Do You Hate Me 'Cause I'm Pieces of You?

SELLING OVER 11 MILLION COPIES!, this album explains life at the best! Definitely a moving and in depth album.

Jewel stands back and takes a look at what we are doing wrong and the positive things we can change it with. The production on this CD isn't top-notch. Many of the songs were recorded live, giving them a rougher feel than you'd expect. Having said that, I think it is that imperfectness that makes this such an enjoyable album. Some of the music made today are too glossy for its own good and most artists go all over the stage dancing and the women throwing out their private parts, then along with the autotuning of their voices it doesn't sound good and pure. I like all of Jewel's songs really. It's nice to hear music that sounds like the artist is playing right there in front of you rather than making it sound perfect in the studio.

"Pieces of You" may be one of Jewel's best. It shows her versatility and showcases her poetic songwriting and great guitar work. She's brutally honest and morose and real, and it definitely showed that she had some amazing skill.   

My favorite from the album is the carrier single "Pieces of You". The lyrics are so simple ,yet if you think about it, are compelling. Its about how we judge people on how they look or what they do and how in the end they are not that different from us. We're all equal and have a piece of everyone inside of us, and it's true that when you find yourself hating on someone or disrespecting them over something, if you just stop and reflect, it turns out that the things you are angry about are the things you are hiding from yourself... things that you are or do that you wish you weren't or didn't do.

 

She's an ugly girl, does it make you want to kill her?

She's an ugly girl, do you want to kick in her face?

She's an ugly girl, she doesn't pose a threat.

She's an ugly girl, does she make you feel safe?

Ugly girl, ugly girl, do you hate her

'Cause she's pieces of you?

She's a pretty girl, does she make you think nasty thoughts?

She's a pretty girl, do you want to tie her down?

She's a pretty girl, do you call her a bitch?

She's a pretty girl, did she sleep with your whole town?

Pretty girl, pretty girl, do you hate her

'Cause she's pieces of you?

You say he's a faggot, does it make you want to hurt him?

You say he's a faggot, do you want to bash in his brain?

You say he's a faggot, does he make you sick to our stomach?

You say he's a faggot, are you afraid you're just the same?

Faggot, Faggot, do you hate him

'Cause he's pieces of you?

You say he's a Jew, does it mean that he's tight?

You say he's a Jew, do you want to hurt his kids tonight?

You say he's a Jew, he'll never wear that funny hat again.

You say he's a Jew, as though being born were a sin.

Oh Jew, oh Jew, do you hate him

'Cause he's pieces of you?