The Couch
Alanis Morissette

You hadn't seen your father in such a long time

He died in the arms of his lover how dare he

Your mother never left the house

She never married anyone else you took it upon yourself to console her


You reminded her so much of your father

So you were banished and you wonder why you're so hypersensitive

And why you can't trust anyone but us but then how can I begin

To forgive her so many years under bridges with dirty water

She was foolish and selfish and cowardly if you ask me


I don't know where to begin in all of my 50 odd years

I have been silently suffering and adapting perpetuating and enduring

Who are you younger generation to tell me

That I have unresolved problems not many examples of fruits

Of this type of excruciating labor


How can you just throw words around like grieve and heal and mourn

I feel fine we may not have been born as awake as you were

It was much harder in those days we had paper routes uphill both ways

We went from school to a job to a wife to instant parenthood


I walked into his office I felt so self-conscious on the couch

He was sitting down across from me he was writing down

His hypothesis I don't know I've got a loving supportive wife

Who doesn't know how involved she should get

You say his interjecting was him just calling me on my shit?


Just the other day my sweet daughter I was driving past 203

I walked up the stairs in my mind's eye

I remember how they would creak loudly

She was only responsive with a drink he was only responsive by photo

I was only trying to be the best big brother I could


I've walked sometimes confused sometimes ready to crack open wide

Sometimes indignant sometimes raw can you imagine

I pay him 75 dollars an hour sometimes it feels like highway robbery

And sometimes it's peanuts I wish it could last a couple more hours


So here we both are battling similar demons not coincidentally

You seen getting beyond knowing it solely intellectually

You're not relinquishing your majesty

You are wise you are warm you are courageous you are big

And I love you more now than I ever have in my whole life


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  'Til You   (Change Is) Never A Waste Of Time   1974   1974 (Live)   20/20   20\/20   21 Things   21 Things I Want in a Lover   8 Easy Steps   A Man   A Man   A Year Like This One   After A Year Like This One   All I Really Want   All That Jazz   An Emotion Away   Are You Still Mad   Are You Still Mad ?   Are You Still Mad?   Awakening Americans   Awakening Americans (unreleased)   Baba   Bent 4 U   Bent for You   Big Bad Love   Big Sur   Break   Can't Deny   Can't Not   Can't Deny   Can't Not   Celebrity   Change Is Never A Waste Of   Citizen Of The Planet   Crazy   Crazy (James Michael Mix)   Crazy (Seal cover)   Crazy [Claude le Gache Mix]   Crazy [Claude le Gache Mixshow]   Crazy [Eddie Baez Coo Coo Club Mix]   Crazy [From the DeVil Wears Prada]   Crazy [Interstate Full Length Mix]   Dear Prudence   Dear Prudence (The Beatles cover)   Death of Cinderella   Death Of Cinderella (Live)   Don't Drink The Water   Don't Drink The Water   Doth I Protest Too Much   Edge of Evolution   Eight Easy Steps   Eight Easy Steps (Jez Colin & Flipper Dalton Remix...   Eight Easy Steps (Remixes)   Eight Easy Steps (Smitty & Gabriel D. Vine Remix)   Eight Easy Steps (The Orange Factory Mix)   Eight Easy Steps (Thick Dick Filter Mix)   Eight Easy Steps [Jez Colin & Flipper Dalton Remix...   Eight Easy Steps [Smitty & Gabriel D. Vine Remix]   Eight Easy Steps [the Orange Factory Mix]   Eight Easy Steps [Vancouver Sessions]   Empathy   Everything   Everything (Radio Version)   Everything (Version 2)   Excuses   Fake Plastic Trees   Fake Plastic Trees (live)   Fake Plastic Tress   Fate Stay With Me   Fear of Bliss   Fear of Bliss [#]   Feel Your Love   Find The Right Man   Flinch   Forgive Me Love   Forgiven   Forgiven [Acoustic]   Front Row   Giggling Again For No Reason   Give What You Got   Gorgeous   Gorgeous (Live)   Guardian   Guardian (Single)   Guardian [Live At the Montreux Jazz Festival, Mont...   Hand In My Pocket   Hand In My Pocket (Live From Brisbane)   Hand in My Pocket [Acoustic Album Version]   Hand in My Pocket [Album Version]   Hands Clean   Hands Clean (Acoustic)   Hands Clean [Acoustic]   Hands Clean [Album Version]   Hands Clean [Album Version]   Hands Clean [Live At the Montreux Jazz Festival, M...   