Alanis Morissette - Guardian
Time: 1:39
You, you in the chaos feigning sane
You who has pushed beyond what's humane
Them as the ghostly tumbleweed

kind; pertaining to or concerned with the humanities
Heard in 25 songs (19M+ combined views) — most famously in "Guardian" by Alanis Morissette.
Updated July 26, 2026
Time: 1:39
You, you in the chaos feigning sane
You who has pushed beyond what's humane
Them as the ghostly tumbleweed

Time: 1:15
I am not ashamed
What is vital isn't always humane
You can break in vain

Time: 1:27
From the looseness of her tongue, to the pollution of her aims
To do nothing is barbaric, the solution is humane
You must destroy the mind and hopefully retrain

Time: 0:38
Of injecting poisonous drugs of hate
Into veins of people normally humane
Sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields

Time: 2:29
Everybody let us say goodbye to all our notions
'Cause it's not enough to say that we're humane when we're left behind
It's too late to think that we can worship human emotions

Time: 2:18
To fall down from starvation
Or some less humane fate
Cry out for Guateme'

Time: 1:36
Gave a blood time 'cause he fought with his canine
Beastiality, humane society
Go to China, see how they dine, see what they eat

Time: 2:47
What you did to me
You can hardly call humane
But I lost you

Time: 0:35
By all gentlemen and wives thereof
To be grossly humane
And frankly, quite un-dirty

Time: 2:18
Do you want to?
They call this human nature but is this humane?
Hurting each other, again and again and again

Time: 0:20
To make the last kiss feel like the rain
And make a goodbye seem so humane
But you did

Time: 1:15
♪
Who is humane
Real alive no god

Time: 1:18
Defense defies you
Lame tame and humane
And 96 will stop you easily

Time: 0:59
Nighttime, over again
Please be humane
I'll go insane

Time: 0:13
I am the hatred taken from another's life
Born unwanted, extracted of all that is humane
No one can relate to my abandonment

Time: 1:28
To stop this hell and end the strife
Stand us for your humane rigth
Reject the web with all your might.

Time: 2:11
I don't claim that my motives are one hundred percent humane
But I do say

Time: 0:49
'Cause I know that I've lost myself along the way
Let me feel humane
'Cause sometimes I fear

Time: 3:17
Downsizing amidst the company reporting huge profits
For today's workers, common decency, fair and humane treatment
With equitable wages are now just old memories, nailed into an

Time: 0:53
I like the feeling of pain
It let's me know I'm humane
Cause sometimes I think I'm insane

Time: 1:58
Be brave (be timid)
Be humane (be cruel)
Be critical (be appreciative)

Time: 1:24
No dreams of sleep of death
Humane, cold embrace
Concepts of might and reign

Time: 0:43
Stick on a label pretend that they care
But they don't so you buy it and think it's humane
(Whoa)

Time: 1:49
Bringer of justice, bringer of pain
Protector of man and all things humane
My name is Vengeance, my name is retribution

Time: 1:19
Remember
Ain't no such thing as humane slaughter
Ain't no such thing as humane slaughter
