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What's Not Inside: The Lost Songs From Waitress
Pop · 2019 · 7 tracks · 21m

What's Not Inside: The Lost Songs From Waitress

Stripped-back piano demos and cut songs from the Waitress musical. Raw, conversational, and deeply intimate character sketches caught in their earliest form.

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It's like sitting in on a private rehearsal where all the best songs almost didn't make the cut.

A quiet, reflective exploration of identity and the paths not taken, delivered with a gentle but firm emotional honesty.

What's Not Inside: The Lost Songs From Waitress · vs · Sara Bareilles
Storytelling+2.7σ

The writing leans far further into storytelling than the rest of the catalogue.

Tracklist · 7 Tracks · 21m
01
Happy Enough
2:18
02
Door Number Three (demo)
2:58
03
Knocked Up You
2:49
04
Without a Believer
3:53
05
I Can't Wait
2:21
06
Falling in Love Pie
2:27
07
She Used to Be Mine
4:55
Moments Worth Waiting For
the audible breath and piano hammer clicks on the demo version of Door Number Three
the sudden, heartbreaking clarity in the bridge of Without a Believer
the way the final notes of She Used to Be Mine hang in the air with unresolved longing
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