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I'm having dreams in the night of you baby
And sigmund freud would have thought i was crazy
I wonder why you've 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'
You've turning me into a fool babe
But i'm not screamin' or cryin'
There's better things we have to do baby

It takes a lot for me to truly believe
That you could love me unconditionally
And i'm terrified of taking a chance
If you're not ready to believe in romance

Who...i wonder why i am so unrelentless
There's 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

I'm not avoidin' your lovin'
'cause i can afford to be blue babe
I keep on pushin' and shovin'
I can't get enough out of you baby

I don't believe your blood is bad to the bone
'cause then you're different when we're 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

I'm am so relentless...i can't prevent this... i am not apprehensive
All i know is that i need to have your big bad love
(ad-lib)

You got a plastic name and a plastic heart
You can play the game or you'll never start
I'm talkin' to you
You got a plastic house and a plastic fence
Gotta look around or you'll lose your friends
Am i gettin' through?

You got a plastic girl in a plastic bed
And she's in your house made of gingerbread
And you're in there too
Got a plastic smile on a plastic face
But it's underneath that you can't erase
But what can you do-do-do?

Chorus:
Say love-it's not that hard after all
(tell me what i want, what i wanna hear)
When everybody does
Say love-it's gonna tear down the walls
(tell me what i want, what i wanna hear)
If everybody loves

You live in a plastic dream through a plastic card
But reality you don't disregard
You know that it's true
You got a plastic goal in a plastic life
Gotta search your soul gotta make it right
And here's what you do-do-do

Repeat chorus

Wake up in the mornin'
Some are not sleepin' tight
A matter you've been ignorin'
Why can't you just say it?
Will not wait forever
Can't you see i'm right
I want you to endeavor
To tell me again and again!

Repeat chorus (x3)

Make sure she's alright
She just can't wait to party
She'll make it look so easy
Why won't you listen to me
Yeah

Jealousy - some girls have it rough oh baby
Loyalty - why is that so tough, the trust is gone

Chorus:
Jealous don't you know your girl is jealous
She can't help but be suspicious
Can't you see, that girl is jealous
So better make it right

Cruelty - it's easy for him to be
Fallacy - you're out on a limb for him

Conspiracy anxiety she just can't wait to party
Strategy totally she'll make it look so easy
Loyalty disagree why won't you listen to me
Fantasy novelty she will be free

Repeat chorus

Jealous - it's no fallacy
Jealous - she doesn't trust you much
Suspicious - so baby can't you see that girl
Don't trust you much make sure she's alright

Repeat chorus

Chorus:
Always too hot never too cold
You make your best shot too hot to hold
Never too young
Never too old
You gotta go for gold

Hey boy you wanted all or nothin'
Lose the apprehension baby
And go with the flow cause you know you've got
Stand up if you want the answers
You need to blast 'em straight up baby
So say what you mean and you mean to say now

Hey you don't have to go and prove it
You just go ahead and do it
Your time is for the takin', makin'
The best of what you got now

Repeat chorus

Don't care what they say about ya
You never throw a hero party
For those who oppose who you chose to be now
Maybe you could feel the power
It's like a bomb inside your head that blows if you're
Slow when you go to use it
You, you gotta show them that you mean it just go ahead and scream it
And show them what they're missin' listen
To what your heart could tell ya

Repeat chorus (x2)

You gotta go for gold and you'll make it baby
Gold! and when you're there you gotta
Throw your hands in the air
And wave 'em like you just don't care
Reachin' teachin' practice what you're preachin'
Throw your hands in the air
And wave 'em like you just don't care
Movin' provin' everything you're doin'

Repeat chorus

You, you don't have to go and prove it
You just go ahead and do it
Your time is for the takin', makin'
The best of what you got now
Always too hot
Never too cold
Give your best shot
Go with the flow cause you know you've got to

Repeat chorus

14 years
30 minutes
15 seconds
I've held this grudge

11 songs
4 full journals
thoughts of punishment I've expended

not in contact, not a letter
such communication, telepathic
you've been vilified
used as fodder
you deserve a piece of every record

but who's it hurting now?
who's the one that's stuck?
who's it torturing now
with an antique knot in her stomach?

I wanna be big and let go
of this grudge that's grown old
all this time I've not known
how to rest this bygone
I wanna be soft and resolved
cleared slate and released
I wanna forgive for the both of us

like an abandoned house
dusty cupboard, furniture still intact
if i vist it now will i simple relive it?
somehow gratuitous?

but who's still aching now?
who's tired of her own voice?
who's it weighing down with no gift
from time of said healing?

