Interpret:

Alanis Morissette

Album:

Hands Clean

If it weren’t for your maturity none of this would have happened
 If you weren’t so wise beyond your years I would’ve been able to control myself
 If it weren’t for my attention you wouldn’t have been successful and
 If it weren’t for me you would never have amounted to very much


Ooh this could be messy
 But you don’t seem to mind
 Ooh don’t go telling everybody
 And overlook this supposed crime


we’ll fast forward to a few years later
 And no one knows except the both of us
 And I have honored your request for silence
 And you’ve washed your hands clean of this


You’re essentially an employee and I like you having to depend on me
 You’re a kind of my protégé and one day You’ll say you learned all you know from me
 I know you depend on me like a young thing would to a guardian
 I know you sexualize me like a young thing would and I think I like it


Ooh this could get messy
 But you don’t seem to mind
 Ooh don’t go telling everybody
 And overlook this supposed crime


we’ll fast forward to a few years later
 And no one knows except the both of us
 I’ve more than honored your request for silence
 And you’ve washed your hands clean of this


What part of our history’s reinvented and under rug swept?
 What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget?
 What with this distance it seems so obvious?


Just make sure you don’t tell on me especially to members of your family
 We best keep this to ourselves and not tell any members of our inner posse
 I wish I could tell the world cause you’re such a pretty thing when you’re done up properly
 I might want to marry you one day if you watch that weight and keep your firm body


Ooh this could be messy and
 Ooh I don’t seem to mind
 Ooh don’t go telling everybody
 And overlook this supposed crime