"You Learn" by Alanis Morissette and Elizabeth Stanley

I have always had a soft spot for Alanis Morissette's 1995 album "Jagged Little Pill" because of songs like this, "You Learn," written, astonishingly, when she was a young and tender 19 year old. The entire album features ideas, emotions, and psychology well beyond anyone's 19 years. But then, there are those old souls who know a lot at a young age.

This duet between Morissette and Elizabeth Stanley (star of "Jagged Little Pill," Morissette's Broadway adaptation of her album) revisits this lovely, tender, wise song. Morissette still sounds marvelous and powerful, and Stanley's voice is spectacular.

I recommend getting your heart trampled on to anyone (yeah)
I recommend walking around naked in your living room (yeah)
Swallow it down (what a jagged little pill)
It feels so good (swimming in your stomach)
Wait until the dust settles

You live you learn
You love you learn
You cry you learn
You lose you learn
You bleed you learn
You scream you learn

I recommend biting off more then you can chew to anyone
(I certainly do)
I recommend sticking your foot in your mouth at any time
(feel free)
Throw it down (the caution blocks you from the wind)
Hold it up (to the rays)
You wait and see when the smoke clears

You live you learn
You love you learn
You cry you learn
You lose you learn
You bleed you learn
You scream you learn

Wear it out (the way a three-year-old would do)
Melt it down (you're gonna have to eventually anyway)
The fire trucks are coming up around the bend

You live you learn
You love you learn
You cry you learn
You lose you learn
You bleed you learn
You scream you learn
You grieve you learn
You choke you learn
You laugh you learn
You choose you learn
You pray you learn
You ask you learn
You live you learn

And I am thrilled that Morissette threw in the chorus from another of her stunningly mature songs, "Thank U," from her follow up album "Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie" in 1998. She wrote the song after a trip to India. Morissette said, "Basically, I had never stopped in my whole life, hadn't taken a long breath, and I took a year and a half off and basically learned how to do that. When I did stop and I was silent and I breathed... I was just left with an immense amount of gratitude, and inspiration, and love, and bliss, and that's where the song came from, you know." Take a look at the video which is a literal manifestation of baring one's soul to the world. The visuals (people emerging out of the blur of daily life to stop, touch her, and look into her eyes, to make a genuine connection) and metaphysical sense of the video move me to tears. There's a lot of enormity in these four minutes and nineteen seconds.

How 'bout getting off of these antibiotics?
How 'bout stopping eating when I'm full up?
How 'bout them transparent dangling carrots?
How 'bout that ever elusive kudo?

Thank you India
Thank you terror
Thank you disillusionment
Thank you frailty
Thank you consequence
Thank you thank you silence

How 'bout me not blaming you for everything?
How 'bout me enjoying the moment for once?
How 'bout how good it feels to finally forgive you?
How 'bout grieving it all one at a time?

Thank you India
Thank you terror
Thank you disillusionment
Thank you frailty
Thank you consequence
Thank you thank you silence

The moment I let go of it was the moment
I got more than I could handle
The moment I jumped off of it
Was the moment I touched down

How 'bout no longer being masochistic?
How 'bout remembering your divinity?
How 'bout unabashedly bawling your eyes out?
How 'bout not equating death with stopping?

Thank you India
Thank you providence
Thank you disillusionment
Thank you nothingness
Thank you clarity
Thank you, thank you silence

https://alanis.com/

And the Broadway show of "Jagged Little Pill" has garnered 15 Tony awards!
https://jaggedlittlepill.com/