roar
I used to bite my tongue and hold my breath / Scared to rock the boat and make a mess / So I sat quietly, agreed politely / I guess that I forgot I had a choice / I let you push me past the breaking point / I stood for nothing, so I fell for everything // pre-chorus: You held me down, but I got up (hey) / Already brushing off the dust / You hear my voice, your hear that sound / Like thunder, gonna shake the ground / You held me down, but I got up / Get ready cause I had enough / I see it all, I see it now // chorus: I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter / Dancing through the fire / Cause I am a champion, and you’re gonna hear me roar / Louder, louder than a lion / Cause I am a champion, and you’re gonna hear me roar / oh oh oh... you’re gonna hear me roar // Now I’m floating like a butterfly / Stinging like a bee I earned my stripes / I went from zero, to my own hero // (pre-chorus) // (chorus) // Roar, roar, roar, roar, roar... // (chorus)
legendary lovers Under a silver moon, tropical temperature / I feel my lotus bloom / Come closer / I want your energy, I want your aura / You are my destiny, my mantra // pre-chorus: I never knew I could see something so clearly looking through my third eye / Never knew karma could be so rewarding and bring me to your light / Maybe this is the beginning of something so magical tonight / Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh // chorus: Take me down to the river / Underneath the blood-orange sun / Say my name like a scripture / Keep my heart beating like a drum / Legendary lovers / We could be legendary (la la la la la) / Legendary lovers / We should be legendary (la la la la la) // Go down in history, go down together / Into infinity, forever / Your Cleopatra, your blushing Juliet / Anything for your love, a ride or die // (pre-chorus) // Legendary lovers, legendary lovers, legendary lovers // (chorus) //
birthday I heard you're feeling nothing's going right / Why don't you let me stop by? / The clock is ticking, running out of time / So we should party all night // So cover your eyes, I have a surprise / I hope you got a healthy appetite / If you wanna dance, if you want it all / You know that I'm the girl that you should call // chorus: Boy, when you're with me, I'll give you a taste / Make it like your birthday every day / I know you like it sweet, so you can have your cake / Give you something good to celebrate / So make a wish / I'll make it like your birthday every day / I'll be your gift / Give you something good to celebrate // Pop your confetti, pop your Pérignon / So hot and heavy 'til dawn / I got you spinning like a disco ball / All night they're playing your song / We're living the life, we're doing it right / You're never gonna be unsatisfied / If you wanna dance, if you want it all / You know that I'm the girl that you should call // (chorus) // Happy birthday... / So let me get you in your birthday suit / It's time to bring out the big balloons // (chorus) //
walking on air Tonight, tonight, tonight, I'm walking on air (2x) / You’re giving me sweet, sweet ecstasy / Yeah, you take me to utopia / You're reading me like erotica / Boy, you make me feel exotic, yeah // pre-chorus: Just when I think I can’t take anymore / We go deeper and hotter than ever before / We go higher and higher / I feel like I'm already there // chorus: I’m walking on air tonight / I’m walking on air / I’m walking, I’m walking on air tonight (2x) / I’m walking on air // This is pure paradise / Even heaven is jealous of our love / Yes, we make angels cry / Raining down on us from up above // (pre-chorus) // (chorus) // Tonight, tonight, tonight, I'm walking on air (2x) / Heaven is jealous of our love / Angels are crying from up above // (chorus) // Tonight, tonight, tonight, I'm walking on air (2x) // I'm walking on air
unconditionally Oh no, did I get too close? / Oh, did I almost see what's really on the inside? / All your insecurities / All the dirty laundry / Never made me blink one time // chorus: Unconditional, unconditionally / I will love you unconditionally / There is no fear now / Let go and just be free / I will love you unconditionally // Come just as you are to me / Don't need apologies / Know that you are worthy / I'll take your bad days with your good / Walk through the storm I would / I do it all because I love you / I love you // (chorus) // So open up your heart and just let it begin / Open up your heart and just let it begin / Open up your heart and just let it begin / Open up your heart / Acceptance is the key to be / To be truly free / Will you do the same for me? // (chorus) // I will love you / I will love you / I will love you unconditionally
