Spineless
Alanis Morissette
I won t see my dear friends as much
Male friends especiallyI ll no longer be in touch
I ll change my hobbies to match yours
I ll stop reading my favorite books
I won t spend all this selfish time alone
I ll cater to you and hang on your every word
I ll be subservient and spineless
I ll lick your boots as empty shells
I ll be opinion less and silent
I ll be the prettiest appendage to ever lose herself
I ll re-define self-sacrifice
Live my life as apologetic compromise
I ll know you need if I rock the boat
I ll be subservient and spineless
I ll lick your boots as empty shells
I ll be opinion less and silent
I ll be the prettiest appendage to ever lose herself
I feel thistruly proclaimed will help the curbing of this tendency
I know this sharing of shame will ensure that I won t forget myself so easily
I ll be low maintenance and agreeable
I will not talk about my dreams so much
I ll listen to you for hourswon t need anything
I ll be subservient and spineless
I ll lick your boots as empty shells
I ll be opinion less and silent
I ll be the prettiest appendage to ever lose herself
I ll be subservient and spineless
I ll lick your boots as empty shells
I ll be opinion less and silent
I ll be the prettiest appendage to ever lose herself
I feel thistruly proclaimed will help the curbing of this tendency
I know this sharing of shame will ensure that I won t forget myself so easily
Out is Through
Alanis Morissette
Every time you raise your voice
I see the greener grass
Every time you run for cover
I see this pasture
Every time we re in a funk
I picture a different choice
Every time we re in a rut
This distant grandeur
My tendency to want to do away feels natural
My urgency to dream of softer places feels understandable
The only way out is through
The faster we re in the better
The only way out is through ultimately
The only way out is through
The only way we ll feel better
The only way out is through ultimately
Every time I m confused
I think there must be easier ways
Every time our horns are locked on toweling throwing
Every time we re at a losswe ve bolted from difficulty
Anytime we re still made of final bowing
My tendency to want to hide away feels easier and
The tendency is picturing another place comforting to go
The only way out is through
The faster we re in the better
The only way out is through ultimately
The only way out is through
The only way we ll feel better
The only way out is through ultimately
We could just walk away and hide our hands in the sand
We could just call it quitsonly to start over again
With somebody else
Every time we re stuck in struggleI m down for the count that down
Every time I dream of quick fix I m swaged
Now I know it s hard when it s through
And I m damned if I don t know quick fix way
But formerly mistreat me silence now outdated
My tendency to want to run feels unnatural now
The urgency to want to give to you what I want most feels good
The only way out is through
The faster we re in the better
The only way out is through ultimately
The only way out is through
The only way we ll feel better
The only way out is through ultimately
The only way out is through
The faster we re in the better
The only way out is through ultimately
The only way out is through
The only way we ll feel better
The only way out is through ultimately
Doth I Protest Too Much
Alanis Morissette
I m not threatenedby every pair of legs you watch go by
I don t cringe when you stare at womenit s just a thing called guy
I don t notice your side ways glances or where your loyalty lies
I m secure and out of meit s hard to get a rise
I m not jealous
I don t get moved my much
I m not enraged
Not insecure as such
Not going insane
Rational stays in touch
Doth I protest too much?
I m not tortured by how oft your busyCause I ve got things to do
I m not disappointed about how you don t miss you mecause I don t need you to
I m not needy
I don t get clingy much
I m not scared
I m not afraid as such
I m not dependent
Rock solidstays in touch
And Doth I protest too much?
So much energy to prove to you
Who I can t possibly be
So much energy to prove to you
I m not who you hate for me to be
I m not saddened
And I don t miss you
Cause I have moved on too
I m not concerned about your new lover
Cause I have a new lover too
I m not depressed
I don t get down that much
I m not despondent
I am not dark as such
I m never sad
Keep Chin UpStays in touch
And Doth I protest too much?
I m not jealous
I don t get moved my much
I m not enraged
Not insecure as such
Not going insane
Rational stays in touch
And Doth I protest too much?
Not All Me
Alanis Morissette
I rather face all on top of my face
I am the perfect target screen
For your blindly fueled rage
I bare the brunt of your long buried pain
I don t mind helping you out
But I want you to remember my name
It s not all me
It s not all my fault
I need remind youbut I won t take it all on
Past riddled rage
I see the buttons I engage
Is my dignity in place?
