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.
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.