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Alanis Morissette - (Change Is) Never A Waste Of Time - lyrics

Music and Lyrics by Alanis, Leslie Howe, & Serge Cote
I know there's a reason you're forcing a smile
You hide what you're feeling and you have for a while
I can tell that you're falling
And you feel that you can't go on
But a new day is calling
And you'll see that the feeling is gone
Chorus:
You know you're not the only one
Who has a lot to overcome
And when the time has come then you move on
'Cause you've been crying for too long
Sometimes life is so unkind
But change is never a waste of time
I know how you're feeling, I've been there before
The hurting is something much to strong to ignore
Don't be waiting for someone
Who can take all your fear away
When there's no one to listen
That is when you should not be afraid
Repeat Chorus
But change is never a waste... it's never a waste of time

Alanis Morissette - A Year Like This One - lyrics

After a year like this one
Im surprised I do not hate your guts
And, after a year like this one
Im suprised I still love music just as much
After a year like this one
Im suprised I did not eat my arm
And, after a year like this one
Im sorry if Im not cordial to everyone
La la la la la ....
After a year like this one
Im suprised I do not hate your guts
And, after a year like this one
Im suprised I still love music just as much
After a year like this one
Im suprised I did not eat my arm
And, after a year like this one
Im sorry if Im not cordial to everyone
La, la, la, la, la.....
After a year like this one
Im supised I am convinced at all
And, after a year like this one
I do not roll my eyes at the cynical
And,after a year like this one
I cant help wonder how theyve been
After a year like this one
I think Ill leave it all to my next-of-kin
La, la, la, la, la.....
After a year like this one
Im suprised were all not raving drunks and
After a year like this one
I want you to choose the restaurant
After a year like this one
Ill need a good whole 16 months alone and
After a year like this one
I think Ill make the west coast beaches my new home
La, la, la, la, la.....

Alanis Morissette - All I Really Want - lyrics

Do I stress you out
My sweater is on backwards and inside out
And you say how appropriate
I dont want to dissect everything today
I dont mean to pick you apart you see
But I cant help it
There I go jumping before the gunshot has gone off
Slap me with a splintered ruler
And it would knock me to the floor if I wasnt there already
If only I could hunt the hunter
And all I really want is some patience
A way to calm the angry voice
And all I really want is deliverance
Do I wear you out
You must wonder why Im relentless and all strung out
Im consumed by the chill of solitary
Im like estella
I like to reel it in and spit it out
Im frustrated by your apathy
And I am frightened by the corrupted ways of this land
If only I could meet the maker
And Im fascinated by the spiritual man
I am humbled by his humble nature
What I wouldnt give to find a soulmate
Someone else to catch this drift
And what I wouldnt give to meet a kindred
Enough about me, lets talk about you for a minute
Enough about you, lets talk about life for a while
The conflicts, the craziness and the sound of pretenses
Falling all around... all around
Why are you so petrified of silence
Here can you handle this?
Did yo uthink about your bills, your ex, your deadlines
Or when you think youre gonna die
Or did you olong for hte next distraction
And all I need now is intellectual intercourse
A sould to dig the hole much deeper
And I have no cencept of time other an it is flying
If only I could kill the killer
All I really want is some peace man
A place to find a common ground
And all I really want is a wavelength
All I really want is some comfort
A way to get my hands untied
And all I really want is some justice

Alanis Morissette - Are You Still Mad? - lyrics

Are you still mad I kicked you out of bed?
Are you still mad I gave you ultimatums?
Are you still mad I compared you to all
My forty year old male friends?
Are you still mad I shared our problems
With everybody?
Are you still mad I had a an emotional affair?
Are you still mad I tried to mold you into
Who I wanted you to be?
Are you still mad I didnt trust your intentions?
Of course you are
Of course you are
Are you still mad that I flirted wildly?
Are you still mad I had a tendency to mother you?
Are you still mad that I had one foot out the door?
Are you still mad that we slept together even after
We had ended it?
Of course you are
Of course you are
Are you still mad I wore the pants most of the time?
Are you still mad that I seemed to focus
Only on your potential?
Are you still mad that I threw in the towel?
Are you still mad that I gave up long before you did?
Of course you are
Of course you are

Alanis Morissette - Mary Jane - lyrics

Whats the matter mary jane, you had a hard day
As you place the dont disturb sign on the door
You lost your place in line again, what a pity
You never seem to want to dance anymore
Itsa long way down
On this roller coaster
The last chance streetcar
Went off the track
And youre on it
I hear youre counting sheep again mary jane
Whats the point of trying to dream anymore
I hear youre losing weight again mary jane
Do you ever wonder who youre losing it for
Well its full speed baby
In the wrong direction
Theres a few more bruises
If thats the way
You insist on heading
Please be honest mary jane
Are you happy
Please dont censor your trears
Youre the sweet crusader
And youre on your way
Youre the last great innocent
And thats why I love you
So take this moment mary jane and be selfish
Worry not about the cars that go by
All that matters mary jane is your freedom
Keep warm my dear, keep dry
Tell me
Tell me
Whats the matter mary jane

