It's a Bitch to Grow Up lyrics

It's been ten years of investment

It's been one foot in and one out

It's been four days of all the shit

And I feel snuffed out

It's been thirty-three years of restraining

Of trying to control this tumult

How I did invest in such fantasy

But my nervous system has worn out

I feel done, I feel raked over coals

and all that remains is the case

That it's a bitch to grow up

I've repeated this dance ad nauseum1

There's still something to learn that I've not

I'm told to see this as divine perfection

But my bones don't feel this perfection

I feel done, I feel raked over coals

and all that remains is the case

That it's a bitch to grow up

I've spent life hovering above bottom

Thinking I can't survive what's below

But I've known through the kicking and screaming

That there was no other direction to go

I feel done, I feel raked over coals

and all that remains is the case

That it's a bitch to grow up

1. to [the point of] nausea

• Artist:Alanis Morissette
• Album:Flavors of Entanglement – Deluxe Edition