Alanis Morissette & Ryan Adams Ryan : I was born in 1974 on a calm meticulous street someplace in the sun oh the air was sweet and enough lights sprang sparks ...

I would never have been in such a rush I would never have tried to control I would never have worn such 'fear lenses' I would never have held on so tightly I w...

Do you derive joy when someone else succeeds? Do you not play dirty when engaged in competition? Do you have a big intellectual capacity But know that it alone ...

How to stay paralyzed by fear of abandonment How to defer to men in solvable predicaments How to control someone to be a carbon copy of you How to have that not...

I am a man as a man I've 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...

After a year like this one I'm surprised I did not hate your guts And after a year like this one I'm surprised I still love music just as much After a year like...

After a year like this one I'm surprised I did not hate your guts And after a year like this one I'm surprised I still love music just as much After a year like...

Do I stress you out My sweater is on backwards and inside out And you say how appropriate I don't want to dissect everything today I don't mean to pick you apar...

come on babe why don't we paint the town and all that jazz I'm gonna rouge my knees and roll my stockings down and all that jazz start the car, I know a whoopee...

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 y...

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...

I've seen them kneel with baited breath for their rituals I've watched this experience raise them to pseudo higher levels I've watched them leave their families...

you're unsure and you're not ready so that must mean I want you you're unavailable and disinterested and to you I look for comfort a million times in a million...

I hate the world today You're so good to me I know that I can't change I tried to tell you but you look at me like maybe I'm an angel underneath; innocent and s...

Indeed I have sucked it up to heights Unknown to those outside My body has contained and suppressed And swallowed and abetted Oh I am a stranger to myself Benea...

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 y...

I'd be lying if I said I was completely unscathed I might be proving you right with my silence or my retaliation Would I be letting you win in my non reaction? ...

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 ...

I start up in the north I grow from a special seed I sprinkle it with sensibility From French and Hungarian snow I linger in the sprouting Until my engine's ful...

In a church, by the face, He talks about the people going under Only child know A man decides after seventy years, That what he goes there for, is to unlock t...

Dear Mathew I like you a lot I realize you're in a relasionship with someone right now and I respect that I'd like you to know that if you're ever single in th...

Dear Prudence, won't you come out to play Dear Prudence, greet the brand new day The sun is up, the sky is blue it's beautiful and so are you Dear Prudence, won...

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 th...

(With Dave Matthews Band) (Dave) Come out, come out, no use in hiding Come now, come now, can you not see? There's no place here, what were you expecting? No ...

I'm not threatened, by every pair of legs you watch go by I don't cringe when you stare at women, it's just a thing called guy I don't notice your side ways gla...

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 How to have that no...

Excuses Why no one will help me I am too dumb I am too smart They'll not understand me I am lonely They'll hate me And there is not enough time It's too hard t...

A green plastic watering can For a fake chinese rubber plant In fake plastic earth That she bought from a rubber man In a town full of rubber plants To get rid ...

Vocals by Alanis Morissette, Music by Lindsay Morgan You found the right man in the right place Once in a while you meet him face to face It was love at first ...

What's it been over a decade? It still smarts like it was four minutes ago We only influenced each other totally We only bruised each other even more so What a...

I went to your house Walked up the stairs I opened your door without ringing the bell I walked down the hall Into your room Where I could smell you And I Should...

do you go to the dungeon to find out how to make peace with your days in the dungeon writing a letter to you didn't make me feel any more peaceful than how i fe...

I am driving in my car up highway one I left LA without telling anyone There were people who needed something from me But I am sure they'll get along fine on th...

Testosterone in large amounts Your little sister just kicked out of God you can't shave your head Come to the show The boys rock harder Your mother lent you her...

You, you who has smiled when you're in pain You who has soldiered through the profane They were distracted and shut down So why, why would you talk to me at al...

I'm broke but I'm happy I'm poor but I'm kind I'm short but I'm healthy, yeah I'm high but I'm grounded I'm sane but I'm overwhelmed I'm lost but I'm hopeful ba...

If it weren't for your maturity none of this would have happened If you weren't so wise beyond your years I would've been able to control myself If it weren't f...

