Precious Illusions Lyrics
I'll be happy right? when your healing powers kick in
I'll be worthy right? only when you realize the gem I am?
and I won't keep it up even though I would love to
once I know who I'm not then I'll know who I am
but I know I won't keep on playing the victim
and parting with them is like parting with invisible best friends
this pill will help me yet as will these boys gone through like water
cuz I want to decide between survival and bliss
and though I know who I'm not I still don't know who I am
but I know I won't keep on playing the victim
and parting with them is like parting with a childhood best friend
I've spent so much time living in survival mode
I thought of another perspective too. This relationship that she made to be everything when it was nothing would be like losing the perfect best friend you never really had. I don't think it's what she was going for, but it's another way people can connect with it.
this song brings forth the fact that reality is only what you make of it, and that's all it should be.
this says to me that, we all dream the way things should be and if you dont its like losing a best friend.
Joveth, did you know the video was her idea?>? it fits perfectly with the song. So, she meets this man. She questions him with what he can do with her " you'll rescue me, right?..." (along with all the other phrases that end in "right") She basically wants to know is the "the guy." She has this perfect idea of how a guy should be, but she also knows reality and nothing is perfect. And the guy she is with now is......just not rockin her boat. If she doesnt have her "precious illusions" what is she to look for, to live for with a man? She is not going to let them go, because it would be like losing a childhood bestfriend, or an invisible best friend. The best part of the song comes at the bridge with, "Ive spent so long firmly looking outside me..." I feel that she feels like she has been looking so long for love, but she has had her guard up because she doesnt want to get hurt which is enabling her to show her true colors, but now she is ready to make a true commitment, and leave no secrets to the man she truly loves.
oh yeah, i own every alanis album, but i didnt like them much. This song, i feel. is the most meaningful, and her best.
I adore this and the video is perfect. It's just amazing. I thought hands clean was ok. But this is really really really good. Jagged little pill was the first album I bought and this just brings it all back.
Put down the fucking bottle of Vodka, dude.
What got me onto the song was the video b/c it is how most of us wish our love lives were with the perfect soulmate and the perfect future but in the video you are shown reality and fantasy. Ladies and gentlemen, we have to keep it real!
god , alanis is such a gemini . she questions all her moves and knows she not one way or atleast she hasnt figurerd out what they are at all yet :) .
i dont think the song has much to do with the video .the video is cute but the song and alanis has still so much uncertainty inside .
have you ever seen the Precious Illusions experience video? The video is really amazing. It's much better than the origanal video