Alanis Morissette › Lyrics › Not the Doctor

I don't want to be the filler if the void is solely yours
I don't want to be your glass of single malt whiskey
Hidden in the bottom drawer
An' I don't want to be a bandage if the wound is not mine

Lend me some fresh air

I don't want to be adored for what I merely represent to you
An' I don't want to be your babysitter, you're a very big boy now
I don't want to be your mother
I didn't carry you in my womb for nine months

Show me the back door

Visiting hours are 9 to 5 and if I show up at 10 past 6
Well, I already know that you'd find some way to sneak me in and oh
Mind the empty bottle with the holes along the bottom
You see it's too much to ask for and I am not the doctor
(Oh, I'm not the)

I don't want to be the sweeper of the eggshells that you walk upon
An' I don't want to be your other half, I believe that one and one make two
I don't want to be your food or the light from the fridge
On your face at midnight

Hey, what are you hungry for

I don't want to be the glue that holds your pieces together
I don't want to be your idol
See this pedestal is high and I'm afraid of heights
I don't want to be lived through a vicarious occasion

Please open the window

Visiting hours are 9 to 5 and if I show up at 10 past 6
Well, I already know that you'd find some way to sneak me in and oh
Mind the empty bottle with the holes along the bottom
You see it's too much to ask for and I am not the doctor
(Oh, I am not the)

I don't want to live on someday when my motto is last week
An' I, I don't want to be responsible for your fractured heart
And its wounded beat
An' I don't want to be a substitute for the smoke you've been inhaling

Well, what do you thank me
What do you thank me for?

Visiting hours are 9 to 5 and if I show up at 10 past 6
Well, I already know that you'd find some way to sneak me in and oh
Mind the empty bottle with the holes along the bottom
You see it's too much to ask for and I am not the doctor
(Oh, I am not the)