| Lana Del Rey – Ride Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I agree. Lana Del Ray's theme seems to be 60's-70's Americana, and I think that this is her take on On the Road and Easy Rider. I really like how she combines both the romantic and the gritty aspects of the theme. | |
| Jewel – Serve The Ego Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"Who says it is not my destiny To let you control me" Wow! What a sexually charged lyric. Submit yourself to love submit yourself to the music.... |
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| Jewel – Behind The Wall Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This is a Tracy Chapman cover. Its a great song but the one version jewel sang circulating around doesn't do it justice. Tracy's version is better but honestly it does better as poety than music. The harmony is awkward. |
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| Jewel – Stephenville, TX Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The best part of this song is her frankness in her self-critique. "So why not follow me, the blond bombshell deity? I'll sell you neat ideas without big words And a little bit of cleavage to help wash it all down" I'm a die hard Jewel fan and this burns--but it burns because its the truth. Very insightful. But I've never figured out the next verse: "Hey, everybody thought Godard was a clown And that ain't gonna be me" Godard was a French director. He made very well respected movies. A clown? I don't get it. |
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| Jewel – Daddy She's A Goddess Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This is another example of Jewel's dark side in her "serial Killer" theme collection. Just like Haunted and Nicotine Love, this one shows us that there is more to Jewel. She sang and composed this one with Steve Poltz. Its not ready for prime time but it is interesting. |
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| Jewel – Food Stamp Love Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This is a cute fresh folk song from Jewel's early folk period. I love it. I've only ever heard this as a poor bootleg. "you throw out some love crumbs but I've got an appetite bigger than that" |
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| Jewel – A Housewife's Revenge Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This song is a bit rough. There is wisdom and complex meaning here its just not refined yet. Basically this is about passive agression and the way that relationship problems can feed on each other and spiral out of control. | |
| Jewel – Grey Matter Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Grey matter is brain matter a part of the brain. So she is talking about his emotions. But to me the term grey matter is much more than that. Its grey, so its ambivolent. He doesn't know where he stands with her and won't communicate it. So she's constantly battered between black and white, love and hate. Caught in the purgatory of his emotions. "I hate you, I love you Leave, please don't go away Can't decide if I like your face Or if I wish it would stray" I don't quite get the part about "From too many false teeth and greasy flash bulbs" I guess this is about the phony world of fame. But are flashbulbs really greasy? But I think the best verse is the refrain. She's lost and doesn't know where she is with him: "I am drifting without an anchor Through your ambigous region A strange continent immune to all reason" |
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| Jewel – Violet Eyes Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This is another one of her best rare songs. Its dissapointing that some of her best work never made it onto an album. Thank god for youtube. I'd be happy to pay for these songs if I could. "Seasons come and seasons pass Time can seem as fragile as a looking glass Oh I know there must be something more constant than time For a night when I sleep I feel you near me I see your violet eyes..." |
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| Jewel – Jessica Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think this is one of the best of the rare Jewels. She is definately experimenting with certain lyrics here. some of the lyrics: "One moment here then gone With no forwarding address Love no longer has a house Residence in flesh Religion without a temple No place to take your worship to No God for the eyes to see No fruit to lay at the feet of Jessica Jessica" Also appear in Emily "I go to the bedroom Turn on the light It's like an empty altar No angel in sight religion with no temple No place to take my worship to No god for my eyes to see No fruit to lay at the feet of Emily" These lyrics are powerful and some of my favorite. Neither song was released so I think she was just trying to see where they fit. But there is raw emotion in this song. Brilliant! |
