CHRISTINA PERRI - THE WORDS

THE WORDS

CHRISTINA PERRI

SONGWRITERS: CHRISTINA PERRI, DAVID HODGES & DAVID RYAN HARRIS

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: COMPLETO HEAD OR HEART

LABEL: ATLANTIC RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 2014

          Christina Judith Perri(born August 19, 1986) is an American singer and songwriter. After her debut single "Jar of Hearts" was featured on the television series So You Think You Can Dance in 2010, Perri signed with Atlantic Records and released her debut extended play, The Ocean Way Sessions. Her debut studio album, Lovestrong(2011), followed soon after and has since been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America(RIAA).

         Perri also gained recognition for writing and recording "A Thousand Years", the love theme for the film The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2(2012), which appears on the accompanying soundtrack. The song went on to sell over 10 million copies in the United States, being certified Diamond, and the official music video reached two billion views on YouTube in December 2021. She later released her second extended play, A Very Merry Perri Christmas(2012), followed by her second studio album, Head or Heart(2014). After recording the lullaby albums Songs for Carmella(2019) and Songs for Rosie(2021), Perri released her third studio album, A Lighter Shade of Blue(2022).

             Perri was born in Bensalem, Pennsylvania. She is of Italian and Polish descent, and has called her family "very Italian". She has an older brother, Nick Perri, who formerly played guitar with Shinedown, Silvertide, Perry Farrell and Matt Sorum and cousin Dominic Perri.

         She graduated from Archbishop Ryan High School in 2004 and later attended the University of the Arts. She taught herself how to play guitar as a 16-year-old by watching a videotape of Shannon Hoon from the group Blind Melon performing on VH1. In college she majored in communication for a year before dropping out to pursue a music career.

       She frequently sang and acted in musical theater as a child. Perri claims to have learned to play piano and guitar because she missed hearing music being played in the house when she moved away. According to Perri, whenever she played the guitar or piano, she would sing and "all of a sudden these songs would appear."

All of the lights land on you

The rest of the world fades from view

And all of the love I see

Please please say you feel it too

And all of the noise I hear inside

Restless and loud unspoken and wild

And all that you need to say to make it all go away

It's that you feel the same way too

And I know the scariest part is letting go

Cause love is a ghost you can't control

I promise you the truth can't hurt us now

So let the words slip out of your mouth

And all of the steps that land me to you

And all of the hell I had to walk through

But I wouldn't trade a day for the chance to say

My love I'm in love with you

And I know the scariest part is letting go

Cause love is a ghost you can't control

I promise you the truth can't hurt us now

So let the words slip out of your mouth

I know that we're both afraid

We both made the same mistakes

An open heart is an open wound to you

And in the wind of a heavy choice

Love has a quiet voice

Still your mind, now I'm yours to choose

And I know the scariest part is letting go

Let my love be the light that guides you home

And I know the scariest part is letting go

Cause love is a ghost you can't control

I promise you the truth can't hurt us now

So let the words slip out of your mouth.