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Austin City Limits Transcription of Events
Jewel's wearing a simple black outfit, looking very comfy indeed.. She
starts playing the guitar for Stephenville and talks to the crowd..
"Hello
you guys.. If y'all haven't heard, I was raised by wolves in the Alaskan
wilderness, and then I was crucified in a van, for which the press will
never let me forget.. [laughter] ..but it has been really, really, really,
really, really really weird to get famous.. I mean, it's a weird trip,
right? I mean, it's hard to imagine.. I never thought it would happen to
me.. And it's a weird thing to deal with.. I've had kind of a hard time with
it.. I mean, I guess it's hard for anybody.. [puts on a fake
"survivor"
voice] but I'm doing pretty good.. I just keep doing heroin everyday and I
don't think about it.. [laughter] [fake New Age trendy voice] ..no, but
it's been really hard, I've been meditating a lot to handle it and I'm
taking an extended trip to India and I'm going to quit eating meat
.....[normal voice again] So I've been living in Texas for awhile here [loud
applause from crowd and Jewel laughs] If I mention like your local football
team will you freak out? [raises arms] Texas, whoo! It's
been great,
[playfully] I mean I never thought like being in Alaska I would live in
Texas, because we're so much bigger we're so much bigger than your state
[big laughs -- some "hey!" reactions].. *Jewel starts into
Stephenville, a
nice acoustic rambling autobiograpical-type song*
Housewives trying to recapture their youth by wearing floral
print and suede
Fixing their hairdos with PC, chemical-free hairspray
Martha Stewart taught them to make on TV
I was raised a farmgirl
I'm too far from home, all alone on the road
Trying to figure out who I am now the the stardust has turned to
sand
And the sand has turned to stone on the starmaking machine
I'm 25 years old
That ain't the end but it sure ain't where I began
And my daddy, he wrote songs and he broke colts[?]
And he went back to school to get a degree
Now he teached music to kids, he taught music to me
And this Alaskan girl was living in Stephenville, Texas
Yes, you guess it, I moved here because I fell in love with a man
And I moved his ex-old lady's things out of the closet
The same closet I had to move my things back in
It didn't make me feel that great, as if to demonstrate
Everything's temporary given enough time
But hey, I've got nothing to lose
I'm a singer for crowds, I'm a writer of songs
Hey Mom, look, I'm an entertainer
I'm a modern day troubadour trying to find justice with six
strings
Trying to make the world make sense out of me
Trying to be loved completely, trying to love honestly
Trying to find a decent high noon cup of tea
In another shitty hotel
I'm trying to listen to the leaves speak
Trying to steal secrets from fishes in the creek
Trying to figure out who I am
A singer, a pretty bad cook, maybe a good mom
What will it be?
And I'm 25 years old
That ain't the end but it sure ain't where I began
I'm trying to figure out who I am
But there's no hand to hold, no Doctor Martin Luther King
There's just syncophants
And the mindlessness on TV or in the magazines
On the latest ways to behave
So why not follow me, the blond bombshell deity?
I'll sell you neat ideas without big words
And a little bit of cleavage to help wash it all down
Hey everybody thought ? was a clown
And that ain't gonna be me
And I'm 25 years old
That ain't the end but it sure ain't where I began
And I'm 25 years old
That ain't the end but it sure ain't where I began
Guess that just means I'm in Texas
And then she played..
Break Me
Sometimes It Be That Way
"I'd like to invite my band out.."
(w/ band)
Hands
Deep Water
"So this is sorta the first time I've had a band.. I traveled solo
forever.. And uh, let's see, you guys know Steve Poltz? [clapping] Well,
know you do.. [to Steve] You wanna play another song we wrote together,
besides You Were Meant For Me?" [Steve] "Okay, how about 'I Thought
I Saw
You'?" [Jewel nods]
(w/ Steve)
I Thought I Saw You
(solo)
You Were Meant For Me
"I wrote this song for a very dear friend of mine named Jacqueline Synder
who passed away about a year ago.. [to Doug] Go ahead.."
(w/ band)
Life Uncommon (very moving performance!)
Love Me Just Leave Me Alone (got to LOVE those throat screams!)
Who Will Save Your Soul (gets better every time she tweaks it)
"Thanks you, have a good night.. Thank you.."
[Jewel exits, song ends, cuts to part of a Jewel interview conducted by ACL
while credits are rolling]
"I love singing acoustic in front of an audience that's quiet like that,
it's probably one of my favorite things.. But, I mean, the chance to be able
to get up there and rock and lay your groove on is really, really, fun, but
it doesn't feel like two personalities or anything.." [cut] "Um, I
was a big
fan of Ella Fitzgerald when I was a kid.. Yeah, I used to do a scat yodel
when I was a kid.. I thought I was like gonna be the first scat yodeller,
but it wasn't actually that good sounding [laughs]" [cut] [scat yodels]
Transcribed by jwlfan112
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