Jewel - Damn The Daisies

Lyrics :
I go to the table, your pictures are on the front
I looked so much younger then,
Somehow so much different
I look in the mirror
I want to spit on my face
I hate these things I've become
Don't deserve to take up this space
That I live in

Dark rings around my eyes
Bruises on my bones
I'm tired of these lies that drip from my mouth
Like habitual beads from a broken string of once was love
I go to the drawer
I pull out the gun
In my hands it's heavy and cold
It feels like something I was damned to hold

Damn you, man, and your sweet kisses
Damn your hairs in the sink
Damn the pool and all the trash it collected
The leaves only looked like blondes and brunettes to me
Damn my suspicion and damn my sight
Damn you and your twisted ways
Damn my courage for being gone so much
Damn love because it stayed

I lift the gun to my face
I'm gonna shoot myself in the eyes
The daisies are on the table
That you gave me yesterday
But yesterday I was willing to compromise
I hear the key and you open the door
Billy runs to greet you
Billy won't hurt anymore
The sun shines in the window
Where the pictures and the daisies lay
This chaos can't continue
I never liked daisies anyway

I hear your footsteps
Coming down the stairs
You reach the bottom with an apology in your hand
I'm standing there
Funny, you have that same look in your eyes
As all those times I had in mine
I pull the trigger
The daisies apologize for the last time

Billy runs down the stairs
I am numb
I call the police
Tell them what I've done
And I go to the table
Where the pictures and the daisies lay
I looked so much younger then
Somehow, so much different
And the sun shines through the window

Where the pictures and the daisies lay
Where the daisies lay
Where the daisies lay
Oh well, never liked daisies anyway

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Jewel
• Kilcher
• Damn
• The
• Daisies

[Shadows921]

What a dark song, quite possibly the darkest song I've ever heard from Jewel.

[lamusevenale]

this is not the only song she wrote about a wife killing her husband.. or hating him deeply. rosy and mick is about the same stuff. and so is a housewife's revenge...

[kiwicowgirl95]

Beautiful in a very dark way!!!

[xenatorres]

@lamusevenale The wife didn't kill the husband in Housewive's Revenge. She just thought about it. She left him. That song is PRICELESS.

[tictac10032]

I know trying to explain songs it's not very good; but I'd like to hear some comments about it.

What do you think she's saying?

[d311style1]

this song terrifies me but Jewel is such a good writer and singer

[GaynorHater4Life]

damn....this song is deep. she must of been seriously depressed when she wrote this. but w/e...i will never stop loving her music.

[CadenceofherLastBrea]

nevermind, this IS the darkest. scratch my last comment.

[CadenceofherLastBrea]

i don't know. Daddy, She's a Goddess and A Housewife's Revenge are pretty scary. But, yeah, this one is way out there. And I can't help but love it.