“Ironic” (Alanis Morissette) 

An old man turned ninety-eight

He won the lottery and died the next day

It’s a black fly in your Chardonnay

It’s a death row pardon two minutes too late

Isn’t it ironic… don’t you think? 

It’s like rain on your wedding day

It’s a free ride when you’ve already paid

It’s the good advice that you just didn’t take

Who wouldn’t thought… it figures 

Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly

He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids good-bye

He waited his whole damn life to take that flight

And as the plane crashed down he thought

“Well, isn’t this nice…”

And isn’t it ironic… don’t you think? 

Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you

When you think everything’s okay and everything’s going right

And life has a funny way of helping you out when

You think everything’s gone wrong and everything blows up

In your face 

It’s a traffic jam when you’re already late

It’s a no-smoking sign on your cigarette break

It’s like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife

It’s meeting the man of my dreams

And then meeting his beautiful wife

And isn’t it ironic… don’t you think?

A little too ironic… and yeah I really do think… 

Life has a funny way of sneaking up on you

Life has a funny, funny way of helping you out

Helping you out

這是一首十多年前沒有一個年輕人不會唱的歌。我還記得一個朋友曾學著Alanis Morissette的衣著品味，穿一身黑色的裝束，微微的捲起染黑的頭髮，唱著或是哼著這首歌。

十多年後，歌詞已經開始模糊，但再次遇上這首歌，內容依然扣人心弦。 

人生還是充滿未知數。這些未知數隨時不明不白的被等號聯繫上，所以我們不能只靠常理來理解，也不得不用豁達的心去面對。