Happiness is a Warm gun   Happiness Is A Warm Gun (live Version)   Happiness Is A Warm Gun (Live)   Havoc   Head Over Feet   Head Over Feet [Acoustic]   Heart Of The House   Hey U!   Human Touch   I Am A Bitch I'm A Lover   I Can't Break Down   I Can't Break Down   I Don't Know   I Don't Know (The weekend song)   I Remain   I Run By Rosie Thomas   I Was Hoping   I'm A Bitch   I'm A Bitch I'm A Lover   Im A Bitch   In Praise Of The Vulnerable Man   Incomplete   Into A King   Irónico (Ironic Spanish)   Ironic   Ironic (Acoustic Album Version)   Ironic (Live in Berlin)   Ironic (Updated)   Ironic [Acoustic Version]   Ironic [DVD]   Ironic [Instrumental]   Ironico (Ironic Spanish)   Isn't It Ironic   It's A Bitch To Grow Up   Jealous   Jekyll and Hyde   Jekyll And Hyde (Bonus Track)   Joining You   Keep The Radio On   Keeps the radio on   King of intimidation   King Of Intimidation (Live)   King of Pain   Knees of My Bees   Lens   Let's Do It   Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love)   Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love) [From De-Lovely]   Let's Do It, Let's Fall In Love   Let's Do It   Limbo No More   London   London (Live)   Madness   Magical Child   Mary Jane   Mercy   Mercy (From the Prayer Cycle)   Mercy [From the Prayer Cycle]   Mirror Image   Mis Sandalias   Moratorium   Movement I: Mercy   Movement Iii: Hope   Movement Ix: Faith   Movement Vi: Innocence   My Humps (The Black Eyed Peas cover)   Narcissus   Never A Waste Of Time   No   No Apologies   No Avalon   No Pressure Over Cappuccino   No Pressure Over Cappucino   No Pressure Over Capuccino   Norwegian Wood   Not All Me   Not As We   Not The Doctor   Not the Doctor [Acoustic]   Numb   Offer   Oh Yeah   Oh Yeah!   On My Own   On The Tequila   One   One Bad Apple   One Hand In My Pocket   Orchid   Out Is Through   Party Boy   Perfect   Perfect [Acoustic]   Permission   Plastic   Pollyanna flower   Pollyanna Flower [Unreleased Bonus Track]   Pray For Peace   Precious Illusions   Princes Familiar   Princes Familiar [MTV Unplugged]   Professional Torturer   Purgatorying   Purgatorying 1   Purgatorying 2   Purgatorying 3   Question   Rain   Real World   Receive   Right Through You   Right Through You [Acoustic]   She Gave Me A Wink (Pray For Peace)   Simple Together   Sister Blister   Sister Blister [*]   Sister Blister [#]   So Pure   So Pure (Live)   So Unsexy   So Unsexy (Vancouver Sessions 2004)   So Unsexy [Vancouver Sessions 2004]   So-Called Chaos   Sorry 2 Myself   Sorry 2 Myself [*]   Sorry To Myself   Spineless   Spineless [Vancouver Sessions]   Spiral   Spoon   Stay With Me   Still   Still (unofficial   Still (unofficial)   Still [From Dogma]   Strait Jacket   Straitjacket   Superman   Superstar Wonderful Weirdos   Surrendering   Sympathetic Character   Symptoms   Symptoms (unreleased)   Tainted Love   Tantra   Tapes   Thank U   Thank U (Demo)   Thank U (Thank You)   Thank U [Album Version]   Thank You   That I Would Be Good   That Particular Time   That Particular Time [Album Version]   The Guy Who Leaves   The Morning   The Time of Your Life   The Weekend Song   The Weekend Song (or 'i Don't Know')   There are worse things I could do   These Are The Thoughts   These R the Thoughts   This Grudge   This Grudge [Acoustic][Multimedia Track]   This Grudge [Vancouver Sessions]   Til You   Too Hot   Torch   Tu Casa (Your House)   U R   Underneath   Underneath [Album Version]   Uninvented   Uninvited   Uninvited [From City of Angels]   Unprodigal Daughter   Unprodigal Daughter [#]   Unsent   UR   Utopia   Versions Of Violence   Versions of Violence [Recorded in Dressing Room in...   Versions of Violence [Version]   Wake Up   Walk Away   Weekends   What If God Was One Of Us   When We Meet Again   Will You Be My Girlfriend?   Win and Win   Woman Down   Would Not Come   Wunderkind   You Already Won Me Over   You Congratulations   You Lean   You Learn   You Learn [Acoustic]   You Learn [Album Version]   You Ought To Know   You Oughta Know   You Oughta Know (Album Version)   You Oughta Know (Alternate Take)   You Oughta Know (Alternate Take) / Your House   You Oughta Know (Live in Berlin)   You Oughta Know [Alternate Take]   You Owe Me Nothing in Return   Your Congratulations   Your House   Your House (Hidden Track)   Your House [Live in Tokyo]

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