Giggling Again For No Reason

It is:

Nothing that Man could ever could to me.

After a tumultuous year, this song is Alanis finally back at peace in her life. She can finally feel uninhibitedly happy with no emotional baggage.

She obviously took off one day and freed herself from all responsibility, sat back in her convertible and just let herself be happy again for no reason.

Ah, such a liberating thought to just leave it all and take some time with just yourself x)

Question: The last time she sings the chorus, does anyone else hear Alanis say-

"Oh this state of ecstasy Nothing but MAN could ever give to me"

Or maybe she says "LAND". Anyone know?

Yeah, I hear the last line. I think it's "man", though.

It's a very happy, peaceful song, about letting go of every care in the world for just one day and doing what makes you happy. Something I'd like to do...

I dont think it's 'net'. At least I dont hear that.

Note that she's driving up the coast on Highway 1 in this song (which puts the setting in California), and in the song "Torch" (which is right before this one on the album), she states that she misses their "Big Sur getaways". Highway 1 is the only road in and out of Big Sur. I think the implication here may be going to an old favorite place that she used to enjoy with a man she was very attached to, and making new memories of that place as somewhere she can enjoy on her own. Kind of way of establishing self-worth and independence and not being haunted by old memories. Or something.

in the lyrics booklet, which you get if you BUY the cd, it says "net".

I caught the same juxtaposition that murlough23 observed. Up and down the Central Coast to process those emotional memories.

Does "Giggling Again..." represent a sudden and =complete= processing of them. I expect not, but it does display that same rebound effect we've seen in her work before (e.g.: "Hand in My Pocket," "You Learn," "Thank U," "So Pure").

As self-aware as she is, it's hard for me to think Al doesn't see her polarizations, but I also know that most people =don't= see them, so it is possible.

"I can see the meltings of inhibition." Given her numerous expressions of interpersonal guardedness and boundary-setting (e.g.: "Right Through You," "Wake Up," "Baba," "Unsent," "Precious Illusions"), I'm not surprised to see her flip (as this culture =normally= does) from pain-soaked despondance to pleasure-seeking again.

She's done it before, and like most of us, she'll do it again.

"Oh this state of ecstacy Nothing but net could ever give to me"

I think she is equating her state of happiness with the basketball concept "nothing but net" which basically means you nailed it and it is satisfying to do so.