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A Jewel tem cantado diversas músicas novas em seu recentes shows, como Goodbye Alice In Wonderland e Good Day, e aqui eu vou dar mais detalhes sobre elas.


1) Goodbye Alice In Wonderland

Essa é a música mais pessoal da Jewel, segundo ela própria. É uma música triste, que fala da desilusão que a Jewel teve com a fama. Ela até menciona "estar indo embora". A gente espera que seja só uma metáfora!


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 headlines
I've made a living with a song
Just a 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 searching
For what was missing in my life

I'm embarassed to say the rest is a 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
Can even make monsters seem like
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 wanting
what was missing in my life

Dreaming is a good thing cause it brings new things to life
Pretending is an ending that perpetuates a lie
Forgetting what you are
Seeing for what you've been told
And 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

Well, 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
That was not love in your eyes
It was only a reflection of my lonely mind wanting
It was only a reflection of my lonely mind wishing
That you were what was missing from my life



2) Good Day

Essa música pode vir a ser o 1º single do novo CD, pois a Jewel mencionou que nós devemos estar ouvindo a música nas rádios em breve (bom, isso se "nós" morarmos nos EUA, claro). Good Day foi escrita em tempo Waltz, ao invés do normal 4/4. No waltz dá para colocar mais letra e mais sílabas, segundo a Jewel. A música capta os pensamentos da Jewel em uma noite de insônia, em frente à geladeira. "Ela acompanha um padrão de vida, de cultura pop, de reality TV", ela diz.


Good Day

I say to myself "self, why are you awake again? It's 1 am".
Staring at the fridge door wide open, staring, such a sight, fluorescent light, the stars are bright
I might make a wish, if I believed in that shit
As it is, I'd might watch TV, cause it's nice to see people more messed up than me

I say to myself to smile at the wall
Let myself fall

It's gonna be alright
No matter what they say
It's gonna be a good day
Just wait and see
It's gonna be ok
Cause I'm ok 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 mind is 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 so if I should fall
Still your name I call

It's gonna be alright
No matter what they say
It's gonna be a good day
Just wait and see
It's gonna be ok
Cause I'm ok with me
It's gonna be, it's gonna be

As long as we laugh out loud
Laugh like we're now
Cause these crazy mixed up beauty's all than we have
Because what's love but an itch we can't scratch, I joke we can't catch,
But still we laugh

I go back upstairs turn off the TV
You say "it'll be ok baby, just wait and see"

It's gonna be alright
It's gonna be ok
It's gonna be a good day
Just wait, just see
It's gonna be ok
Cause I'm ok with me
It's gonna be, it's gonna be



3) If My Heart Were Made Of Gold

Essa música é a minha favorita das novas. A Jewel a cantou pela primeira vez em sua pequena turnê acústica do 0304 na Austrália, em 2004.


If My Heart Were Made of Gold

Lights bright up the christmas tree
Oh goody, it's christmas eve
I got my baby, got his family and friends
Draw another year to an end

CHORUS:
Ribbons gold and blue
Do not deliver you
Presents pretty and bright
Don't make this empty space feel alright
If my heart were made of gold
If my heart were made of gold
Then maybe
you'd find something to love about me

The weather is unseasonably warm
Everybody's wishing for a texas snowstorm
Don't peek in a stocking, don't let my mind drift
There is a missing gift

CHORUS

You only wanted see
the gold star at the top of the tree
Oh I wished I may, oh I wished my whole life
To shine as bright
Bright enough for you to to see
The gold, oh the gold
Soft shining gold

You only wanted gold
I was not the kind that you could hold
Tell me why could not you see
The treasure inside of me



4) A Place In The Sun

Mais uma das novas músicas. Também é bastante pessoal, tratando de assuntos semelhantes aos de Goodbye Alice In Wonderland, mas com um final mais feliz.


A Place in the Sun

In my younger years
I cried all my tears
In darkness all alone
Uncertainty in the air
Electricity everywhere
Tempers waiting to flare
Waiting to explode

It was like a dream
That I could not wake
I was drowning beneath
The weight
Of the hope I would find my place in the sun
My place in the sun
My place in the sun
My place in the sun
Just for me

Moved into my car
Didn't think I'd go very far
But I found the spotlight
But it did not warm my soul
People let me in your living rooms
You listen to my simple tunes
Just like me
People neede words for company

But I thought I'd find
A kinder world
Beyond my own
But people were just as alone
And waiting to find their place in the sun
Their place in the sun
Their place in the sun
Just for beauty

Now I'm on the other side
Of my crazy kinda life
I've seen fame and fortune, heartache, poverty
And I can see
That everything really feels the same
And are you happy with your own name
And I don't gotta fight
I'm gonna be alright

I've found my place in the sun
My place in the sun
My place in the sun
My place in the sun
My place in the sun
Ohh..



5) I Belong With You

Provavelmente a mais pop e vendável dessas novas músicas que ela tem cantado. Possui um refrão inegável e boa estrutura de letra. A Jewel retoma aqui o recorrente tema de "pertencer" a alguém.


I Belong With You

Tonight I have the strangest feeling
I look for answers on a hotel ceiling
When did my heart first feel this way?
Being alone used to be just fine
Now life without you
Is just passing time

I thought I heard you call my name
I reached for your hand it was in vain
When you're not here, it feels like a hole in my chest
Get dressed
Look in the mirror, see you're gone
It'll never be the same

CHORUS:
So I drive to you tonight
I was blind now I have sight
I could not leave you if I tried
Your heart beats inside of me
Like a star in the dark of night
Like birds lost in flight
Clouds in the sky of blue
I Belong With You

I've been together but alone
I've made love without love being shown
I've seen sorrow in a pair of dice
All things that came in two made me cry
Until tonight

CHORUS

Can't stop, won't stop
Love is what we've got
I know I've reached the top (?)
When I put my arms around you
Can't stop, won't
You are all I want

CHORUS



6) Choose Me

Inicialmente intitulada Where You Are, Choose Me é tocada em um dulcimer, instrumento que se toca sentado, apoiando-o ou numa mesa ou nas coxas (veja foto). Seu som é mais delicado que o de um violão e é perfeito para essa doce canção que fala dos desacertos de um casal.



Choose Me

I called you late last night
You said you didn't feel like talking
I had to blow off a little bit of steam
You said you were tired of feeling so uptight
You make me so blue
And I get so lost inside of you
That I cannot always find my way
To Where You Are

Used to be so easy, used to be so much fun
You said, yeah well that was back when you believed in my love
But that things are not so simple now
You said I've turned out the lights somehow
In the darkness you cannot always find your way
To Where I Am

Please don't turn your eyes from me
Cause if you did I would no longer be able to see
Oh please, can't you see, I need you

I am a princess locked inside a tower of song
Trying to write message on the wind with my tone
Oh baby I just want to belong
Oh choose me, choose me, pick me, take me
Oh I want to believe
That noone else exists for you now
And noone else exists for me

You are my home and I have finally found my way
To Where You Are

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Lembro que nem todas essas devem aparecer no novo CD. As que estão 98% confirmadas são só a Goodbye Alice In Wonderland e a Good Day.


Bom, até a próxima!

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