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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 immaturity and your indignance
I am your misfits and your praised
I am your doubt and your conviction
I am your charity and your rape
I am your grasping and expectation
I see you averting your glances
I see you cheering on the war
I see you ignoring your children
And I love you still
And I love you still
I am your joy and your regret
I am your fury and your elation
I am your yearning and your sweat
I am your faithless and your religion
I see you altering history
I see you abusing the land
I see you and your selective amnesia
And I love you still
And I love you still
Haah... Haah... Haah... Haah...
I am your tragedy and your fortune
I am your crisis and delight
I am your profits and your prophets
I am your art - I am your bytes
I am your death and your decisions
I am your passion and your plights
I am your sickness and convalescence
I am your weapons and your light
I see you holding your grudges
I see you gunning them down
I see you silencing your sisters
And I love you still
And I love you still
I see you lie to your country
I see you forcing them out
I see you blaming each other
And I love you still
And I love you still
Haah... Haah... Haah... Haah...
[Instrumental]
I can listen to this song over and over and over. I'm not religious, but so extremely spiritual as I cannot commit to any religion on this earth. Her words just get straight to my heart. Dogma was such a good movie and I was overjoyed at their inclusion of her playing, of all characters, the best God one could ever hope to be cast in a movie. All the things we do on this earth, to this earth, to each other.. Alanis has an indescribable way of addressing those issues. Pure genius in this song. And I cannot repeat enough, her lyrics go right to my heart and soul. And not just this song. I'm glad she's still making music.
I have always thought that this song was mocking the concept of God. The previous posts seem to say otherwise, which is very interesting to me. I can see how people who have strong beliefs in God (clearly I am not one of them ......) would read these lyrics and see them as confirming that God loves us no matter what. To me, lyrics such as "I see you ignoring your children" and "I see you abusing the land" and even "I see you and your selective amnesia" as God being highly sarcastic - can he really forgive such behaviour so easily? I really don't think Alanis intended this to be a positive religious song, I think it was questioning how people can still believe that there is a God out there who could love us no matter what we do. I am completely willing to admit that I could be wrong about this - but when I pulled this song up on this site, I expected at least a couple of previous posts which agreed with my interpretation ..... am I completely alone in this view??
Like snowflakes, we are ALL different but NEVER completely alone! May the whisper of the Father be the one that wakes us. May the open hand of the Son be the one that raises us. May the prompting of the Spirit be the one that sends us. This day & all days & leads us safely home. In Christ Jesus name we pray. Amen & So Be It
Like snowflakes, we are ALL different but NEVER completely alone! May the whisper of the Father be the one that wakes us. May the open hand of the Son be the one that raises us. May the prompting of the Spirit be the one that sends us. This day & all days & leads us safely home. In Christ Jesus name we pray. Amen & So Be It
@Grayscale you are not alone. the others, though clearly the majority, don't seem to understand alanis's wickedly dry humor one bit.. & i should know.. i was a teenage girl in the 90's (which basically makes me an expert on all things alanis) =P the way i understand it, "still" is a mockery of western religion. she begins w/the contradictions inherent in a supreme diety & continues the contradiction theme to express god's love for these ignorant, selfish, destructive, & indignant ppl. it's a lullaby for the self-righteous. alanis was raised catholic & you've only gotta listen to "forgiven" to hear her...
@Grayscale you are not alone. the others, though clearly the majority, don't seem to understand alanis's wickedly dry humor one bit.. & i should know.. i was a teenage girl in the 90's (which basically makes me an expert on all things alanis) =P the way i understand it, "still" is a mockery of western religion. she begins w/the contradictions inherent in a supreme diety & continues the contradiction theme to express god's love for these ignorant, selfish, destructive, & indignant ppl. it's a lullaby for the self-righteous. alanis was raised catholic & you've only gotta listen to "forgiven" to hear her views on catholicism. in adulthood, she's a practicing buddhist, & buddhists don't worship a supreme being. instead they focus inwardly on self-improvement & they believe in personal accountability. (buddhists try to make the world a better place by being better ppl. they are not the type of ppl only concerned w/seeking forgiveness for their evils thru some diety, without ever actually having to do any better). forgive YOURSELF & god becomes obsolete
@Grayscale @90sHippyChick - thank you for your reply to my comment! I'm glad there is someone else out there that sees this song the way I do. :)
@Grayscale @90sHippyChick - thank you for your reply to my comment! I'm glad there is someone else out there that sees this song the way I do. :)
@Grayscale "God being highly sarcastic - can he really forgive such behaviour so easily?"
@Grayscale "God being highly sarcastic - can he really forgive such behaviour so easily?"
There are two entirely different words here: "love" and "forgiveness."
There are two entirely different words here: "love" and "forgiveness."
Love is defined as: "To Will the Good." To love another is "To Will the Good of Another." God, being eternally good, always wills our good.
Love is defined as: "To Will the Good." To love another is "To Will the Good of Another." God, being eternally good, always wills our good.
For us to do something sinful has no effect on God's willing our good. To will the good of another includes willing that they flourish, and to even begin to flourish, one must stop sinning. So, God's love...
For us to do something sinful has no effect on God's willing our good. To will the good of another includes willing that they flourish, and to even begin to flourish, one must stop sinning. So, God's love for us includes his willing us to embody the good in our own lives.
That may be confusing, so let's define evil. Evil has no existence. Evil is a privation; it is the lack of one or more essential goods. Evil, like darkness, is not a thing in and of itself, but instead, a lack of something that actually does exist: the goodness of God.
So to love another is to will that they not commit such sins, and willing that is to wish them to be, and be fully, instead of less, and possibly to deprive themselves of everything.
Forgiveness is an entirely different thing than love. It has preconditions (not the least of which is that one stop doing that for which one needs to be forgiven, obviously), a necessary disposition (to will the good, or, in other words, to seek forgiveness is to respond to love), and may require that one make some kind of amends (to heal or repair the privation that one is responsible for).
Whether or not the artist was being facetious or not I take no stance on, but taken literally the lyrics describe God and his relationship to us quite well.
@Grayscale Dude, I totally agree with you man. I'm really surprised to see how others are so narrow-minded. It's like they see the religious references and automatically assume things without thinking further than their noses.
@Grayscale Dude, I totally agree with you man. I'm really surprised to see how others are so narrow-minded. It's like they see the religious references and automatically assume things without thinking further than their noses.
The best . I feel this song .its such a pretty song.
this song rocks the movie
DOGMA is better
I've just recently, in the last year come to terms with God, and myself. This song is inspirational, it is melodically genius and spiritually gorgeous. I love this song.
Truly a song about God and how unconditional his love is for us.
one of my favorite song from alanis!!!
it really winds me up when someone like michael jackson sticks his arms in the air, everyone slates him assuming hes trying to say hes some kind of god.... when alanis sings a song where shes BLATANTLY obviously singing AS GOD, no one bats an eyelid!
anyway, rant over. i do love this song. i can listen to it all the time. im not religious at all, but it still stirs up some kind of deep emotion inside with the power of the love...
so is she God in this song?
on the verse: "I see you with selective amnesia", she uses this same therm in Hands Clean...
i didn't like the song for the first time. 'cause i'm from Russia and i couldn't get the meaning of it))). but later, when i read the lyrics i've completely changed my mind. this song is awesome! and it's about God(Goddes) talking about people Her children. My favourite lines are "I see you altering history, i see you abusing the land.... Ann I LOVE you still" people are always used to think that they are the main creatures in the world, that they have rights to do anything possible with their lives and this planet... and the God (or Goddes) is looking at all this vanity and vice and fury and etc., and LOVE us still amazing...