Lyric discussion by naughtmoses 

Cover art for One lyrics by Alanis Morissette

Al's capacity to illuminate the struggle between the overly narcissistic contaminations of her histrionic (attention-needing, chaotic, dramatic) early life and her more mature awareness of it along with her powerful need to inform the few who can understand her never ceases to amaze. She was 24 when she wrote this. =24=.

One person in tens of thousands will ever get close to this level of self-grasp, and only one in a thousand or so will be able to understand it. But she soldiers on for the sake of those who can.

This stuff sails right over the heads of most who worship this 20th Century incarnation of Parvati, of course. But I have seen audiences (like those in San Francisco) filled with an unusually large number of people who =do= seem to "get" her.