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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 felt when we weren't speaking because i
didn't cop to what i did. i can't love you because we're supposed to have professional boundaries. i'd
like you to be schooled and in awe as though you were kissed by god full on the lips. I'm in the front
row the front row with popcorn i get to see you see you close up i'm too tired to recount the
unpleasantries one by one minute i want to banish you the next i want to be on
a deserted island with you along with my three favourite cd's ambivalent yet in your
bed we've yet to acknowledge what really happened
slid into the ditch i have this overwhelming loss of ambition we said let's name thirty good reasons why
we shouldn't be together i started by saying things like "you smoke" "you live in new jersey (too far)"
you started saying things like "you belong to the world" all of which could have been easily
refuted but the conversation was hypothetical I am totally short of breath for you why can't you shut
your stuff off...... I'm in the front row the front row with popcorn i get to see you see you close up
and i laughed until my lungs hurt I love how you bust my chops you don't always
feel seen sometimes you feel erasable unfortunately i cannot reciprocate in my
current state i think we should be careful of how much time we spend together
.....for a while while i'm speaking to you know how much you hate to be interrupted maybe spend some
time alone fill up your proverbial cup so that it doesn't always have to be about I've been wanting
your undivided attention I like the fact that you're nothing like me are you not burdened by the lack of
perspective people have of your charmed life (seemingly)? I'm in the front row the front row
with popcorn i get to see you see you close up you never meant to be ungrateful nor held up to
be whipped or wept for certainly not analyzed prodded at more ways than one
apparently you've been misrepresented dealing with the concept of arrows being
slung towards your outrageous fortune
hey i'm not mad at you guardian i'm mad at myself for spending so much time with you and your
jeckyl and hydeness i'm glad i figuratively slapped you on the wrist you laughed a wicked laugh
and said "come here let me clip your wings!" (i know he's blood but you can still turn him away you
don't owe him anything) "raise the roof" he yelled "yeah raise the roof!" I yelled back (unfortunately
you needed a health scare to repriortize.) no thanks to the soap box. having me rile against them
won't make an ounce of difference.... I'm in the front row the front row with popcorn i get to see
you see you close up oh the things i've done for you many a stitch a friend a man's
been left for you oh the books i've read for you the tongues i've bitten for you many
a new city for you many a risk taken for you (not a single regret.)
I always think of this song & it gets stuck in my head when I in a bad relationship. I think it's indeed about her reflecting on bad relationships with both family and her hockey playing ex. I will add that I think it directly deals with how she at one point was so bogged down while in the relationship withe hockey player that she couldn't see how bad things were but hindsights 20-20 so now that she reflects back on it, as she does in this song, she truly gets a front row seat on the chaos of why it was so wrong and was so dysfuntional.
I think she feels kind of inadequate and inferior to her lover... He's kind of like a movie star to her, and she's just in the front row. Hopeless devoted, but not on the same level. Or...?
obviously, she resents her lover for something lol
I know he's blood but you can still turn him away you don't owe him anything! What an intro and what a line. This song to me is almost like a breathless rant in song form about a relationship with someone that is enjoyed in the sense that you can talk about it like that but would never last in the long run. Truly awesome
"I'm in the front row with the popcorn. I get to see you close up."
She finally get's to see him for what he is, she's so close. "I'm mad at myself for being around your jekyl and hydeness"
My take on the line "I know he's blood but you can still turn him away, you don't owe him anything" makes me think of someone who doesn't have a good relationship with their father. He gave life to this person, but she still doesn't owe him a thing because that's all he did. I'm not sure how it would fit into the rest of the song, but anyways...
This song is about her "relationships" in general being caustic. In the beginning ( know he's blood but you can still turn him away, you don't owe him anything ) is a reference to a temultious relationship with her father. Another ode to the Father relationship theory is in this verse (hey i'm not mad at you guardian i'm mad at myself for spending so much time with you and your jeckyl and hydeness i'm glad i figuratively slapped you on the wrist you laughed a wicked laugh and said "come here let me clip your wings!" (i know he's blood but you can still turn him away you don't owe him anything) "raise the roof" he yelled "yeah raise the roof!" I yelled back (unfortunately you needed a health scare to repriortize.) no thanks to the soap box. having me rile against them won't make an ounce of difference) In that verse she is saying she's not mad at her father or guardian...she's mad at spending so much time with him cause he had multiple personalities and was not very good health wise or didn't take care of himself (unfortunately you needed a health scare to repriortize.)
(i started by saying things like "you smoke" "you live in new jersey (too far)" Another relationship also that threads or interlaces the song is the one with her boyfriend, maybe the hockey star she wrote jagged little pill over, when she broke up with him. I think him being a hockey star and being in New Jersey placed such a strain on their relationship that getting to know the real him up close was hard and so when she finally did see him up close for who he was, she was not too happy with what she saw him to be. (in my current state i think we should be careful of how much time we spend together) She's reconsidering whether she wants to carry on seeing him as much as she has, allowing herself to get too close to someone she isn't sure about.
(.....for a while while i'm speaking to you know how much you hate to be interrupted maybe spend some time alone fill up your proverbial cup so that it doesn't always have to be about ) This is my favorite verse, so here goes my interpretation of it. Well this is her ex, the hockey player, here she is wrestling with him having an oversized ego and her wanting to have conversations with him that don't just include hin talking about himself....:o) I love it. Go Alanis ;o)
I really like this song. Everytime I listen to it new lines seem to stick out and grab my attention.
I like the part:
"we said let's name thirty good reasons why we shouldn't be together i started by saying things like 'you smoke' 'you live in new jersey (too far)' you started saying things like 'you belong to the world' all of which could have been easily refuted but the conversation was hypothetical I am totally short of breath for you why can't you shut your stuff off...... "
The relationship is so negative that they're trying to come up with reasons to break up. He speaks abstractly and says she belongs to the world . . . she's famous perhaps, or she travels all the time and isn't there for him in a physical sense. She says he lives in NJ and smokes . . . things that can be changed. Then, she relizes that all of this brainstorming isn't going to change anything because she is so into him . . . an emotional-mental bond rather than physical . . . she asks why he can't shut his stuff off . . . probably referring to the way his mind works and how she loves that despite the fact that the relationship isn't working.
i also like the line:
"You laughed a wicked laugh and said 'come here, yet me clip your wings"
She recognizes that being with him is causing her to lose her spirit and freedom. In a way it seems like she admires him so much that she neglects her own thoughts and opinions . . . she's infatuated and it's taking away part of who she is. Perhaps this goes back to his reason for why they should break up . . . "you belong to the world" He wants to ground her and prevent her from traveling and doing what she wants to do. He wants to clip her wings and keep her to himself . . . like a pet bird. The very thing she likes most about him (his mind and freedom) is what he wants to supress in her.
i love the first line to this song i know hes blood but your can't still turn him anyway you don't owe him anything and then the music starts.
I have two hearts about this song. The theories are as follows: 1.) It seems almost incestuous ("I know he's blood but you can still turn him away, you don't owe him anything" and "Hey I'm not mad at you guardian" and the "health scare"). It could be about loving a person who isn't direct family, but is somehow related (hence the tidbit about living in New Jersey). That would explain not wanting to get together, but somehow being unable to stop. 2.) It is about a relationship with a lover who loves the spotlight.
Apart from that, I love the song. I recall someone said earlier its just like a rant and yes, that's part of why I love it.