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| Alanis Morissette – Receive Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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This is about someone who's always doing everything for everyone else but seldom receives help or support from people, mostly because they think they don't deserve to be helped or perhaps would hate to bother people asking for help, when they suddenly realise that it is ok to be helped and then decides that they'll accept it all, for self-generosity. It's very connected with "empathy" when she says "to know myself enough to let you help me". It's about shutting up the voices that tell you not to accept someone's help (or even your own) and simply receive. |
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| Alanis Morissette – A Man Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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I don't exactly see this song as something in defence of men. I see it as their basic excuse to keep doing what they think they're entitled to. Of course, there's a whole system working its cogs behind the surface of our gender ''isms'', but some men rely on that fact to keep acting as a man. I think the song goes about men self-victimising themselves and still not wanting to break that comfort zone(if that ever exists). |
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| Alanis Morissette – Til You Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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For me it's about a long distance relationship where the two people involved haven't met up yet. They've been living away from each other, giving the freedom to *physically* be with whoever they want to, but choosing not to get romantically involved with anyone else. So they won't take any prisioners with their romantic crimes.
The keep picturing how it'd be if their yet-to-be partners were there with them. |
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| Alanis Morissette – A Man Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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But the truth is everybody is a victim of sexism, especially men. And I think the song is about carrying the label of being a man in this world. How affected by the male (maybe masculine) tradition from ages ago you will always be. And the most interesting part of it is that it's a song sung by a woman, showing that women are those men too. Sexism affects all of us.
I just wish we - men - could be those women more often. |
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| Alanis Morissette – Win and Win Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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For me it is about being connected to people in your relationships in general. We normally go through our lives competing with everyone else, wanting other people to lose so we can win; we tend to see this [un?]balance - right/wrong.....win/lose - and we use them to relate to people. However, when you have this sense of connectedness you don't want other people to lose, for it means you lose too. You understand that we all win, together, 'cause we're connected. |
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| Alanis Morissette – Sympathetic Character Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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Funnily those people are ones we feel like we have to understand and empathise with all the time. They abuse us, violate us and hurt us, yet we understand them. They're our very own sympathetic characters. |
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| Alanis Morissette – Madness Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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I've just realised this is completely about a situation I'm in with my current partner. I'm always blaming him for making me feel controlling and manipulative, believing he's the cause of my jealousy when it actually comes from myself. I'd be the same with any other partner, it's not about him. What he does is to bring this madness to light. He gives me the most generous triggers, for with this I have now an opportunity to face my flaws and admit that I have to work my problems (the thought of dropping all arms leaves me terrified).
Those feelings leave me with physical pain. I couldn't see how much they affect me... If it weren't for him, I would still be blaming someone else, so I should thank him. |
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| Alanis Morissette – Madness Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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@[aemitt:17916] her thanks are quite honest, actually. She is truly saying how grateful she is for being able to see where this madness comes from, thanks to them, who she used to blame for her own problems. |
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