{"id":339313,"date":"2026-03-20T15:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T15:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/339313\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T15:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T15:09:10","slug":"sara-bareilles-pens-emotional-song-inspired-by-anderson-cooper-stephen-colbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/339313\/","title":{"rendered":"Sara Bareilles’ Pens Emotional Song Inspired by Anderson Cooper, Stephen Colbert"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grammy Award winning singer Sara Bareilles penned a heart-wrenching song<\/a> about grief inspired by stories shared by Anderson Cooper and \u201cThe Late Show\u201d host Stephen Colbert. <\/a><\/p>\n

The \u201cLove Song\u201d artist opened up about the process and shared a preview of her emotional new song, \u201cHome.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sara Bareilles Was Inspired by Anderson Cooper and Stephen Colbert<\/p>\n

\u201cI was walking around. I live in Brooklyn, I was walking around listening to the podcast, and I was so moved by the story Stephen shared about losing his father and his brother,\u201d she told Cooper on the Thursday, March 19, episode of his \u201cAll There Is\u201d podcast<\/a>. \u201cThat episode is so special.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cooper explained that Colbert\u2019s father and his two brothers were killed in a plane crash when the late-night host was just 10 years old. Cooper\u2019s father, Wyatt Cooper, passed away at age 50 during open-heart surgery when the CNN journalist was just 10. He later lost his brother to suicide.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour connection in that conversation, I found it to be really inspiring. I came home and started writing a song about it,\u201d she continued. She went on to say that her new song, \u201cHome,\u201d was based on the conversation the two men had on a previous episode of Cooper\u2019s podcast<\/a>. <\/p>\n

During their conversation, Cooper and Colbert both shared that they grew up believing that they would die young because their fathers both died young<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cI realized when I had kids, I did not want to pass onto them my sadness,\u201d Cooper told the comedian. \u201cI wanted them to know about their grandparents, and my brother, but I don\u2019t want it to be infused with this secret hidden sadness that they feel strange about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bareilles joked that her song is \u201cpretty much plagiarism\u201d from the conversation between the two men. <\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, on this Earth, our work is to find ways to be bold enough to let other people see us. Telling stories is such an important part of that,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

Sara Bareilles\u2019 Song \u2018Home\u2019 Lyrics<\/p>\n

Cooper became emotional as they shared a clip from Bareilles\u2019 new song. <\/p>\n

\u201cI am one day older than my father was. Then he ever got to be. I was 10 years old when I grew up because he died at 53,\u201d she sang. \u201cI never asked hard questions. Thought they cause more pain. I hadn\u2019t yet learned life\u2019s holiest lesson that what is broken cannot heal until it\u2019s known and loved by name.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo tell me your story, I\u2019ll tell you mine. Don\u2019t need to worry, everything\u2019s already alright. You\u2019ll be the universe with nothing to hide. Anywhere you ever need to go, I can carry us home.\u201d<\/p>\n

She continues, \u201cI was taught to bury with the dead the presence of my grief. I see it now, but didn\u2019t then. The silence is a thief. It made strangers out of friends, robbed me of saving graces offered in unlikely places. I thought I could outrun it in the end. When a shattered heart is desperate, the only respite is to let somebody in.\u201d<\/p>\n

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