I m all too happy to switch
It s not all me
It s not all my fault
I need remind youbut I won t take it all on
Lest I find my voice
Find the strength to stand up to you
Lest I stay to my limit
And only take on what is mine to
We are a team
I m here to help mend and rescind
All I trigger unknowingly
A job I hold in high esteem
It s not all me
It s not all my fault
I need remind youbut I won t take it all on
It s not all me
It s not all my fault
I need remind youbut I won t take it all on
I ll only take some of it
Eight Easy Steps
Alanis Morissette
how to stay paralyzed by fear of abandonment
how to defer to men in solvable predicaments
how to control someone to be a carbon copy of you
how to have that not work and have them run away from you
how to keep people at arms length and never get to close
how to mistrust the ones who supposedly love the most
how to pretend you re fine and don t need help from anyone
how to feel worthless so fast you re helping
I ll teach you all this in 8 easy steps
In the course of a lifetimeI never forgot
I ll show you how to in 8 easy steps
I ll show you how leaderships were taught by the best
how to hate women when you re supposed to be a feminist
how to play all highest when you re really a hypocrite
how to hate god when you re a player and a spiritualist
how to sabotage when you re in tough seas
I ll teach you all this in 8 easy steps
In the course of a lifetimeI never forgot
I ll show you how to in 8 easy steps
I ll show you how leaderships were taught by the best
I ve been doing research for years
I ve been practicing my ass off
I ve been waiting my whole life for this momentI swear to you
Culminating just to be this well versed leader before you
I ll teach you all this in 8 easy steps
In the course of a lifetimeI never forgot
I ll show you how to in 8 easy steps
I ll show you how leaderships were taught by the best
how to lie to yourself and thereby to everyone else
how to keep smiling when you re thinking of killing yourself
how to know them all the too well by going with them
how to stay stuck in your life hating them
I ll teach you all this in 8 easy steps
In the course of a lifetimeI never forgot
I ll show you how to in 8 easy steps
I ll show you how leaderships were taught by the best
This Grudge
Alanis Morissette
Fourteen years
thirty minutes
fifteen seconds I ve
held this grudge
Eleven songs
four full journals
thoughts of punishment
I ve expended
Not in contact
not a letter
such communication
telepathic
you ve been vilified
used as fodder
you deserve a piece
of every record
But who s it hurting now?
Who s the one that s stuck?
Who s it torturing now
with an antique knot in her stomach?
I want to be big and let go
of this grudge that s grown old
all this time I ve not known
how to rest this bygone
I wanna be soft and resolved
clean of slate and released
I wanna forgive for the both of us
Like an abandoned house
dusty covered
furniture
still intact
If I visit it now
will I simply re-live it
somehow gratuitous
But who s still aching now?
Who s tired of her own voice?
Who is it weighing down
With no gift from time of said healing
I want to be big and let go
of this grudge that s grown old
all this time I ve not known
how to rest this bygone
I wanna be soft and resolved
clean of slate and released
I wanna forgive for the both of us
Maybe as I cut the cord
veils will lift from my eyes
Maybe as I lay this to rest
dead weight off my shoulders will rise
Here I sit
much determined
ever ill-equipped
to draw this curtain
how this has entertained
validated
and has served me well
ever the victim
But who s done whining now?
Who s ready to put down
this load I ve carried longer than I had cared to remember
I want to be big and let go
of this grudge that s grown old
For the life of me I ve not known
how to rest this bygone
I wanna be soft and resolved
clean of slate and released
I wanna forgive for the both of us.
