Heart of the House - Alanis Morissette

You are the original template

You are the original exemplary

How seen were you actually?

How revered were you, honestly, at the time?

Why, pleased with your low maintenance

You loved us more than we could’ve loved you back

Where was your ally, your partner in feminine crime?

Oh ho, mother, who’s your buddy?

Oh ho, mother, who’s got your back?

The heart of the house

The heart of the house

All hail the Goddess

You were good old

You were counting on her till four a.

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You saw me run from the house

In the snow melodramatically

Oh ho, mother, who’s your sister?

Oh ho, mother, who’s your friend?

The heart of the house

The heart of that house

All hail the Goddess

We left the men and we went for a walk in the Gatineaus

And talked like women, like women to women would

Women to women would

Where did you get that from?

Must’ve been your father, your dad

I got it from you, I got it from you

Do you see yourself in my gypsy garage sale ways?

In my fits of laughter

In my Tinkerbell tendencies

In my lack of color coordination