Album Cover Hands Clean (Acoustic Version)

Hands Clean (Acoustic Version)

Alanis Morissette

4

If it weren't for your maturity none of this would have happened

If you weren't so wise beyond your years i would have been able to control myself

If i weren't for my attention you wouldn't have been successful and

If it weren't for me you would never've amounted to very much

BRIDGE

ooh this could get messy but

ooh you dont seem to mind

ooh dont go tellin' everybody

overlook this supposed crime

CHORUS

we'll fast forward to a few years later

no-one knows except the both of us

and i have honored your request for silence

you've washed your hands clean of this

you're essencially an employee and i like you having to depend on me

you're a kind of protégé and one day you'll say you learned all you know from me

i know you depend on me like a young think would to a guardian

i know you sexualise me like a young thing would and i think i like it

BRIDGE

CHORUS

what part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept?

what part of your memory is selective and tends to forget?

whats with distance it seems so obvious?

Just make sure you dont tell on me especially to members of your family

we'd best keep this to ourselves and not tell any members of our inner posse

i wish i could tell the world cuz you're such a pretty thing when your done up properly

i might wanna marry you one day if you watch that weight and you keep your firm body

BRIDGE 2

ooh this could get messy and

ooh i dont seem to mind

ooh dont go telling everybody

overlook this supposed crime

CHORUS

BRIDGE 2

CHORUS