Jewel Kilcher (born May 23, 1974 in Payson, Utah, United States) is a singe… Read Full Bio ↴Jewel Kilcher (born May 23, 1974 in Payson, Utah, United States) is a singer, songwriter, actress, and poet, generally known just by her first name, Jewel. She has received four Grammy Award nominations.

Jewel is the daughter of Nedra Carroll, an artist and personal manager, and Atz Kilcher, an elementary school music teacher, folk singer and social worker. Her mother of Irish descent and her father is of Swiss-German origin. She is the cousin of actress Q'Orianka Kilcher. She spent most of her young life in Homer, Alaska, United States, living with her father. The home she grew up in did not have indoor plumbing; it had a simple outhouse instead. She and her father sometimes earned a living by singing in bars and taverns. It was from these experiences she learned to yodel, a quality demonstrated in many of her songs. Her father was a Mormon, but they stopped attending the church shortly before she turned eight. Yule Kilcher, her grandfather, was a state senator involved in drafting Alaska's constitution for its admission into a state from a territory in 1959.

During high school, Jewel was known to spell her name "Jule" or "Juel," but she attributes this to simply playing with her name.

Jewel learned to play the guitar while at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan, United States where she majored in operatic voice. She started writing songs at the age of seventeen.

For a time, she was poverty-stricken and lived in her van while traveling about the country doing street performances and small gigs. She gained some recognition by singing at the Innerchange Coffeehouse and Java Joe's in San Diego, California, United States. Her friend Steve Poltz's band, The Rugburns, played at the same venues. Jewel later collaborated with Poltz on some of her songs, including "You Were Meant For Me" (He also appeared in the second, best-known, video for this song). The Rugburns opened for Jewel on her Tiny Lights tour in 1997. Poltz appeared in Jewel's band on the Spirit World Tour 1999 playing guitar.

In 1993, Michael Balzary (better known by the stage name – Flea) of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers met Jewel after he saw her perform at a local cafe. He went back to her van where she was living, where she sang a few of her songs to him. He described her singing voice as being "beautiful" and "breathtaking".

Jewel was discovered by Inga Vainshtein in August 1993, when a musician from a local San Diego band, Rust, whom Vainshtein was managing at the time, called to tell her about a girl surfer who sang at a local coffee shop on Thursdays. Vainshtein drove to Innerchange coffee shop with a rep from Atlantic Records, and after the show they called Danny Goldberg, the head of Atlantic Records west coast operations, and asked him to pay for Jewel's demo. Vainshtein eventually became Jewel's manager, and was instrumental in creating a major bidding war, which led to Jewel's deal with Atlantic Records. She cut her debut album, Pieces of You, when she was nineteen and it was released in 1995. Jewel recorded "Pieces of You" in a studio on Neil Young's ranch, and was backed by his band, The Stray Gators, who played on Neil Young's "Harvest" and "Harvest Moon" albums. Part of the album was cut live at the Innerchange Coffeehouse in San Diego where she had risen to local fame. The album stayed on the Billboard 200 for an impressive two years, reaching number four at its peak. The album spawned the Top 10 hits "You Were Meant for Me", "Who Will Save Your Soul" and "Foolish Games". The album was a huge success and eventually sold over 12 million copies in the United States. alone, more than all of her subsequent albums put together.

Due to her successes, she was chosen to sing the American national anthem at the opening of the Super Bowl in January 1998 in San Diego. She was introduced as "San Diego's own Jewel!" However, she was criticized for lip-syncing the anthem to a pre-recording. This was especially noticeable due to her missing her cue and not mouthing the first words.

In November 1998, Jewel released her second album, Spirit. The album peaked at #3 on the Billboard 200 and sold over 4 million copies in the United States. The songs "Hands" and "Down So Long" hit the Top 10. Other singles followed, a new version of "Jupiter (Swallow The Moon)", "What's Simple Is True", the theme song to her upcoming movie, and the charity single "Life Uncommon".

A year later, In November 1999, Jewel released Joy: A Holiday Collection. The album sold over a million copies and peaked at #32 on the Billboard 200. She released a cover of "Joy to the World" from the album.

In November 2001, the album This Way was released. The album peaked at #9 on the Billboard 200 and sold over 1 million copies in the United States, standing as her most critically acclaimed album to date. Jewel hit the Top 10 with the song "Standing Still" and the Top 40 with the song "Break Me". Other singles released were "This Way" and "Serve The Ego", the latter giving Jewel her first number one club hit.

