Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette & Souleye
Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette & Souleye
Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette
This is one of the darker tracks on Havoc and Bright Lights in which Morissette examines a side effect of escapism. “There are many ways to get away from feeling things, and usually they’re addictive,” she noted to Parade magazine. “‘Numb’ is about the reasons behind my reaching for the drug of choi...
[Verse 1]
I feel smothered and encumbered and defeated and drawn
Disappointed, over-extended and frustrated and shaken
This over-giving , over-loving, this care taking goes on
With no chance of intermission, I'll be checked out, I'll be gone
[Pre-Chorus]
Have to remove myself from sensation
[Chorus]
Here comes the feeling
I run from the feeling and reach for the drug
Can't sit with this feeling
I'd rather be flying and comfortably numb
[Verse 2]
I feel anxious, I am nervous, I am bored
I'm overwhelmed, rather be out of my gourd
[Pre-Chorus]
Have to remove myself from sensation
[Chorus]
Here comes the feeling
I run from the feeling and reach for the drug
Can't sit with this feeling
I'd rather be flying and comfortably numb
[Verse 3]
I am lonely, I feel hungry and unloved
I feel angry, I am livid, need a hug
[Chorus]
Here comes the feeling
I run from the feeling and reach for the drug
Can't sit with this feeling
I'd rather be flying and comfortably numb
Numb was written by Guy Sigsworth & Alanis Morissette.
Numb was produced by Joe Chiccarelli.
Alanis Morissette released Numb on Wed Aug 22 2012.