(Alanis Morisette)
An old man turned ninety-eight
He won the lottery and died the next day
It's a black fly in your Chardonnay
It's a death row pardon two minutes too late
Isn't it ironic... don't you think?
Chorus:
It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought... it figures
Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly
He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye
He waited his whole damn life to take that flight
And as the plane crashed down he thought
"Well isn't this nice..."
And isn't it ironic... don't you think?
Repeat Chorus
Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
When you think everything's okay and everything's going right
And life has a funny way of helping you out when
You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up
In your face
A traffic jam when you're already late
A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife
It's meeting the man of my dreams
And then meeting his beautiful wife
And isn't it ironic... don't you think?
A little too ironic... and yeah I really do think...
Repeat Chorus
Life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
Life has a funny, funny way of helping you out
Helping you out
I love this song... even if, ironically so, I hate how true the entire thing is.
It's really frustrating how, at one moment, you think you can finally be at peace after you've solved something big, until something else comes along to disturb you again. I don't know, it might sound shallow placed in words, but in truth it just really isn't knowing that it can grow into something worse if things get out of hand.
Maybe I've been trying to change people too much, when it's a given that you really can't change anyone... or maybe I've just been too selfish in doing things. Or maybe, as an element in the whole thing my competitiveness is just getting out of hand, from something that's supposed to push me into doing better to something that just pushes others down along the way. I really don't know... but whatever it is, I really hope the two of us get to do something about this already. And it's hard being the older one, especially since the pressure of being 'more mature' will constantly be on you and you're going to get stuck between living up to that and living up to your own pride.
Shoottt... I really don't know what to do about it already. I've been trying nearly everything and yet nothing seems to be working. Paano na ba iyan?? Nakakapikon na kasi eh... parang biglang bumabalik nanaman ang good old days.*
Sana malipasan ko na to... I'm really getting sick of this already.