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.
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.