Originally Posted by arroyoribera: Alanis certainly sings to my soul with this song and more so in the context of this bilingual Spanish-English beautiful, haunting, powerful and philosophical album and in the context of the cause. Context sometimes is everything. I know nothing about her music except that I think I hear it here and there. What I know is that this song "Offer" speaks to me in a spiritual, religious, searching and hurting place. The song was a true offer of Alanis's heart in that she gave it to the Sabera Foundation for the album. Perhaps you have to have been there, to those places in your life, on the planet, in your heart, with those children, with that pain, with that profound sublimeness. Her questioning of her path; her discomfort with her comfort when held up to the light of her prosperity and her global consciousness; her awareness that the heart that does not bleed via its five senses is perhaps a wounded, scabbed over heart, a heart that has chosen to sit out a few rounds, a heart which may even deserve to sit out a few rounds with its spent, blue, unable, disabled by her generous heart. Life as an oyster, life extraordinaire, sense of duty, and yes, Virginia, a third world country. It all comes out in the song, at least as I hear it. It invokes so much in me. Jackson Brown "running on empty", Bruce Cockburn "living in a dangerous time", lilacs blooming, baby Iraqi girl with you hand blown off by a daisy yellow, red-white-blue bomblet, and who, who am I to be so blue. Sing to my soul, Alanis. (And then imagine in this album you have just come from Sting singing "Let your Soul be your Pilot" to "Ave Maria" to Rosario's "Que Bonito" and on to Bob Dylan singing "Knockin on Heaven's Door" and Antonio Banderas singing John Lennon's "Imagine" most of these with these sweet voiced Indian little girls, angels...Y Dame la Mano…oyeme dios mio, que nos llevan a un lugar donde hay compasion y amor y si no, dioscito, favor de que por lo menos no sufran mas los bebes, los ninos, asi poder superior, por lo menos que los quite del altar de los lobos viciosos de poder, avaricia y injusticia)

Originally Posted by arroyoribera: Alanis certainly sings to my soul with this song and more so in the context of this bilingual Spanish-English beautiful, haunting, powerful and philosophical album and in the context of the cause. Context sometimes is everything. I know nothing about her music except that I think I hear it here and there. What I know is that this song "Offer" speaks to me in a spiritual, religious, searching and hurting place. The song was a true offer of Alanis's heart in that she gave it to the Sabera Foundation for the album. Perhaps you have to have been there, to those places in your life, on the planet, in your heart, with those children, with that pain, with that profound sublimeness. Her questioning of her path; her discomfort with her comfort when held up to the light of her prosperity and her global consciousness; her awareness that the heart that does not bleed via its five senses is perhaps a wounded, scabbed over heart, a heart that has chosen to sit out a few rounds, a heart which may even deserve to sit out a few rounds with its spent, blue, unable, disabled by her generous heart. Life as an oyster, life extraordinaire, sense of duty, and yes, Virginia, a third world country. It all comes out in the song, at least as I hear it. It invokes so much in me. Jackson Brown "running on empty", Bruce Cockburn "living in a dangerous time", lilacs blooming, baby Iraqi girl with you hand blown off by a daisy yellow, red-white-blue bomblet, and who, who am I to be so blue. Sing to my soul, Alanis. (And then imagine in this album you have just come from Sting singing "Let your Soul be your Pilot" to "Ave Maria" to Rosario's "Que Bonito" and on to Bob Dylan singing "Knockin on Heaven's Door" and Antonio Banderas singing John Lennon's "Imagine" most of these with these sweet voiced Indian little girls, angels...Y Dame la Mano…oyeme dios mio, que nos llevan a un lugar donde hay compasion y amor y si no, dioscito, favor de que por lo menos no sufran mas los bebes, los ninos, asi poder superior, por lo menos que los quite del altar de los lobos viciosos de poder, avaricia y injusticia)

Originally Posted by rgj13: Would someone PLEASE put her out of her misery? And out of mine? She just seems to get more simplistically self-conscious, more indulgently bourgois in her alleged thoughtfulness, and more trite with each new bit of work. It's painful to think any of this makes her a role model for anyone striving to be a little more intelligent, a little more adult, or a little more conscious. Granted, she no Britney or Pink, but really, is that saying much?