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| Jewel – I'm Sensitive Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I don't think you have to see this in feminist terms. I think this applies universially to men and women. Men might be physically tough, and we try our darndest to be emotionally tough but that doesn't mean that we too don't have fragile emotions. Women and their words hurt me more than men or any physical pain ever could. So as a guy I see this song applying to me as much as it does women. Now the verse: "You always tell me that it's impossible To be respected, and be a girl Why's it gotta be so complicated" Why you gotta tell me if I'm hated" Is just ONE example of the cruelty and intolarance that we experience in life. There are others. I like the lyric: "But maybe if we are surrounded in beauty Someday we will become what we see 'Cause anyone can start a conflict it's harder yet to disregard it I'd rather see the world from another angle" Ghandi saw the world from this angle. Look at what he accomplished for India. Look at what the PLO has accomplished for Palestine. The Palestinians are definately not surrounded in beauty. |
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| Jewel – Innocence Maintained Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The one question I have is the first line: "Ophelia drowned in the water Crushed by her own weight" I'm confused about what she means that ophelia was crushed by her own weight. I see Hamlet's Ophelia as being the senseless victim of Hamlet's path of destruction. She represents the unintended concequences of our selfish actions. Hamlet dumps her because he is consumed by the hatred for his uncle and the injustice of his father's death. Then he kills her father accidentally in a fit of rage while lashing out at his uncle and mother. Ophelia drowns herself because she cannot handle the cruelty of it all. How is this Ophelia's own weight? If anything, she provides an example of how we need to care for all of humanity. |
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| Jewel – Innocence Maintained Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think this is one of Jewel's best songs. It threads together many themes that appear in other work. 1) The importance of applying our energy to positive persuits, justice, happiness, love, beauty, caring for humanity. Let's build each other up and not destroy. "We've made houses for hatred It's time we make a place where People's souls may be seen and made safe" 2) The fragility of humanity and the power and beauty of innocence. "Be careful with each other these fragile flames Innocence can't be lost it just needs to be maintained" 3) The righteousness of tolerance for fellow humans. "Cause nature has a funny way of breaking what does not bend" "As night in the darkness spreads it's legs for hate and ignorance." The cynical among us may scoff at these simple themes but I'd argue that these ideas are not stated often enough. And in today's society it is the cynical that has become cliche. |
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| Jewel – Intuition Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I too hate this song and the rest of the album that it represents. Its not that I don't get the whole point. I just hate it. Yes she's definately trying to mock sex infused mindless pop music. This with all of the cutesie number substitutions in the titles "2 become 1, 2 find u" etc. ala Brittney. The album color scheme also shows this. But she does this by producing more of it :-( I also understand that she's experimenting with new sounds in order to grow musically. There is also a lot more benieth many of the purported simple songs. There is depth there, but its hidden by the annoying pop tempo and over-production that went into the album. Haunted and Fragile Heart show true emotion and are classic Jewel. But then again they get NO airplay. On POY she generated the perfect balance of deep beautiul lyrics that GOT airplay. |
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| Jewel – 1,000 Miles Away Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song is brilliant and I'll agree the best of the Goodby Alice in Wonderland CD. She arranged it last so I think she understood that. This is the only one of her recently released songs that she didn't ruin in the production. She had been performing many of the tracks that ended up on This Way, 0304, Goodby Alice in Wonderland and Perfectly Clear in concert long before they were released. In many of them she brought up the tempo and sterilized the emotion. This song she left alone and the emotional undertone is powerful. I agree with fateworksbothways88 people who say that only look at her chart topping hits. These don't represent the bulk of her work--which is much better IMHO. "The sun shines golden, and I feel like my car A little run down, a little beat up Maybe just a little green Maybe it's my battery, maybe it's my starter Maybe my heart's too weak" On a bootleg I heard her explain that she read "Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenence" and she was trying to associate her auto problems with her spirituality. This is a hint to that. I love the verse: "It's morning time, I miss your hands on my skin This bed's too big without you" Very descriptive, but its the delivery, the tempo that carries the emotion. |
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| Jewel – Emily Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I heard the same description on youtube. Does anyone know if the movie was ever made? This is one of Jewel's most amazing songs. Its a tradgedy that it was never recorded and released. The alcohol refrences are poingient: "And bottles are thieves Which of these took you from me? " This one is about the drunk driver. "But no bar can buy Forgiveness another round for" This one is about the father's own drinking to drown the pain. But I really identify with the expressions of grief. They are so powerful, and descriptive that you feel as if you are experiencing it yourself. "Where does love go If it can't find a home One moment here then gone With no forwarding address Love no longer has a house Or residence in flesh" His love for her endures but she is no longer there. The stark reality is ripping at his heart. And then its repeated again in a diffrent way: "I go to the bedroom Turn on the light It's like an empty altar No angel in sight religion with no temple No place to take my worship to No god for my eyes to see No fruit to lay at the feet of" Brilliant! |