In 2003, Jewel released the album 0304. She writes in the liner notes, "I wanted to make a record that was a modern interpretation of big band music. A record that was lyric driven, like Cole Porter, that also had a lot of swing. And a lot of it is thanks to Lester, because when I told him I wanted to make a record that combined dance, urban, and folk music, he didn't look at me like I was crazy." While some fans considered 0304 an innovative album that held to the tradition of her previous albums, others felt that it was too much of a departure from the style of her previous albums. Following the limited success of "Serve the Ego", Jewel moved to a more pop-oriented sound with the release of the single "Intuition". The song, which strays from her usual folk style with simple guitar instrumentation, starts off with a French accordion and experiments with pop beats using synthesizers. The song was successful, reaching #5 on the Billboard Adult Top 40. However, a number of Jewel's fans criticized her for abandoning her traditional folk style in exchange for a new pop sound. Accusations of "selling out" for personal gain, among other things, were made. Despite the different sound style, the song is lyrically similar to her previous work. It has a number of references to culture, including mentioning celebrities such as pop star Jennifer Lopez, model Kate Moss, magazines, film culture and commercialism.

On May 2, 2006, Jewel released her sixth album, Goodbye Alice In Wonderland. The album received mixed reviews, but still managed to debut at #8 on the Billboard Albums Chart. The album sold 82,000 copies in its first week out. The lead single "Again and Again" has had moderate success on Adult Top 40 Radio, peaking at #16. The second single, "Good Day", was released to radio in late June but failed to gain any traction on the radio airplay charts. Later, a video for "Stephenville, TX", her next single, has been seen on Yahoo! Launch.

As of December 2006, the album barely sold 270,000 copies. It is notable in that it is the only Jewel album not to achieve Gold certification, even though it has been hailed as arguably one of her best albums. As one music critic, Timothy Duggan, notes: "This album showcases Jewel's unique talent as a lyricist, alongside a definite growth in her musicianship. It is what 'Pieces of You' might have been had Jewel had the musical knowledge then that she has now. A very satisfying work, all in all". Rolling Stone however, called the album "overdone and undercooked" with a rating of 2 stars out of 5.

In early February 2007, Jewel recorded a duet with Jason Michael Carroll, "No Good in Goodbye (With Jewel)", that was featured on Carroll's debut CD, "Waitin' in the Country". She also made a promotional appearance on the T in Boston for the Verizon Yellow Pages, playing songs on a moving subway car and then doing an hour-long acoustic concert in South Station for a large crowd of adoring fans. In an interview with the Boston Globe, Jewel confirmed that she is no longer affiliated with a record label, confirming rumors that Atlantic Records failed to renew her contract after the lackluster sales of her then-latest album. She also hinted that she would like to do a country album next. She is working with John Rich of Big & Rich fame. He says that she is "probably one of the greatest American singer-songwriters we have had". He also said that "every label in Nashville" is talking to her now.

In November 2007, Jewel was signed to Valory Records, a newly formed division of the independent Big Machine Records label. Her first country album, Perfectly Clear, is currently scheduled for release on June 3, 2008; its lead single, Stronger Woman was released to country radio on January 17, 2008, and has entered the Top 20 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. As of the April 26, 2008 country charts, the single was #13 on the charts, which is its peak position thus far.

She will tour with Brad Paisley, Chuck Wicks, and Julianne Hough on Paisley's 2008 tour.

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Love Me
Jewel Lyrics

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I saw you standing there
Pride in your pocket
You combed barbed wire
Through your hair
You thought I didn't notice
The skin on
Your teeth had a tear
To make me notice

You started to shout
Then you and all your midgets
Started flapping your
Tiny arms all about
They said
You were a wise man
When did they teach
A wise man to pout?
It's not your little boy hands
It's not your little boy name
It's those big boy hands
That are the ones to blame
I tried to be unlovable
Why couldn't you do the same?
What's the matter?
Does your love need a home?
All right then, love me
Just leave me alone
Your mother was a wolf bite
Your daddy was a cigarette
Your brother was a rose bud
Crossbreed with a car wreck
Your sister was a stockbroker
But you ain't nothing
But a turtleneck
And you were hypnotized
Just standing there
In the middle of the street
You had iron butterflies as kisses
You had gold dust in your teeth
You used one eye as a hostage
The other one to stab your meat
I tried to forget you but
You tied bells to your name
And they'd jingle every time
I thought of you
Without shame
Your arms are like corset strings
I tried to be unlovable
Why couldn't you do the same?
What's the matter
Does your leave need a home?
All right then, love me
Just leave me alone
It's not your little boys hands
It's not your little boys name
It's those big boy hands
That are the ones to blame
Well, I tried to be unlovable
Why couldn't you do the same?
What's the matter?
Does your love need a home?
All right then, love me
Just leave me alone
What's the matter?
Does your love need a home
All right then, love me
Just leave me alone
Love me just leave me alone

Love me just leave me alone
Love me just leave me alone

Overall Meaning

Jewel's song "Love Me Just Leave Me Alone" is a captivating and enigmatic number that offers an insight into the complicated nature of human relationships. The song features Jewel's signature acoustic guitar sound blended with elements of rock and blues, creating a unique musical style. The lyrics are cryptic and thought-provoking, offering a glimpse into the singer's views on love, self-love, and the unconventional ways in which people express themselves.

