All I Really Want

Album: Jagged Little Pill (1995)
Charted: 59 65
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  • Do I stress you out?
    My sweater is on backwards and inside out
    And you say, how appropriate
    I don't like to dissect everything today
    I don't mean to pick you apart you see
    But I can't help it

    And there I go jumping before the gunshot has gone off
    Slap me with a splintered ruler
    And it would knock me to the floor if I wasn't there already
    If only I could hunt the hunter

    And all I really want is some patience
    A way to calm the angry voice
    And all I really want is deliverance, ah

    Do I wear you out?
    You must wonder why I'm relentless and all strung out
    I'm consumed by the chill of solitary
    I'm like Estella
    I like to reel it in and then spit it out
    I'm frustrated by your apathy

    And I am frightened by the corrupted ways of this land
    If only I could meet the maker
    And I am fascinated by the spiritual man
    I am humbled by his humble nature, yeah

    And what I wouldn't give to find a soul mate?
    Someone else to catch this drift
    And what I wouldn't give to meet a kindred? Ah

    Enough about me, let's talk about you for a minute
    Enough about you, let's talk about life for a while
    The conflicts, the craziness and the sound of pretenses is falling
    All around, all around

    Why are you so petrified of silence?
    Here can you handle this?
    Did you think about your bills, you ex, your deadlines
    Or when you think you're going to die?
    Or did you long for the next distraction?

    And all I need now is intellectual intercourse
    A soul to dig the hole much deeper
    And I have no concept of time other than it is flying
    If only I could kill the killer

    And all I really want is some peace man
    A place to find a common ground
    And all I really want is a wavelength, ah
    And all I really want is some comfort
    A way to get my hands untied
    And all I really want is some justice, ah

    It's all I really want, some patience
    A way to calm me down
    And all I really want is deliverance
    A place to find a common ground Writer/s: Alanis Nadine Morissette, Glen Ballard
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Owen Oj Evans from Liverpool, EnglandYou listen, you sing along. Later you read the lyrics, think about them, fall in love with them and of course Alanis. I may be a 72 year, but I escape age and enjoy
  • Ambassador Alice from HtownOne of those songs that I liked from the first time I heard it, Summer, 1995. It's got a Beatles-ish "Tomorrow Never Knows" drone-like quality to it...diggin' on it.
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