The Couch chords by Alanis Morissette

Chords with lyrics

Verse 1:
A minorAm               Asus2Asus2
you hadn't seen your father in such a long time.
A minorAm                Asus2Asus2
he died in the arms of his lover. how dare he ?
   FF
your mother never left the house.
DmDm
she never married anyone else
  F# minorF#m       E MajorE
you took it upon yourself to console her

Verse 2:
A minorAm                Asus2Asus2
you reminded her so much of your father so you were banished and you
A minorAm                   Asus2Asus2
wonder why you're so hypersensitive and why you can't trust anyone but us
     FF
but then how can i begin to forgive her
DmDm
so many years under bridges with dirty water
    F# minorF#m           E MajorE
she was foolish and selfish and cowardly if you ask me

Verse 3:
A minorAm                    Asus2Asus2
i don't know where to begin in all of my 50 odd years
           A minorAm            Asus2Asus2
i have been silently suffering and adapting perpetuating and enduring
  FF
who are you younger generation to tell me
DmDm
that i have unresolved problems
     F# minorF#m                 E MajorE
not many examples of fruits of this type of excruciating labor.

Verse 4:
A minorAm                    Asus2Asus2
how can you just throw words around like grieve and heal and mourn
    A minorAm                Asus2Asus2
i feel fine we may not have been born as awake as you were.
    FF
it was much harder in those days
    DmDm
we had paper routes uphill both ways
       F# minorF#m             E MajorE
we went from school to a job to a wife to instant parenthood

Verse 5:
A minorAm                Asus2Asus2
i walked into his office. i felt so self-conscious on the couch.
    A minorAm                 Asus2Asus2
he was sitting down across from me. he was writing down his hypothesis. i don't know.
      FF
i've got a loving supportive wife,
      DmDm
who doesn't know how involved she should get.
      F# minorF#m            E MajorE
you say his interjecting was him just calling me on my shit ?

Verse 6:
A minorAm                     Asus2Asus2
just the other day my sweet daughter. i was driving past 203.
     A minorAm                     Asus2Asus2
i walked up the stairs in my mind's eye. i remember how they would creak loudly
    FF
she was only responsive with a drink.
   DmDm
he was only responsive by photo.
   F# minorF#m            E MajorE
i was only trying to be the best big brother i could

Verse 7:
A minorAm                        Asus2Asus2
i've walked sometimes confused. sometimes ready to crack open wide.
      A minorAm               Asus2Asus2
sometimes indignant sometimes raw. can you imagine
       FF
i pay him 75 dollars an hour
            DmDm
sometimes it feels like highway robbery
          F# minorF#m               E MajorE
and sometimes it's peanuts i wish it could last a couple more hours

Verse 8:
A minorAm                  Asus2Asus2
so here we both are battling similar demons not coincidentally.
        A minorAm
you seen getting beyond knowing it solely intellectually
      Asus2Asus2
you're not relinquishing your majesty
    FF
you are wise you are warm
      DmDm
you are courageous you are big
   F# minorF#m            E MajorE
and i love you more now than i ever have in my whole life

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