Jewel

Jewel – Alice in Wonderland

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Jewel – Good Day (Alice In Wonderland)
 

I say to myself
Self, why are you awake again? It’s one a.m.
Standing with the fridge wide open, staring
Such a sight, florescent light
The stars are bright
Might make a wish, if I believed in that shit
As it is, I might watch TV
Cause it’s nice to see people more messed up than me
I say to myself, as I smile at the wall, just let myself fall

It’s gonna be all right, no matter what they say
It’s gonna be a good day, just wait and see
It’s gonna be all right, cause I’m all right with me
It’s gonna be, it’s gonna be, it’s gotta be

I shiver, shut the door
Can’t think standing here no more
I’m alone, my mine’s racing, heart breaking
Can you be everything I need you to be?
Can you protect me like a daughter?
Can you love me like a father?
Can you drink me like water?
Say I’m like the desert, just way hotter.

The point of it all
Is that if I should fall
Still you’re name I’ll call

It’s gonna be all right, no matter what they say
It’s gonna be a good day, just wait and see
It’s gonna be okay, cause I’m okay with me
It’s gonna be, it’s gonna be

As long as we laugh out loud
Laugh like we’re mad
Cause this crazy, mixed up beauty is all that we have
Because what’s love but an itch we can’t scratch, a joke we can’t catch
God, but still we laugh

Get back in bed, turn off the TV
You say "It’ll be all right baby, just wait and see."

It’s gonna be all right, it’s gonna be okay
It’s gonna be all right, just wait and see
It’s gonna all right, no matter what they say
Gonna be a good day, just wait, just see
Gonna be okay, cause I’m okay with me
It’s gonna be, it’s gonna be, it’s gonna be, Ok

Uh-oh, I’m awake again
It’s one a.m.
Staring…
Such a sight
Well, at least the stars are bright

Lyrics of the week

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Figurant sur l’album éponyme sortie en juin de cette année, "Goodbye Alice in Wonderland" est une réflexion de Jewel sur sa vie. Elle semble abandonné définitivement les fantaisies des contes de fées, même si elle ne nie pas le besoin de garder ses rêves. Peu connue en France, à l’instar de Sarah Mc Lachlan, cette jeune poetesse a à son actif 6 albums et 10 ans de carrière. Un son légèrement folk (guitare et piano) accompagnent en général bien ses textes.
Goodbye Alice in Wonderland

It’s four in the afternoon
I’m on a flight leaving L.A.
Trying to think about 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 was missing in my life

I’m embarassed to say the rest is rock and roll cliche
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
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 like a weapon
And turned it against me like a knife
You broke my last heartstring
But 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
What’s beenmissing in my life

Growing up is not the 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
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

Truth is stranger than fiction
And this is my chance to get it right
Life is much better without all of your pretty lies

So Goodbye Alice in Wonderland
You can keep your yellow brick road
Cause there is a difference between dreaming and pretending
These are not tears in my eyes
They are only a reflection of my lonely mind wanting
They are only a reflection of my lonely mind wishing
I found what’s missing in my life

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