Knees of My Bees
Alanis Morissette
we share a culture same vernacular
love of physical humor and time spent alone
you with your penchant for spontaneous events
for sticky and raspyunearthed and then gone
you are a gift promised sent with a wink
with tendencies for conversations that raise bars
you are a sage who is fueled by compassion
comes to nooks and cranniesis bound for all stars
you make the knees of my bees weaktremble and buckle
you make the knees of my bees weak
you are a spirit that knows of no limit
that knows of no ceiling who baulks at dead-ends
you are a wordsmith who cares for his brothers
not seduced by illusions of fair-weather friends
you make the knees of my bees weaktremble and buckle
you make the knees of my bees weak
you are a vision who lives by the signals of
stomach and intuition as your guide
you are a sliver of god on a platter
who walks what he talks and who cops when he s lied
you make the knees of my bees weaktremble and buckle
you make the knees of my bees weak
you make the knees of my bees weaktremble and buckle
you make the knees of my bees weak
you make the knees of my bees weaktremble and buckle
you make the knees of my bees weak
So-Called Chaos
Alanis Morissette
Deadlinesmeetings and contracts all breached
D-days and structure responsibility
Have-to s and need-to s and get-to s by three
Eleventh hours and upset employees
I want to be nakedrunning through the streets
I want to invite this so called chaosthat you d think I dare not be
I want to be weightlessflying through the air
I want to drop all these limitations and return to who I was meant to be
Heartburn and headaches and soon-to-be ulcers
Compulsive yearnings non-stop to please others
I want to be nakedrunning through the streets
I want to invite this so called chaosthat you d think I dare not be
I want to be weightlessflying through the air
I want to drop all these limitations at the shoes upon my feet
All wont be lost if I m governed by my own uniqueness
Stop lights won t work I ll get home sound and safe regardless
Won t deem me had if I m led by my own rulelessness
My fire wont quell and I ll be harm-free and distressless
Trust me
Line towingand helpingexpectations up to living
Inside box obeyinginside line cutting
I want to be nakedrunning through the streets
I want to invite this so called chaosthat you d think I dare not be
I want to be weightlessflying through the air
I want to drop all these limitations at the shoes upon my feet
I want to be nakedrunning through the streets
I want to invite this so called chaosthat you d think I dare not be
I want to be weightlessflying through the air
I want to drop all these limitations and return to who I was meant to be
Excuses
Alanis Morissette
Why no one will help me
I am too dumb I am too smart
They ll not understand me
I am lonely
They ll hate me
And there is not enough time
It s too hard to help me
And god wants me to work
No resting no lazy
These excuses how they served me so well
They ve kept me safe
They ve kept me stoic
They ve kept me locked in my own cell
I m too far from home
It takes far too much energy
And I cannot afford to
No one will ever see me
These excuses how they served me so well
They ve kept me safe
They ve kept me stoic
They ve kept me locked inside my cell
These excuses how they re so familiar
They ve kept me small
They ve kept me blocked
They ve kept me safe inside my shell
Bringing this into the light
Shakes their foundation
And it clears my side
Now my imagination
Is the only thing that limits
The bar that is raised to the heights
No one can have it all see
I have to they want me to
And I can t let them down
I ll never be happy
These excuses how they served me so well
They ve kept me safe
They ve kept me small
They ve kept me locked inside my cell
These excuses how they re so familiar
They ve kept me small
They ve kept me stoic
They ve kept me locked inside my cell
Still
Alanis Morissette
I am the harm which you inflict.
I am your brilliance and frustration.
I m the nuclear bombs if they re to hit.
I am your immaturity and your indignance.
I am your misfits and your praised.
I am your doubt and your conviction.
I am your charity and your rape.
I am your grasping and expectation.
I see you averting your glances.
I see you cheering on the war.
I see you ignoring your children
And I love you still.
And I love you still.
I am your joy and your regret.
I am your fury and your elation.
I am your yearning and your sweat.
I am your faithless and your religion.
I see you altering history.
I see you abusing the land.
I see youyour selective amnesia
And I love you still.
And I love you still.
Haaaaaaaaahh
I see you averting your glimpses.
I see you cheering on the war.
I see you ignoring your children
And I love you still.
And I love you still.
I see you altering history.
I see you abusing the land.
I see youyour selective amnesia
I love you still.
And I love you still.
I am your tragedy and your fortune.
I am your crisis and delight.
I am your profits and your prophets.
I am your artI am your vice.
I am your death and your decisions.
I am your passion and your plight.
I am your sickness and convalescence.
I am your weapons and your light.
I see you holding your grudges.
I see you gunning them down.
I see you silencing your sisters
And I love you still.
And I love you still.
I see you lie to your country.
I see you forcing them out.
I see you blaming each other
And I love you still.
And I love you still.
Haaaaaaaahh
I see you holding your grudges.
I see you gunning them down.
I see you silencing your sisters
I love you still.
I love you still.
I see you lie to your country.
I see you forcing them out.
I see you blaming each other.
I love you still.
I love you still.
I see you.
Pollyanna Flower
Alanis Morissette
(Through me I see I)
Between a broken nose and a fake smile
between the piety and gunpowder
between the fighting and fleeing the scene
between murder and diplomacy
between aggression and end of the odd
between the brutal and realistically well behaved
between slaving and pulling in the reins
between tiptoeing and ambleing
What am I to do with all these fire?
