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Goodbye Alice in Wonderland Lyrics
Jewel- Alice in Wonderland
It's four in the afternoon
I'm on a flight leaving L.A.
Trying to figure out my life-
My youth scattered along the highway
Hotel rooms and headlights
I've made a living with a song
Guitar as my companion
Wanting desperately to belong
Fame is filled with spoiled children
They grow fat on fantasy
I guess that's why I'm leaving
I crave reality
So goodbye Alice in Wonderland
Goodbye yellow brick road
There is a difference between dreaming and pretending
I did not find paradise
It was only a reflection of my lonely mind wanting
What’s been missing in my life
I'm embarrassed to say the rest is rock and roll cliché
I hit the bottom when I reached the top
I never knew it was you who was breaking my heart
I thought you had to love me
But you did not
Yes a heart can hallucinate
If it's completely starved for love
It can even turn monsters
Into angels from above
You forged my love just like a weapon
And turned it against me like a knife
You broke my last heartstring
You opened up my eyes
So goodbye Alice in Wonderland
Goodbye yellow brick road
There is a difference between dreaming and pretending
That was not love in your eyes
It was only a reflection of my lonely mind searching
For what’s been missing in my life
Growing up is not an absence of dreaming
It’s being able to understand the difference between
The ones you can hold and
The ones that you’ve been sold
And dreaming is a good thing cause it brings new things to life
But pretending is an ending that perpetuates a lie
Forgetting what you are
Seeing for what you've been told
Oh, truth is stranger than fiction
And this is my chance to get it right
Life is much better without all of those pretty lies
So Goodbye Alice in Wonderland
You can keep your yellow brick road
There is a difference between dreaming and pretending
These are not tears in my eyes
They are only a reflection of my lonely mind finding
It was only a reflection of my lonely mind finding
I found what’s missing in my life
I'm on a flight leaving L.A.
Trying to figure out my life-
My youth scattered along the highway
I've made a living with a song
Guitar as my companion
Wanting desperately to belong
They grow fat on fantasy
I guess that's why I'm leaving
I crave reality
Goodbye yellow brick road
There is a difference between dreaming and pretending
I did not find paradise
It was only a reflection of my lonely mind wanting
What’s been missing in my life
I hit the bottom when I reached the top
I never knew it was you who was breaking my heart
I thought you had to love me
But you did not
If it's completely starved for love
It can even turn monsters
Into angels from above
And turned it against me like a knife
You broke my last heartstring
You opened up my eyes
Goodbye yellow brick road
There is a difference between dreaming and pretending
That was not love in your eyes
It was only a reflection of my lonely mind searching
For what’s been missing in my life
It’s being able to understand the difference between
The ones you can hold and
The ones that you’ve been sold
And dreaming is a good thing cause it brings new things to life
But pretending is an ending that perpetuates a lie
Forgetting what you are
Seeing for what you've been told
And this is my chance to get it right
Life is much better without all of those pretty lies
You can keep your yellow brick road
There is a difference between dreaming and pretending
These are not tears in my eyes
They are only a reflection of my lonely mind finding
It was only a reflection of my lonely mind finding
I found what’s missing in my life
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The bridges is messed up here. The part about growing up is not the absence of dreaming should come first. Also in the first chourous the part about what's been missing in my life shold be the way it is in the second chorous and vice versa! And the third chousous should say goodbye alice in wonderland, you can keep your yellow brick road. there is a difference between dreaming and pretending, these are not tears in my eyes. They are only a reflection of my lonely mind finding, they are only a reflection of my lonely mind finding what's been missing in my life. i found what's missing in my life" Sorry, but I'm just a sucker for correct lyrics. Also, tho, this song is amazing. By far my favorite Jewel song! amazing lyrics and she has a great voice!
This song is knowing and accepting who we are and what we really want in life without outside confirmation from others.
I love this song, one of my favourite Jewel songs. I liked it the instant I heard it and it is such a beautiful heart felt song.
Obviously a song about escaping and becoming who you really are in spite of what people wish you to be. Meet and seek your dreams in life not the expectations of those around you. I also love the lyrics and the way Jewel sings the 'It was only a reflection' line.
One of the best songs on the new album.
I think the meaning is pretty self-explanatory. It's about growing up, coming to terms with reality and learning the difference between dreaming (a good, healthy thing) and pretending (harmful, denying the trut). Seems to be mostly an autobiographical song...
Beautiful, as usual, Miss Kilcher...
I like the video for this.
I think the obvious meaning is that she is coming to grips with reality and letting go of naive beliefs about love/life. But I kind of think it could mean something else. Read the lyrics, and direct them to Jewel's "fans". After her last album, Jewel encountered a lot of crticism and she lost a lot of fans. Maybe it's her talking about how she thought the fans had been faithful, but she has come to realize that they are unpredictable, and the whole business is fickle. And she's just realizing that. She didn't even thank the fans in her new album, so...maybe???
I think shes talking about how for awhile she was living a fantasy life because she was scared of what was real and as an excuse she's call it dreaming, but then she found reality and now realizes who much better it was to not pretend, but 2 live.
i think she realises that when she became the stereotypical 'popstar' suddenly the people who loved her most, were so disappointed. the line "i hit the bottom when i reached the top" meaning, without her fans and staying true to herself, she wasnt who she thought she wanted to be.. and this is her trying to get back into the swing of her old ways.
i also thought maybe it was to do with her breaking up with the man she was with during 0304? probaly not, but i kind of got that message
This song is knowing and accepting who we are and what we really want in life without outside confirmation from others.
It's, "trying to figure out my life." "hotel rooms and headlights" "searching" and "wanting" need reversed...and makes more sense. "these are not tears in my eye, they are only a reflection of my lonely mind finding; I found what's missing in my life."
Also, there is a particular "crick?" of the guitar in the very beginning that, for some reason, just does something to me and perhaps the entire song could have followed in that direction instead of incorporating so many different instruments. Only Van Morrison can diversify like that with the guitar remaining the subtle "lead" through a mess of tunes, if that even makes sense. There is hardly a vocabulary to describe the music, when usually it is the most important element of a song and is much more moving than the vocals unless they just blow you away. Jewel may not be "the best," but she is because she is unique (-2 for going pop, -3 for going country though). Great song.