Citizen of the Planet - Alanis Morissette

I start up in the north I grow from special seed

I sprinkle it with sensibility

from French and Hungarian snow

I linger in the sprouting until my engine’s full

Then I move across the sea

To European bliss

To language of poets

As I cut the cord of home

I kiss my mother’s mother

look to the horizon

wide eyed, new ground

humbled by my new surroundings

I am a citizen of the planet

My president is kwan yin

My frontier is on an airplane

my prisons: homes for rehabilitating

Then I fly back to my nest, I fly back with my nuclear but

everything is different

So I wait, my yearn for home is broadened, patriotism expanded

by callings from beyond

So I pack my things nothing precious all things sacred

I am a citizen of the planet

My laws are all of attraction

My punishments are consequences

Separating from source the original sin

I am a citizen of the planet

democracy’s kids are sovereign

Where the teachers are the sages

And pedestals fill with every parent

And so, the next few years are blurry, the next decade’s a flurry

of smells and tastes unknown

Threads sewn straight through this fabric through fields of every

color one culture to another

I come alive and I get giddy I am taken and globally naturalized

I am a citizen of the planet

From simple roots through high vision

I am guarded by the angels

My body guides the direction I go in

I am a citizen of the planet

My favorite pastime edge stretching

Besotten with human condition

these ideals are borne from my deepest within