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Pieces Of You

Jewel says:

When I was seven years old, my family went over to a friends house for dinner. They had a daughter my age and two boys the same ages as my two brothers. The parents got boring in the living room, so we all went and watched T.V. in the bedroom, where my favourite show just happened to be starting. I'll never forget that soulfull voice that sang the opening song "Movin' on up , to the top...." The Jeffersons! I loved bald George, I'd never seen a bald guy with so much confidence . And Louisa (weasie) was always so witty. For some reason the hosts' kids didn't want to watch it, so I insisted in full seven year old splendour. About half way through, just as George's dorky honkey neighbours were about to commit the social blunder of the century and cross the cool line into the valley of all white bread ignorance, the kids' father came in, turned the T.V. off, called his kids into a private room, and returned them with tears in their eyes. When I asked why he was mad, they said they weren't allowed to watch black people on T.V. I always wondered how the kids turned out, if they followed his pattern. Daddy is about the immeasurable influence Parents have over us at tender and defenceless ages.

Co-written with Steve Poltz

Availability: Innerchange Days bootleg

This is what happens when two really sick minds get together...bad thing.

Availability: Rare Jewels bootleg

aka Women's Song as featured on Knock Out 2 compilation.

Availability: Knock Out 2 (this is a compilation CD from Out magazine); Innerchange Days bootleg

This Patti Smith song was covered by Jewel during her summer US tour in 1997.

Notable performances: PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel, NJ, 30th August 1997 (plus others during this summer tour)

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	from the HGH Benefit concert
Spirit	A Life Uncommon video

Jewel says:

Well two things: One is that still water runs deep and what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, and you can either use your experiences in your life to make you bitter or you can use them to make you deeper and stronger, it's a choice, I think, ultimately. And the other idea of the song is that, you know, you're standing in deep water and you're baling yourself out with a straw. It's like these ridiculous things we do to get ourselves out. You end up making love to a wall is about suddenly you realise that you've been living your life without much substance. And it hits you one day. And you realise: why am I doing this, you know, one gin and tonic to the next.

(Interview Answers Atlantic promo-only cd PRCD-8939)

Notable performances: HGH Benefit Concert, Henry Fonda Theater, Los Angeles, CA, 25th April 1999 (with band); earlier performances were acoustic (and much better) eg Irish Centre, Birmingham, UK, 15th October 1997

First heard in public on Spirit and one of the few songs specifically written for any Jewel album, this resembles something that Sheryl Crow might sing. It is rarely played in concert.

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Spirit

Jewel says:

I was just, you know, playing around. It took me like three minutes to write this song, or as long as it takes to sing it. I wrote it top to bottom the way it is on the record. It's just sort of fun; a little more tongue-in-cheek; nothing too precious.

(Interview Answers Atlantic promo-only cd PRCD-8939)

Notable performances: Irvine, CA, 27th June 1999 (with band); UK radio, Richard Allinson Show, BBC Radio 2, 4th November 1998 (acoustic)

First played in public on 9th April 1999 at the Geiso Center, Nagoya, Japan, it is a rock song played with her band.

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This Way

Jewel Live At Humphey's By The Bay DVD

Jewel says:

I wrote this in Tokyo. There's a hidden Anais Nin reference in here.

(This Way liner notes)

Notable performances: The Geiso Center, Nagoya, Japan, 9th April 1999; The Academy, Manchester, England, 9th May 1999

Availability: Rare Jewels bootleg

Jewel co-wrote this song with Lester Mendez for her 5th album 0304

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0304

Jewel says:

The very first Lester and Jewel creation.

(0304 liner notes)

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Pieces Of You

Jewel says:

This is the 3rd song I wrote, and I thought it was the stupidest song I could ever hope to write. At the time I could not yet play a waltz on guitar, so I played in 4/4 and sang in 3/4 time (which hurts) untill some one showed me how.

A country song played a couple of times during the 1999 Spirit tour.

Notable performances: Offenbach, Germany, 27th May 1999

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from the HGH Benefit concert
A Life Uncommon video

Notable performances: HGH Benefit Concert, Henry Fonda Theater, Los Angeles, CA, 25th April 1999 (with band); played regularly with the band during the 1999 Spirit tour

Availability: Rare Angels 1995 bootleg

Availability: Innerchange Days bootleg (early acoustic version)

Spirit

Jewel A Life Uncommon DVD

Jewel says:

I wrote that one a while ago, probably when I was 18 or something like that; it's an old song. I like it on a musical level, not message-wise. I just like the phrasing of the lyrics; the structure of the chorus is real different; more melodically. So it's a real fun song to sing. The words are real married to the melody. It's just a funner song. It's also the idea, like, we can't be held down, we won't be. My mum used to make me play this game with myself. I couldn't even think of a possibility that was positive I couldn't even get my brain to think of a positive option. I mean I was just stuck in poor ill health. It was like nothing would ever get better and every time she said "What would you like, if anything that you could have what would you like?" I couldn't even tell you. But nothing can and it won't and there's no possible way. And sometimes just realising that okay, I don't know how it could happen but there's a possibility that something could happen. Sometimes just keeping that option is enough to let something positive to come in. If you're holding enough of a space something positive will come in. So I think the song is a little bit about that. "The end is drawing near" it just has to be, I'll hold for it.

(Interview Answers Atlantic promo-only cd PRCD-8939)

Notable performances: The Late Show with David Letterman, 18th February 1999; performed almost every show on the 1999 tour eg Corn Exchange, Cambridge, UK, 6th May 1999 (recorded for BBC Radio 2 'Jewel In Concert'

aka I Belong With You. Jewel co-wrote this song with Lester Mendez (probably for 0304) but it was eventually released on her follow-up album Goodbye Alice In Wonderland.

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Goodbye Alice In Wonderland

Notable performances: First performed in public on 10th June 2004 at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, CA