster

 

Can't begin to see my future shine as yet

No sign as yet, you're mine as yet

Rushing to a face I can't define as yet

Keep bumping into walls and taking lots of falls

 

And even though I meet 'round each and every corner

With nothing but disaster

 

I set my chin a little higher and I hope a little longer

I build a little stronger castle in the air

And thinking you'll be there, I walk a little faster.