Beatles cover She's not a girl who misses much She's well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand Like a lizard on a window pane The man in the crowd with...

you are the original template you are the original exemplary how seen were you actually? how revered were you (honestly) at the time? why pleased with your low ...

I love you so you are my life i'll never leave you yeah yeah my world is for you oh babe I want you now thank you for everything yeah yeah good bye to you you...

I hate the world today, you're so good to me I know but I can't change tried to tell you but you look at me Like maybe I'm an angel underneath, innocent and swe...

Now I know I can handle this I'll close my mouth and clench my fist I've lived this day in a thousand ways But there's a flaw to add to your list Go on and squ...

Monday morning is not Monday morning 'till Taylor has his coffee Friday night is not Friday night 'till Jessie leaves the room sweating Tuesday morning is not T...

How crass you stand before me With no blood to fuel your fame How dare you weild such flippancy without requisite shame Your very existence becomes my sacred mi...

I run I run far from You to the apple tree in my yard With my dress all bundled up in my hands Dirt on my feet I am dreaming again I run I run I run far from Yo...

as we were talking outside it was cold we were shivering yet warmed by the subject matter my wife is in the next room we've been having troubles please don't te...

I hate the world today You're so good to me I know but I can't change I tried to tell you but you look at me like maybe I'm an angel underneath; innocent and sw...

You are the bravest man I've ever met You unreluctant at treacherous ledge You are the sexiest man I've ever been with You, never hotter than with armor spent ...

One day I'll find relief I'll be arrived and I'll be a friend to my friends who know how to be friends One day I'll be at peace I'll be enlightened and I'll be...

An old man turned 98 He won the lottery and died the next day It's a black fly in your chardonnay It's a death row pardon, two minutes too late And isn't it iro...

It's been ten years of investment It's been one foot in and one out It's been four days of full of shit And I feel snuffed out It's been 33 years of restrainin...

dear dar(lin') your mom (my friend) left a message on my machine she was frantic saying you were talking crazy that you wanted to do away with yourself I guess ...

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 ...

There's a little black spot on the sun today It's the same old thing as yesterday There's a black hat caught in a high tree top There's a flag-pole rag and the ...

We share a culture same vernacular Love of physical humor and time spent alone You with your penchant for spontaneous events For sticky and raspy, unearthed and...

But that's why Birds do it, bees do it Even educated fleas do it Let's do it, let's fall in love In Spain, the best upper sets do it Lithuanians and Letts do i...

My house, my role My friends, my man My devotion to god All the more feels indefinite Nothing's been clear Nothing's been in Nothing's felt true And I've never...

What it feels to fall in to the pool The hard shell bugs bite my forearm My right index fingernail chewed to the quick My cervix is a long one My sprinklers go ...

I've been most unwilling to see this turmoil of mine The thought of sitting with this has me paralyzed With this prolong exposure to mirror and averted eyes I'...

What's the matter Mary Jane, you had a hard day As you place the don't disturb sign on the door You lost your place in line again, what a pity You never seem to...

We Have Suffered Are Souls in the Garden of Beauty, Digging graves Instead of Spreading Mercy Across the Land A Bitter Justice Begging Eternity for Love, were N...

THEY POINT AS THEY SMILE GRINNING FROM EAR TO EAR ASKING TO HOLD ME FOR AWHILE THE HARDER THEY SQUEEZE (THEY WILL DO AS THEY PLEASE) I CAN HEAR ALL THE WISPERS ...

Caminando por el rancho Me encontre un chico guapo me miro muy feo porque no tenia zapatos por eso Quiero ponerme mis sandalias!! eh, eh, eh! Y salir a buscarte...

I've never been this accountable-less and within I've never known focuslessness on any form I've never had this lack of ache for dalliance To let go and let Go...

Alanis in Hungarian, Salif Keita in Mali, w/ The English Chamber Chorus in Swahili We have slaughtered In the garden of beauty Digging graves instead of planti...

Alanis in French, w/ The American Boychoir featuring Devin Provenzano Before my body dies I pray That the river I was born to May again wash over me By God's ...

Alanis in Hungarian, Nusrat Faten Ali Kahn in Urdu, w/ The English Chamber Chorus in German My unborn forgive me I only wish I had the strength to bring You in...