Alanis Morissette - A Man - lyrics

I am a man as a man Ive been told
Bacon is brought to the house in this mold
Born of your bellies I yearn for the cord
Years I have groveled repentance ignored
And I have been blamed
And I have repented
Im working my way toward our union mended
I am man who has grown from a son
Been crucified by enraged women
I am son who was raised by such men
Im often reminded of the fools Im among
And I have been shamed
And I have relented
Im working my way toward our union mended
And I have been shamed
And I have repented
Im working my way toward our union mended
We dont fare well with endless reprimands
We dont do well with a life served as a sentence
This wont work well if youre hell bent on your offence
I am a man who understands your resistance
I am a man who still does what he can
To dispel our archaic reputation
I am a man who has heard all he can
Cuz I dont fare well with endless punishment
Cuz I have been blamed and I have repented
Im working my way toward our union mended
And we have been blamed and we have repented
Im working my way toward our union mended

Alanis Morissette - Awakening Americans - lyrics

We watch movies of murder and we censor the breast
Give thanks for the murders of Chris Columbus
We kill our own and we vote for the men
The lesser of evils and us starring the role of victim
I wonder how we change if we can in this land
I wonder how many mountains we'd move if we bent together
Us priveleged Americans
We pass our revisions onto the next generation
We kneel to the Gods of corporation
We eat when we're full and we hoard all the rest
With our hands on remotes we say "Yes, We're the best"
I wonder what we change in this land, cause we can
Even with western centricity this rampant
Us ugly Americans
Tired are not my hands
But see strangers and enemies as part of me, is real.
For me this awakening Canadian
We teach our offspring for themselves, every man
We shrug shoulders and create yet another -ism
We dissuade our young from using their imagination
We avert our eyes from this our very own manifestation
I wonder what will change in this land, cause we can
I wonder how many mouths we'd fill if we band together
Us awakening Americans

Alanis Morissette - Baba - lyrics

Ive seen them kneel with faded breath for the ritual
Ive watched this experiance with psuedo higher levels
Ive watched them leave their family in pursuit of their nirvana
Ive seen them coming to line up from switzerland and america
How long will this take, baba?
How long have we been sleeping?
Do you see me hanging on to every word you say?
How soon will I be holy?
How much will this cost, guru?
How much longer till youve completely absolved me?
Ive seen them give their drugs in places of natured alters
Ive heard them chanting kali, kali, frantically
Ive heard them rodely repeat you teachers with iditism
Ive seen them boasting the roads, and forgein dangle woods, beat
How long will this take, baba?
How long have we been sleeping?
Do you see me hanging on to every word you say?
How soon will I be holy?
How much will this cost, guru?
How much longer till youve completely absolved me?
Ave maria, ave maria...
Ive seen them overlooking God in their own essance
Ive seen their upward glances in hopes of instant salvation
Ive seen their ritcheouness mixed with their own loving confessions
Ive watched you smile at the people who bowed to kiss your feet
How long will this take, baba?
How long have we been sleeping?
Do you see me hanging on to every word you say?
How soon will I be holy?
How much will this cost, guru?
How much longer till youve completely absolved me?
Give me strength all knowing one
How long till enlightenment?
How much longer till youve completely absolved me?
Ave maria, ave maria, ave maria, ave maria

Alanis Morissette - Big Bad Love - lyrics

Im having dreams in the night of you baby
And sigmund freud would have thought I was crazy
I wonder why youve become an obsession
All I know is that I need to have your big bad love
Big bad love (3x)
You keep on lovin and lyin
Youve turning me into a fool babe
But Im not screamin or cryin
Theres better things we have to do baby
It takes a lot for me to truly believe
That you could love me unconditionally
And Im terrified of taking a chance
If youre not ready to believe in romance
Who...i wonder why I am so unrelentless
Theres nothing that I can do to prevent this
And the dream I am not apprehensive
All I know is that I need to have your...
Chorus:
Big bad love
I need a love with an attitude
Big bad love
The only kind that I want from you
Big bad love
I need it from you so urgently
Big bad love...need it baby yeah yeah yeah
Im not avoidin your lovin
cause I can afford to be blue babe
I keep on pushin and shovin
I cant get enough out of you baby
I dont believe your blood is bad to the bone
cause then youre different when were here all alone
And if you knew the game I wanted to play
Now would you say the words I want you to say ...who
Im am so relentless...i cant prevent this... I am not apprehensive
All I know is that I need to have your big bad love
(ad-lib)

Alanis Morissette - Big Sur - lyrics

Highway One
Crystalline haunted sun
With the Pacific masculine crush
My little one enthralled by the redwoods
As I ride amongst monarchs and myths
Chorus:
Me and Anais and Henry and Jack Kerouac
Me and the Ohlone, the Esselen and Salinan
Me and Julia el montan Brautigan
All roads lead to Big Sur
All roads home to Big Sur
... celestial and frogs
Frits and cabins of logs
In the springs we are barefoot and warm
Chorus:
Me and Anais and Henry and Jack Kerouac
Me and the Ohlone, the Esselen and Salinan
Me and Julia... Brautigan
All roads lead to Big Sur
All roads home to Big Sur
I am climbing on the bluffs
Beseeching God to answer us
Not much distracts from our...
... heartbeat by the forest
Chorus:
Me and Anais and Henry and Jack Kerouac
Me and the Ohlone, the Esselen and Salinan
Me and Julia... Brautigan
All roads home to Big Sur
Me and Mickey and...
Me and Lolly and Bill watching a red tail hawk
Me and...
All roads lead to Big Sur
All roads home to Big Sur
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