Jewel wrote the tune in 1992 at just 18 years old. The brightly performed song is about feeling “down so long.” Sometimes depression needs a smiling messenger. That is the case with this tune.

Jewel hasn’t let the fear of striking out keep her from playing the game. At least, that’s the attitude the singer-songwriter went in with for Tuesday’s (Dec. 20) episode of Elle‘s “Song ...

Jewel brought her musical stylings to "American Song Contest" — but it was a country singer from Tennessee who topped the leaderboard.