Alanis in French, Salif Keita in Mali, w/ The English Chamber Chorus in French By moon we gather For the ascension Great sky shelter us With your endless compa...

Dear momma's boy I know you've had your butt licked by your mother I know you've enjoyed all that attention from her And every woman graced with your presence a...

I'm just a white girl From a small, safe town What could I possibly know about destruction? My lawn sure looks green today Underneath these suburban skies But ...

And you're like a 90's jesus And you revel in your psychosis How dare you And you sample concepts like hors d'euvres And you eat their questions for dessert Is ...

Beatles cover 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 ...

I rather face all on top of my face I am the perfect target screen For your blindly fueled rage I bare the brunt of your long buried pain I don't mind helping y...

Why do I feel it's all up to me to see that everything's right and it's how it should be Why don't they just leave me alone I've got to prove I can Little girl ...

Bring on the tequila, oh On fire on tequila, oh My friends and I meet hours before We make some home made pizza We do some funny bits back and forth My knees b...

I am the biggest hypocrite I've been undeniably jealous I have been loud and pretentious I have been utterly threatened I've gotten candy for my self-interest t...

I'm broke but I'm happy I'm poor but I'm kind I'm short but I'm healthy, yeah I'm high but I'm grounded I'm sane but I'm overwhelmed I'm lost but I'm hopeful, ...

Me, and my helmet such an un-conventional kid All intense and kinetic, at best tolerated from afar Not yet arrested, and by that I mean betrothed Though a start...

Every time you raise your voice I see the greener grass Every time you run for cover I see this pasture Every time we're in a funk I picture a different choice ...

Sometimes is never quite enough If you're flawless, then you'll win my love Don't forget to win first place Don't forget to keep that smile on your face Be a g...

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...

you'll rescue me right? in the exact same way they never did I'll be happy right? when your healing powers kick in you'll complete me right? then my life can f...

Please be philosophical Please be tapped into your femininity Please be able to take the wheel from me Please be crazy and curious Papa love your princess so t...

Start every week with a break neck urgent design And end every speed day with my briefcase representing free time Spending my fruit as my purchases become my li...

I've held you up like a deity like you're the sole owner of wings this unrequited tunnel vision and I wonder why I've not been writing don't disturb me in this...

Alanis Morissette: I must be two lips I must be your sleep I must be blinded Keep it a question Keep it a question Keep it a question I must be spoiled I must ...

(Alanis, Leslie Howe, & Serge Cote) (This song is dedicated to the Hetchums, Jackie, the Tynans and everyone else who knew and loved Kevin) It was the night Rod...

I pray for peace They require me to kick into high gear We may as well have our Phd's Might we compose was never taken into account I pray they let out or talk...

you and me we're cut from the same cloth it seems to some we famously get along but you and me are strangers to each other cuz you and me: competitive to the bo...

you from new york you are so relevant you reduce me to cosmic tears luminous more so than most anyone unapologetically alive knot in my stomach and lump in my t...

Oh these little rejections how they add up quickly One small sideways look and I feel so ungood Somewhere along the way I think I gave you the power to make Me ...

Deadlines, meetings and contracts all breached D-days and structure responsibility Have-to's and need-to's and get-to's by three Eleventh hours and upset emplo...

For hearing all my doubts so selectively and For continuing my numbing love endlessly For helping you and myself, not even considering For beating myself up and...

I won't see my dear friends as much Male friends especially, I'll no longer be in touch I'll change my hobbies to match yours I'll stop reading my favorite book...

[Chorus:] Oh, Please Fate stay with me, and guide me along my way There has been so many problems So please stay, please, stay Fate stay with me, will you help...

Music and Lyrics by Alanis Morissette 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 imm...

Something so benign For construed as cruelty Such a difference between Who I am and who you see Conclusions you come to of me Routinely incorrect I don't know ...

Sarah's only 10 and she's attracted to older men And they seem to like her back But she's intelligence Billy's a football star And he drives around in his muscl...

you were full and fully capable you were self sufficient and needless your house was fully decorated in that sense you were taken with me to a point a case of ...

The missle sent today killed only 3 The rest were saved, they're far enough away To not really feel the direct effect on me They caught him today Based ridicuo...