Alanis Morissette

amusing; humorously sarcastic or mocking

It's a death row pardon two minutes too late

And isn't it ironic, don't you think?

It's like rain on your wedding day

thoughtful; carefully thought out in advance

I don't think you unworthy

I need a moment to deliberate

ban; forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper)

Are you happy?

Please don't censor your tears

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experienced indirectly; experienced at secondhand

See this pedestal is high and I'm afraid of heights

I don't wanna be lived through a vicarious occasion

Please open the window

ill famed; known widely and usually unfavorably

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Me, the notorious bottom dweller

Me, the ceiling-less brave explorer

related to the universe; pertaining to or characteristic of the cosmos or universe

You are so relevant

You reduce me to cosmic tears

Luminous more so than most anyone

identification; identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon

But I'm alone in this meltdown

Of nervousness diagnosis

Call it what you want

see through; transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity

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How 'bout them transparent dangling carrots?

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humiliation; the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public

You and your chronic them and their drama

You this embarrassment us in the middle of this delusion

If we were our bodies

instinctive; spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency

We want to reveal ourselves at will and speak our minds

And never talk small and be intuitive

And question mightily and find god my tortured beacon

supposed; based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence

All of which could have been easily refuted

But the conversation was hypothetical

I am totally short of breath for you

dependent; qualified by reservations

The next payback shoe will eventually drop

I bet you're wondering when my conditional police

Will force you to cough up

lacking knowledge; uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication

I can feel so boring for someone so interesting

So ignorant for someone of sound mind

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reveal; make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few

And accept and admit

And divulge and open

And reach out and speak up

mixed feelings; mixed feelings or emotions

And yet I wanted to save us high water or hell

And I kept on ignoring the ambivalence you felt

And in the meantime I lost myself

expectation; a proposal intended to explain certain facts or observations

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

hiding place; a shelter from danger or hardship

Don't mind our staring but

We're surprised you're not in - in a far-gone asylum

We're surprised you didn't crack up

honorable; worthy of high praise

My armor is porous enough to be worked by your design

My honesty is commendable but won't pull your heartstrings

This magnet for predators is dying to be discerning

hunter; someone who attacks in search of booty

My honesty is commendable but won't pull your heartstrings

This magnet for predators is dying to be discerning

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enough; of a quantity that can fulfill a need or requirement but without being abundant

You were full and fully capable

You were self sufficient and needless

Your house was fully decorated in that sense

dilemma; a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant one

I am your death and your decisions

I am your passion and your plights

I am your sickness and convalescence

gather; get or gather together

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If i accumulate knowledge i'll be impenetrable

If i am aloof no one will know when they strike a nerve

put off; hold back to a later time

How to stay paralyzed by fear of abandonment

How to defer to men in solveable predicaments

How to control someone to be a carbon copy of you

not necessary; without cause

Like an abandoned house dusty-covered furniture still intact

If I visit it now, do I simply re-live it somehow gratuitous

But who's still aching now?

respect; the condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded)

All I trigger unknowingly,

A job I hold in high esteem

It's not all me

enthusiastic; joyously unrestrained

It would've cracked myself.

I became so self-conscious of anything exuberant.

I wouldn't have sold myself short.

ten years; a period of 10 years

And so, the next few years are blurry

The next decade's a flurry of smells and tastes unknown

Threads sewn straight through this fabric

personal; taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias

But then how are we to define

Something so subjective

Living under the same roof

strong belief; an unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence

This does not feel like love

It's your, your conviction

Against my, my conviction

mild; not dangerous to health; not recurrent or progressive (especially of a tumor)

Something so benign from me

Construed as cruelty

agreement; permission to do something

The end of an era

Your dis-crediting's lost my consent

This shit's making me crazy

not varying; (sometimes followed by `with’) in agreement or consistent or reliable

Thrown out most of my things only kept what I need

To carve something consistent and notably me

Tattoo on my skin

distressed; excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion

to those in need, if we have so much why do some people have nothing

still why do I feel frantic when I first wake up in the morning

why do you say you are spiritual, yet you treat people like shit

capable of exploding; liable to lead to sudden change or violence

I'm too exhausting to be loved

A volatile chemical

Best to quarantine and cut off

real; conforming to fact and therefore worthy of belief

One day I will be faith filled

I'll be trusting and spacious, authentic and grounded and home

I have been running so sweaty my whole life

understand; have the idea for

And if there is no Avalon and we only have one life

It's hard to conceive why we let our brothers die

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