| We're laughing in America, we're crying in America, we're dying in America. |
Jewel, |
America |
| You were fashionably sensitive, but too cool to care. |
Jewel, |
Foolish Games |
| She lived beneath the disco discount store, with pictures of Randy Newman scattered all across the floor. |
Jewel, |
Do You Want To Play |
| I am drifting without an anchor through your ambiguous region, a strange continent immune to all reason. |
Jewel, |
Grey Matter |
| Liberation can't deny the temptation, and soon becomes the oppressor. |
Jewel, |
The New Wild West |
| Since it seems clear there's no one leading us here, the only thing left it appears is to task ourselves to be better each time than those before us. |
Jewel, |
The New Wild West |
| The mayor has no cash, he said he spent it on hookers and hash. |
Jewel, |
Stand |
| We have to demand more. Not of each other, but more from ourselves. |
Jewel, |
Deep Water |
| Your standard of living somehow got stuck on survive. |
Jewel, |
Deep Water |
| Don't move, don't breath, don't change, don't leave. Promise me we'll always be. |
Jewel, |
This Way |
| Don't think too hard, don't think too fast. Don't ever give away what you can't take back. Don't try to understand what you can't comprehend. |
Jewel, |
Do You Want To Play |
| We are God's eyes, God's hands, God's heart. |
Jewel, |
Hands |
| If we are surrounded by beauty, someday we will become what we see. |
Jewel, |
I'm Sensitive |
| If we're told we're bad, then that's the only idea we'll ever have. |
Jewel, |
I'm Sensitive |
| It might do some good, if we robbed the cynics and took all their food. |
Jewel, |
I'm Sensitive |
| Let the world spin outside our door. |
Jewel, |
Morning Song |
| The chains which once held us are only the chains which we've made. |
Jewel, |
Deep Water |
| There's no place sacred, no honest reflection, our senses made senseless by lack of direction. |
Jewel, |
Under The Water |
| On the continent of your skin, wandering, wandering, I could spend my life traveling the length of your body each night. |
Jewel, |
Jupiter |
| There was a hole inside his soul a manicure could not fill. So he found himself a whore to love, while daisies choked in the window sill. |
Jewel, |
Innocence Maintained |
| Are you passing me by, or am I standing still? |
Jewel, |
Standing Still |
| Who will save your soul, if you won't save your own? |
Jewel, |
Who Will Save Your Soul |
| They'd rather jump through hoops and therapeutic groups, than in their own minds delve. |
Jewel, |
Life's A Great Big Mystery Show |
| The boss comes in to see what fragile things his dull and pointless tongue can tear. |
Jewel, |
Life's A Great Big Mystery Show |
| In the winters they were weavers of warmth, in the summer they were carpenters of love. |
Jewel, |
Painters |