Jewel Lyrics
ABCD (All Of The Above)
Absence Of Fear
Adrian
Afraid It's Too Late
Ain't No Lookin Back (September 1996)
All The Animals
Amen
Angel Needs A Ride
Angel Standing By
Been Down So Long
Behind The Wall (Tracy Chapman)
Be Still My Little Heart
Billy
Boy Needs A Bike (Ride Away)
Breaking Up
Buttercup
Can't Take My Soul
Carnivore
Chime Bells
Circle Song (With You I Will Always Be)
Cold Song
Comfortably Numb
Daddy
Dance Between Two Women
Deep Water
Don't
Down At The Bridge
Daddy She's A Goddess
Emily
Enter From The East
Everything Breaks Sometime
Face of Love
Fade Away (I'm Fading)
501 Beauty Queen
Flower
Food Stamp Love
Foolish Games
Fragile Flame
Fragile Heart
God's Gift to Women
Grey Matter
Here When Gone
His Pleasure Is My Pain
A Housewife's Revenge
I Don't Care
If This Is What Love Is
I Hate Valentine's Day
I'm Sensitive
Innocence Maintained
Intro (Spoken as an intro to "I'm Sensitive")
I've Got The Blues More Than You Do Blues
Jessica
Just Passing Time
Just So Happens
Kiss Your Ass
Let Them In
Life's a Great Big Mystery Show
Little Bird Song
Little Sister
Louisa And Her Blue Guitar
Love Me Just Leave Me Alone
Let Them In
Making Me Blue
Mamma's Little Hero
The Man Who's Already Gone
Marital Carnival
Memoirs Of A Housewife
Money
Moon Over Austin (Hotel Angels)
Morning Song
My Fish Family
Near You Always
Need A Piece Of Your Love Machine
Nicotine Love
Nikos
No More Heartaches
Painters
Pieces Of You
Poem Song
Quiet Warrior
Race Car Driver
Rocker Girl
Run Tonto Run
Satellite
See Sassy
She Cries
Silver Lining
Silver Satin Wings
Sometimes It Be That Way
Spivy Leeks
Star Child
Studies In Love #12
Summer Home In Your Arms
Summertime
Sunshine Superman*
1,000 Miles Away
Tiny Love Spaces
Train Song (aka Paler Shade of Grey)
Under The Water
Unsung In Your Eyes
A Very Big Girl
Walk Away
What Matters Is The Heart
When I Was With You
Who Will Save Your Soul
Without You By My Side
You're So Small
You Were Meant For Me
ABCD (All Of The Above)
It's not A, do I love you
It's not B, do I love to hold you
It's not C, do I care for you
It's just D, all of the above
Absence Of Fear
Inside my skin
There is this space...
It twists and turns
It bleeds and aches
Inside my heart
There's an empty room.
It's waiting for lightning;
It's waiting for you
I am wanting, and...
I am needing you
To be here
Inside the absence of fear
Muscles and sinew
Velvet and stone...
This vessel is haunted
It creaks and moans
My bones call to you
In a separate skin.
I make myself translucent
To let you in, boy...
I am wanting, and...
I am needing you
To be here
Inside the absence of fear
There is the splendor of this
Secret inside of me
And it knows that you're no stranger,
You're my gravity
My hands will adore you
Through all darkness, and they will
Lay you out in moonlight
And vent(?) your name
For I am wanting, and...
I am needing you
To be here...
I need you near...
Inside the absence of fear.
Adrian
Adrian came home again last summer
Things just haven't been the same around here
People talk
People stare
Oh, Adrian, come out and play
An unfortunate accident in a canoe
Dr. said, 'I'm sorry, not much I can do'
The air was so still
His eyes did not blink
Oh, Adrian, come out and play
Little Mary Epperson liked him
She vowed always to watch after him
Still he did not move
Dr. said it's no use
Oh, Adrian, come out and play
BRIDGE: She sat by his side, watched the years fly by
He looked so fragile, he looked so small
She wondered why he was still alive at all
Everyone in town had that 'I'm so sorry look'
They talked in a whispered hush, said
'I'd turn the machines off'
But still she sat by his side
Said, 'life he won't be denied'
Oh Adrian, come out and play
Yellow flowers decorate his bedroom
Sign above his door says Welcome Home
But he just sits and stares
He's awake but still not there
Oh, Adrian, come out and play
BRIDGE And little Mary Apperson grew up lovely
She still comes to visit him on Sundays
He's like an unused toy
He's got big hands but the mind of a little boy
Oh, Adrian, come out and play
Adrian came home again last summer
Things just haven't been the same around here
Afraid It's Too Late
She sits at the window
All dressed in white
Been a long time since she's cried
Tears called ....tumbling down
She remembers her childhood brown
She's afraid it's too late
She steps out on the porch
Takes a minute from her day
Just like when she was a child
To listen what the wind would say
She was carefree like the children are today
Say, ?? loves you, won't you come out and play
She's afraid it's too late
When she was a child
She had crowns hiding gold
With such awe, each flower she did hold
And she...the grass beneath her feet
How she hated things that were already late
They took away her laughter
They took away her crown
They said "hey girl, you gotta keep your feet on the ground"
She said "oh, but they are"
They say "Well laughter won't pay your bills"
A flower fell from her hand, falling still
They taught her to be respectable
Responsible somehow
They taught her to be in every....
