Jewel

Released: September 11, 2015

Songwriter: Jewel

Producer: Jewel

[Verse 1]
Love used to be the ruler
From which you measured all
Love used to be the dizzying height
From which you wished to fall
Love used to be the white and gauzy apparition
Towering in your dreams
Love used to be
Love used to be

[Verse 2]
Love used to be the horseshoe made of iron
And always smiling up
And in your arms it gathered
All manner of silky satin golden luck
Love used to be the pyramid and on top
Its eye that always sees
Love used to be
Love used to be

[Chorus]
Dig a six-foot hole inside my chest
Heart like a gravestone, lay it down to rest
Goodbye, love
Amen

[Verse 3]
Love used to be a sigh like petals
Gently falling down
From the flower of my lover's
Half open rosebud mouth
Love used to be the thirst, oh, and the quenching
The question in no need of answering
Love used to be
Love used to be

[Verse 4]
Love used to be hope unflinching
A dare that believed it must
Love used to be the heady, drunken feeling of
Flesh heavy with lust
Love used to be a photograph of the future
Taken by one mind, four eyes could see
Love used to be
Love used to be

[Chorus]
Dig a six-foot hole inside my chest
Heart like a gravestone, lay it down to rest
Goodbye, love
Amen

[Verse 5]
Love used to be a miracle
The proof that God exists
As it doubled our image
Immortality delivered by the double helix
Love used to be the bedrock you built a life upon
Into the future reaching
It used to be what woke you each day
And eased me into sleeping
Love used to be my compass
But now I'm alone and I'm adrift and I'm lost at sea
Cause love used to be
Love used to be
Love used to be
Love used to be

Jewel Kilcher was born May 23, 1974 in Payson, Utah and raised in Homer, Alaska by her parents, Atz and Lenedra Carroll Kilcher. She is divorced from husband Ty Murray, with whom they share a son, Kase Townes Murray, who was born on July 11, 2011. Jewel is a singer-songwriter, guitarist, actress and author/poet. She is known for yodeling during her concerts. She has appeared on 7th Heaven and Crime Scene Investigation, among others. She played the lead of June Carter Cash in Ring of Fire, a Lifetime original movie. Besides vocals, instruments that Jewel plays are the guitar and autoharp. Songs that Jewel is noted for include “Foolish Games” and “You Were Meant For Me”.

As of 2010, Jewel has sold 15.2 million albums in her career, according to SoundScan.

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