Alanis Morissette The Couch song lyrics
Feat Christopher Fogel Alanis Morissette The Couch song lyrics
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 per-petuating 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 labour
how can you just throw words around like
grieve and heal and mourn I feel
fine we may not have been born as a-wake 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 in-dignant sometimes raw
can you i-magine 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 see n getting
beyond knowing it solely intellectually you're not
relinquishing your majestry
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