Under the Water

[ItBeThatWay27]

I love this song now. Before I was never really into it, but I started paying attention to the lyrics lately.:banana:

How did I miss all of these 'Spirit' album references??

"Innocence ain't lost, it just needs to be maintained, it needs to be maintained " :acoustic:

"I wanna live brave, I wanna love without fear " :acoustic:

am I missing any other references here?
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Bees are buzzin' in their honey catacomb
All the noise seems to call my head a home
Can't escape the scratchin', my blood makes a noise
It's hard not to play when there are so many toys, so many toys

Under the water
The total is more than the sum
Under the water
I hear who I'll become

There's a hole inside my head where all the thoughts break out
Sometimes my flesh is filled with forgetfulness and doubt
It's easy to feel separate, no control of the reigns
Innocence ain't lost, it just needs to be maintained, it needs to be maintained

Beside me are strange fish, moody and dark
A tapestry of intention that maintains the spark
And there's a tiny light, a flicker within
Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend, it knows how to mend

Under the water
The total is more than the sum
Under the water
I hear who I'll become

I've decided to hear who we will become
Wanna lay down in the water, go back to where I'm from
Outer space is just a puzzle of stars
Music, the mechanics of the human heart

A post that stirs, a shadow that casts
An insatiable thirst drains a martini glass
There's no place sacred, no honest reflection
Our senses made senseless by a lack of direction

Monks are great with their fists uncurled
But they live in a cave, they know nothin' of the world
I wanna live brave, I wanna love without fear
But it's hard to navigate when I can't even hear

Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo

Bees are buzzin' in their honey catacomb
All the noise seems to call my head a home
Can't escape the scratchin', my blood makes a noise
It's hard not to play when there are so many toys, there's so many toys

Under the water
The total is more than the sum
Under the water
I hear who I'll become

Under the water
My flesh is filled with stars
Under the water
I hear who we really are

Under the water
I lay my burdens down, down, down
Under the water
All resistance drowns

Doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo doo doo

Come on, come down, down, down under, go
Go down on and go down under
Under the water
I hear who I'll become

Under the water
I lay my problems down
Under the water
All my resistance drowned

[fabiojj]

I think this song is way cool. Love the lyrics.

[DreamsLast]

Very unique song, I like it too! What a "jewel" to find!

[last_dance_rodeo]

i love the monk line

[ItBeThatWay27]

I love the monk line too, it''s great. I really underestimated this song when I first heard it, sort of like my reaction to hearing 0304 for the first time, but now I love that too. It always reminds me of Blondie's "Rapture" when she sort of raps that one verse

[greenpoet]

I love doing song analysis. The lines are very potent and a lot of soul searching. How can I miss that song. If I were to analyze the song, here are my thoughts :
The world is such a scurry and hurry busy business
She feels she'd like to rest from the magnitude of exposure but she doesn't want to shut off herself from the world
Just a little retreat where she calls home-where she will recover and find her basic and essence of her soul; her artistry to find space, where innocence is always there and purity of thoughts.
In this way, she will wash away those extra baggages she needs to detach. She is seeing herself in the mirror and would like to assess, if this is the same person that she would like to become.
To sum it all, this is a song with a very reflective mood by the songwriter,Jewel

[M€RIO]

At first time i didn`t give much attention to under the water, but its really very nice!! It`s funny how Jewel put her spiritlyrics to the song ^^, it is like she did it willfully and for her fans =) Its a very special song thx for posting your opinion!

[ItBeThatWay27]

I love doing song analysis. The lines are very potent and a lot of soul searching. How can I miss that song. If I were to analyze the song, here are my thoughts :
The world is such a scurry and hurry busy business
She feels she'd like to rest from the magnitude of exposure but she doesn't want to shut off herself from the world
Just a little retreat where she calls home-where she will recover and find her basic and essence of her soul; her artistry to find space, where innocence is always there and purity of thoughts.
In this way, she will wash away those extra baggages she needs to detach. She is seeing herself in the mirror and would like to assess, if this is the same person that she would like to become.
To sum it all, this is a song with a very reflective mood by the songwriter,Jewel

WOW! Thanks for your interpretation, that was awesome. I never really thought about the meaning too much, but I think you hit the nail on the head. Or if you didn't, it still sounds great to me :banana:

[Little Bird]

I love this song too. Even my husband likes it and he's not very keen on Jewel. I downloaded some Jewel songs onto his Zen one day and that was on it. He had his Zen on shuffle and came across it one day and was really impressed with it. That's good coming from him. He's a real music buff. (Ironic considering he's not a fan of Jewel but appreciates her music)

[ItBeThatWay27]

this isn't really the place for this post but it ties w/ what u were saying Kiera. My wife isn't really a fan of Jewel but she appreciates her music, but since I turned her onto the Pull Club Mix of Only One Too, she's always listening to it. She even gets mad if I try to skip over it on the mix cd she made....

[M€RIO]

I like to hear the Lenny B Dub Mix of Only One Too, but I never get the Pullremix. Alltough I am not so keen on the albumversion of OOT

[ItBeThatWay27]

the pull club mix is very very different from all the rest, it slows the song down and gives it a really eery sound and feel to it. It's pretty creepy. I love it, I'm not sure if I like it more than the original though, but I might. My ears really like when I play it.

back to under the water~~
does anyone know if Jewel has ever performed this song live??

[last_dance_rodeo]

i heard she used to play it in a bar in that michigan town where she went to school with a teacher of hers

[JewelWiki]

Looks like she played it at MTV Unplugged, it just wasn't broadcast:

http://www.smoe.org/lists/jewel/archives/1998/v03.n016

Google (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=jewel+%22under+the+water%22+site%3Asmoe.org+setl ist&btnG=Google+Search) helps. :)