Do You Want To Play? Lyrics

Lyric discussion by troubadour13 

Cover art for Do You Want To Play? lyrics by Jewel

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.

My Interpretation

Randy Newman is a singer/songwriter and composer. He's famous for doing film scores; he wrote the score for the Toy Story movies as well as Cars, Pleasantville and the latest movie The Princess and The Frog.

I also have some trouble understanding the lyrics. I think it's about the narrator (Jewel) meeting a struggling artist or something like that.