She forgot how it felt to have leaves of grass beneath her feet
Now every thought screams to return to her childhood royalty
She's afraid it's too late
She takes one last moment
Before going inside
She takes a coat
To dry her eye
She ... and it all becomes clear
It's probably laughter that gets you what you need
....More than here
She's afraid it's too late
La la la la
la la da da laaah
Ain't No Lookin Back (September 1996)
All of your ghosts
Litter the horizon
Glittering carcasses
I guess that makes twice then
Just like your daisies
And all of your buffallo
You dont worry
The children will mend what you tore
You dress yourself in sharkbites
You kill yourself in spoonfuls
You damn all the beehives
You make love to potholes
Your attention is a junkie
It has a wandering vien
And all of your thoughtlessness
Is dried up rain
Aint no lookin back, now---Is there kid?
You always look to the west
You throw caution to the wind
You're on a one way track
But you cant buy caution back---Can you kid?
You killed a man
Because you made him borrow
One suicide is made up
Of ten thousand tiny sorrows
America's great
Its the land of the free
We're so independant
That we forgot how to breathe
Aint no lookin back, now---Is there kid?
You always look to the west
You throw caution to the wind
You're on a one way track
But you cant buy caution back---Can you kid?
Show me one hero
Who ain't afraid of fear
Show me one adult
That knows how to hear
"We are the future"
At least thats what you said
I wanna know:
Who's the hope of today?
There's no lookin back now for you---Is there kid?
All of your ghosts
Litter the horizon
Glittering carcasses
I guess that makes twice then
Just like your daisies
And all of your buffallo
You dont worry
The children will mend what you tore
All the Animals
All the animals
agree you and me
should be a team
And they walk on parade
say that we were made
to be a team
And my flesh melts beneath your tongue
I am your little comunion
And all the rainbows
Tell me that they know
We're a perfect pair
And the birds up in the sky
Say they can see it from way up high
We're a perfect pair
And my wings weaken beneath your will
And before you I am trembling and still
All the birds know it
One and one is two
All the birds see it
Tell me why don't you
And all the light of the sun
Doesn't help me out none
Cuz you still can't see me
Amen
You're mothers' child
But night lays you down
Hair aflame, wild look in your eyes
Naked belly to the ground
A forest fire
Nibbles at your veins
Crawls up your arm
runs away with your mind
And burns dry thoughts like leaves
Amen
Eyes stare up
But something's in the way
In the Bible only angels have wings
And the rest must wait to be saved
A dry tongue
Screams at the sky
But the wind just breathes words in
As a strange bird tries to fly
Amen
Pieces of us die everyday
As though our flesh were hell
Such injustice, as children we are told
That from God we fell,
Where are my angels?
Where's my golden one?
Where's my hope
now that my heros have gone?
Some are being beaten
Some are being born
And some can't tell
the difference anymore
Amen
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Angel Needs A Ride
Said, "Angel, Do you want a ride?"
Said, "Angel, I'm tired and I'm lonely
And I need somebody by my side"
It's a long road that stretched from Vegas to nowhere
But it'd been an even longer time
Since he found some piece of mind
And he lived off of bubblegum and cigarettes
And got his nourishment from all-night stores
Thought he'd just keep driving
Til he outdrove his sorrow
He said, "Angel, Oh do you want a ride?"
Said "Angel, I'm tired and I'm lonely
And I need somebody by my side"
Her feet were warm and tired
But as determined as a soul
She left with no regrets
But also no posessions did she own
Her heart was as fragile as her thin, loving arms
She's praying to god to take away her lonely
When he pulled on aside of the road
And he said, "Angel, Oh do you want a ride?"
Said, "Angel, I'm tired and I'm lonely
And I need somebody by my side"
The highway goes on forever
I've seen a thousand men like him before
And I've seen a thousand angels that
Got into the car
They're just a couple of lost souls
Looking to rekindle some sort of forgotten dream
I hope they find what they're looking for
In the solace of the road
They said, "Angel, Do you want a ride?"
Said, "Angel, I'm tired and I'm lonely
I'm tired and I'm lonely
I'm tired and I'm lonely
I'm tired and I'm lonely
And I need to have somebody
By my angel"
Angel Standing By
All through the night I'll be standing over you
All through the night I'll be watching over you
And through the bad dreams I'll be right there, baby
Holding your hand, telling you everything is all right
And when you cry I'll be right there
Telling you you were never anything less than beautiful
So don't you worry
I'm your Angel standing by
Been Down So Long
The sun sets across the ocean
I'm a thousasnd mile from anywhere
And my pocketbook in my heart
Both just got stolen
And the sun act like she don't even care
The wind blows cold when you reach the top
Feels like somebody's face is stuck to the bottom of my shoe
Got a plastic jesus and a ...???... corner of my room
Got everybody but you tellin' me what to do
***
Well I've been down so long
It can't be that much longer still
And I've been down for so long
That the end must be drawing near
***
I looked to everybody but me
To answer my prayers
Until I found an angel in the bathroom
Who said she didn't see anybody who was savin anywhere
And the blind man said, "Simple... like flipping a coin -
Don't matter what side it lands on
So long as it's somebody else's dime"
Cause if you're the top of the bottom
It all feels the same
We live out of fear if we're too rich or we're too poor
Fuess all I can do is museter up some change
And little bit of faith
And take some dignity when I walk through this door
*** (Chorus)
Gonna take a trip
Catch a train
Got a ticket in my hand
And then a fat man takes my money
And like cattle we all stand
I'm just a faceless body lost in this vast and worthless sea
In a thousand people I do not know
But really they are no different from me
They all have passion
They all have fear
They all have intense confusion
And no sweet moments that are clear
They all have aspirations
High hopes and dreams
And are really that alone like me
***
We've been down so long
It can't be that nmuch longer still
We've been down so long
That the end must be...
The end must be...
The end must be drawing near
Copyright by Jenna Leitch March 18/98
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