I wanna be big and let go
of this grudge that's grown old
all this time I've not known
how to rest this bygone
I wanna be soft and resolved
cleared slate and released
I wanna forgive for the both of us


maybe as i cut the cord
veils will lift from my eyes
maybe as i lay this to rest
dead weight off my shoulders will rise

here i sit much determined
ever ill-equipped to draw this curtain
how this has enterained, validated
and has served me well
ever the victim

but who's done whining now?
who's ready to put down
this load i've carried longer than i had cared to remember?

I wanna be big and let go
of this grudge that's grown old
for the life of me I've not known
how to rest this bygone
I wanna be soft and resolved
cleared slate and released
I wanna forgive for the both of us.

My name is alanis. i'm a white chick singer
The drums are a-smokin' and so's the bass
Shake your thing
When you sing
Just sixteen
No disco queen

I'm a white chick singer i've seen the world i've got
A lesson 4u i'm your teacher girl
Two words you'll be hearin' will
Shake the earth so repeat after me
No need to be rehearsed

Chorus:
Oh yeah (x2)

My name is alanis i'm just sixteen so
Please gimme a break i'm no disco queen
Just hear what i'm sayin' you don't
Wanna miss i got a message 4u and it
Goes like this

Repeat chorus

Ride my train
Go insane
Your teacher girl
Rules your world

Now don't overdo it when you shake your thing
Cause you'll be goin' insane when you start
To sing
Without special training an amateur
Could be a casualty case if they sing
These words

Repeat chorus

Yo-ah yo-ah
Wo-oh yeah!

The drums are a smokin' and so's the
Bass they keep on pumpin' a groove and it'll melt your face
Come on' everybody and blow your mind
Because you'll never escape these 2
Words of mine
Ha ha ha ha...

Boganvilia fall into the pool
The hard shelled bugs bite my forearm
My right index fingernail chewed to the quick
My cervix is a long scalene
My sprinklers go off at 6pm each day
And sometimes they spray unsuspecting visitors
My pimples are gooses all over my legs
My brow is furrowed and my vision is blurred
And how I do love London
And how I do love London

The birds make guttural sounds and protect me
My friends come to visit and love me a lot
I don't have the energy to fill this
i am lagged from the jet and the 12 hour flight
And how I do love London
And how I do love London

I am intriguied by the boys with the androdonus songs
Sometimes they rhyme sometimes they rhyme not
The steam will smell of eucalyptus in the shower
The hug will feel forced upon you inconsolable thing
And how I do love London
And how I do love London

Deep breaths will not make my brain stand still
To be loved and swallowed are single and depraved
I love speaking french to the taxi drivers
We slept and were cold on the train out of france
And how I do love London
And how I do love London

(through you I see us)
Between a broken nose and a fake smile
Between piety and gun powder
Between fighting and fleeing the scene
Between the murder and the normalacy
Between aggression and oblivion
Between the brutal and realistically well behaved
Between the screaming and the pulling in the reins
Between tiptoeing and ambling

What am i to do with all this fire?
(I'd like to hate you but I could never hate you)
Why are you still with me in this red space?
(I'd like to slap you but I could never slap you)

Between violence and silently seething
Between my fist and my pollyanna flower
Between forgetting (or fuck you to) your face and it's alright
Between war and denial
(Twice)

Between flying vases and secretly weeping
Between loose cannons and ever down playing
Between the bruises and the nobly differing
Between bursting and boiling
What am I to do with all this burning?
(I'd like to hurt you but I could never hurt you)
Do I overwhelm you in this place?
(I'd like to kill you but I could never kill you)

Between violence and silently seething
Between my fist and my pollyanna flower
Between forgetting (or fuck you to) your face and it's alright
Between war and denial
(Twice)

What am i to do with all this fire?
Can you understand me in this place?

We said good-bye with so much left to say
We knew inside we'd find another way
We'll have it all, it's not too late to try
Maybe you and i could go from here
Maybe you and i can make it, this time we'll...

Chorus:
Fall in love when we meet again
We can finish what we started
Fall in love if we try again
And then nothing will keep us apart

We're not the same as when we first began
We'll try to change, we'll take another chance
Maybe you and i could work it out
Maybe you and i can make it, this time we'll...

Repeat chorus

I see your face, it's always on my mind
A time and place we almost left behind
This time we'll fall in, this time we'll...

