A Letter From Jewel

I can't begin to portray to you the feeling of a dream coming true- I know it sounds corny, but it's so true. And useful. I was just a girl who was tired of waitressing and people believed in me and fed me by coming to my shows. Without my friends in San Diego, and now this incredible new group of people across the country I would still be hungry in my van. Now I'm just hungry in a rent-a-car in 48 states in 40 days- but my heart loves it! 24 hours of this a day is better than three hours of waitressing. Sometimes record labels think they sell albums- but they don't- they help, but it's you guys who help me. So often our dreams become our hobbies and it deadens our passions. I love my life and want to thank you all. I know our lives are separate and that none of you have to care about my happiness, but that you do things like taking the time to call radio stations means a lot to me. I hope I can give back as much as I'm given. I wrote a song I'd like to dedicate to you all. It's called "Deep Water." I hope you can all hear it one day.

Jewel Kilcher

Deep Water

by Jewel Kilcher


Your hope's in the sky
But your heart like grape gum on the ground
And you try to scrape yourself up
But you keep seeping out like cheap gin through a broken cup
And you try to find yourself
And the abstractions of religion and the cruelties of everyone else
And when you're standing in deep water
And you're bailing yourself out with a straw
And when you're drowning in deep water
And you wake up making love to a wall
Well it's these little times
That help to remind
It's nothing without Love
Love, Love
It's nothing without Love
It's nothing without Love
And you realize your only friend has never been yourself
Or anyone who cared in the end
And you try and you see yourself leaking out
And the only one who liked you is yourself anyway
That's when suddenly everything fades or falls away
Cuz the chains which once held us are only the chains which we've made
Sacrificed our pride
Sacrificed our health
We must demand more
Not each other
But more from ourselves
Cuz when you're standing in deep water
And you're bailing yourself out with a straw
And when you're drowning in deep water
And you wake up making love to a wall
Well it's these little times
That help to remind
It's nothing without Love
It's nothing without Love
It's nothing without Love

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