ALANIS MORISSETTE - The Couch lyrics

rate me

You hadn't seen your father in such a long time.<br>He died in the arms of his lover.<br>How dare he? <br>Your mother never left the house.<br>She never married anyone else,<br>You took it upon yourself to console her.<br><br>You reminded her so much of your father,<br>So you were banished<br>And you wonder why you're so hypersensitive.<br>And why you can't trust anyone but us.<br>But then how can I begin to forgive her? <br>So many years under bridges with dirty water.<br>She was foolish and selfish and cowardly if you ask me.<br><br>I don't know where to begin in all my 50 odd years.<br>I have been silently suffering and adapting, perpetuating, and enduring.<br>Who are you younger generation to tell me that I have unresolved problems? <br>Not many examples of fruits of this type of excruciating labor.<br><br>How can you just throw words around like grieve and heal and mourn? <br>I feel fine, we may not have been born as awake as you were.<br>It was much harder in those days, we had paper routes uphill both ways.<br>We went from school to a job to wife to instant parenthood.<br><br>I walked into his office, I felt so self-conscious on the couch.<br>He was sitting down across from me, he was writing down his hypothesis.<br>I don't know.<br>I've got a loving supportive wife who doesn't know how involved she should<br>Get.<br>You say his interjecting was him just calling me on my shit? <br><br>Just the other day, my sweet daughter, I was driving past 203.<br>I walked up the stairs in my mind's eye.<br>I remember how they would creak loudly.<br>She was only responsive with a drink,<br>He was only responsive by photo.<br>I was only trying to be the best big brother I could.<br><br>I've walked sometimes confused sometimes ready to crack open wide.<br>Sometimes indignant, sometimes raw.<br>Can you imagine I pay him 75 dollars an hour sometimes? <br>It feels like highway robbery.<br>And sometimes it's peanuts.<br>I wish it could last a couple more hours.<br><br>So here we both are battling similar demons (not coincidentally)<br>You see in getting beyond knowing it slowly intellectually,<br>You're not relinquishing your majesty.<br>You are wise, you are warm, you are courageous, you are big.<br>And I love you more now than I ever have in my whole life.