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| Jewel – Enter From The East Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song is very beuatiful. Its one of Jewel's best in an era when she was writing deep and emotionally charged, insightful songs. Its about lonliness and the dreams of love but it has the magical/mythical qualities of her epic songs Jupiter and Barcelona. It fits well with the rest of the Spirit album. I particularly like the verse: The clock became a bullet hole Cruel and unkind It hurt me with it's second hand Alone another night This is just so descriptive. You can feel her lonliness and the pain as the clock is ticking her life away. |
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| Jewel – Do You Want To Play? Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think this is a really fun song with a great tune but I'm struggling with the lyrics. "With pictures of Randy Newman scattered all across the floor" Who was Randy Newman and what does this mean? And here is a line that crops up in many Jewel songs: "She said, "Are you only half alive or have you always been this inarticulate?"" "Inarticulate" is a standard insult that Jewel uses often in her writing. |
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| Jewel – Cleveland Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This is a great song. I think the "it's just an inch from me to you, depending on what map you use." is simply about physical distance in a relationship--its not so bad that they are seperated because they are still close emotionally. It goes with the rest of the verse: how problems look small from the perspective of above. Its too bad she made this into a semi-country song. In earlier versions I heard this as a folk song that I like much better. There were lots of songs that she did on Perfectly Clear that were originally folk/pop songs that she just adapted to western style by adding a twang here and there like an extra decoration. Undernieth her style was still the same. Thats why it was such a pity--not only because I'm not a Country fan but because it didn't come off as authentic. Rather it was something neither here nor there. |
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| Jewel – Carnivore Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Additionally, while not all of Jerel's songs are autobigraphical, this one takes a personal twist at the end: "And I'll take back my song and my poetry This time i won't be so easy to read" She is clearly being defensive, pulling back from her vulnerability (songs and poetry come from the heart) to protect herself. But perhaps given her real life songwriting and poetry this really happenned to her and she was hurt by the criticism from someone who was close to her? Interesting. |
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| Jewel – Carnivore Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I love this song! Its another one that really deserves to be recorded on her albums. Its edgy, raw and full of true emotion. I really like some of the lyrics here they are so telling: "So much space can fit in a sigh" A sigh can say a thousand words when you are in a breakup. "Your substance has been subtracted Word by word" The more he says the less she thinks of him. "You could only believe in embryos" He could not grasp big ideas--he was incapable of deaming. And then the theme of our vulnerability of loving someone only to have your "pink fleshy heart" eaten by a cruel "carnivore". |
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| Jewel – Break Me Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song is not about physical/emotional abuse. You need to get past the title and read the lyrics and don't project the cliches of our society onto the song that are not there. I agree with rufusworshipper, Lastkiss and teenspygirl etc. This song is about true, complete, and bottomless love. What happens when you love completely you are willing to give everything of yourself to submit yourself to the love. Its a beautiful song that gets to the core of what it means to be truly in love--to loose control and give yourself over to it. The term "Break Me" is as in breaking in a horse--to cause the horse to loose all of its own will to become part of the rider. She wants her lover to take her over completely. To give herself in to the love. This is not to physically break someone's bones etc. |
