better_this_way unhinged if i don't have anything to say if i'm immature for having feelings if after all this time YOU were the one that lied some things never change and some of us never learn 011202 ... ilovepatsajak I wouldn't know what to do with another chance If you gave it to me I couldn't take the embrace of a real romance It'd race right through me I'm much better off the way things are Much much better off, better by far, by far fiona apple 011203 ... emy the song is saying that she has no real feelings for the one that loves her, and if she had another chance then she wouldnt take it, hell she wouldnt even know what to do with it! 011203 ... ilovepatsajak I wouldn't know what to say to a gentle voice It'd roll right past me And if you chalk it up you'll see I really don't have a choice So don't even ask me I'm much better off, the way things are Much much better off, better by far, by far So keep on calling me names, keep on, keep on And I'll keep kicking the crap till it's gone If you keep on killing, you could get me to settle And as soon as I settle, I bet I'll be able to move on 011203 ... whoknows maybe it is. what do you think? 011207 ... unhinged you were the one that lied ..... i was there too i saw it i lived it i don't want it but for some reason you do i can't be that sick so maybe it's better this way 030205 ... Afro You said you would do anything for me. That you would never stop loving me. But you were always miserable. You never smiled. You never hugged me like you meant it. And now you're gone. And it is better this way? No, you just leave me wanting me. How's that for pathetic? 040416 ... blown cherry I don't think that emy's interpretation is exactly wrong, but I think it's a little broader than that, but it's only what I think. I think she's at a point where she feels cold to any idea of intimacy with the world. She's in a place where she's hardened to any kind of gentle contact and just needs to be alone in this walled up space for a while. She just needs to turn her back on the world for a little while, though I don't think she's demanding this of herself without some regret. I wonder if the song maybe isn't there in a mild attempt to convince herself that she's doing what is right for her and for everyone else too. But that's only what I think, and from my overly emotive perspective I've often been called wrong. That's what I've been called, anyway. 040416 ... three words doubtless freespirit better_this_way 050320 ... three words forwards_and_backwards what_you_see better_this_way 050708 what's it to you? who go blather from