The song starts with Jewel noticing a man standing with pride in his pocket and barbed wire combed through his hair. She points out the tear in the skin inside the man's mouth as he starts to shout and his midgets start flapping their arms. The midgets are metaphorical, representing the man's insecurities and how he uses them to seek attention. She then goes on to describe the man's family history and how it shaped his personality. Throughout the song, she tries to emphasize that it's not just the things on the surface that define a person, but the things that matter are those that lie beneath.

One of the most interesting aspects of the song is the way Jewel uses metaphors to convey her message. The man with barbed wire in his hair is a metaphor for his prickly personality, while the midgets represent his insecurities. The use of animals, such as wolves and butterflies, further adds to the themes of the song. The song is also notable for Jewel's distinctive vocal style, which gives the song a unique blend of rawness and sensitivity.

Another interesting fact about the song is that it was included on the soundtrack for the movie "The Mighty" in 1998. Jewel appeared in the movie alongside Kieran Culkin and Sharon Stone, and her song perfectly captures the movie's themes of love, loyalty, and self-expression. The song was also featured on the album "Spirit" in 1998, which included some of Jewel's most iconic hits like "Hands" and "Down So Long."

The song's chords use a standard tuning for acoustic guitar, and they are as follows:

Verse: F#m - E - F#m - E - B7
Chorus: A - E - B7 - E
Bridge: F#m - E - F#m - E - B7

In conclusion, "Love Me Just Leave Me Alone" is a remarkable song that showcases Jewel's musical talent and poetic sensibility. It is a song that invites listeners to reflect on their relationships and embrace their authentic selves. The song's mysterious lyrics and haunting melody create a unique and engaging listening experience, making it a favorite among fans of Jewel's music.

Line by Line Meaning

I saw you standing there
I noticed you standing in front of me

Pride in your pocket
You were very proud of yourself

You combed barbed wire through your hair
You had a tough and rough appearance

You thought I didn't notice, the skin on your teeth had a tear
You believed I wouldn't notice the flaw on your teeth

To make me notice, you started to shout
You yelled to get my attention

Then you and all your midgets started flapping your tiny arms all about
You and your followers were acting foolishly

They said you were a wise man, when did they teach a wise man to pout?
Your behavior was not of a wise man

It's not your little boy hands, it's not your little boy name, it's those big boy hands that are the ones to blame
Your actions, not your physical appearance, are what cause problems

I tried to be unlovable, why couldn't you do the same?
I attempted to be unapproachable, why didn't you do the same?

What's the matter? Does your love need a home? All right then, love me, just leave me alone
If you want to love me, but can't handle me, then just leave me alone

Your mother was a wolf bite, your daddy was a cigarette, your brother was a rose bud crossbred with a car wreck, your sister was a stockbroker
Your family was complicated and difficult to understand

But you ain't nothing but a turtleneck, and you were hypnotized just standing there in the middle of the street
You seemed unremarkable but were easily mesmerized

You had iron butterflies as kisses, you had gold dust in your teeth, you used one eye as a hostage, the other one to stab your meat
Your actions were strange and nonsensical

I tried to forget you but, you tied bells to your name, and they'd jingle every time I thought of you without shame
Even though I tried to forget you, your name kept coming up in my thoughts

Your arms are like corset strings
Your behavior is controlling and suffocating

Well, I tried to be unlovable, why couldn't you do the same?
I attempted to be unapproachable, why didn't you do the same?

What's the matter? Does your love need a home? All right then, love me, just leave me alone
If you want to love me, but can't handle me, then just leave me alone

Love me just leave me alone, Love me just leave me alone, Love me just leave me alone
Repetition of the same message, to be loved but left alone

Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Downtown Music Publishing
Written by: JEWEL KILCHER

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I saw you standing there
You had gold dust in your pocket
And you combed barbed wire through your hair
You thought i didn't notice
The skin on your teeth had a tear
To make me notice you started to shout
Then you and all your minions
Started flapping your tiny arms all about
They said you were a wise man
When did they teach wise men to pout?
I tried to forget you
But you tied bells to your name
They jingled every time i thought of you
Without shame
I tried to be unlovable
Why couldn't you do the same?
Chorus
What's the matter?
Does your love need a home?
Alright then
Love me, just leave me alone
Your mother was a wolf bite
Your daddy was a cigarette
Your brother was a rosebud
Crossbred with a car wreck
Your sister was a stockbroker
But you ain't nothing but a turtleneck
Chorus
It's not your little boy smile
It's not your little boy name
It's those big boy hands that are the ones to blame
I tried to be unlovable
why couldnt you do the same