Norah Jones

Released: October 13, 2009

Songwriter: Norah Jones

Producer: Jacquire King

[Verse 1]
In your message you said
You were going to bed
But I'm not done with the night
So I stayed up and read
But your words in my head
Got me mixed up so I turned out the light

[Chorus]
And I don't know how to slow it down
My mind's racing from chasing pirates

[Verse 2]
Now an ambulance screams
While the silliest things
(Are) flopping around in my brain
And I try not to dream
Up impossible schemes
(That) swim around, wanna drown me insane

[Chorus]
And I don't know how to slow it down
Oh my mind's racing from chasing pirates

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]
And I don't know how to slow it down
Oh my mind's racing from chasing pirates

[Outro]
My mind's racing from chasing pirates
My mind's racing from chasing pirates

The daughter of Beatles collaborator Ravi Shankar (her estranged father whom she had little contact with until her adult years), Norah Jones came into her own after studying at Dallas Booker T. Washington School of the Arts. She later spent two years at the University of North Texas' lauded music program in Denton, Texas – alma mater of such diverse music greats as rocker Don Henley and stalwarts Roy Orbison and Pat Boone.

Jones' goal was always to get to New York City, and she succeeded there after years of tough starter music gigs and the almost-cliched waitress jobs. Her debut album Come Away With Me won 5 Grammy Awards for Jones herself, including “Album of the Year”, and “Record of the Year.” Additionally, it won 3 Grammy awards for “Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical,” “Producer of the Year, Non-Classical,” and “Song of the Year,” for collaborators on the album. It has been Certified 10x Multi-Platinum by the RIAA, having sold 10 million albums.

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