Tears for Water

Alicia Keys’s first book collects poems and song lyrics written across her early life and career, drawn from the notebooks she kept long before she was famous. The pieces move between longing, heartbreak, faith, and hope, offering a glimpse of the writing behind her music. Personal and unguarded, the collection reads as a companion to her songs, showing how the words came first. It is a portrait of an artist thinking on the page.