Citizen Of The Planet

Alanis Morissette - Citizen Of The Planet

I start up in the north I grow from special seed

I sprinkle it with sensibility

From French and Hungarian snow

I linger in the sprouting until my engine's full

Then I move across the sea

To European bliss

To language of poets

As I cut the cord of home

I kiss my mother's mother

Look to the horizon

Wide eyed, new ground

Humbled by my new surroundings

I am a citizen of the planet

My president is kwan yin

My frontier is on an airplane

My prisons: homes for rehabilitating

Then I fly back to my nest,

I fly back with my nuclear but everything is different

So I wait, my yearn for home is broadened,

patriotism expanded by callings from beyond

So I pack my things nothing precious all things sacred

My laws are all of attraction

My punishments are consequences

Separating from source the original sin

Democracy's kids are sovereign

Where the teachers are the sages

And pedestals fill with every parent

And so, the next few years are blurry,

the next decade's a flurry of smells and tastes unknown

Threads sewn straight through this fabric

through fields of every color one culture to another

I come alive and I get giddy I am taken and globally naturalized

From simple roots through high vision

I am guarded by the angels

My body guides the direction I go in

My favorite pastime edge stretching

Besotten with human condition

These ideals are borne from my deepest within