During an appearance on All There Is with Anderson Cooper <\/a>on Thursday, March 19, the singer-songwriter shared her unreleased song “Home” \u2014 and opened up about how Cooper and Colbert served as a source for inspiration.<\/p>\n In the conversation, Bareilles said that she listened to their conversation on his podcast in 2022, where they shared their experiences about grief and loss. At the time, Bareilles was navigating losses in her own life \u2014 and she wrote “Home” to process those feelings.<\/p>\n Anderson Cooper, Sara Bareilles and Stephen Colbert \u201cI was really moved,\u201d Bareilles, 46, who experienced grief<\/a> after the death of two beloved friends \u2014\u00a0Chad Joseph<\/a>\u00a0in 2020, and\u00a0Gavin Creel<\/a>\u00a0in 2024 \u2014\u00a0from cancer, said.<\/p>\n “You say it in the interview: It\u2019s about telling your story, and about telling your story warts and all, is the thing that brings you back home. And I think of home as being a place of connection,” she continued. “Your soul is at peace and at rest when you\u2019re in connection.”<\/p>\n “For me, on this earth, our work is to find ways to be bold enough to let other people see us. And telling stories is such an important part of that,” she continued.<\/p>\n In the song, which Bareilles joked is “pretty much plagiarism from that conversation,” she sings, “I am one day older than my father was \/ Than he ever got to be \/ I was 10 years old when I grew up \/ Cause he died at 53 \/ I stare at across the great divide \/ And my mother who was left \/ Dinner tables stretched oceans wide \/ Like a hollow in a chest.”<\/p>\n “I never asked hard questions \/ I thought they cause more pain \/ I hadn’t yet learned life’s holy lesson \/ That what is broken cannot heal until it’s known \/ And loved by name,” she sings.<\/p>\n Sara Bareilles in New York City in June 2023 Cooper, who’s been open about the toll the death of his father and brother took on him<\/a>, got emotional listening to the song and wiped tears from his face.<\/p>\n In the podcast intro, Cooper, 58, said, “You\u2019re going to hear that song on the podcast today. It hasn\u2019t been released yet, but Sara wanted all of us in this community to hear it first. I had not heard it in advance, and I was incredibly moved by it. I\u2019m a little embarrassed about how emotional I got.”<\/p>\n Bareilles is currently working on her seven studio album, with her latest being 2019’s Amidst the Chaos. She has not announced a release date for “Home.”<\/p>\n Read the original article on People<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Anderson](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/a1af63ba6f591b972da5ad6522bf101c.jpeg\"\/)
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