(I d like to hate you but I d never hate you)
Why are you still with me in this red space?
(I d like to slap you but I d never slap you)
CHORUS:
Between violence and silently seething
between my fist and my pollyanna flower
between fuck you to your face and it s alright
between war and denial
Between violence and silently seething
between my fist and my pollyanna flower
between fuck you to your face and it s alright
between war and denial
Between flying vases and secretly weeping
between loose cannons and ever downplaying
between the bruises and rudely differing
between bursting and boiling
What am I to do with all this burning?
(I d like to you but I d never you)
Do I overwhelm you in this place?
(I d like to you but I d never you)
(CHORUS)
What am I to do with all these fire?
Do I overwhelm you in this place?
No Pressure Over Capuccino Alanis Morissette And you re like a 90 s Jesus And you revel in your psychosis How dare you And you sample concepts like hors d euvres And you eat their questions for dessert Is it just me or is it hot in here And you re like a 90 s Kennedy And you re reallyl a million years old You can t fool me They ll throw opinions like rocks in riots And they ll stumble around like hypocrites Is it just me or is it dark in here Well you may never be or have a husband You may never have or hold a child You will learn to lose everything we are temporary arrangements And you re like a 90 s Noah And they laughed at you as you packed all of your things And they wonder why you re frustrated And the wonder why you re angry And is it just me or are you fed up? And may god bless you in your travels in your conquests and querries
Forgive Me Love
Alanis Morissette
I went to your house
Walked up the stairs
I opened your door without ringing a bell
I walked down the hall
Into your room
Where I could smell you
And I
Shouldn t be here
Without Permission
Shouldn t be here
Would you forgive me love
If I danced in your shower
Would you forgive me love
If I laid in your bed
Would you forgive me love
If I stayed out left and new oh…
I took off my clothes
Put on your rob
Went through your drawers and I found your cologne
Went down to the den
Found your CD s
And I played your Johnny
And I
Shouldn t stay long
You might be home soon
Shouldn t stay long
Would you forgive me love
If I danced in your shower
Would you forgive me love
If I laid in your bed
Would you forgive me love
If I stayed out left and new oh…
I burned your incense
I ran a bath
I noticed a letter that sat on your desk
It said hello love
I love you so love
Meet me at midnight
And no
It wasn t my writing
I better go soon
It wasn t my writing
So forgive me love
If I cry in your shower
So forgive me love
For the salt in your bed
So forgive me love
If I cry out left and new oh…
When We Meet Again
Alanis Morissette
We said good-bye with so much left to say
We knew inside we d find another way
We ll have it allit s not too late to try
Maybe you and I could go from here
Maybe you and I can make itthis time we ll…
[CHORUS:]
Fall in love when we meet again
We can finish what we started
Fall in love if we try again
And then nothing will keep us apart
We re not the same as when we first began
We ll try to changewe ll take another chance
Maybe you and I could work it out
Maybe you and I can make itthis time we ll
[CHORUS]
I see your faceit s always on my mind
A time and palace we almost left behind
This time we ll fall inthis time we ll…
[CHORUS]
The Time Of Your Life
Alanis Morissette
Standing there on a road that leads to anywhere
Like a child left in the wildernessstanding there penniless
Wanting to be the best
Here s a place where life runs at a different pace
Where love is just convenientnone are obedient
And we are subservient
Look at meI m a girl that some may preconceive
Why do they try and generalizewhy are they antagonizing me
But something I can t control that…
[CHORUS:]
I Wantcha
You know I ll never stop til I ve gotcha
You ll never be quite the same when I rock ya
I m not the kind of girl that you thought I was
You ll have a good time cause I wantcha
I m breaking down the walls till I have youfeel you
Show you the time of your life
Here we are and I wonder how we ve come this far
In a world that does not recognize women are victimized
What does that symbolize
Why do I want the things I usually criticize
It may be self destructivenessor maybe it s emptiness inside
But something I can t control that…
[CHORUS]
You ll have a good time…
It s a lonely roadand no one knows the way that I feel
I m not giving up now… I ll never try to justify
They ll never understandyou ll be a happy man
You ll have the time of your life
It s somethingit s somethingit s something that I can t control
The time of your life…