dark horse I knew you were, you were gonna come to me/ And here you are, but you better choose carefully / 'Cause I, I'm capable of anything / Of anything, and everything / Make me your Aphrodite / Make me your one and only / But don't make me your enemy / Your enemy, your enemy // (chorus) So you wanna play with magic? Boy, you should know what you're falling for / Baby, do you dare to do this? / Cause I'm coming at you like a dark horse / Are you ready for, ready for / A perfect storm, perfect storm? / 'Cause once you're mine, once you're mine / There's no going back // Mark my words, this love will make you levitate / Like a bird, like a bird without a cage / We're down to earth if you choose to walk away / Don't walk away / It's in the palm of your hand now, baby / It's a yes or a no, no maybe / So just be sure before you give it all to me / All to me, give it all to me // (chorus) x2 //
this is how we do
This is how we do (2x) / Sipping on Rosé / Silverlake sun coming up all lazy / Slow cooking pancakes for my boy / Still up, still fresh as a daisy / Playing ping pong all night long / Everything's all neon and hazy / Chanel this, Chanel that / Hell yeah, all my girls vintage Chanel, baby // pre-chorus: It's no big deal (3x) / This is no big deal // chorus: This is how we do, yeah / Chilling, laid-back, straight stunting / Yeah, we do it like that / This is how we do, do-do-do-do / This is how we do (2x) // Big hoops, and maroon lips / My clique hopping in my Maserati / Santa Barbara-chic at La Super Rica / Grabbing tacos, checking out hotties / Now we talkin’ astrology / Getting our nails did all Japanese-y / Day drinking at the Wildcat / Sucking real bad at Mariah Carey-oke // (pre-chorus) // (chorus) ((2x) //
international smile Flowers in her hair, she don't care / Peach-pink lips, yeah, everybody stares / (Ooh) You think you've seen her in a magazine / (Ooh) It's like she walked right out of your dreams / Black Ray Bans, you know she's with the band / Passport stamps, she's cosmopolitan / (Ooh) Yeah, she runs the place like Penny Lane / (Ooh) Yeah, you're lucky if you're on her plane / From Tokyo, to Mexico, to Rio! // chorus: That girl’s a trip / A one-way ticket / Takes you miles high, so high / 'Cause she’s got that one international smile / Catch her if you can / Yeah, she's so in demand / Takes you miles high, so high / 'Cause she’s got that one international smile // She’s got that je ne sais quoi, you know it / So très chic, yeah, she's a classic / (Ooh) Yeah, she’s footloose and so fancy free / (Ooh) Yeah, she dances to a her own beat / 'Cause she's the muse and the artist / Always leaves a trail of stardust / (Ooh) 'Cause she’s a little bit of Yoko / (Ooh) And she’s a little bit of, “Oh no” / From LA, Miami, to New York City! // (chorus) // Please fasten your seatbelts / And make sure your champagne glasses are empty / We are now approaching the runway / So get ready for take-off // (chorus) //
ghost You sent a text / It's like the wind changed your mind / We were best friends / Yeah, we were building a life / With every kiss and every letter / Every promise of forever / Oh, but you hit “send” / And disappeared in front of my eyes // chorus: And now you're just a ghost / (When I look back, never would have known that) / You could be so cold / (Like a stranger, vanish like a vapor) / There’s just an echo where your heart used to be / Now I see it clearly / And there’s just a pillow where your head used to sleep / My vision’s 20/20 / I see through you now // Something has died / Now that I have made up my mind / I’ll be alright / It doesn’t haunt me at night / Cause every gift and every letter / Every promise of forever / Now, is out of sight / Like you were never alive // (chorus) //Now, now, now, now, now (x2) / So, rest in peace / I’ll see you on the other side
love me
I lost myself in fear of losing you / I wish I didn’t do, but I did / I lost my own, my own identity / Forgot that you picked me for me // But now, I don’t negotiate with insecurities / They always seem to get the best of me / I found I had to love myself the way I wanted you to / Love me // chorus: No more second-guessing / No, there’s no more questioning / I’ll be the one defining who I’m gonna be / No concealing feelings / Or changing seasonally / I’m gonna love myself the way I want you to love me // Sometimes I wish my skin was a costume / That I could just unzip and strip / But who I am is who I’m meant to be / And it’s who you’re in love, in love with / So now, I don’t negotiate with insecurities / They’re going to have to take a back seat / I know I have to love myself the way I want you to / Love me // (chorus) // No more standing in my own way / (Let's get deeper, let's get closer) / No more standing in my own way / (I want you to love me) (2x) // (chorus)
