Rita Wilson

Released: March 29, 2019

Songwriter: Rita Wilson Richard Marx Trey Bruce

For every heartbreak there’s a melody
A one time listen kind of remedy
It’ll get you through till the crying’s done
There’s a song for everyone

Verse 1:
When you feel like kicking a wall down
Can't hold in you wanna be screaming out
Knowing it'll do you no good at all
Then you hear the first verse of Walkin’ on Sunshine
Yeah, that one, it gets you every time
And like that, you can't help but sing along

Chorus:
For every heartbreak there’s a melody
A one time listen kind of remedy
It’ll get you through till the crying’s done
There’s a song for everyone

For every high you feel and no matter how low
It's somewhere playing on the radio
No matter who you are, or where you come from
There's a song, a song for everyone

Verse 2:
When it hurts more than you can stand it
Press play and just start dancing
Turn the beat up and let it all drift away
Let it drift away

Chorus:
For every heartbreak there’s a melody
A one time listen kind of remedy
It’ll get you through till the crying’s done
There’s a song for everyone

For every high you feel and no matter how low
It's somewhere playing on the radio
No matter who you are, or where you come from
There's a song, a song for everyone

Bridge:
Your story, your life
Has a soundtrack just like mine

Chorus:
For every heartbreak there’s a melody
A one time listen kind of remedy
It’ll get you through till the crying’s done
There’s a song for everyone

For every high you feel and no matter how low
It's somewhere playing on the radio
No matter who you are, or where you come from
There's a song, a song for everyone

Song for everyone, song for everyone, everyone
Gimme the best boys and free my soul
Gimme the beat boys and free my soul

With her new album, Halfway to Home—the second in a series of three new records—Rita Wilson continues to establish herself as a significant, rising singer-songwriter. This latest chapter, and her ongoing creative development, is a manifestation of her view that all of us keep growing and changing, whether we intend to or not.

“Everybody is a work in progress,” says Wilson. “I don’t feel that we’re ever at the place we want to be. Just when you think you’ve got it made, something throws you for a loop. I know I’m not perfect, but I just keep trying—I’m out there, flawed, but trying my best. So I wanted to write about connecting to those parts of you that aren’t finished, they’re just ‘halfway to home.’ ”

Where last year’s acclaimed Bigger Picture was spare and intimate, Halfway to Home stakes out new sonic territory, the place where Southern California rock meets Nashville country. “When I was growing up,” says Wilson, “the thing that grabbed me in music were the stories—like ‘Ode to Billie Joe,’ which is full of mystery, intrigue and tension, or the Beatles’ ‘She’s Leaving Home,’ which made me wonder about each person in that story; the mother, the father, and the girl. Even in those songs, though, there was still a great hook, where you’re able to sing along and lose yourself in a moment.”

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