| Jewel – Angel Standing By Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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| Jewel – Don't Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I think in order to write and sing a song like this, it takes a certain intensity and passion that only comes from the pain of youth... When you're young, you feel things so deeply and so intensely. Obviously, as a girl in Alaska, Jewel was more in touch with her emotions than when she moved to Hollywood, got married, was successful and happy. | |
| Jewel – Painters Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I used to always skip over this song on my cd player when I was a teen because it was slow and long. But when I finally listened to it, I thought it was so beautiful. Her voice gets really incredible during the intense part... It wasn't my favorite from the album, but still good. | |
| Jewel – Near You Always Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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It's really a beautiful song. I didn't really see it as anything more than a simple love song before coming on here. When I listened to this song as a teenager, I just saw it as, I hope one day I feel that way about someone and am able to love someone so honestly and with such vulnerability. Doesn't everyone want to experience a love this deep? |
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| Jewel – I'm Sensitive Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I love this song and feel a personal connection to the whole album because I listened to it all the time during those critical growing-up years in middle and high school. Hearing the song today, Jewel sounds so young and innocent, it reminds me of my own adolescence even more. The song makes me think of my parents. I remember listening to this in the car once and my dad snickered at the line about robbing the senate and taking all their food, mocking the song, and by extension, me. My taste in music was just one of the many things about me he thought was stupid. One time my mom walked in on me listening to the song Pieces of You around the "faggot" part. She wrinkled her nose and told me it was a disgusting song and I shouldn't listen to "this type of music." Maybe she would have felt differently if it had been Lionel Richie. Another time, I was playing Near You Always in the car, and-- it's a long story about exactly why-- but my mom rolled her eyes at a particular line in the song and turned it off. Was this unnecessarily mean, or am I just being too "sensitive?" "If we're told we're bad, then that's the only idea we'll ever have." They did a lot of damage. So yeah, it just makes me think about the insensitvity and cynicism of my parents. "It doesn't take a talent to be mean" really speaks to me. I was very sensitive as a little girl, and my parents weren't careful with me. This song just reminds me how my parents never accepted their little girl and how I don't want to be like my parents. I want to be able to be happy and accept others without starting conflicts and tearing other people down for no reason. "I'd rather see the world from another angle." |
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