this moment Can you tell me, who called a race? / Can anyone stay in one place? / And when you get to the finish line / Will you wish for more time? / But see, one day / One day you will / But maybe one day you will find / That you just can’t push rewind // chorus: All we have is this moment / Tomorrow's unspoken / Yesterday is history / So why don't you be here with me? / All we have is this moment / To put a love into motion / Yesterday is history / So why don't you be here with me? / Be here with me now // Do you ever think that, we're just chasing our tails? / Like life is one big fast treadmill / And we pop what is prescribed / If it gets us first prize / But you know who I, who I think will win / Are the ones that let love in / Are the ones that take the time // (chorus) // Be here with me now (2x) / 'Cause the future is right now, right in front on you / Don't let the clock, the clock tell you what to do / Our future is right now, I'm in front of you / Baby, don't blink and miss this moment // (chorus) //
double rainbow You’re a one-of-a-one, a one-of-a-kind / That you only find once in a lifetime / Made to fit like a fingerprint / A code that clicks open the gold mine / They say one man’s trash is another man’s treasure / When I found you, it was all pitter-patter / Secretly, hit the lottery / 'Cause you're brighter than all of the Northern Lights / You speak to me, even in my dreams / Wouldn't let you go for even the highest price / They say one man’s trash is another girl’s treasure / So if it’s up to me, I’m gonna keep you forever // chorus: 'Cause I understand you / We see eye-to-eye / Like a double rainbow in the sky / And wherever you go, so will I / 'Cause a double rainbow is hard to find // Was a phenomenon when you came along / Yeah, our chemistry was more than science / It was deafening, loud like lightning / It was striking, you couldn't deny it / They say one man’s
trash is another man’s treasure / The two of us together make everything glitter // (chorus) // To the bottom of the sea, I'd go to find you / Climb the highest peak to be right beside you / Every step I take, I'm keeping you in mind // (chorus) // It's hard to find / It's hard to find / Once in a lifetime / Once in a lifetime
by the grace of god Was 27, surviving my return of Saturn / A long vacation didn't sound so bad / Was full of secrets, locked up tight like Iron Mountain / Running on empty, so out of gas / Thought I wasn’t enough / Found I wasn’t so tough / Laying on the bathroom floor / We were living on a fault line / And I felt the fault was all mine / Couldn’t take it anymore // chorus: By the grace of God / (There was no other way) / I picked myself back up / (I knew I had to stay) / I put one foot in front of the other and I / Looked in the mirror and decided to stay / Wasn't gonna let love take me out that way // I thank my sister for keeping my head above the water / When the truth was like swallowing sand / Now every morning, there is no more mourning / Oh, I can finally see myself again / I know I am enough, possible to be loved / It was not about me / Now I have to rise above / Let the universe call the bluff / Yeah, the truth will set you free // (chorus) // That way, no (2x) / Not in the name of love / That way, no (2x) / I am not giving up // (chorus) (2x) // Mastered by Chris Gehringer at Sterling Sound, New York, NY. A&R: Dan McCarrol. Direct Management Groud / Bradford Cabb , Martin Kirkup, Stevem Jensen and Ngoe Hoang Photography by Ryan McGinley. Art Direction and Design by Mogolion Redesign develop by Agência Lazuli: Amanda Forastieri, Juliana Araújo and Luccas Emanuel.
thank you
I have a heart full of gratitude for many people, including my family: Grandma, Mom, Dad, Angela, David, Svend, Jenn, Bena & Kali. My team, my managers: Bradford Cobb, Martin Kirkup, Steven Jensen, Ngoc Hoang. Steve Barnett, Greg Thompson. Dan McCaroll, BobSemanovich, Danny Lockwood. Dennis Reese, Joe Rainey, Heidí-Anne-Noel, John Browen, Nicole Frantz, Wanda Coriano and everyone at Capitol Records. Lucian Graingo and everyone at my new home, Universal Music. Everyone at CAA, Warnet/Chappell & ASCAP. All of my producers and co-writers: thank you for the strenghs you individually brought to the record. To my incredible Executive Producers: Max Martin & Dr. Luke. I have never had a better time making a record than this one from Santa Barbara to Stockholm... I like our dream team... A LOT. To two of the leading ladies in my life, Tamra & Aya: thank you for helping me keep a pulse. To Sharon Shaw for helping me find the light. To all my buds who keep me both sane and insane. Also to John, who was the first one to call me a PRISM. It stuck, thank you for seeing it in me. Oh yeah, and you... reader/listener/KATYCAT, thanks for your love and support. Hope you are inspired by some of the messages of these songs to let the light into your life as well. X Katy. THANK YOU ALL, I COULDN’T HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT YOU. katy perry.com capitolrecords.com