Alanis Morissette – The Couch (Guitar)

Am                             Asus2
you hadn't seen your father in such a long time.

Am                                Asus2
he died in the arms of his lover. how dare he ?

     F
your mother never left the house.

Dm
she never married anyone else

    F#m              E
you took it upon yourself to console her

Am                               Asus2
you reminded her so much of your father so you were banished and you

Am                                      Asus2
wonder why you're so hypersensitive and why you can't trust anyone but us

         F
but then how can i begin to forgive her

Dm
so many years under bridges with dirty water

        F#m                     E
she was foolish and selfish and cowardly if you ask me

Am                                       Asus2
i don't know where to begin in all of my 50 odd years

                     Am                        Asus2
i have been silently suffering and adapting perpetuating and enduring

    F
who are you younger generation to tell me

Dm
that i have unresolved problems

         F#m                                  E
not many examples of fruits of this type of excruciating labor.

Am                                       Asus2
how can you just throw words around like grieve and heal and mourn

       Am                                Asus2
i feel fine we may not have been born as awake as you were.

       F
it was much harder in those days

       Dm
we had paper routes uphill both ways

             F#m                          E
we went from school to a job to a wife to instant parenthood

Am                               Asus2
i walked into his office. i felt so self-conscious on the couch.

       Am                                  Asus2
he was sitting down across from me. he was writing down his hypothesis. i don't know.

           F
i've got a loving supportive wife,

            Dm
who doesn't know how involved she should get.

            F#m                       E
you say his interjecting was him just calling me on my shit ?

Am                                          Asus2
just the other day my sweet daughter. i was driving past 203.

         Am                                         Asus2
i walked up the stairs in my mind's eye. i remember how they would creak loudly

        F
she was only responsive with a drink.

      Dm
he was only responsive by photo.

      F#m                        E
i was only trying to be the best big brother i could

Am                                                Asus2
i've walked sometimes confused. sometimes ready to crack open wide.

            Am                              Asus2
sometimes indignant sometimes raw. can you imagine

             F
i pay him 75 dollars an hour

                        Dm
sometimes it feels like highway robbery

                   F#m                             E
and sometimes it's peanuts i wish it could last a couple more hours

Am                                   Asus2
so here we both are battling similar demons not coincidentally.

                Am
you seen getting beyond knowing it solely intellectually

           Asus2
you're not relinquishing your majesty

        F
you are wise you are warm

           Dm
you are courageous you are big

      F#m                       E
and i love you more now than i ever have in my whole life