Repeat chorus (x2)

It's late at night and no one's around
And only my heart is making a sound
I lay awake alone in my bed
And i can't sleep should i call you instead

I think of you far too much 'cause you, you're one of a kind
I'm not like an open book
'cause i've got something in mind

Chorus:
You know i can't deny the way i feel inside
I won't be hiding my love
You know i can't disguise you're always on my mind
And now i can't get enough

Give me love, i know that you can
I like the strength of a confident man
It's in my blood and all through my veins
You feel it once and you're never the same

Whenever i close my eyes you're there. i feel it inside
But why am i holding in my love, i can't tell you why

Repeat chorus

I think of you far too much 'cause you, you're one of a kind
I'm not like an open book 'cause i've got something in mind
You know i, you know i, i can't deny
Every day you're always on my mind
You know i , you know i, i can't disguise
Can't deny the way i feel inside

Repeat chorus (x2)

A downtown cafe saturday evenin' and the
Place is about to be closed i'm meeting my baby
Yeah and order my hundredth cup of coffee today
My hands are shakin'

At half past seven i'm sittin here waitin' for
My boy all alone for too long it's after eleven
Yeah i'm tired of waitin' and i'm gonna go home
Cause i don't need this

You never think twice before you break all the rules
You gotta be crazy if you think i'm a fool

Chorus:
I'll walk away and say good bye
If you don't want me anymore
I've got my pride
I'll walk away and say good bye
If i don't get the love we had before
Not satisfied

He finally gets here i'm waitin' for him to ask me
Why there's a frown on my face he orders a
Cold beer he has an excuse about his car
Breakin' down but i don't buy it
You're givin' me somethin' i don't need anymore
Just gimme the word and i'll be slammin' the door

Repeat chorus

His best intentions are never the same as what
He does of the end of the day i'm feelin' the
Tension yeah don't gimme no reasons cause you
Don't comprehend what am i feelin'

You never think twice before you break all the rules
You gotta be crazy if you think i'm a fool
You're givin' me somethin' i don't need anymore
Just gimme the word and i'll be slammin' the door

Repeat chorus (x2)

So tell me now
Just say the word
It won't be long
I'll be long long gone...

You're love ain't enough - ow!
You're just a party party party boy yeah
Oh baby
You're just a party party party boy!

From the moment i walked into your life
I knew right then it was a serious
Thing 4u

I got a kick out of your party friends
After a while i found a holiday, overdue
Who completely away from you
Oh baby your love ain't enough - ow!

Chorus:
Party boy you're just a party boy
Ain't no time for sleepin' cause you're misbehavin'
Party boy you're just a party boy
Wake up soon and open your eyes
The time has come to see the light

It took me long enough to realize
That all you give me is a really big broken heart
And i remember how it used to be
There was a time when we could never be
Torn apart and now i wish that we could make a start
You know i gave you all my love - ow!

Repeat chorus

This world of yours turning upside down
Goin' up and down like a merry-go-round
A rumor goin' on right across the town
Why can't you see it?

I gave you love like you never knew
And you're givin' me nothing but an attitude
And now i'm gonna give a bit of solitude
I'll miss you baby oh...
Misbehavin' - now i'll miss ya

Ow! your just a party party party boy
Yeah oh baby
You're just a party party party boy!
I've got to say to you so you listen
Hey boy a - good bye!

Repeat chorus (x3)

My unborn forgive me
I only wish i had the strength to bring
You into this world
More faithful

I'm wise and ambitious,
And angry and free,
And smart and available,
And sexy...
I'm soft and appealing,
And wearing pajamas,
And twisted and willing,
And crazy...

And this is the story of the death of Cinderella
She'd grow to be a maid if she couldn't find a fella
Who can use her
And it's all you could do not to throw her on the floor.

And thought-provoking,
And opinionated
Cultured and funny,
And experienced...
Fearless and tender,
And sweetly innocent,
Uninhibited,
Likes a good debate.

And this is the story of the death of Cinderella
She'd grow to be a maid if she couldn't find a fella
Who can use her
And it's all you could do not to tie her to the bed.

I could fall in love a million times before I die,
You could draw me a bubble bath,
We could walk into the sunset...

And this is the story of the death of Cinderella
She'd grow to be a maid if she couldn't find a fella
Who can use her
And it's all you could do not to throw her on the floor
And this is the story of the death of Cinderella
I'm gonna grow to be a maid and I'll never find a fella
Who can use me
And that's all you can do not to kick me in the ass.

I once had a girl, or should i say, she once had me.
She showed me her room, is not it good, norwegian wood?
She asked me to stay and she told me to sit anywhere,
So i looked around and i noticed there wasn't a chair.
I sat on a rug, biding my time, drinking her wine.
We talked until two and then she said, 'it's time for bed'.
She told me she worked in the morning and started to laugh.
I told her i didn't and crawled off to sleep in the bath.
And when i awoke i was alone, this bird had flown.
So i lit a fire, is not it good, norwegian wood.

Her green plastic watering can
For her fake chinese rubber plant
In the fake plastic earth
That she bought from a rubber man
In a town full of rubber plans
To get rid of itself.

It wears her out
It wears her out
It wears her out
It wears her out

She lives with a broken man,
A cracked polystyreneman
Who just crumbles and burns
He used to do surgery
For girls in the eighties
But gravity always wins.

And it wears him out
It wears him out
It wears him out
It wears...

She looks like the real thing.
She tastes like the real thing,
My fake plastic love
But I can't help the feeling
I could blow through the ceiling
If I just turn and run.

