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All my life, I've written these words with no thought or intention of sharing them. Not even with my confidants. These are my most delicate thoughts. The ones that I wrote down just so I could understand what in the world these things I was thinking meant. It wasn't until going through my journals and notebooks that I realized how ready I am to share these secret thoughts. Some of them are painful; some of them are just observations, some silly, some that have affected me so deeply and with such frustration that the only way to express the confusion was to write it down. I have learned from them, I have suffered through them, I have grown from them, and now I'm more aware of myself as a woman and as a person who goes through the things that cause life to be experienced in all its crazy, upside-down-sideways-inside-out glory. I call this Tears for Water because everything I have ever written has stemmed from my tears of joy, of pain, of sorrow, of depression, even of question. Every single word has come from some form of my tears. I use them as water to nourish me, quenching the thirst for understanding myself. I don't mind drinking my tears for water. Book jacket.

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• Poems
• Golden Child(p. 7)
• P.O.W.(p. 11)
• 6:33 a.m.(p. 15)
• Gold of Johannesburg(p. 17)
• Lilly of the Valley(p. 21)
• Beckoning Green(p. 25)
• Damn You!(p. 29)
• Mind Sex(p. 31)
• Love in Chains(p. 33)
• Unfulfilled Keys(p. 35)
• Bus Ride Through a Periwinkle Sky(p. 39)
• The Shore (You Sure?)(p. 43)
• Constant Evolution of Going Nowhere(p. 47)
• Love with a Shot of Distance(p. 51)
• Cosmopolitan Woman(p. 53)
• Still Water(p. 57)
• Is It Insane?(p. 59)
• In My Search for Heaven(p. 63)
• Mr. Jealousy(p. 67)
• Angel(p. 71)
• No Room for Religion(p. 75)
• Such a Strong Word(p. 79)
• Everywhere Is Nowhere(p. 83)
• Lady Malasuerte(p. 87)
• Stolen Moments(p. 91)
• 4 Letter Word(p. 95)
• When Gone Is the Glory(p. 97)
• From songs in A minor
• Girlfriend(p. 101)
• Fallin'(p. 103)
• Troubles(p. 105)
• Rock with You(p. 107)
• A Woman's Worth(p. 109)
• Jane Doe(p. 113)
• Goodbye(p. 117)
• The Life(p. 121)
• Mister Man(p. 123)
• Butterflyz(p. 125)
• Why Do I Feel So Sad?(p. 127)
• Caged Bird(p. 129)
• Lovin' You(p. 131)
• From the diary of alicia keys
• Karma(p. 135)
• Heartburn(p. 139)
• You Don't Know My Name(p. 143)
• If I Ain't Got You(p. 147)
• Diary(p. 149)
• Dragon Days(p. 151)
• Wake Up(p. 153)
• So Simple(p. 155)
• When You Really Love Someone(p. 159)
• Slow Down(p. 163)
• Samsonite Man(p. 165)

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Library Journal Review

Multiple-award-winning songstress Keys shares her most intimate thoughts in this first collection, drawn from her journal and CDs. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Publishers Weekly Review

No doubt Keys has a fascinating story to tell-raised by a single mother, she's a classically trained, New York born-and-bred neo-soulster with two multiplatinum albums and five Grammys to her name-but she merely hints at it in this gathering of poems and lyrics. With their themes of loneliness, confusion, wonder and desire, most of Keys's free-verse poems could be the cris de coeur of any American 20-something: "Sometimes I feel/ like I don't belong anywhere/ And it's going to take so long/ for me to get somewhere/ Sometimes I feel so heavy-hearted/ but I can't explain/ cause I'm so guarded." But other poems hint at her world travels, her budding sense of social justice and her concerns about stardom ("When gone is the glory/ When gone is the shine/ Is gone the whole/ Of your fortune and pride?"). Nearly half of the book consists of lyrics from her two albums, Songs in A Minor and The Diary of Alicia Keys; while they make a nice complement to the poems, the words feel a bit flat without the blaxploitation beat of "Heartburn," say, or the impassioned vocal delivery of "Fallin.' " For the Keys completist, however, this will be a compelling book of rock ephemera. Agent, David Vigliano. (Nov.) FYI: Putnam plans to release another volume of Keys's writings in fall 2005. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

School Library Journal Review

Adult/High School-Keys has sold millions of copies of her CDs and has won multiple Grammy Awards. Here, she shares the lyrics from these discs, as well as a collection of poems from her journals and notebooks. After several of the poems, she offers readers glimpses of her mindset and inspiration for her writings. Sadly, these poems read like what they are-journal entries from a young woman-and they don't have great insight or clever wordplay. (There's no "moon/June" here, but there is "cry/die" and "cry/goodbye" and "cry/fly.") Even her song lyrics, so powerful when accompanied with lush piano arrangements, come across as banal when unadorned with instrumentation. However, both their creator and their subject matter will give these simple selections immense appeal with a teen audience. The writer talks about insecurities, personal growth, loneliness, and love-good, bad, long-distance, and unrequited. These topics are the stuff of creative writing projects. Like Ashanti's Foolish/Unfoolish (Hyperion, 2002), Keys's poems will attract her fans and perhaps encourage them to explore poetry.-Jamie Watson, Harford County Public Library, MD (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.