The Forgetting Of Wisdom

Alanis Morissette - Sorry To Myself



For hearing all my doubts so selectively and

For continuing my numbing love endlessly

For helping you and myself: not even considering

For beating myself up and overfunctioning



To whom do I owe the biggest apology ?

No one's been crueler than I've been to me



For letting you decide if I indeed was desirable

For myself love being so embarassingly conditional

And for denying myself to somehow make us compatible

and for trying to fit a rectangle into a ball



To whom do I owe the biggest apology ?

No one's been crueler than I've been to me



I'm sorry to myself

My apologies begin here before everybody else

I'm sorry to myself

For treating me worse than I would anybody else



For blaming myself for your unhappiness

and for my impatience when I was perfect where I was

Ignoring all the signs that I was not re