And it wears me out
It wears me out
It wears me out
It wears me out

If I could be who you wanted
If I could be who you wanted
All the time
All the time.

Standing there on a road that leads to anywhere
Like a child left in the wilderness, standing there penniless
Wanting to be the best

Here's a place where life runs at a different pace
Where love is just convenient, none are obedient
And we are subservient

Look at me, i'm a girl that some may preconceive
Why do they try and generalize, why are they antagonizing me
But something i can't control that...

Chorus:
I wantcha
You know i'll never stop 'til i've gotcha
You'll never be quite the same when i rock ya
I'm not the kind of girl that you thought i was
You'll have a good time 'cause i wantcha
I'm breaking down the walls 'till i have you, feel you
Show you the time of your life

Here we are and i wonder how we've come this far
In a world that does not recognize women are victimized
What does that symbolize

Why do i want the things i usually criticize
It may be self destructiveness, or maybe it's emptiness inside
But something i can't control that...

Repeat chorus

You'll have a good time...
It's a lonely road, and no one knows the way that i feel
I'm not giving up now... i'll never try to justify
They'll never understand, you'll be a happy man
You'll have the time of your life

It's something, it's something, it's something that i can't control
The time of your life...

(repeat)

We have slaughtered
In the garden of beauty
Digging graves instead of planting
Mercy for the crucified
A bitter justice
Begging eternity for love

We're nothing
We're everything

I am nothing
Yet i am everybody

We're nothing
And yet we are

Wisdom lights up life's road

I know you

There are worse things I could do, than go with a boy or two
Even though the neighborhood thinks I'm trashy and no good
I suppose it could be true, but there are worse things I could do
I could flirt with all the guys, smile at them and bat my eyes
Press against them when we dance, make them think they stand a chance

Then refuse to see it through, that's a thing I'd never do

I could stay home every night, wait around for Mr. Right
Take cold showers every day, and throw my life away
On a dream that won't come true
I could hurt someone like me, out of spite and jealously
I don't steal and I don't lie, but I can feel and I can cry
A fact I'll bet you never knew
But to cry in front of you, that's the worst thing I could do

I had high expectations
It's something i could not compromise
And when i saw you i wasn't ready
It completely took my heart by surprise

Who...and when i think of the time i met you
The situation looked harmless
It wasn't long before i got confused enough
And soon i realized that your...

Chorus::
Love is just an emotion away
I know it's gonna get to you
Love will be only a moment away
A moment away you know it's true

Lately the way i'm feeling
It's something i could never have planned
I knew that one day i'd find a love thing
Now i'll never stop believing in chance

I put my heart on a shelf forever
I never thought i would find you
I didn't know any better baby
But then i realized that your...

Repeat chorus

Love is crazy love love is crazy and soon you're gonna get some (ad-lib)

Spoken : The women of this family seem to feel that they owe it to the men
of the family to look relaxed, rested, and attractive at dinnertime.

For you they live in a quiet monastery
For you they wear whatever you want them to as long as it is short
They count to ten when you tell them how to drive
And when they're afraid they let you speak for them

All hail the king of intimidation
Mocker of good Christian behavior
For you we wax, we scale, and chicken our legs
For you we chew our nails if we had any left buy fake ones to do it
We counted to 10 temporarily
And it was somethin' about how you talk down to me

All hail the king of intimidation
Mocker of good Christian behavior
The roles of compromising for the family, you don't want some
There's only so much we can do to make your dress short

I am single
I am weary
You're just jealous
You're just confused
You're just hungry
You're in sin now
You're not happy
You are petty

All hail the king of intimidation
Mocker of good Christian behavior
He knows not of what he has wrongly done
Forgive his ignorant behavior
You are tortured
You are captured
You are busted
We were silent
You were tested
You knew better
You are lonely
Was it worth it?
La,la,la

I am the harm that you inflict
I am your brilliance and frustration
I'm the nuclear bombs if they're to hit
I am your immaturity and your indignance
I am your misfits and your praises
I am your doubt and your conviction
I am your charity and your rape
I am your grasping and expectation
I see you averting your glances
I see you cheering on the war
I see you ignoring your children

And i love you still
And i love you still

I am your joy and your regret
I am your fury and your elation
I am your yearning and your sweat
I am your faithless and your religion
I see you altering history
I see you abusing the land
I see you and your selective amnesia

And i love you still
And i love you still

I am your tragedy and your fortune
I am your crisis and delight
I am your profits and your prophets
I am your art i am your bytes
I am your death and your decisions
I am your passion and your plights
I am your sickness and convalescence
I am your weapons and your light
I see you holding your grudges
I see you gunning them down
I see you silencing your sisters

And i love you still
And i love you still

I see you lie to your country
I see you forcing them out
I see you blaming each other

And i love you still
And i love you still