Alanis Morissette - The Couch (uncensored) lyrics

[TheLoanGMan]

Alanis, you are wise. You are warm. You are courageous. You are big. And I love you (and your music) more now than I ever have in my whole life.

[yanish83]

If I'll speaak for all her true true fans-her best album for sure!!!!!!!!!!! the texts,the Innovation of the writng and the opennes are Unprecedented

[celebrei]

her best underrated song

[neglectoid]

six people, only pay by peanuts

[federicomacagno]

Most people won't agree, but for me it's her best song, and also her best album

[lunaangel56]

This song, not only is it interesting and wonderfully sung, but, the structure is so interesting by itself. No breaks, no verses, no chorus, no bridge...I love how it just flows like a heavy river. It doesn't even mount, but it does abruptly slow down at moments, like it's giving the listener a chance to breathe. It's completely amazing.

[bagyourface]

someone needs to finally slap this broad in the face and tell her nobody cares

[TheSammylee20]

Being a new therapist myself, trying to figure out my philosophy of what kind of therapist I would like to be -I turn to this song. i feel insecure - helpless - small - but these word give me encouragement and hope. We Are all battling similar demons - We use our empathy as a template of for others, who are experiencing incredible heartache... Be present, be there, and never assume you know anothers experiencere as they do. Thank you alanis - from the age of 14, you have been my muse! :-) xoxoxo

[armouredamazon]

'you reminded her so much of your father

so you were banished and you wonder why you're so hypersensitive

and why you can't trust anyone but us

but then how can I begin to forgive her so many years under bridges with dirty water

she was foolish and selfish and cowardly if you ask me.'

[Chicoaabye]

Hmm...it is very obscure to me some parts.. well, when she says "you can't trust anyone but US".. who's that US? I think that the father begins to speak when he says "I don't know where to begin....". Before that verse, who's speaking? The therapist?

[moonfloated]

mine also..... sooo good this song.. It's one all time classic depressive song...

[devilsgateway]

My fav song from this excellente album

[littlegary77]

this is her best album

[moonfloated]

So here we both are battling similar demons

not coincidentally...... This is so.... Genius !

[HawaiisCW93]

3 people need a fucking therapy session.

[leukste4]

one of her best song ever, i tried to copy the feast on scraps dvd to upload here, so far i only got the mp3 music from it. the video has a little much security ,so far all the copy or cloneprograms are failing down in error

[SweeterThanKisses]

perfect day u posted,havent heard it till now,i like peacewithin7 comment also..orsum.

[cpp1]

After listening to about 1 minute of this song, I feel like a dirty muff eating lesbian.

[SuperJudymena]

I miss this alanis. The best album ever...

[savanna503]

I believe Alanis is signing about her upbringing and how she talked about it with a therapist she is talking about being on the therapist "couch" she's speaking to him and to herself.

[brittanyismoney]

This is a very peculiarly composed song. No chorus or bridge. Very interesting. I like it a lot, as well as every other song on this album (hell, every Alanis Morissette song ever, really). I also like how she is singing in different perspectives. I'm not too sure what this song is about but I like it all the same.

[kylietzzz]

I've been listening to her since I was a little kid, it's great. (: I love this song a whole bunch :)

[brianquits]

Such a brilliant comment by WHALER66! Thumbs up indeed!

[mamizemoshe]

amazing lyrics

[mickeynz]

Gosh I love this song, and this whole album so much. It was so underrated, personally I think it's the best album of her career.

[jirihuf]

"He was only responsive by photo."

Can anyone, please, explain this sentence to me. I am not sure I understand this phrase quite right (English is not my first language). Thank you!

[chnz52]

@jirihuf ...

"Only responsive by photo" <--- He needed pornography (photo) to become aroused (responsive)

[jirihuf]

@chnz52 Thank you!

[mirandalatimer]

@jirihuf It's actually not very clear even if you understand English. It means he only responded using photos, or possibly to photos. Perhaps the father figure used to send photos of himself by mail as a substitute for really communicating with his children?

[jirihuf]

@mirandalatimer Thank you!

[jruberte]

@jirihuf "he was only responsive by photo" refers to the father being out of the "real "picture... the man going through therapy is recounting his youth and how after his father had abandoned them his mother took to drink while his only tangible connection to his father was a picture of him "he was only responsive by photo"...

[palaviye]

@jruberte Thank you! I never quite understood that line before but now it makes perfect sense.

[iieeef]

uncensored? wth?

[merrielong]

Very underrated song and album.

Just amazing stuff.

"we may not have been born as awake as you were"

Wow.

[peacewithin7]

So here we both are battling similar demons

not coincidentally........ wow

[MzGryffindorPrincess]

I have grown up listening to Alanis... This song and I Was Hoping are my absolute favorites!(:

[deseispuntas]

is there an instrumental version of the couch??

[WHALER66]

I've always dug this song.... I always thought that Supposed Former nInfatuation Junkie was one of her more underappeciated discs. I love what she's getting at with the whole idea of therapy being this exercise where the floorboards of someones life get torn up and all of the hidden stuff, for better or for worse is on display and there's no running from it. Thanks for posting this song.

[Eryc001]

@WHALER66 You hit the nail on the head. I agree with you 100%.

[paulalup]

@WHALER66

i agree!

[simanic]

@WHALER66 i think its her her darkest album so to speak...its very intuitive...this album has a few masterpiece tracks that she wont ever top again,and in my opinion few of her best songs ever...

[imanisan]

ovo ne moze niko osim nje!

brilliant indeed! :D

[debfan74]

Happy Birthday Alanis!!!!

[debfan74]

Most people do not understand this album nor this song!!! this song was soo brilliant.....she is talking about things her Dad went thru and taking on the role of her dad....again Brilliant!!

[funnycarrot]

You suck.

[valkiria774]

This is an awesome tune, one of my favorites alanis morrisette song... i like the lyrics 'cos somehow they remind me so much of my own life...

[alanistamo]

i love it

[johnnybigoode]

I remember having a tape of this album.

I remember having a sony walkman.

And this song was so awesome.

Sadly the album was so different from the Jagged Little Pill, it was a really good album, but sadly it had no commercial appeal.

[debfan74]

@johnnybigoode even though the album was misunderstood, at least it sold 7 million copies.....it did gain some attention and also Thank U did go to #1 and all the concerts for this album were sold out