Written for Andrea Reese's amazing one-woman play: Cirque Jacqueline, showing in New York City- www.jackieoshow.com .
Melodic Rock, Singer/Songwriting.
Welcome to my world. This band is mostly me, with periodic instrumental and arrangement input from my friend Carl and sometimes others. I have a music studio where I record all my songs. I'm an average singer and guitarist, and an even more mediocre piano player. I happen to think my songs are pretty good though (except for the really bad ones which you will never hear).
Story behind the song
Andrea Reese created such a compelling one woman show around Jackie Kennedy Onassis that I was inspired to write a song about Jackie (now used in the play). Special thanks to Glen Heffner for the piano parts after the intro. solo, and Frank Basile for drums.
Lyrics
Turns on her grace, puts on her smile, her pill-box hat creates a style, this is the face the public sees, but underneath it's hard to be
Lesson one, learned as a child, if you feel pain must always smile, all men are the same, and daddy's no worse,
and she had grace and she had grace.
Her White House tours were on TV, we saw her effortless beauty, knee deep is far as we would go, the roped-off part was hard to know,
She never breaks, she only cracks, she medicates, to glue it back, at 34 a veiled widow, her anguish in her blood-stained clothes, and underneath it's hard to be,
and she found grace and she found grace.
The tabloids sensing a new prey, as she spends her pain away, and we don't like what we see, that Greek tycoon's no Kennedy,
and where is grace
The press sees "private" si vous plait, as she lives her life her own way, she was perfect she was flawed, she was human best of all, and she lived life until she died
and she found grace, and she found grace, and she found grace.