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| Jewel – Nicotine Love Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This is true classic Jewel and such a shame it was never on an album. To all the critics that say Jewel is mere sticky sweet pop pablum--listen to this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI5SjHFpaVQ This song gets under the skin to the core of your soul. It does what any truly effective art does--it shakes up your reality and makes you feel/think something you've never felt or lived before. It changes your perspective on life. This song sears the soul with its deep brilliance. The music pierces the soul as well. She explained on the bootleg that I have that this song is about a former boyfriend she had who worried about her hitchhiking and so made her watch movies about serial killers to warn her about the dangers. One of these movies was about a woman who was raped and so sought out rapists to seduce and kill them. Its brilliant, dark and deep and SO far away from the candy pop she is accused of. |
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| Jewel – A Boy Needs a Bike Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song is brilliant! Its one of my favorite Jewel songs. It gets to the heart of the reality of marriage, the complexities of life, and the simple idealism we have when we are young vs. the wisdom we develop in adulthood. This is classic Jewel and its sad that it was never recorded. The story is clear and the lyrics are refined. It could easily have been on one of her albums. I'm afraid that she was influenced too much by the record industry. In many cases when she finally recorded some of her true gems she lost much of the intimate charcheter (in timing and delivery) that she showed in her live performances she gave before these songs were released. Think 0304. I think many of the critics of Jewel's music tend to trivialize her songwriting because they have never heard some of her best work or because of the way it was "cleaned up" (sanitized and neudered) in the studio. |
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| Jewel – Hotel Angel Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song is one of Jewel's best. I'm dissapointed she never recorded it as few know of this song. If she ever does record this one I hope she maintains the sweet meloncholy, intimate tempo of the bootlegs I've heard on the net. The lyrics above are mostly correct, but they are a bit different than she sang it in the one bootleg that I've heard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASWGl2tIMSs Its possible that Jewel made mistakes in her performance as she sometimes does with new songs. She has hundreds of songs. I prefer the way the lyrics are here however. To me this song is about a deep connection and love between two people on a one-night stand. Weather this is an affair, or two distant lovers or just some chance meeting in a hotel isn't clear, but its something that probably won't go any further. "'Til dawn steals you from me And takes me to the next town" "Tonight is one promise we both can keep" What is beautiful and haunting about this song is the way it takes something that is cheap and dirty and shows the beauty and tenderness of two people making a deep connection. "You're the kind of man Who's kind of girl could maybe give her hand So sweet man in your sweet misery Lie upon my temporary sea Love's dressing, I will adorn To my side your absence be thorn And I'll rock you gently to sleep" Its a simple idea executed so well that takes the cliche of the one-night-stand and turns it on its head and makes us think more deeply about our own human-ness. This is classic Jewel--deep, tender, thoughtful, and beautiful. |
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| Jewel – Life Uncommon Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Although Jewel uses religious terminology here I don't think this is necessarially a religious song. I think this song is about our own individual power to be a force for change. This is an anthem to freedom--freedom in the general esoteric sense not only freedom in a political or religeous sense. It asks us to take responsibility for changing the world--and thereby lead a life uncommon. Stand up for your beliefs and avoid followin along like sheep as is more common. "there are plenty of people who pray for peace but if praying were enough it would have come to be" This is almost anti-religious or at least diesim. God won't bring peace to the world, its us who must stand up and make it so. The "unbelievers" are not simply heathens in the religious sense, but those who don't believe that change and goodness is possible. "let your words enslave no one and the heavens will hush themselves to hear our voices ring out clear" If we use our POSITIVE energy of light, love and justice we will bring this change OURSELVES not from god (heavens will hush themselves) and OUR voices will ring out clear. "and lend our voices only to sounds of freedom no longer lend our strength to that which we wish to be free from fill your lives with love and bravery" When I hear this song I think of the struggles of the great forces for change--Martin Luther King, Ghandi, etc. She's saying don't succumb to the negativity and hate that is so easy. Its almost like buddist philosophy--improve the world through self improvement. I think this is an AWESOME song. A truely uplifting anthem to each of us to take responsibility for our lives and the human condition. It is one of her best and classic Jewel--the kind of deep folksy and uplifting music that she made on her first 2-3 albums. I yearn for her to recreate that spirit in her new music. I have been pretty depressed at all of the detours she has taken musically. I respect her for the experimentation (I think its healthy to grow) but I think it led to a lot of dead ends. |
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